MEMO NO. 8: GARRISON AND KENNEDY ASSASSINATION (IDENTIFIES 30 PERSONS).
Originator: CIA
From: PRATT, DONOVAN E., CI, CIA
To: GENERAL COUNSEL, CIA
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FROM : PRATT, DONOVAN E., CI, CIA

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: MEMO NO. 8: GARRISON AND KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

(IDENTIFIES 30 PERSONS) .

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MEMORANDUA No. 8

SUBJECT:

CaTTisOn and the KeNnedy ABARAsinatOR

I. SUMMARY

1. This memorandum la lengthy because it reporte on thirty

persons lavolvad la Garloon's Inventigation. Eight of there have or

had DDP tier. (Of these eight, three have or had some contact with

the Domentic Contact Service ae well.) Elght more were das contacte.

Fourteen had no affiliation with the Agency but claimed to have or were

sald by othere to have had such a relationship. Seven of total of thirty.

have not appeared prertously da this sertes.

2. The DDP contacte are the following:

a: Erancisco Antonio BARTES Clarens. Cuban refugee

leader in New Orleans who has come to Garrison's attention.

DDP pilot 20 July 1965 to 11 February 1966. DCS contact

* May 1951 to present.

b. George BROWN. Garrioon is reportedly trying to

implicate him in the "assassination plot". Has been both a

DDP and a DCS contact. Detaile are being ascertained and will

be reported.

c. LeBlie Norman BRADLEX. Garrison has charged

an Edgar Eugene BRADLEY with being one af the conspirators

but may have confused him with Leslie Norman BRADLEY. The

latter was employed as a co-pilot by a ClA-controlled air line

from 26 May 1966 until 12 Septeraber 1967. He had one DCS

meeting on 26 June 1963.

d. Alberto Federico FERNANDEZ Hechavaria.

Identified to GaIrison as a Cuban leader associated with Lawrence

Joseph LABORDE. DDP contact from December 1960 to present.

e. Lawrence Joseph LABORDE. His son has reported

on him and his associates to Garrison's stall. DDP contact

from February or March 1961 to 20 April 1962.

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f. Alfred I. MORAN. Has been questioned by

GaTrison's staff. DDP COntaCt from 27 December 1962

to present. DCS contact from 21 December 1962 to

present. Since 19 Navember 1961 contacte fos the DDP

have been handled by the DCS.

8. Victor Manuel PANEQUE y BATISTA. H2s

been identified to Garrison as bariug been in charge of a

ClA training camp in Louinlane. DDP from 13 November

1964 to 31 October 1965.

b. Emilio SANTANA Galindo. Was interrogated

by Garrison and stalf for five days in Februasy 1967, DDP:

contact from October 1962 to October 1963.,

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3. The DCS contacte are the following:

2. Carlos Jose BRINGUIER. Has been interrogated

and polygraphed by Garrison. DCS contact February and

April 1967.

b. William Wayze DALZELL. Has been questioned

by Garrison and staff. Alleged he was afflliated with CIA.

DCl contacts in November 1960 and in January and February 1961.

c. Gorald Patrick HEMMING JI. Was identified to

Gartison'e staff as a para-military instructor of Cubane and

later volted Garrison's office. DCS contact from October 1960

to March 1961.

d. Jack N. ROGERS. A Baton Rouge attorney in touch

with GarrisOn's staff. DOS contact from september I959 to

the present.

e.: Clay SHAW. Arresteá by Garrison on a charge of

conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy. DCS Hes from

Decamber 1948 to May 1956.

1. Cecil Maxwell SHIL STONE. Member of Irath and

Consequences, Inc., which donates money to GarrisOn's office.

Lifelong friend of two members of the DCS office in New Orleans,

but official contact ended in 1956.

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g. SCHLUMBERGER Well Surveying Corporation.

Said by Garrison and others to have been the original owner

of explosives removed from & bunker at ClA's instigation

for use at the Bay of Pigs. Current DCS contacta with

VArIoUs SCHLUMBERGER offices.

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h. John CarIett UNDERHULL JI. DeRd.

Ramparte has played him ip a8 a CLA contact who knew

that the Agoncy was behind tho assasains. DCS contact

frosa late 1949 to the said 1950'8.

4. The persons falsely claiming Agency alallation. or

about whom such claims nave been made by othere, are the tallowing:

a. Valestine ASHWORTHI. Interviewed by Garrison'o

staff. Now la fall, ASHWORTH has clalmed a link titta CLA

and farraer essociation with Oswald.

b. Guy BANISTER. Dead, Ramparts has alleged

that he was ansociated with ClA and with Minutemen Involved

sa the sasasstration..

c. Maurice Brooks GATLIN SI. Dead. Ramparts

has alleged that be was associated with BANISTER and CiA.

d. David W. FERRIE. Dead. GaIIison has charged

that FERRIE was a member of the conspiracy for the assassination

of President Kennedy and that he worked for ClA.

e. Loran Eugene HALL. Subpoenaed by Garrison 2o

a inaterial witness. Gartleon charges that he worked for cla.

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1. Lawrence John HOWARD JI. As above.

8.: Jules Ricco KIMBLE. Offered information to

Garrison's staff. Clalmed affiliation with CLA.

h. Exu LOGAN. Said by Gordon NOVEL and

Ramparts to have been a ClA advisor to the Erlendo of

Democratic Caba in New Orleans. No pertinent identifiable

information exists.

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Richard Case NAGELL Claime

Ly to

have

warned the FBl before the assassination

to be Agency-affliated. Serving a tentyear t

Mentally sad emotionally nastable.

1. Donald P. NORTONS low to wou

Carsison's expense and debriefed in a taped la

Claimed extensive dies with cIA.

Discharged from the U.5: Air Force for pa

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-Ko. Gordon Duane NOVEL Garfle

hira frora Oblo as a ultura

Both NOVEL

falsely arserted that NOVEL warked fox CIA.

1. Lee farrey OSWALD. Carried sule

that he

Was: CIA.

ma. Jack RUBY. As above,

n. Edward Stewart SUGGS. Clalma to be on laveatigator

for Garrison. Clalme former GIA des

•IL. DETAILS

1. This memorandu provides aformation ab

of persons who are presently or potental, lavoid labe

James C. Carriaon'e Investigation of the atian last

Kennedy and who are or were associated with GlA

included aboat & (hiid category - thone who have

with CIA bit about whors a CiA the has been anterted, by the

others.

poxp

3, Group I la the ret category constite oftent on emmer

Group 2 conslate of present or to

mes DCS conte

Trous stacked noted above, eonalet of importers ago then, the

have had no assoclation with the Agency but who have been ellesed by

tata pardos to be CLA-atallated.

•3. i Group 1 (total of 8)

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1 Francisco Antonio BARTES Claren: (201-289985):

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(X) Prior references: Memorandam, subject:

Garrison Investigation of Kennedy Ausassination:

Francisco Antonio BARTES Clarens (201-289885):

20 November 1967.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

None known to date. His former position as head of

the Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC) in New Orleans

and bie earlier tie to Lawrence LABORDE and others

in respect to guerrilla training for anti-Castro Cubans

has already, however, been drawn to Garrison'e attention.

(3) DDP and DGS relationshipe:

(a) DEP. Altbough a POA for use in

IMATE was requested on 29 December 1960 and

granted 30 January 196}, the request was cancelled

on 30 August 1951, and BARTES was not used

during this interval. (Per JMWAVE 0483,

4 December 1967. Oa 27 May 1965 SOD/AB/OPS/3

requested a gOA to permit the use of BARTES as a

pilot in the Congo. The POA was granted on

20 July 1965, and an OA on 9 September 1965,

Testing of Subject's skill as a pilot revealed, however,

that he was not quallfied for the intended assignment.

He was returned to the U.S. on ll February 1966

without baving been used operationally.

(b) DCS. The first contact of DCS New

Orleans with BARTES occurred on 4 May 1961,

Between that date and 9 January 1967 a total of

13 meetinga took place. BARTES is the source of

Bix DCS reporte. Contact has not been terminated.

b..

George BROWN.

(1) Prior references: None.

(2) Involvement in Garrison investigation: A

DCS Houston report of 27 December 1967 atates that

George BROWN received a disturbing telephone call on

22 December 1967 from Hugh AYNESWORTH of Newsweek,

who paid that Bill "Gervage" (Comment: Presumably

identical with William H. GURVICH) had indicated that

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Garrioon may try to Implicate BROWN in the

"antansinatlon plat", "The allegation lo that li some

unspeCted maNNEt BIONA MAS iNVOlVed With the CLA

ta its objective of "covering up" the "conapiracy! los

President Johneon. Ayneswarth aald Gervage has

documents, including at leant ont is Garrlson's own

handusiting, which presumably have been extracted

from Garrison's files.

(3) DIP relationahip: The above report says

that BROWN has cooperated closely with CLA la funding

operations. Checke are under way:

C.. Inalie Normas BRADLEY (701-727878)-

(1) Erlor referenceal Memorandum No. 1,

76 April 1967, Enclosure 5) Memorandun No. 2,

8 May 1967, Exclasure 4.

(2) Javalvement in Garriaon'a investigation:

None nowa to date. During the week 21-28 Ducember

1967 several U:S, newspapero reported that on 20.

December Garriaon'e office had accused one Edgar

Lugere BRADLEY of North Hollywood, Califarnia, of

conspring to assasstnate Prosident Kennedy. On 27

December he was arraigned on a fugitive complatnt and

released on his ous recogalsance..

Extradition is currently

moot.

There is no CIA record of Edgar Eugene BRADLEY.

On or about 20 December 1967, however, the Wanblugton

bureau of the Los Angeles Ilmet made an Inquiry of the

A/DOl regardiag beelle Norman BRADLEY. The Newaweek

Linue of 8 January 1968 speculated that Garrioon sight

have confused Edgar Eugene with either of two other men,

one of whom is".. : a sometime New Orleans pilot:

named Bradley who was once jelled in Cuba for antt-Cantro

activitles." Ibla deecription fita Leslie Norman BRADLEY.

(3) DDP and DGS relatlonshipat

(a) At his request. Icelle Norman BRADLEY

was met by the DCS office la Minneapollo for one

and a half hours on 26 June 1963. There was no

other DCS contact.

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(b) BRADLEY and two compandone

were arrested by Cuban art on 23 May 1960

on a charge of counterrevalutionary acdylty.

BRADLEY collaborated with the Cabare

authoritles while imprisoned on the fale of Pines

He was repatriated, with other Americant

oa 22 Apsll 1963. br

(0) DDS-318 requested a Brovietonat

Covert Security Approval on 26 May 196640

order to use Lealte Norman BRADLEY Luride

the contental U.S, ada co-pilot employed by

Southern Aff Transport Inc-, Mamt On 31%

October 1966 DDS-HE reguested cancellation,

and employment was considerad terminated.

when be wat dropped for insatiatectory performances

Further ingulry. is under Way.

d. Alberto Federico FERNANDEZ Mechavarre (201-251855).

(1) Prior referencent Memorandum Nos S.

7 August 1967, Enclosure 8i Memorandus No. 6,

7 Septezaber 1967, page t.

(2) Involvement in Garrizon's lovestigation:

FERNANDEZ was identifled to one of Carrison's staff

as the head of a Caban organisation which erployed

Lawrence Joseph LABORDE (see below) und othere.

LABORDE's son Michael alzo sald that his lather worked

for CIA.

(3) DDP relationchip: FERNANDEZ has been a

•contact of the Miami Statlan from December 1960 to tho

present, altbough payment ceased on 1 December 1965g

e: Lawrence Joseph LABORDE (201-294688).

(1) Prior referenced: Memorandum No, 3,

1 June 1967, P. 7 and Enclosure 2; Memorandum No. 4,

20 June 1967, pp. 1 and 31 Memorandum No. 5.

7 August 1967, p. 8i Memorandura No. 6, 7 Septerabez

1967; pp. 1 and 5.

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(2) Involvement in Garrison'E lavestigation:

On 11 May 1967 LABORDE telephoned the DGS office

in New Orleans, said that he was an ex-ClA employee,

added that ho feared GaTTieOn Would subpoena htor,

and requested ansistance oI adrico. Michael W.

LABORDE, the son of Lawrence, has told members of

Garrison's staff that his father was associated with

Alberto FERNANDEZ (see preceding sub-paragraph),

with Gerald Petrick HEMMING, and one "Ray" [perhaps

Leroy COLLINS / in training Cabans as guerrilla

fighters. Michael LABORDE has almo inplicated CIA

in this training. On 27 September 1967 Lawrence J.

LABORDE again called the DOS office in New Orleans.

In accordance with Headquarters' instructlone he was

tald that there was nothing to discuss.

(3) DDP relationship: LABORDE WaS a DDP

contact from February or March 1961 to 20 April 1962.

He served as acting captain of a veasel owned by

FERNANDEZ, and used by the Miami Station in Cuban

operations.

f. Alfred J. MORAN (201-776772).

(1) Prior references: None.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's Investigation: A

memorandum from DCS New Orleans, 15 November 1967,

reported that Hunter C. Leake of that office and Alfred

J. MORAN are vEry good friends, that Leake attended &

party at MORAN's home on 14 November 1967, and that at

that time MORAN told Leake that he (MORAN) had been

in touch with a member of Garrison's staff, Assistant D.A.

James ALCOCK, who questioned MORAN about an

occasion when Clem BERTRAND and MORAN were in the

VIP room of Eastern Airlines at the New Orleans

International Airport. MORAN told Leake that in his

opinion Garrison has an "ironclad" case against Clay SHAW.

A DCS New Orleans report of 13 December 1967 adde that

MORAN told Leake on 11 December 1967 that ALCOCK

and abother representative of Garrisoni's office had shown

him, sometime in 1967, what was alleged to be a photocopy

of the daily log from the VIP room at the airport. MORAN

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recognized his own signature and that of Arthur Q.

DAVIS (a prominent New Orleans architect). He said

that the name Clem BERTRAND was pointed out to him

on the list and that Clay SHAW's name was not on the

list. ALCOCK and his colleague said that a handwriting

expert had confirmed that the signature "Clem BERTRAND!'

bad been written by SHAW. It is noted that the DCS

report of 15 November 1967 quotes MORAN as saying that

SHAW was in the VIP room on the occasion about which

ALCOCK questioned MORAN, whereas the 13 Docerber

1967 report quotes MORAN as saying that he did not ace

SHAW in the room at that time.

(3) DDP and DGS relationahips:

(a) DDP. A check of MORAN's file showed

that he was cleared on 15 December 1962 for use

by Miami Station. He was approached on 27

December 1962 by Mrs. Carmel T. Dollar, acting

on bohalf of the Station and through the good offices

of DCS New Orleans. Agreeing to help the Station

In cover matters, he became president of Ace Marine

Survey, Inc.. MORAN "also permits use of his own

company as a funding mechanism" for Ace Marine

Survey Inc. (Comment: Miami Station cable 0425,

29 November 1967, done not identify MORAN's own

company, but DCS New Orleans bae reported that

he was the first president of Kalvar Corporation,

which manufactares microfilm.) MORAN has acted

as a spotter for the Miami Station and has

recommended several other businessmen who are

being used by the Station.

"Ho has also made

available several oil companies in which he owns

interests for use in backstopping cover" of certain

operational vessels of the Station. He le or has

been used by Headquarters for several activities

directed by the Office of Logiotics. Of Miami Station

pereonnel MORAN has met Mr. Ray E. Millard and

Mx. Charles C. C. Tresp (formerly DDS/Office

os Logistics) as well as Mie. Dollar. In addition to

Ace Marine Survey Inc., he knowe Ceres Enterprises

Inc. and the Miami Station operational vessel Barb.

He also knows that Miami attorney Mr. James Costello

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participates in Statton activities. The latest

direct Miami Station contact of record is dated

19 Noveinber 1964; aince that date, it appears,

DDP interests have

been brokered by DCS New

Orleans.

Miami Station records reflect that

MORAN is a friend of Messre. Lawrence K. White,

Alan Warfield, and James A. Garrison, the former

Director of Logistics, now retired.

(b) DCS. MORAN was firat in official

contact with the DGS New Orleans office on

2. December 1962. There have been fiftees

official contacts since then. He is not the source

of any DCS reports, but he has been mentioned in

one operational report from the New Orleane

oîfice. As of 29 November 1967 the latest official

contact had occurred on 20 November 1967, when

MORAN signed some corporate papers for Ace

Marine Survey Inc.

Victor Manuel PANEQUE y BATISTA (201-286382).

(1) Prior reference: Memorandum No. 6,

7 Septezaber 1967, pp. 5-6.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation: In

a taped interview of 21 Januazy 1967 Cazlos QUIROGA told

Garrison that PANEQUE was in charge of a CIA training

camp conducted for Cubana from Miami in Lacembe, Id.,

in August 1963.

(3) DDP relationship: A FOA for PANEQUE's use

was granted the Miami Station en 13 November 1964.

The Miami request had stated that he was to be used "as an

infiltree and radio operator". A report of 10 August 1964

etated that he had been infiltrated into Caba in June 1964

on behali of the Christian Democratic Movement.

Whether

he was uced operationally is not stated in PANEQUE's 201.

He was terminated affective 31 October 1965 for lack of:

an immediate operational use.

h. Emilio SANTANA Galindo (201-335856).

(1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 2,

8 May 1967, Encloeure 23; Mororandum No. 3, 1 Junc

1967, Enclosure No. 1, A

Memporandu No. 4, 20 June 1967,

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pp. 1 and 3; Memorandum No. 6, 7 September 1967,

p. 6.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

SANIANA was questioned by Garrison and staff frona

12 to 17 February 1967.

(3) DDP relatlonship: SANTANA was recruited

by the Miami Station in October 1962. After partielpating

in May 1963 in s single Infiltration - exilltration operation,

he was terminated in October 1963.

4. GrOup Il (total of 8)

a. Carlos Jose BRINGUIER (201-289248)..

(1) PIiOs IEferEnCEs: Memorandum No. 1, 26

April 1967, Enclosure No. di Memorandum No. 3,

1 June 1967, P. 5; Memorandun No. 4, 20 June 1967,

pp. 1 and 3.

(2) Involvement is Garrison's investigation:

BRINGUIER has been questioned and polygraphed by.

GarrisOn. Among the questione asked of BRINGUIER

while he was being polygraphed was whether he had been

contacted by ClA. He said that he had not.

(3) DOS relatlonship: DCS New Orleans interviewed

BRINGULER four times, at his request, on 1 and 2 February

1967 and on 5 and 6 April 1967. As of 13 October 1967

there had been no later contact.

b. William Wayne DALZELL.

(1) Prior references: Memorandura No. 4,

20 June 1967, pp. 2, 5, and 6; Memoranduen No. 6,

7 September

1967, p. G.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

Gordon NOVEL has stated that Garrison is interested

in DALZELL. Ramparte of January 1968, p. 53, states.

"Another of the incorporators of the Friende of

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Democratic Caba 7 was William Wayne Dalzell,

who knew [David W.7 Ferrie and (sergio?

Arcacha [Smith/ and was still another in the

[W. Guy/ Banister coterie of aleuths.

To a States-

Itera reporter be adraltied he was CIA. " Willlam W.

Lurner, the writer ol the cited Ramparts artiale and

of other attacks by Rampaste on CIA and the FBI, stated

therein that he had worked closely with Garrison and

his staff for nine montha. The Sas Francisco Chronicle

of 27 December 1967 quoted GAITIsOn as saying,

"Every word la Ramparte le accurately stated."

(3) DCS relationahip: DALZELL had three

cantacts with DCS New Orleans. They occurred on

15 Navember 1960, 20 January 1961, and 1 February

1961. They concerned his proposals for a Rado Free Cuba.

c. Gerald Patrick HEMMING JI. (201-309125).

(1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 5,

7 Auguet 1967; Memorandum, subject: Chart of Garrison

Case, 2 November 1967.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

Michzel W. LABORDE told members of Garrison's staff

that his father LawIeNce had worked for ClA with anti-

Castro Cubana. He named "Jerry Patrick", who is

HEMMING, and one "Roy", probably Leroy COLLINS,

as associsted with LäWIenCE LABORDE. He added that

Jerry Patrick and Roy "duped Gubans out of money" and

were dismissed by CIA. On 8 July 1967 HEMMING and

an associate, possibly COLLINS, went to Garrison'o

office. They said that they were working for an unidentified

magarine and wanted to do a story on the Garrison

lavestigation. HEMMING has been reported by the FBI

and in the press as a soldier of fortune who has given

pars-military training to anti-Castro Cuban refugees.

A teletype of 8 September 1967 from the DCS office in

Los Angeles states that HEMMING had claimed that a

45 automatic confiscated by a sheriff'e office in Los Angeles

bad been lssued to hina by ClA.

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(3) DGS relationship. HEMMING was ia

contact with the DCS office in Los Angeles between

October 1960 and March 1961. He le the source of

14 DGS reporta on Cuba.

d. Jack N. ROGERS.

(1) Prior reference: Memorandura No. 4,

20 June 1967, pp. l and 3.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

ROGERS has been in touch with Garrison's staff about

the assabaination because of ROGERS' position as

committee counsel for the Joint Legislative Committee

on Un-American Activities of the State af Louisiana.

He has said that he is confident 'that GarIiBoN can prove

a close association between Oswald and Jack Ruby sed a

conspiracy invalving Clay Shaw. "

(3) DCS relationship: ROGERS has been a Bource

of DCS New Orleans since September 1959 and is "the

source or contact" for twelve reports from that office.

e. Clay SHAW.

(1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 1,

26 April 1967, Enclosure 21; Memorandum No. 4, 20 June

1967, pp. 2, 4, and 5.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

SHAW was charged by Garrison in March 1967 of conspiring

to assassinate President Kennedy. His case has not yet

come to trial. Ramparts of January 1968 linke SHAW to CIA.

(3) DCS relationship: SHAW was a contact of the

DCS office in New Orleans from December 1948 to May 1956.

During that period Mr. Hunter Leake contacted him officially

thirty times. These contacts produced a total of eight reports.

f. Cecil Maxwell SHILSTONE.

(1) Prior reference: Memorandum, subject:

Chart of Garrison Case, Z November 1967, p. 15.

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(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

SHILSTONE i8 a member of Truth and Consequences

Inc., a group of affluent New Orleane businessmen

who have donated undisclased amounts of money to

Garrison's office for ble use in paying investigative coste.

(3) DCS relationship: SHILSTONE has been a

lifelong frlend of Messis. Lloyd A. Ray and Hunter

Leake of the DOS office in New Orleans. He le the source

of two very old 00-B reporte. The official (but not the

personal) relationship ceased in March 1956.

&- SCHLUMBERGER Well Surveying Corporation.

(1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 2.

8 May 1967, Enclosure 241 Memorandum No. 4,

20 June 1967, pp. 1 and 4.

(2) Involvement in Garrinon's investigation:

The press has repeated statemente by Gordon NOVEl

Unking this firm to CIA. NOVEL has claimed that

explosives which he and othere removed from a bunker

at Houna, Loulsiana, at the instigation of ClA, bore

the SCHLUMBERGER stamp.

(3) DES relationchip: In June 1955 was a contact

between Charles A. DOH, dietrict manager of the

SCHLUMBERGER office in New Orleane, and the New

Orleans DOS office. Moreover, DGS has current

contacts with the main SCHLUMBERGER office in

Houston and with three or four subsidiattes claewhere.

DGS dealings with the firm have been circumspect.

h. John GarIett UNDERHILL JI.

(1) Prior reference: Memorandum, subject:

Ramparts: John Garrett UNDERHILL, JI., Samuel George

CUMMINGS, and INTERARMCO, 19 July 1967.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

Ramparts of June 1967 claimed that UNDERHILI, nOW

dead, was "on intimate terms with a number of high-

ranking CIA officials - he was one of the Agency's

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'un-people' who perforin special assigamente."

Ramparte of January 1968 adde, "Immediately after

the assassination, a distraught Underhill told irtends

that a seral-autonomous ClA clique which had been

profitoaring in narcotics and gun-ruming was implicated

In the BBBASsinatlOn." The close GArTiBON-TurNer

association and Garlaon's vouching for the accuracy

of the Ramparts account suggest that GarIlsON may

make similaI assertions when his case comas to trial.

(3) DCS relationabip: UNDERELLI WAS AN

Infrequent contact of the DOS New York office frora

late 1949 to the mid-1950's. He was not employed by

that office. The purpose of contact was to obtain positive

foxeign intelligence.

5. Group Ill (total of 14)

a. Valentine ASHWORTH (201-337656).

(1) Prior references: None.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's Investigation:

On 9 October 1962 ASHWORTH sent a letter from

Leraville, Louisiana, to the Cuban Ambassador la

Mesico.. He offered information about the "Cuban Raider

Command" and the "People'& Revolutionary Movernent"

in exchange for help in defecting to Cuba. He said that

GlA did not have the same information. Arrested on

16 May 1966 for investigation af auto theft. ASHWORTH

told an fBi special agent that he had participated in

several raíds on Cuba, that he ras a pilot and an expert

lo explosives, and that ClA was aware of his activities

sad could provide information about them. Arrested

again on 26 April 1967 for possession of a stolen

autorobile, ASHWORTH was sent to the jail in Lake

Charles, Louisiana. A fellow inmate, one Richard

PHILLIPS, wrote the FBI to say that ASHWORTH clalmed

to have shared an apartment in Ohio with Lee Harrey

Oswald, that Oswald and he belonged to & group of

New Orleans Cubans who lilled President Kennedy and

"Were supposed to kill Castro at the same time", that

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"Oswald was a patsey (Bic) and didn't fire a shot;

that "Kennedy's assins (sic) were, as was Oswald,

sheriff advised the FBI that an unidentified assistant

distriot attorney on Garrison's staff had come to Lake

Charles one month earlier and had interviewed

ASHWORTH for an hour. According to PHILLIPS,

Garrison's representatives have questioned ASHWORTH

about four times and have asked him 11 he was a member

of CLA. The U.S. Marine Corpe advided on 3 January

1968 that ASHWORTH enlisted on 24 December 1952,

was honorably discharged on 18 March 1953, reenlisted

the next day, and then served until 3 December 1954.

when given a bad conduct discharge following a general

court-martial at which he was found gulity of unlawful

absence and failure to obey lawful ordere.

(3) GIA relationship: None.

b. W. Guy BANISTER

(1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 1,

26 April 1967, Enclosure 3; Memorandum No. 2,

8 May 1967, Enclosure 3.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

Ramparts of January 1968, p. 47, states that a former

Minuteman named Jerry Milton BROOKS had said that

BANISTER was the "head of the Anti-Communism League

of the Caribbean. " Ramparts asserts that this "league"

was "assertedly an intermediary between the CIA and

Caribbean insurgency movemesta. "

(3) CIA relationship: None. According to our

records, Maurice Brooke GATLIN SI. (see below) was

legal counsel not, as Ramparts says, to the "Anti-

Communism League of the Caribbean" but to the "Anti-

Communism Committee of the Americas". FBI reporting

clearly indicates that GATLIN was the sole member of

this national group. An FBI report of 14 February 1961

quoted BANISTER as saying that he had never been an

officer or member of the "group", GATLIN's clairas to

the contrary notwithstanding.

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C. Maurice BIOOks GATLIN SI. (201-53454).

(1) Prior references: None.

(2) Invalvement in Garrleon's investigation:

Ramparts of January 1968 quotes one Jerry Milton

BROOKS (see preceding sub-paragraph) as clalming

to have been a "sort of protege" of GAILIN. BROOKS

claimed that about 1962 GATLIN, "Ia s self-lesportant

manner", remarked that he had $100, 000 of CLA saoney

earmatked for a French rightoving clique that was

going to attempt to assanainate General De Viaulle.

GATLIN died 1n Panama in 1964, at the ago of sisty-ono.

FBI reports on him cite sources who knew him well

as saylag that be was insane and should have been committed

he duped Eduardo A. Morales, Consul General of the

Dominican Republic in New Orleans, out of relatively

large sume in the late 19501ª. Morales seeras to have

considered him an agent representing the interests of

I'rajillo, although GATLIN was not so reglatered with

the Department of Justice, GATLIN usad the allanes

Edward FAIRCHILD, JaDies COCHRANE, Robert WATSON,

and Charles EVERETT. A typical eplaode occurred la

Novembes-December 1957, when GATLIN went to Eugene,

Oregon, because he had a theoty that Jesse De Galindes

(commonly belleved to have been kidnapped in New York

by Trujillo henchmen) was hiding out among Banque

sheep-herders there. On 2 December 1957 GAILIN

presented himself to an FBI special agent in Eugene and

said that "If he was found dead in Eugene it was murdes,

not suleide*.

(3) CIA relationship: None. An 0O report of

10 December 1953 states that on 13 Octaber 1953 GATLIN

called on an 0O office, said that slote were scheduled to

occur in Guatemala, and added that he thought some ClA

representetives there might be in danger. "He auggested

that he be furnished the names of agenta who were posing

as members of the Communist organisation so that he

could prevent their being assassinated in error."

He also suggested that ClA give him $75, 000 to fund the

assassination of 15 top Commulat leaders in Latin America.

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d. David W. FERRIE.

(1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 5,

7 August 1967, p. 3; Memorandura No. 7, 13 September

1967, p. 2.

(2) Involvement in GarrisOn'E investigation:

Ramparts of January 1968, pp. 50 and 52, eummarizes

and amplifies Garrison's earler charges that FERRIE

was employed by CIA in anti-Castro activity. Ramparts

cites an unidentified source as claiming that FERRIE

had confided that he "was worling for the ClA rescuing

Cubans out of Gastro prisons".

(3) CIA relationship; None.

e. LOIan (oT LaWIeNCe) Eugene HALI (201-258÷11).

(1) Prios references: Memorandum No. 5,

1 August 1967, Enclosures 13, 14, and 23.

(2) Involvement in Garricon's investigation:

Press and radlo accounts of 29 December 1967 through

1 January 1968 stated that Garrison, on 30 December 1967,

subpoenaed three men as material witnesses. They are

Thomas Edward BECKHAM of Omaha, Nebrasia; Loran

Eugene HALL of Kernville, Calliornia; and Lawrence Joha

HOWARD JI, of Los Angeles. The subpoenas alleged that

HALL and HOWARD checked into the Dallas X. M.C.A.

in October 1963 and remained in Dallas until the assassination.

HAIl le said to have brought a weapon to Dallas. The

subpoenas further alleged that HALL and HOWARD were

associated in Dallas with Jack Ruby and with others, including

Oswald, believed to have been involved in the assassination.

The Garrison charges added that in New Orleans HALL

and HOWARD were associated with FERRIE and that in

Florida they had taken part in CIA-sponsored guerrilla

training for raids on Cuba. HALL denied ever meeting

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Oswald, Ruby. Ferrle, "or anyone else involved

in the assassination or anyone ever mentloned by

GarTiBOn oI arybody else".

(3) CIA relatonship; Nose, HAll served

In the U.S. Army, 1947-1952, Weat Germany, and

was given an honorable discharge for medical reasons.

According to bis isthes, he has suffered a mental

breakdown and is still subject to severe depression.

He has been arrested several times. He claims to be

a soldier of fortuno who once served Cantro's cause,

but some who know him think that he is lying.

f. LaWIenCe John HOWARD JI.

(1) Prior references: None.

(2) Involvement in Garrison'e investigation:

See preceding sub-paragraph. According to the Houston

Chronicle of 31 December 1967 the subpoena alleges

that HOWARD was engaged in ClA-sponsored guerrilla

training in Florida, Louisiana, and Texad. Ramparts of

January 1968 repeats the old story that Mrs. Sylvia ODIO

was visited in Dallas in late September 1963 by three male

strasgers: Leopoldo, Angelo, and "Leon Oswald".

Ramparts adde that "just before the Warren Report went

to press, the FBI located three men poasibly identical with

MIe. Odlo's provocative visitarB." They were HALL,

HOWARD, and one William SEYMOUR, who had an alibi.

Ramparts alleges that HALL first admitted but later denied

that the three had called on MIs. ODIO. HOWARD denied it.

(3) ClA relationship: None.

Jules Ricco KIMBLE.

(1) Prior reference: Memorandura No. 6,

7 September 1967; p. 3.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

Ramparts of January 1968 states that KIMBLE approached

members of Garrison's staif and said that on the day

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after David FERRIE died, he drove a top Ku Klux

Klan official, Jack HELM, to FERRIE's apartment:

"HELM came out with a satchel crammed with papers,

which he placed in a bank safe depostt box." KIMBLE

claimed that in 1962 he flew to Montreal with FERRIE

on Minutemen business. "Shortly afterward, he phoned

his wife from Atlanta, saying he had met a CIA contact.

'They'll never get me back to New Orleane, 'he vowed. "

He was arrested, however, in Tampa, Where Garrison's

men questioned him. He "said that he had once worked

special assignments for the ClA, and in verification

named his Agency contacts and the box number at the

Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He averred

he had recontacted, the CIA after Walter Sheridan had

counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada."

An FBI report of 12 January 1966 stated that men in the

office of the sheriff of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, had

said that KIMBLE is a pathological liar who has had

frequent problems with the police and who le prone to

violence. Deputy Sheriff Charles KIMBLE, balf brother

of Jules, advised that his brother had made certain false

statements to draw attention to himself, in the hope of

getting out of jail.

(3) CIA relationship: None. On 4 August 1967

KIMBLE telephoned DCS New Orleans to say that Garrison

was trying to connect him with CIA, although he did not

know why, and that Garrison had accused him of taking

some papers from Ferrie's apartment.

h. Fnu LOGAN.

(1) Prior references: None.

(2) Involvement in Garrison's investigation:

Ramparts of January 1968, p. 53, says, "The Friends of

Democratic Cuba was founded January 9, 1961 . ..

Government advieors to the Friends, says an informant

who was closely involved with the group, were a ClA man

named Logan and the FBI's Regis Kennedy . . . "

On 10 May 1967 the New Orleans office of the FBI, reporting

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information obtained from Gordon Duane NOVEL.

quoted him as saying that William Wayne DALZELI

(see above) had been in toach with Kennedy and with

CIA employee fau LOGAN. NOVEL attrlbuted this

information to DALLELL's landlady.

(3) CIA relationship: None. The DOS New

Orleans office reported on 20 June 1967 that there has

never been a LOGAN in the office and that the records

do not reflect deallage with anyone of that name.

Headquarters traces have not revealed a LOGAN in

New Orleans.

1. Richard Case NAGELI (201-746537).

IN.

Jail in El Pus.

(1) Prior references: None.

Rattery

(2) Involvement 1n Garrison's investigation:

Ramperts of January 1968 stated that NAGELL "was a

highly decorated infantry captata in the Koreas war who,

he ciairas, subsequently became a ClA agent... • he

had sent a registered letter to J. Edgar Hoover warning

him of the impending assassination, which he says waz

then scheduled for the latter part of September... and

the letter had gone manswered." According to Ramparts,

NAGEL! claimed that two groupe called "Bravo Club" and

"Delta Club" Joined forces to Hill President Kennedy.

"Meanwhile ClA got wind of the plans and sent several agents

into the fleld to ascertain whether they were 'for real'.

NAGElL says that he was one of the agents dispatched ...

Nagell says that he was instructed to 'arrow' the patay,

that is kill him, after the assassination. "

(3) CIA relationship: None. NAGELL WaS OnE of

six crew members in a B-25 which crashed at full power

on 28 November 1954 near Friendship Airport. He was

the sole survivor. The plane was not found foz 11 1/2

hours. He was unconsclous and had suffered severe head

injuries. On 16 November 1962 NAGELL wrote the FBI

in Now York to say that he wanted to expose the Department

of Alcoholic Beverage Control of Califorsia. On

15 December 1962 be advised the FBI in Jacksonville,

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Florida, that he had been recruited by the Sovlete in

Washingtos, D. C., and had contacted CIA in Virgiala

on Soviet ordera.

Is January 1963 he was diagnosed

at the VA hospital la Bay Pines, Florida, as having

"chronic brain ayadrome assoctated with brain trauma

with behavioral reaction characterised by passive,

aggresslve, and paranoid features." On 20 September 1963

he was sitested for firing two rounde into the ceiling of

a bank in El Paso, Texas. He then attempted suicide.

On 16 April 1964 NAGELL sent to the FBl a letter in

which he faleely claimed that he had sent them an earlter

letter, dated September 1963 and eigned "Jack KrameI",

to warn their about the assassination.

j. Donald P. NORTON.

(1) Prior references: Memorandura No. 6,

7 Septeraber 1967, pp. 1 and Z; Memorandum No. 7,

13 September 1967, p. 3; Memorandum, subject: Donald

P. (07 T.) NORTON, 14 August 1967.

(2) Involvement in Garrison'o invertigation: In

Vancouver, Canada, in an intervlew published on 8 August

1967, NORTON clalmed to be an ex-ClA employes tho

delivered $150, 000 to FERRIE fOI ITaRsfeI to Caba and

who picked up from SHAW $50, 000 to be delivered to

Oswald in Monterey, Mesdico. On 15 July 1967 Charles

WARD of Garrison's staff accompanied NORTON to

New Orleans for a taped interviow. Ramparta of January 1968

claimed that NORTON was impressed into ClA'a service in

1957 under threat of exposure as a homosexual. According

to this article, NORTON was told by ClA to take a longi

quiet vacation because of something that was happening

in New Orleans.

(3) CIA relationship: None. NORTON served as

a private and PFC in the U.S. Air Force from 11 October

1949 to 24 January 1951, when he was discharged for

psychiatric reasons.

k. Gordon Duane NOVEL.

(1) Prior references: Memorandum No. 1,

26 April 1967, Enclosure 19; Memorandum No. 2,

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8 May 1967, Enclosure 20; Memorandum No. 4,

20 June 1967, pp. 6-101 Memorandum No. 6,

7 September 1967, pp. 2-3i Memorandum No. 7,

13 September 1967, p. 3. Also memoraadura,

subject: Gordon Duane Noval, 31 tay 1967.

(2) Involvement in Garricon's investigation:

Both NOVEL and ons of his lawyers have claimed that

he worked for CIA, Garrison has sought, until fairly

recently, to extradite NOVEL from Columbus, Oblo,

but without succeas. Garrleon has cladraed, and

NOVEL has agreed, that NOVEl, at the instigation of

CIA, took part with others la stealing explosives frona

« banker in Houms, Louisiana. NOVEL has written a

letter which implies that he was involved in CLA's

operation Bouble-Chek. Ramparte of January 1968

repeats the principal lies about NOVEL's CLA tes.

(3) ClA relationship: None.

1. Leo Harvey OSWALD.

(1) Prior references: Memorandur No. 3,

1 June 1967, p. 1; Memorandun No. 1, 13 September

1967, p. 2.

(2) Involvement in Garricon'e lavestigation:

Garrison has repeatedly charged that OSWALD was a

"patsy" who did not lill anyone and that OSWALD worked

for CLA. Ramparts of January 1968 says that CLA

tradned OSWALD at the Atsugi Naval Station in Japan,

where he was taught covert operations and Russian.

It also alleges that CIA arranged OSWALD's defection

to the Soviet Union.

(3) CIA relationship: None.

m. Jack RUBY.

(1) Prior reforences: Memorandura No. 3.

1 June 1967, p. 3; Memorandum No. 7, 13 Septembei

1967, p.Z.

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(2) Involvement in GaItison's investigation:

Garrison has repestedly stated that RUBY, like OSWALD,

was employed by CIA. He claims that CIA used RUBY

as a "bag man" to smuggle arms for Cubas exile groups.

(3) CLA relationship: None.

1. Edward Stewart SUGGS, @ Jack S. MARTIN

(1) PIlOr referencos: Memorandura No. 4,

20 June 1967, pp. 2, 10, and 11.

(2) lavolvement In Carrieon'e investigation:

MARTIN, formerly eraployed by Guy Banister, now

terms bimuelf an lavestigator for Garrison, A DCS

New Orleans report of 28 September 1967 stated that

MARTIN telephoned a friend of MI. Lloyd Ray at 0200

hours, on or shortly before that date, said that be was

one of Garrison's investigators, and trled to pump the

friend about Mr. Ray. (Other reporte have stated that

MARTIN tende to make such calls in the anall hours

when drunk. ) According to Ramparte of January 1968,

MARTIN alleges that Ferrle once coromanded a Civil

AlI Patrol squadron of which Oswald was a member.

Further, Ferre allegedly taught Oswald to shoot a rifle

with a telescople sight. Ferrie became involved with

Oswald in the assassination plot.

(3) CIA relationship: None. MARTIN, hOweVer,

has claimed that he worked for ClA. An FBI report stated

that Edward Stewart SUGGS "was fingerprinted in 195z in

Houston, Texas. He was wanted at that time on a charge.

of murder... . The Identification Division records do

not show the disposition of the charge." On 23 December

1956 he was nomitted to the psychiatric ward, Charity

Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, as a mental patient.

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Originatedby: DG/CI/R&A:D.E. PRATT;dm 11 January 1967

Distribution:

Orig - DEL

• 1 - DDP

1 - Executive-Comptroller

1 - General Counsel

1 - A/DCI

- Office of Security

- Director, Domestic Contact Service

1 - C/WH/COG

1 - C/CI

1 - R&A chrono

1 - DP files

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