GARRISON INVESTIGATION OF KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DC/CI/R&A
To: C/E/BC/C
Document date: 02/21/1968
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MEMCFANDUM FOR: C/E/BC/C

SUBJECT

REFERENCE

: Role of Vancouver, Canaca, in

Disinformation re the Garrison

Investigation

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Z2 August 1967.

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2i Kennedy Assassination: Donald P

NORTON

) file 10C-3üC-17.

27 1. Reference forwarded a CI/R&A memorandum about NORTON

toChlef ai Station, Ottowa. Since that date fBI reports bave shown that

NCRICN is a con man, and U.S. Air Force Medical records have re-

veaied that he was discharged lo July 1950 as a result of psychlatric

problems, having tried on two or more occasions to commit suicide.

NORTON's lles about CIA firat appeared in th Vancouver Sun go 5

August 1567.

2. The attached FEl report, DBB 77295, VE April 1967, concerns

another example of disinformation appearing in Vancouver, involving the

Sun, and related to the Garrigen Case. A check of Agency files showed

that we have pa record oilIeror LAUTENS

Vario GRACIAS, Or €

Miss Gorothy WHITTY The reierencE o The unidentuted caller to

GRACIAS may have been a garble for anuei CARCIA Gonzalez, whom

Garrison has named as obe of the assassins or Fresident Kennedy but

who appears to bave disappeared or to be non-existent. There are no

Agency traces (including J' VAVE) DE GARCIA.

3. The Communist press generally and Soviet news media specifically

have given Garrison's story enthusiastic coverage and support, because

it is obviously in their interest to maintain that Fresident Kennedy was

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assassinated not by pro-Commurist Lee Harvey Oswald but father ag

a result o! a right-wing conspiracy lavolving CIA.

4. The surfacing of two such allegations in or through the Vancouver

Sun seems to place a strain on calacidence. Do you kave any information

about the use of the Sun in other surfecings of WHORDER propaganda

against CIA? Is there any information about contacle between employees of

the Sun and representatives of Soviel Intelligence? I Do such information

is at hand, it would be appreciated ll these questiona were forwarded to

1D [lie station. Although Headguarters has no record of Trevor LAUTENS.

it is conceivable that Station)files may also hold laformation about him.

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DOnOVan E. Prett

DC/CI/REA

Attachmenta

Distribution

Crig & 1 - Acressee

1 - A/DCI (Ms. Goodwin)

1 • General Counsel

Ml - Office of Security (Atta: MI. Peul Gaynor)

1 - CI/R&A Chrono

1 - DP for file (New Vancouver file)

1 ~ CI/R&A (Miss Smith)

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