NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ALLEGING THAT CIA WITHHELD VITAL INTELLIGENCE FROM WARREN COMMISSION.
Agency: CIA
Originator: OPEN
Document date: 10/21/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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By ROBERT S. ALLEN

And PAUL SCOTT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.

-The

Central

Intelli

fence

Agency

withheld

vit:l

intelligence

infor

mation from the

Warren

Commission during its in-

vestigation

sination

Kennedy.

Despite

the comp

sion's millen request for

all documenls that mighte

shed light

ont

sination,

CIA

the

assu

authorities

failed to

turn

over a

tional

male

intelligence

csti

warning

that it

is

Kremlin policy.

to remove

from public

office by

sassination

Western

a5-

offi.

cials sho acively oppose

on his yet

to bc

issed

•Soviet

it pulles.

agalost

Wests

"Soviet Stralegle

ern offici

lo mundreds of

Executive

Action,

the

KGB agents Euverlly ou-

suppressed

CIA

docu

craling outside.

Russia

have

wich

delails of how agents

this

gun,

KGB, the Soviet secret

onlyworders

are trained to do

from Moscow

with Western Icad-

cluding officials in

The

Murder

HIGHLIGHTS of the

and to

make

suppressed intelligence

deaths appear due

estimate, which is. Joelted

na tubal

causes.

in a security ared within

wotthe KGB's new..

the tightly-guardcaCIA

devised

assassination

are as follows:

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form.

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fatal

that

CIA

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er

no

even

having'

within

seconds

and

an

McCone inade

them' "eliminated' physi-

aulopsy would not reveal

mention of this explosive

cally.

its uSc.

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document in

his

secret

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activities

arc

poisons have been report.

testimony

before

the -

Warren Commission.

• known

to be

undertaken

ed which

do not take ci-

against other types of

fect

until several

hens

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persons in the West, not..

after being administered,

the commission with

aDiv

defectors from

the

U.S.S.R.

and from

other

thus allowing an assassin

the CIA's secret

surveil-

to be lar from tues

countries of

the Sovict

when his victim dic

reports

on

Leo

Kycy

Oswald's

cight

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bloc.

"A'knowledg

has

Cable

in Mexico City

bizo

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source

assassination technique is

pneumatically

deserted

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details

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to clectrocute an individ.

poison

ice

ual

luring

with

him

the

use a tolephone, connect-

which

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no

or other evidence

Of

SO

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agent in the

Sembassy

there,

ed to a high-voltage wire,

gues

cause of death."

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gave

no

Congressional

inves

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involves

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FBI

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the • Warren Commis

warnod. Speaker

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sion's

findings

might

mack,

dedicated'

until

have

been

difIcront

ill

Communist,

this

that he is on

CIA estimale nnd

"other

documents

the list of Western

sup

clals feared by. the Krem-J

pressed by the 'State De.

ain,

no

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authority

portment had been avnil-

has shown the No. 2 man

able for study.

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