FBI ON WARREN COMMISSION
Agency: SSCIA
Originator: SSCIA
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JFK Assassination System

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THIS FILE CONTAINS SPECIALLY DESIGNATED INTELLIGENCE MATERIAL

(COMPARTMENTED)

rmation in this file is to be read only.

It is not to be extracted,

ed, paraphrased, or discussed with another person without specific

If you have

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who gave you access to this file.

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2. A. FBI furnishing, in

1966, White House with "dossiers"

on critics of Warren Commission. B. Tom H. Boggs, JI.

claims that his father, in

1970, gave him FBI furnished

dossiers on Warren Commission critics.

Facts: A. At the request of Marvin, Watson in 1966,

the FBI furnished him with background memos on seven

writers critical of the Warren Commission. Included as

part of this transmission was a photograph of one of the

seven writers in a situation best described as "well, uh,

private," perverse and utterly without any value, save the

sexually deviate. (The SSC staff refused to even look at

the picture, but has received verbal and written

description.)

B. In January 1975, Tom Boggs, son of the late

Congressman Hale Boggs, disclosed that in 1970, his father

received similar dossiers and the picture.

The FBI and Boggs documentary material (the FBI

denies a dissimination to Boggs) compare only slightly and

two similarly typed dossiers are dated differently. We

await information from FBI on further dissimination.

Documents: Attached

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loges' Son Tells of Files

in Wamen Panel

Muneraled Press

The son ei the daie a

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Tin Scostars

tich the FBl compita on

rities

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the

warren

ommissio in an attiemot to

liscredit them.

"They meren't basically

ex files," I'cm H. Boçgs

Jr. said yestarday. Dores.

washingion lawyer. anaed

Hat "They had some of that

lement bur mosi di ine

material dealt with leii.

ving organizarons these

pople belo-.red to."

BoGss said his iainer

ave him the material in

Into 1970. lio said i:at he

"low has it in a sare donosit

ax along with many of his

'ather's

congressiona!

papers.

The senior Sorgs, House

najority leader.

"i3s 2

nember cf ina lärren

Commission established to

nvestigate the assassina-

cion of President John F.

In 1971, the congressman

made a speech onnne fioer

of the House accusina ine

FBi ef tapping his protes

and recpiay dossiers on

Those crarges were never

rubitantiaico bi Boças.

ho disappearcu in Ocracer

1972 while on an airplane

fight in diarka. Tom doses

aid his fatter gave him che

files irithin ine conicli 0i a

ten about the discan

Commission critics. He said

:he files consisieu ut su

pages of information on

iritton critically of the

commission's firdings.

: BOGGS DECLINED 10

identily all seren,

(ii suidi

chat write. "

te traformation,

sald, micluded a phoicgraph

of one of the seven cngaging

in an unnatural sexual act

with two women.

The way I understood the

situation was that the FBI

was trying io assure Dad

that the critics of the Warre

Commission weren't very

scasiantial, " he said.

Meanwhile, the contro-

versy over FBl surveidance

activties continued jester-

darwith Chairme ilin

nouncing thai ius House

civil rights succommittee

has asked for General ic-

counting Oifice investiga-

tiors to help prepare lor

¿ hearings into all FBI opera-

Edwards said jesterday

that hearings which hind

been originaily scheduici in

begin jesierday on allega-

tiens of 531 marienance of

iniormation on congress-

men ard other officiais wiil

begin Feb. 20.

The chairman said the

subcominittee also will re-

sume its trouiry into coun-

rerintelligence acrivities

¡ordered by the late FBI

Dirccior J. Euga, Hoover

in 1956 to disrunt antigov.

ernment ¿cavites oy orga-

nications and individuals.

Honever carcoled the ac-

tirites in 19?l.

asied Congress 'G.iN auclt

agene: o investigate inc

mature. estont and adequa-

cy of FDl iegal authority

ior domestic intelligence-

mathering and Föl Criteria

for investigating domestic

groups and individuals.

To help the succommitice

Sce out more pinorai over-

sight licarings.

Edwards

said. he also his asied inc

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1 things the FBl's organized

crime mrestgattors, otrer

crumiral investigation ac-

tivitics, sperding priorites

and accuracy of Fil crime

statistics.

_ In related derelopments:

A FBI Direcior Clarence

M. Kelley succesied gester.

day that some of the critics

tare demagogues for accus-

ing the FBi cf triringing on

individual arrect.

"The faiople oi diguaccion

The Washinglon Post.

Washington Star-News _/2=3

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The National Observer

Thó Los Angeles Times.

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must beatert to epportunis-

tic

gradstanding

lemazoguery on the issue

of privacy,

" Kelley said

after noting the recent

criticism of the FBI for

maintaining files of unsub-

stantiated allegations about

the personal lives oi mem-

bers of Congress and other

citizens.

•@ Atty: Gen. William B.

Saxbe yesterday proposed a

joint

congressional and

rexecutive brach committee

be created as a

watchdog

¡ against abuses in intelli-

gence operations.

• Saxbe, in a spech pre-

pared for the Dade County

Bar Association, said he

had in mind a committee

that would include not only

House and Senate memoers

.but high-level govemment

officials and outsiders ap

pointed by the Presido

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UNITED STATES DLIAKTHENT OF JUSTICE

PEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTICATION

WAGUINGTON, D.G. 20535

Februaiy 3, 1975

INFORMIATION CONCERNING WASHINGTON STAR NEWS

ARTICLE, JANUARY 31. 1975. REGARDING HALE BOGGS'

SON CLAIMING POSSESSION OF FILES ON WARREN

COMMISSION CRITICS

The Washington Slar News, a Washington, D. C., daily news-

paper, carried an article in the January 31, 1975, edition, page A-4,

under an Associated F'ress release capüoned "Boggs' Son Tells of Files

on Warren Panel." The article quotes l'om Il. Boggs, Ji., son of the

Late Representative Hale Boggs, as claiming that in 1970 his father gave

Lini dossiers which the FBI compiled on critics of the Warren Commission

in an attempt to discredit them. According to the article, Boggs' son

stated "they weren't basically sex files. They had some of that element

but most of the matcrial dcalt with leit wing organizations these people

belonged to."

TonI HI. Boggs, Jr., declined to identify all seven of the critical

authors but stated that writer Edward Jay Epstein and lawyer Mark Lane

were among the individuals on whon he had imormation. Boggs: Jr.

reportedly stated that the information given hinr by his lather included a

photograph of one of the seven engaging in all unnatural sex act with two

women.

In a review of Bureau files no evidence was found that any

information of this nature was ever disseminated directly to Hale Boggs..

from the FBL

some a rowever, the sured me firew ucates that on Novender 8.

1966, memoranda were furnished to Marvin Watson, Special Assistant to

President Johnson, at the White House, at his request, setting forth pertinent

information contained in Bureau files regarring background on seven individuals

who wrote untavorable articles concerning the Warren Commission lindings.

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The seven individuals mentioned in the memorandum to

MI. Watson were Edward Jay Epstein: Joachim Joesten; Penn Jones, Jr.;

Mark Lane; Richard I1. Popkin; Leo Sauvage; Harold Weisberg.

In a cover letter to Mr. Watson he was advised that Bureau

files contained no pertinent data with respect to Sylvan Fox, an author

critical of the investigation surrounding President Kennedy's assassina-

tion.

In addition to background information regarding the seven critics

of the Warren Commission, we disseminated to Mr. Watson at the White

House one facial photograph of cr

www..asone obscene photographoff.

Jlying on a bed, a hand printed instruction by :

"I regarding perverted

sexual acts and signed statements from two wömen concerning the per-

formance of unnatural sex acts on the person of

Regarding the dissemination concerning a we

reccived information that in 1962 the District Attorney of Queens County,

New York, conducted an investigation of;

i manor alleged sodomy.

At that time statements irom tvo women were received along with an

obscene photograph of Cp and hand printed instruction which cragave

to one of the girls in order that they could perform upon his person

perverted sexual acts of a sadistic masochistic nature.

The background information furnished to the White House

-regarding Mark Lane indicated that he is an attorney, born in New Yorks

City on February 24, 1927, and that he has a long history of affiliation

with Communist Party front groups and organizations which have been

cited as subversive.

The 'Daily Worker" for May 27, 1953. states that the National

Lawyers Guild held an election of officers on May 26, 1953, and that dark

Lane was elected an ex pificio memier nt the board oì directors of the

National aya's Guilt The daily Turked was anCast Coast dum- n

munist newspaper. The House Committee on Un-American activities has

described the National Lawyers Guild as the foremost legal bulwark of

the Communist Party.

Lane was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1960 and

in May, 1902, he was defeated in an attempt to secure the nomination as

a candidate for United States House of Representatives from the 10th

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Congressional District in New York. A source reported in, connection

with Lane's attempt to secure this nomination that a meeting of the

Manhattan County Communist Party Coordinating Committee was held

on April 5, 1962, to discuss election problems in the 19th Congressional

District.

It was reported that the speaker at this meeting stated that the

Committee had to support Mark Lane as the candidate since his views

were most consistent with the "people's program." The speaker

further indicated that a victory for Lane would be a tremendous victory .

for the progressive movement.

In the Washington Star News article the name of Edward Jay

Epstein was also mentioned by Tom H. Boggs, Ji. According to Bureau.

files, Epstein was born December 6, 1935, and wrote "Inquest" as his

Master's thesis at Cornell University. In 1958 he traveled as a tourist

in the Soviet Union and described himself as a student residing in New

York City. As of November 8, 1966, the date of FBI dissemination

to the White House regarding critics of the Warren Commission, Epstein

had no known arrest record.

No information was develoned or furnished to the White House

concerning immoral conduct on the part of the seven above-listed critics

of the Warren Commission with the exception of the information furnished

regarding ri

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November 8, 1966

BY LUISON

Honorable Harvin vintson

special denicioat to the iresident

The wiite noise

washington, t3.

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Deso har. Watron:

Rotorenco is made to your recucut iegarding the author's

of books dealing with the assassination of eresident rennety.

Attached are summary memoranda setting fort pertincht

inforication containca in FBI files concerning the following indivicuals: :

Edward Jay Fastein

Joachim doesten

Penn tones, Jr.

Mark Lane

Leo Sauvage

Harold Weisberg

The files of the FBl contain no portinent data with

respeci to sylucason, author o1 "The Unanswered Questiong ¿ kout

President Konicay's Asuassination."

A copy of this communication has not been sent to the

•-Acting Attorncy General.

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November B, 1966

'FORGIVE MY GRIET"

BY

PENN JONGS, JR.

cones is lac editor ci the "Itiulottian Ifirror, " a'weekly

nowapopor publicacù in midiothian, a small community localed approxi-

Lattely 2é miles froin dalias, ickas. in 1902, vir. Jones was described

as boing approximately do ycars old, married, and the lather of two

and printing.

In 1952, jones was described by individuals acquainted

with him in Indiothlen, cras, as a parson who thrives on lissensivi"

and for this rondon he prints items in nis weday nonstager Which have

caused much local disconcion and arguments in his communiy. As a

result, the local citizens have subjected him to considerable criticiom

and antagonisin. come individuals even accused him of being affiliated

with communists; however, it is understood that tere was no substanti-

ation to the allegation that hir. Jones had procommunist views and

affiliations.

It is understood that on April 30, 1S62, an unknown

individual threw an incordiary device into the cifice of Jones'

newspaper; howaver, no arrest was made aithough it was suspected

that a member of an anticommunist group may have been benind this

act.

In May, 1965, it was reported by an individual in the

newspaper business that ones had been conducting an investigation

of the assassination of president ionnedy. Jones ailegedly haci a

theory that Lec liarvey Uswald was paid a large sum of inoney by two

brotiers irom texas closaly associated with i resident joinson to

assassinate president lennody, Jones had allegedly discussed this

matter with former White House aide 'Theodore Sorenson; former

attorncy coneral lobert Lennedy; and formor Attorney donczal

lann

Latzenbach. however, when Jones was thoroughly interviewed about

this matic, he denied that he haci ever had such a theory and stated he

củd not discuss any theory regarding the assassination with the previously

mentioned Government officials. me did relate that he hau visited

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November 8, 1966

"TIE SECOND OSWALD"

BY

PROFESSOR RICHARD I. POPKIN

Richurch. Poplan was born on Eccember 27, 1923, in-

New York City.

ie received the i.h. dogree at Colurbin Univeisity

in 1943, tho it do degace in lose and the this. do ree in 1000. de

Tas an inotaecor at tre Univeraly of Connocticut, iöcordl, Acalotant

Professor State University of lown, 1947-00, and Associate Proiessor,

1005-50. 20 Moa Violog 12c00g0r, University ci CaLdernia st

Losticley, sche-da, cod caroicerornt triveg audri Collete, Claremont,

California, Inub-63. dehne boon Chairmen ui tue loperent of

Philosophy, University of Calitornia at an Liego, since 1005.

Poplin is the Co-Director of International Archives of

History of Ideas and President of the Jewish Contaitice of Labolia,

California. He has been the recipient of many honors, inclucing a

Fulbright: liesearch icholarshin in Paris, 1952-53. He won hi Beta

Kappa and other honors while in school and has contricuted numerous

articles, reviows and monographs to various publications.

In October, 1905, It was alleged that four members of

the faculty of the University of Caldornia at can Liego were the rain

organizers of the "international Days of Protest" observrace scheduled

for Uctover 15 and 10, 1005. Protessor Richard it. Dopian was the

Chairman of the Committee sponsoring this observance. Ine piotran

was to consist of picketing plus a cemonstration around the flaggole

locatod on the campus of Lan Diego tate College, neccics were to be

made opposing the United ¿tates policy in Vietnam and leaflets along

the same line were to be passec out. it was aiso loarned that tie locialist

Workers Party had expressed an intention to support the demonstration.

The Socialist Workers farty has been cited pursuant to Executive Cruer

10550.

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November 8, 1966

INCUEST" BY EDWARD JAY EPSTEDY

Edward If upstoin was worn December 6, 1635,

and attended Corneil Univeruit. Be wrote "Inguest" as his

mastero thesis.

In 195e, he traveled as a tourist in the Dotist Chich

and luscatbed tiesoli as a student residing at 1ed trignt Bord,

Pooly arenue Cntre, new cous.

In 1955, while a student at Cornell University,

Epstein complained that a telepione conversation beiween nim

and another student had been tape-recorded by a meraber of the

Cornell University student Council. The Council was investigating

carpus election irreguinrities. Epstein was the source of several

complints while a student and was the subiect of disciplinary

action by the Faculty Commitice on student Conüuct.

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November 8, 1966

KUSH TO JUDGMENT " -

BY

MARK LANE

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wone, an attorney, was born in Now York City on

February 24, 1007. de served in the U.5. Army iron iiay 1, 10d5 to

November id, 1040, when he was honorably discharsed with the ranis of

Private Firat Class, Me resicos at 10 Loring tirced, Mew Work City.

Wark bone has a long history o affilintion with Communist Prity (CP)

front groups end cigarinations weich nave been citod ru subveruire.

•Tho Thily Torton" for top 97, 1029, acted thri tho

National ramunro Cuild (alG) held an claction of others on lucy 86.

1053, end that mince tone Wag elected ma coraloio exerted of lie bernd t

of Directors of tue Nus. The "Daily Worker" was an east coast

communist newspaper wnich is no longer being puolished.

In June, 1953, a source advised that Lane's name appeared

on the membership list of the jew York Chapter of the nue and luai lie

was a subscriber to the "Lawyers Guild Review, " the official publication

of the NEG. On May 11. 1901, tone spoke at a membership inceting oi

the organization, according to another source.

The May 15 1904, Issue of "Newsletter," a publication of

the NG, reported Liat Mark Lane was co-chairman oi the National

Committee of the Integration of the Legal Proiession of the NiC.

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (ACUr)

has described the NUG as the foremost legal bulwari. of the Communist

Party.

On Jily 25, 1001, Ilark Lane was the princioal spealer at

the annual ceremonies of the Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's

Clubs (LiF) at the Statue of liverty in lew York, The Lut is recognized

• by the Communist Party, Us, as an innortant progressive organiaction

for women. it grew out of the Jewish scoples graternal ürder oi the

Internatlonal Worlers Order, both of which have bech designated pursuant

to Executive Ürder 10450.

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"The is ad

Lane spoke at a meeting of the Energency Civil Liberties

Committce (MCLC) on October 21, 1902, In New York City, fle strongy

supported Cuba and its governricht and condemned american policy

relative to Cuba.

the LCLC has veen cited by the CUA as an organiza-

tion operating as a communist front.

Lane was elected to the New York State Assembly in

1960, and in izay, 1802, he was defeated in an attempt to secure the

nomination as a canticate for ünited States House oi Epresentatives

from the 19th Congressional Listrict in Now fork. & source icorted,

in connoction with vane's attempt to secure this nomination. tnat&

Incetin; oi the

manation Couly Communist farty Coordinating Commitics

was hold on aprilo, ine2, to discuss 'election prodies in toe itt!

Competid societ.

it wac reported tidt the sporter at tois nicetiny

Stato time so comintee hao to support inra mato as the concutinte

since his vidwa road most consistent with the "poogic's program." 'The

spenter funer iicaice inat a viciory for tone would de a tremencious

victory for the progressive movement.

With regard to Lane's service in the New Yori: State

Assembly, "The lilitant" for lacomber lu, luül, carried an article

which rolated to wand's appearance at a rally in New fors on seceraber 6,

1901. Lone reportscily siated that his first official action curing the

coming session of the assembly would de to introduce a resolution to

persuade the U.s. Congress to avolish the ¡CUA. "The ISilitant"' is a

weekly newspaper of the cocialist workers Party which nad veen desig-

nated pursuant to Executive ürder 10450.

Mark Lane has been strongly opposed to the House

Commitee on Un-Americon Activities. During ine early 1900's, he was

very active in the New loris Council to Abolish the rouse Un-diuerican

Activities Committee (NYCARUAAC) and niade nuierous speeches in

New York and other areas of the country in support of the aims of this

organization.

The NYCAHUAAC is an affiliate of the National Council to

Abolish the House Un-American fctivities Committee and dot were

founded princinally by an incividual wio was a Communist Farty (C?)

nicliber in 1is2. It has been reported that Ce members in the ew toris

City arca have been solicited ou various occasions to support the

NYCAMUAAC.

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etaria",

Sources have reported that Mark Lane has been a frequent

aspociate in lew tori City vi luluore Clong Meeclem, an altorney

who was formerly comployed by Antorg Crading Corporation, the regis-

tored Russian trace aconcy in the United States. Necuicman was reportely

interesico in assisting tune curing his political campaign in 1st0 when ne

was elcoteu lo the dew Turi diate assembig. Mectichan has represented

curront ottormer Cor munist wart michors in court and bolore

various Con roscionnl committcos. He has had custody of Conmunist

Party funao and nas doserined hitelf ao a ctrlot achorent of Markist-

Leninist coetrinos. It hos also boon reported that Necaleman nas acted

ais a novici espionago agent in tao past.

fOn November ü, 10ul, a rally wes hold at the ellan

Thoatro, Coluubia Ontrosaity, dow York City: to protost the Univoroity'o

ben normat the expearanco di aeronal comitist epcalioro at thot school.

Denjonia&. Faris, Mational Escretary of tho Communist Party, and

Ivaris ine wero principal speakers at this rally.

On February 12, 1051, a meeting was held at San Diego

which was eyonsorca by tue ian tiego irei dornoot dorma, the nate

under which the Comunist Frity opensored public mectings in that area.

This meeting was also sponcoreu by the Frioncs of the "National Guardian."

Mark lane was a featured speaker at this mecting.

Mark Lane was involved in an extensive public speaking

tour in 1504 on behalf of the "National Guardian." le spoke concerning

his knowledge of and inquiry into the assassination of President John r.

Kenody. Lane was, at that time. Chairman of the Citiscus Committee

of Inquiry, a New York group' which he lau formed to mare an independent

inquiry into the slaying of President kennety, Lane was hlred on

January 14, 1051, by Marguerlie C. Oswald, mother of ince Marvey

Oswald, to represent her dead son before the Warren Commission.

The "National Guardian" has been cited by the lICUA 26

having mantiested itself as a virtual official propaganda arm of the soviet

Union.

During his speaking tour in 1204, Lane addressed several

mectings of the W. E. 1. Ludois Clubs in various parts of the country.

The W.D.D. Dutols Class is a communist youtn organization which was

concelved by the Communist Party, USA, and is currently being operated

and controlled by the Communist l'arty.

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On August 6, 1305, Mark Lane was a featured socaker

before a meeting of the militant Labor l'orum of the socialist Workers

Pity in New fori. City, Ilis topic at that time related to the Cudin

Revolution and he pointed out that the comraunist government in Cuba

1s best for citizens of that country and that tie Cuban peonte had

embraced communisin decause it was the only way oven to tuem when

the united states reiused to negotiate. lie also criticizca ¿nericar.

military action in Viotnain. The socialist frorkers Party has been

designated pursuant to Executive Order 10450.

Lane has been highly critical of American policies in

Vietnam and has spoken at various anti-Vietnan rallies and meetings.

"The New Yoris Times" of June 2, 1001, reported that

Lane had been arrested at jackson, mississippi, on June 8: 1501, as

a member oi a group of "Froodom licero" who had been taken into

custody in that city.

He was convicted of breach of the peace in the

City Court on June 9, 1961, and sentenced to four months' confinement

and a $200 fine, with two months oi the jail sentence suspendieu. This

-conviction was subsequently overturned in the County Court at Jackson

and Lane was acquitted.

"The New York Times" also reported on Aprii 3, 1902,

that Idark Lane had been finca 8415 on April 2, 1902, in New York City

as a "scofflaw,." for ignoring numerous traific tickets.

Lane was arrested by the Baltimore County Police Depart-

ment at Towson, Maryland, on July 4, 1903, in connection with partici-

pating in a civil rights demonstration. The disposition of this arrest is

not known.

The Office of the District Attorney, Queens County, New

York, conducted an investigation of Lane in 1002 for alleged sociomy. In

connection with tids investigation, staterients were trien Irow two worlen

by the District Attorney's vitice which related to obscene activities on the

part of menc. An obscene photogragh of Lane and handwritten instructons

by Lane relating to alleged perverted sexual acts of a sacistic and masoch-

istic nature vertormed by the women on the person of Lane were 2eo

obtrined during this investigation. Copies of these statements and a copy

of the photogragn and the nanavritten instructions are attached icreto as

enclosures.

Enclosures (1)

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'ETE KENNEDY MURDER"

JOACITI UCESTEN

Ii'. Jnachia joesten, who in also known as

Joachin Frano Joonion, valch Mell and Daul Delmthuis, vas

born in Colome, Cormeny, oa Jund &d, 1637.

e nportealy was

forced to dico from Gercany in 1026 bocange of hicacitet and

Liberal-teintict connoctions." Following lus departure irom Germany

in Tarch, 1028, H9 hooario a corrompendont foi Minoriean, axitich,

Fronch, Molona ead chies nerreperd in to doandivina countries

where he livod from 1024 to 1010.

Ile ontered tha United Cintoo in April, 1911, add was

naturalica on amorinon eterea in dine, 1019. Collowno bia escival

in the untos metea te was an eccletant crito: in tre foncion departneat

0: 'Newowook' magazino for three years. In 1945 he becane a free-

lance writer and has contributed articles to such magazines as "Liborty,"

"This Vieck," "The Nation," as well as to such nowenapers as the "itew

Yock corald Tristas," tio "Now Work: Fost," eur the "Wall Coroet Journal."

As of 1955, he had published four books on foreign affairs.

In 1911 an. allegation was made that he was & communist.

Subsequent investigation isilea to inuicate dir. zoeston was a Communist.

However, he has been describei as a "controversial rigure" and at nis

naturalization asaring he identified himseli as a "leit-wing liberal"' and

as a froc-lance writer.

in more recent years, Mr. Joesten has written a nunber

of articles and books on the assassination of former resident tennedy.

One such book entitlod "Oswaid: Assassin or "all Cuy?" was described

in an article appearing in the duguct 1, 1904, issue of "Lultos and

Publicher as being "fiiled with inaccuracies." it was also pointed out

in this article that air. doosten's book vieioucly attacied iii director

J. Lagar noover.

This book was published by Marzani and i unsei!

l'ublishera, iie., os kier Lord City.

r. Carl dio iarcani scired

two years in federal prison during 1949-51 for making ilse statements

regarding past l'orchunist varty memberchiy. Alcandor Ector Ori

Iunsell is reporta, to inge financially supported the Communist Party

and ilo tront sougs in the past

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In an Intervew with Mr. Joesten in March, 1004,

concerning this book, he was reported to have stated that his

"cocumentation" was based on newspager articles and a four-day visit

to dallas, lenas, in December, 1000. The interviawes subsequently

deseribed tir. doesten as being

"biased and very crratic." During

tiat sumo goriod, tro. coesten indicaied tat her husband had been

making "rarbling senseless statements' and that she felt he was 01

the verge oi inving a nervous breakdown."

On August G, 1900, Iir. doesten was arrested by the

Zulch, Eritzeriend, ¿once and held or tienty-our hours in oruer

that he could be asyohiatriony observed. un Augusto, lado,

ir. joesten loit onitzerland and autorities of that country have issued

a ban against his reentering witzerian.

Mr. Joesten's most recent bools, "The Truth About the

Eennedy Murder, " has been deseribed as a duo-page book published by

a firm in Switzorland. It was further described as containing many oi

the baseless conclusions found in his prior book, "Oswalü: Assassin

or Fall Guy?"

Mr. Joesten has no known American arrest record.

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November 8, 19667 FROM

"'THE CSWALD AFFAIR

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LEO SAUVAGE

reo to 1976

ION BOSSA

Ico Sauvage was born on February 23, 1913, at

Nancy, France.

In 1934 he was reported as a correspondent and

chief of the New For's Eureau of "Le Populaire," a French socialist

newspaper. He also has been reported as a correspondent for the

Frcich publication "Le rigaro.

Il 1951'it was reportod that Cauvare was a member of

a small group of individuals close to Louis Dolivet who was relised

reentry to the Crited dates due to his suspected communist eind

Comintern background.

In October, 1953, information was received that Leo

Sauvage, 'Le Figaro," 50 Rockefeller Flaza, New York City, re-

sponded to an irvintion encuded by the folish Consulate, Now York

City, to attend a showing of the Polish film, "Peace Will Win," to be

shown on November 30, 1951, at the liuseum of Modern Art, New York

City.

According to a statement filed with the Department of

Justice, Foreign Agents Registration section, the French Eress Agency

(FPA) In Jonuary, 1954, listed Leo Sauvace, 270 West End Avenue,

New York Cit:, as an einployee of that agency. In May, 1954, while

Sauvage was still employed by the iPA, it was reported that the chief

of the Washington Bureau of the soviet Tass News Agency utilized

personnel of the FPA to secure intelligenee information.

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In September, 1956, it was alleged that one Icon Sauvage,

28 rue Marcel Royer, Genevilliers, France, was one of a number of

individuals employed by the French Communist Farty Headquarters, Faris,

France. It is not lown if this individual is identical with captioned autor.

The March, 1934, issue of "Commentary," a monthly

magazine published by the American Jewish Committee, contained an

article by Sauvare entitled "The Oswald Alfair." This article attacks the

findings of the warren Commission concerning the assassination of former

Presicient John I. Kennedy and suggests that Oswald was unjustly presumed I

to be guilty of the assassination due to prejudiced press anci television

coverage.

Chas comment is piepared in response to yoge acquest and is not for dissemi-

JHC: jah

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anto o leror the content to incide one a prelims lou

aut's disclosed lo amactionise person

ach without the ci reus approval of the FEl.

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VITEVAST - TIE REPORT ON THE COME FROM

WARREN REPORT"

BY

HAROLD WEISBERG

FCO-•1SI0

Tom Bose

Haroli Weisberg, the author of the above-captioned boo!s,

and his wife, Lillian Stone weisbers, jointly own a liacre tract of land

in Ilyattstown, Maryland, tyon which they operate the cog d'Or Farm

whose principal business is raising of pheasant-chickens, Rock-Cornish

game hens, waterfowl and other poulry and the sale of poultry and eggs.

Harold Wcisberg was an eroployee of the La Tollette Civil

Liberties Committee from september, 1956, to October, 1050, and was

discharged for permitting certain inforration to ieak io the press.

Senator La Follette stated that Weisberg had been dismissed for a

breach of trust involving the release of confidential information to a news-

paper and the donator was quite certain the newopaper involied was

"The Daily Worler," a former east coast communist newspaper.

Weisherg was one of 10 employees fired summarily by

the State Department in June, 1947, because of suspicion of being a

cominunist or having communistic sympathies. He was later allowed to

resign without prejudice, but was not restored to his position. His wife,

Lillian Stone Weisberg, was investigated under the provisions of

Executive Order 9625 in 1048 and the Civil Service Commission advised

in October, 1918, that she had been retained. At that time, she was a

clerk in the leconstruction Finance Corporation. Her name had been carried

on the active list of memvers of the washington Eoo!s shop ¿ssociation

and the Washington Committee for Democratic Action during December,

1917. The Washington Eook Shop Association and the Washington ommittee

for Democratic Action have both been cited by the Department of Justice

as subversive.

During an undisclosed period, but presumably in the 1950's,

it was ascertaincd that Petr I. Pogodin, a foreign ministry employee of

the Russian Embassy in Washington, J. C., was in contact with Harold

Weisberg at his form. Weisberg had previously extended an invitation to

Loach — Pogo lin to visit his farm: and it was also determined that logodin had

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received the invitation from weisbers incidental to an invitation extended

Mahon .

- to Soviet Fremier Nicita S. Khrushchev and party.

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It was ascertalned in September, 1959, that Wolsberg

asked Petr N. Yelleyev, Taird Secretary of the loviet Embassy in

Washington, D. C., for information on Loviet reaction to the proposal

that his chickens be placed in competition with Russian poultry.

In 1956, it was alleged that Weisberg held an annual

celebration of the Mussian levolution. 'This celebration involved a

picnic at his residence and was aitended by 25 to 30 uninown people.

It was believed this afair was in commemoration of the Russian devolu-

tion inasmuch as it was held on the day when the communists celebrate

all over the world.

In 1961, Weisberg and his wife filed a claim against the

Government under the Federal Tort Claims Act in the amount of 50, 250

for damages allegecly sustained by them in their povitry business as a

result of low-flying helicopters. This case was tried and couri directed

judgmeut in favo: of the Weishergs for 4750.

Weisberg has no known arrest record.

REVA

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

MR. TOLSON

1/32

Tell --

FROM

:C. D. DeLoach

DATE: 4/4/67

cc bir.

DeLoach

Mr.

Roseil

Mr.

Sullivan

Mr. Wick

Troller -

Tele. Fican

Holt cs =

Gandy

ÜBJECT: ASSASSINATION OF

PRESIDENT KENNEDY

DE.

Jack/anderson cane in to sce me at 11:55 a.m.

today. i

Hc has just

returned from New Orleans where, at

invitation

of District Attorney Jin Garrison, he interviewed Garrison

jor approximately six hours at his

home.

Anderson and Garrison

lator had dinner at the latin Quarter restaurant in lew Orleans.

Anderson stated that he went to Now Orleans fully

¡prepared to present a hostile viewpoint to Garrison.

After

listching to Garrison

for appro:imately 90 minutes he began

to believe Garrison's

story.

Anderson describes Garrison as

very convincing talker who has considerable facts at his

disposal.

Anderson now believes there is some authenticity

¡to Garrison's clains and future plans.

Garrison told Anderson!

that he will undoubiedly hold a full-scale trial within six

months.

Basically, Garrison told Anderson that the entire

assassination plot

stenned iron David"'Ferrie, who was the

genius and mastermind

the entire thing, and with Clay/Shaw,

who

was in the beginning

subsidized by the Central Intellisonce

Agency.

Garrison has

facts, as well as witnesses, according

to Anderson,

to prove

that Lee Harvey Oswald came

to

the aiton.

tion of Ferric and Shaw

when Oswald first arrived in New Orcans,

At that point both Ferrie and Shaw

iscognized the

fact

that

oswald was a former narine, had had lengthy experience in the

Soviet Union, was married to a soviet citizon, and therefore

had ties and background which would lend themselves to gaining

neasy access

to Cuba.

Shaw at this point alroady had been

Mapproved by

the CIA; through an appropriate cut-out, to engincer

Ma plot that vould rcsuit in

the assassination of fidel castro...

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Upon learning of Oswald's background, Ferric concelied.:

Ithe idea of setting up Oswald in an attemut to

establish a

shaw arranged for Oswald in obtain hi

Fair Play foi Cuia organization in lew Orleans.

Forrie and

office which fornerly had

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been rented by an anti-Castro organization. Ferric and Shaw

also conceived the idea of sending oswald to lexico in a fake

attenot to obtain permission to re-enter the Soviet Union.

Garrison, according to Ancerson, can plove that Oswald did this

merely to establish a

good atmospherc so that he could gain

ready access to Cuba.

Garrison claims that it was at this point that oswald

becaine disillusioned and refused to go through with the plot

Upon icturning to lew Orleans from

not 8o through with their plans.

Shaï and Ferrie, being

guided by soveral Cubans in their midst, then conceived the

idea (mostly because of the liasco at. the Bay of Pigs) of

assassinating President kennedy.

Ferrie and

Shaw believed

Ithat Oswald could be the "patsi

and instructed him to go to

¡'Dallas for the purpose of the assassination.

They also engineered the idea of him buying the

gun under the name of A. J. Hidell, and the use of the nails

in procuring this gun so that it would be an owen, public

record which could be traced to Oswald. They additionally told

Oswald that he should keep certain

papers in his possession

¡which would trace back to the gun.

On the day of the assassination, Ferrie traveled to

stating.

Witnesses

at the ice skating rink remember verrie as being at the rink

land have indicated to Garrison that Ferrie, while ha did not

|/day state/22/63.

did stand near a pay telephone at all times on the

Garrison also has witnesses who will testify that

Jack RuDy was

the eyes and ears for Ferrie at all times.

Ruby

sent two of his people to Houston so that, upon the success of

the assassination attempt, these two people could use a local

pay pione to advise Fcrric oi the succoss of the plot.

Garrison

clains that a long distance phone call from Dallas to Houston

could, of course, have been traced; hence the desirability of

using

the local phone.

Anderson sated that Ruby was definiteir

in on the plot and vas later instructed by Ferrie and Shay to

Itake care of Oswald.

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Anderson next sprang the "Sixty-lour dollar question."

He stated that at the

close of Garrison's six-hour recitation

of facts, ne (Anderson) was of the opinion that Garrison was not

only sincerc, but vory convincing.

Anderson stated that Garrison

firmly believed his facts.

Anderson then told me that he bluntly

lasked Garrison why Garrison had not given

all these convincing

facts to the FBI, Whereupon Garrison replied, "I got started off

¡on the wrong foot with the FBl."

Garrison added, "I would be

Imore than willing to give the fBI everything i have and let

I'them finish the investigation if they so desire."

Anderson told me that he, of course, is now in a

iposition to contact Garrison and indicate that the FBl vill or

will not take over this case.

I told Anderson that the rI

would not under any circumstances take over the case. I stated

that Garrison had made it quite plain that he did not want the

cooperation of the FBI and, as a matter of fact, Garrison had

threatened to put handcuffs on any of our agents who approached

illhim for information.

I

also told inderson that, while we of course would

accept any information that was voluntarily given

at the same tine would not tale over Garrison's "dirty laundry."

Anderson told me that if the Bureau had any change of

policy in the above regard he would appicciate Inowing about it.

I told him ve would koep his offer in mind; however, there

definitely would be no change of policy.

Anderson also toid me that he had discussed this

entire matter with George Christian,

the President's_Press

secretary, at the inte

House.

that Christian was

¡also convinced that there must be some truth to Garrison's

allegations.

Christian told Anderson to get in touch with

the

¡FBI.

Anderson stated he had already been planning to do this,

that he now especially wanted to advise us of the

'full

¡facts because of Christian's request.

In this

connection, Marvin watson calied ne inte

Mlast night and stated that the piesident had cold him, in an

loff moment, that he was now convinced, that there vas

a plot

¡in connection with the assassination.

no do at any suitor into con «

Watson stated

the

this plot.

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Iin this connection would be most appreciated by him and the

President.

I reminded Matson that the Director had sent over

to the White House some weeks back all the information in

OUr

possession in connection with CIA's attempts to use

former agent Robert Maheu and his private detective outfit

in contacts with Sain Giancana and other hoodlums, relative to

fostering a plot to assassinate Castro. Watson stated this

was true and he remembered our memorandum in this regard, but

that if we had anything eise we should by all meins forward

it to the Whiic House.

I told him we had no further informa

tion in this regard.

ACTIO!: For record purposes. There is no need to

make further contact with anderson.

raw 01516

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New Yoris Citü, New Yorke

February 29, 1968

The enclosed infomation has been gathered from the liles

ow York Gily colice, The FBI, and other security agencies.

Mike roo

racy can be checked with any uf these agencies. It shows

that: i Lane, a one term repudicted Communat member of our

Gener: losembly, now employed by District Attorey Jiu Garrison.

In Mes irleans 1s and has been

a dedicated Communist; is end nas

adist and masochist, charged or nunerous occasions with

sodog is now cod has been, purely for money, ghoulishly imposing

i natural credibility of the American veople regarding the

assr: intion of their beloved President Kennedy; 1s and has been

le Conmunist line that the right wing plotted to lall the

• Ine enclosed picture was taken of Nark Ine in an apartment

ürl City a yoor or tro ago. The originnl is on file here in

= City with the Hew York City Police. It shows liark Ine in

:is act with a prostitute inserting needles into his peris

i wratificution.

This infornation is sent to you in the public interest,

may use it to protect the security of the United States.

Tom bogse

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Do low, MIs. Golden, do you know one Mark Lane?

A. Yes.

Q.

A.

How long have you known him?

Two years and three months.

Where did you meet him for the flrst tlne?

A.. In an address.

Go Yes?

Д.

:339 East 77ch Street

(Purpose of the neeting was to discuss legal problems;

séveral legal probless of a personal nature.

Mis. Golden

is an hairess and

receives honey sonthly. fron father's estaie.)

MIs. Golden said she subsequently saw Lone at his office;

at his home; at her homa; at Citizens Coraltlees

and cluss.

HIs. Golden said she assisted lane in election canosig;

such

as "getting

brochures prepared"; sound truck driving, etc.

Q: Did he ask you to make certain tests?

A.

Yes.

He said that this friend of his was ruoning,

conducting

a.serles of tests. It had to do with, as I said

yesterday,

I an not positive, but I da precay sure lt was a

lle detector test,

and they depended on the pulsé rote and

If I knew how to take a pulse and I sald "yes"; that this

psychologist wanted soncone else to conduct tha tests; that

lone had a sealed envelope containing detalla of the test and

that she opened the envelopes.

Q.

A.

'Did you follow the instructions that were on the paper?

For the most part, yes.

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Now will you bilefly toll me that these consisted of

that you actually witnessed other than the events that

happened on Jan, 18, 1962, wich I will question you

about later?

Right. Having him walk around naked, whatever you waut to

call ic, for five minutes at a time; having candles put into

him unally; inserting pins or needles around tie anal arca

and in the testicles; giving his enemas; putting tooth

paste both into the anal opcreing and the penis; Inserting

the martini stirrer into the penis opening with and without

alcohol; showing pubic hale - treczing it; caking a

temperature; pictures, obscene pictures, taking and showing

of obscone pictures of himself; playing a tape recorder

supposedly not know to him and then playing lt back to

him while he masturbated.

twelve times at his apartment 339 East 77th Street; his

former apartment; at my apartrest 104-20 Queens Blvd; tbe

first couple of times in Albany at the Hotel located

comer of State Street and Broadway, then at the Wellington

and then the Dewitt Clinton..

..."

Thet she belloved for a tloc that the tests mere scientific

but became suspicious when she sew hin typing up

the tests

1n his office. She then knew the tests were not legitloate.

That on 1/18/62, she received a call from her gll friend,

"Lee Stevens", who sald she had a luncheon 1a Queens, and

would stop by

ber apartment for a visit after luncheon;

that she got a call also from Mark, who said he was couing

out; that lee arrived flrst; that lee knew about the tests

before this time and that she told lee that Mark might ask

her to participate and that lee said, "Well, we will see

what happens."

A.

I show you a sheet of paper and ask you if you ever

that before.

Yes.

Gi What is it?

A.

That was the test that Mark handed to me in a sealed

envelope on January 18, 1962.

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At your aparteent?

Right.

Are you famillar with lark Lane's handwriting and printing?

A.

Yes.

Q.

I ask you in whose handwriting or printing this 13?

A. In MI. Lane's printing.

6. Maw tell us what tests, so-called tests mere conducted,

In your apariment on January 18, 1962, in complete detail

and just what you did and what lee did, and what Mark did?

A.

The first thing was Mr. Lane had his teuperature taken.

First, he undressed hinself as far as the shorts were concerned

and then he laid face down on the bed and I said: "You have to

renove your jockey shorts, too," and he slid ther down and in

that I assisted him.

After that I inserted a candle into

Mark anally. After that I tweezed sone pubic halr. And then

lee beat Mark with his own belt on the buttocks. Iben pins

were inserted around the anal area and into the testiclas.

Then he got an enema.

Both of us save tle the enemu.

believe I ield the boy and I put it in and then he started

to masturbate after the enera vas completely in hin and he

wasn't supposed to relleve hieself until after he masturbated

but he clained be had to rclieve himself and he did; and then

when Mark came back into the room the next thing on the

instruction sheet was for him to casturbate hioself and at

which point he got embarrassed and he decided he couldn't

do it and a comment was made by either Miss Stevens or myself

that the tests can't continue unless he does 1i, so then lee

insated a candle into his anus and then I believe, she beat

him again, I am not positive. Then lee having read the

Instruction sheet with de suggested the obscene pictures.

Before the pictures, the first set of pins and needles were

just regular 30. "Lu lit the needles and I put them in und

we both did 1e." about this point colden sald Lane sald

It was tou embarrassing for hin to masturbate or sosething

like that and "Ice asked hin if it would be easier if she did

It and with that she proceeded to masturbate hio."

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Q. Did he reach a clinax?

A.

Yes, he did. It wag at this point that lee suggested taking

the picture and I got che cacera.

One of the pictures showed

Mark lying face down on the bed with a candle inserted rectally.

Another was taken of lee beating bir. Another was taken of

Mr. Lane on his stomach not only with the candle inserted

rectally, bur also with two stens of artificial flowers.

A

fourth was taken of lee singelag his hair around the testicles

with a ilshoed natch.

After a few pictures were taken his hands were tied behind

his back and Miss Lee gave him another enema. She left the

room about 6:00 P.M. and told lee she could continue the

tests. At one point, I leurd fron another 1oos vinat sounded

to me

like someone being beaten with a belt. At this point i

Patten asked Golden when she came back into the room and did

she see Lee Stevens?

Q.

Was she dressed or undressed.

A.

She was wearing a tho piece suit. She still had her jacket

on and her skirt on but her skirt was pulled up to her waist

siu and under that she was nude.

..117:

(DiUn't see lane.) She said Lee told her what happened.

Q.

What did Lee tell you happened?

A.

She told me that after I left that she and Mark were 100king

at the pictures that had been taken and that she inserted the

martini stirrer lato hin with the alcohol on li and that she

had beaten hia again and that Mr. Tel made advances toward

her and that becsuse she had been aroused by what happened, she

cold me that she had intercourse with him.

I. I show you a photograph and ask you if that is one of the pictures

that you took.

Yes.

Q.

A.

Whose picture is that?

Mark Lane.

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And is there another person's hand in the picture?

125.

" • tiho 1s that?

1. Lee stevens.

Elizabeth Lue Stephenson, also knowm as Lee Stevens, gave

a statezent to Burnard Patton of the District Attorney's Office on January 30,

1962, which was also rcviewed by the reporting investigators. In this state-

Dent,

Miss Stovens said that she resided at 1l Fifth Avenua, New York Cl=y,

New york; that she was 24 years of age and single; that she was employed by

Pacific Enterprises of Los Angeles and that she was the fira's New York repre-

sentative selling advertising specialtles:

She also said that she had known

Phyllis Golden since August of September, 1961; that she knew Golden lived at

104-20 Queens Boulevard, Parker Iowers. Apurtments; that she visited. Golden

on 1/18/62 at 2:30 or 3:00 P.M; that a man later came to the apartnent and

that she knew he was Mark lane; that he asked phyllis to ask ber if she

minted to be a witness to one of his

rests; that lane said they were tests

aipsychiatrist was running with taking che pulse for the electic chair;

that

she consented

to be a witness; that the tests began at 3:30 or 4:00 end':

that the tests started when lane undressed and phyllla started by sticking a

candle into "ils rectum;" that Lane had

given Phyllis a list of instructions

before the tests started; that she didn't see lane hand over the list to

Phyills but Phyllis had toid her that lane hed given list to her; that Phyllis

did show her the instruction sheet; (Patten during this investigation recelved

affiration that the sheet which he showed her on yellow paper was the same

one Pbyllis had shown her)that the first thing Phyllis did was to stick a

"Big candle into Lana's rectuy and then

took a small one

with vagaline and

shoved 1t Into Lane's rectus; that Phyllis then plucked hali from his testicles

with tweazers and then put a cocktail stirrer in the hold of nis penis; that

Phyllis then put alcohol on the cockiail stirrer and stuck it in the bole of

his penis; and then put alconol on his penis; that they gave lune an eneu

and had his hold the water while he masturbated, but that he couldn't bold

the water and had to go to relleve hiuself; that they beat lane with a belt

(Lino's) until welt's appeared on his buttocks; that they cook bumiliating

pictures of hia so evidunce would be

there if needed; that they repeated the

candle and Incezer bit and che enems; then heated needles over a cigarette

lighter and, poked them into his testicles and his rectun and beat hia wich the

belt; that lane wanted

to keep on but Phyllis had to feed ber daughter so

she lee continued to beat him; that she used the cocktall stirrer and the

alcohol; that lane wanted her so susturbate his which she started co do;

that she toled and Lane started to take off her clothes; that finaily she

sald the "hell with it" and she recoved the balance of her clotbes; that

later Phyllis came to the door and at lane's request she cald lee not to

come in for a while; that lane made love to her; that he was sadistic trying

to hurt her; that he tried to repent the act of Intercourse but she put on

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that she showed his the picturas they had taken; that they had taken

sobe other pictures such as Phyllis had a vase wien long sten flowers

"which flowers they stuck in his rectum and took pictures of that"; that

Lane had asked them to use their imagination so lee used matches and

set fire to the hair around lane's rectum and testicles. Lee identified

• photo which she said Payllis look with a poloroid camers. Conceming

•this picture Patten asked the following of Lee Stevens:

Go: I direct your attention to a hand in the lower part of

the picture and I ask you whose hand that 1s?

A.

It nust be my hand.

A.

And what are you doing at the time?

I Laagine I'm sticking needles in bis testicles. Hot

needles.

Lee also said that before she had relationg with Lane

che attcapted to enter her rectus and asked ber to place

her nouth on his penis, which she refused, asking Lase,

Go. At anytime during this orgy, did you of phyllis cle b1s, hands?

A. : Phyllis tied his hands.

Q.

Where?

Behind his back, right after the beginning of li at his request.

G.

A..

And were his hands tied to any fixed position?

Just behind his back and not too securaly.

And was this pursuant.

•to his Instructions also.

A.

Yes.

(Sworn to on 1/30/62)

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THOLAS G. BUCILANAN

Self-admitted Communist Thomas G. Buchanan has written articles

published here In the u.S. and

abroad: discrediting she Warren Commission

Report. He is author of the book: "Who Killed Kennedy?" published in

London and distributed here

In 1965. The book was favorably reviewed in the

Cotarunist press.

In 1949, Buchanan was fired from the staff of a Washington newspaper

for being a Communist Party nenber and is now a frequent contributor to left-

Wing newspapers and periodicals. He currently makes his home in Paris.

While in this country he was Executive Secretary and Legislative

Dizector. of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a cited Coumunist front.

The Report and Order of the Board, Subversive Activities Control

Board Docket #106-53, July 26, 1957, page 7, contained the following Information

concerning Tom Buchanan:

"Washington, D.C. Area -- Approximately one month after the

CRC/Civil Rights. Congress/ founding convention, a party

leadership meeting was caled in this area to build CRC.

Petitioner's witness, Markward, the then

Party tressurer,

was assigned to audit CRC books.

Thereafter, in 1948, the Party decided that its member

Marie Richardson would be the full-time Party functionary

in CRC.

Shortly thereafter Richardson left town temporarily,

and Party member Ion Buchanan was placed in her stead on a

full-time basis and relieved of all other Party dutles."

In consideration of materials available on Thomas Buchanan, it is

evident that he is a dedicated and obedient Party functionary employed by the

Party as a propagandist.

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JOACHIM JOESTEN

The fourth author to write a book critical of the Warren

Commission Report is Cerman Communist Party nember Joachin

Joesten. His book, "Oswald -- Assassin or Fall Cuy," was highly

publicized in varlous foreign and domestic Communist publications

includiag: New Tines, the Moscow-published "internationally

circulated Communist publication," and the National Guadian.

Joesten's book was published in this country by the receatly

defunct publishing firm of Marzani and Munsell. Marzani and

"Munsell has been, throughout their existence, one of the foremost

pubiishers of Communist and extreme-left literature in America.

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MARK LiNNE

Mark Lane, lawyer and author, is a 41-year-old former New York

State Assenblyman.

He has a long and curlous involvement with a host

of extreme left-wing causes and is a well-established spokesman for leftist

Ideology.

Lane is former executive secretary and national board member

nf the National Lawyers Guild, a cited Communist front. His affiliation

with the New York Council to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee

1s likewise well known. This past year he was a member of the Cormittee of

Sponsors for a Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade dinner. The VALB is

also a cited Communist front.

MI. Lane, according

to public record, is against: Nuclear testing

by this country; hearings of the house Cornittee on Un-American Activities;

building of nuclear fallout shelters in New York state; The Internal Security

Act of 1950; banning Cormunists from speaking on college campuses;

using

nounted police to control cormunist-manipulated demonstrators in New York City;

and, the Comerce Department ban on shipment of food and drugs to Cuba.

When General Suharto was successful in ridding his country

of Communists, the youth arm of the Irotskyist-communist Workers World Party

Icsponded

with a nock "inquest" in New York City. Mark lone was there to

address them and was applauded for his views.

In an address

at a rally in New York City In 1962, Lane stated:

"I balieve that the anti-democratic attacks on the Communist

Party are just as much a part of the psychological mobilization

for war as is the shelter p ogram. Laws like the McCarran Act

must be fought because they are inherently and basically un-

Americin In the only neoning in which that word makes sense;

and they must be fought because they are past of the tendency

coward a garrison state."

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HAROLD WEI SERG

According to press Icleases of the Special Committce to Invegtigate

AUn merican and Subversive actinteles, January 30 and 31, 1940, Harold.

weisberg

paid $100 for forged letters which were used in an attempt to link then chairman

Martin Dies to the militant "Silver Shirts," an extremist group. (The Silver Shirt

Legion of America was a klan hate-type organization which adopted a policy of

depriving certain ethnic groups and individuals of their constitutional rights.).

Weisberg, after

obtaining this forged correspondence, used it in & January 27, 1940

Issue of the "Nation." Additionally, according to the press releases, Weisberg

used the bogus letters to write a speech for a congressman who addressed the mis-

Information to the Congress.

Weisberg; according to press accounts, was earlier (1938) discharged from

his. investigator post on

the LaFollette civil liberties committee "for giving

confidential matter to the Daily Worker, the leading Coumunist newspaper in the

country."

In the summer of 1947, Weisberg was flred from his post with the U.s.

Department of State along with nine others

for "known association with agents

of the Soviet Union."

Weisberg has appeared several times before the New Orleans grand jury

investigating the Kennody assassination plot alleged to have occurred in that city.

His latest book

on the assassination carries a foreword by District Attorney Janes

Garrison.

An interesting sidelight on Harold Weisberg is found In the summary of

district court proceedings (193 F.Supp. 815 (1961)). Welsberg, a Frederick, Md.,

chicken, farmer, successfully sued the Ünited States for 750 dollars In 1961.

The

Judge (Thomsen) awarded weisberg damages even though "... Harold Weisberg was not,

In try opinion,

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Weisberg, 1t scens, was suing the federal Government because of

low-flying training helicopters which were scaring his chickens, causing them

to cat their own eggs, and generally making

then unfit for market. However,

four of Weisberg's neighbors, who also raised chickens, "...testified that

neither they nor their chickens had been disturbed by any low flight..."

Earlier, in 1959, he lost a similar suit which had to do with

sonic booms:

On December 16, 1966, Harold Weisberg discussed his book on the

Milltant Forus, a program conducted by"The Militant", official organ of the

Trotskyist-communist Socialist Workers Party.

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New York City, New York

February 29, 1968

LEMORANDUM:

The enclosed information has been gathered from the files

of the New York City Police, The FBI, and other security agencies.

Its accuracy can be checked with any of these agencies. It shows

that Mark Lane, a one tern repudiated Communist member of our

been a sadint and masochist, charged on numerous occasions with

sonomy; in now and has been, purely for money, ghoulishly imposing

unon the natural credibility of the American people rerarding the

assassination öf their beloved President Kennedy; is end has been

using the Conmunist line that the right wing plotted to kill the

late President.

The enclosed picture was talten of Mark Iune' in an apastment

in New York City a your or tro ago. The original is on file here in

New York City with the New York City Folice. It shows liark Lane in

a nasochist act with a prostitute inserting needles into his penis

for sexual ratification.

Inis inforation is sent to you in the public interest,

and you may use it to protect the security of the United States.

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MARK LANE

Mark Lane, an attorney, was born in New York City on

February 24, 1927. He served in the U. S. Army from May 1, 1945,

o November 12, 1946, when he was honorably discharged with the

rank of Private First Class. Mark Lane has a long history oi affil-

iation with Communist Party (CP) front groups and organizations

which have been cited as subversive.

The "Daily Worker" for May 27, 1953, stated that the

National Lawyers Guild (NLG) held an election of officers on May 26,

1953, and that Mark Lane was elected an ex officio member of the

Board of Directors of the NLG. The "Daily Worker" was an east

coast communist newspaper which is no longer being published.

Reportedly, a membership list of the New York Chapter

of the NLG in June, 1953, included Lane's name and at that time it

appeared he was a subscriber to the "Lawyers Guild Review, " the

official publication of the NLG. Lane reportedly spoke at a member-

ship meeting of this organization on May 17, 1961. He was listed as

co-chairman of the National Committee of the Integration of the Legal

Profession of the NLG in the May 15, 1964, issue of "Newsletter,"

a publication of the NLG.

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA)

has described the NG as the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist

Party.

Mark Lane was the featured speaker at the annual ceremonies

of the Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs (ELF) on

July 25, 1961, at New York City. The ELF is recognized by the Communist

Party, USA, as an important progressive organization for women. It grew

out of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order of the International Workers

Order, both of which have been designated pursuant to Executive Order

10450.

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Lane spoke at a meeting of the Emergency Civil

Liberties Committee (ECLC) on October 21, 1962, in New York

City. He strongly supported Cuba and its government and con-

demned American policy relating to Cuba. The ECLC has been

cited by the HUA as an organization operating as a communist

front.

Lane was elected to the New York State Assembly in

1960, and in May, 1962, he was defeated in an attempt to secure

the nomination as candidate for United States House of Representa-

tives from the 19th Congressional District in New York. With re-

gard to Lane's service in the New York State Assembly,

"The

Militant"' for December 18, 1961, carried an article which related

to Lane's appearance at a rally in New York on December 6, 1961.

Lane reportedly stated that his first official action during the com-

ing session of the Assembly would be to introduce a resolution to

persuade the U. S. Congress to abolish the HCUA. "The Militant"

is a weekly newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party which has

been designated pursuant to Executive Order 10450.

Mark Lane has been strongly opposed to the House

Committee on Un-American Activities. During the early 1960's,

he was very active in the New York Council to Abolish the House

Un-American Activities Committee (NYCAHUAAC) and made

numerous speeches in New York and other areas of the country

in support of the aims of this organization.

The NYCAHUAAC is an affiliate of the National

Council to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee

and both were founded principally by an individual who was a

Communist Party (CP) member in 1952. It has been reported

that CP members in the New York City area have been solicited

on various occasions to support the NYCAHUAAC.

A rally was held at Columbia University, New York

City, on November 6, 1961, in protest to the University's ban

against the appearance of several communist speakers at that

school. The principal speakers at this rally were Mark Lane

and Benjamin J. Davis, National Secretary of the Communist

Party.

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On August 6, 1965, Mark Lane was a featured

speaker before a meeting of the Militant Labor Forum of the

Socialist Party in New York City. His topic at that time

related to the Cuban Revolution and he pointed out that the

communist government in Cuba is best for citizens of that

country and that the Cuban people had embraced communism

because it was the only way open to them when the United

States refused to negotiate. He also criticized American

military action in Vietnam. The Socialist Workers Party has

been designated pursuant to Executive Order 10450.

Lane has been highly critical of American

policies in Vietnam and has spoken at various anti-Vietnam

rallies and meetings.

KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

On February 12, 1964, a meeting was held at

San Diego which was sponsored by the San Diego Neighborhood

Forum, the name under which the Communist Party sponsored

public meetings in that area. This meeting was also sponsored

by the Friends of the "National Guardian."

Mark Lane was a

featured speaker at this meeting. The "National Guardian" has

been cited by the HCUA as having manifested itself as a virtual

official propaganda arm of the Soviet Union.

Mark Lane was involved in an extensive public

speaking tour in 1964 on behalf of the "National Guardian."

He spoke concerning his knowledge of and inquiry into the

assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lane was, at

that time, Chairman of the Citizens Committee of Inquiry, a

Harvey Oswald, to represent her dead son before the Warren

Commission.

During his speaking tour in 1964, Lane addressed

several meetings of the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs in various parts

of the country.

The W.E.B. DuBois Clubs is a communist youth

organization which was conceived by the Communist Party, USA,

and is currently being operated and controlled by the Communist

Party.

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A Reuter's press dispatch dated April 6, 1964,

at Budapest, reported that Mark Lane, an attorney from New York,

appeared before the Congress of the International Association of

Democratic Lawyers in Budapest, at which time he asked for the

creation of an international commission to be entrusted with the

investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. At this

meeting he made various statements that the official theory of

the assassination of the President was false. It is noted the

International Association of Democratic Lawyers has been cited

as an international communist-front organization in the "Guide

to Subversive Organizations and Publications, " revised and

published December 1, 1961, by the Committee Oi Un-American

Activities, U. S. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

Mark Lane is the author of the book entitled,

"Rush to Judgment," published in August, 1966. He claims

it is : "A critique of the Warren Commission's inquiry into the

murder of President John F. Kennedy, Officer J. D. Tippit,

and Lee Harvey Oswald." It is considered to be a cleverly

contrived piece of literature designed to discredit the President's

Commission and its findings. During 1967, Lane traveled exten-

sively in Europe in connection with publicizing his book and with

the distribution of the film version of this book. At a press

conference in Vienna, Austria, on February 27, 1967, Lane

accused President Johnson and the Dallas, Texas, Police

Department of engaging in a conspiracy to block the "investi-

gation" being conducted into the assassination of President

Kennedy by James Garrison, District Attorney, New Orleans,

Louisiana. He frequently stated that he intended to help

Garrison in the latter's investigation.

On June 14, 1967, Mark Lane spoke at the

University of California at Los Angeles and urged all yersons io

aid James Garrison financially in his "investigation" of the Kennedy

assassination in order that Garrison might be free of harassment

by the FBI and other Federal agencies.

In November, 1967, it was determined that Mark

Lane had moved from his residence at 178 Spring Street, New

York City, New York, and was then residing at Apartment 4,

617 Dauphine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

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affiliating himself with James Garrison, District Attorney,

New Orleans, Louisiana, in connection with Garrison's "investi-

gation" into the assassination of President Kennedy.

MISCELLANEOUS

"The New York Times" of June 9, 1961, reported

that Lane had been arrested at Jackson, Mississippi, on June 8,

1961, as a member of a group of "Freedom Riders" who had been

taken into custody in that city. He was convicted of breach of the

peace in the City Court on June 8, 1961, and sentenced to four

months' confinement and a $200 fine, with two moatis of the jail

sentence suspended. This conviction was subsequently overturned

in the County Court at Jackson and Lane was acquitted.

It was reported in the April 3, 1962, issue of "The

New York Times" that Mark Lane had been fined $415 on April 2,

1962, in New York City, as a "scofflaw" for ignoring numerous

traffic tickets.

On July 4, 1963, Lane was arrested by the

Baltimore County Police

Department at Towson, Maryland, in

connection with participating in a civil rights demonstration. The

disposition of this arrest is not known.

The Office of the District Attorney, Queens County,

New York, conducted an investigation of Lane in 1962 for alleged

sodomy. In connection with this investigation, statements were

taken from two women by the District Attorney's Office which

related to obscene activities on the part of Lane. An obscene

photograph of Lane and handwritten instructions by Lane relating

to alleged perverted sexual acts of a sadistic and masochistic

nature performed by the women on the person of Lane were aiso

obtained during this investigation.

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