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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

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4/17/201

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09: LANE, MARK

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Commission No.

148,

X.

Thank

WASHINÓTON 25, D.C.

August 31, 1964

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CLASSIFEDBY 5668 SiD/ECL

DECLAS:

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(16)

(552) 4/28/98

MARK LANE

JAMES DELANCY GARST

T-1,

a confidential source abroad, advised as follows

on August 25, 1964:

MARK LANI visited the United Kingdom botween April 14,

1904, when he arrived at London Airport Iron Copenhagen,

and

april 16 when he left london Airport fox Amsterdan,

Holland. A secret and reliable source of I-l reported

that he had attonded the lighth Congress of the Interna-

tional Association oi Democratic Lawyers' (IADL) which was'

held in budapest from March s1 to April 6, 1904. the

Continental press carried a story to the effect that he

explained his

views on the Kennedy assassination and asked

the IADL to form an international committee of noted. lawyers

co discover the real circumstances under which the kennedy

assassination occurred..&

LANE returned to England on June 9, 1964, arriving

at London Airport Iron Coponhagen, Dennark.

He was ac-

companied by his fianceo, Miss ANNE-LISE DABELSTEN, a

designer, born May 15, 1941, traveling on a Danish pass-

2301698. Shortly alter his arrival he attended

a press conference at the Airport which had been arranged

by JAMES DELANEY GARST and at which LANE again exprossed

his views on the Konnedy assassination.

reporters that BERTRAND RUSSEL, had written to him to say

that ho wished to form an organization in England to be

called the "Who Killed Kennedy Committee?". He went on

to say that the Cormittee had now been forned, without a

chairman, but with GARST as secretary. They have received

some publicity in the British press,

in particular in the

"Daily Worker" of June 12 and 30, -1964.

According to LANE,

the objects of the Committee were

to collect and disseminate

all available information and evidence relating to the as-

sassination of President Kennody and to insure justice for

the Oswald Lamily.

I-1 has no information to show to wuat

extent the Committee is actively pursuing these objects.(S)

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SECRET

LANE was to have loft England for Florence and

Rome on June 14, 1964. He paid anothor visit to England

between June 21, 1964, when he arrived at London Airport

Belgium, and June 30, 1964, when he left

London for New York, having been recalled to appear belore

the Warren Commission investigating President Kennedy's

death.

During this latter visit he did not come tu t-l's

attent 102. (5)

With regard to the "Who killed Kennedy Committoe?",

the secrotary, JAMES DILANDY GARST, iS taking a greater

interest in the Anarchist movement.

He left the United

Kingdon for Detroit by air on June 30, 1961, and T-1 has

no evidence of his return as yet.

has recently been

under consideration for appointment as tutor in Extra-

Mural Studies at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in

Tanganyika.

I-I 1s unable to say whether he will obtain

this appointment. (G)

T-I furnished a copy, which is attached, of an open

letter issued by Lord BERTRAND RUSSELL at the time of the

formation of

the "Who Killed Kennedy Committee".

The

other members

of the committes are listed in paragraph 2

of page 6.

T-l pointed out that none of the members of

the Committee were considored to be Communists, although

they cover a large spectrum of left-wing opinions and

have in varying degrees been publicly associated with

organizations penetrated, and in some cases,

controlled

by the communist Party of Great Britain. y

Enclosure

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