Originator: FBI
From: HQ
Document date: 07/24/1967
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/10/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10320-10376

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 100-409763-207

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: HQ

TO :

TITLE:

DATE: 07/24/1967

' PAGES:

18

SUBJECTS :

MARK LANE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/21/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF USA

COMMENTS :

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SUPPLEMENTAL CORRELATION SUMMARY

See correiation summaries dated 6/18/63 and 4/22/65, filed

100-409763-15 and 100-409763-167 respectively.

Main File No:

100-409763

Date: 7/24/67

Subject: Mark"

Lane

Date Searched: 3/10/67

All logical variations of subject's name and aliases were searched

and

identical references were found as:

2: 24/65

Mark Lane •

•/ Bob'Blake r

Robert Blake -

Mark R. Lane •

Inis is a summary of information obtained from a review of

all "see" references to the subject in Bureau files under the names

and aliases listed above.

containing data identical with the subject have been included except

any indicated at the end of this summary under the heading REFERENCES

NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SUMMARY.

THIS SUMMARY HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR USE AT THE SEAT OF

GOVERNMENT AND IS NOT SUITABLE FOR DISSEMINATION.

IT IS DESIGNED TO

FURNISH A SYNOPSIS OF THE INFORMATION SET OUT IN EACH REFERENCE, AND

IN MANY CASES THE ORIGINAL SERIAL WILL CONTAIN THE INFORMATION IN

MORE DETAIL.

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Add. Info..

YAWF.

ABBREVIATIONS

.... Additional information appearine

in this reference which pertains

to Mark Lane can be found in the

main file or elsewhere in this

summary

....Youth Against War and Fascism

*****

On 2/2/64, Mark Lane gave a speech at a meeting sponsored

by the Du Bois Club

neid at 1007 McAllister Street, San Francisco,

Callf. (type of speech not stated) (SF 2470-5)

100-441562-4 p.7

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The 2/16/64 Issue of "The Worker" carried an announcement

entitled "Hurricane Relief Rally - Help Send Powdered Milk and

appeared on the announcement

The name, Mark Lane, Civil Liberties Attorney,

which was under the sponsorship of the

Emergency Committee For Disaster Relief to Cuba, NYC. (105-125346)•

105-125346-A "The Worker"

1127

2/16/64, p. 12

On 1/31/64, at a meeting of the Milwaukee Friends of the

National Guardian held in Milwaukee, Ralph Sacks announced that

Mark Lane would be in Madison, Wisconsin on 2/16/64 under the sponsor-

ship of the Madison Friends of the

"National Guardian."

Sacks

suggested to his audience

Milwaukee Friends of the

appearance in Milwaukee on 2/17/64. The group agreed to this

• in kiance on 3297.

that they could call themselves the

Guardian" and sponsor Lane's

suggestion.

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Sacks read two articles from the "The National Guardian" to the

group.

The first was Lane's brief which appeared in the 12/19/63

issue, and the second

was an article by Lane in the 1/9/64 issue.

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MI 247-S, MI 262-S

100-34781-32 p.1,6,7

(6%

On 5/14/64, FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover testified in

Washington, DC, before the

tion of president Kennedy" (62-109090). He stated that he would

put Mrs. Oswald, mother of lee harvey oswald, in a category of being

emotionally unstable. He stated that the first indication of her

emotional instability was the retaining of a lawyer that anyone

would not have retained if they really were serious in trying to get

down to facts.

The name Mark Lane was inserted in blue pencil by

the word

"lawyer."

Copy of hearing enclosed

62-109090-168 enc1. p. 6523

147

NY 1541-S advised that the "National Guardian" (100-357044)

197 East 4th St., NYC, issued a check dated 7/16/64, In the amount of

$50.00 to Mark Lane.

100-357044-635 p.8,22

177

On 8/4/64, J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel on the President's

Commission on the Assassination of

President Kennedy, furnished a

copy of a telegram received

by the Commission from Mark Lane.

telegram read as follows:

"The current issue of 'Fact' magazine

quotes Melvin Belli as stating that a Dallas police officer and

another sort on November 23, 1963, to have Ruby approved

of killing Oswald request you call Belll at public session regarding

possible police participation in murder of Oswald."

This information appeared in the file captioned "Jack I.

Ruby. "

44-24016-1942 p.1 encl.p.1

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The Bureau obtained a copy of the July - August, 1964,

Issue of "Fact" magazine which carried the aforementioned article

captioned "The Bellicose Mr. Belll,

written by warren Boroson.

In this article, Mark Lane attributed to Melvin Belli a

statement

concerning a Dallas police officer and another individual

who sought, on 11/23/63, to have Jack Ruby (44-24016) approve the

idea of killing Lee Oswald.

44-24016-1943 encl.p.13

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127

on 9/12/64, Individuals who represented the United States

Nationalist Party (105-104038) picketed in front of the Jan Huss

Theatre, 351 East 74th Street, NYC, where

nightly on the topic "who killed kennedy "Mark lane was speaking

These pickets carried

signs protesting Lane's appearance at the theatre because of his

ties to communism. (Agents observed)

105-104038-57 p.5

1127

The 2/18/63 issue of the "New York Times"

reported

that

Mark Lane and

Mrs. Marguerite Oswald were scheduled to speak on

that date, at Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, NYC.

Their appearance

was sponsored by the "National Guardian" (NG). (Details set out)

On 9/27/64, the "Daily News," a NYC newspaper, reported

that on that date Radio Station WNEW - EM, 565 5th Avenue, NYC,

would broadcast a roundtable discussion on the Warren Commission

Report. Lane was scheduled to appear on this program.

This serial indicated that the NG was a weekly publication

which manifested itself as the official propaganda arm of Soviet Russia.

100-340922-494 p.16,17

(67

On 11/15/64, Robert Fink, a recent candidate of the

Socialist Workers Party (SWP) for

Attorney General of the State of

Michigan, aiscussed the

Warren Report at a meeting of the Cleveland

Branch of SWP.

He stated that Mark Lane, a self-appointed lawyer for

Lee Oswald, was not allowed to cross-examine witnesses of Oswald's

wife. (CV 633-S, CV 230-s)

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100-367935-37 p.25

177

SI 100-442814-6 p.23

1107

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DATE

LOCALITY

Workers World Party

2/28/64

Buffalo, NY

2/28/64

Buffalo, NY

2/28/64

2/28/64

2/28/64

9/11/64

9/11/64

*Add. Info.

Buffalo, NY

Buffalo, NY

Buffalo, NY

NYC

NYC

REFERENCE

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100-430456-12 8.8,*

187

200-424928-17 8, 73*

184

100-382795-42 p.7,8*

100-384566-27 p.9,10*

100-417953-26 p.8,9*

100-435555-12 p.3,4

105-133636-2 p.1,4

177

177

187

197

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On 6/20/56, Miss Sorita Puebla, Manager of the Hecla Press,

225 Varick St., NYC (protect identity), furnished information

indicating that Mark Lane was then a member of the National Lawyers

on 3/10/65, NY 3868-S advised that Lane was Vice-Chairman

of the New York Council to Abolish the House Committee on Un-American

Activities (100-434663). Lane had not attended a meeting of this

100-434663-72p. 1,3, 18

SI 100-434663-61 p. 1,3,31

(97

MI-5 (protect identity) advised that according to a secret

source, during the middle of March, 1965, Richard Lord

Stark (105-139012)

Turkey trying to interest a number of individuals, ingluding

writers, in Mark Lane, of the

"Who Killed Kennedy Committee.

Stark, (S

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with the help of his brother, name uninown, who lived in turkey ailt

was planning for lane to make

a lecture tour of Turkey, to inclüde

Ankara and Istanbul.

been in touch with Ralph Schoenman,

private secretary to Lord Bertram Russell, * and asked him to send to

Turkey copies of statements and

articles written by Lane. (5)

105-139012-3 p.1

(137

SI 105-139012-5 encl. p.1

(144

*of England

According to MCT-46, on 3/23/65, a reliable and secret

source in Great Britain advised that an unidentified person connected

with the Citizen's Committee of Inquiry (CCI) at 156 Fifth Avenue,

Ny, was planning to produce a documentary f1lm

about China in

cooperation with the producer and director of "point of Order."

Arrangements were being made for the film to be made in China, and

permission would be requested

of the State Department for the

persons concerned to visit China.

If the State Department refused

to grant permission, they planned to leave anyway and to face the

consequences on their return.

Source stated that the unidentified

person connected with the CCI was engaged in writing a book and had

undertaken to defend a man charged with trying to blow up the statue

of Liberty. Source suggested that the film producer might be called

de Antonio. (5)

MCT-46 advised that his Head Office thought that the

aforementioned unidentified person was Mark Lane, but could not be

sure of this.

(5)

105-140777-1 p.1

(147

Correlator's Note:

According to later information,

above unidentified individual was Mark' Lane, and the

producer and director of "Point of Order" was Emile

De Antonio.

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This

reference, captioned "Robert Steele Collier" (157-2634),

Destruction of Government Property - Conspiracy, contains information

concerning the defense of Collier by Attorney

Mark Lane during

May, 1965.

During the trial, Lane gave an interview on the radio

discussing the case.

This was believed by the judge to be a breach

of the canon of ethics.

75752634-272 p. 2,2,3 SECRET.

NY 2233-S* advised that during March, 1964, Karel Kynel (5)

(105-105202), a journalist at the UN, NYC, was

in contact with Mark

Lane.

Kyncl desired another interview with Lane, since the first

such success in seroe.

interview on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy had been

such a success in Europe. Lane agreed to record his comments for Kyncl,

Helen Janet Meyer (SF - PS; protect identity) advised that

the 3/23/64 1ssue of "L'Unita" contained an article entitled "Attorney

Mark Lane Talks to Radio Prague.

Meyer stated the article concerned.

Lane's

free.

"proof" that the assassins of President Kennedy were st1ll

On 5/3/65, Mrs. Jirina Kynclova**invited Lane to a

reception to be held on 5/6/65, at the Czechoslovakia Mission to the

UN, in NYC. Lane accepted the

invitation for himself and his wife.

(NY 2233-S* I(5)

This serial indicated that "L'Unita" was a pro-communist

Italian-American monthly newspaper.

Add. info.

105-105262-88 p. 1,2,3,4

(114

**Wife of Karel Kyncl.

Checks dated 4/28/65 and 5/6/65, in the amounts of $75.00

and $50.00; respectively, were

made out to Mark Lane and drawn on

the bank account of the YAWF (100-438904), 1123 Broadway, NYC.

(George Major,

Assistant Secretary,

Chemical Bank, New York Trust

Company, 154 Fifth Avenue, NYC; protect identity)

100-438904-66 p.4,5

197

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Mark Lane, attorney, represented Robert Steele Collier,

whose trial began on 5/17/65,

in US District Court, Southern District

of New York.

On 6/14/65,

Collier was found guilty. of conspiracy to

destroy government property and conspiracy to smuggle dynamite.

6/17/65, Lane filed a notice of appeal on behalf of Collier and then

requested

the court,

and was granted, permission to withdraw from

the case, stating that he had some European commitments and would be

travelling in Europe during the next several months. (NY files)

-05-99597-27 p.5-7

12%

SI 157-2634-101 p. 1,2 encl. p.2,3

(147 (Add. info.)

On 7/20/65, Mark Lane was present at Workers World Party

(WwP) headquarters, 46 West 21st St., NYC, at which time several

members of the NYC

Branch of the WWP

engaged in the last stages

of mimeographing what could have been the

final proof reading

and

set-up for his book.*

He spoke only occasionally to some of the

individuals who came to him with pertinent questions relating to the

book. (NY 3527-5)

Add. info.

100-439791-12 p.20,21

(107

*According to the main file of Mark Lane,

he was working on a book

concerning

the assassination of President Kennedy,

- "Rush to Judgment."

A leaflet entitled

"The Indonesian Massacre - Second

Biggest Crime of the Century" announced that a

"Public Inquest

into the Mass Murder in Indonesia" would be held under the auspices .

of the AWF, on 6/2/00, at the McMillan Theatre, 1l6th Street and

on re on indone one

Mark Lane was to be one of the

speakers. (Confidential

Post Office box)

100-430172-534 p.bencl.p.2

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REFERENCE

105-138315-1249 encl.p.2

x-1357 p.2,3

encr.p.2,5

x-1636

x-3132

p.1,2

encl. p.2,6

p.65

-3274 p: 628,639,640, 642,969

x-3628 p.1

X-3780 encl, p.1,5

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115+

113%

1137

(133

The US Army Operations and Research Detachment, ' Frankfurt/

Main, West Germany (protect identity), furnished a communication,

dated 8/3/66, from Emile De Antonio (100-32158) of the Judgment Films

Corporation,

NYC, to OrganisationBuro der 1X Internationalen Leipziger

Dokumentar - und Kurzf1lmwoche, 104 Berlin, Luisenstrasse 18, German

Democratic Republic.

De Antonio enclosed application forms for a

film entry in the Leipzig (F1lm) Festival, for

"Rush to Judgment,"

written by Mark Lane.

If the entry was accepted, De Antonio expected

the f1lm corporation

to pay his or Lane's travel expenses to the

festival. (C) CLASSiFIED PER ARMy'S LETTER DTD 7-24-98

Communication enclosed

100-32158-20 p.1 encl.p.1,2

167

On 8/18/66, Mark Lane was scheduled to appear on Radio

Station WNBC AM-FM,

30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC on the program "Long

John Nebel vs" (sic).

This program was a criticism of the Warren

Commission Report. ("New York Times" newspaper, date not stated)

100-340922-505 p.24

177

In connection with the case "Lee Harvey Oswald" (105-82555),

the Chicago Office fürnished a memorandum entitled "Discussion" of

arren Commission Report by Mark Lane and Albert E. Jenner, Jr. on

8 P.M. to 11:30 P.M., 9/15/60,

WBBM Radio,

Chicago,

• Illinois:

•" In this discussion Lane attempted to discredit

the work of the Warren Commission and its conclusions, obviously in

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REFERENCE

(64-330-250-1605](5)

105-34074-34-289

-290

-291

-298

-400

105-67845-15313

105-82555-2499

105-115728-61

(205-142706-54 p. JE)

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111}

(127

(127

(127

(14)

The following references on Mark Lane, located in Personnel

Records Unit of the Records Branch,

and Communications Division,

were reviewed and found to be identical with the subject of this

summary; however,

the information contained therein has not been

included:

REFERENCE

67-471769-97

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SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

155

*****

REFERENCES NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SUMMARY

See the search slip filed behind file for other references

on this subject which contain the same information (SI) that is set

out in the main

file. Differences in source will be noted on the

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