' a ion.

~· In Another member of the Inter- to provide its investigative ser-

national Anti..-Communist Bri- vices -- free -- to a local grand
gade was Loran Hall. Hall is jury investigating charges that
named as a member of the sni- Southwestern Bell telephone
per team that killed President company con duded massive
Kennedy by Tennessee author wiretapping over se' ~ral years.
William Morris. The firm claims that, after a
Morris claims he has talked two year investigation, it can
to a former CIA operative, who prove the following allegations:
said that the JFK assassination *"Certain Federal agencies"
was planned and carried out by were involved in the assassina-
elements of the CIA and the tion conspiracy;
Mafia, and financed by wealthy •os wald did not shoot Kennedy;
by Steve Lonr .tivation" for the JFK assassina- Angel Castillo was arrested by rightwing interests. The former and
tion may have been a desire for the Philippine pol ice for alleged- CIA operative, who is not iden- •new unpublished facts will
Are the assassination cases revenge and retaliation by Castro. ly plotting to kill President Mar- tified, told Morris that 10 men demonstrate conclusively that the
of John F. Kennedy and Robert Let's examine the new evidence cos of the Philippines. attended a meeting in Mexico so-called "single bullet theory"
F. Kennedy about to crack wide of CIA complicity in the assassi- Castillo was questioned under City on September 18, 1963, (Kennedy and Connally were shot
open? A rapid series of sensa- nations of the Kennedy brothers. sodium penethol (''truth serum") where the assassination of Presi- by the same bullet) is incorrect.
tional developments in recent and hypnosis by a trained hypno- dent Kennedy was discussed. The CIA has also recently been
weeks indicates that this may, A veteran and widely respected tist. He told a tale of being taken Among those present at the linked to the Senator Robert F.
in fact, be occuring. assassination researcher, Rich- to a building in Dallas, possibly meeting were Lee Harvey Os- Kennedy assassination case. A
The CIA has recently been ard Popkind, says he has eden- the Daltex building, on the day wald, Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, Los Angeles group, the Cam-
linked to the assassination of s ive documentation which proves that Kennedy was shot. Castillo Loran Hall, Eugene Hale Brad- paign for Democratic Freedoms,
President Kennedy by three in- that the CIA was involved in the described in some detail the ing, and Elaido del Valle. Two alleges that the CIA trained the
dependent authors and assassina- assassination of President John room to which he was taken by or three plans to kill JFK in top two investigators working
tion re.searchers, and a myster- F. Kennedy. Popkindcharges that his CIA control agent, how he either Mexico City or Miami with the Los Angeles Police De-
ious private detective firm based CIA operatives used sophistica- was handed a rifle assembled had also been discussed at the partment's investigation of the
in the Carribean has also implied ted behavioral modification tech- from components hidden in a Mexico City meeting. RFK murder.
that the CIA and/or the FBI were niques to program the actual bowlinir bair. and instructed to The former CIA operative Los Angeles police records
involved. And just this week, a assassins to act "like Manchu- fire at a man in an open car sit- named Hall and de Valle as mem- show that the two investigators,
Los Angeles group alleged that rian candidates" to kill JFK. ting next to a woman. (He did not bers of the sniper team that Manuel Pena and Lieutenant En-
the CIA was involved in a cover Popkind, who is a philosophy know it was the President.) killed the President, and said rique Hernandez, were specifi-
up of the investigation of Sena- professor at Washington Univer- that the operation' s "field mar- cally in charge of tracking down
tor Robert F. Kennedy's assas- sity in St. Louis, published The But before Castillo had a chan- shal!" was Brading. Eugene Hale leads of a possible conspiracy
sination. Second Oswald in 1966. The book ce to shoot, other assassins in Brading was arrested in Dallas in the case. But the Campaign
Another indication that the JFK contained the first reports that other locations had already fa- under the name of "Jim Braden," for Democratic Freedoms, which
case may be opening up is that a someone had been impersonating tally shot JFK. Castillo's control and he has long been of interest is led by Executive Action author
new official "fall back" cover Oswald (Attorney Bernard Fen- agent ordered him to leave, and to assassination researchers. A Donald Freed, alleges that the
story of the JFK assassination sterwald recently published an after disassembling the rifle and central figure in Peter Noyes' two CIA-trained officers may
seems to be developing. Reali- article in The New York Review stuffing it in the bowling bag, Leracy of Doubt, Brading has have been assigned to the case
zing that the "lone assassin" of Books which reported that ,he was bustled away in a car that m any documented underworld to "cover up" evidence leading
(Oswald) theory of the Warren U.S. government intelligence a- stopped twice within blocks of CO"!nections, and was also a char- to a conspiracy.
Commission Report is beingdis- gents photographed an Oswald Dealey Plaza, the assassination ter member of the posh La Costa Important evidence is missing
credited, government sources impersonator entering the Soviet site, to pick up other men. Country Club, near San Clemente, in the RFK case, just as it is in
appear to be developing a new embassy in Mexico City shortly a meeting place for many of the the JFK assassination ca s e ,
cover story -- that JFK was before the Kennedy assassina- Assassination researcher A. Watergate conspirators. Brading (Where is the President's brain?).
assassinated on Fidel Castro's tion.) J. Weberman said in a telephone was present in Los Angeles at Skeptics ask what became of the
order in retaliation forCIA mur- interview that the Philippine in- the time of Robert F. Kennedy's missing left sleeve of Senator
der·plots against Castro. Popkind predicts his evidence telligence agency alsoquestioned assassination. Kennedy's coat, and many spec-
Former President Lyndon B. "will crack ·the case wide open." a man named Larry Truckman Still another claim that the ulate that it contained bullet holes
Johnson suggested that Castro The professor says he has ob- in 1971. Under truth serum, JFK assassination case has been proving there was more than
may have been involved in sev- tained thousands of pages of tran- Truckman confessed to being part solved has been made recently one assassin.
eral interviews, including one scripts of· 90 hours of interro- of a group of Cuban and Ameri- by a bizarre private detective (Note: Sources for this article
with Walter Cronkite of C~ gation of one of the alleged as- can mercenaries trained in Flo- firm, Security Associates Inter- included The Loa Aarelea Times,
News, within a year of leaving sassins. The interrogation, which rida, known as the International national, which has its headquar- Tbe National Tatter, z.odiac News
office. More recently, Senator was conducted over a three month Anti-Communist Brigade, led by ters "somewhere in the Can:i- Service, Pacific News Serv~ce,
Richard Schweiker (R-Pa.) sug- period in 1967 by the Philippine Frank Fiorini, one of the Water- bcan," and whose personnel in- and .4,J. Weberman. Special
gested on Sunday .on "Face the National Bureau of Investigation, gate burrtars. Weberman says clude many "ex"-CIA agents. thanks to David McQueen and
Nation" that "the political mo- occurred after a man named Luis that the Brigade was a CIA oper- The firm recently opened a Paul Krassner.)
 COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA: The
CIA and the Assassination of John F.
Kennedy. By Michael Canfield and
Alan J. Weberman. Third Press. 340
pp. $11.95.
'kl or even five years ago such a ti-
tle woultt bave been dismissed as the
prattling of a fevered .PPegination. But
after Watergate and the recent revela-
tions concerning the CIA you begin to
wonder. Some Americans have alwa~
bad doubts about the Warren Commis-
sion's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald
was solely responsible for the assassina-
tion. Books have been published postu-
lating various conspiracy theories. This
book tenders the most bizarre theory of
all, to wit, that the CIA planned the
president's assassination because be
had agreed to stop the anti~astro oper-
ations of Cuban exiles and that Oswald
bad been chosen "to play the patsy" in
the killing.
Of all the conspiracy theories advanced
since 1963 <and I have read half a dozen
books on the subject) this is surely the most
grotesque. The authors, two young research-
ers with some journalistic experience, have • • . Raising uneasy questions
exhumed a bookful of evidence and argu-
ment-some of it plausible, much of it
not-to support their theory.
Why, you ask, would tbe CIA want to kill semblance to Howard Hunt and Frank A. elaborate steps he initiated to secure factual
its own president at the urging of Cuban ex- Sturgis, the convicted Watergate burglars. backing for the authors' allegations wherev-
iles angered over the Bay of Pigs? Their an- Acetate overlays of known pictures of these er possible. Inured as we now are to "dirty
-:wer is that it was more than the Cubans two men are inserted in the book for com- tricks" in the highest places, it will nonethe-
who were involved. Also in the plot were parison with pictures of two of the less require more persuasive testimony than
the Mafia, whose profitable operations in "tramps." There is some resemblance, but here adduced to convince me that the CIA
no more. set up the assassination of the president in
Cuba had been ended by Castro and who re-
cooperation with the Mafia and then had
sen ted the president's acceptance of a the "hit" man killed in a Texas jail in full
hands--Off policy vis-a-vis Cuba after the Mis- Historical a'IS3s.sinations invariably inspire view of millions of television viewers.
sile Crisis. conspiracy theories, and none more so than
Curiouser and curiouser. By 1963, the au- that of President Kennedy. The authors
thors aver, the president's murder was maintain that Oswald was killed by Jack And yet . . . Why was Mafia mobster Sam
being planned by experts within the CIA. Ruby because "dead patsys don't talk," Giancana recently riddled with bullets in a
"He had alienated the most reactionary and then go on to quote the words of a Los An· Chicago gangland killing a few days before
powerful elements in American society-the geles police informer that "a faction of Nix- be was due to testify before the Church Sen-
CIA, the Foreign Policy Establishment, the on's secret police may have been planning ate Committee investigating the CIA's
Joint Chiefs of Staff, the gangsters whose to tum America into an outright military domestic operations? Was it a simple set-
Cuban holdings bad been nationalized by dictatorship." Watergate stymied "the final tling of local accounts-or did be know too
Castro, and the dispossessed exiles." phase of the coup d'etat" touch about matters that ate better not spo-
ken about? The uneas~n abides.
This particular conspiracy rests in part on
the photographs of the three "tramps'' The publisher, Joseph Okpaku, aware of
picked up near the scene of the assassina- the sensational character of these allega-
tion. Canfield and Webenna.o contend that tions, has written a long and temperate in-
lwo of the "tram~s" bear a marked re- troductory note in which he outlines the Mr. Barkham runs a book review service.
 no extremist in any direction.
\\'ttltltS Canfield and Weberman start
from the fact that everyone
DID CIA KILL KENNEDY? known to be involved-certainly
For the second time this year Oswald and Ruby, and everyone
we've been handed the bitter they suspect, certainly many CIA
c up of controversy. The new people including Watergaters.
conspiracy report is Coup d Etat and certainly the underworld-
0

in America. The CIA and the As- all were keyed into the intense
sassination of John F. Kennedy clandestine struggle over Cuba.
by Michael Canfield and Alan J . The turning point in this under-
Weberman, with a foreword by ground war was. of course. the
Congressman Henry B. Gonza- Bay of Pigs fiasco. Canfield and
lez (Third Press. $11 .95) . It fol- Weberman believe Kennedy
lows on the heels of George signed his death warrant when
O'Toole's explosive evidence of he refused to order a second air
Lee Harvey Oswatd·s innocence strike, and thus exposed the
and frame-up, The Assassina- CIA s invaders to massacre on
tion Tapes. This new book claims the beach.
that CIA men killed Kennedy and The flaw In this seems appar- o::
framed their own agent Oswald ent to me in the second sentence ::i
for the murder. of "The Theory." " By 1963 Ken- Was Lee Harvey Oswald an agent for the CIA?
Once you open the door to the nedy's murder was being
thought of conspiracy, clues fly planned by assassination ex- RECYCLING INFORMATION animal kingdom ; Arthur D Little
in from all directions. The major perts within the Central Intelli- The Whole Earth Catalogue was made a silken purse (well, s1lk-
theories now are conspiracy of gence Agency. Orders had come somewhat puritamcal when it like) from sows' ears because he
the Right, of the Left , of the down from upstairs that Ken- came to sex; the topic barely was irritated by Sha.kes ~arP
Mafia, and within the govern- nedy must d ie... .' Where Is graced its voluminous pages. To slur on the hrr 1 • of et:t·
ment itself. The last is clearly the ·· upstairs" ? Upstairs should be rectify the omission, Bernhardt The authors suggest olhe s
scariest of all. If the Intelligence the White House. J. Hurwood (The Bisexuals) has for their boo~. Stab blfndly at
Community 1s truly a Praetorian Sure there was bitterness in edited The Whole Sex Catalogue the index and rip oft the bottom
Guard that can, as in the Roman the CIA. Howard Hunt, a leader (Pantheon, $6.95). It is a credit to corner of page 188 , chew
Empire, make and unmake gov- in the Bay of Pigs planning, ex- Hurwood's sophistication that thoughtfully, and wait."
ernments, we are living the de- pressed it publicly. Bureaucratic his book is less of a how-to than
cline and fall of America. Can- frustration might be enough for a where-to-find- ii reference. Down to earth but spawned from
field and Weberman see the as- one or a few unstable guys to kill Hurwood never moralizes, and the same whole earth .. dream
sassination as nothing less than the boss, but for a large orga- so at last we have a sex book that that a big book can lead us to a
such a coup d'etat. nized conspiracy you need a tells you more about sex than saner world 1s Simple Living by
It was America·s best-known large group that is not merely the sex hang-ups of Its author. Jacques Massacrier. This big
consp i racy. Watergate , that disgruntled but also expects to Dr Reuben should have been so paperback is from France, but
sparked their energetic investi- gain something big. What could wise. Legalized brothels, sex has been sensibly Americanized
gation of the Oswald case. The the sophisticated analysts of the aids, swingers' clubs , nude by Links Books ($7.95) . Subti-
suspicions it aroused led to the CIA have expected of Johnson beaches, S & M fraternities . tled An Illustrated Workbook for
discovery that Watergaters E. (whom the authors believe to be homosexual resorts, treatment the New Farm and Home . 11 of-
Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis, innocent)? Cuban pollcy didn t centers-there's Info here for fers 307 inventive ideas for cre-
both ex-CIA, resembled two of change. A revenge killing is no every sexual persuasion and ative living. While it aims at the
the three " t ramps·· who were coup d 'etat. Who won what ? kink. practical, it is a loving and lovely
picked up at the scene of the With Watergate, it was the presi- book. The words are in a gra-
Kennedy assassination and re- dency. I don't really know what An In- cious calligraphy and the simple
leased on the FBI s say, without If there was no government de x of Possibi/1t1es (Pantheon. illustrations, perfectly clear for
police questioning. The book conspiracy to kill Kennedy, there $5.95) is all about or what its for, practical purposes. are tender
diligently pursues links between was at least, their evidence in- but there it is just the same-a and warm.
Hunt and Oswald. Sturgis him- sists, a conspiracy to cover up monster paperback like The The book has a nice. subtle
self revealed to the authors the what did happen. Nixon didn' t Whole Earth Catalogue . The humor. Along with basic carpen-
existence of Operation Forty, an resign because his supporters book is edited by eight English try. cookery. masonry, and ani-
assassination section within the committed burglary; it was the madpersons. It 1s voluminously mal husbandry. there are reci-
CIA. cover-up that enraged Ameri - researched. clearly written. and pes for aphrodisiacs. instruc-
The authors feel their great cans . Representative Henry magnificently indexed. I learned tions for casting horoscopes,
achievement was to uncover a Gonzalez makes a realistic de- some things from it. how to grow and. for the indefatiguable do-
motive for a conspiracy to kill mand when he insists that Con- grass on an automobile, that a it-yourselfer. directions on how
Kennedy This is difficult; Ken- gress investigate an infinitely man on a bike is the most effi- to tie your baby's umbilical cord.
nedy made enemies, but he was more appalling c over-up. cent form of locomotion in the - Norman Hoss

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.J Dallas Nightmare Never Ends Congressman McKinney, to re-

·-
Commission failed to see the re-
COUP D'ETAT IN AMERI·

.sooKs·. ·...
open the investigation into semblance, the similarity is
CA: TB E CIA AND THE Kennedy's death . As graphic both overwhelming and chil-
ASS~INATION OF JOON evidence of their seriousness, ling. They match as well as the
F. KENNEDY By Micbael
Cofield and A. J. Webermu
(Tbe ftH Press, New York,
,U.95).
Although It's been over 11
years since Lee Harvey Oswald
Something tells us it's not true, ful foreword by one of the peo-
almost as if we're caught in a pie who rode in that tragic
the authors have included 22
pages of photographs including
a plastic overleaf of Watergate
burglars Frank Sturgis and E.
Howard Hunt to be used as a
scope on the assassin's rifle.
This is a powerful, if brutal,
book and one worthy of serious
attention, particularly if we are
ever to end the nightmare that
I
kind of jet lag between the bu!- motorcade, Congressman H.B. superimposition over blow-ups began with a hail of bullets on
or person or persons unknown let that killed Kennedy and the Gonzales The congressman of two tramps questioned at an otherwise sunny day In
gunned down the President, we recoilofhowitaffectedus. is currently circulating a Dealey Plaza sborUy after the Dallas, Texas.
s tll l can't quite believe it. A self-anointed cleric of a resolution co-sponsored by killing. Even if the Rockefeller J.R. COCHRAN
quasi-religious group that .
claims to be in touch with the
dead recently described KeMe-
dy's reaction to his assassina- '
lion. For want of a better de-
scription, it also characterizes
ours. "He couldn't believe it.
For two weeks, he kept walking
around in a state of shock. "
Assassinologists Michael L.
Canfield and A.J. Weberrnan
are new to the field, Canfield
was art director of George
McGovern's abortive presiden-
tial campaign while Weberman
is perhaps betler known as the
man who investigated Bob
Dylan's garbage.
Their book, "Coup D'Etat in
America" constitutes one more
hammer blow to the Warren
Commission's conclusion that
the President was felled by
Super Assassin and his young
ward, Super Bullet. It is a mas·
sive study and ,includes a power-

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October/November No. 6

COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA: The

CIA and the Assassination of John F.
Kennedy, by Michael Canfield and
Alan J. Weberman (The Third Press,
444 Central Park West, New York,
N .Y. 10025, $11.95). Coup D'Etot in
A merico is a book
about a murder
mystery. Like the
best detectives in
mystery novels who
see evil lurking in
every dim .shadow,
Weberman and Can-
field approach the
mystery of John F.
Kennedy's murder with an advan-
tage the straight guys never had:
complete paranoia.
It is that quality which makes this
book better than others offering an-
swers lo the assassination riddles. The
JFK killing was an event in space and
lime.the myriad facts of which form
an insanely complex historical
mandala. Sherlock Holmes meditated
with a pipe. Weberman (1 have known
him for five years) meditates with a
joint.
The initial inspiration in this case
occurred when Weberman came upon
photographs of a mysterious trio of
"tramps" picked up in Dallas right
after the JFK shooti ng. He recognized
a resemblance between the "tramps"
and certain participants in lhe Water-
gate burglary , namely, E. Howard
Hunt and Frank Sturgis. Whereas
others have passed this off as a coin-
cidence, Weberman saw an equation
between the Watergate and the JFK
murders.
lf every piece of paper in the Na-
tional Archives relating to the JFK as-
sassi natio n were stacked up, the pile
would measure a hundred feet bigh.
Weberman read it all. So, although it
was born in the manic vapors of mari-
juana, this book is documented, index-
ed, footnoted and appendixed in a
thoroughly professional way. Indeed ,
the book even contains a transparency
of Hunt and Sturgis that can be placed
directly over the tramp pictures so
you can decide for yourself.
Crazy. hub ? But different events
keep proving the o ld weed adage
"paranoids have real enemies too."
- Rex Weiner g ·
 THE TALK. OF THE TOWN •
clamhnc d up tho.: 1id..: of t h~ hook.- An

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outfit callo.:<l T he T hir<l Press had a
hook 1111 dispb) i: ntitlt:<l "Coup d'etat
in Arn o.:ric:1," ll\· .'.\1 ic had
7
Ca nfi eld :111 J :\ hn J. \\ t: her-
man . T h..: T hird Press rt·pr..:-
~..:ntativ e '>:iid t h:it t he hook
w:is :ihout till: C . I..~., h ut he
couldn' t ~a r am th tll!! more
ahuu t it. "You'll. haYe- to talk
t•1 Jnstph Okp:1 ku, the Third P ress r--
prcsi<l t:n t," h.., said. " Bue he isn 't he re.
I 1..- alsn r un~ :i t ra ,·cl ago.: ncy, and he's
1• u1 tr:1\·dling ."

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PLAYBOY
Luck and the CJ.A.
tater tbJs month. Joseph Okpaku's
Thlrd Press wfll publish a boOk. a
year In preparation, by invesd;ators
Michael Canfield and Alan J. Weber·
man.
Called ''Coup d'Etat In America.
the C.LA. and the Assassination or
John F. Kennedy," the title alone has
the rlng ot money, and Mr. Ok-paku
cheerfully admits that the fortuitous
disclosurea about the Central Intel-
ligence Agency in recent months lend
credence and saleability to the in-
vestigative work.
The 300-page book. with 70 pages
of which are in the form of an ap·
pe.ndix or documents. purports to
show that Lee Harvey Oswald was a
"deep.cover" C.l.A. agent who acted
for the .,ency In killlnc the Pres!·
dent In Nqvember, 191&.
 TAMPA TRmUNE·Tll\fES, Sunday_, OctoJJer u. m"
CHARLESTON EVENING POST
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Unt~ickening Plot
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COUP d'ETAT ' IN AMERICA: The There's nolhing new ln the "tramp"

BOOKS CIA and the AssassiDatloa of John F.

Kennedy, by Mlcbad Culleld ud Alaa
;. J . Weberman. The Third Pren, $11.15.
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pictures. i.

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RUT Tb to put together a case
coverue by Lyndon Johnson, Richar,d
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·t .Ye( another book on Jhe ltennedy Nixon and. most of Washington since
cPresident John F.> assassination has JFK's shoaling takes more than a hap-
been produced to further blur the vision hazard pu_nching of typewriting keyf.
PAGE 12-B-FRlDAY. JANUARY 9, 1976 of the seekers of t ruth. These men even try to navor the pot
..: Michael Canfield, a aometlme Flori- with a touch of Adol ph 's (Hiller ) flav or-
dian, and Alan Weberman, who says he ing . For example:
Is Crom Brooklyn and has been described
Brief Reviews a s a "g_arbologist", write or what they
c all the Coup d'etat in America and what
they further maintain Is the story of the
"A few rele vant s tatements about
Nixon should be made here. Nixon was
convinced that he was cheated out or the
1960 election by Mayor Daley .. . . Nixon

Of New Books
Involvement or the Central Intelligence
• Agency in the killing ill the President. was also quite d ispleased with Robert
1
Kennedy . . ••
1'heir CIA Is composed lo a great er-
tllnt of such figures ·a a Frank Sturgis and
Brief reviews of books recently recei\•ed: ·• E: Howard Hunt, a nd, to a lesser extent, ,..Hiller's rise lo power was preceded
by a lon(l series of assassinations aml
of Lee Harvey Oswald. d lscred1tat1ons of hio; opponents. There J.s
COUP D'ETAT JN AMERICA • by Michael Canfield and Ala
J . Weberman, makes a stron Their "new evidence" amounts to plc· no denying that the Robe rl Kennedy kill-
l tures of ''t ramps" arrested near the ing, Chappaquiddick and the Wallace
;ow~rd Hunl and Frank St~r~~s;;hat Wthatergate plumbers En Texas Book Depos\tory that tragic day In shooting benefited Richard Nixon. Nixon
resident John F. Kennedy Th . d epre e actual assassins of. Dallas. They even provide a pull-out had close lies to hardline conservative$.
. ir ress. $11.95.
plastic overlay· to let the reader compare •••With Nixon in power, Nazi .sympa- ·
• facia l characteristics as "proof" their thizers held high positions in the Repub.
pictures lie to those of lhe Wate rgaters. Hean party . . .a nd .Jack Anderson has·
reported that Gordon Liddy once ar-
STURGIS, THEY SAY, a dmits In a rangPd for a showing of Nazi propagan:
~ l:ipc'd interview with Canfield that the· dri fil ms fnr high m embers of the Ni xon

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CIA ha s an a ssassination squad within Admin lstra l1on at the Nat ium1l Archl-
it s ranks and that he was a member of ivcs ... "
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That's h;irdly news. And admissions tenuous t ics. They offer as proof that the
? b ~ FrJnk Stu rg i~ are a dime a dozen. Wate rgate 1 11•w land thus th.i Cl1\ l was
s:
a This book is devoted almost as much in on the I\• nn<'dv a~sass1 n at1nn ron;;pi r-
"' t o just1ry111g the book a s it is lo rcla lml! a cy the fa1·l that walkt<'·lalkie 1ad10
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a • the theory. There is a pu blisher's n ul tl communication was u::;cd at lh<' scrnc> of
n
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c and a rorr\'. Ord. hoth ai med cfl rPrt h• a t thl' us:;as.~u:auon .ind m the \\ 11t•q;atc
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.....
CD
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Wi~h t'•e r •3f1 I 15 '-C.,r3 si1vrt of p::-uvi ng tl:t:ir Ci:-;nnu~r.l:." \lth'lt .t.e au-
3&0 to l.il F i~el C. • o, ! case. tii'lr:. rlun'I tel! \"Oil - b..!-
; "•;cJ tJ1at I wou.c1 r. vcr T:.is i.look is " po!iticd c.au :.c ;~ cor~radtcl.!; t11l·1C
rig::!:! cccrr ot .1v.-.i '.:"r pomography." the "1'!"t o! th"OrY - is tnoil .ic nm~•
s~emi:igiy impro!i ,':JJc thlnr. u._ t an::;r:::I~ to th:! v:n s · th" cr.m r.,iil ~·s
~to:, cf th! ~ccr..: · ,.. ;..-·· c!<irk s.d" cl the re:id"r's tih JI i y I 1ur. !:!I U'' \.U
lir.::i o! ti-:: nation:: 1 i ..• U· pc1!:<'~ J.ity .:nd pan • ... :-s lO comllll.1 :(: s 1.. {1r;.u.I•
gene.:: :it11 "'rnt11s. his uc-,uht•· ~bout Lhe trnth 11 "~ !ired l:1r:1 for
As RoL.~i A. •, '- d \ ·:mt I c h..:s been tuld . r. ....o rJ N !i'~
f.:irmer ; :~ to HI! ,c l-y h~ ;:v1 ·r nment.
Hm ""·u Hu-;h~.s ~d u ~'} t I IIEC~1 Y is b.i.,cd u
onc-tirr.c (Ji co .t:•. ::l on pho:nir.~ph:; \·;11u.:l-t, .-ic· I ll" c
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pcis:in the Cubar. p:·c.ni,,.r, "C.:-.· "!"'' for Oswnl1 \:t':--e !,y f<faon fiJ hiS 1.-Jl':'lO\i " l
1 ne ~ccm:'d •.O 1crc <.:r cL· app. t;hc:r~rlcd .. e~r tl.e Tnnl muy ' c lhe ::ir.r;lc i
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r;ur::.nlly 1.1utraru:m!.i book I
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i.;e!opcci a l1e::rt" di<JW\c I
sto::ic~ nt.o · t: • ' \ lht-n rl)r Nb".)lj ·.:! Al' ll1CV were
"Co~ .. :~'E t h . :ntric:a" Wc'c.r;,ntc burglnry. hu~ beth C:il:fc mia p Jfrician~
;·1ill ~o very , •c 1 st l hc ll.c 11:1o:os itlcn~:~.:o nc: anJ little Lh.:n t.:p::ic:1ed
bo:"lksto:es. nli·~t arc so fl:.zzy a11 i 1
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l:itcr ser:mcJ to r.l;ang:.-> nis
incH:;ti~c: t:rn~ l11ey· c ciuld
mind r b:i 11t N i..o:l' s
r. JS :-:-r::.w or con~pir­ b(: fr ~.!mo.,t anyt.r•l1\' / ind cl ~ro.ctcr.
n~y thr-orit)S by ?-.~kh:icl the •:b!':! ll'c:>ry f, '.,, .'lll o! th s i'i not ~o ~ay
C:-nf 1< 1 1 an d Alnn J
1 ep·:rt i' - as 'iii.mt t 3S in t!ut ;l .t!rc- 01::y r.o be
V.'rlierm:m attempt:; to si:>Ld to i ntcrv1e •, s • holes ir. tf.c co. cJu ~1on of
d:?mons:rate tt".:!1 Pi .1- Hu;;t ,. .. r t in Dal!Js on th!! W<u r :i Com m:~:.1011
de'1t Jc' .1 F Kenr. ·dy was No·.-. n !~~3 .
ui:?t o,,.... .. ~elm;: :done,
killed ~s r".- tt 1 uf n CIA :\siti~ from t h:? photo v;as the _,::.... <;m, It mav
plot b9c":~ti by Rich.ml : t. gr::.rh-;, the book :mcmp::; cvc:'I be :hat C.-rnfieh1 and
Nixon ~.!td assisLed by lo c··tnbl:sh a ch., in 1,,f CCil· Webern11..n hi:n: found
cr ga'"'lized c11 m~ t:3;ng !>pi rccy t!t:?l Iii .~ Hur.t. some red dbcr~;:a n::1 es in
Wntuga tc f.J,ms E. 1!aw- Nixo:1. the CIA ~· u ~ the
the of!ic.bi e.:.:plnnatio:1 of
ard Il unl ~m d F r~nk Stur- M..i ·~ . To c':> th..1l, l ;1c i.IU·
t l"ors r ely en the so,.l of
the ki!lmg nm ih..?:-e are>
gis as ac.st' ""~ins. (:\'PT\l1'" hcl_e I\ h
Lre ! •.irvcy Osw:ild, ac- gci' L.!Jy-:--·~sociatio11 tech-
s d.:i~nrr.cnt ;:u:i.
l(
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corclin · t'l t1";1s theory, w::is nique m a d~ ir. a mous by F ..rh. ~ ZX:1 µ-essfon-
a ' p;;i •/ ' set up !Jy the s~~.. . Josc,n MC'Carthy ul comm: ttl'C' ula re-
CiA lo take: the mp. Jfo Sc· 10 cf th~ Un' .- justj O" c.'1 U•c. i ,..,._vii;ati-On of
w::is kill::d by JncY, J~.u y a~1' ..f!!:.~~~~~~~- the .-issa£slnattoa- Eut not
-<ii:r~r:t<r:d 1n
a cin·time f'.lHlh$l ~r -
tl:!.: • "'
lo
i:~c-. u:;r: oi
th!S' book.
 Bookshelf
CHORAL SPEAKING AND THE VERSE CHOIR, by
E. Klagsley PtveHllre, A.S. Banes ud Ce., st5 page.s,
$US. This work will be of Interest to those who conslder
starting such a choir at a cburcb or school. Dr. Poven-
mire has directed the San Diego state University Verse
Choir for the past 25 years during which time It bas
grown from 22 to 200 members. He has taught the art of
directing such a choir to teachers in extension and
summer classes.
The book includes a chapter on the history and values
of choral speaking, from the chorus of antique Greek _ __ __
dramas to the children who recite "'Twas the Night
Before Christmas" in unison. Povenrnlre also explains
how choral speaking can be used In contemporary
drama, in combination with small groups of instruments
or whole orchestras.
R.G.
SIXTY PHOTOGRAPHS, by Alfred A. blpf, Alfred A. 14
Knopf Pabllslten. 11 pages, Urdbaek .... ~
$5.t5. Published in celebration of the 80th anniversary of
the founding of the Knopf publlsbing company, the book
is a collection of snapshots taken of some of the great More ~death plots' related
writers and poets of the early 20lh Century by Alfred A.
Knopf. However, what could have been a very interesting COUP D' ETAT I N in a new electronic dl'\ I
collection of personal memoris of the literary greats bas A.\IERICA. by Mlcllat'I calle d the P sychologltl
turned out w be nothing more than a snapshot album Canfield and Alaa J . Stress E valuator. ll 1s a s
with a very sketchy text. Weberman: Tile Tlalrd or updated lie de tector
J .W. Press, New Yerk, 314 pa· chine lhal presumably
C OUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA, by Michael cantleJd ana ( ~s . $11.95.
THE ASSASSINATION
spol e rrors and cr1mi
stress in tapes. It was used
Alu J. Weberman, 'lbe Tblrd Press, 314 pages. $11.95. A ~ TAPES , b y G eer g e test recorded docume ntal
fJbtlUe of this book is " The CIA and the As§as,tjnaton of · f o·Teelt ; Ptatllea s t of the as sassination
ohn F. Kennedy." The authors spent long months PrHs. Ntw Verk. 2H pa· .. unro\'ered a cons1s tcnt
gathering all available information on the Kennedy ges, $11.95. wm of deception ... With l
tragedy. The thrust of the book is that the C1A and Mafia.
a
ti Add two more to the lonu miracle invenlion . a purp
connected conspirators shot the President In retaliation list O( books aimed al r C\ I\"·ed r evolutionary te rrori
for his refusal to provide a1r support for prevention of the lll
he ing the casc or John F Kcn· sche me is said to ha\'e b
Bay of Pigs fiasco. While their work is heavily document- nedy's murder by Lee li ar· uncove red.
ed with pictures, onetime " secret" reports and inter· int vey Oswa ld. This m ust run These latest wild tbeu
VIews, the writers fail to make a steel-bound case for stc lhe count ~yo nd the dozen appear lo conta in m
conspiracy, just as other private investigators have 1 m ark. Coanc1denl with the rc- imagin ation but no m ore f
failed Jn the past. The book, however, proves agam that a isrrl lea"l' of lhl•st• \'olunws was a tha n lhe long ltsl of
true story about real people often is more fascinating the n e ws di s pat c h fr o m ceding sensations by M
than fiction. taxi Washms::ton lhal Rep . 8 . Lane and olhers.
FM ba~ Gonza lez, ( D·Te x.) had offe r ·
. Thes e latest efforts me
ed a rcs nlullon In the Houst• help fmaJJy to confirm
lo reoiw n 1nH•sligat ions into a cce p ted solution to
the death s of P r<'sidcnl Ken- cnme. FRED Dt'AflM
nedy. hb brothcr Robert ,
l. and Marlm Lulhl'r K1nir.
]. plus thc wuundms:: uf Gl'orgl'
d \Yallace by a would · bt• 118·
sassm .
d .. Coup d'Etal ID Amer1t·a ..
e. is a fanl astll' attempt to
'11 cunnl·cl lhc J ohn Kt•nnedy
.ii a:;,.' assma lton wtlh a dl't'P -
dyl'<i conspirac~ h;r lhe Cl 1\ .
>d
,.. At the tune of the mu rdc· r .
at two \·ai::rant:. were pickl'<I up
o. nl'ar the scl•nc by Dallas po·
•d lice. and lhc a uthors 1mag1m•
that these cha racll'r s wc rc
0, im olvcd la te r ID lhl• Wa·
~ tcrgale brt>ak-in . PlC'lures of
a one or the .. plotter s .. ar c re·
h prodUCl'd and compa red w llh
photos of E. Ho\\ ard Hunt.
IY one or llw t .. m\·1ct1-<I Wa·
1e tergatl' dt>fenda nts . Tn this
l. rc\'iewl•r no resemblance was
th ind1call'<1.
1d T he O'Tnole \ ol umt• sug-
_ _ct ge,,b snnw of lht• more ranc1·
:e ful crop .of science
cuonfuers Tbe author is a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
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v· I CHARLESTON EVENING POST

ESTABLISHED 1894
TMIPA T~IBUNE-TJMES, Sunday, OctoJJer 19, l!i5

Unt~ickepin~ Plot
CHARLESTON, S . C . 29402
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COUP ll' ETAT .IN. AMERICA: The ·,.here·· nothing new ln the "b'amptt

BOOKS r-
CIA and the Assassjnatlon of John F.
Kennedy:, by Michael Canileld a11il Alaa
J . Weberman. '.J'he Third Press, $11.95.
.
pict1:1res. h

BUT
,..,,._
. -: :
~ TRY to ~ut together a case-.
of coverul[by Lyndon Johnson,
--·-

Rlchar:,~
,I

:t ~ .Yef another book on ..,the Itennedy Nixon and'.. most of Wasbmgton since
6'resident John 'F.) a ssassination tias JFK's s hOOting takes more th.an a h<Ji>·
been produced to further blur the vision hazard punching of typewriting keyi
PAGE 12-B-FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1976 of the seekers of truth. These men·:even try to flavor the pot
.; ,; Michael Canfield, a ·sometime ·_Flori- with a touch of Adolph's (H itler) flavor-
a'tan, and Alan Webei-man , who says he ing. For example: ..
Brief Reviews 1 is from Brooklyn and hai; been described
as a "g_arbologist", write· of what they "A few · r elevant st,atements about-
call the Coup d'etat in America and what Nixon should be made here. Nixon was
they further ma intain is the story oI the convinced that he was cheated out of l~
-;

I Of New Books involvement of the Central -Intelligence

I\ A,gency in the killing of the President.

to
u . 'fneir· CIA Is c9mpQse(f a ~e~i ex- K~nnedy.. ••
~t of sue!\ figu~s :as Frank Sturg!S lnd
i960 election-by Mayor Daley ..• . Nixon
. was. also quite displeased. with Robert'·
-_ ·

I Jf;"'Howard· Hunt, and, to a lesser extent,

of Lee Harvey Oswald.
• ~'Hitler's rise to pc>wer was precC.di~
by a lonl' series of assassinations ancl
discreditations or his opponents. There is
Their ''new evidence" amounts to pic- 1no denying that the Robert Kenned}' kill-
~l iI

I t..
tures of ;'tramps" arrested near the ing, Chappaquiddir.k and the Wallace
T exas Book Depository that tragic day in shooting benefit ed Richard Nixon . Nixon
Dallas. They . even provide a pull-out had close ties to hardline conser vatives.
plastic overlay· fo let the reader compare ••.With Nixon in power, Nazi .sympa- ·
facial characteristics as "proof" their thizers held high positions in the Repub.
pictures tie to those of the Watergate rs . Hean party . . .and Jack Anderson haS'
r eported that Gordon Liddy once ar-
STURGIS, THEY SAY, admits In a ranged for a showing of Nazi propagan:
tapc'd interview with Canfield that the· da films for high m embers of the Nixon
CIA has an assassination squad within Administrat ron at the National Arch!-
its r anks and that he was a member of ivcs . . :·
l 11al ~<iUa d .
OH, DON'T THJNK they slop there at
T hat's hardly news. And admissions tenuous tics. They offe r f!S proof lhat th e
by Frank St11rgis are a dime a dozen. Watergate < rcw (n nd th us the Cf A I was
Thi s book is devoted almost as much in on t he K" n11C'dv :1 SS<! ~sim1 l1<'n c onspir-
a cy the fa1·t u;at wa lk1c-ta lk ie llld ro
to jusli fyini; the book as il is lo rel .. t in~
t he theory. The re is a publishe r's 110Le eommunical inn was used at the scene of
the a s:;assinatio11 :inct in t he \\' ,il!'r"gatc
a 111l a for('v;ord. hnth a imed rlirPrf ly :-it
justi f1r<Jlio n for the book. Chapter one brea k in. ·
docs the same.
'rhe rest Is innuendoes, name-e allin ~ I Thi s is onr plot whirh never thickens.
:.J'hl ;,s J11ggli11g act. F orget it.-K1: ~ M US!:iU\'.
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CALENDAR, The 8o1ton Globe. ~ 8, 1971 ..
BOOKS I

·oswald
a 'patsy'?
By Patrick McGiiiigan
COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA, by Michael
•Canfield and Alan J. Weberman. Third
World Press. 313 pp. $11.95.
'7HEY'VE KILLED THE PRESIDENT/" by
fflobert Sam AflS!=)n• .Bantam. 408 pp.
$2.50. .
The world changed utterty on Nov. 22,·
~saassln's view In Dallas.
1983, the day John F. Kennedy was as-
sassinated in Dallas. He took a piece of
everybody with him, some last sore hope
or Illusion. The doubt persists, even from' the primary books available on the
among lntelllgent people, that the Viet- subject: "Inquest and Counterplot,N by
nam War and Watergate would not have Edward Jay Epstein (which StJggests that
occurred had the President lived. Both th• Warren Commlssfon hurried Into Its
events surely owe much to his timely as· mistakes); "Six Seconds In OaHas," by
.sasslnatlon. Josiah Tttompson (wtilch an&IY%es the Za-
Who and why?-the haunting questions. pruder home mo\lle to undermine the sin·
Today, 12 years later, nothing ts wholly gl&-assassln theory); and Mark Lane'•
certain about Kennedy'& death; not the pantroverallJ "Rush to Judgement."
motive, the means or the opportunity, Canfield and Weberman (the latter ta-
•"the three essentials,'' In Robert Anson'• moue In Ylpple circles as the "garbolog·
words, "In any murder lnVNtlgaHon." The lat'' Who raided Dylan's trash In the
Warren Commlsalon report 18 hotly de- 1960s) have wrttten the more erratic
bated by reasoned experts; polls show treatment, unreadable In parts, apecula-
that most American cltlana dlabelleve tt. '1ve, troubling In others. .
.And now, two books, "Coup d'etat In •· The title suggests their hypotheela (one ot
America" and "They've t<Jlied the Presi- growing popularity In conspiracy circles),
dent!" (paperback) have been put)llBhed that a "hit team" with mob, anti-Cuban
to fuel suspicions that Lee Harvey Oswald and CIA connections, drawn by a com-
was (his own words upon arrest) "a mon hatted for JFK's appeaeement of
p~!sy." Castro's Cuba, did the deed.
Anson writes: "To believe the Warren They have unearthed some tantalizing de-
Commission you must believe that bullets tail to support their theory that E. Howard
pause In midair and make 90-degree Hunt and Frank Sturgis, two of the Wa-
right-hand turns; that a poor marksman tergate burglars, were present oo the
i can do what experts cannot; that Newto- grassy kr.oll that day, Including an Inter-
I nian laws of motla. were not operating view with Sturgla, In which the soldier of
on Nov. 22; that a man can be In two fortune admits having been approached
·places at once; that atoms are able to once for a "domestic assassination."
change their structure; that everything Jn lndlvldually, tha books are Indispensable
life is mere coincidence." (they disagree, for example, on tl'le num-
.•. The Anson book la persuasive reportage; ber of Oswald "lookalikes" Involved In the
he writes skillfully, lrreslatlbl)', turning the suppo$ed ex>nsplracy) to the growJng,
reader Into amateur sleuth. He touches tentative body of assassination literature;
· all the corners-the smoke on the grassy together, they make a strong case for re-
knoll, the man with the umbrella, the openlnsf the Dallas Investigation, even
three anonymous bt.1ms, the "mysterious" though more questions are being asked,
deaths of witnesses, the lntematlonal In-' perhaps, than can ever be satlttaotorily
~rigue, etc. answered.
But he has the advantage of having di- (Patrick McGl//lgan ls a member of The
gested well, and borrowed extensively, .Globe staff.)
 HOUSTON CHRONI C!$ 2~, 1975 BOOKS

Assassination plot charges possibly libelous

BY \lARTIN RALBOVSKY
Ot.:P D'ETAT IN AMERICA . The CIA pnl('t't'dl'<I to kill Rober! Kt•mwdy and ;\larlin harpoon thr CIA 's l'laboratc plans for the Bay rnmplt·t t• Anw ne;1 was sawd [rom lill' lt•fllst
C and the Assass111allon of John F. Kenne-
dv bv \ lirhael Canfield and Alan J. Weber-
Luther Kmg .Jr . 111 1968, and attempted Lu kill
r.eCJrge Wallace 1n 1972
llf Pigs 111vasio11 u! Cuba. lie refused a re-
quest to provide a second ai r strike for
leadership nf Krnncdy and returned to the
warm bosom of ronservatism The Warren
nian.·Thr Third Press. SI 1.95. pn11t>eti\'C' cover and held back the Marines. Commission was cstnblisht•d. the book says.
• The CIA's assassin11!ion squad 11as to keep the Amcnra11 people trom being
orchestrated by men who were lhe leacting The 1mplicalion is that Kennedy wanted tl1e
II R1i:hard Nixon 1s still suffenng from CIA ln fail al the Bay of Pigs so he could then crushl'd by the truth. fts chief conclusion.
what his formrr press secretary, Ron Ziegler, practitioners of what amoun~s to right-wing, that Oswald. nln•ad\' drad. had acted alone
conservative politics 111 America 11st• lhe failure as an t•xcuse lo pull the CIA in
1111t:l' desrnhrd :is "llladequate cash flow," he umler l11s thumb The CfA aficiandos were was a mrre cl1versmiiarv smokescreen. What
might get even financially ok ~Y unl?ading a The maestro was Richard :\ixon, tbe one turious else could we havr rxpectcd 1the book asks 1

l
st-wn or eight figure libel suit agamst the man 111 America who, the book says. benefit· from a R<·publiC'nn from Califorrna Earl 1

\Hlh•rs and publisher uf this strange. d1sturb- led most from all of the assassinations. Dallas This book c·ontains pictures that Warren l but protect1tm for another Repubh-
rng book. purport 10 shU\\ that the "tramps'' who were C'an lrom California t vou know whol?
II This book traces Nixon's 111volvemenl with apprehl·ndrd and released minutes after 1
Ih• m:I\ bi• forced lo, if this book attracts thP CIA baek to the late 1!150-s when he was It 1s all astonisl1111g and frightening rc•ad· J'
KP111ll'dy was shot \1We really Hw1t, Sturgis Ing. The rnnlent mwshadows some obvious
all\ serious attention. which 1l might. In 11, the leading cheerleader 111 the Eisenho~1er :ind a Lt•e Harvey Oswald .. double" in dis- llaws. The boo).. is woclullv underresearched.
R1rl1:1rd ~1xon 1s portrayed as being far more While House for a CIA mwlhrm1 of Fidel ~u1se Tht•y shot Kennedy from the "grassy despite the puhhshrr's fnrf'ward to Lhe con·
than a mm. bl'trayl'r of the public trust This Castro in Cuba. Nixon. the book says. wanted knoll." Jumped 111!0 a nearby railroad car,
hook implies that Hichard \1ilhnus \ixon, the CIA to extract Cuba from the Communist
trary Inf ~8fi snuri:es hstt•d, 307 are merely
and ''ere supposed to be taken away by the newspaprr clippings, magazine articles and
slalwllfl Quaker from Yorba Linda, Calif, dutches of Castro and return it to the good train Tlwy were t'aught by accident and a books already publislwd 1 Language punsts
Wh1tllt•r College dandy and die-hard Duke hands of Mevrr Lanskv. Carlos Prio. Santo phuny Srl'rrt Service man, planted on the
1kbalcr. 1s the biggest single \Illian in the will be dmrn Lo apoplexy by stores of sen·
Trifficante, Fulgenc10· Batista and BeBe st·t•1w co11v111ecd the Dallas police lo let the lences I hat srtr-drstrucl from the improper
h1:;1ory of the L·nil<>d States. Re bozo " tramps" go. use of words. 1'l'hr CI A has its private assns·
Ttus hnuk implies, without proving any- Nixon. the book s:iys. ne\·er did accept the Oswald wns nll'rl'ly ;111 t>Xpendable CIA sination squad. nol lhe1rs l
outcome l)f I he 1!160 election f he lostl In- patsy in all of this. the book says, fingered by But sav this for 11 This is the fi rsl work to
tl1111g. !he following stead, he blamed Kennedy t and Mayor Daley tlw CIA to t;1ke the blame. It was Officer J. D. spctulat;, thot the CIA, on behalf of Richnrd
• Lee l!tirvl'V Oswcilfl did not kill President of Chicago) of stuffing ballot boxes with Tippit s job, lht• book alleges, lo shoot Oswald :\ixon and tht' polttit~ for which he stood,
.Juhn Kenned~· The Central Intelligence Ag- Democratic votes and robbing him of the for n•sisting arml . But he bungle~ the a.s· murdered nul only .John Kennedy, but Robert
ency did. • Presidency When Kennedy took office. he signnwnt. got shot h1111setr and so his boss m Kemll'd\ , \larti11 Luther Krng Jr and at-
• The C:IA d11l ll because it considered John reacted with skepttc1sm to the CIA·s plan to the c·onspirac\ .lal'k Rub}. was forced to tempted to murcll·r Georgr Wallace. If ~he
Kt•nnedv to be a left-wing. pseudo-Marxist overthrow Castro lie felt , the book says. that 0

l><'rsonally J>U l Oswald away to avoid any authors are wrong about this. they are go111g
\\ho was taking thll country off tis pre-ordain- the CIA was get ting out of hand lo the point or further slip ups. to bt• 111 for morl' than :i puhlicalion party.
t'd ('llUrse. dicta ling foreign policy. I M~rlln R11lb0v,~v cl thf" Chronic!.. \laft '' lf\f' aolhor or
• Afll'r disposing or John Kennedy, the CIA Kennedy then proc·eeded, the book says. to That am11npltsht•d. lhe coup d'etat was ll>'tt t>oo"~)
 "

{ _DAILY PRESS, NEWPORTNEWS VA.

nEb 71975
Book Reviews
edited by Will Mollneull

The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

by Michael Canfield and Alan J . Weberman
New York: The Thi rd Press. 314 pages. $11 .95

investigation, but at no time has be ever say and here is where part of their theor y
by Marti• IKoalf'r
implied or stated that he believes any begins to break down.
federal agency was involved in the presi- Additional clues, the authors say,
dential shooting . come from their discovery that Watergate
This book follows George O'Toole's operatives E. Howard Hunt and Frank
As The Congress and many Americans dynamite study, " The Assassination Sturgis both resemble two of the three
themselves find the Kennedy Assassina- Tapes," in which he challenged that Lee "tramps" who were picked up at the
tion controversy renewed at nearly every Harvey Oswald was innocent and was scene of the Kennedy shooting, but were
tum, authors Michael Canfield and Alan framed. released later by the FBI.
J . Weberman have for the second time Canfield and Weberman open their in- This volume just does not help but
this year focused attention on the CIA. vestigative door and alleged clues fly all confuse an already complicated issue. No-
Unfortunately for the reader, credibiJi- about, but few seem to have any basis for wh~e is evidence so clear as to dispell
ty bas been given this volume by Rep. consideration. They base their theory strong doubts which the overall book
Henry B. Gonzalez, D-Tex . Gonzalez upon the Bay of Pigs invasion which was creates. Great loopholes in information
wrote a forward which merely urges a full masterminded by the CIA . The fa ct that are just left there to glar e at the r eader .
congressional investigation of the death of Kennedy withdrew the air cover for the Don't waste your time on t he volume,
President Kennedy be undertaken. He at invasion and turned it into a fiasco unless you just want to read anot her ac-
no time endorses the authors ' views that creates their CIA revenge killing theory. count of another theory, unfounded a nd
the president was killed in a CIA-de- They state that " by 1963 Kennedy's relatively undocumented.
veloped plot. murder was being planned within the Cen-
First District Rep. Thomas N. Down- tral Intellignece Agency. Orders had Mr. Koaler, a writer who lives on the Penin·
ing also has advocated strongly that Con- come from upstairs that Kennedy must sula, has written of the theones involving the
gress reopen the Kennedy assassination die .. . " Where is upstairs? They never Kennedy assassination.
 The Gr~nd r?Rapids Pr~
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1975 /

JOn JFK: lnadmissable 'Evidence'_(

COUP RICA. By series of intriguing photographs, to which was made that "Bay of Pigs" mig&t be a
Mi d and Al J. Web.man. the publisher attaches tfie 1east aignifi· code phrase for the murder; then suddenly
296 . The Third • $11 .95. cance, this book would be only another in a and. without explanation, it no longer
long series of ''authoriative" reports on the "nught" be - it "has become."
The authors of "Coup D'Etat in Ameri- "conspiracy" to ~assinate John F. ~en- But Canfield and Weberman may have
ca" are masters of innuendo and the nedy - books which have failed to yield struck gold with the pictures of three men
ananswered question. Were it not for a e.vidence s~icient to reopen the lnvestiga· picked up in the railroad yards near the
tion into bis death. assassination scene within minutes of the
Michael Canfield and Alan Weberman no attack. Two of the three closely resemble
doubt have researched their subject and Hunt and another CIA man, Frank Sturgis,
they've dredged up some connectiom be- and an acetate over!ay supplied with the
tween the Central Intelligence Agency book ~akes an ~g match of photos of
(CIA). Cuban refugee organizations and Sturgis and Hunt with blowups of the faces
the Mafia that are hard to explain. Unhap- of the two "tramps."
pily. there are .too. many instances where 'Ibe photos alone could be considered
spe~ulation ~ indica~, and the authors sufficient to demand that Hunt and Sturgis
cant really tie everything together. be questioned under oath about their
The peg on which they bang their story is activities that day. (Both claim to have
the statement: "'Ibe people connected with ~n elsewhere.) 'I1le FBI, the authors say,
the Bay of Pigs (Cuban invasion}operation quizzed the "tramps" and released them.
and Watergate certainly had a motive for Perhaps the question of the assaslnation
~g Kennedy; ~Y felt.he was standing should be reopened. Perhaps the long
m the way of the 'liberation of Cuba.• " series of coincidences cited by the authori
The Watergate link leads naturally to really do tie the murder to the CIA and the
former president Richard M. Nixon, ind Cuban refugees.
the authors suggest - but there's no Perhaps ... but the "evidence" offered
aut.henticati
. ·on - that "Perhaps (Howard) by Canfield and Weberman (except for the
Hunt knew that. N~on was involved in the photos) would be inadmissable in a court of
Kennedy assasmation, whose code name law. Hearsay never is acceptable.
has become, aptly enou~, 'Bay of Pigs.' " = -Bob Doy
Only a few pages earlier, the suggestion -
 Book Briefs
.'lew and Recommended

"Coup d'etat in America~ by "Bome Inc.,'' by Scott Burns

Michael Canfl'iled and Alan J. (Doubleday, $6.95> proves that
Wcberman ('tbc Tl\ird Press, lhc simple family household is
$11.95J Is sublit1ed '"Tbe CIA America's most · Powet(ul
and the Ass35Sill;IE economic instrument. "i6is
F. Kennedy.'' and for- highly orginal book docundts
word by Henry 8. cz ol the rise or the house!Wld
the U.S. Congress. The authors economy and the rapid decline
claim to have unearthed new of corporate America. _
evidence in the Kennedy "Bow to Choose and use 1
assassination. On this basis Lhe Your Doctor," by Marvin S.
case has recently been ordered - Belskv and Leonard Gross
reopened. The charge is made (ArbOr House, S7.85) operates
that a ..depth squad" existed in (no pun intended) on the theory
lhc CIA. and Lhat it was that is ls not enough Cor the
organiwd to murder people in doctor to slop playing God, the
America. Thi! case SUPPorts patient has got to get off his
ii.self \I.1th many new photos, knees. The book is a survival
especially those or thrt>e manual dedicated to the
unidcnuficd "lramps" at the proposiuon lhat the only smart
Kcnnedv dcillh site, a "con· p;1tit•nl is an informed one.
Cession,;' of a death squad "SUenen.s: A Portrait," by
member and num e rous Eli1.abcth Hamilton
documents. <Doubleday, $i.95) deals with
•'Mad am Maigret' I Cardinal Leon-Joseph Sucncns,
Recipes," by Hobert .J. leader in the Second Vatican
Court1nc CH;ircourL, Brace Council, the ecumenical
.lov;movich. SB.95) prcsl·nts movt'menl. Church renewal
more than 100 recipes for and reform and one of the most
dishes dear LO Lhe heart or influential Catholic prelates of
Simeon's renowned lnspcctor our time.
Maigret. who shares with his "Queen Kary and Others,"
wife a profouncl love or food. Osbert Sitwcll (.John Day,
Courtinc hils culled from her $6.95> is a collection or essays
notebook a variety or delights dealing not only with Queen
from Soupc ;"lllX Tomatcs lo Mary, but fortune lrllcrs, NC\\
av
Crrmr Choc-ol:il, with Plt'nly York, London and Peking.

I of heart\' d1shrs in b<'hVl'en.

"Pathways," by .Joyce "All the Uvelong Day," by
Hiflcr (Doubk'd;iy, $4.!}51 is a Barbal.I Garson <Doubleday,

I rather thin. hardcover book $7 95l says it defines the

which reads like noalin!( in a ml't1ning and demeaning of
<'<lnoc down the n\·cr of hfe. routine work. Garson now
lkadcrs can expect tho11!!ht· wol"ril•S about other people
fulness and spmlual uplift being bored on the job. ~luch or
from her poetic prose. "P;ilh· this writing is related to the
ways" will serve as a helping same propaganda sh c
h.i~cl to thous:mds who ;ire dispensed with .Jane Fonda
tryin~ lo climb oul of the when she traveled around the
hrnlnnds of drs1iair and eountr)' giving anu-wnr
dr1m'ssion speeches. No doubt the 1atks
"The Walkabouts," by Mike y,cre as dull as this book. I
Saundcn; (Stem and Day, would suggest that before
$8.95) dt•scnbt-.s a S\\'1ss Family Garson writes about work. she
Robinson storv in rc,·crse. oughL to try it. She may find ii a
!\like Saunders. his wire aild refreshing experience.
• four.£bildrcn.1agt>SiJto 10) l"lf\. -LEONKET1
 \

PLAYBOY: Connected ho"'r "What are you

trying to sa y?
AGEE: J ust wba t I said . That's all I know.
But by the ti me tills interview appears,
a lot of these 1.hings may ha ve come out.
I hope so. That's really all 1 know. I
can gi ve you an opinion , tho ugh, fo r
what it's worth . Knowing the CIA as I
do, I can tell you th at everything I have
read about t11e assassina tion o ( P resident
Keunedy-Lee H arvey Oswald's back-
ground . Jack R uby's backgro und, the
photograph that seems to place E.
H oward Hunt at the scene o( the crime,

....
the mysterious deaths of so ma ny people
involved-everything makes me very
suspicious oE the vVarren Commi ssion 's
version oE what happened.
 ,,

~ .. - -....
NOVEMBER 16, 1975 BOOKREYIEW
co.;~ lft lmenca~'tlte ttA .a the •vmbaadoa' of whelher he would ttnderta.lte a domestic assassination;
z John 1-4. 'Kenned> by Mlch~cl Canfield and Alan J. Weber· . A Limp The0ry target unspecified. "I told him yes ..• " But the llis-
'-! !
..• man ('Thu'd Press: $11.95, illuslratcd)
For nearly 30 years Wf!J havt! lel the CIA typei; rein· I
cussion apparently went no further.
Sturgis told author Michael Canfield that he . thinks
! force their own fears and approve their own coVerl ac·
tion projects, without any real regulation. Atnong Ule on JFK Assassination the Warren Commission Report was ''one big covcr-
up111 which is either a very odd remark or a very clev-
bad results is this grubby book, whose grubby ques. er one if he did, lndcetl, have something to do with the
tions can't be dismissed out of hand. BY JOHN SKOW Kenneqy assassination. He admlts that FBI agents vi·
• The authors set out to prove their lheory I.hat 11By sited him shortly after the President was killed. He
1963 Kennedy's murder was being planned by assassi- asked them why, and "they told me I was one person
nation experts within the Central Intelligence Agency. Hunt, the authors hypothesize, may well have been in they felt had the capabilities to do it. Heh, heh, heh.
Orders had come from upstairs thal Kennedy must die Dallas at the assassination site when Kennedy was They said 'Frank, if there's anybody capable of killing
•• • " They don't come close to doing this. "Upstairs'' is niurdered. · the President of lhe United Stales, you're the guy that
never defined, and in a final chapter liUed "Unan- · To support t~is last supposlllon, they offC'r an assort- can do it.' Heh, heh, thal's funny. I told them, 'I'm not
swered Questions," the writers admit that "perhaps the ment of photos and photoanalyses. Three tramps were mad at you or nothing, I had nolliing to do with it, but
most important question to be answered is whether or discovered hiding in boxcars near the Texas School that ~muses me.' ''
not the CIA, officially or otherwise, knowingly or by Book Depository shorlly after the President was killed:
default, may have been involved .•. 11 Rather lamely, They were photographed, interrogated, and'allowed to Canfield's interview with Sturgis does nothing at all
they suggest that the Congress gel busy and investigate. drift away. Two of them seem to resemble Sturgis and to justify the book's theory of a CIA ~ination, but
What do the authors find wnen they dive down the Hunt. Acetate ovcl'!ays of known pictures of the two to some disgruntled taxpayers it may justify the book's
rabbit1hole of the Warren Commission Report? Well, appear to fit the tramp photos. But do they, really? price. Probably it is worth $11.95 to get a clear picture
Richard Nixon was in Dallas on business in November The tramp shots are grainy blowups. Il·is hard to de- of the sort of man the well-bred Ivy Leaguers of the
of 1963, and he told the Commission that he had left cide about the transparent acetates. How many tens of CIA have been sending around the world to defend
two days before the assas&nation. Apparently this was thousands of male faces could be made to fit well Mom and apple pie. ·
a misstatement, and in fact he left less than 24 hours enough over lhe tramp photos to trick the imagination? Sturgis ls a side issue, however. If there were a con·
before. So what? Well, Nixon, a man with strong Cu- The authors have not been able to get near Hunt, spiracy, who stood to gain by it? The authors say,
ban connections in Miami, later was associated with E. but they reproduce a long lnterview with Sturgis, who rather categorically, that Lyndon Johnson had no p3.rt
Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis, the Watergale bur- brags suggestively about assassination plots from his In it. It ill difficult lo see how Richard Nixon, who
glars. Hunt, a CIA man, was heavily involved in the years in Cuba, but who sounds plaus-Ible enough when seems to have been mentioned as an all-purpose \'il-
Bay of Pigs fiasco, ai1d Sturgis had been an intriguer denying any participation in the Kennedy murder. His lain, could have profited. The authors say unconvin-
and "soldier of fortune"-for which read CIA agent- speech is that of a shrewd, wholly Insensitive man. cingly that two gl'oups, the a.nti-Castro .cuba}'l exiles
in Cuba since before Castro's takeover. Lee Harvey Os· "For instance, Fidel," he says; "when I was in Cuba and the Mafia (whose gambling operations in Cuba
wald had murky Cuban associations. Jack Ruby, who there, I told my CIA contact, I said, look pass the word Castro had terminated) were bitter becallSe Kennedy
murdered him, may have had (did have, say the au- upstairs, you want me to kill Fidel, I'll kill him ... I failed to order a second air strike during the Bay of
thors) conneclions with Syndicate man Meyer Lansky, was close with Fidel." He says he was approached once Pigs invasion. Perhaps, but were they biller enough to
who ran gambling casinos in Cuba. And Sturgis and by a CIA friend, before the Bay of Pigs invasion, about car:y out a tisky assassination that could serve no pur-
<I)
pose but lhal oC vengeance? Why 11ol approach the
~:=====-===---=~==--~~~~~=:::::::ii problem directly. and kill Castro?
The Warren Commission Report ls wormy with in-
consistencies, but until some conspiracy fan answera
these questions more believably than they are an-
swered by Weberman and Canfield, the Report's mam
conclusion will have to stand: that Oswald, a deranged
loner, killed Kennedy, and lhat he did it by himself.

S~ow is a free-lanre writer based in New llamp'""sl_ii:....: . ~

... re...._ ' ----"
 that the Essex Junto "was made up What counts is that the idea take
of 'men of education and property' root. I am gratified that publisher
... speaking of themselves as the Joseph Okpaku says in a prefatory
'wise and good and rich,' qualified by note that "changing the American
birth, education and property to President is tantamount to changing
rule." In spite of the current George the government: And to the extent
C. Lodge's insistence on change, you that this is brought about vio-
cannot as you read such things sup- lently . . . such a process of change
press the thought that like breeds like is essentially a coup d'etat." Let
and there is nothing new under t he knowledge grow from more to more.
sun. - MEDFORD EvANs Authors Canfield and Weberman,
however, have screwed up the idea.
Coup D'Etat In America: The What t hey say is that Kennedy "was
C.I.A. And The Assassination of doomed" because by reversing Eisen-
John F. Kennedy hower's anti-Castro policy* he " had
.._ by Michael Canfield and Alan J . alienated the most reactionary and
Weberman, Foreword by U.S. powerful elements in American so-
Representative Henry B. Gonza- ciety," among which they include not
lez. The Third Press, Joseph Ok- only t he C.I.A. but also " the Foreign
paku Publishing Company, 444 Policy Establishment, " an expression
Cen tra l Park West , ew York which if it means anything means
10025; 314 pages, $11.95. the Council on Foreign Relations
(C.F.R.). Now anyone who believes
OF EVEN more current interest than t hat the C.F.R. is " reactionary" is on
the assassination of John F. Ken- some kind of trip from reality; in
nedy is the current interest in the fact, the letters could j ust as well
assassination of John F. Kennedy. stand for Conspiracy For Revolution,
Why do we now read and hear so elite division . " All professions are
much of a matter which was so long conspiracies against the laity,"
regarded by so many as either solved said Bernard Shaw, who must have
or insoluble? For myself I have al- known, and you don't get into the
ways been interested in the subject, C.F.R. (of which t he object is a New
and (if you will forgive my saying so) World Order) without being at the
labeled the event a coup d'etat nearly top of your profession.
nine years ago. (See AMERICAN OPIN- I do agree that Kennedy was
ION for September 1967.) Further, I doomed because he had alienated the
implicated the C.I.A. By myself, C.I.A. "I have learned one thing from
however, I seem to have provoked this business, " J.F.K. told Arthur
comparatively little interest; like Schlesinger regarding the Bay of Pigs
Longfellow's arrow, the article fell to fiasco, " - that is, we will h ave to
earth I knew not where. Now, a de- deal with CIA ." H e threatened to put
cade later, am I finding the arrow Bobby on them . We all know what
"still unbroke" in the heart of an happened to Bobby, too.
Okpaku? We need not in this review go into
The title Coup D'Etat/ln/America all the matters of fact with which
is printed on the publisher's jacket
and title page in three lines, as indi- •i t was Eisenhower, of course, who in Decem-
ber 1958 ordered Batista to leave Cuba, a nd
cated by t he foregoing slash marks, thus turned the island over to Castro. See
to emphasize t he acrostic C/I/ A. Ambassador Earl E .T . Smith's book, The
N 'importe, as we say. (We do?) Third Floor.

JUNE, 1976 65
the authors "document" their theory, pecially why are reprises of the as-
since that t heory rests on such a sassination and new flashes of old sex
theoretically unsound basis - i.e. , in the White House synchronized?
that the C.F.R. is "reactionary." Could it be to suggest that the murder
Many of their facts could be better was not political after all? (But, as I
used to support a theory that the have indicated, it could well have
CJ.A. was indeed involved in the been both political and personal.) Or
murder of President Kennedy (as, could it be to lay a ground for whoever
no doubt, were other government will to think that the man more or less
personnel, for that matter), but that had it coming? -MEDFORD EVANS
command of the operation came
from the top of the Left, not the top James I
(or any other level) of the Right. by Otto J Scott. Mason/Charter,
One of Canfield and Weberman's New York; 472 pages, $12.50.
stranger remarks is that by 1963,
" Orders had come down from up- EVER HEAR of George Buchanan
stairs that Kennedy must die . . . ." (1506-1582)? It is impossible to read
(Emphasis added.) "Upstairs" from Otto Scott's account of the genius
the C.I.A. is the President; or is sup- and exertions of Buchanan without a
posed to be. Since in this case it could new appreciation of Dr. Johnson's
not be the President, who was indeed accusation, "Sir, the Scotch are a
the chosen victim, who do Canfield conspiracy against the rest of man-
and Weberman think "upstairs" kind." (No, please! Not only are some
was? My own belief is that Michael of my best friends Scots, I am one
H.B. Eddowes bas in this instance a quarter Scot myself.)
better answer in his book entitled, George Buchanan was tutor to
Khrushchev Killed Kennedy . The James I, whose mother was Mary
K.G .B. has lines into the C.I.A. ; Queen of Scots. No boy could have
when John F. Kennedy threatened avoided crucial influence by so bril-
the C.l.A. he was threatening an ar- liant a tutor; no boy could have
rangement with the K.G.B. Or so, on avoided being dazzled by so beaut· -
the record of, for instance, Kim ful a mother. No boy could have
Philby, it must appear. grown up normal when such a tutor
My own feeling is that though the was so deadly an enemy of such a
Kennedy murder was primarily polit- mother. But Jam es I , whom Henry IV /
ical - or at least t he political aspect of France called "the wisest fool in
of it is what must interest us most Christendom," was King of England
profoundly - yet personal motiva- (1) when the Authorized Version of
tions may well have been also in- the Bible, cu stomarily called the
volved. In this connection it seems King James version, was issued; (2)
appropriate to note that return of when Shakespeare the unique was at
public attention to that deadly day in his productive heigh t; and, (3) when
Dallas has been paralleled by abrupt Jamestown was established in Vir-
release of apparently long withheld ginia and Plymouth established in
information concerning the outra- Massachusetts. How can you under-
geous porno life of the Kennedy stand America if you know nothing
brothers, which it seems was not con- of James I?
fined to remote C happaquiddick. Please don't take my rhetorical
Why is Camelot suddenly confused question to mean that you must know
with Sodom and Gomorrah? And es- all the relevant history before you

66 AMERICAN OPINION
 "Some people iust HAVE to go back to the office and say THEY caught the last rays .•• "

Hou:ard Hunt drops JFK-plot libel suit

WATERGATE burglar E. Howard Hunt has page ve rsion of the work. They say they also Ylpple "carbologtst" who garnered research
droppt'd hl... $2.5 mWAon libel suit against the plan to do a movie based on the book. C'OllJ' lit mat erial from the trash cans of celebs Uke
authors of Coup d 'Etat ht America, which clalmcd to be based on st~lu. of government Bob Dylan and Richard Nixon.) Webf"rman
contains ailegaUon.'i that Hunt and fellow- dot•Urnf"nt& and transcripts Of lour St•parate hlttd lawyer Bruce Stahl and cot depositions
Wah.'r~att>r Frank Sturgis masternllnded the otndal lnvffilt;atlons. The most dramatic ..... from ex-ClA director Richard Helm1t and for-
John I''. Kennedy aiu,wutlnatlon after 1tett1nr iwrtlon ln the book lnvolvPs the so-c11.lh•d mt-r countl'r-lnteWgence chief Jami's AnKle·
up Lf-e Ha.rwy Oswald to take the rap. Hunt, "tramp photo1<'' takPn In Dallas on Nov. 22, fon. Thf' defense also Uned up wltneSH<'M llke
the carP1•r ( ' IA spy whose co'Ver was blown by · 1963. The authors dalm two rnf"n dressed as Rf"p. He nry Gonzalez (D-Tex.), who headed a
tht• Watt•r1rate arrest, mysteriously dropped hobo4•1> BN' thP Hplttlng Images or Hunt and eongrNuiltmal Investigation Into the usllll!ll·
tht> Hult art••r slx y.-ani of expenalve litigation Sturgti.. WPl>t>rman told our Richard Johnson nation, and reportf"rs from Time and 60
Ju1>t a1; Jury selection was set to begin In fed- that Hunt sued for IJbel because "he felt I Mtnu.tt·:r. Stahl i.ays he's disappointed the suit
eral rourt In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where wu a penniless Vlpple and thought he could was dropped because an open trlal In federal
Hunt llvt•i.. ThlH mt'ana that authors A.J. ~t a default Judgment." {U Hunt felt that court, with witnesses ~r aubpc>na, would
way, It might very well be be<:au~ W.-bt•r· luave ~n the best way of ftndlng out what TODD ALLEN: fast times
Weht•rman and MkhM.'J Can11eld can move
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In The
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Also:
 November 1976 MORE 7

ing, we should do it our-

selves." There are, however, Coup d'etat in America: The m en ' s rese mblance to the
no present plans to "do it our-
selves." A ll this from the man
DID HUNT C. I. A . and the Assassination of " tramp pho tos " of thr ee
John F. Kenne<(l1. Hunt claims hobos picked up on the day of
who spen t thousands of dol-
lar s to co-sponsor and cover KILL JFK? that the book, written by A.J . th e assassina tion by Dallas
Weberman and M ichael Can- police. Acetate transparencies
an expedition Lo hunt for the No, Says Howard, field , accuses him and Wat er - of Hunt and Sturgis are pro-
Loch Ness monster. Suing for $2.5 Million ga te burglar Frank Stu rgis of v ided with th e book , and
At The Washington Post, pl a nn ing and exec uting readers are invited to place
metropo l itan edit or L en E. H oward Hunt Jr. i s Kennedy's murder wi th th e th em over the tramp ph otos
Downey says the edi tor s were pu rsu ing a $2.5 million libel hel p of C.l .A . and M afia con- and draw their own conclu-
" wary of co ming under con- sui t against Third Press pub- spirators. Th e authors based sions.
trol of an outside news organ- lishing house over the book their case largely on the two - RS
ization " and concerned with
the team 's "credibility.'' Ac-
co rdingly, said Downey , the
Post was sending its own re-
porter to "work in a coopera-
ti ve manner" in Phoeni x -
which seems to m ean tha t said
reporte r wi ll cover th e
activities of the 18-member
investiga tory team .
- ROBERT S Y DER

PEOPLE
PART II?
N. Y. Times Considering
New Picture Mag
The New >'ork Times m ay
be impossibly high-mi nded.
but The New York Times
Com pany j ust wan ts to see the
bottom lin e. Accordi n gl y.
they' re b u~ly agembling a
ne.w pictu r,e-and-capti on m ag-
a~m e t?at s mtended to be a
'
I am not a tramp:. Howard Hunt (right) claims he ll'OSn 't the hobo (/e_/i) pick ed up by Dallas
~p_o_h_c_
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Chro111cle's publisher whose

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Eq11ot1011, th e not-so -subtle
new roman aclef who e plot is
A uth or W arr en Adler ,
meanwhile. is itchi ng for a
direct ri val to People. Th e pro- husband commi tted suicide. outlined above, Bradlee ho- la wsui t that will "make th e
jec t -wh i c.h pre se n tly in- Bu t Gold also has G u nders- h um m ed th e who l e th ing. b ook." Says the fearl ess
volves des1gnmg a dummy Lein -H arold Gunderstein - "No o ne's read it that I know storyt eller: " I wrote it as I saw
issue and will probably i n-
the ace i nves tigative reporter of." he claimed . "There's no it. . . . 1 expect to take m y
clude some marketin g tests in
wh o singlehandedly toppled a i nterest here." l umps, but c 'est la l'ie."
1977-is now under way at the
pr es iden ti al admini stra t ion Calvin Fentress
offi ces of Family Circle,
for th e Chronicle. ow Gun-
anoth er Tim es Co m pa ny
derstein is on to some damag-
holding. The new maga zi ne
ing evidence abou t Senator
wi ll mos t likely be a weekl y.
Burt o n Henderso n , Presi-
dential candida te and fa vor ite

BEN&SAL, of ick Gold. Seems Hender -

son was mixed up in the 1963

BEN&KAY Diem assassination . Will Gold

publish the story'? Does any-
Fam iliar Characters Dot one ca re?
Steamy D.C. Novel Be n Bratll ee - exec uti ve
edi tor of Katherin e Graham 's
Th e story so far : N i ck Washington Post, roommat e
Gold , executive editor of the of his star society reporter
Wa~ h ingto 11 Chronicle, has two Sally Qu i nn and longt ime
women in his li fe : Jennie chum of JFK- sure as hell
Lynn . his top societ y writer doesn ' t. Or so he says. Com-
with whom he's ha ving an af- menting on Th e Henderson Bradlee and Graham : Factors i11 The Henderso n Equation ?
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Bv JOHN CREWDSON
New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON - The Rockefeller Commission on the
Central Intelligence Agency is looking into allegations that the
CIA was somehow involved in the assassination of President
Kemedy in 1963, according to rnformed sources close to its
investigation.
One focus or the commission's inquiry, the sources said.
is the recent assertion of a group headed by Dick Gregory, the
comedian and civil nghts activist, that E. Howard Hunt Jr,
was seized by the Dallas police near the Kennedy assassina-
tion site within m~utes of the shooting.
Hunt, convicted two years ago of conspiring to carry out
the Watergate bugging plot, was a clandestine political officer
for the CIA at the time President Kennedy was murdered.
The Gregory group·s charge is rounded on photographs
published last year in underground ne\\spapers and elsewhere
purp<1rtmg to show HW!t and Frank A. SturJtis. anoth>'r Cl! the
convicted Wateq:~te burgl;lrs, .bemg led hv Uu• !lOli.,! e a» ·ip
....,;;;;-.~'i-...__ i5n s• ass.~ Rmllr tl<Tbss from the Texas School Book
Depository BUildmg.
Hunt, in testimonv bcforn the R<>ckefelit>r Commc;sion,
reportedly demed that· he was in Dallas at tile time of !lie
assassination or that he knew Sturgis then.
Sturgis reportedly was employed by the CIA as an
operative in the Miami area round the t1111e of the agency-
mspired Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba m 1961
The School Book Depository was identified in the final
report of the Warren Commission, which investigated the
Kennedy assassination, as the location from which Lee
Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed President Kennedy
and wounded John B. Connally. then governor of Texas, as
they passed by in a motorcade.
David W. Belin, the executive director or the panel
headed by Vice President Rockefeller. the presidential com-
mission of GrA activities within the United States, declined
Friday to comment on specific areas or the panel 's inquiry or
on any tentative conclusions it might have reached.
The commisswn has decided, Belin said, to release its
findings about the nature and scope of the CIA's domestic
activities only after its investigation has been completed.
Belin , an Iowa lawver who served as a counsel to the
Warren Commission, said that although it was not hfs inten-
tion to "reopen the entire investigation of the assassination"
of President Kennedy, ''the allegation has been made that the
CIA, and particularly Hunt, was in Dallas on 22 Nov. 196.t "
After leaving the Warren Commission, Belin wrote a
book analyzing its work entitled, "You Are The Jury,"
supporting the conclusion that Oswald was the lone killer of
ooth President Kennedy and J.D . Tippit, a Dallas police
officer slain shortly afterward outside a movie theater.
Hunt also reportedly denied a report, which has lately
gained some currency among amateur assassination in-
vestigators, that he met Oswald in Mexico City in 1963 wlule
serving as chief of the CIA station there.

EDITOR'S REPORT
JFK and
the CIA
COUP D 'ET AT IN
A."\IERICA: The CIA and the
Assassin&tion of .John F .
Kennedy, by 1\lic•ba.el Canfield
and Alan J. WebeTma.D (The
Third rress, $ll.95).
This book argues that Ken-
nedy was kiUed by CIA and
:\1afia-connected conSjpirators for
failing t-0 t>rovide air support for
the Bay of Pigs .invasion.
Trans.parent acetate overlays
enable the reader to compare
the uhree "tramps" picked up
near the scene of the murder
wiith photographs of some oC the
Watergate burglars. There are
many photos, reprodudions of
\ F B I -and Secret Service
documents, and references.

.IWhe1 her these s uspicions are

justified or not, obviously the
mabter must be investigated if

I!
Ar.ericans are to retain (or
rega.in) any confidence in their
government.
 THE MIAMI HERALD Sunday, November 23, 1975

OOubts Loom Larger Over th~Y~ars

'Jn Question of Who l(illed l(ennedy
By VICTORIA GRAHAM
Associated Press
Doubt will not depart. rt intrudes
the grave_ of President John F. &-
ted t
~unmen, that he
he had a double
ib.erately assas-
Y Ill a coverup.
VN is that Os-
r~e~s~:::'~~~~~~.,._..,,.__
c~ey were CIA operative
ard Hunt and Frank Stur i ,
later connected wi!.h
burg~ -
th vf s. both
e atergate
I
1.S. tntelli,gence MrCHA --
~Cted to the So- ~ J W b EL CANFIELD and Alan
tried to go to / b~k e erman have Written a new /
)assed out pro- d' ~n the CIA theory. "Cou
' etat l1l America " Th
wilh t ·
' the evidence of the '::~5;':[~nt overlays,. picture~
ey reprint
. P
I
single-assassin "In 196 ramp-assassins.
don't who who bein 3 Kennedy's murder was J
pertsg r;!~~h~ed bhy assassination ex-
doesn't know m t e Central lnteU"
gence
Y do. Conspir~ claim Oswald. Agencv " th . I- /
~vas ey wnte. They
•ofve the CIA, a '·patsy" but t ha CTA a~ent and '
•s, alone or in \ The no t e assassin.
lhe a%sas~i~a~regory suggest that
elf. 1
m Anson, in J:>ne of a takei:1erw:rs ;;1y.
'e Killed the the eHte and by intellige enca by
phase
Mafia con. c1es that w Id nee agen-
Lid from lhe al Jibert" ou spy. er?de ind1vidu-
had everv- Jeade rs. ies and d1scred1t ci\'il·rights
y's assassi-
) lose," he Oth~r tJ1eories suggest that th
assassmat1on was a cons · e
I
Cuban exiles who wanted ~1racy '?Y
i Cuban- thei'. dproperty. Some claimo i~e~a:
! was to carne out on orders fr0 C
to avenge the Ba f m_ astro
ssinalion Cuban missile crisis.Y o Ptgs and
 .. ...
THE LARGEST SELECTION No SL;Ch contradicto
concepts lll\C urfaced in
lanche, wluch a u ual is~
OF NEW PLATFORMS sex, moo ), and power.
complex fc r all time. Madi
Pope, shc'J probably;ust
believes m women's righ1
. GEORGE BUSH DOES W NT OT chams, to \ hip 50 guys, t
Se.\ book has been so h1
You To R1 o TH1s BooK inspired pa1 od1es before i
sonal inquu cs like. "Hav1
)Ou get Se.\ in the mail?"
though I did receive an in
up, bo<l1celik.. black card '
not gagged, :\ladonna be
And v.hnt lurked at In
remove-your-matenaJ grrl
ofautocro11c 1ublic1t)., So
er uncut goodi.. Chocolate-
gcrous sweets People fau
people simpl raux-nailin1
@UC<;c; h tiling we
m fact wa~ the bo
case, guarded bv goons) an
the proceeds g in towan
Bui she was lllere in hel
v..c: all looked i a mirror
Sporung brcast·snaped bra1
Heidi cum Eva Hraun, Ma
about her quc~t for "perf
crowds clamored and. unbo
Stone (\\ ell her n"me ll'a.s ~
actress) was haulro awa"
babies to gel rnto this 001
peak, the) munnured, "Th
a colostom} bag." It did hi
e the 1ablcauA ~h1ch DO'
gin m a roped-off Stttion u
force-wea el his w~y into.
agam "This 1s superb. Arn
.A .A .A Lee Roth. "She' pe3long."
lHOWAIOHIM Mmtl I' TIAllP I I /'l2 /63 l llOWAIO llUPf1 \\'hen dtd I hear that befi
But no more anal_2mg A
~tupctymgl} scholart;.:.boo
alrc:ad) put m the I st v.{
mctamorpho:.1s hcckons Lo
own c11:cons1ruction:,, bur
The connection rcft o p~rsonal truiners. bot
between Dallas Madonna's uwn plas11c1t) n
oppre.s.~1ve meaning~ 9f co
and Watergate women." Pleas<' let 11 at b
Other celebnt> obses:.100
MERICA the night, nil over this slea;
Tori Spefllng insisting, • I'm
declanng, .. LA. 1s so plaSl
byAlanl K'eberman "llh his penis out at Lime
and Coppola DraC'Ula Gary C
and Michael Canfield and not sa)ing an~rhing as
bourg-h1s date. hke the co
FOREWORD BY HENRY 8. GONZA1.£Z And that wasn't the fir.JI
own Waterlandc\cnt at Mar
CHAIRMAN, HOUSE BANKING (OMMflm no !>lgn of Jeremy Irons, '.\I
Pirandello play starring tu
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~;\ ·'~:)~~~~~i~tsui~;,~~V.
j••
;.
$2.5-mifliori'iibel suit ·brought-by Mtaml resi-
. · ·dent and convicted Watergate burglar E. Howar~
: "Hunt .against two. N~w Yor~ authors and their
:· " publisher w~.s dropped yesterday. O(I. the /~_Ye of
· . the trial. the ~~sociated Pre:>s reports: Jury s~-
:.. lection was .scheduled to begin · to~ay 1n the SUit
·. filed over .what .Hunt said were :hbelou~ state-
' ments in the book, "Coup d'Etat in America: Th~
' CIA and the Assassination of Johf\ ,F. Kennedy .
. -::The suit was filed in 1976 against authors Al~n
· . :··Weber man and Michael Canfield, Th.e Third
Press-Joseph Okpaku Publishing Co.. of N.e~
:-.York City and book 1 ed.i tor M~rla ·Garcia _ Feltc1-
ano. Hunt's lawyer. Elhs Rubin. · alleged in the
·.. . complaint that .the book .said ~unt . and the CIA ,
. were responsible for the assassinations .ot Pres1-
·•~ dent John F:,l<ennedy and .the Rev ..Ma~tin L.uther ..
.:::::King.· In .his. statement_. r9wev~r, Ru~m said no.;
: " :money damages were involved m lh~ ~ett~eme,n.~. .
. ··,The ·attorney cited financl~I : cons1deraMn.s ,!r,l ·:·
: ·,aunt's deeision to drop the suit. In 19~1. a.f~d.er- ..,,
. ·'al court jury awarded Hunt $~5~.000 m a s1m1lar ::
. : suit against Libe_rty L~bby •. P.:~Ph:S~-~..o~. ~.~e ta~.;.. :
·1oid Spotlight. · . ~ . : ., ·.;· '~ ,~ ~ :; . , ... .. . . .. . .,.. ~-.:.;
I
 I I J • -

"Some people just HAVE to go back to the office and say THEY caught the last rays ,,

llowa1·d Hu1it drops JFK-plot libel suit.

\\!1\TEltG1\TE burghu E. llov.·ard llunt hus l)age \'CrsJon of the '"'ork. They .suy they also J'lpplc "g-arbologist" who garnered rescnrch
dropped h..L.;; $2.5 1nl1Uon libel suit against lhe plan to do u. rnovle based on the book. Coup Is 1nntcrial frorn the trash cans of celcbs like
authors of Coup d'Etat in America, ,..,.hlch clahned to be based on stacks or govern1nent. Bob Uylun and Rlchn.i-d 'Nixon.) \Vebern1an
contains alleJ,:"utlons that. l!unt and fellow- documenLo; and transcripts or four separate hlrL"<I ln\li'YCr Un.tee St.ahl and got depositions
\Vutergatcr Frank Sturgis nu1.stermlndcd the ofrlchd ln\'estlgatlons. The n1ost. dran1atlc lL~­ from cx-ClA director Richard llelnis and for-
John F. Kennc..-dy assu.ssinatlon after set.Ung scrtlon In the book In\'olvcs the so-called mer i!ounter-lntelllgence chJef James Angle-
up Lt.."C Harvey Oswald to take the rap'. llunt, "tru.rnp photos" taken In l)allas on ~·o,•. 22, ton. 'l'he defense also lined up witnesses like
lhe career CIA spy ¥.•hose cover n·us hlo"'n by · 1963. The authors clalm two 1ncn dressed as Rep. llenIJ' Gom.a1ez. (D-Tex.), ""ho headed n
the \\'utt•rg1Lte arrest., n1yst-crlously drop1>t.."<I hobi.es ure the spit.ting hna~es or llunt and rongressloual lnvestlgntlon Into the assassi-
the suit ufter six years of cxp4~nsh·e llti~uUon Sturgl.s_ \\'cbt:rruan told our 1-tlchurd ,Johnson nation, und reporters from Time s.nd 60
'.-1
just. us jury seh~ction was set to t>eK!n ht fed- that llunt sued for libel becHusc "he felt I J\liriute.s. Stahl says he's disappointed the suit
eral court in Fort. Lauderdulc, Fln., where was a penniless 1i'lpplc und thought he could "''as dropped because an open trla.l ln federal F
Hunt lives. This n1ean.s thut H.uthors A.J.
\\'cb••rn1un und l'ttlcha.cl CunC1+!1d can 111ove
J:"Ct a default judi:-1nent.." {If llu-nt felt that.
"''ay, It n1ight very \\'ell be bccuusc \Vcber-
court, \\'Ith "•ltnc~s under subpena, \Vould
hu.ve bee.n the ~t \lf.'RY ot flndlng- out \Vhat TODD ALLEN:°%~1
· ..,,.. ..,,.,1.11._-h J\n UJlrlnfp•1 1200- man ha..'> In t.ht! past Indeed be(•11 knu"'n us a "reu.lly" happent-d that dlly in Dalllls.
PR0DUC1;R Lester I
 September 12, 1975 ..,
•. t
;.
Messrs. Michael Caufield and
Alan J . Weberman
c/o Joseph Okpaku Publishing Co., Inc.
444 Central Park West
New York, New York 10025
Re : Coup D'tat in America
Gentlemen :
We are pleased to inform you that you are among
the prominent 1975 authors selected for a featured
Books West '75 appearance at BooksWest '75. Your Fall book has
content that the reading public attending this event
would definitely find stimulating .
Advisory Board Featured authors at BooksWest '75 appear in various
Mns. BLANCHE CAMPBELL
Campliell's Books (Ret.)
formats (talks, panels, debates, etc.) . We would
Mn. D1c e Y DtEHL
appreciate your contacting BooksWest to discuss the
Book Rei;ieu; Editor format appropriate for your appearance and, of course,
LrM Anµcles Times to discuss your availability for BooksWest '75 in
Mu. Sn:vEN F1sKE
P11l>lisl1er's Representatii;e
November.
Dia// Delacorte
Mn. Eucrr LEONARD Very truly yours,
President

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flfR. IRVING WALLACE

David R. Daw~"""'7
A11tlror

MR. D AVID DAWDY

Chairman Chairman, Author Selections
MR. GEORGE Trum:_~us
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PLAYBOY
Luck and the C.l.A.
LatM this month, Joiteph Okpaku's
,.LAYSOY: C:o1111t'rH·d ·now? What arc )"<Hl Third Prr~;s will publish a book, R
tl' yin g w s:1y? year In prcp:iratlon, hy lnvestl~aton
AGEE: J11s1 \\'hal I said. Th ai·, :di I know. Michael Canfit'ld :1lld J\lnn J. Weber·
man.
Bui by 1hc 1i111c rhis i111l' r"i"11· :1pp\.':11·,,
Called •·coup ll'Etat In America,
a lol or thCH' 1h i11gs '1Jay h :11 l" Clllllt: tll\I. the C.l.A. and lhe Assaulnatlon of
J hope so. Tha t's . rt.::tlly all I /:11011 •. I John F. KC'nncdy,'' the title atone has
ca n g!ve you a11 •, PJ!.i1~io11. d1oi_1·~h •. ' "'. the ring of mnn C'y, ond Mr. Okpnku
what 11'~ worth. Knowmg 1ltt· C.I:\ a~ I cheerfully 11d mit ~ chat the fortulrous
do, I ca ll 1ell )Oii 1ha1 cH·1 ~1h i11~ I han: disclosures :1 fJ1Ju t the Central fn tel-
read aho ut th1: as)a:.sin:11io11 ol Pn:sitk11t ligencc Agen cy i11 rC'C<'llt months lend
Kcnn t'Cly-Lcc 1 larn·y o,"·at<l·, l1:n k· credence and <;a lrahility to the in-
vestigative worl;.
ground . J:icl. Ruh)' ' h .1d:g ru1111cl . 1111· The :wo-pai::c hook, with 70 paacs
phowgr:iph th:tt ~tTlll~ l" pl.ill' . I . or which are in the form ot an · ap- '
H owa rd H uul a t the scene of 1ht crnm·. pendix of d ocuments, purport. to
the my~tl·rio u~ 1lc:11h' or "' 111:111 ) pen p li· show that Lee Han•ey Oswald was a
i11voh l'<l--e vcq•1hi11g 111akcs m e \ l' l y "deep-cover" C. l.J\. ogent who acted
smpiciOll\ o r 1hc \Varrl'll C:o111mi"i1111\ for the agcrrry In klllinc the Pn!~l­
vcnio11 o r what happened . dent 111 Novcmher, 1963.
 that the Essex J unto "was made up What counts is that the idea take
of 'men of education and property' root. I am gratified that publisher
... speaking of themselves as the Joseph Okpaku says in a prefatory
',vise and good and rich/ qualified by note that "changing the American
birth,. education and property to President is tantamount to changing
rule." In spite of the current George the government: And to the extent
C. Lodge's insistence on change, you that this is brought about vio-
cannot as you read such things sup- lently . , . such a process of change
press the thought that like breeds like is essentially a coup d'etat." Let
and there is nothing new under the kno\vledge gro\v from more to more.
sun. - lvIEDFORD EVA-l'.'.S Authors Canfield and Weberman,
hovvever have scre\ved up the idea.
1

Coup D'Etat In America: The What they say is that Kennedy "was
C.I.A. And The Assassination of doomed" because by reversing Eisen-
John F. Kennedy hower's anti-Castro policy* he "had
by 1vfichael Canfield and Alan J. alienated the most reactionary and
Weberman, Foreword by U.S. po\verful elements in American so-
Representative Henry B. Gonza- ciety1" among which they include not
lez. The Third Press, Joseph Ok- only the C.I.A. but also "the Foreign
\ Policy Establishment 1 " an expression
paku Publishing Company, 444
Central Park West, New York which if it means anything means
10025; 314 pag.es, $11.95. the Council on Foreign Relations
(C.F.R.), Now anyone who believes
OF EVEN more current interest than that the C.F.R. is "reactionary" is on
the assassination of John F. Ken- some kind of trip from reality; in
nedy is the current interest in the fact, the letters could just as well
assassination of John F. Kennedy. , stand for Conspiracy For Revolution,
Why do we now read and hear so elite division. "All professions are
much of a matter \vhich \Vas so long conspiracies against the laity, 11
regarded by so many as either solved said Bernard Shaw, who must have
or insoluble? For myself I have al- known, and you don't get into the
ways been interested in the subject, C.F.R. (of which the object is a New
and (if you will forgive my saying so) World Order) without being at the
labeled the event a coup d'etat nearly top of your profession.
nine years ago. (See AMERICAN OPIN- I do agree that Kennedy was
ION for September 1967.) Further, I doomed because he had alienated the
'
\ implicated the CJ.A. By myself, C.I.A. "I have learned one thing from
ho\vever, I seem to have provoked this business," J.F.K. told Arthur
comparatively little interest; like Schlesinger regarding the Bay of Pigs '·
Longfellow's arrow, the article' fell to fiasco, " ~ that is, \Ve \Vill have to
earth I knew not where. Now, a de- deal with CIA." He threatened to put
cade later, am I finding the arrow Bobby on them. We all know what
"still unbroke" in the heart of an happened to Bobby, too.
Okpaku? \!-..,' e need not in this revie\V go into
The title Coup D'Etat/In/America all the matters of fact with which
is printed on the publisher's jacket
and title page in three lines, as indi- 'It was Eisenhower, of course, who in Decem-
ber 19ti8 ordered Bntista to leave Cuba, and
cated by the foregoing slash marks, thus turned the island over to Castro. See
to emphasize the acrostic C/I/A. Ambassador Earl E.T. Smith's book, The
N'importe, as we say. (We do?) Third Floor.

JUNE, 1976 f\f"l/';(l(( {1'/J 0 P(tf( (/ ;J 65

the authors "document" their theory. j pecially why are reprises of the as-
since that theory rests on suth n sassination and new flashes of old sex
theoretically unsound basis - i.e., in the White House synchronized?
that the C.F.R. is " reactionary. " Could it be to suggest that the murder
Many of their facts could be better was not political after all? (But, as I
used to support a theory that the have indicated, it could well have
C.l.A. was indeed involved in the been both political and personal.) Or
murder of President Ke nnedy (as, could it be to lay a ground for whoever
no doubt, were other government will to th ink that the man. more or Jess
personnel, for that matter), but that had it coming? - MEDFORD EVANS
command of th e operati on came
from t he top of the Left, not the top J ames I
(or any other level) of t he Right. by Otto J. Scott. Mason/Charter,
One of Canfield and Weberrnan's New York; 472 pages, $12.50. \
stran'ger remarks is that by 1963, I
"Orders bad come down from up- EvER HEAR of George Buchanan
stairs that Kennedy must die . . . . " (1506-1582)? It is impossible to read
(Emphasis added.) "Upstairs" from Otto Scott's account of the genius
the CJ.A. is the President; or is sup- a nd exertions of Buchanan without a
posed to be. Since in this case it could new appreciation of Dr . Johnson's
not be the President, who was indeed accusation, "Sir, the Scotch are a
the chosen victim, who do Canfield conspiracy a ga inst the rest of man-
an d Weberman t hink "upst airs" kind." (No, please! Not only are some
was? My own belief is that Michael of my best friends Scots, I am one
H .B. Eddowes has in this instance a quarter Scot myself. )
better answer in his book entitled, George Buchanan was tutor to
Khrushchev Killed Kennedy. The Jam es I, whose mother was M ary
K.G.B. has lines in to the CJ.A.; Queen of Scots. No boy could have
when J ohn F. Kennedy t hreatened avoided crucial influence by so bril -
the CJ.A. he was threatening an ar- liant a tutor; no boy could have
rangement with the K .G .B. Or so, on avoided being dazzled by so beauti-
the record of, for instance, Kim ful a mother. No boy could have
Philby, it must appear. grown up normal when such a tutor
My own feeling is that though t he was so deadly an enemy of such a '\
Kennedy murder was primarily polit- mother. But James I, whom Henry IV
ical - or at least t he political aspect of France called "the wisest fool in
of it is what must interest us most Christendom," was· King of England
profoundly - yet personal motiva- (1) when the Authorized Version of
tions may · well have been a lso in- the Bible, customarily called the '·
volved. In this connection it seems King James version, was issued; (2)
appropriate to note that return of when Shakespeare the unique was at
public attention to that deadly day in his productive height; and, (3) when
Dallas has been paralleled by abrupt J am estown was established in Vir- ·'
release of apparently long withheld ginia and P lymouth established in
information concerning th e outra- Massachusetts. How can you under-
geous porno li fe of the K enn edy stand America if you know nothing
brothers, which it seems was not con- of James I?
fined to remote Chappaquiddick. Please don't take my rhetorical
Why is Camelot suddenly confused question to mean that you must know
with Sodom and Gomorrah? And es- all the relevan t history before you

66 AMERICAN OPINION
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BOOl<S
·o swald
a 'patsy'?
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·r By f>atrick McGllliga'n
COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA, by Mict1ael
•Canfield and AIRn J. Weberman . Third
World Press. 313 pp. $11.95.
"THEY'VE KILLED THE PRESIDENT/" by
Aobort Sam Anson. Bantam. 408 pp.
$2.50. .. .. . .
The world changed utterly on Nov. 22,·
Assassin's view In Dallas.
1963, the day John F. Kennedy was as-
sassinated In Delles. He took a piece of
everybody with him, some last sore hope
or illusion. The doubt porslsts, even from· the primary books available on the
. among Intelligent people, that the Viet- subject: " Inquest and Countorplot," by
nam War and Watergate would not have Edward Jay Epstein (which sugge sts that
occurred had the President lived. Both the Warren Commission hurried Into Its
events surely owe muct) to his tlmely as- mistakes) ; "Six Seconds In Dallas," by
·SBSSlna\lon. Josiah Thompson (which analyzes the Za-
Who and why? - the haunting quostlons. pruder home movie to undermine the sin·
Today, 12 years later, nothing Is wholly gle-assassln theory); and Mark Lane's
certain about Kennedy's death; not the fOntroverslal "Rush to Judgement."
motive, the means or the opportunity, Canneld and Weberman (the latter fa-
."the three essentials," In Robert Anson's mous In Ylpple circles as the "garbolog-
words, "in any murder Investigation." The lst" who raided Dylan's trash In the
Warren Commission report Is hotly de- 1960s) have written the more erratic
bated b y reasoned experts; polls show -treatment, unreadable In parts, specula-
t hat most American citizens dlsbelleve It. tive, troubling In others.
.And now, two books, "Coup d'etat In The title suggests their hypothesis (one of
America" and " They've Kiiied the Presi- growing popularity In conspiracy circles),
dent!" (paperback) have been publlshed that a "hit team" with mob, anti-Cuban , ,
to fuel suspicions that Lee Harvey Oswald and CIA connections, drawn by a com-
was (his own words upon arrest) "a mon hatred for JFK's oppeasemel"I! <>'
,.,... . .,, ..
,..o-+«"'u
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Castro's Cuba, did t he deed.
Anson writes: " To bell~ve the Warren They have unearthed some tontallzlng de-
Commission you must believe that bullets tail to support their theory that E. Howard
pause In midair and make 90-degree Hunt and Frank Sturgis, two ol the Wa·
right-hand turns; that a poor marksman tergate burglars, were present on the
can do what experts cannot; that Newto- grassy knoll that day, Including an Inter-
nian laws of motlo. were not operating view with Sturgis, In which the soldier of
on Nov. 22; that a man can be In two fortune admits having been approached
·places at once; that atoms are able to once for a "domes\lc assassination."
change their structure; that everything In
lndlvldually, the books are indispensable
life is mere coincidence."
(they disagree, for example, on the num-
The Anson book Is persuasive reportage; ber of Oswald "lookalikes" Involved In the
he writes skillfully, lrroslstlbly, turning tho supposed conspiracy) to the growing,
reader Into amateur sleu th. He touches tent ative body of assassination literature;
· all the corners - the smoke on the grassy together, they make a strong case for re-
kn oll, the man with the umbrella, the opcn in~ the Dallas Investigation, even
three anonymous bums, the "r.iysterious" · though more questions are being asked,
deathr- of witnesses, the International in-· perhaps, than can ever be satisfactorily
_trlguo, etc. answered. ·
But he has the advantage of having di- (Patrick McGiiiigan Is a member of The
gested well, and borrowed extensively, .Globe staff.)
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·A,._ Al'm.rtrong T~f'J?>n. Simon.and lclid 10 n~adn.~ s und murder I' :.11mc of formed tc111. lndc~. l./11/a I
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thriller·~ an ex-Clo\ agcnl. Thc terrifying
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muni~I B'ut~aria to heing a',hos1a~c on a l'ahl1J ca ~ a" .ind a '1nJI. 11111111.11..:
plane hi1ad.cd to 1hc desert by Palestin· COUP D'ETAT I AMF.RIC-A : glimp~c o f the man 1h.11 111.1 1"~ •\ Ii i d• c•·
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thintt a certain tyre of woman rc<1der Ketantdy. M il'hat'l Canfield and Alun .I. and hi~ ·" ifr Ma rt :1 al lhl'tr home 11: 'ull
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pursuer )OU have at the least " u yummy lictd and Weherman have wri111.•n. thc~c put togctht:r th e man) nh • 1111~ 1:i p h- 11<:
rcitd ." hall hcp1ns "he~ a lb~ operative two young men may yet hccomc ihc made on th:11 <ll'l..1,11111·· ·t1l 1rn:.1 1 :1 id 0

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mes5agc w11h ~he adm1111itio.n lhat she palling .:ovcrup than Watcr!!alc. 1 he au- home ur 1111 ht' µri 11rnth. .1l••nl' "~ ... ,•;, • ..
must lakc 11 to !he Prc!>ident of the thors \\Caw a wch of hinrrc and as· \\tic. and ~urierh portr.llh ••I < •••a .· ;
United Stat1.'S a nd ' tru~t no one else. tounding linkagc~-of fact, proh.1bili1~. tal ah,orpltt•n. pl.1~1nl! ht,. ccll1, I':•. 11 ·. •·
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hell, hi11h '4ater. evil Palesllntans or wily
circumstance and peopk-to support luw. 'umc11mc.; ,umhcr huin .•n.1:.• ,: :h<:
their t~ory : that Oswald was a C IA grc.1t celll\l. ' u mcm11r.1h i~ \..J v :!h' ,n
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Rob''' L. Dun«a11. Morro", S7.95 Cubans and the under\\orl<l, of "horn isl credo. 1>c,1gn und µr.1nh1t.. ' .ir1: n·
The author of "The Q 'Document•· offers Jack kuby "a~ a tool. Wall.:rgatcrs Hunt quisttel) ha ndled. w11h c1l.:,·11•. 1.: '"c ..1
here a book wh~ch is cortai~ly lieuded for and Sturgis (Hunt C IA) arc stronµ I} sug- whitc-on-hlack. ca,a b . 111\' C '''"~'- •• I re'
thc bc>t-tdlcr lt ~t. The plot 'Pi a ma1.e of gc:>ted as deeply involved, and the possi- l:.:.trofai. de /\mor ... '' rtttcn l•ir 111· " 1le.
•, diayin1 t'A'i!lli. und turns: the ~U5pense is hlity is ruiscd lhut !hey were the: is reproduced a" u clu~tn)l cndcarmcnl .
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almost unhcarahk. Harry C alder 1s a "tramps" picked up und unaeeountahl}' I Juli 1
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middh:-~c:d and di11enc~antcd in- • rclea.~ed on the Dul111s scene. Acetate
tclli~encc a11en1 based in Tol(yo'. He's of- <ft't:rlay photos of them lire included fo r STREET C'OR:"llER ( '0:\Sf:R\',.\TI \ t:.
t\ ,.,·.. ... ' fic1ully a technical advii.or ~Jt~ the U.S. comparison wit,h lhc " !rump" photos. William 1-·. Gantt. Arlington lto u~c .
·./'.:; i;;; Oovcrnmenl /\cc\1un1in~ Ott\cc. Calder is Thc:se combine '\\ith an cxclu~tvc in1cr- $7.95
,....:\ .. ·". . 1pproi;lched hy an l:nplishman, Wilkins. view with Sturgb and stunning r1.-search Oi ~ca nltn !! term~ hkc ··c:1 hn1c · and J
.. ·" land offered a fortune lo iln~erta~c a Uhere arc 600-odd " nolc,;," P U!!t!S or rac- .. hlue-collur, " Ci.11·111 1n1r11dul·c, 1 11 ~ ·~ .1 · c ­
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I . bclic\•ed lo have ~en i.uok. a.~ Japan \\a.<, Commi~sil>n , pul ice and other i.ourcc" to with principle, """ i- n•1I c1..:n ·' "'.irc
' 'lu.<1i ng t!Me \\Ur, b) <1 fa natic l'lllf hero. Too flesh out a hook that could rei.ult in a rc- 1hal he ti. a l'On,cn·a tt\ c) anJ ",1rcc:1 r.·o1 r-
' ,.._ ·latc, C:alckr finds t hat Wilkiu~· 1i. a hir~ exa mination \ If thl' Wum:n Report. flr'u- nc:r con:.t:f\ .111' c.. I .1 rcr,1111 I r..in 1nc
hna of the C l A. hcnt on ,m1akintt t~ tionaJ ad-pronw . A 111h<>r uppeuram·e.\'. same cla~' "h11 hcc11mc• mldkd :. :i:·.
Amcr~an agent the fall ttuy; ian· untrust- I July! aware uf h" i:un,cf\al1'm J. ( ,J , 1n .:1.: .1
1111'onhy employee \\horn th~ 1:;1n blame up Irish C:a1h11li..: 111 Jer, ,., <. 111 ..; t:ic
<: for» breakdo'"n in nc801taliuns bctwl!Cfl THF. BIRTH OF AMF.RICA. 194t>i.. hut ,eni..:c 111 1hc .1rn11 a1;.J ... ·-••1·
,; ···~ . the J11punesc and the Americans. The John Lf'"'i.f S1uxe. Tex1 hr Oan Lan-. lc!!e cduca1ic1n i.l1ver1..:d him r= r·Hll a hb·~·
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1piril iand hi~ hll irbreadt h escapes~ rich During h i~ \\llrk for numeruu~ leadin!! eral prn le'·"Jr~. u111il •inc n11.d.t • l·c· , • ·' •
· ·:; '. f11rc for ~P> buff., . Tht nwvit'righ1.f-lra1 ·t• mugaLinc:-. over the years. u~a rd -wi nn ing W1llia111 F. Bu1.kle\ . Jr . 11n. •1 ·1 \ 1. • 1,
. ;~·t· b#tn .4!JM Jo /Ja1'id M1•rr1<'k. lA.wgu.w .?7J phorn11rnphcr John Lew is Stllge dc\'t.!l· sho1' and rc;il11eJ I hat 1rnc l.''lu! J h<: ct!u ·
oped an aulhcnlk " foci " for America 's l·a1cd and el ite \\tlh11111 heir.;: u lih..: r;il
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past. the: land and · the pc:orile. Herc. When he i:. 1cll1nµ 1hc ,,.,,., 111 hi- I.Jc.
· SCIENCE FICTION through :.cmei. of hcau1il'ully rcprodul·cll Ciavin 1~ ~inn:re ;ind 1nlcrc,i1nl.!. hu1 1•1<1
.•... full-pa11c and smalll!r phoh>s in color and oflcn he di!!rc:"c' 1nlt> ,crm•J~e11e, that
IAaNARD-S Pl.ANET. ·.• black-and-whitc. he offers a man·chius· sou nd lik i: ec:hoc' of t he .\ uwma/ l fr·
. . Jolr11 Bo.~·d. Berkley/Putnam, $6.95 and C:\'OCali\'C visual punoram;t of life in ,.;,.."" He no\1 commute' lrom :.i \ ' irg11:1a
• When 11 str11y1na pulsar star wanders into Co)oniat Amencu from Pl>mouth and suhu rh to \\I a'h1n/!1on. "here he " .. n )
C!Uth's orbit in 1992, ii creates a force Jamesto~ n to t!v: surrender of Corn- aide to Senator James l:tudlc~ .
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·\ · field lhal m-kes ·1n1crstellu ~ra~cl pos- wallis at Y.orktown. Sta(le divides h1~ f ·1llJrlL\I I /
1lhlc al speed~ faster. thMO ·ligbt. U.S. " ·ork in19 IO p11ncl:l, visuully re-crea ting
Navy doctor La: Ashb~ is :ch'oscn to scenes and historic sites in old New En!!· Tiii:: PO\\'f.RS a.· E\'ll.:
·· :~:- . oommiand the spitcc ship, will\ a .crc:w of hmd. the M iddh: Coloniell and the Soul h,
In We.~tern Rell2fon. \1al!it vnd fol'- Bt··
r~ ' - r~ur men an~ two. v:-omen. all~~cnti.sts ~r show-intt the role of religion in colon ial
-~ . . d11fercn1 nM1tonMltt1c:.. The dcst1na11on IS life and contrasting the cleAtant li ve:~ of lirf. Riclturd Ca1·N1tl11lt Pu1n11m. F .•1~
;~.: ·~ .: htnard '! Plllnet. c:1~ht light-year~ awiay. " The King's Men·" i.lth the li~c::. of the Prcv!."u~l_r Ilic au1hur IJ/ "'1 he BIJd
.. {' h ~Its lite a b«uuful JH!ICC at first, but craftsmen and farmers a mong whom the Arts and c<litor 111 · ·t:nc:~dope<l1;i o l 1hc
Che b1pecb there: arc les~ intelligent lhllll independent-minded tehc:ls sr nlng up lo Unci1: Jllarncd,'. Ca,·cnd1\h ., .Jn unu~uu l
&_he qulMfrvpcd.ii, .iand the t~· arid plant
tigh1 King Ge11rge's armi'e.-;. The roma n· ~vcn refrc!\hin~ \\rth:r on the uu:ur1 . , ·
,, . life h11ve ~va and intc:lliMenCc. h is not ~elf-rnnfc. ,sed " ull1m"u lc ,.,,rt I .. 11n I,,,
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Lie slow of history·hy·hind~i1thl d04:,, nol I· ue CJ\ ll'
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JFKS!aying f,heory Offered

COUP D'F:T,•lT JN AMERIC1l by Micliae/ Canfieh:(and'
Alon J. Webcrmun: The. T/Ji:d'Piess. $11 ..95. . ,:{ ·
..: · "' t.. ·By J.R.,CUNNINGHAM ·lhc. pcrsunalilir.s menlioricd in thc assa,<sination conspiracy
., \V<Jter.!.!:ilp fantiliar to the · An1Qricau ·pu/J/ic thanks ro th·e
are rather hr:irings.
'··.Ob~ of the darkest <las; in recent American history '\\•a:i
Nc)v, 22, 1963, the day President John· F.. Kennedy was ams. · But tht' book i;)" hv no 111c;in.'i ju."! :.t n·Jiashine of H«ner-
sinated in DaJlas. The darkness that enshrouded that fateful gntP sca.nda! or libeJ6u.~ llaJlH'·stii"1t!111~- II· is a profe.\sio11aJ
da\' aiso carried ovet ..'inio. iis illvcstigation, sci ·that even._ ·•.:ind objective examinaUcin of lhc 1Jnrl1'rlH·!ly of Am0ri<!.in
' toda·i, the.· event .is ·Gve'rshaOowecI .···.. -:: · . poliJics; so C'Clovinc·ing in luct l.ha1 t:s. lit'p. Henry Gonzal~z
·.·. hy 'do,ubt and unresofred mys-. 1..• wqs n1oved to inil.iatc .:i r'Cso/ution in ihe House of Represfin-
tcries. 'The. \Yarren .. Re.p'qft. Ief_t ·1 latives which woulc! launch a fulI·S(':tJt> Congre.,.<-;sional in\•esti~
· 1nany inihortarit .Quesfioh~· unan- gation of the W'sassination and iL'i re/afed nspects.
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!'' s:ii.:er..ed and. is regarded. by IDfny OFFICTAT, Ai'tD EXACTJ1\'U as ihis n/J may sound. the
people as ,nothing mor.:e .th.an an
official. \Vhite,\'aSh. . hook is C3'ify rc•adablr. ·while J'crt. <'01J1ainiJJ~ enough faets;
TWO SUCH UNSATISFIED
figui·es, photos
·skr.p!ie:i/ reader:a11d docun1r.ntation lo SHtisfy even the mo5t
pe\1PW were Michael Ca,n.fieif! an.ct 'I'hc photos ineluctc ·close·ups of the "unidentified"
Afan· J. Webernlan, Without the
henefit .of. 'r~9vernmental or ·:other
!ramps picked up at lhc scene of lhe crime along wiJh plas- ,
'' .organized tic overlays of suspects for tbe sake of t'Omparisons.
backing, they serout on· Also included are copies of secret (no'r dec!assificclJ CIA
an PXtensive and Pxhausting. inves- · and F'Bl documents 11'hid1 in' themselves should have pro ..
tjgation that culminated in "Ggup h K d., · >'oked serio9s questiqning by ,the Warrr•n Commission aJJ.d, a
'. d'etat in A1nerica." .· ·1o n enne J . f{!Vealing intervie\v '~'ith frank Sturgis, 1\'atergate bur:Q'Jar,
, . This.intriguing book. although it does point the 'finger al and CIA operative. . •
i number of we/I.known governmenfal ·and political figures, -·~coup d'etat ifr A1neril'a'' .rloesn'l :ir1s\vcr a/I the ques.
proeJaim.s no exelusive· solutions. Canfield and \Vebern1an . lions, hut it docs raise1 goorl reason for the neccssit,v of a
propose a basic theory Oii the, assassination, revo/Ymg around lhorough attempt a/ tnc lruth, Ten yr·ars a~o, the whole
the. Cir\ and the Bay of Pigs fiasi:o, and· then utilize the bulk is:iuf! of serious CIA invoh'ement in lhe Kennedy as:}asr,ina.
. of !lie book to document and substantiate their a/Jegations. ·~ tion v.·ou/d have been dismissed as Jeft·\;.•ing yellow journal.
· · ·surpri>;jngJy or not, as the. case may be, 'quite a few of, ism, but in fight or rc,0111 «IJCc•lo.<ures mnccrning the Clt\'s
. . .· . ,,.. . .. domestic operations, the hook provides ""me interesting in·
sight~ and uncovers J<>rne frightening possibUiti~.
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Fin l and Market Streets, Wichita, Kansas

P. 0 . BOX 886, W ichita, Kans•s 67201 , U.S.A.
PHO NE: (3 16) 267-1084

HART ARMSTRONG, 0 .0 ., Th.O., Litt. D.

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MRS. M. L. FLOWERS .,
Secretary. Tre •surer

January 7, 1976

The Third Press

444 Cer~tral Park, W.
New York City, NY 10025

Dear Sirs :

The following book, which you publish, has been brought to our attention :

COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA: THE CIA AND THE .ASSASSINATION OF

JOHN F . KENNEDY
by Michael Canfield and Alan J. Weberman
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We would like to see a r~view copy. It might be of special interest to our '·

large reading constituency.

Please mark the review copy for my personal attention.

Thank you.

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Assassination plot charges possibly libelous·

BY MARTIN RALBOVSKY

C anrl the Assassination of John

OUP D'ETAT IN AMEHICA: The CIA
F'. Ken11c-
dy. by "lir.lmel Canfield and Alan J. \\'eber-
· proceeded lo kill Robert Kennedy and "lartin
Luther King .Ir., in 1968, andallempled lo kill
. George Wallace in 1972.
hurpoo11 lhe CTA's elaborate pla11s ror the Bay
of Pigs invasion of Cubn. He refused a re·
ql1est lo provide a second air strike for
con1plc!e. 1\1nerica was saved fron1 the leftist
le<Jclership of Kennedy and returned to the
wann boso111 of co11serv:1tis1n. The \\'arrcn
rnan. The Third Press, $11.90. •The CIA's assassin11tion s~uad was prolcctive cover ru1d held back the il·lal'ines. Co1111nissio11 was est:1blished, the book sa\'s
If Richard Nixon is still suffering from . orchcslratcd by 1nen who were the leading The itnplic<ltion is that Kennedy wanted the lo keep the Arneric:111 people fron1 befng
wh:il his former press secretary 1 Ron Ziegler, · practitioners of whal a1noun!s lo right-wing, CIA lo fuil al the Bay of Pigs so he could the11 crushed by the lrn\h. Its chief co11clusion,
once described as ·•inadcquale cash flow," he - conservative politics in Arnerica. use the failure <lS an excuse lo pul! the CIA in that Oswald, alread1• dead, had acted alone
might gel even finnncially ok by unloading a under his thumb. The CIA afieiandos were was a 1nere dh·ersiol1ary srnokescreen. \Vhat
The lll<leslro was Richard Nixon, !he one furious. else could we have expected tlbe book asks)
seven or eight-figure libel suit against the. n1an in /\n1crica who, the book says, bencfil-
writers and publisher of this strange, disturb- JJallus: This book cnntains pictures lhal froin a Repub!icc1n fro1n California 1E:irl
lcd rnosl fro1n all of the assassi11:1tions.
1 ing hook.
This book traces Nixon's invo\\'cn1c11t. with
purport lo ;,how thnt the "tratnps" who were
::ipprchcnded and released 111inutcs after
\Varren) but protection for anolher Republi-
can fron1 Cnlifornia fyon know whoJ?
Ile mny be forced lo, if !his book nllrnels the CIA back lo the late 195\J's when he was Kennedy was shot were really I!unt, Sturgis It is all :istonishing and frightening read- r·
any serious attention, which il mighl. Jn it, the leading cheerleader in the Eisenhower ing. The content overshadows son1e ob1·ious
Richard Nixon is portrayed as being far 111ore and a Lee H:irvcy Oswald "double" in dis·
White House for a CIA overthrow of l'idel guise. They shot Kennedy fron1 the 11 grassy flaws: The hook is woefully underrescarched,
than a mere betrayer of the public trust. This C<Jstro in Cuba. Nixon, the book says, wanted despite the publisher's fnreward lo the con-
book implies !hat Richard "lilhous Nixon, knoll, 11 jurnpcd into a nearby railroad car,
the CIA Io exlrnc\ Cnba from the Conrnrnnist cind were supposed to be tnken awny by the
trary (ol oHH sources listed, 307 arc merely
stalwnrl Quaker from Yorba Lindn, Calif., elnlehes of Castro and return it to the good newspaper clippings. n1agnzi11c articles and
Whittier College dnndy and rlie·hard Duke train. They were caught by accident and a
hands of i\·leycr Lansky, Carlos Prio. San(o - phony Sccrel Service 111an, pl<1nlcd on lhe books <1lready publishedJ. Language purists
debater, is the biggest single villian in the Triflicanle, l'ulgencio Ralisla nnd Belle \Vi!l .be drh·t1n to apoplexy by scores of .sen-
hisloryof lhe United Slnles. seene, convinced the Dallas police to lei the
Heboi.o. 11
lrn1nps" go. lenees lh<tt st•lf·destrucl from the improper
This book implies, wilhoul proving any- NixOn, the book says, never did ncccpt the use of words. 1The CIA h;_is its private assas·
outcome of the IU60 election ibe los\J. 111-· Oswald was inercly an expendable CI A si1rntionsqt1nd. not theirs.) .
lbin~. lhe
following: palsy in all of this, the book says, fingered by
stead 1 he h\a1ned Kennedy (and i\layor Daley · Bnl say !his for it: This is the firsl ll'ork to
• Lee ilf!n•ev Oswald did not kill President or Chicago) or stuffi11g bullot boxes with the CIA lo lake the blame. It was Officer .I. D. speculate \hut the CIA, on behalf of Richard
.John Kennedy: The Cenlrnl Intelligence Ag- Dc111ocralic votes and robbi11g hin1 of the Tippil's job, the book alleges, lo shoot Oswald i\'ixon and !he politics for which he stood
ency did. Presidency. \\1he11 Kennedy took office, he for resisting arrest. But he bungled !he as· n1urdcretl not only John Kennedy. but Hobl'rl
• The CIA did ii becnuse it considered John reacted with skepticism lo the CIA's pla11 lo sign111en!, got shol hir11self 1 and so his boss in Kennedy, .\lcirlin Luther King Jr. 1 :111d al-
Kennedy lo be a left-wing, pseudo·Marxist overlhrow Castro: He fell, the book says, !hat lhe conspiracy, Jack Ruby, was Iorced to te1npted lo 1nurder George \\1al1ace. If the
who was taking the country off its pre-ord<lin- the CIA was gelling oul of ha11d lo lhe point of :>ersonally put Oswald away to avoid any · at1tl)ors ;ire wrong :ibout this, H1ey are going
ed course. dictating foreign policy. further slip ups. lobe ir! for 111ore thnn a puhlication party.
lhr~~~~~f."lbov~l<y o( lhi: Chrnnlclt ~ldfl i\ I~ dU!hor bl
• Mier disposing of John Kennedy, the CIA Kennedy lhe11 proceeded, Jbe book says, lo Thal accomplished, lhe coup d'e\al 1ins

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with skulls packed with tissue simulants) excited other investigators, even if they municatio11s man," another figure in a
that a "jec" effect, a hydrostatic pro- failed to conv ince t he commission that photograph who appears to have a "two-
pulsion due to the skull's explosion, something strange m igh t h ave been afoot. way radio" in his back pocket (and who
threw Kennedy's head back. R ather, The railroad yards themselves inspired has been ident ified as a man now a
they point out that Olficcr Hargis, who a nother grassy-knoll speculation, for it patiCtll in a mental liospita l)? It's possible
was r id i 11g escort to t.he Presidential car was from them t11at the three famous that h e was just an eccentric, but the
at its l eft.rear fender, was splattered "tramps" were rousted after the murder \.Yarrcn Commission never looked into
wi th blood a nd brain. That Oflicct· J ames and marched anms Dealcy Plaza, where this.
Chaney, looking a t Kennedy from his they were photogra phed (see liellJw). I t <l i<l, however, look into and dis-
motorcycle near t he r ight fender, sai<l Other theories i11cl udc the sugi.:estioa miss as m cani11g less a story three wit-
he saw "the Prc'sident struck in the face." that consp irators had ho llowed out the 11esscs told of two men, seen at different
T hat Deputy Sheri f[ Seymour vVeitz- grassy knoll a nd then cut down the times. One man, heavy-set, was said to be
man found p art of Kenned y's sk ull, per· P resident from there. Former New O r. in a Depository window, then hurrying
haps the same piece that .J ackie had leans d istrict attorney Jim Garrison and away from the J)cp ository and fin all y
scramb led o n to the trnnk of the Linco ln Penn Jones say a gunman lurked in a en tering a sta t.io n wago11 driven by a
to try to recover, 011 the south (left) side of sewer and o n signal plugged the Presi- young black man. The o ther, yo unger,
Elm Street. That Secret Service agent dent. Much more intriguing is th e "um- was seen by Deputy Sheriff H.oger C1·aig.
Clint Hill and eyewitn ess Charles Brehm brella man ." Although th e day was warm runnin g out of the Depository's Elm
saw what they thought was impact debris and sun ny, a single neatly dressed man Sn-cet entra11ce, <lown the gen tl e slope
flying 1.0 the ldt and rear of the car (it stood and watched the l'rcsidcnt hei ng and into a light-colored Rambler sta-
seems ro have been recorded, too, o n murdered, while holding <111 o pen um- tion wagon (ea~d l y id entifiable by it s rool'-
N ix's film). T h at agent Hill and his col- brella above h is head. After the killing, top 111gg•1ge rack). T he driver of the
leag·uc Roy Kellerma n, who was riding i11 he stood watching the motorcade. trailing \Vago11, accordi ng- w Craig, was "very
the rig-ht-from scat of Keu11edy's car, said the d yin g President. disa p pear clown Elm dark <.:amplect.ecl, had real dark short
t.he fatal sltot so unded funny, like a Street, th eu folde d his umbrella and hair and was weari11g a thi11 wbite-look-
double bang-bang (and Hill thought there wa lk c:d calmly away. He was the only ing jacket." Craig sa id he tried to reach
l1 ad been on ly two shots, the second in person so shi elding himself. Could that the car to q uestio n tl!c m e n, hut the
t.he head). No, they think the shot had have been a sig11al (or shooting LO begin? n11sh of people pre\'ented him, a11cl then
to come from the right front, from an- Or did t11c m an have a gun built in to his the wagon took olf down Elm.
other kind of g un , perhaps one loaded umbrella? \Vas he •,1cri ng in co11cert with a Man y people believe these wit11csscs
witl1 ex plosive bullets (eerily, there is a man o ne assassinatio11 theory c;dls a "com- arc describing other assassins , even by
re port that in ea rl y 1963, some members the iN;1rre11 Commission's lights, because
of 1he C IA asked a rescarch·and-devclop- th ey could not he Oswald. H e was, the
mcnt man to sketch au explodi ng round
for a 6.5m111 l\lannlichcr-Carcano).
BIT PLAYERS report says, taking a bus a nd a taxi
toward his rooming house. The hea,·y-sct
Other pltot0graplts, too, con jurcd men
man could be tl1e " Saul"' who has co n-
o n the grassy kno ll. Groden has to his
fcssetl in H u ~lt ~\I cDonald"s recent IJOok,
own satisfactio n identified two shad ows in
Aj1poi1111mnit hi JJ111/(ls, that he killed
the Zapn1der fi lm as more snipers. \Ve
have seen the speculations based on the Ke11 11cdy for money, with Oswald as a
N ix film. Another phot0graph , taken hy p;1 tsy. The younger man co ulcl bt• the
,\Jary !\loorman, who stood aliout 15 seco11d Osw;dd, o u t on his appointed
feet frnm the Pr.e sidcnt 's car, seems l.o ro1111ds again. th is tim e as a killer i11 1hc
show a man with a gun standing behind Depository. The dri ver o[ 1.hc station
the stockade fence about 14 £cet from its wagon co11lcl be a Cuban exile or, i [ you
conl(:r. The JVIoonna11 photo, ta ken :1p- prefer, one of Castro's me n aveng ing the
proximatel y one fi[th o[ a second after assassination plots 1he CIA-J\.lafia con11t!C-
Ke1111cdy's head ex plodecl, has been tion concocted for the Cu !Jan leader in the
studied intemcly. Some experts say the early Sixties. Or 1hc:y rn11 ld have been part
figure is a shadow, or.hers that it is an o[ a Texas right-wing plo t. H. L. JI u11c\
assassin . son Kclso 11 Bunker 1Iu11t partly pa id for
S. 1\ l. Holland, a railroad swi tchman, a scmri lous anti-1\.en nc:dy ;1d tlt:tt ap-
was sta n ding on the Triple Underpass peared the morn ing o f :"\o\'cmbt'r 22, and
wl1e 11 the shots we re fir ed. He hotfooted Jack Ruby had clri\·c11 one o[ his strippers
it to the parking lot ai1d Io1111d muddy to Hunt's oflic c: the d ay before, and J\lrs.
footpri11ts behind the fence. It looked to Pai11c had a Iighl'-colorcd st;1tio11 wag-011.
him like o ne or two men had paced back The clearest picture of the "tramps" ever Craig himself now is dead, undc:r strange
a 11d forth uehi11d a car. Holland is posi- published . Th eorists say t he two men al
cirn1111stances. as arc more tba 11 50 people
tive he heard shots coming from the knoll right are Fronk Sturgis and E. Howa rd Hunt,
who allegeclly k11 ew something about
(o thers think it could ha Ye been echoes). both with the CIA and thus in Dallas lo a ssist
Kennedy's dcatll. (The actuaria l odd.>
in killing Kennedy. Nixon was also in Dallas
H o lland's story, which he told re- aga inst that were ca lcula1.ecl at IOO rrillio11
the morning of November ·22, and so may
peated!)' to sundry assassination buffs, in- to one.) So huge a conspiracy probably
have had on early relationship with the men
cluding the \Varren Commissio n, fits would come apart i11 time, Joe Valach i-
later hired as White House "plumbers."
nicel y, if circumstamially, with that told style. Bue t\l·o or three men would 11eed
Others say the tromps ore Americans who
by Lee Bowers, who was enscu11cccl in a only their anger and a g un . I s tlic:rc a ny
trained Cuban commandos and then, when
rai lroad switchi ng tower. Before the the President turned away fro m liberating hard eviclence of a second gu nman?
assassi11ar-ion, he saw what he took to be Cuba, they killed him . No proof exists for The ultimate ev idence was the l'resi-
strange movements of ca rs and people either theory, and since the men don't look de11t's body, bnc the autopsy was botched
in the lot and then "a flash of light or like Sturgis and Hunt, and no soldiers of from start lo finish. At Bethesda Nava l
smoke or something'. ' that ca.ught his eye. fortune have yet been identified, they may Hospital 011 November 22, a tcarn of
Tl1e claims o( Holland and Uowers just be wetl-dress"ed, well-groomed tramps. pathologists conducted the autopsy unclc:r 205
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to Groden, his blowup shows not only he started scanning the last 18 frames toriography (a study of the way history supported that movie's attempt to prove
that President Kennedy was killed by of his Zapruder film and then began to is written). In 1967 Lifton did a l0,000- how several assassination teams might
a shot from the front (and therefore see that what he thought was the wheel word analysis (with David Welsh) in have worked in Dallas. Lifton is a 35-
from a shot on or near the grassy well of the presidential Lincoln wasn't Ramparts which argued that there were year-old bachelor whose Brentwood
knoll); it also shows the rifleman stand- the wheel well at all, but the rifteman- three assassins firing in Dcaley Plaza on apartment has 22 filing drawers on the
ing there on the grassy knoll holding "because the car was moving forward November 22nd, 1963. assassination.
the rifte up in the air as the presidential and the 'wheel well' was moving back- In 1968, shortly after most of the Lifton has a work in progress which
car disappears through the railroad ward." transcripts of the Warren Commission challenges the authenticity of the evi-
underpass. • David Lifton is an engineering- executive sessions were declassified, Lif- dence on which the Warren Commis-
Interestingly enough, when Groden physics graduate of Cornell and a drop- ton published them privately as Docu- sion based its major findings.
showed this film at Bernard Fenster- out from graduate school at UCLA who ment Addendum to the Warren Report. • George O'Toole, a former com-
wald's home in November 1973, nei- ought to have three doctorates by now Lifton has served as a consultant to Dr. puter analyst for the CIA, has turned
ther he nor anyone else made any men- in the disciplines he has picked up dur- Cyril Wecht and it was he who pro- to a new technological tool as an impor-
tion of a rifleman on the knoll. Groden ing ten years of work on the assassina- vided the producers of Executive Ac- tant adjunct in his assassination re-
says it wasn't until Jan"uary 1974 that tion: history, political science and his- tion with the documentary record which search. The tool is [Cont. on 37)

The Mystery Tramps in Disguise?

Add Dick Gregory, the comedian taken in 1963, when Hunt was 45, and Institute of Forensic Sciences in Oak- fomcials who could corroborate his
turned activist, to a long list of assassi- the short tramp looks at least SS. Some land, California. There, criminologist f ~resence there. Hunt said he'd given
nation buffs who"ve been sleuthing facial features of the tall tramp appear Charles V. Morton measured the facial their names to the FBI. which grilled
around with a set of photos taken by to bear some similarity to Sturgis's,. characteristics on comparison photos of him rather recently about his where-
three press photographers at Dallas, the shape of the nose and chin most Hunt and Sturgis and tramps and con- abouts during most major political
November 22nd, 1963. particularly. But the gestalt is different, eluded that the tall tramp was definitely crimes of the last SO yean1. Hunt add-
The photos show three men, short, The tall tramp is obviously Nordic and · · not Sturgis. The short tramp was prob- ed: "I'd like you to tell the world
medium and tall, being led through Sturgis is obviously Latin. Further- ahly not Hunt'-though the details in I've had these FBI interviews, so that
Dealey Plaza by two Dallas policemen more, there is a great disparity in the fuzzy photos of the short tramp your colleagues in the media would
to the Dallas County Sheriff's Office. height between the tall and the short were insufficient to provide Morton put some pressure on the FBI to re-
The cops released the men without, tramps. The tall tramp seems to be at with an absolute basis for an opinion. veal the results of their investigations.
apparently, getting their names. "They least eight inches taller than the short However, reported Morton, "at least Those investigations would help clear
were just tramps," the policemen were one. Sturgis seems to be no more than one deftnahle characteristic appears to' my name." Hunt promised he'd sue
supposed to have said, "and we let wo or three inches taller than Hunt. argue strongly against identity. This is anyone worth suing who charged that
'em go." . .. To the buffs wanting to believe, how- the shape of th~ car." Accord!n& to he was in Dallllli i~ November 1963 or
For years, buffs looking for the real ever the photos were too good to drop Morton, the helix of the ear an the part of a plot to kill JFK.
~ille~ of JFK" have. been trying to · They "proved" a CIA complicity int~ Hunt photos is concave and. the helix Hunt made similar disavowals _on
1dent1fy the tramps. Richard Sprague, plot to kill Kennedy U d g d f the car of the short tramp 1s convex. network TV and local TV shows dunng
a computer scientist from New York .. v th· n ,er broun All this seemed somewhat super- November 1974. Nevertheless, the
n-.wspapers a11 o er e coun ry egan . . . .
and former board member of the Com- . , fluous m light of Hunt's angry denials tramp photos (with one of the tramps
mittee to Investigate Assassinations, has 10 reprmt the tramp phot~s, al~ngside to me that he was even in Dallas on now labeled "Hunt") seem to have a
maintained that one of the tramps is a those of Hu~t and Sturgis, with the Novemhcr 22th, 1963. I found Hunt life all their own, have become part_or
Minuteman from Washington D.C. blatant assertions that the tramps were at the Hotel Sheraton Russell in New the collection of artifacts surroundmg
named Fred Lee Crisman. Sprague Hunt and Sturgis. York in November. He told me where the JFK assassmation mythology. Dick
dubbed the tramp of medium height Two months ago, ROLLINO SToNE he was on November'. 22nd 1961-..in r:~""""" '"""r1 rh.. ,.,.m .. ".,,,,,.. ,.; ......
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dubbed the tramp of medium height Two months ago, RoLLINO SToNE _ he was on November 22nd. 1963-in Gregory found the tramp photos cin:u-
"Frenchy'~ ,and it· wu Sprague.who.fad had the trllmJ; photos ex.1unined by the · Washington. at o meeting of-some CIA taring at the A5.~assination Information
Ramparts and the Nt!w York TimFS the .;._ Bureau convention in early February,
intelliaence that "Frenchy" bore a star-
r;;" latched on to them (along with Robert
tling resemblance to a widely circulated Groden's Zapruder Him blowup) and
police sketch of a m!lfl wanted for the took tramp.photos, Groden's blowup
assassination of Martin Luther King and Groden on the road.
in. 1968. Because Gregory is who he is, how-
In 1972, after years of trying to link ever, something of a folk hero who
up the tramp photos with, mainly, anti- commands attention from the media,
Castro Cubans and some of their Amer- the Rockefeller Commission called
ican compatriots, the buffs started Gregory to testify before it in Washing-
scanning photos of the actors in the ton for a firsthand account of his
Watergate scenario. Could any of the charges. There Gregory stopped short
Watergate crowd have been in Dallas? of identifying the short· tramp as Hunt
And if so ... Eureka!, they said, the but plalod the role of "aggrieved citi-
short guy was E. Howard Hunt and the zen." Ir this isn't Hunt. said Gregory,
&all one was Frank Sturgis. then the government has an obligation
The shon man does bear a resem- to tell us who it is.
blance to current photos of Hunt, to -R.8.K.
be sure, but the tramp photos were
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J Carl Rowan
t°J"ban League l that one oC King's most
influencial ad\'isers was a secret Com·
munlst.
•·we've followed him regularly
to 1\ft'xlco where he meets secretly with
a top Soviet intelligence official, but
we've never been able to get a photo-
WASHINGTON. aura of &eml-believab!lity around what graph of King's friend with the Russian
I ha\e ne\·er been the sort of person used to seem to be ridiculous claims spy," I was Informed by an FBI offi-
Who sees an evil conspiracy behind that G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard cial.
e\·ery death oC every controversial per- Hunt (two ex-CIA operatives) were In Told of this, Johnson asked certain
son. Dallas the day Kennedy was killed ch•il rights leaders to com·lnce King
Not a CIA-capitalist conspiracy. Not and were n1>ar the scene of the crime. that it he continued to be Influenced
a Soviet KGB-Communist plot. Not by this so·called Soviet spy, he would
1 listen with an eerie tingle when
when John F. Kennedy was assassina- someone r<:minds me that Alabama "Teck the civil rights movement. King
ted. Not when Martin Luther King was agreed to ditch the alleged spy, but
killed. Neither when Patrice Lumumba Gov. Wallace has speculated that some- a few weeks later .Johnson, I and other
one with money, who stood to benefit
was murd~red in the Congo, nor when politically from ending his third-party top government officials were treated
t'Papa Doc•· DuvaUer just sort of to FRI stories (maybe valid, maybe
"passed away'' in Halti. campaign, had to be financing and di- not) that King was now seeing the
recting Arthur Bremer, the man now
I have writfrn nary a column sup- imprisoned for almost killing Wallace. alleged Communist secretly.
ti0rting those wtio scream- that Lee
Harvey O;;wald \vas not the sole kill- The terrible truth is that, after Wa- * * *
Yon sit rf'memberlng that many peo-
cr of Kennedy. I have given not a tergate, few people doubt any story of ple detested King for what he was do-
:;ingle speech supporting James Earl political madness. ing to break up the old Jim Crow or-
Ray's claim that he ls not responsible A top FBI official confided to me de1·. After the FBI launched Its whis-
for King's murder and that he desen·es several years ago that the late J. Ed- pering campaign, many Ameiicans be·
3 new trial. gar Hoover was livid when Dr. King Ji.!?,·ed he was a "commie" out to de-
As one who once sat on the Forty was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. stroy this country. Olher segments of
Committee, which approved delicate Hoover talked with a few aides about this society despised him tor the harsh
CIA operalions, and who never heard the fact that King had tried, as a teen- things he was saying about U.S. mill-
-a. word about the CL~ operations, and ager, to commit suicide. Either Hoover, tary involvement in Indochina.
who never heard a word about the or one of his minions, decided that the You remember U1ose things and are
CIA's killing nybody, obviously I've "suicidal tendency" might be reacti- forced to wonder if King's assassina-
JJever grabbed TV Ume w;th a claim vated tr the FBI sent to King's wife tion was merely the deed ol one man,
that the U.S. was operating a sort of a surreptitious recording ·made of a James Earl Ray, who acted solely out
~rurder, Inc. in the Caribbean or ~-¥· party in King's su.ite In a Washington or his own hatreds.
place else. hotel. The more one hears these stories
* * • Coretta King has now admitted that of nefarious schemes and gross abuses
I belh.•\•e 1hat you don't •oouse peo- such a tape was received, but she ls by the dirty tricksters ot the intelli-
pie or gm·e1:nments-of murder unless quoted as saying that neither she nor gence community, the easier It be-
you're able to prove It. her late husband felt that tt was dam- comes to doubt that James Earl Ray
Yet, I confess that rm shaken by aging to them. So King did not commit acted alone, without instigation, or
The rash or recent stories alleging that suicide. without help or pay from others.
the CIA handed out contracts to the Meanwhile, tn 1964, Hoover told Presi- How poisoned the atmosphere be-
lfafia for the murder of assorted peo- dent Johnson (who then told civil rights comes when normall~· trusting people
pie, presun;ably all foreigners. The leaders like Roy Wilkins of the NAACP find themselves suspecting the worst
Watergate revelations have thrown L'l a.nd Whitney Young of the National where polit!cal murders are involved.
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Blowup: Was the shadowy form under Lhe tree

leaves Lhe bead of an assassin holding a rifle?

originated in a hoax, hatched in D e- opinion, he was or was not an e mployee happened to b e carrying the passport."
cember 1963 by two Texas newsmen and of any inte lligence agency of the United The Flaws: Such records are often care-
a Dallas assistant D.A. who suspected States'." Uthe ens uing inquiry did not go lessly made; the one that says Oswald
th e bureau of tapping their phones. As much beyond Hoover's flat denial, it did was 5 feet 8, for instance, i s accompanied
one of the reporte rs, Alonzo Hudkins, substantially unde rc ut the tale that Os- by a photograph of Oswald standing
recounted it, the three set out to prove wald drew down $200 a month. The against a waU gri<l on which his height is
the ir suspicion by staging a conference commission published an exhaustive 5 feet 9. In any case, if there was no Lee
call, referring to Oswald as an informant 100-page anatomy of Oswald's finances Harvey Oswald , who is the woman who
and debating what his numbe r was- over his last seventeen months, during for 35 years has been claiming to be Lee
S-179or172. Sure enough, said Hudkins, which he earned $3,655 and pinched Harvey Oswald's mother?
an agent materialized within a half hour, every penny of it; it uncovered no evi- The Plumber Connection: A number of
dropped a few off-the-point questions, d ence that any hidde n benefactor was conspiratoi:ialists, notably comedian
the n asked casually: "Say, have you doubling bis income under the table. Dick Gregory, have promoted the theory
heard a nything about a secre t payroll The No-Oswald Theory: For years , var- that Wate rgate conspirators E. Howard
m tmber Oswald may have had?" Hud- ious conspiracy th eorists h ave posited Hunt and Frank Sturgis may have been
kins played dumb, and h eard nothing the possibility that there may have b een present-and in fact briefly detained-at
more of the tale unti l a iew York news- two or even three Oswalds, one the real the assassination scene. Their "evi-
paper printed Hoover's denial-before article, the othe r (or others) assig ned by dence" is a press photo of the Dallas
the charge had ever reached print. unknown con spirators to prepare weeks police w ith three unide ntified " tramps"
The 'Dirty Rumor': The commission's and months al1ead for his frame-up by in tow; the shortest of the three looks to
critics maintain that, whatever the me r- p lan tin g incrimina ting clues about him. some doubters like Hunt, the tallest like
its, it did not pursue the agency connec- In the new wave, Peter Dale Scott, a Sturgis. The implication: the plumbers-
tions hard enough , and instead took the Berke ley medievalist and assassination to-be were somehow associated with the
FBI and CIA de nials at fuce value. Their buff, has added an ingenious new wrin- events that bloody noonday in Dallas.
exhibitA is a lately surfaced transcript of kle: that the re may have been no real The Flaws: The look-alikes. on close
a closed-door commission meeting in Oswald a t a ll. One principaJ so urce of insp ection, don' t. The " Hunt" figure
January 1964, at which staff director J. this speculation is that Oswald's seems older in 1963, when he would have
Lee Rankin began unhappily: "We do height-5 feet 9 al his death-fluctuates been 45, than he does now at 56, and the
have a dirty rumor [about Oswald as in various physical-examination records ·•sturgis" Doppe lganger is craggier and
informant S-179] ... and it must be over four years between 5 feet 8 and 5 fairer than his real-life incarnation.
wiped out insofar as it is possible to do so feet 11. Says Scott: 'Tm really intrigued
by this commission." What follows is a that the only reali ty of Lee Harvey What the doubters have confirmed,
long, unflatte ring d ebate in which the Oswald is some documents, a passport after a dozen years' labor, is that the
commission wobbles indecisively be- w hich was used by different people. Wa rre n inquiry was a flawed and at criti-
tween offending H oover by mounting its Who was Lee H arvey Oswald? Whoever cal mome nts a timid one. What they have
own investigation, or merely acce pting yet to provide is a satisfying alternative to
his word--even on the advice of former the official theory-a h ypothesis that
C IA director Allen Dulles that Hoover does not require whole squads of assas-
would probably lie if it were so. They sins vanishing into thin air and whole
settled on a "marriage" of the two ap- platoons of lawme n conspiring success-
proaches, but critics charge they did fully over a decade and more to protect
precious little independent inquiry. them. The conspiracy theorists may, as
The Flaws: The "nunor" was an insub- they claim, have raised enough reason-
stantial one to start w ith, as the commis- able doubt to warrant reopening the C'ase,
sion staffmay have sen sed from the first; in a committee o f Congress or some other
one of the Texas law men w ho reported it open and indepenclent forum. But ii
to the m, in any event, was the assistanl wo uld be perilously \Vishful thinking to
D .A. who had helped make il up. Most expect s uch an inquiry to lay all doubts to
accounts of the meeting, moreover, un- rest-to make order ofthe ch aos ol'Dallas,
kindly omit a second sentence from Nov. 22, 1963, or lo promulgate some
Rankin's opening remarks, in which he fi nal, symmetrical " truth" about the
admonishes the commission that the death o[J ohn F. Kennedy.
country will expect it " to try to find out Ul'I
- PETER GOLDMAN with JOHN J. LINDSAY 1n Washington
the facts ... [so it] can fairly say, 'In our Superbullet: Both JFK a nd Connally? and bureau reports

38 Newsweek , April 28, 1975

 NATIONAL AFFAIRS
it shows-or so they believe-a figure -
L~321I aiming what cou ld be a rifle over the top
of what could be a station wagon on the
grassy knoll allead of the President's
motorcade. And Groden, in the best
"B lowup" tradition, thinks he has found
two and possibly three more assassins in
the Zapruder film: one, rifle still in hand,
dimly visible through some low-hanging
tree branches along the motorcade route,
the other-perhaps with backup man-
behind a fence on the grassy knoll.
The Flaws: The Nix "assassin," if he
exists, could as easily be sighting a
camera as a gun; if it is a rifle, he appears
to have the wrong ann propped on the car
roof. Groden's "gunmen" are too gauzy
... but did a second hit from up front drive him violently backward? even to be identified positively as hu·
man beings, let alone assassins, and are
Belin, a Warren staff alumnus now di- to buttress its case. Jones found iliat accordingly regarded as dubious even
recting the Rockefeller commission in- Connally's reaction was too exaggerated among some diehard conspiratorialists.
quiry into the CIA, says flatly: "I have no to be explained by the impact of the
doubt that Oswald killed Kennedy." bullet; he suggests that Connally was WAS OSWALD A GOVERNMENT AGENT?
reacting physiologicaJly to his wounds. The FBI-CIA Connection: The conspiracy
WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY? The Fatal Wound: With gut-wrenching literature is shot through with specula-
The Superbullet: The Warren commis- clarity, Groden's blowups of the Za- tion that Oswald was an operative or at
sion's one-man theory rested heavily on pruder film show JFK's head snapping least an informer for one or both agen-
the hypothesis that Oswald's first shot forward under the impact of a bullet that cies, which were then heavily involved
struck JFK in the upper back, exited from blew away one side of his skull; then, a in trying to penetrate domestic radical
his throat, tore through then Texas Gov. split-second later, his hand and body groups. The CIA links are largely suppo-
John Connally's torso and right wrist, lurch even more violently up, back and sitious, based on some striking oddities
and burrowed into his left thigh. To have leftward into Jackie's arms. The in Oswald' s record (tl1e ease with which
conceded that the two men were hit by doubters' theory'- that Kennedy was bit he got a Marine Corps discharge, then
separate shots would have been to ac- by separate shots, one from the rear and defected to Russia, then came home on a
knowledge a second gw1; Oswald almost one from the front, a single movie frame government loan) and some thready con-
certainly could not have fired his clumsy (or one-eighteenth of a second) apart. nections with various people and places
bolt-action rifle that quickly. Yet the The Flaws: The Sim itself shows an thought to be in the CIA's ambit The
single bullet said to have caused all this explosion of blood, brain and bone &ag- FBI story bad rather more body: Oswald
damage came away miraculously un- me nts spraying upward and forward, in fact was carrying the name and phone
scathed. And ongoing studies of the suggesting a bit from the rear. A second number of Dallas agent James Hosty in
Zapruder film-most recently by Robert bullet striking Kennedy from up front his pocket notebook, and there were
Groden, 29, a New York optics expert might have been expected to produce a rumors-now often quoted as fact-that
currently touring with a pirated print- comparable burst backward, but none is he was on tl1e bureau payroll as infonn-
seem to the doubters to show Kennedy visible. Physicist )ones's studies, more- ant number S-179 at $200 a month.
and Connally reacting to their wounds a over, concluded tllat a double hit would The Flaws: The CIA connection re-
half-second to one and a half seconds have required a "giant" second bullet mains speculative, pending further in-
apart. The conclusion: they must have with ten times the momentum of the first quiry by the Rockefeller commission and
been hit by separate guns. to drive JFK back and leftward so force- the two Congressional committees in-
The Flaws: The nearly pristine condi- fully. His hypothesis: the movement was quiring into the agency's operations. The
tion of what critics call SuperbuUet is a neuromuscular reaction to the damage FBl's Hosty ins isted he had contacted
indeed hard to e:\.'Plain; the commission' s to Kennedy's brain. Oswald only as a matter of routine SUI-
defenders are mostly reduced to arguing The Mystery Men: The conspiratorialists veillance of a returned defector. And the
that it could have survived intact be- have long been fascinated by a frame in a embellishments about his informant sta-
cause it did. But the doubters are stuck second amateur film shot by Orville Nix; tus and his payroll number apparently
with the perplexing question of
what did become of the bullet I I I t 9 • •

that hit Kennedy if it didn't

strike Connally as well. And the
film is at best ambiguous on the
timing of their wounds. To some
viewers, Connally seems to go
stiff almost simultaneously with
Kennedy' s first visible reaction,
and hjs right hand flies upward
clutching his Stetson-reflexes
that might support a single-
bullet theory. Connally's major
reaction to his wounds does
come a half second or so later,
when he begins sagging right·
ward, spins and then slumps Photo play: Some conspiracy Lheorists
heavily to his left. The commis- profess to recognize Watergate conspira-
sion called this a de layed reac- tors Sturgis and Bunt (above) among the
tion, and subsequent studies by three tramps in police custody near the
UCLA physicist B.K. Jones tend scene of the Kennedy assassination
April 28, 1975 37
 NATIONAL AFFAIRS
it shows-or so they believe-a ~giife-..;..;.$
aimin g what could be a rifle over the top
lFRAM.!= 321 I of what could be a station wagon on the
grassy knoll ahead of the President's
motorcade. And Groden, in the best
" Blowup" tradition, thinks he has found
two and possib ly three more assassins in
the Zapruder film: one, rifle stil l in hand,
dim ly visible through some low-hanging
tree branches along the motorcade route,
the other-perhaps with backup man-
behind a fence on the grassy knol l.
The Flaws: The Nix "assassin," if h e
e xists, could as easily be sighting a
camera as a gun; if it is a rifle, he appears
to have the wrong arm propped on the car
roof. Groden's ''gunmen" are too gauzy
. . but did a second bit from up fron t drive h im violently backward? e ven to be identified positive ly as hu-
man beings, let alone assassins, and are
~elin, a Warren staff alum nu s now di- to buttress its case. Jones found that accordingly regarded as dubious even
·ecting the Rockefeller commission in- Connally's reaction was too exaggerated amon g some d iehard conspiratorialists.
1uiry into the CIA, says flatly: '"l have no to be explained by the impac t of the
WAS OSWALD A GOVERNMENT AGENT?
lou bt that Oswald killed Kennedy." bullet; be suggests that Connally was
reacting physiologically to his wounds. The FBI-CIA Connection: The conspiracy
WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY?
The Fatal Wound : With gut-wrenching lite rature is shot through with specula-
The Superbullet: T he Warren commis- clarity, Groden's blowups of the Za- tion tllat Oswald was an operative or at
;ion "s one-man theory rested heavi ly on pruder Ulm show JFK's head snapping least an informer for one or both agen-
h e hypothesis that Oswald's first shot forward unde r the impac t of a bullet that cies, which were the n heavily involved
;truck JFK in the upper bac k, e xited from b lew away one side of h is skull ; then, a in trying to penetrate domestic radical
:iis throat, tore through the n Texas Gov. split-second later, his hand and body groups. The CIA links are largely suppo-
fohn Connally's torso and right wrist, lurch even more violently up, back and sitions, based on som e striking oddities
md burrowed into his left thigh . To have leftward into Jackie's arms. The in Oswald's record (tlle ease with which
~onceded that the two men were hit by doubte rs' theory-: that Ke nnedy was hit he got a Marine Corps discharge , then
~eparate shots would have b een to ac- by separate shots, one from the rear and defected to Russia, the n came home on a
mowledge a second gun; Oswald almost one from the front, a single movie fram e government loan) and some thready con-
~ertain ly could not have fired his clumsy (or one-eighteenth of a second) apart. nections witl1 various people a nd places
Dolt-action rifle that quickly. Yet the The Flaws: The film itse lf shows an thought to b e in the CIA' s ambit The
>ingle bullet said to have caused all this explosion of blood, brain and bone frag- FBI story had rather more body: Oswald
:hunage came away miraculously un- ments spraying upward and forward, in fact was carrying the name and phone
;cathed . And ongoing studies of the suggesting a hit from the rear. A second number of Dallas agent James Hosty in
lapruder film- most recently by Robe rt bullet striking Kennedy from up front his pocket note book, and tl1e re were
Groden, 29, a New York optics ex'1)ert might have been expected to produce a rumors-now often quoted as fact-tllat
:urrently touring with a pirated print- comparable burst bac kward, but none is he was on the bureau payroll as inform-
;eem to the doubte rs to show Kennedy visible. Physicist Jones's studies. more- ant number S-179 at $200 a month.
md ConnaJly reacting to their wounds a over, concluded that a double hit would The Flaws: The CIA connection re-
1alf-second to one and a half seconds have required a "giant" second bulle t mains speculative, pending further in-
ipart. The conclusion: they must have with ten times tlle mome ntum of the first quiry by the Rockefeller commission and
Jeen hit by separate guns. to drive JFK back and leftward so force- the two Congressional committees in-
The Flaws: The nearly pristine condi- fully. His h ypothesis: the movement was quiring into the agen cy' s operations. The
:ion of what critics call Superbullet is a neuromuscular reaction to the damage FBI's Hosty insisted be had contacted
ndeed hard to ex-plain; the commission' s to Kennedy's brain. Oswald only as a m atter of routine sur-
lefenders are mostly reduced to arguing The Mystery Men: The conspiratorialists veillance of a re turned defector. And the
:bat it could have survived intact be- have long bee n fascinated by a frame in a embellishments about bis informant sta-
:ause it did. But the doubte rs are stuck
.vitb the perplexing question of
#hat did become of the bulle t
hat hit Kennedy if it didn't
second amateur film shot by Orville Nix;
,,.,, ..
tus and his payroll number apparently

;trike Connally as well. And the

llm is at best ambiguous on tl1e
iming oftheir wounds. To some
•iewers, Connally seems to go
;tiff almost simultaneously with
Kennedy's first visible reaction,
md his right hand flies upward
:lutching bis Ste tso n-reflexes
:hat might support a single-
c:i ulle t theory. Connally's major
reaction to his wounds does
:ome a half second or so later,
#he n he begins sagging right-
•vard, spins and tl1en slumps Photo play: Some conspiracy theorists
~eav ily to his left. The commis- profess to recognize Watergate conspira-
;ion called this a de layed reac- tors Sturgis and Han t (above) among the
:ion, and subsequent studies by iliree tramps in police custody near the
UCLA physicist B.K.] ones tend scene of the Kennedy assassination
~pril 28, 1975 37
Paae 16 ICONOCLAST, Dallas, Texas, October 10-17, 1975

.....
ftOTIS
to get back into radio (Editorial :
"Our Voice In Irving!" May
23-30) by working the early
morning show at "easy listening'
KVIU
The slogan-monaer who c
ouston Investigative reporte
Martin Ralbovsky discovered
that freedom of the press is
exercised by the men who own
one as he quit his job last week
after the editors of the HoUlton
Chronicle refused to publish his
Reporter Ralbovsky isn't the
nly one who had trouble with
that case. It is interesting to
recall that one of the three
doctors who conducted the
autopsy on J.F.K., Col. Pierre
Finck, later testified under oath
come up with the Official Slog n stories on the John Kennedy that he was ordered by a high
for the United States y assassination case. Ralbovsky njilitary officer during the
by Do111 D. BUer, Jr. December 1, 1975 will w says he was ordered to halt his utopsy not to attempt to trace
Guess who's aoing to Washing- $5,000 plus a month's stay at th digging into the J.F.K. murder e path of the wounds through
tonl Channel 13 "Newsroom" best Holiday Inn in the cities h after he uncovered apparent he President's body.
moderator Lee Clark is scheduled might visit and an America
to join "Input" as a national Motors station wagon. You can discrepencies in the Warren Doctor Finck states that the
correspondent in the nation's enter by sending your slogan to: Commission investigation. That officer, Admiral Edward Kenney,
capital where she will be Slogan U.S.A., Box 1776, Washin- story killed by the Chronicle told the doctors not to probe
reunited with her old boss Jim ton, D.C. The winner will be alleged that members of the certain wounds when they were
Lehrer. Public television insiders announced March 21, 1976. arren Commission believed attempting to reconstruct what
are wondering who will be her tH were being lied to by Dallas had happened during the assas·
replacement if the show survives The most interesting sign seen Poh officials. Ralbovsky sa't sination .
her departure. in the Dallas District Attorney's his eel rs removed him from e
Who would have thought that office lately read: "Only a good J.F.K. ca complainjng th his As a result of the admiral'•
our mayor would respond to prosecutor can convict an stories wo "dis " the order, the autopsy physicians a
Iconoclast's calling on Wes Wl1e innocent man." state of Texas. Bethseda, Maryland, complete!•