ACTING CONGEN JOHN GOSSETT WROTE GIBSON ROUTINE LTR REQUESTING INTV RE GIBSON'S 
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: PARIS
Document date: 12/12/63
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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AGENCY

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Assassination Records Review Board

Final Determination Notification

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Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Notel .

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March 26, 1996

Status of Document:

Postponed in Part

Number of releases of previously postponed information: 8

Reason for Board Action: The Review Board's decision was premised on several factors

includio a dese hifthe historiel intentrimated come in questin to b) nited

States or to any individual.

Number of Postponements: 1

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Reason for Board Action: The text is redacted because it discusses sources and methods that properly may

be withheld under Section 6(1)(B) of the JFK Act.

Substitute Language: Discusses CIA intelligence activities. The postponement does not refer to the

assassinaiton.

Release Date: 01/2006

Board Review Completed: 01/31/96

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ACTING CONGEN JOHN GOSSETT WROTE

• GIBSON

ROUTINE LTR REQUESTING INTV RE

GIBSON'S KNOWLEDGE OF

OSWALD.

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GOSSETT, JOHN

GIBSON

CIA REQUEST

BOWMONT, LEE

FAIR PLAY CUBA

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1. AT STATION REQUEST, ACTING CONGEN JOHN GOSSETT WROTE

GIBSON

ROUTINE LETTER REQUESTING INTERVIEW AT PARA 2 REF ADDRESS.

GIBSON

CALLED ON GOSSETT PROMPTLY AND STATED HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OSWALD BY

TRUE NAME BUT MAY HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT ON ONE OR BOTH FOLLOWING

OCCASIONS:

A. IN LATE SUMMER 62 WHEN WORKING FOR FAIR PALY FOR CUBA

COMMITTEE (FPCC) IN NEW YORK, GIBSON RECEIVED LETTER FROM ONE

LEE BOWMONT IN FORT WORTH. LETTER ENCLOSED PHOTO. AND NEWSPAPER

CLIPPING WHICH DESCRIBED ACTIVITY SIMILAR TO FPCC AND ASKED

FOR INFO ON FPCC. GIBSON STATES "TO BEST OF MEMORY" HE SENT

ROUTINE REPLY ENCLOSING LITERATURE.

• HE DID NOT PRESUME BOWMONT

. BE ALIAS AT TIME BUT FOR SOME UNCLEAR REASON NOW THINKS IT

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MIGHT HAVE BEEN OSWALD:

B. ALSO IN SUMMER 62 GIBSON RECEIVED GROUP OF TROTSKYISTS

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AMONS WHOM MISHT HAVE BEEN OSWALD.

AGAIN GIBSON NOT CLEAR

AS IS WHY HE PRESUMES THIS.

SOSSETT THINKS HE MIGHT HAVE

RECOGNIZED OSWALD IN NEWS PYOTOS AFTER ASSASSINATION. GIBSON

WAS, OR ATTEMPTED APPEAR, MOST COOPERATIVE AND

GOSSEIT IMPRESSION IS THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO IMPROVE IMAGE WITH

AMERICAN AUTHORITIES. EXPLAINED MOTIVE FOR REVOLUTION JOB PURELY

ECONOMIC. OFFERED YELP EMBASSY.

20 IF ODENVY MAS HARD EVIDENCE CONTRADICITNG ABOVE GOSSETT CAN

REINTERVIEW GIBSON. STATION NOW EXAMINING POSSIBLE OPS USES.

SEGRET

C/S Comment: * Requested Paris station confer with ODENVY (1) and

decide on best method of contacting and interviewing

American

Negro Richard T. Gibson, who was at one

time associated with the New York Chapter of Fair

Play for Cuba Committee. Hqs. felt that Gibson

may possibly been friends with Lee Harvey Oswald

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