Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NO
To: HQ
Document date: 08/31/1971
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/10/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10320-10428

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

HQ

100-409763-291

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

NO

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 08/31/1971

'PAGES:

61

SUBJECTS :

MARK LANE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Secret

RESTRICTIONS :

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/30/1998

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REPORTING OFFICE

NEW ORLEANS

TITLE OF CASE

FEDERAL BUREAU FAINVESTIGATION

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

DATE

"INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

NEW ORLEANS

3/31/71

8/9-23,71

REPORT MADE BY

SA WAYNE

A.

MILLWARD

CHARACTER OF CASE

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MARK LANE, aka

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(JFK

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information in this investigation:

furnished

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NO T-3 1S WF 1888-R.

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NO T-9 15(1X (NX 6155-R.TSA (4)

NO I-10,. NO T-11r and No 1-12 are sources who are in a

position to furnish information

NO T-13 is SF 3421-T.

NO TOld IS [LA 5017-5.180 (4)

NO 1-15 is LA 5343-S.

CONTINUATION OF COPIES EROM COVER PAGE A:

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2 - Los Angeles (100-65476) (RM)

• 1 - Milwaukee (Info)

1 - New Haven (100-20475)

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3 - New York (100-117844)

(RM).

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2 - San Francisco (RM)

1 - Seattle (Info)

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ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE - NON-SYMBOL SOURCES

NO 134-985A

NO T-ILis former New Orleans PSI LAWRENCE EDWARD GRAY,

NO I-2 is Chicago PSI SHARON KAY HEWITT.

NO I-4 [is Renseignements Generaux, Surete

Nationale, Paris, France Ie (5)

NO I-5 is Danish Security Service, Copenhagen;

Dennark

NO T-10 is New York PSI DAVID ALAN PINCUS.

NO T-Il is KEN MULCAHY, U.S. Customs Service,

cleveland, Ohio.

NO I-12 iS JANES BARRETI, Security Officer:

Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn.

AL DENIAL

NO T-16 is Sgt. STAN KOWALSKI, Intelligence Bureau,

etroit, Mich.,

PD.

NO T-17 is DAVID MUCAR, brother of CAROLINE MUGAR,

Equi ty Management, Inc., Beston, Mass.

NO T-18 is JOHN STREET, owner, Graphic Arts

Publishing Co., Boise, Idaho.

NO 1-19 Lis Direction de la Surveillance du

Territoire (DST), Paris, France Lon

NO T-20 is DENZIL AUKER;

Manager, Southern Land

Title Co., 521 Dumaine St., New Orleans, La.

The above "T" symbols refer to NOrep of

SA WAYNE A. MILLWARD dated 8/31/71.

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CEORGE 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 Imnokalee,

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 MUGAR 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

adyised that during the month of october, 1969, an organization

known as the "English Language Committee" was created in Paris,

France, with the objective of opposing the continuation of

the war in Viet.

nam, as weld as the following additional

objectives: (S

1) Opposition

to nuclear armament;

2) Opposition to American imperialism;

(5)

Action in favor of recognizing Communist China

4)

Activity against racism in the United States

and

throughout the world. D

Source further stated that during a meeting held

on October 15, 1969, at the American Center

for Students and

Artists, 261 Boulevard Raspail, Paris, France, an initial

impetus

was Eiven to the English Languaze Committee by (S)

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MARK LANÈ, a lawyer and American writer (S)

NO 1-4

($)

Loctober 29, 1969 dU

Another Government agency which

conducts

investicationstabroad.advised that on.c7is00

November 14, 1969, MARK LANE was the main speaker at

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

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

400-500 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 Vietnam, claiming that the "brass"

was going to

extremes to stifle dissent.: LANE asked his derman audience.

to assist those soldiers who want to desert or fight the

Army

"brass" from wichin. Finally, he declared that he was

returning to the United States. within a month, although he

feared possible

prosecution for providing assistance to

deserters.

(2) (4)

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 Sth Congress

in Budapest during the period March 30-April 3, 1954,

by a delegation frem

the Danish

Section

Veronal named JORCEN JACOBSEN, Who, prior to the Congress, had

• One of the delerates was a Copenhagen lawyer

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-

ding the assassination and the sequel to it. (S)

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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. (5)

Between JORGEN JACOBSEN and MARK LANE cooperation

was. established on this draft resolution, which, incidentally,

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

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available information on the assassination of the

President and informing the public of any hushed-up or

suppressed details concerning the murder. (S)

Following the Congress, however, MARK LANE himself

went to Denmark, where, in the "Lawyers'

Debating Club,"

the "Students'

Association" in Copenhagen, and the "Students'

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

at proving

that reactionary, fascist circles were behind

assassination of President KENNEDY. (S)

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,

left-wing literary circles.

Towever, the activitles of the

Committee, mainly based on MARK LANE's inquiries in the

United States, failed to bring forth any sensational

disclosures.

The work of the American authorities on the

ase was, on the other hand, criticized and the

the harren commiscion vas denounced as a fraud. (Se of

In connectin 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

mad on No he result

The result was a libel action against

the

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

statements of the paper ill-founded. The responsible (5)

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editor was sentenced to pay 2500 Dokr. 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. (5)

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

ence the ours agon Ma hes

opinion of the events in bailas on Novembar 22, 1953. (5)

MARK LANE, who is currently residing in the

United States, does not appear to have attracted notice in

connection with the activities displayed in Denmark to

assist American deserters, and so far, no connection was

noted between him and Danish deserters! committees.

July, 1968, however, an IADL 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

note farenda on

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

that the two former IADI delegates are personally acquainted

ard associated with this Communist front organization seems

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

them to bring American deserters to Denmark in order to

confront the authorities of a NATO country with a congre

request for political asylum for American deserters.

BORN 4-19-49 CleveL aNd orse

case of

the two deserter American

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 s

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DENMARK

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 Vietnames

On November 11, 1969, the Danish Minister of

Justice refused the request for political asylum of both the

deserters in question.(S

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. (5)

NO T-5

December 3, 1969

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headquarters and then to the Staff Judge Advocate General where

a meeting with the Base Commander determined that LANE could

not distribute the

"Helping Hand" on the Air Force Base and

requested that he retrieve those already distributed.

On JULy 19, 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 Statesnan," Boise, Idaho, quoted Wing Commander

Colonel HENRY L. WARREN, Mountain Home. Air Force Bage as

refusing permission te distribute the "Helping Hand" because

it advocated resistance to authority and, therefore, was

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

force regulations.

At approximately 6:00 a.m., August 7, 1971, 51 marchers

including 34 GIs and women Air lorce service ladies

from the

Mountain Home Air

Force Base, Mountain Home, Idaho,

began a

march of approximately

10 miles across the desert to Boise,

Idaho.

The march was led by MARK LAND 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, Poise:

Ioaho..

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 bulling,

400 Broadway

Avenue, 8015e

Idahe, where about 100 spectators and marchers

heard LARRIMKNUDSEN; 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

'Em

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 24, 1971. During his visit, LANS made

a number

of contacts with Vietnamese revolutionary organizations

and individuals of the far

left

with whor he discussed proi

lers

of the var in Vietuam.

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ALL FRANCE

in the assistance of MARY-JO VAN INGEN, LANE met

with ALAN

leader of the Communist league

VAN INGEN

is down to trench reornes as wyeror mrional and rather

the

occas 1

aries.

international meeting of European revolution-

The meeting, between 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

Gormunist

Leazue.

While in Paris, LAND also met with

FRANCE TRANCOL

MASPaRo, who specialices

in the

cutionary

books

with

publishing of revo-

published

regard to having one of his books

NO T-19

classified per letter

May 19, 1971

8S.

SPRTAP/TAC:

On August 23, 1971, another Government agency which

conducts investigations abroad furnished the following

information:

11-25-851

(mc1v949)

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.(R) (4)

The

source stated that LAND

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 Hanu" 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 homb runs in South Vietnam.

As an

example of a

bomb

method of sabotage, LANE proposed altering the

run layouts by placing pencil marks slightly off

their

correct positions. (5X)(U)

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