FILE REVIEW AT THE FBI ON OCTOBER 20, 1977
Agency: HSCA
Originator: HSCA
From: PALMER, BETSY
Document date: 10/26/1977
Document type: REPORT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

9/30/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

HSCA

180-10085-10187

NUMBERED FILES

006058

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TITLE :

HSCA

PALMER, BETSY

FILE REVIEW AT THE FBI ON OCTOBER 20, 1977

DATE: 10/26/1977

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES

HOWARD, LAWRENCE

GARRISON INVESTIGATION

FBI

DOCUMENT TYPE: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: Consulted

CURRENT STATUS : Withhold

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/28/1993

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS :

Document is a copy of 002890. These are pages from "Interview Book: Lawrence John Howard, Jr.;

68-1. Box 120.

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032890

MEMORANDUM FOR:

FROM:

G. ROBERT BLAKEY

BETSY PALMER

(BP

SUBJECT: File Review at the FBI on October 20, 1977

DATE: October 26, 1977

I reviewed portions of files at the FBI on Thursday, October 20, 1977

that related to Lawrence J. Howard, JI. The documents I saw are

follows:

File # 62-109060

Sub A - Washington Capital News Service, indexed 3/7/68

Sub A - Washington Post Times Hearld article, 12/30/67

Sub A - Washington Post Times Herald article, 1/12/68

Sub A - Los Angeles Times article, 1/12/68

Sub A - Red Comet article, 1/7/68

Sub A - New Valley Mail, Granada Hills, California, article 1/24/68

Section 112

Section 148

Section 149

Section 150

Section

152

Section 154

Section 155

Section 160

Section 179 - Serials 7181 - 7228

File #105-82555

Section 208

Section 211

Section 214

Section 233

Section 213

With the exception of two documents, all the material on Lawrence

Howard, the

Howard, Jr. was either known to us or of such little value that a

review of the file contents is not warranted. The material was gathered

largely in relation to

the Garrison investigation of the assassination

of President Kennedy.

New information on Howard was supplied in Document #7189, Section 179.

A synopsis follows:

FBI memo to Director from Buffalo, New York office, dated April 1975.

Text: On April 18, 1975, Sheriff Allen L. Capwell, Wyoming County,

New York, came to the Buffalo FBI to related the following information

obtained

from Richard Monroe Margeson, Rochester, New York, Webster Road,

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Wyoming County, New York, whom Capwell has personally known for the past

five years and believes to be stable. Margeson supplied his information

to Capwell on April 14, 1975.

Margeson stated he was living in Los Angeles in 1962 and met Lawrence

Howard, Jr. who was collecting funds for anti-Castro forces.

Howard

went to Florida Keys for six months

and returned late in 1962 with

Rudy Hernovdez and unsub (sic) aka "Slim"', a white male, 5'6" - 5'9" in

his 20's. All were employed by Jack Casey to paint and

refurbish the

old Union Temple.

Through these people, Margeson met

a man called

"Tex" who arrived from New Orleans late

in 1962 or early 1963. He

described him as a hit man, in his late 20's, 5'6" - 5'g", slender,

135 pounds, former military and a rotten disposition. He furnished his

name as Lee Harvey.

Margeson came forward with the information after

seeing a TV documentary regarding the Warren Commission which said

Oswald was in Russia in 1962-1963.

Additional information on Howard was contained in File #62-109060,

Section 160, #6498.

It involves an interview with Richard G. Lubic

after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Lubic was closely

associated with Kennedy during the California primary and travelled

with him.

The interview with Lubic was conducted on June 25, 1968.

Robert

Kennedy was assassinated on June 4, 1968.

Lubic states that Stephen

Jaffee, of Jim Garrison's staff, contacted him in May of 1968 trying

to

arrange a meeting between Garrison and Kennedy, the purpose of which

was for Garrison to warn Kennedy of a possible attempt on his life.

Lubic worked through Frank Mankiewicz to set up a meeting,

but Mankiewica

later reported that REK was not interested in meeting Garrison.

The FBI report (56-156) to the Director, from SAC, Los Angeles, was

titled KENSALT.

According to Lubic, Stephen Jaffee related a con-

spiracy story to Lubic who, in turn, asked him to repeat this information

to Ron Buck, a Los Angeles

get the ot prette

attorney and partner of Pierre Salinger in the

operation of The Factory, a night club in Los Angeles.

Jaffee claimed

that "The Committee" had placed $10 million in the hands of a secondary

group to locate appropriate individuals to carry out the assassination of

John F. Kennedy.

He claims Edgar Eugene Bradley and Lawrence Howard were

members of this group.

According to Jaffe, Jim Garrison claims "The

Committee" is composed of National States Rights Party, Anti-Castro Cubans,

oil depletion interests and persons opposed to the U.S. policy of rap-

proachment with the Communists.

This conspiracy story of Jaffe's is similar to the one this Committee

received from Lila Hurtado, aka LIBRA. Ron Buck figures prominently

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in the LIBRA claims of a conspiracy. Jaffe's and Hurtado's reliability

need to be checked if there is any interest in pursuing this angle.

I also found an interest in Section 105-8255, Section 233, #5583, dealing

with Don Maley of the National Enquirer who was seeking information about

the Sylvia Odio incident.

This document had a notation that a five-page

memo, designated Top Secret, Third Agency, had been deleted.

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