Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: AG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/13/1967
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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UNK ADDADDINA I LUN DYDILI

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10264-10474

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE_NUMBER: 62-116395-1623

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

AG.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 03/13/1967

PAGES: 23

SUBJECT:

CC, REQ, OPINION

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

12/29/1998

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/14/2001

COMMENTS:

RESTRICTIONS:

Consultation

INC 9 MEMO, R/S, REFERRED TO DOJ

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Мід 362 РОМАН

/UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

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TO

MI

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DATE: 5/27/76

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm.

Dap. AD Inv..

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Serv.

•Ext. Affairs-"

Fin. & Pors.

Gen. Inv

Ident.

FROM

Phillips

SUBJECT:

SENSTUDY 75

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Gallagher

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Plan. & Eval. -

Röc. Mgnt.

Spec: Inv.

Training

"Telephone Rm:-

Director Sec'y

PURPOSE:

To advise of review, excision and return of

certain documents to Department of Justice (DOJ) for

delivery to Senate Select Committee (SSC) •

SYNOPSIS: Eight documents requested of DoJ by sse

Furnished to FBIHQ for review

Documents cleared for

informant and third agency material and returned to pantoNcoNtaiNeD

LASSEFIED

RECOMMENDATION: For information.

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story

Assoc. Dir.

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Fin. & Pere:

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Legel Coun

Plan. & Eval

Rec. Mgmt.

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Adm. SerV...

Training.

DETAILS:

As a result of Sse request for certain docu

CIA LTR DTO 414/S6

DECLASSIFIED BY SETBITA

ON 9/15/88 PER CUA LTR

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ments,

Steven Blackhurst, Assistant Special Counsel Tor

Intelligence Coordination, DoJ, furnished eight documents

to Bureau Supervisor, S. F. Phillips, for excision of

informant or third agency information where appropriate se REVERSE

Six of the documents were returned by Mr. Phillips to

SIDE FOR

Mr. Blackhurst on 5/14/76 with no excisions it should

CLASSIFICATI

be noted that among the, six documents returned to

ACTION

Mr. Blackhurst on 5/14/76 was an FBI Letterhead n

randum, 3/21/67 captioned,

'Assassination of President

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, November

22, 1963, Dallas texas

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) clearance regarding

EA47и

this document had been previously received when the

Bureau furnished this document to the Sse from

Bureau

files.

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inemorand

772,

J. Walter

Yeagley

Assistant Attorney General,

Internal Security Division

FROM : Garvin I. Oliver

DATE:

June 2, 1967

SUBJECT:

GLO: mIm-

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The Garrison Investigation of the

Assassination of President Kennedy

Alleged CIA Connections with Garrison's

Suspects

SECRET

' New Orleans

• District Attorney James C. Garrison has

made numerous charges that several of his suspects in his

investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy have

had connections with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

There follows some of his specific allegationg which we have

learned about either from Garrison's public statements or

from FBI sources and the known comments of the CIA with respect

thereto.

2.

Garrison claims that Lee Harvey Oswala did not

kill President Kennedy but that the President was assassinated

by five anti-Castro Cubans who were angered over his handling

of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Garrison claims that the assassins

were former CIA employees committed to an adventure in Cuba.

Garrison has said that he does not believe the CIA planned

Kennedy murder, or knew of it beforehand, but that the CIA is

making every effort to prevent his office. from trailing or leam-

the whereabouts

1ns the whereabout che rost 5/22,2467 concense 2o

5/22, 26/6%)

CIA was quoted in the newspapers as stating

that the organization would have no comment on

Garrison's remarks. (Evening Star, 5/22/672 JAN 18 1971

2.

Garrison has reportedly said that he has| letters

signed by CIA representatives or by Senator Robert E

. Kenneay

which authorize certain Americans to work with Cubans for the

assassination of Castro. (FBI Memo 5/17/67)

12'1-11

SECRET

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i st part of thes

and families

it it in

CIA advised the Bureau In May 1967 that such

letters never existed and therefore could not

be in the possession of Garrison. (FBI Memo

5/17/67)

3.

Garrison reportedly believes that there was an anti-

Castro training camp on the shores of Lake Ponchartrain near

New Orleans which was operated by the CIA to train assassins

to send to cuba and that Oswald was once at the camp. This camp

was reportedly run by an individual known as Richard Davis:

(FBI Memos 4/6/67, 5/15/67)

To our knowledge, no information has been

received from CIA concerning the alleged

training

camp

or Richard Davis. An FBI

memorandum of

March 3, 1967, reported that

the Bureau files contain no information indi

cating that Oswald had any connection with

Davis. Davis has been described as a pro-

moter

and

hustler, who will do anything for

money, and is often carried away with his own

thinking. (149-4801)

- 4.

Garrison claims that Oswald was probably a CIA agent

who worked undercover with anti-Castro Cubans with the knowledge

of Federal agents.

Garrison claims that Oswald was recruited

by CIA for an operation.

approved by President Kennedy, the pur-

pose of which was

to assassinate Fidel Castro, and when Oswald

assassinated. President Kennedy it became necessary to show him

as a Communist in order to conceal the original plan. (UPI

5/8,9/67, New York Times 5/10/67)

The Directors.of

the CIA and FBI testified

before the Warren Commission that oswald

deans neverty the employ of their agency in

5. Garrison has charged that the CIA gave the Warren

Commission a fake photograph instead of providing a picture of

Lee Harvey Oswald and a Cuban companion leaving the Cuban Embassey

In Mexico City in 1963, because Oswald and/or his Cuban companion

were CIA agents.

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CIA has furnished the Criminal Division of

the Department with an affidavit that they

do not have, and have never had, a photograph

of Oswald in Mexico City.

Garrison has charged Gordon Novel and Sergio Arcacha

Smith with the burglary of the Schunberger Well Service Company's

munitions bunker in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, in 1951:

Garrison evidently believes that some of the individuals in-

volved in this robbery (Novel, David Ferrie, Smith, and several

assassination and

I that a panel

truck used in the robbery was used in the assassination.

Gordon

Novel reportedly contends that he was employed by CIA, was act-

ing for CIA, and that the burglary of the munitions bunker was

not, an actual burglary.

Novel reportedly contends that CIA had

an arrangement with Schumberger to keep ammunition, bomb casings,

and other material in the ammunition bunker; that Schumberger

became upset over the Bay of Pigs invasion and wanted to get out

of their contract with CIA; and that arrangements were then mede

for the bomb casings and other materials stored in the bunker to

Novel has indicated that

he and Sergio Arcacha, smith are still employed by CIA.

Novel

has stated that in the event he is returned to New Orleans to

face charges of burglary, this will be his defense. (FBI Memo

4/24/67) Novel also claims that he once operated the Evergreen

Advertising Agency as a front for CIA communications and that

funds were channelled to him by CIA.: (FBI Memo 4/27/67) Gordon

Novel's attorney also stated on May 25, 1967, that Novel worked

for the CIA in carly 1961;

serving as

an intermediary between

the CIA and anti-Castro Cubans in New Orleans and Miami before

the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invosion little or nothing to do wich

The attorney: Steve Plotkins,

maintained, though, that Novel had

then the as sinstood creatent kemebsolutely nonston tos

(Washington Post

5/26/67)

CIA has advised the Bureau that Novel's claims

are completely false and that Novel has never

been of operational interest.

CIA also advised

that the Agency has never utilized bunkers be-

longing to the Schumberger Well Service Company

for storage of munitions and that the Evergreen

Advertising Agency has had no connection whatso-

ever with CIA operations. (FBI Memo 4/27/67)

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7. On May 22, 1967, Garrison had hand delivered to the

Special Agent in Charge of the New

Orleans FBI office copies of

a letter addressed to a "Mr. Weiss" allegedly written by Gordon

Novel referring to the double-Choi Corporation. The Bureau

noted that Garrison apparently is attempting to connect the

Double-che corporation with the assassination of President

FBI Hemo 5/29/67)

On May 25, 196%, an official of the CIA

normed the Bureau that the louie

orporatons a cover comoration which

was

in the past by the chA the

pose of recruing pilots or operators

directed against the hider castro

ding the Dayca

of Pigs-

Individual bearing the name of Gordon Novel

has had any connection with the ciA or with

the Double-Chel Cameration

The Bureau

advised that a check of

Its files disclosed

no information identifiable wich "Mr. Weiss.

(FBI Memo 5/29/67)

carrion i concern see a cat to a

a bona tide renresentative in New Orleans of tbe Prente Revolue-

Ionario Denocrarico (ERD); a Cuban anti-Castro exile organi

Zation which served as a central point for enlisting support

for anti-Castro activity until the abortive revolutionary attempt

in April 1961.

Smith was known to be engaged in such recruiting

activits. (71-4-137)

..'.

financial supports but

maintained that despite its relationship with

the FRD,

it had no direct relationship with

Sergio Arcacha Smith.

FBI Memo 5/10/67)

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9. Garrison is reported to believe that Clay Shaw,

who has been charged by Garrison with conspiracy to assassinate

President Kennedy, was a CIA agent involved in ari anti-Castro

p.lot which either backfired or was redirected against President

Kennedy.

CIA advised the Bureau in April 1967 that

on May 9, 1901, Deputy Director Cabell, CLA,

was introduced

before his speech to the roreigi

Policy Association in New Orleans by Clay Shaw,

who was the program director, and that from

December 1948 through May 1956, TA's Domet

Contact Service did have some relationnhip with

Shav, as it was interested in Shaw's inter-

national contacts.

CIA claims that the last

contact with Shaw in this regard was in May

1956.

("'BI Memo. 4/27/67)

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