MISCELLANEOUS INFO ON VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS.
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A. NOVEL Is Polygraphed by Lloyd FURR on Garrison's Charges.

Gordon Dwane NOVEL, already a fugitive witness in the

Garrison inquiry, is reported in the Washington press of 27

March 1967 as having been polygraphed the previous day on the

case under investigation by Garrison. According to the press

reports, NOVEL submitted to a polygraph examination

conducted at McLean, Virginia by Lloyd FURR. In statements

to the press, FURR indicated there was no indication of

deception to NOVEL's charges that Garrison's case is a

"fraud".

B. Lloyd FURR's Relationship to Richard L. BAST and REDEX.

Lloyd FURR, a former District of Columbia policeman and now

a private detective, is

a self-proclaimed polygraph "expert"

and sound device specialist.

He has received publicity in the

past for planting sound devices for the late Fulton Lewis, Jr.

in the St. Mary's County vice case in 1953 and in 1958 when he

discovered listening devices being used against Bernard Goldfine.

In 1964, information was received that a Washington, D. C.

firm, REDEX, operated by FURR and Richard L. BAST, was

attempting to sell electronic equipment to Communist China via

an agent in Hong Kong. (TSD had unclassified contact with

FURR in 1962 to see equipment offered for sale by FURR.)

C. Richard L. BAST and REDEX.

Richard L. BAST, a Washington,. D. C. private detective, gained

noteriety in 1965 by turning up a missing witness, previously

unlocated by the Department of Justice, in connection with the

Bobby Baker case. He is known to operate at least four

enterprises: 1) CAPITAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, a

private detective agency; 2) REDEX VIETNAM, INC., a firm

which imports a variety of commodities ranging from liquor to

automobiles into South Vietnam, including, of late, U.S.-recruited

"go-go" girls for a Saigon nightclub he is planning; 3) REDEX

CORP., a firm which sells almost anything to anybody abroad,

other than South Vietnam; and 4) CONSOLIDATED ARMAMENTS,

INC., a firm which sells small arms to foreign governments and

private individuals abroad. BAST also produces and distributes

both positive audio and counteraudio devices in the U.S. and

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overseas. BAST, described as "unscrupulous and untrust-

worthy", is known to have attempted to contract with another

private detective for planting a remote-controlled bomb in the

headquarters of the Haiti Secret Police, and has been reported

to have undertaken similar extreme assignments for exile

groups from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (Based on

derogatory information on file, DCS, in March 1967, decided

against previously contemplated contact with BAST as a

source of information on Asia.)

D. BAST, REDEX, and William W. TURNER Of RAMPARTS

CA Staff has provided information that during January 1967,

William W. TURNER, who identified himself as a free-lance

writer, visited the offices of the Asia Foundation, requesting

information for a magazine article. He stated that he had

been asked by Sol Stern of New York to gather information for

an article in the New York Times. During his visit, however,

it became obvious that TURNER was primed to ask questions

about the financing of the foundation, rather than its actual

purpose or activities.

Francing of the foundation,

When TURNER concluded the interview

he left a calling card with the firm name "REDEX-PACIFIC".

He explained he had to have new cards printed. TURNER,

reportedly dismissed from the FBI in 1961, is noted to have

authored an article in the November 1966 issue of RAMPARTS

Magazine in which he describes alleged wiretapping, sur-

reptitious entry, etc., performed by him while with the FBI.

Sol Stern, whom he claimed to represent, is assistant

managing editor of RAMPARTS Magazine.

E. Role of FURR and BAST in CIA Meeting of Exile

(The foregoing has attempted to detail the contact of NOVEL

with FURR, FURR's connection with BAST, and a possible

connection between BAST's organization and RAMPARTS.

The following indicates the only CIA involvement in the chain

which might be exploited in subsequent attempts to link CIA

to the entire affair in question.)

On 29 April 1963, Robert E. Owen; then Chief, WE/3 and

now of Paris Station, directed a memorandum to the Chief,

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WH/6 in which he documented a conversation he had on

27 April 1963, with Raymond CASSAGNOL, an anti-Duvalier

exile from Haiti. In the memorandum he relates that the

conversation took place in the home of Richard L. BAST

whom Owen had met through a neighbor, Lloyd FURR.

The memorandum relates CASSAGNOL's background, family,

political stance, etc. Reported as significant by Owen is a

statement by BAST that the following week BAST would be

sending a shipload of arms to a CASSAGNOL-affiliated group

in the Dominican Republic. Owen noted: "Raymond

CASSAGNOL gives appearance of thinking well of Richard

BAST. According to CASSAGNOL, his brother, Jacques,

also knows BAST and respects him. Thus BAST, in spite of

certain personal shortcomings from the intelligence standpoint,

does represent an established channel to at least one segment

of the Haitian opposition to Duvalier. Since according to his

own statement, BAST is supplying arms to CASSAGNOL's

groups, further transactions of this type via BAST presumably

would not be difficult to arrange." He also provided a detailed

information on what he learned of BAST, noting that BAST had

mentioned Dominican distrust of State and AID and the fact that

"CIA double-crossed them" (the Dominicans).

An FBI report on BAST dated 19 June 1963 reports that Owen,

"Foreign Service Reserve Officer, USDS"' (his cover) had

reported 16 May 1963 his attendance at dinner at BAST's home

on 27 April 1963. Owen told of his meeting with CASSAGNOL,

BAST's intention to sell arms to the Dominican Republic and

Haitian exiles, etc. He also reports that on 7 May 1963, BAST

asked him to perform some translation work. The translation,

he stated, related to BAST giving a power of attorney to one

Luis MORENO Martinez of the Dominican Republic to prepare

documentation for legal establishment of REDEX CORPORATION,

C POR A, a DR branch of BAST's firm. According to Owen,

40% of the stock was to be held by the head of the DR National

Security Agency, the head of the DR secret police, and an

individual well-connected with Dominican Republic police and

intelligence groups. BAST is also noted to have told Owen

of an offer BAST had made to "bug" the office of the Dominican

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Secretary of State for the Armed Forces on behalf of Juan

Bosch.

the job.

P/ST did not indicate to Owen if had performed

(There is no record of a clearance having been issued for

utilization of Richard L. BASI or REDEX.)

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