NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: 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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CIA Withheld Vital Intelligence From War ren Commission

By ROBERT S. ALLEN

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Commission during its in-

police, are trained to do

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after being administered,

vestigation of the

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away with Western lead-

• The

sination

ably

defectors from the

thus allowing an assassin

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of

President

Kennedy.

ers, including officials in

U.S.S.R.

the CIA's secret

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other

to be far from the scene

and to

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to natural causes.

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