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MARK LANE

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CAROLINE J: MUCAR: daughter of wealthy Bostonian.

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and Black Panther Party Leader HUEY NEWTON. Subject

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I. BACKGROUND

A. Residence and Employment

MARK LANE has not been determined to be established

at any permanent residence during the past two years, but

has traveled extensively throughout the United States and

abroad, involving himself in anti-war and anti-Government

activities. LANE is an author and lawyer by profession.

His last known permanent address was 521 Dumaine Street,

New Orleans, Louisiana.

B. Description

Name

Alias

Race

Sex

Born

Height

Weight

Build

Complexion

Eyes

Occupation

SSAN

Passport no.

Characteristics

MARK LANE

Robert Blake

White

Male

2/24/27, Bronx, New York

6'0"

180

Medium

Olive

Brown

Attorney, author, lecturer

073-22-4908

E-067352

Wears dark hornrimmed glasses,

last known to wear a beard.

II. ANTI-WAR AND ANTI-GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES

In March and April, 1968, MARK LANE was in

New Orleans, Louisiana, to assist New Orleans District Attorney

JIM GARRISON in GARRISON's prosecution of New Orleans

businessman CLAY SHAW for conspiracy in the assassination of

President JOHN F. KENNEDY in November, 1963. While in

New Orleans, LANE

met on several

occasions with BOB HEAD and

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DARLENE FIFE, who originated and published the 'NOLA Express,"

a militant underground New Orleans newspaper. LANE reportedly

told FIFE that he is a very close friend of District Attorney

GARRISON, and was also to assist DARLENE FIFE in covering the

trial in

New Orleans for the "National Guardian" newspaper of

New York City.

LANE reportedly told FIFE that the right-wing

element in New Orleans is against District Attorney GARRISON'S

action against CLAY SHAW, and that he would be willing to

accept support from the New Left movement in the New Orleans

are a.

NO T-1

March 19, 1968

In Volume 1, Number 1, of the "NOLA Express,"

dated April; 1968, the following interview with MARK LANE

took

place

and is

set forth below in its entirety:

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Interviow with dark Inne, March 12, 1948

Darleno Fife - What are Garrison's objectivos?

Hark Ians - Garrison has Inited objeciives.

Fe vanis the American people to kno

igence Agorey and find thrue new latters los the organizacion that will bo formed. He

• has no illusions about permarent change.

F - Say Garrison gots a11 his convictions and it turns ort that hich men in the CIA are

Involved and Johnson fleos the country io join the American deserters in Sweden; what

do you think is going to happent Certainly there's sont kird of "powor vacuun" left.

I. - Woll wo are prosently residing in a totalitarian siste ard the fact that thera

might be a power vacuum doesn't frighten me.

That would be a massive improvement

ovor what, we have at the present time. I don't see Prosidont Johnson fleeing to Sweden.

I don't thinis that will be the result and I don't thine that what takes place in new

Orleans in terns of the trial will have that iind of shocking effect upon tha

American people.

Firstly becauso they probably won't even know about it since they

have to roly upon tho media for tho faces and the media has noù proved to ba too re11-

able in this area for the last 42 years.

Walter Cronkite in stentorian tones will make some roference to Southern justice. So

I think that what is taking placo here will never bo accurately reportod just as.

has beon tiring place here for nors than the last year has been distorted by iBe, CBs,

New York Times, Time magazine and most of all Newsreok, the liberal publication.

I think that ons cannot expoct that the facts which are presented at the Shaw trial

w1li be genuinely broadcast arour the country.

P - Explain to me what Garrison 1s talking about when he talks about an operational

level, an intermodiato level, ani then the sponsor levol.

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I - I've rocently intorviewed a porson closely assoclated with the ClA for & rumber

of years.

I've talled with hin about the assassination of the president and he said it

fits into tho classic pattorn of program for "executiva action" and which.ar in-

telligence agency in the United States on abroad would have used to bring about the

operation.

He says the footprints of an intelligence operation are all over Daaley

Plaza. He describes it as at ons end of the chari there is a sponsor; chat is the ran

or organization who vants the joo done.

At the other and of the chart is the tarrot;

the target is the objective the sponsor mants to achievo.

It may be the blowine up

of a bridgo or tha sabotaging ot a ship or assassamsiing a head of state. It may be

going into an embassy and renoving documents, photorraphing them and returnine them.

In the latter case the objectiva is never to let anyone inor the job has been planned

or has been done. Fowever whon it comes to bloring up a bridge or killina a presi

dent, it is of courso impossiblo to prevent knowledge that the job has been done and

then it is most important io pretent aryone fron inuring uno the real sponsoi is.

order to see to 1t that the information is not divulgod first oi all. the chain of

cormard each person just knows the person above him and below hin.

The chain can

broken al ary timo by the removal, they call it "permanant termiration" of anyone in

the chain.

I asked him what was insant by that and he said you kill him.

There are a

serios of

false sponsors that are also escablished so chat in case amone is curious,

which the Warren Corndssion was not, thoy will fird false loads. So if the Comm-

ission had examinod the evidenco closely ani lound thore was a conspiracy ard vera

they curious enough to fird out tho might have been bahird the conspiracy they would

have uncovered many false leads which vero scattored acourd Dealoy Plaza live leaves

on an autumn day.

For example they rould have fourd oui that Jack Ruby was associated

with organized crine.

There would have been irdications that Castro was irvolved

In the assassination.

For instance Oswald was planing possibly to go to lica after

the assassination.

Thore are a tholo host of clues that point in various diractions

the extrono right, extrome loft, organized erime.

These are just three examples of

tho cluas that were developed but it never got that far bocause the Commission baing

a liberal boay decided that it had no concern with the brith and that it would

compromise.

True libaralism.

The Cormission decided it would compromise because

those who planned the assassinscion envisioned pianos taking off the next mornin

to bomb China or Cuba or Russiu or hopsfuily all three.

The Presideri didn't want

that to happen and the Commission mas established to conceal the jacis and in con-

cealing the lacts, thoy also corcealed any oviderce oi a conspiracy includin the

conspiracy the CIl wanted them to fal: upon - the evidence of a conspiracy of the left

Involving foraign governments.

F - The CIA was the sponsor and Konnody was the target, and all the poople Garrison

1s Investigating Ilke Shaw ard Ferris vero in the intornadiato lovoli

I. - Yes.

F - Does Garrison have an Inside view yet? Has anyona coniessed?

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NOLA EXPRESS

Vol. 1 71

15 €

APRIL 15

Mark Lana Interviow continod from page 9)

I, - No one has confessed and I don't think you can expect many confessions in thia c:

because if you're convicted without confessing all you can get in a conspiracy to 1

the prasidant is 20 yars ard you don't serve 20 years, you may just serve 1/3 o1 th

And If you confessod you'd probably be "permanently terminated" by the sponsor.

F - What kind of support has Garrison received from the press or say a "novement"?

Is - Well almost sone from the pross as you know.

The press 1s almost unanimous,

NES

had a historically unprecedented program which was the trial of Clay Shaw. It too

place on television before 1t took place in real life. Shaw was found not guilty ard

Garrison was fourd guilty.

CBs did four, 1-hour programs on the Warren Report defari-

made to charges, ons against Doan Ardrews for perjury in a

case closely related bot

assassiration instigation and the other against Clay Shaw.

It's true he hasn't pia.

the guili of Shaw because for over a year now Shaw has been doing everything to pravo:

About Doan Andrews - 3 days after Cronkite said

Garrison had not proven anything in court. Dean Andrews was convicted of perjury.

watched television the next night to see hor Cronkite was going to explain this but o

naver did.

The only movement which has supported Garrison has been the Citizens Cor

ittee of Inquiry on various college campuses and cities which were established sari?

after the assassination for the purpose of making the facts known, Of course RAMPARTS

magazine has been very holpful in terms of publishing new matorial but one of the

things that dismsys me, that while one would expect attacks from the right, one would

expect the left to have a more sophisticated view, a knowledgeable view of what takes

should be taking at the present time 1t seems to no.

One of the problems 1s the atmos

phero arolind to convince us that Garrison 1s some kind of nut. Ons listens long enoue.:

and tenas to bellove it and gives that as an excuse for not participating. I thirk

that's unforgivable.

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F - I think one of the problems is that oven assuming everything Garrison says is tre,

what happons is that as you say you have to got three new lotters for the agercy and

overything is the same again.

Thers havo been hoads of states assassinated in other

countrlos and nothing changes. Why should-it be different here?

I - well that's a vory cynical view by those who are sitting back and taking no po

sition right now and saying that the truth is not sufficiont, the truth must do that

which we want it to do; the abstract truch is not sufficient.

But I think things will

change - comes the conclusion that the Cil, an agorey of the fedoral govi, killed Pros.

ident Konnedy, things can nover again be exactly the same in America. I don't think a

revolution will take place the naxt day. I don't think there'll ba rioting in the

straots oither, but I think thoro'1l ba a change in America and a hoalthy change.

I = I know your position on the war In Vietnam. What 1s Garrison's view on the war?

I - I spole at the In. Polytechnic Institute about l months ago.. Garrison had been

there just a year ago, that was before his Investigation bogan, and they asked If hold

go back to discuss the assassination and I said I'd raiso the issue with him.

I saw

him the next day and told him I was there.

He sald "I was there a joar ago.

Did they

tell you." I said yos they told me.

Ho said "Did they tell you what I talked about

thero."

¿ said no.

He said "I ras a lieutenant coloml in the active resorve.

spoke In favor of the war in Viotnam," He blushed. He said that in his 40's when ho

camo across the harren Commission report and the contradictions and he bogan his imes-

tigation, ho realized for the first time that honorable men had issued this false

1'82

porü.

It brought a great change in his thiniding.

He is now wholdheartedly against the

war in Viotnam and has resigned as a lioucenant colonal in the activo rosorvo and ho

believes in the very near future thore will be an American Dionbienphu.

He says the

Amorican pooplo probably don't roalize that those in this country and outsido this cour

try who opposo our poldey In Vietnan ara the only oms today defening Americas ireodon.

NOIA EXPRESS C/O SDS-DRU

Box 2493, Now Orleans In 70116

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On November 1, 1968, MARK LANE, during a speech at

San Francisco State College, San Francisco, California,

stated that a house, "The Black House," had

been purchased in

Washington, D.C., and that he, LANE, and DICK GREGORY would

run

"an American Covernment in

exile" from this house. LANE

further stated that plans were being made for a black

inaugural ball to be held ouside the White House to coincide

with

the Presidential inaugural ball. DICK GREGORY is a

well known Negro entertainer and comedian who is involved

in civil rights activities throughout the United States.

NO T-2

November, 1968

In November, 1968, the Radio Free People, whose

address is 160 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, New York 11238,

published their first catalog, indicating that they could

make available

on tapes an interview with MARk LANE. The

followine is a

copy of the brochure-type catalog advertising

the tapes:

SECALA

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Radio Free People

160 Prospect Place. Brookiyn NY"11233

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68-1 AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK LANE

Mark Lane,

author of Rush to Judment,

of the carliest and most persistens critics. of

the warren Connission's report on the assassina

tion of President John E: Lennedy. In this 10cer-

view he discusses his recent book, a Citizen's

Dissent: which doscribes the pressure exerted

to tear the facts and questions raised by lane's

research fron being published or

broadcast to

the American public.

Lane feels that censoring

of the nass media may be even more inportant

than evidence of CIA sponsorahid of the assas

sination. Fortunately, assassination of regi-

dents is

not an everyday occurrence, as censor

ship 1s.

The interview is conducted by the Rei.

Finley

Schaef of the Washington Square Methodist Church

and was recorded in the spring of 1968.

Produced by John Ankele.

Running time: 26 minutes.

196421:

: 15015

JO?:

sit it:

7h ips

÷34 108

$3.90

2.80

$3.40

2.50

Sturd

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On February 4, 1969, Special Agents of the FBI

observed two soviet newspapermen, SERGEY A. LOSE and

GENRIKH A. BOROVIK, meet with MARK LANE and an unknown

female who was with LANE. BOROVIK and LOSEV spent over

three hours in the company of LANE and the unknown female.

On March 4, 1969, the inauguration of DICK GREGORY

as president of "the United States in exile" took place at

12:00 noon at Morgan Community Auditorium, 1733 California

Street N.l., Washington, D.C. The oath of inauguration was

...administered. to GREGORY bY JEAN WILLIANS, a Chicago,

illinois, attorney.

GREGORY announced at

this inauguration

that MARK

LANE had taken the oath of office as vice-president

in exilé by telephone from New Orleans, Louisiana, on the

same date.

During the oath, GRECORY swore to faithfully

execute the office of president of the United States in

exile, and to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution

of the United States.

NO T-3

March 4, 1969

On April 22, 1969, Sheriff FRANK CLINE, DeSoto

County Sheriff's Office, Arcadia, Florida, advised a Special

Agent of the FBI that he has recently received information

indicating that MARK LANE, a white male, age 42, has

recently been

in the Arcadia, Florida, area trying to stir

up trouble and

agitate the Negro population of

DeSoto

County against Sheriff CLINE. According to CLINE, LANE is

the author of the book Rush to Judgment, and LANE has also

recently authored an article for Playboy Magazine concerning

the recent murder trial of JAMES RICHARDSON, who was convicted

in July, 1968, in DeSoto County, Florida, for the murder of

his seven children by poisoning.

LANE has recently been

working closely with attorney JOHN ROBINSON, Flagler Beach,

Florida, who was RICHARDSON's defense attorney at the murder

trial.

LANE and ROBINSON have indicated in numerous news

articles that they have developed additional evidence

indicating RICHARDSON's innocence. Sheriff CLINE feels that

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LANE's recent efforts to agitate among the Negro residents of

DeSoto County have been connected with LANE's efforts to

obtain publicity concerning the RICHARDSON case, and thereby

gain additional financing through LANE's articles and a book

which LANE reportedly is planning to write about

the

RICHARDSON case.

LANE has recently been traveling with a

white

female, known to CLINE as CAROLYN MUGAR, in MUGAR's blue

1967 Volvo station wagon, bearing Massachusetts license

137-018. MUGAR and LANE have recently been residing in a

Jakeside cottage at Flagler Beach, Florida, which is owned

by attorney JOHN ROBINSON.

On April 29, 1969, CEORGE LANE, JR. and

VIRGINIA LANE, 565 Retta Esplanade, Punta Gorda, Florida,

telephone 639-3928, personally contacted

a Special Agent

of the FBI at the sarasota, florida, Resident Agency. LANE

stated that he and his wife are independent reporters,

working principally for the United Press International and

for the St. Petersburg Times of St. Petersburg, Florida.

LANE stated that he and his wife had covered the

JAMES RICHARDSON murder trial in Arcadia, Florida, during

1968, and have been preparing a manuscript with the in-

tention of publishing a book about the RICHARDSON murder

, case.

On March 28, 1969, LANE was telephonically

contacted by one MARK LANE, who is in no way related to

GEORGE LANE, and MARK LANE indicated that he was aware that

GEORGE LANE was preparing to publish a book on the

RICHARDSON case.

MARK LANE stated he wanted to get

together with GEORGE LANE in order to read their files and

manuscript about the RICHARDSON case. An appointment was

made, and MARK LANE met with Mr. and

Mrs. GEORGE LANE at

their office, 207 Tamiami Trail, Punta Corda, Florida, at

When MARK LANE appeared for this

meeting, he was accompanied by his girl friend, CAROLYN MUGAR,

a white female, age approximately 22 years, 5'7" tall,

slender build, light shoulder-length hair, driving a dark-

colored Volvo station wagon bearing Massachusetts license.

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At this meeting, MARK LANE made numerous probing

inquiries concerning GEORGE LANE's knowledge of the

RICHARDSON case, and appeared to be seeking additional

witnesses who might be able to assist in exonerating

RICHARDSON. During the course of conversation, MARK LANE

stated that he has

been in the Arcadia, Florida, area

talking to the residents of the Negro section of the town

and trying to stir up trouble against Sheriff FRANK CLINE

of DeSoto County, Florida. MARK LANE expressed a great

deal of animosity toward Sheriff SLINE, and indicated he

does not understand how the people of DeSoto County have

allowed him to remain as Sheriff. MARK LANE indicated that

he intends to continue trying to stir up the Negro residents

of DeSoto County against Sheriff CLINE.

MARK LANE also inquired about GEORGE LANE'S

knowledge of any "underprivileged Indians" who might be

residing in the Immokalee, Florida, area.

From this

inquiry, GEORGE LANE understands or believes that MARK LAND

is trying, or will be trying in the near future, to agitate

trouble in the Immokalee, Florida, area, based on alleged

discrimination against the Seminole Indians who reside in

that area.

MARK LANE advised GEORGE LANE that he and

Miss MUGAR are presently staying at Flagler Beach, Florida,

at a cabin owned by attorneys JOHN ROBINSON and RICHARD WHITSON,

who represented JAMES RICHARDSON at his murder trial and are

still representing RICHARDSON trying to get him a new trial.

GEORGE LANE noted

that JOHN ROBINSON is a Negro attorney. He

stated he believes WHITSON is also a Negro.

MARK LANE stated that he and Miss MUGAR ara

presently traveling extensively throughout the southeastern

part of the United States, frequently visiting New Orleans,

Louisiana, as well as going to Boston, Massachusetts,

occasionally. They also go to Immokalee and Miami, Florida,

on occasion.

They apparently travel in the volvo station

wagon, according

to GEORGE LANE.

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GEORGE LANE stated that it was his distinct

impression from his contact with MARK LANE that MARK LANE

is an agitator who is interested in stirring up racial

disturbances, particularly in the Arcadia and Immokalee,

Florida, areas. GEORGE LANE stated he has brought the above

information to the attention of DeSoto County Sheriff

FRANK CLINE, Arcadia, Florida.

GEORGE and VIRGINIA LANE advised that during

their meeting with MARK LANE and CAROLYN MUGAR, they

received the very definite impression that MARK LANE

and

MUCAR are romantically involved, although MUCAR appears

much younger than MARK LANE. MUGAR appears to be a "wild,

'hippie'".

type: and during conversation she indicated that

she assists MARK LANE as a photographer.

GEORGE and VIRGINIA LANE advised that besides the

interest which MARK LANE and MUGAR evidenced in the

RICHARDSON case, they also appeared very interested in any

trouble spots in Florida, such as Negro unrest and

mistreatment of Indians.

On October 29, 1969, a confidential source abroad

dvised that during the month of October, 1969, an organization

snown as the "English Language Committee"

was created in Paris,

France, with the objective of opposing the continuation of

the war in Vietnam, as well as the following additional

objectives: (5)

1) Opposition to nuclear armament;

2) Opposition to American imperialism;

3) Action in favor of recognizing Communist China;

4)

Activity arainst racism in the United States

and throughout the world.

Source further stated that during a meeting held

on October 15, 1969, at the American Center for Students and

Artists, 201 Boulevard Raspail, Paris, France, an initial

impetus was given to the English Language Committee by (5)

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MARK LANE, a Lawyer and American writer. (5)

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October 29, 1969

Another Government agency which

conducts

nvestigations abroad advised that on

daised chatten

November 14, 1969, MAKK LANE was the main speaker at a

teach-in against the war in Vietnam held at the University

of Munich, Munich, Germany. This meeting was attended by

400-600 individuals, and in his speech LANE likened the

atrocities of the Nazis at Dachau, which he had visited, to.

those allegedly committed in Vietnam by American soldiers

and South Vietnamese supported by American soldiers. LANE

played a

tape-recorded interview with an American deserter,

the grandson of General JOSEPH STILWELL. LANE also.

discussed alleged resistance within the U.S. Army to the

war in Vietnan, claiming that the "brass"

was going to

extremes to stifle dissent. LANE asked his German audience

to assist those soldiers who want to desert or fight the

Army "brass" from within.

Finally, he declared that he was

returning to the United States within a month, although he

feared possible prosecution for providing assistance to

deserters.

(a)

On December 3, 1969, a second confidential source:

abroad furnished the following

information concerning

MARK LANE: (5)

The Communist-front organization "International

Association of Democratic Lawyers" (IADL) held its 8th Congress

in Budapest during the period March 30-April 3, 1964,

attended inter alia by a delegation from the Danish

Section

of the IADL. One of the delegates was a Copenhagen lawyer

named JORGEN JACOBSEN, who, prior to the Congress, had

collected some material concerning the assassination of

President KENNEDY. This material was to be used for a

draft resolution to the effect that the Congress was to

advocate unbiased

inquiries into the circumstances surroun-

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At the Congress, JORGEN JACOBSEN met the American

lawyer MARK LANE, who in his capacity of chairman of the

"Citizens' Committee of Inquiry" was working on an

independent inquiry into the murder, having

no confidence in

the material prepared by the Dallas

Police.

Between JORGEN JACOBSEN and MARK LANE

cooperation

was established on this draft resolution, which, incidentally,

aurenor i sark Land ornation,

was adopted by the Congress.

This cooperation was developed

further, and led to the establishment in Denmark of a so-

called

"Mark Lane Committee" for the purpose of collecting

all available information on the assassination of the

Prostent and informing the rubic of am bushed-up os

suppressed details concerning the murder.

Following the congress, however, MARK LANE himself

went to Denmark, where, in the "Lawyers'. Debating Club,"

the

"Students' Association" in Copenhagen, and the "Students'

Society" in Arhus, he told about his inquiries so far, aiming

at proving that reactionary, lascist circles were behind the

assassination of President KENNEDY. (5/

The Danish "Mark Lane Committee," which may be

considered as long since dissolved, comprised a total of 16

individuals; the founder, JORGEN JACOBSEN, is known as a

Communist, whereas the others mainly belonged to cultural,

Contine, macray ased on tiers inquerivs in the the

left-wing literary circles.

United States, failed to bring forth any sensational

disclosures.

The work of the American authorities on the

case was, on the other hand, criticized and the

report of

the Warren Commission was denounced as a fraud.

S)

In connection with the references of the Danish

press to this matter, in November, 1964, the "Berlingske

Tidende" published an article, the contents of which MARK LANE

considered defamatory.

The result was a libel action against

the newspaper, and on November 11, 1965, the High Court found

the statements of the paner lil-rounded. The responsible (s

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editor was sentenced to pay 2500 D.kr. costs, whereas a

claim for damages to the amount of no less that 5000 D.kr.

was rejected.

this case JORGEN JACOBSEN acted as counsel

for MARK LANE.

In 1966, MARK LANE, who in the meantime had

married a Dane and temporarily settled in Denmark, published

a book entitled Rush to Judgment, the substance of which is

that the murder of the President was not the work of a single

individual, but a conspiracy. Based on this book, a

documentary film was subsequently produced. Moreover, in

the course of the years since the assassination, MARK LANE

gave a great number of lectures about his inquiries and his

opinion of the events in Dallas on November 22: 1963. 5)

MARK LANE, who is currently residing in the

assist American deserters, and so far, no connection was

noted between him and Danish deserters' committees.

In

July, 1968, however, an IDL meeting took place in Grenoble,

France; an item on the agenda of this meeting concerned the

legal basis of refusing to take part in wars of aggression.

The identities of the participants of this meeting are not

refuse parti

known, but the fact that the IADl dealt with the subject and

that the two former IADL delegates are personally acquainted

and associated with this Communist front organization seems

to indicate that, some time or other, the idea arose between

i a i Connor other,

them to bring American deserters to Denmark in order to

confront the authorities of a NATO country with a concrete

request for political asylum for American deserters.

(S)

The case of the two deserter American soldiers,

TED PRICE and REGINALD ALDERTON, which caused

so much

comment in the press, should undoubtedly be regarded in the

light of this. Escorted by MARK LANE, PRICE and ALDERTON

arrived in Denmark by air from France on October 12, 1969,

and immediately on arrival in the airport requested

political

asylum in Denmark. On arrival, the two deserters were,

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incidentally, met by the chairman of the "Danish Committee

for Aid to US Deserters," KNUD JENSEN, with whom they stayed.

JORGEN JACOBSEN handled their interests. MARK LANE

indicated to the press that this was a deliberate and planned

attempt to obtain political asylum in Denmark for American

deserters, and he added that he had filmed the whole trip

and

the sequence of events up until then for the purpose of

showing the film in the United States

-as a feature of the

campaign against the war in Vietnam.

On November 11, 1969, the Danish Minister of

Justice refused the request for political asylum of both the

deserters in question. (5)

REGINALD RAY ALDERTON, born February 27, 1947, in

Harvard, Illinois, left Denmark immediately, and on

November 13, 1969, he applied for political asylum in

Sweden.

(5)

TED HAGE PRICE, born April 19, 1949, in Cleveland,

Ohio, was granted temporary residence permit for six months

in Denmark

while it is being decided whether he may return

to france.

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December 3, 1969

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On February 24, 1970, the San Diego Division of

the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) advised that on

rebruary 11, 1970, officers of

the San Diego Shore

Patrol

and the san

Diego

Police Department entered the office of

the Movement for a Democratic Military at San Diego,

California to arrest an AWOL serviceman. While at

the

office, they were given a

great deal of trouble by one

MARK LANE and two

Of LANE's companions, identified as

CAROLINE JANE MUGAR Of Belmont: Massachusetts and a

DANIEL DRASIN of 31 St. Marks Place, New York, New York.

The March 16, 1970,

edition of the Seattle Times,

Seattle, Washington,

had an article entitled

"Indians

Rally at Courthouse."

This article indicated that actress

JANE FONDA and approximately 100 Indians were protesting.

outside the United States courthouse at Seattle,

Washington on that date before the arraignment of sixteen

Indians charged with trespassing at Fort Lawton military

base.

The article indicated that MARK LANd was acting

as an attorney

for Miss FONDA, who had been expelled from

Fort Lewis on March 8, 1970.

LANE announced

that he was

filing suit to set aside the orders banning both he and

FONDA from Fort Lewis, Fort Lawton, the Yakima Firing

Center, and the Vançouver, Washington Barracks. MARK

LANE stated, "If BOB HOPE

can go there, so can we."

The March 17, 1970, edition of the Seattle Post

Intelligencer,

seattle,

Washington, also carried a

entitled "Fourteen Indians Arraigned for Invasion:" This

article also indicated that MARK LANE was acting as an

attorney for actress JANE FONDA, who was involved in the

Indian protest in the seattle, Washington area concerning

military reservations..

On July 1, 1970, MARK LANE appeared with JANE

FONDA, a well-known

actress, on the DICK CAVETT

nighttime television talk snow.

During this program,

both LANE and FONDA stated that the Vietnam Veterans

Against

the War (VVAW) was planning to open an office in Washington,

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D. Co, which was to be staffed by a former member of the Green

Berets.

LANE stated that the purpose in opening the office

would be to obtain documentation of mistreatment of servicemen

by military authorities so as to present this to Congress

for a congressional investigation.

On August 8, 1970, a press release was

issued from

the GI Office, Post Office Box 9746, Washington, D. C. 20016,

under the name of MARILYN MORRHEAD.

The press release

indicated

that the GI office officially opened in lashington,

D. C. on August 8, 1970, to represent servicemen and

servicewomen whose rights had been violated by the military.

The release stated that the purpose of the GI office would

be to collect, investigate, and document the provisions

of the rights

of service personnel and that the need for

such an office grew out of conversations between thousands

of GI's and veterans with actress JANE FONDA and author

MARK LANE during the past few months.

The release indicated

that the office would be headed by MARILYN MORRHEAd and

DONALD DUNCAN.

On August 8, 1970, MARK LANE, along with

JANE FONDA and MARILYN MORRHEAD,

were at the

"B.M.Z."

coffeehouse, 918 Ninth Street; N."., Washington, D. C.

talking tọ civilians and GI's present at that time. LANE

had been present earlier in the day at a press conference

called by FONDA and DONALD DUNCAN at the Ambassador Hotel,

not not to ration the bo

in Washington, D. C. for only a few days and would be

leaving shortly.

NO T-6

August 8, 1970

On August 22, 1970, HUEY NEWTON, founder and

officer in the Black Panther Party (BPP),

held a press

conference at the home of JANE FONDA, 33

East 74th Street,

New York City, New York.: The purpose of the conference was

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to announce that a rally would be held in support of LONNIE

MC LUCAS, August 25, 1970, at New Haven, Connecticut

Courthouse.

The rally would start as an

all-night vigil

and would end when the jury reached a verdict in the

prosecution of MC LUCAS, who was charged with murder of a

fellow BPP member. At the news conference MARK LANE was

present.

NO T 7

August 24, 1970

The Black Panther Party (BPP) is

a black extremist organization started in

Jakland, Calitornia,

in December, 1966. It

advocates the use of guns and guerrilla

tactics to bring about the overthrow of the

United States Government.

On

September 7, 1970, MARK LANF was

in contact with

HUEY P. NEWTON in an effort to make arrangements for a

planned filmed interview with NEWTON.

LANE also

suggested

to NEWTON

that

a proposed Revolutionary People's

Constitutional Convention, which was to be held in

November, 1970, be filmed; however, he, baNe, desired

to discuss the

possible filming of

the

convention with

NEWTON.

NEWTON stated that he would be available for an

interview on the West, Coast and would make necossary time

for LANE to talk to him.

An indefinite commitment

was

made for the week of September 14, 1970, for the interview,

and LANE agreed to recontact the BPP national headquarters.

prior to that time for a specific tine and date.

LANE

advised NEWTON

that he had been

traveling throughout the

country participating and marching in protests sponsored

by the Veterans of the Vietnamese

War.

NO T-8

September 7, 1970

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On Septembér 18, 1970, MARK LANE was present at

a meeting with HUEY P. NEWTON at Room 525, Howard Johnson's

Notor Lodge,

5lst Street and Eighth Avenue, New York, New

York.

NO T-9

September 18, 1970

On September 28, 1970, a leaflet was obtained

in the office of the VVAW under

the letterhead

of the

Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. (VVAW), 156 Fifth

Avenue, Room 508, New York City

(NYC).

The leaflet

bore the caption

"Call to the Winter

Soldier Investigation

(An Inquiry Into U. S. War Crimes in Indochina)."

The

substance of the leaflet was to call all Vietnam veterans

to join

in the forming of a War Crimes Comnission, which

would investigate American military conduct in indochina.

The investigation was to be held in Detroit, Michigan

early in December of 1970, and MARK LANE was

listed, along

with

JANE FONDA and others, and a member of the Steering

Committee of the Winter. Soldiers Investigation.

NO T-10

September 29, 1970

On November 3, 1970, a representative of the

United States Customs Service,

Cleveland, Ohio, advised

that JANE FONDA arrived at the Cleveland

International

Airport, Cleveland, Ohio, around 12:01 AM, November 3,

1970, on a flight from canada.

FONDA's baggage was checked by United States

Customs personnel at the Customs area of the airport, as

a stop had been placed on her by the Royal Canadian

Mounted Police (RCMP) for possible smuggling of narcotics,

as she is an admitted user of marijuana and exponent of

drugs.

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In the search of FONDA's luggage, United States

Customs found approximately 2,000 pills, which Customs

personnel thought might be narcotics or

barbiturates, and

FONDA was subsequently arrested in the Customs

of the

airport by United States Customs agents for being in

possession of

these pills and capsules.

FONDA also reportedly used profane language when

talking to the United States Custons officials arresting

her and, while at the airport, FoNdA attempted to strike

a blow at the Unitea States Customs agent who had arrested

her, and she was charged with assault of a United States

Customs agent.

On November 3, 1970, a United States Customs

representative indicated that

FONDA appeared before

United States Commissioner CLIFFORD E. BRUCE, Cleveland,

Ohio, at 2:00 Ill, on charges of assaulting & l'ederal

officer

and bringing illegal items into the United States.

FONDA was represented at the hearing by a local Cleveland

attorney and

also by Attorney MARK LANE Of New

York, New

York.

Concerning the hearing, MARK LANE reportedly made

several comments about FONDA's being arrested because of

her political

views and claimed harassment of FONDA by the

United States Government.

NO T-11

November 3, 1970

On November 9, 1970, actress JANE FONDA arrived

at the Federal Building

in Cleveland, Ohio for a hearing

accompanied by

Attorney

MARK LANE and a local Cleveland

attorney named

IRWIN BARNETT and four or live other

supporters.

MARK LANE was overheard complaining about the

fact that this was to be an open hearing, and

the authorities

were

limiting the number of people allowed into the building

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and hearing room.

LANE stormed off, indicating he was going

to arrange

for all spectators who wanted to attend

this hearing

to be allowed to do so.

Eventually, the hearing got underway before

United states Commissioner CUITFORD E. BRUCE,

and it lasted

three hours and ten minutes.

During the preliminary

phases of the hearing, MARK LANE argued with the commissioner

relative to his representing TONDA at this hearing because

he was not authorized to represent clients

in Ohio; however,

Commissioner BRUCE allowed LANE to represent Miss FONDA.

The defense for FONDA moved to have the charges

dismissed

against their client but were unsuccessful.

The commissioner did allow the Government to amend the

affidavits on which FONDA was arrested.

United States Customs Agent RICHARD MATUSZAK

testified

regarding the arrest of FONDA on November 3,

1970, and the subsequent

assault against him by FONDA.

MARK

LANE crosS-examined Agent MATUSZAK for a considerable

period of time,

and LANE attempted to show that FONDA's

name was on a list of people the Government watches

because of FONDA's anti-war activity, and

this was why

she was stopped and checked by the United States Customs

Service on November 3, 1970. LANE also tried to bring

out that the vials, pills, capsules, etc. that FONDA had

in her possession were medicine which would not be checked

for an ordinary United States citizen, but, because

FONDA's name was on this list, she was

charged with bringing

these pills into the United States.

In regard to the assault charge against FONDA,

LANE tried

to bring out the fact that FONDA merely wanted

to use the ladies' room after her long flight on

the plane

and, when the United States Customs agent denied her the

use of the bathroom facilities, she took action against

him.

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FONDA, during the hearing, was noted to turn her

chair around so

as to face away from the United States

Commissioner and witness, and she faced the audience for a

good portion of the hearing.

The United

States Commissioner, after hearing

the testimony, bound

TONDA over to the Grand Jury, and

once again she was released on the same amount of bail.

The hearing then ended, and the spectators plus

FONDA and LANE left the building.

MARK LANE was noted

talking to members of the press and TV in front of the

Federal Building, giving details of the charges, case, etc.

against FONDA.

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On November 13, 1970, JANE FONDA and MARK LANE

appeared in the fairfield thiversity gymasina lairfiociat

Connecticut, where they both lectured on the topic

Ills and Current Unrest in America.

The lecture was open

to the public and was sponsored by the fairfield University

Student Government and there were approximately 1400 people

in attendance.

appearance and MARK LANE received $500 as payment from the

attorney,

merely discussed FONDA's arrest at Cleveland, Ohio,

on drug charges

and described the arrest as a political

persecution against his client.

NO T-12

November 13, 1970

On December 11, 1970, MARK LANE held a press

conference at the Greater Los Angeles Press Club,

Vermont

newsmen.

LANe was plugging his new cook concerning vietnam,

which he allegedly compiled on the basis of interviews he

conducted with 32 returned veterans of the Vietnamese war.

At the conference, LANE praised Chinese Communist

leader MAO Ise-tung as the greatest authority in the world

on guerrilla warfare and quoted MAO Ise-tung as having said,

"Guerrillas are the fish and the Vietnamese and peasants

are their sea.

MARK LANE made numerous charges claiming that

Americans are committing genocide against the Vietnamese

in South Vietnam and claimed that he had intervieved some

300 returning American G.I.'s who had admitted to him their

own respective participation in over 250 massacres of Vietna-

mese men, women and children. When confronted by questions

LANE's smell sampling of over one million returning e.t?

newsmen in attendance about statistical validity of

LANE countered by admitting that his number of interviews

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compared to the grand total of returning G.I. 's was only a

fraction of one percent.

He said, however, that he was

cer-

tain in his own mind if these figures were

extrapolated un-

doubtedly, the total number of atrocities would be correspond-

ingly greater.

Several times, LANE told newsmen they should seek

out and interview

two specitic former Vietnamese veterans

now in the United States, namely PETER. NORMAN MARTINSON and

JAMES HENRY, as both of these veterans could relate data con-

cerning atrocities and massacres they had personally witnessed

while in Vietnam.

LANE did not indicate to the newsmen where

these individuals could be located.

LANe condemned the training being given to American

nilitary personnel prior

to service in Vietnam and stated

that it is entirely oriented at the genocide of the Vietnamese.

He claimed that United States recruits are summarily punished

if they refer to Vietnamese,

by any other term other than

either North or South Vietnamese,

"sookss;

'"slants.''

" or "sloths.

LANE claimed that these military personnel receive rote

training in chanting over and over more than 100 times daily,

"kill, kili, kill.

MARK LANE claimed that there has been "a silent

mutiny" going on among United States troops in Vietnam for

somewhat over six months. He stated that enlisted personnel

in various Army platoons are holding bounty sessions,

during

which they pool sums of money, usually from S150 to $300,

to be paid out as a bounty for the G.I. who kills his command-

ing officer during the next military engagement in the jungles

of Vietnam.

When LANE was asked what he felt should be done

about American service personnel who are currently being

held prisoner in North Vietnam, he responded that he was

glad the question had been asked. LANE stated that Americans

who are concerned about brutalization of United States

prisoners abroad should immediately demand full investigation

of all Army brigs and stockades throughout the military posts

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over, share being treated bresally his is where the American

According to LANE, the provisional revolutionary

government of Vietnam will release all United States prisoners

of war as

soon as the United States agrees to unconditionally

remove all military personnel in their country.

LANE stated

that he intended to

be in betroit, Michigan, on January 25-21,

1971, for a massive demonstration

against the war in Vietnam

but furnished no additional details as to this demonstration.

On December 12, 1970, MARK LANE was the guest

speaker at a public meeting of the Los Angeles Out-Now

Coalition (LAONG), held at Embassy Auditorium, 843 South

Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

The LAONG was organized on November ?, 1970,

as a permanent

anti-war coalition of organizations and

individuals in the los Angeles area.

The purpose of the

organization was to continue the fight to force the United

States Government to get out of southeast Asia, now.

At this speaking engagement, LANE stated that he

supported the National Liberation Front in Vietnam entirely.

He also stated that in January of 1971, 1500 ex-G.I. veterans

of the Vietnamese war would be meeting in Detroit, Michigan,

to speak out against the atrocities committed in Vietnam and

in Canada.

LANE stated that simultaneously with the meetings

in Detroit,

a group ot Vietnamese would be meeting across

the United States border in Canada and that the G.l. veterans

and the Vietnamese would be corresponding via closed circuit

television and that the t.l. veterans of the United States

would eventually cross over into Canada and sign a peace

treaty with the Vietnamese.

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In December 16, 19/0, MARK LANE spoke to several

hundred students at the

Hancock Auditoriun located on the

campus of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles,

California.

In his

speech, LANE again mentioned the

fact

that a meeting of G... veterans of the Vietnamese war would

be held in Detroit,

Michigan,

Irom January 31, 1971,

to

testify that they were war criminals forced to commit atrocities

estify that they were

LANE stated that at least 150 G.I.

s would

against the Vietnamese people by their superior officers and

the

NIXON administcation.

LANE stated that he

expected as

many as 2000 veterans to attend the meeting and following the

meeting, the veterans would proceed from Detroit, Michigan:

to Windsor, Canada, to meet with representatives of the Viet-

namese people.

NO T-15

December 16, 1970

On December 21, 19/0, MARK LANG met with HUBY NONION,

3lack Panther Party (BPP) leader, at the Hotel Huntington ir

San Erancisco, California. LANE

and NEWTON had extensive

discussions regarding BPP fund-raising activities and publi-

city matters, as well as other matters

regarding the BPP

activitles.

The BPP is a black extremist or-

ganization started in Oakland,

California, in December, 1966.

guerrilla ta

It advocates the use of guns and

guerrilla tactics to bring about

the overthrow of the United States

Government.

LANE stated that he intended to remain in San

Francisco until the next day when he intended to go to

Los Angeles, California, where he would remain at the

Beverly Hills Hotel for a period of two or three days.

LANE indicated that le had been working in the area of

etrolt, Michigan, and Canada in the recent past and that

ne was involved in war crimes investigations and stated that

he had arranged for approximately eight to ten Vietnamese

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citizens to be in Canada to testify regarding war crimes of

the American soldiers in Vietnam.

practiced by members of the American military.

He indicated,

that testimony would be

solicited regarding black servicemen

who have been brutalized within American stockades and brigs

and attempt to create the impression that everyone should be

concerned about servicemen in such a situation as they are

about American servicemen presently being held prisoners in

sing held prit

North Vietnam. LANE stated that he hoped to portray the

situation of these stockades and

brigs with respect to such

facilities located in the United. States, West Germany, Japan,

Okinawa and South Vietnam.

NEWTON tOld LANE that he thought his idea of the

war criminals Investigation was a good idea but did not give

any indication that the BPP intended to participate in the

investigation.

NO T-13

December 21, 1970

The winter soldiers investigation was held in

Detroit, Michigan, on January 31, February 1, and February

2, 1971, at the Howard Johnson's Motel,

3rd and West Grand

Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan.

MARK LANE and CAROLYN MUGAR

were in Detroit for the investigation and resided at the

Howard Johnson'

s Motel during that time. LANE and MUGAR

left the Howard Johnson's Motel on February 3, 1971, and

have not returned to the Detroit area since.

NO T-16

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On April ?1, 1971, MARK LANE and CAROLINE MUGAR were

arrested "ith other individuals at

the United States Supreme

Court,

Washington, D. C. and

they were charged with unlarful

entry

into the Supreme Court of the United States.

NO T-!?

April

33, 1971

On April 23, 1971, Captain JAMES TROLLINGER, Urited

States Capitol Police,

Washington,

. C.,

advised that on

April 21, 1971 approximately 175 individuals cathered on the

steps of

the United States

Supreme Court Building demanding

that the court rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnamese

var. MARK LANE was among 11 individuals anono the demonstrators

who entered the Supreme Court Building and subsequently refused

to he escorted outside

and away fron the Judges" Chambers in

the Building.

As

a result, LANE was arrested hy the Supreme

Cour Building Police and on April 26, 1971 Miss ROSEMARY

DAVEnPort, Clerk, superior Court, Washington, D. C., advised

that MARK LANE was released on personal hond

on

April 21, 1971

and

a hearing on the charge of unlawful etry had been scheduled

For May 20, 1971 before the superior Court.

On the arrest sheet prepared by the United States

Supreme Court Police, MARK LANE gave an address at wolf Swamp,

Bethel, Connecticut.

On May 25, 1971. Mr. DENT, Clerk's Office, Superior

court, Washington, D. C., advised that on May 30, 1971 a motion

of acquittal.was

granted to MARK LANE on the

charge of unlawful

entry into the United States Supreme Court Building.

The May 5, 1971 issue of the Kent Stater: Kent,

Ohio, carried

an article with the following heading.

"Action

DiSrupts MARK LANI, Coalition Rally Revelops into Sit-In."

The article then descrihed an anti-ROTC protest conducted on

the campus of kent state University on May 3, through May 5, 1971

at whICh HARK LANE abdeared and spole.

LANE was hrought to Kent

State University ly the May Day Coalition for their May 4

onsorvance and just prior

tO LANE'S

speech, seven draft cards

were hurned by protestors of the war.

MARK LANE hegan his

speach hy hurning his University Security Pass and then

attac'en the United States'

presence in

Vietnam and the

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Government's handling of the war. MARY LANE blared

the Nixon

Administration for using the prisoner of

war issue for the

political continuation of the war and said that Nixon is not;

in fact, de escalating the war and his program

for winding down

the war

is propaganda:

LAND mentioned the story of a

Kent

State University student, GEORGE SMITH, Who he claimed was

in

a National Liheration Front

prison in Vietnam

and claimed that

he was actually fed better

in the prison than the National

Liberation Iront soldiers.

LAND claimed that this is a story

that the United States Government never allows imerica to hear.

LANT said,

"This is

what

thet madran

in the While House is try

ine to

hase support

for the ver on."

He stated that it is

"our resporgihility to end this war and tent State.

this carpus

has an ever hierer responsihility than others hecause of hot

happened here.

on June 2, 1071, MAPI: LANG submitted a ranuscript

purporting to he & renspaper entitled "yelping Haad" to a

publiching firm in Boise,

The menuscript, allegedly

Volume I. Nurher 1.

newspaper contained numerous chscene

four-letter words and was highly critical of the United States

Goverment or particularly

the war in Tietnam. The publicher

intended to puhlish the newspaper for LANE.

NO T-19

June 9, 1971

on June. 6, 1971, the Chief of Police, NELSON OLDS,

fountain Home, Idahc, advised that MARY LANE, "ho claims

he an honorary member of the District Attorney's Office, New

Orleans. Icuisiara, stated that he is associated "ith one

CAROLINE I. MUGAR and Mr. and urs. BOB RIX in the publication

of a newsparer entitled "Helping

and that the four

then

intend opening a coffee house in Mountain Home, Iraho,

to

he porer the Helping land, also.

Chiaf of Police

OLDS stated

that LaMe claims that he is from New Yor! City and is in

cuntain tome temporarily to establish the newspaper and the

coffee ruse.

On July 13, 1971, MARK LANE and

several unidentified

civilians appenred at the

Mountain Home Air Ferce Base, Mountain

Home, Idana, and attempted to distribute his newspaver,

"Helpi!"

Hand.

Subsequently, Security Police invited LANE to their

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and then to the Staff Judge. Advocate General where

a meetino with

the Base Commander determined that LANE could

not distribute the "Helpin? Hand" on the Air Force Base and

requested that

he retrieve those already distributed.

On July 11, 1971,. MARK LANE did not return to the

Mountain Home Air Force Base and no issues of the "Helping Hand"

were distributed on the base. The July 14, 1971 issue of the

"Idaho Daily Statesman, " Boise, Idaho, quoted wing Commander

Colonel HENRY L. WARREN, Mountain Home. Air Iorce Base as

refusing permission to distribute the "Helping Hand" because

it advocated resistance to authority and, therefore, was a

danger to discipline, loyalty, and morale, a violation of Air

Force

reculations.

At approximately 6:00 a.m., August ?, 1971, 54 marchers

including 31 GIs and women Air Force service ladies from the

Mountain Home Air Force Base, Mountain

Home, Idaho, began a

march of approximately

40

miles across the desert to Boise,

Idaho.

The march was led by MARK LANE and the marchers arrived

in Boise, Idaho: at 11:00 a.m. on August 8, 1971 where they

attended a church service

at Emanuel Methodist Church, Boise,

Idaho.

At 12:00 noon, on

the same date, approximately 30 of

the

marchers then assembled at the world headquarters of

the

Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company buiking, 400 Broadway

Avenue, Boise, Idaho, where about 100 spectators and marchers

heard LARRID KNUDSEN, adopted grand-son of the founder of the

company, make a speech on the desire for peace. The marchers

then raised three home-made flags bearing the words "Bring Er

Home"

on the Morrison-Knudsen flagpoles at that site.

A third confidential source abroad advised that MARK

LANE of New York City was in Paris, France, during the period

from March ? to March ?4, 1971. During his visit, LANE made

number of contacts with Vietnamese revolutionary organizations

and individuals of the far

deft, with whom he discussed prob-

lens

of the war in Vietnam

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With the assistance of MARY-JO VAN INGEN, LANE ret

with ALAN KRIVINE,

leader of the Communist League.

VAN INGEN

is known to French

authorities as a French National and member

of the Fourth International European Trotskyist Organization,

who was in Brussels, Belgium, on November 21 and 22, 1970 on

the occasion of the

international meeting of European revolution-

aries.

The meeting hetween LANE and KRIVINE particularly

dealt with the future collaboration between the Communist

League and JANE FONDA; who reportedly, is very much under

LAND'S

influence. LANE is said to have contributed 500 francs

to the Communist League.

While in Paris, LANE also met with

FRANCOIS MASPERO, who specializes in the publishing of revo-

Jutionary books, with regard

to having one of his books

published.

NO T-19

May 19, 1971

On August 23, 1971, another Government agency which

conducts investigations abroad furnished the following

information: ($1U)

During the summer of 1971, MARK LANE visited Paris,

France, while on his way to Italy. LANE was believed to be en

route to. Bologna, Italy, to attend the national conference of

Lotta Continua, an Italian Marxist-Leninist group, which was

scheduled for July 24-25, 1971.

$(4)

The source stated that

LANE currently heads

"Helping Hand," a servicemen's underground newspaper in Utah

which is directed

toward personnel of an Air Force base in

that state.

LANE indicated that he is very encouraged by the

response "Helping Hand" has received, and stated that he hoped

to convince the servicemen on the base to sabotage their work,

which, according to LANE, is very specialized and consists in

part of helping lay out bomb runs in South Vietnam. As an

example of a method of sabotage, LANE proposed altering the

bomb run layouts by glacing pencil marks slightly off their

correct positions.

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III. MISCELLANEOUS

In the February 9, 1968 issue of the litica Daily

Press, a Utica, New York daily newspaper, on page seventeen

was an article

entitled "Lane Says CIA Had Part In Plotting

JFK's Death." The article read as follows:

"Hamilton--Facts in a pending New Orleans

trial will

startle and

shock' Americans over

FBI-CIA and other government collusion in

President Kennedy's assassination, controversial

Warren report critic Mark Lane said last night.

"Speaking to more than 425 in the Colgate

University Chapel, Lane lashed at coveruns and

lies, calling them

'hallmarks' of a total-state.

He was interrupted

repeatedly by prolonged

applause and encouraging laughter.

"He said the facts would come out in the

conspiracy trial, likely before April, of Clay

Belshaw, a prominent New Orleans executive.

"Lane praised

efforts

of New Orleans

District Attorney Jim Carrison. Lane, a former

New York City assemblyman, is now on farrison's

staff as special counsel investigator.

"He wound up a lecture tour with his

Colgate address and was to head back

to the

southern city.

" 'I predict Americans will be startled

and shocked

to learn

the ClA (central intelligence

Agency participated in planning the assassination

of the President and that the FBI (Federal Bureau

of Investigation) knew about it five days in ad-

vance and no one told the President,' he said.

"He pictured Lee Harvey Oswald, whom the

Warren Commission called the only assassin, as

an FBI pawn

who informed that agency about the

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plot November, 1963, five days before it happened.

"Lane said the FBI

sent telegrams

to its

southern offices the night of November 17,

saying that an attempt would be made on Kennedy's

life in Dallas, Texas--Where in fact Kennedy was

slain on Now. 22.

" 'Jet, President Kennedy', he said, 'was

told, in October that the same group was

planning

to assassinate him in Chicago and he cancelled that

trip.'

"The death motive, he said, could be traced

to Kennedy's withdrawals of 1, 500 men from

Vietnam two months before his

death and

another

1,500 men shortly before he was killed. That

left a total of 15,500. It is now over a half

million men. '

"He said he didn't know why the Kennedy

family had remained silent.

He said the voters

should ask this

of New York Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy, the late President's brother.

"He said Jack Ruby, Oswald's killer, was

afraid to talk in Texas

and that Chief Justice

Earl Warren refused Ruby's plea to tell you

everytling I know', in Washington D. C.

"He said Oswald's widow, Marine Porter,

testified yesterday before a

New Orleans grand

jury. He

said her answers would be 'very

illuminating'.

"Lane said the government and news media

have tried hard

to stop the New Orleans trial.

He said the FBI

tried

to prevent publication of

his 1966 best selling book 'Rush to Judgement'.

"He said FBI assistant director John Roche

asted the eventual publishers to suppress

it.

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"Lane refused to say if Communists were

behind the assassination. Somewhat cryptically,

he said, 'philosophically the shots came from

the right, not the left.'

"Nearing 41 and coughing fron a cold, Lane

dwelt at length with assassination details in his

hour and 20 minutes talk and 20

minute question

period.

"He said five shots were fired, ine from in

front of the president's slow moving car, and

two from behind and another that missed ricocheted

into a spectator's face.

"Lane said a photo showed Oswald standing

in the doorway of the Texas School Depository

Building as Kennedy's car passed, and not on the

sixth floor from where the fatal

shots allegedly

were fired. He said the warren group cut out this

evidence.

"Lane ridiculed Warren Commission members,

the government and news media. He scorned

former Utican Walter Sheridan, NBC investigator

for a recent TV show about the Garrison-Belshaw

case, for 'false statements, statements out of

context, and bits and pieces. NBC is much aware

that it has much to hide.?"

The following article appeared in the February

14, 1968 issue of the Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin:

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Mark Lane Says Here

Garrison May Suel

For JFK Reports

By DAVE ZWEIFEL

(01 The Capital Times Staff)

New Orleans Dist. Atty.

spaclal assistant te Garrison and

Lare is currently aeting as a and could connect him witle the

assassination.

James Garrison may bring leg-

is working out of his Now Or-

"After all, Oswald was the

al action

against President

leans office.

perfect fall guy for the assar-

Lyndon B. Johnson to have the

Buring this morning's semi-

sins," lie contended.

"Ile was

impounded in formation con-: nar, the author sail that when

a Marxist, was pro Castro, has

John F. Kenaedy's as- persons charged by Garrison

been to Russia and hail a Rus-

sassination made public.

211-

come to trial, it will be re- sian wife. What could have

thor

Mark Lane revealed to

vealed that lee

Harvey Os- been moïe perfect?"

day.

wald, the alleged assassin, and

The author added that Gar-

Lane, author of the best sell-

er

Jack Ruby, the man who killed irison has several witnesses who

"Rush to Judgmeut,"

said

Ostraid, "were closely related." will testify in the trials

once

that pictures of the late Presi-

"This will be one of the most they start.

dent's autopsy and reports

sensational reports to come nut

"It is true that many are be-

made by doctors at Parkiand

of the trials," he said. "and it ing intimilated." he remarked

Hospital in Dallas would un-

will involve other persons

doubtedly aid Garrison's inves-

well."

as

Lene said that Garrison's

charges will definitely be

tigation of the assassination.

"All of this information

be-

Lane

went on to comment

brought to trial unless Garri-

that Oswald had worked for the

son dies before the trial, un-

longs to the federal government

FBi for several years before

iless the defendants in the 2c-

and cannot legally be sinibeld

the assassination.

He

said Os-

ition die before the trial. or un-

from the public," Lane assert-

*One of the

ölieruatives

waid

was

not an agent, but a

less Garrison is replaced

as

"paid informer."

New Orleans district attorny

Garrison is

considering

is ito

sIt is not so surprising that

before the trial.

briag suit against the President

$ 11?10

for release of the information."

with Oswald's alleged

The author, who is still in

reputation was an FBI inforn-

er," he said.

Madison today after lecturing

at the University of Wisconsin

He then compared Oswald's

employment with the informer

Symposium Tuesday, participat the FBI used in the 1955 civill.

ed in a seminar discussion of

rignts slaying

of Mrs. Violal

the assassination this morning. Liuzzo. Ile pointed nut that the

After the scminar. he told The

Capital Times that

stories it

FBI informer was a passenger

printed recently about the as-

in the car with the men who

sassination

with

"are being viewed

shot Mrs. Liuzzo while she wast

great interest" by Garri-

ariving down an Alabama high-

son's office.

way.

*If the FBI employs knowi

Lane was referring to a Capi- bigots, why should

tal Times story in which it was

it bc

reported a Madison doctor, lilie Oswald?" he asked.

surprising that it employes mcn

while a medical student in Nei

Lane added that according to

plot to assassinate the President

Orleans in 1963, was told of a information gained by Garrison,

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before tie

assassination took

Oswald was actually "a patiy"

placc.

in" the assassination plot. ile

schis incornation fils.

san the Clil arranged several

closely mith investientions dir-

"in astonde incidents weich aer

risol's

olice hus already could be attributed to Oswäldi

made," Live commented.

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In the February 14, 1968 issue of the Wisconsin

State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin, the following article

appeared:

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Before Full House at UW

CIA Plodted JFK's

Death, Lane Says:

By JAMeS OSET

(01 The State Journal Stall)

Author Mark Lane made more than 1.400 University of Wis-

consin students sit up and listen Tuesday night as he told them

that the 1063 assassination of President Kennedy was a Central

Intelligence Agency (CIA) conspiracy.

Lane. author of "Rush to Judgment." declared that the

nation will son leain that Lee

Harvey Oswald, alleged assas-burned his noles on the au-

sin of the late President. was topsy

an PBl agent who killed no one

"When asked by U.S. News

on Nov.

22, 1963.

land World Report why the

Lane also declared that the notes were burned," Lane said.

FBl knew oi the assassina- the commission explained that

tion ploi of Nov. 17, 1903. bul an autopsy had never been per-

that "someone made a deci- formed."

sion not to conumunicate the in-

"The notes were burned on

formation to Mr. Kennedy."

orders from sonieone iiio can

LANE, GUEST speaker 10:

give ordel's lo a

commander

the Wisconsin Student Assn

in the U.S. Navy," Lane said.

Symposium,

made his

allege

tions to a fuil-house audience in

LINE ALSO indicted popular

publications

and newscasters

the Wisconsin

Union Theater

where once again new's photog.

including the eir York Tinies.

Newsweck, Life Magazine, the

rashers were banned from

NBC network. Walter Cronk te.

taking pictures.

and book publishers.

Lane is a lawyer who prac-

tices in Harlem and had served:

The Warren Commission, Lane

a term in the New York Leg-

said. stated Ruby

was in no

way connected with Oswald,

islature. His "Rush lo Judg but a picture was talien near!

ment deals with the Warren the Dallas book depository, hel

Commission's Report on the as said, and a man in the picture

sassination,

and questions the

validity of the government-pub ruby.

was positively identified

asi

lished work.

• When the commission re

HE TOLD his extremely at ceived

the picture, it cropped

tentive

audience that not long the man out and then published;

before

Mr. Kennedy's trip in the picture in its report, Iane;

Dallas the U.S. Scared Service said.

uncovered a plot to kill him in He said that the commission!

Chicago

and that the trip was.completcly ignored 58 witnesses

canceled. He said he didn'tiout of so questioned who said

know why Mr. Kennedy was notithey heard shots coming from

informed of the apparent con-behind a wooden fence on a

spiracy in Dallas.

grassy knoil to the right and;

Onc

subtic hint broughtfrom of Mr. Kennedy instead

strong applause. He toid of the of troin the siath floor of the;

doctor who performed all all- book depository behind him.

lopiiy on Mr. Aconedy's body! Other questions Lane pobedi

al Bethesda Naval Hospital in concerned the number of sthis!

Dalas. The doctor;

come fired, the front entrance of hul-i

mander in the U.S. Navyilets, and the rate of the firiha.!

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The "Daily News"

daily New York City newspaper

issue of October 13, 1969, page 24, contains a Reuters press

dispatch datelined, Copenhagen, October 12, and captioned

"2 Deserters In Denmark."

The

dispatch reflects that two

United States Army deserters who were stationed in Germany

arrived in Copenhagen

that date and asked for political

asylum.

The deserters "were accompanied to Copenhagen from

Paris by American lawyer Nark Lane.

They had been ordered

to Vietnam. "

The "New York Times" newspaper, issue of July 6,

1966, page 42, contained an advertisement which noted that

Mark Lane's book "Rush to Judgement", would appear on the

market August 15, 1966, published by Holt, Rinehart, and

Winston; Incorporated, New York City.

The July 13, 1966, issue of "Variety", a theatrical

newspaper, page 2, noted that amotion picture film based

on

Lane's book and also entitled "Rush to Judgement" would

be released in the near future. The film would also set

forth lane's version of the circumstances

surrounding the

death of President Kennedy. It was noted that Lane had

long held that Lee Harvey Oswald had not been the lone

killer of President kennedy, but other persons had been

involved in the assassination

The following article appeared in the August 1,

1971 issue of the Black Panther Party newspaper:

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Mark: The authorities told me that

all the prisoners are out of their

cells all day.

Huey: Tre been locked in my cell

for one year and nine months at this

prison.

I come out for breakfast,

lunch and supper. Thaue approxim-

ately one hour for each

meul..and

during that time I must also ar-

range

for towels, toiled paper.

clean clothing and take care

other similar housekeeping details.

Also every prisoner is subjeci to a

complete strip search at any time

at the whim eid caprice of any of

That tends to rob a

man not only of his time while he

is out of the call, but more import-

aize of your

Huey: It is approximately

feet by eight and a halficet. I never

did measure it.

Mark: Are

the

-stacam prisoners

locked up 21 hours a day?

Huey: No, the other prisoners are

out of their calls from 7:00 AM1.10

10:00 P.M. The reason that I am

treated differently from the other

men is that I refuse to "program"

—to use prison admunistration ter-

minology. I rejuse to work without

just compensation. Not just for me

but adequate compensation for all

the prisoners. Most prisoners here

work six or seven

hours a day.

There is no compensation for most

of the work but a few of the jobs

pay from tuo cents ar hour to len

cents an hour. You can only earn

ten oents an hour after about five

years of loyal service.

Mark: What is the nature of the

work? Does the end product enter

into the flow of commerce?

Huey: Yes it does.

That's just the

point. They make shoes not only for

the inmate population but many of

the shoes that are manufactured

here are sold by

contract to other

agencirs. There is a conning plant

here.

The prison institution

glis

the canned goods to other listlu.

tions and agencies.

The prisoners.

of course, make all of the license

rajo jor California. They also make

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EXCEUPTS FROM AN INTERVIEW

WITH HUEY DY MARK LANE

REPRINTED FROM L.A. FREE PRESS

prison is a capitalistic enterprise.

It differs very little from the sys.

rem used ur Tir south where in-

"farmed out" to grow

those instances the grow

agree that that

system is abhorrent. Yet the Calif.

ornia method is to employ the re

verse system

convicts are

not furmed out; the work is farmed

in. What foclors remain the same?

The convicts are

by the state; the work still is ac

complished; the state is still com-

There is also a textile plant here

as there is at many prisons in the

state. Clothing is manufaciured

here. Same is worn by the urison

population; other clothing is soid on

the opin market. Deceptive Inbels

are used by the prison so that the

purchaser cannot tell that it was

convict-made. See the label on the

back of this shirt....

(I stood up and looked at the label

on the inside of the collar.)

Mark: It says,

Pasmirigton Dee

Cre Sanforized."

this shirt was .

made at the prison. Various labels

are put into the shirts depending

upon where the institution wants to

market thein 1 rejuse do be part of

that actinty and that is precisely

"program" is all about.

Mark: Did you make a specinc

Huey: Yes. I demarided that each

of the prisoners be puid the minim.

that we are provided with room and

board and I proposed that on uppro

priate sun be deducted from

wages for the accommodations and

Mark: To whom was the proposal

Hiey: To the Adult Authority.

Mark: They liked the idea?

Hucy: They uere wildabout it. They

rejected it at once. He are now at a

stolpmate. Each month I must at.

land the disciplinary court.

review my case. With some alarm

I might add. The "court" is cons.

prised of prison officials, the psy.

chiatrist. the wardenechacassant

warden.@ lieutenant.@cuntain..and

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he committea an infraction

a physician. I repore there each

since ne was lucked up a nuch of

month elthough disrested them

the day anyway -tic said that he

not to call me anymore unless their

way. They create divisions. The

onuld be placed in colitary. Charles

side is prepared in udd sorothing

said to him. "But Huey, I saw you

new to the lalks. I guess you could

kind of honcertiaris required for

a successful and heinjul session

since then and you never told me

say il's a sland.ofi.

wouid be relevant among a group

that" Huey, nonchalantly contin-

Mark: Not exactly. You're not

ued his lunch, looked up and said,

of friends or an encounter group.

"Oh, dian;t 1. I though I had men-

How did the talke progress dur.

ing the first few months?

Huey: At that lime we did at least

communicate.

"hir. Newton,

have you chonged

But in a group where the prisoners

harbor great hostility toward eech

tioned it." li could not have been

clearer that the punishment was of

other, often created by the prison,

no matter to luey. As long as any

it is a harmful experience. Often

the prison authontes deliberately

inan wagin the hole, Huey was also.

credie racial sirde. Again they use

racial split. dis long as there

Mark: How did you finally concluda

racial fight it is not directed

your reincionship with the Adult

at the cuthorities. The authorities

Authority and your counselor?

There would be a moment's pause

and then I would ash,

men, have you changed your posi-

emerge clove the lattle. They enjoy

iley. The last time I saw them

the role of the referee. To set back

was the day on which I had just

Topper, he goes abour speching

finished the 18 days in the hole. I

with the prisoners who have leen

report to the Board every year,

They would reply. "No."

I would then inform them that

while /would be arailable for furth-

or talks, they would have to accept

my basie demands before any pro

cress could be mode. They saw ine

similarity with int Maris pecce

tell's and that angered them. After

auhile 1 asted to be representer by

counsel at these

call them courts. Of course, they

look the position that prisoners

Lete not entitled les

coally there was a divicion in Newu

York Slate. Are you fumiliar with

Mark: The Sostre casa?

Hey: Right. Andit hurts that pris-

oners are entitiro lo counsel.

need lo get so many lawyers in

here to represent the men at

stages. Lawyers for all the prison-

ers, black and white. Oie first job

in here is to break dui the artific-

ially induced animosity Mitreen the

black and white prisoners. We are,

all of us here, natural allies. Ji we

stood logether we coult confront

our naturn! enemy-the prison au-

Mazk: Have jou

communicated

with any other authorities

seen talhing with me. He tells them

and il was time lo report again.

that they will never get paroled if they esked me winy I refused lo

they are caught asociating suith

"program" 1 explained that i

me. Some men have been intimid.

would not violate my integrity and

aird. Others, thourn, have not. A

my dignity as a men by participat-

record is hept in their permanent ind in the exploitation of any hu-

file-in the jocket that goes is the

man being, myself included. They

Adult Authority every ycar.

ashed me if I thoughi that I might

place little iteras in there such as

be able to male sonic contribution

"He is Huey Newton's hodyguard" tosociety. I told them that i thought

that I could. Then they suarested

Black Panthers.

that if I "prostamed,"

out soon and mahe my contribution.

Mark: How do you know what is

placed in the files?

I tried to explain to thent that l

Hucy: The inmates control the

muld only make any contribution if

I left the prison with my integrity

prison as far as clericai worh and

running the plant is

incet. That if Iwas stripped of

my rignity, then I wouid have no

They run everytiing but the ad.

contribution to offer. I said that in

of the institution

the final analysis it would be bet.

and, of course.

sull we haue full access to the files.

ter for me lo leave prison after

serving ifteen years with dignity

Mark: Did you confront Topper

than after serving two in craven

with that information?

Huey: Surely. I fell that there was

Mark: Did they ask you about your

an evident contradiction. Here he

time in solitary?

told the other prisoners not to as-

Huey: Yes, they did. I had been

sociate with me: he sought to in.

sentenced to the hole for a little

timidate them, and at the same

verbai altercation with a police of-

time the same counselor. along with

the program superintendent. toid me

ficer. I had said that the officer

that l should join the

"program" so

was a habitual liar. He called me

I son of a bitch, and I responded

that I could have more time to spend

by calling him a mother-fucker,

Hues. I have had some contacts

with my friends. I told them that it

which seemed to upset him a bit i

was hypocritical of them to take

went to the hole for 18 days for

Mark: Whet is a counselor?

supposed l see that

you ore mating progress. adhering

"program" that has been

prescribed by the adrinistration.

They call him my counselor.

Mark: But he really is their coun-

one position to my face and ancth.

that. The Authority asked me if 1

er behind my back. Topper said that

fell good abrutesitrig the officer a

warled lo prevent me

mother-fucker. I told them that it

"spreading poison" to the other

did make me feel better after he

had called me a son of a birch.

Huey. Right. I. was assinned to

Topper. He is en excop. He

sits in on what they cell

who are employed in the leundry

and the bakery sil in

"group theresy"

Quite unqualifird. They derriop into

which the prisoners

Bry lo put each other down for the

At ahout noon Charles, who had

three lunches for us, sug

gested that we might sit in the sun

and enjoy them The box lunches

contained fried chicken, a

couple of bisquits, a canned peach

in syrup and cule slaw. Since the

chicken was tasty l asked Huey if

the food for the prisoners was gen-

crally that good. Tie said that it was

not hut that it wars edible. As we re

laxed through thelunch I asked Hu.

ey how the authorities could punish

Then one of them said,

went to the hole for it. Did you like

the hole?" lexplained that I did like

the hole betiem taus the othor ac-

commedations. Then they wanted to

knowif I thought that l was normal.

I asked them to define the term;

they fell somewhat challenged by

the request, but wore unable to of-

for a satisfaciory definition. Next

they asked why I preferred the hole.

I told them that Idid not haue to

concern myself about housekeeping

duties in the nole, nat I could read

and think and write all day. I ex:

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ing all the ume or cloe spend mil Mark: Mry l publisher?.

plained that a guard came - nglions of e-dars building new pria.

quite repularly and that he u

ry the prisoners all that t

lide und respeciful. do many of the refused ou

work they'd get. re-

prisoners line associate

prisoners there are in

verge brased sooner.

It would coat 100 the

wils me are highly political. Then

of /lipping cies their made that much to heep them here under those

ind ant with books these

nun are reading; they confiscate

the suords do everythin they can crcumstances. But to realize this the hooks and remove all copies

to keep the place coot.

lense there for many of the men.

It's quite il lakes a certain amount of con. of those books fron the library.

sciousnces and organization.

We Mark: In other words the prison

The guard came lo my cell and hope to have that in the near future

authorities, unable to determine

need any through the programs we will be for themselves which books are

towels. today, dean clothing or toi deceloping.

I told the board that Mark: What prograina?

permit the prisonerg

to make that judgment for them.

ivey. One of the first matters that Huey: Right. All that they haven't

I enjoyed the solitude and the l am going to attend to when I get done so far is to burn them. So far

scruice down there. And the ab

of de. humanizing

oud is the bus program. We will

searches. In the hole you're jus!

purchase a bus and take the pur. Mark: Who takes the books out of

locked up and pretty much

cats of the prisoners and other rel. the library?

alone. You are not being constantly

alves to the prisons. liary of the Huey: A group called the "soon.

prisons are so far nury from ar.

sorad." They are special guards,

ban areas that farulies cannot af-

most over sir feet six inches tall

Mark: Did they ask if you were ford to visit the inmates. This can

and well over 200 pounds. As to

sorry that you spoke harshly to the haue a disasterous effect upon the their mental state and emotional

men. The buses will be integrated

Huey: Yes, they asked if I was sor The families will get lo know each

development terhaps you know all

ry. If I thought that I had been im other and through this effort we

there is to know when you know that

mature by respondina in thet fasi-lope to begin is eliuck the racial

they are proud to rejer to them.

is. I agreed that both the officer conflicis: Organizers will give the

and I had been immature. I said femilies orientation rains

sives as the "boon squed." Char

that I had been muture for a long buses.. We hope to have regular

think, that the politically aucre

time in their institution that was visits, and the families will in cll

prisoners might read Birch Society

geared to crush a man's self re linelihood organize into a group,

type boons so that the equad would

spect and thet in any puent I red into a political force. The party

misled into ringing off those

merely responded to the officer's members will organize this,

cooks instead of lile sone ones.

provocation. They pointed out that once me family units are meeting

Mari: That books are availahle in

I had firse called him a habituai we will pay a very small part. The

liar. I told then that since the varents and wives will inue to have

Huay: I was surprised to find so

officer was a hobitual liar I could freedom io make their own deci

uy worthwhile books to read. 0f

hardly be criticized for pointing it sions. Of course, thie bus rides will

out so him it was a serious fiow in

is provided by the party without

blachs, or about blacks. They have

I thought I charge.

come classical moris about the

should call to his attention.

Mark: How do you foel about being

Mark: You've spent the last ühree

isolated from the rest of the pris-

years in jail, right?

Huey. Yes, this is correct.

Hues: There are, of course, a few

Mark: In the course of our con-

advantages to being in the main

varsations in the inst three days

population. I could better organize

you have queted passages froin

However, there is a point scores o1 .

some philos

being made by my beina locked up

ophical works. and recentiy pub

in a cell. ll integrates lie taeory

lished analysea of political situa-

and the practice. If the inmates tons. Since the rules here prohibit

here got the message they could you fion having any reading mate

works, The Propic: Outcast, The

Prophet Armed, and The, Prophet

Marle Just his works on Trotsky?

Huey: No. His word on Stalin also.

Also some works by Faron. They

don't neveany of your books. Could

you arrange lo have some sent lo

the liorary hore? A couple each on

the assassination and the Chicago

conuention and a few regarding.

dose the whole institution down by

nei in your possession that is not

doing nothing,

oy foing on strike.

directly reinter to your case, how

Mark: Of course. Will they make

Doing nothing is doing soretring do you manage to be eo well read?

them available to the men?

in o situstion where you constitute break the rules a littie

sometimes we

Mark: No you have any mensages

the majority. If the racial conflict Mark: Evidently, but how?

to be communicated to the outside

can be solved and consciousness Huy: The

world, Huey, not that my outlets

other prisoners

reach much of it?

can be pained that it is not to their permilied to be out of their cells

advantage lo carry on racial strug until 10:00 P.M. Just before they

Huey: Yes. Tell everyone you meet

gles tuit to unite against the guards

are locked up several of them

who may know me or who may.

and the caministration they could

drop some books off et my cell.

care about my view's on any mai.

stop the prison from functioning.

I read all right long, return the

ips that I want them lo write to

They could win any recsonnble

bocks early in the morning, and

Governor Kirh, Tallahassee, Flo

demand, for the prison cennot run

then sleep during the day.

rida, and urge hir.. lo free James

without the cierical work and the

The cops so home for the night

industries, both of which are car-

and they leave just a

skeleton

Mark:

This is not the worst prison

ried on by the inmates.

force, one cop for each. building.

that you've been in.

Mark: Of course, the inmate may

He is locked in the buiiding him.

-Hey: Not so far as the physical

self. In order to get out he would

plant is oncerned. But thut is rel

feel that if he is sentenced to

"from to to ten years"

have to make a phone call to con.

allely unimportant. le is a diffic.

he is

placing his future in jeopardy by

trol, a jew blocks away. The cor

ull place to organice.

not cooperaling.

doesn't want to go to the trouble of

Mark: Charles Garry told mathrt

Huey: That's what they may feel,

calling control, fuing a report,

Eldridge

spent one hour in solit.

waiting for someone to come over,

ary in the county jail in Oakland

but that feeling is entirely unre-

alistic. In the firat place they have

unloch my oell and get the books.

and that he later revorted to a

to releuse them to mose way for

So l ean read isterfort and im:

'he new prisoners will are arriv

тиліву.

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Judge that after all his years in

prison he had never been placed

in a more barbaric, frightenin

and degrading stuction. He said

conditiong

there were worse than

appalling.

Huey:

Yes.

Mark: Charles also told me that

SF

do

sOme

light was so bad that I'm afraid I

damaged my eyes.

Mark: Would you describe the cell?

Nues: Not much

W'aS

just over six feel long and

about four and a half feat wide. It

had what passed for a bed and a

coilet bowl. There was no room to

move at all. The door was solid

seel, there were no windows, and

the only ventilation was through

the crack under the door. There is

a cubby hole in the door that

swung open. Il tou wuld be locked.

and it was supporid to be

locked

all the lime. But a couple of the

cops liked me.

would

open the cubby hole door so that I

could walch the new's on television.

It was all praily much cloak and

dagger, really

cal and mouse l

suppose is a better anology, with

the mos trying to relate to me on a

human level and trying at the same

time to keep from being caught by

their superiors.

Huey Newton may be out on the

streets again in a matter of weeks.

He returns to active

leadership

just after Sen. John McClellan's

investigations subcommittie

announced that there

had

were

5,000

bombings in the United States in the

last Is monthe the lixon admin.

istration has formed an emergency

task force to study the possibility

or new regulations for controlling

high explosives. But it is the mond

of the people which is explouive

an i the administration cannot con.

tol that many of the leaders of

the Black Panther Party have been

murdered; many have been arrest.

ed isithout legal cause. Ther bail,

or ransom, runa into milliong of

dollara. The recent statemento by

J. Edgar Hoover make it clear that

the filthy war against the fanther

Parzy will be broadened and deep

ened. The administration considers

Huey Neston lo be the moit dai-

gerous man in Amenca. He does

constitute a threat to their efforta

to continue to huid onto what is not

theira,

what never was theirs, but

what they have cume to bolieve be

longe to them Huey's aafrty must

be guaranteed, and

only the people

can do that now. For thoee who love

peace and for these who crave jus

lice, Mucy's kadership is crucial.

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NJ 100-17689

WAM: cor

The following article appeared on page 27, of the

December 2, 1970

issue of the Evening News, Newark, New

Jersey:

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My No Means Neutral

• A Preconceived Case

By ERNEST B. FURGURSON, cans," tells enouch about his servicemen, or er-servicemen

Washingion motivation and methods to alert who had not abandoned their

jany careful reader to what is to country. Through contacts made

Lane, lawyer turnedifoliow.

while he was testifring at the

pamphleteer,

has an excellent Barely three pages into his in. Chicago conspiracy trial, he

business sense.

¡troduction, he

comparing leached others willing to talk

into his tape recorder, inany of

In the months of national re- American troops to the Nazi SS. them apparently at the antiwar

morse and self-doubt following;Two pages later he discloses cottee houses which have sprung

• John hennedy's

assassination, that he first tried to sell the pub-up around bases in this country:

he rushed to produce a book al-lishers a book composed soiely:

If he ever met anone who

leging that the

President had of allegations made by Ameri- was not against the war and who

been the rictim of a conspiracy. can deserters

in did not have anything sory lo

li made him a bucket of mioney. Sweden, France and West Ger- teil about American atrocities in

and a worldwide

reputation of many.

(Vietnam; he docs not say so.

sorts, especially among the con- Jiven he realizes such evidence Certainly, lie did not put any

spiraci-minded

and

anti-ameri- must be

tainted, such testimony in this book.

can French,

ior

exaliple.

So so he throws in a defensive, So iron conversauons with 32!

what it it contribuied preciousinate: "On occasion, figures are deserters

and antiwar reterans

little do erentual truthe

released to prove that deserters he put together a bork asserting

The other day,

his

eye stilllin sweden

malcontents that toriure ard massace are

fixed on maximum publicity, he troublemakers

criminais.iroutine buisness for American

rushes to take Jane

Fonda's These figures are almost alwaysitreops in Vietnam and that, in

10 defend

her

againstifalse and have been effectively.faut, they are taught to troops

*dope-smuggling

charges,

and rciuted by appropriaie agencies before embarking as a matter of

nimbly

got there

before the in the Siredish goverment."

fornal policy.

press departed.

Unfortunately ior his credibili-i

There is no doubt that in that

That didn't do any harm to the ty, the Swedish government justlong and bloody war, where the

buildup for his

book. last week deporied one of those enemy is ererywhere and no

which does for him, his bank ac-reserters alter he had served where, Americans have commit-

count and eventual truti appros-most of a prison sentence forited atrocitics. Many have beeni

imately what his Kennedy-con-drug peddling.

Another dozeniroported. What is wrong.

spiracy theory did.

now in jail on drug charges will what all the repetition in this

This time, while the dly Lai be kicked out when they are re-bock iails to prove, is that atroc-

courts-martial are prominent on leased.

ities are conscious, intentional

page 1, he is trying to make out

Estimates in Stockholm are American policy.

every American who cver fought that onc-sixth of the approxi•

That is what Lane would like

in Victnam as a blood brother to mately 380 American desertersiyou to believe. That is there his!

Adold Eichmann and Ilse Koch. there have been involved withileading questioning of his

And i you assume he has goneithe police, despite that country's nesses" leads. is introduction

about his research with the aim famously tvierant attitude to-'and his choice of quotes make it|

of establishing truth rather than sard most of the peccadilloes of clear that he would like lo see

finding evidence 1o

his youth and the Swelish govern-lAncrican

preconceived case, then he may ment's actual subsidy paid as blamed, perhaps tried as the

continer you.

As a good, or at living expenses to those desert- Nazi leaders were at Nurem-

lease well advertised lawyer. he ers.

is not about to present any find-i Rebuffed in his attempt to sell Chances are, he would he

Ines that may confuse the issue. the deserers'

memoirs. Laneiavailable to head the prosecu-

kane, in the introduction to his set out to

"Salance" them with tion, it the retainer promised to

"Conversations

ameri intervies from, gther American be adequate.

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MARK LANE resided in New Orleans at 521 Dumaine in

Apartment 3 with CAROLYN MUGAR for approximately two or three

months during the spring of 1968, while LANd Was

here report

edly assisting New Orleans District Attorney JIM GARRISON in

the presecution of CLAY SHAW for conspiracy in the assassination

of President JOIN F. KENNEDY. MUCAR claimed to be a self-

employed free-lance photographer and it was believed that she

was not married to MARK LANE but merely living with him at

that residence..

The aprtment at 521 Dumaine was rented in

the name of MUGAR and not LANE.

NO T-20

March 17, 1969

CAROLYN MUGAR is the daughter of STEPHEN P. MCCAR:

184 Clifton Street, Belmont, Massachusetts. MUCAR in 1969

was assisting MARK LANE in his literary endeavors by acting

as his assistant. She is also an expert photographer and

has received some credit for her ability in photo work,

particularly

on photos of the riots which occurred during

the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago during

August, 1968. MUGAR has become enamored with liberalism

and

civil rights, and she became acquainted with LIND and

has been travelling around the United States with him.

1n

the Spring of 1909,

LANE and MUGAR returned to New York

City where they will probably remain for a short while.

MUGAR receives an income from her father's wealth

of approximately $750.00 per month, however, she wild scor

have the possession of a

trust fund her father set un for

his children.and at that time will become an extremely

wealthy woman. MUGAR and LANE have been preparing a back-

ground on the JANE RICHARDSON murder case: which eccurred

somewhere in Florida for the book LANE intends to write.

Also LINk and MUGAR have recently travelled to Canada to

interview and photograph American deserters

on which te

base either a book or articles for publication.

NO T-17

June 24; 1969

CAROLYN MUGAR continues to travel around the country

with MARK LANE and

is also associated with actress daNE FeNDi.

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SECRET

NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION

NU 100-17689

SECRET

NO DISSEM ABROAD

WAM:cmr

CoNtrolLed

DisseM

NUGAR recortedly has riven money to the Black Panther Party

and states that she thinks the Black Panther Party is help-

ing the Negro in the United States.

NUGAR receives an annual income of $15,000 from

a trust fund set up by her father, and spends her money as

she pleases.

NO T-17

January 29, 1971

On July 1, 1973, Mr. THADDEUS CARZASTY, TOWn

Assessor, Bethel, Connecticut, advised that the records

of his office reflect that NARK LANE purchased a cabin

on twenty-one acres of land from AITILTO MRDONE, on June

23, 1967. CARZASTY advised that the property is located

5.17

an area known as Wolf Swamp in the vicinity of Bethel,

Connecticut, and that LANE has paid less than half of four

years taxes

due and all correspondence has been forwarded

to Land's attorney, ARNoLd cRoss 605 third avenue, ew

York, New York.

CARZASTY stated that GRal has indicated

not know

of Beth, od icit to has he does not no has whereabouts

the cabin since LANE purchased it in 1967.

SECRET

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SECRET

NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION

NO DISSEM ACROAD

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VI. ED STATES DEPARTMENTE (ILOTIGE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTISATION

New Orleans, Louisiana

August 31, 1971

In Reply, Please Refer to

File /NG NO 100-17689

Title

MARK LANE

Character

Reference

SECURITY MATTER - MISCELLANEOUS

Report of SA WAYNE A. MILLWARD,

dated and captioned

as above.

All sources (except any listed below) whose identities

are concealed in referenced communication have furnished reliable

information in the past.

This document contains neither recommendations not conclusions of the FBi.

It is the property

of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its conténts are not to be distributed outsido

your agency,

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