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                               Chapter 5
                   The Assassination of John Kennedy

The assassination of President Kennedy can be considered one of a series
of  acts by the Power Control Group to regain the control they had  lost
when Nixon was defeated in 1960 and Kennedy threatened their  existence.
The  evidence pointing toward intelligence involvement and the use of  a
variety of intelligence techniques in the assassination is  substantial.
Until and unless an investigation is conducted by a group with power and
money  equivalent to that of the Power Control Group, with the power  to
issue  subpoenas and to protect witnesses, it will be very difficult  to
draw a completely accurate picture of the conspiracy to assassinate JFK.

As  a  substitute,  this  chapter  is  a  "probable   reconstruction"--a
scenario--about   who  killed  John  F.  Kennedy.   Unlike  the   Warren
Commission  Report (another scenario), this report does not contain  any
physically  impossible events, such as those connected  with  Commission
Exhibit 399, the so-called "magic bullet."

This scenario is based on (1) evidence gathered between 1968 and 1975 by
the  Committee to Investigate Assassinations, Washington, D.C.  and  (2)
evidence gathered between 1962 and 1975 by the author.

The  purpose  of  this scenario is as a starting  point  for  study  and
verification  by researchers, by Congressional Committees, and by  their
members and staffs.  This should be considered as a beginning hypothesis
and  scenario  in  contrast to the  Warren  and  Rockefeller  Commission
scenarios.

The  best evidence available indicates the following events occurred  in
the  summer  and  fall of 1963 and culminated in  the  assassination  of
President  John F. Kennedy.  The basic evidence has been  summarized  in
various   articles  published  in  "Computers  and   People"   (formerly
"Computers and Automation") since May 1970.[1] This can be considered as
a  guideline  scenario which adheres to and explains all  of  the  known
factual evidence.

                              How It Began

The  conspiracy  to  assassinate  John Kennedy  began  in  a  series  of
discussions  held in New Orleans in the summer of 1963.  The men in  the
discussions  were  extremely angry that Kennedy had  stopped  plans  and
preparations for another invasion of Cuba (scheduled for the latter part
of 1963.)  One of the instigators was David Ferrie, a CIA contract agent
who  had been training pilots in Guatemala for the  invasion.   Meetings
held  in Ferrie's apartment in New Orleans were attended by  Clay  Shaw,
William  Seymour and several Cubans.  Plans for assassinating  President
Kennedy developed out of those early meetings.  Others whose support was
sought by the group included Guy Banister, Major L. M. Bloomfield, Loran
Hall, Lawrence Howard, Sergio Arcacha Smith and Carlos Prio Socarras.

                             Oswald's Role

During  this period in the summer of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald was  working
for  Guy  Banister on some anti-Castro projects and used  the  Communist
cover of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.  Oswald attended some of  the
meetings where JFK's assassination was discussed.

Oswald  either  approached the FBI or they approached him in  the  later
summer  of  1963, and he began to tell the FBI about the  plans  of  the
group  to assassinate JFK.  Oswald had been a secret informant  for  the
FBI since mid-1962.

                              Mexico City

In  September,  the group moved the scene of their  planning  to  Mexico
City.  There they solicited the assistance of Guy Gabaldin, a CIA agent.
Meetings  were  held  in the apartment of Gabaldin,  attended  by  Shaw,
Ferrie,  Seymour,  Gabaldin  and Oswald on  at  least  three  occasions.
Others  were brought into the conspiracy at this point.  These  included
John  Howard  Bowen (alias Albert Osborne), Ronald  Augustinovich,  Mary
Hope, Emilio Santana, Harry Dean, Richard Case Nagell, and "Frenchy" (an
adventurer  who had been working with Seymour, Santana,  Ferrie,  Howard
and  others on the Cuban invasion projects in the Florida  Keys).   Fred
Lee  Crisman, Jim Hicks and Jim Braden (alias Eugene Hale Brading)  were
also recruited at this point.

                           Oswald, the Patsy

Oswald continued to inform on the group to the FBI in Dallas. In mid- to
late September the assassination group decided to make Oswald the  patsy
in the murder.  They had discussed the need for a patsy in the  earliest
meetings  in  New  Orleans.  Billy Seymour, who  resembled  Oswald,  was
selected  to  use Oswald's name and to plant evidence  in  New  Orleans,
Dallas and Mexico, which could later be used to frame him.  In addition,
another  man  under CIA surveillance in Mexico City also  used  Oswald's
name in a probable attempt to make it appear that Oswald was headed  for
Cuba.   His  name may have been Johnny Mitchell Deveraux.   His  picture
appears in the Warren Commission Volumes as CE 237.

                           Financial Support

The team needed financial support for the assassination.  They  received
it from Carlos Prio Socarras in Miami, who brought more than 50  million
dollars  out of Cuba.  They also received money from Banister, and  from
three  Texas  millionaires  who hated  Kennedy:  Sid  Richardson,  Clint
Murchison,  and Jean DeMenil (of the Schlumberger Co.).  The  Murchison-
Richardson contribution also included soliciting the assistance of high-
level men in the Dallas police force.  They were powerful members of the
Dallas Citizens Council that controlled the city at that time.

                         Plans for Three Cities

The group in Mexico City planned to assassinate JFK in Miami, Chicago or
Dallas,  using  different gunmen in each case.  The  Miami  plan  failed
because  the Secret Service found out about it in advance and  kept  JFK
out  of  the open.  The Chicago plan backfired when  JFK  cancelled  his
plans to attend the Army-Navy game at Soldiers Field in early  November.
The group set up two assassination teams for Dallas.  One was in  Dealey
Plaza;   the  second was near the International Trade Mart  where  JFK's
luncheon speech was to be delivered.

                              CIA Support

The  best evidence of CIA (Deputy-Director of Plans) involvement is  the
fact that the majority of the known participants were contract agents or
direct agents of the CIA.  In Mexico City, the meetings were held in the
apartment  of  Guy Gabaldin, a CIA (DDP) agent, working for  the  Mexico
City  station chief.  Others attending the meetings who were  CIA  (DDP)
contract  or  direct  agents included Clay Shaw,  David  Ferrie,  Albert
Osborne, Harry Dean, Richard Case Nagell, Ronald Augustinovich,  William
Seymour, Emilio Santana and Fred Lee Crisman.  It is likely (but not yet
provable by direct evidence) that the group sought and obtained from the
acting or permanent CIA station chief in Mexico, assistance or  approval
to  go  ahead  with assassination plans.  Tad Szulc claims  that  a  CIA
source can prove that E. Howard Hunt was acting station chief in  Mexico
City  at  the  time  of the  Gabaldin  apartment  meetings  (August  and
September  1963).   Hunt has denied under oath  before  the  Rockefeller
Commission that he was in Mexico.

In  1967 Richard Helms told a group of CIA officials,  including  Victor
Marchetti, that both Clay Shaw and David Ferrie were CIA (DDP)  contract
agents  and that Shaw had to be given CIA protection and  assistance  in
his  New Orleans trial. This is a strong indication that Hunt and  Helms
gave  "turn of the head" approval to the Shaw-Ferrie assassination  plan
as a minimum form of support.

                                 Dallas

The  assassination group, having failed in Miami and Chicago,  moved  an
operational team into Dallas during the second week in November of 1963.
Shaw, Ferrie, Gabaldin and other high-level plotters travelled in  other
directions,  establishing alibis as planned.  On November  22,  Gabaldin
was  in  Mexico City, Shaw was in San Francisco, and Ferrie was  in  New
Orleans.   The team moving into Dallas included Albert Osborne,  William
Seymour,  Emilio Santana, Frenchy, Fred Crisman, Jim Hicks, Jim  Braden,
and  a  new recruit from Los Angeles, Jack Lawrence.  There was  also  a
back-up  rifle  team  of  Cubans  to be used  at  a  location  near  the
International  Trade  Mart in the event something went wrong  at  Dealey
Plaza.

                         Where the Teams Stayed

The  teams stayed at two locations in Dallas for two weeks.  One  was  a
rooming  house  run by a woman named Tammie True.   During  this  period
final  preparations  for the assassination in Dealey  Plaza  were  made.
These included the collecting of and planting of evidence used to  frame
Oswald, the recruiting of the Dallas police participants, and the  plans
for  the escape of the team members by car and by train.   The  riflemen
selected were William Seymour in the Depository Building, Jack  Lawrence
and  Frenchy  on  the grassy knoll, and Emilio Santana in  the  Dal  Tex
building.  Jim Hicks was set up as radio coordinator and a man with each
of  the  riflemen had a two-way radio.  They were Jim Braden,  Dal  Tex;
Fred  Crisman, knoll;  unidentified American (tall tramp), knoll; and  a
man  in the TSBD Building.  Osborne was in overall charge of the  Dallas
teams,  but  he did not go to Dealey Plaza.  A fifth  gunman,  known  to
researchers  as  the umbrella man, was stationed on the street  with  an
umbrella  weapon  furnished by the CIA.  He was accompanied  by  another
Cuban acting as a radio man.

                             Framing Oswald

The  people  involved in framing Oswald included Seymour (who  used  his
identity),  someone  who  posed  for two pictures  holding  a  rifle,  a
photographer who took the pictures and someone who superimposed Oswald's
head  on the two negatives.  Also, someone who took Oswald's rifle  from
his  garage  and his pistol from his room, taking  several  bullets  and
shells  with the pistol, fired three shells and one bullet  through  the
rifle, and planted the rifle and rifle shells on the sixth floor of  the
TSBD  and a rifle bullet at Parkland Hospital.  The pistol  shells  were
given to William Seymour for planting later on.  The photographers  also
planted  photos  of  General Walker's house and  driveway  to  implicate
Oswald in the Walker shooting.

                       Dallas Policemen Involved

The  policemen involved were J. D. Tippit, who was to drive two  of  the
assassins,  Seymour  and his radio man, away in his  police  car;   Bill
Alexander;   Jerry  Hill;  Sergeant  McDonald;   Lieutenant  Montgomery;
Lieutenant  Johnson;  and Lieutenant Batchelor, who escorted  Jack  Ruby
into the jail to murder Oswald.

McDonald  was  assigned  to kill Oswald upon his  arrest  in  the  Texas
Theatre.   Jerry  Hill  was involved in that event as  well  as  in  the
planting  of evidence against Oswald in the TSBD  Building.   Montgomery
and Johnson were involved in planting the paper bag as evidence  against
Oswald.   Alexander and Batchelor were primarily responsible for  making
sure that Jack Ruby assassinated Oswald and that he didn't talk about it
afterward.   Alexander  was  present on every  occasion  when  Ruby  was
questioned  or  interviewed in the jail, in spite of Ruby's  efforts  to
have him removed.

                Other Persons Involved in Framing Oswald

Also  involved in framing Oswald were Marina Oswald;  her lawyer,  James
Martin;   and someone in the Dallas police force.  She was  talked  into
three points of false testimony:  she said she took the two fake  photos
of  Oswald  with a camera she claimed was his.  She fabricated,  or  was
handed,  the false story about Oswald's attempt to shoot General  Walker
and taking two pictures of Walker's house with the same camera.  (Oswald
did neither.)  She told a false story about a falling out she and Oswald
supposedly  had  and exaggerated his mean treatment of  their  children.
There  are  good  indications  that these moves were  made  by  the  CIA
operatives  in the group who threatened to send Marina back  to  Russia.
(Marina's uncle was a high-level officer in the KGB.)

                              Dealey Plaza

On  the  day of the assassination four men with rifles,  accompanied  by
their radio men and several other team members, moved into Dealey Plaza.
Seymour  and a radio man entered the TSBD Building through  the  freight
entrance and worked their way to the roof.  Santana and Braden went into
the Dal Tex building through the freight entrance on Houston St. and  up
a  back staircase to the second floor.  Lawrence, Frenchy,  Crisman  and
the tall tramp took up two positions on the grassy knoll.  Lawrence  was
inside  the westernmost cupola after parking his car in the parking  lot
behind  the  knoll.  Frenchy, Crisman and the tall tramp were  near  the
fence.   Jim Hicks was in the Adolphus Hotel a few blocks away,  testing
the  two-way  radio  communication with the four  radio  men,  until  he
proceeded  to the Plaza and mingled with a large crowd (near the  corner
of  Houston and Elm Streets).  The umbrella man stood near the  Stemmons
Freeway sign on Elm Street accompanied by his radio man.

The  other  team members stationed themselves in the  crowd  (along  Elm
Street).  After the shots were fired, they circulated through the  crowd
in front of the TSBD on Elm Street, on the grassy knoll, and behind  the
TSBD  Building,  identifying  themselves as Secret  Service  agents  and
asking  witnesses  and  officials  questions to  find  out  whether  the
assassins  had  been detected.  There are clear photos of one  of  these
men.  One other man was at the corner of the wall on the grassy knoll.

                               The Shots

Upon a visual and oral signal from the man at the wall and upon a  radio
command  from Hicks, the team fired its first round of  shots.   Crisman
received the command from Hicks and caused Frenchy to fire a shot from a
position  behind the fence on the knoll, about twenty feet west  of  the
corner  of the fence.  This shot missed. The umbrella man fired  a  shot
using  his  small-bore umbrella gun. When this shot struck  JFK  in  the
throat, the dart paralyzed JFK and later presented by Commander Humes to
the FBI.[2]  The shot was fired at Zapruder frame 189:  JFK was behind a
large oak tree, hidden from the sixth floor window of the TSBD Building.
On command from Braden, Emilio Santana fired his first shot two  seconds
later  from  the second floor window of the Dal Tex building  at  Z  225
after  JFK came out from behind the sign in Zapruder's film.   The  shot
struck  JFK  in  the  back  about 5 3/4"  down  from  the  collar  line,
penetrated  to a depth of about two inches and stopped. The bullet  fell
out  of JFK's back somewhere in or at the Parkland Hospital, or  perhaps
travelled  down  inside  the  body  of  the  President,  and  was  never
recovered.

William  Seymour fired his shot from the west end of the  TSBD  Building
upon command from his radio man between Z 230 and Z 237, after Santana's
shot.   He used a Mauser rifle with no telescopic sight.  While  he  was
aiming at JFK, he fired high and to the right, hitting John Connally  in
the  back.   The  bullet travelled through  Connally's  chest  and  then
entered  his  left thigh.  The bullet fell out of his thigh in  or  near
Parkland  Hospital and was never recovered.  Governor  Connally's  wrist
was not hit at that time.

Jack  Lawrence did not fire a shot in the first round because  from  his
cupola position he did not have a clear shot.

Hicks  gave  a second radio command for another round of  shots  as  JFK
passed the Stemmons Freeway sign.

Emilio Santana fired his second shot between Z 265 and Z 275. The bullet
narrowly missed JFK, passed over the top of his head and over the top of
the limousine's windshield.  It travelled on to strike the south curb of
Main  Street,  breaking off a piece of concrete which flew  up  and  hit
James  Tague.   The bullet either disintegrated or flew  into  the  area
beyond the overpass.  It was not found.

William  Seymour may have fired a second shot which may have struck  JFK
in   the  upper  right  part  of  his  head  at  Z  312.   That   bullet
disintegrated.

Upon command from his radio man, Jack Lawrence fired his first shot from
a pedestal on the west side of the south entrance to the western  cupola
on the grassy knoll.  The shot may have hit Connally's wrist.

Frenchy fired the fatal shot through the trees from his position  behind
the fence.

The Lawrence shot or possibly the second Seymour shot produced a  bullet
fragment  that passed through Connally's right wrist at Z 313.  At  that
time his wrist was elevated and nearly directly in front of JFK's  head,
in  such  a position that Connally's right palm was facing  JFK  as  the
governor  fell into his wife's arms.  The fragment entered the front  of
his wrist and exited from the back.

                            Oswald's Actions

Lee  Harvey  Oswald started November 22, 1963 with  the  knowledge  that
there might be an attempt on JFK's life during the day.  He had reported
this  possibility to the FBI in his informer's role five  days  earlier;
he  undoubtedly thought the FBI and Secret Service would  be  protecting
the  President.   His  communications with the  assassination  team  had
prepared him to meet with them in the Texas Theatre if anything happened
that  day.   There is also a possibility he received  a  telephone  call
immediately after the shots, telling him to go to the theatre.

He had gone to his and Marina's rooms in Irving to pick up curtain  rods
for his bare windows in his Oak Cliff room.  He carried the curtain rods
in a paper bag on his way to work that morning with Wesley Frazier.   He
worked  on  the sixth floor of the TSBD as well as on the  other  floors
that  morning.   He helped a crew of men lay a new floor  on  the  sixth
floor,  move a large number of book cartons and school supplies over  to
the  eastern  side  of  the  floor,  including  some  cartons  near  the
southeastern window that faced Elm Street.

Oswald  went to the first floor of the building at  approximately  12:15
p.m.  and returned to the second floor lunchroom just before 12:30.   He
was drinking a coke there at 12:31 when Officer Baker and Mr. Truly, the
building  manager, encountered him while rushing up the stairs from  the
first floor.  At the sight of Baker's gun drawn and seeing the commotion
outside, he no doubt realized what had happened.[3]  He immediately left
the building via the freight platform entrance on the northeast side and
travelled  to  his  rooming house via bus and taxi.  He  picked  up  his
pistol there and went directly to the Texas Theater where he met two  of
the assassination team and was sitting with them in the theatre when the
police arrived.  One of these men may have been William Seymour.

The  Dallas  police members of the team planned to shoot Oswald  in  the
theatre while arresting him.  When he was arrested he did not realize at
first  that he had been framed.  When this began to become clear to  him
on  Saturday, November 23, he remained confident that the FBI would  get
him out of the situation.  After all, he worked for them!

                               Jack Ruby

Jack  Ruby,  in addition to his Mafia involvements  and  other  criminal
activities,  was also running guns to Cuba and carrying payoff money  to
other anti-Castro groups on behalf of various CIA-backed projects.   His
involvement in the assassination of JFK appears to have been minor, even
though  he  knew  about it in advance.  In his night club  Ruby  met  on
several occasions with Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, and William Seymour.

The group decided to assassinate Oswald in jail after the police  failed
to  kill him in the Texas Theatre.  Alexander made arrangements to  have
Batchelor  escort Ruby into the jail when it was known Oswald was  being
moved.  They arranged an audible signal (an auto horn) to let  Batchelor
and  Ruby know when Oswald was coming down an elevator into the  garage.
They came down an elevator opposite the one carrying Oswald.

Clay Shaw gave Ruby his instructions to shoot Oswald through Breck Wall.
Shaw  telephoned Wall from San Francisco and Wall called Ruby.   He  was
told it was an official CIA-sponsored act, in the best interests of  the
United States, and that he would be out of jail in a few days after  his
capture.

                            Planted Evidence

The  planting  of the evidence against Oswald first began  with  William
Seymour, who used Oswald's identity during September and October,  1963.
Next,  the  faked photographs of Oswald were created.  Two of  the  team
members  used a camera of their own to take the two pictures of  General
Walker's  house  and  the  two shots of one of  the  men  supposedly  in
Oswald's  back  yard.   They planted the pictures  in  Oswald's  garage.
Next,  they stole Oswald's rifle from the garage prior to  November  22,
fired several shots from it, and preserved three shells, one bullet, and
several bullet fragments.

They  planted  the  rifle, the three shells, the bullet  (399)  and  the
bullet  fragments  in the TSBD, the hospital and the  JFK  limousine  on
November  22.   They  also took Oswald's pistol at some  time  prior  to
November 22, fired several shots from it and saved the shells.   William
Seymour,  after shooting policeman Tippit, ran away in such a manner  as
to attract attention, throwing the shells from Oswald's gun into the air
as  he  ran  so  that witnesses would see  them.   (The  shells  matched
Oswald's pistol.  None of the bullets matched.)

All  of  the work with Oswald's rifle, pistol, and the fake  photos  was
probably  done  at  the  same time.  The  rifle,  pistol  and  Communist
newspapers  had to be available together for the backyard  photos.   The
faking of the photographs, the firing of rifle and pistol, the retrieval
of  the  shells from rifle and pistol and of bullet 399 and  the  bullet
fragments  from  the  rifle  all required enough  time  that  the  event
occurred well in advance of the assassination .

                              Escape Plans

As  mentioned  before, plans were made for the team to  escape  by  car,
train, and airplane.  Evidence shows:

1.  A  white car was parked straddling a log barrier behind the  western
    cupola on the grassy knoll.  It left that spot one minute after  the
    shots  were fired and drove eastward on the Elm Street extension  in
    front of the TSBD.

2.  A white station wagon driving west on Elm Street stopped at the foot
    of the grassy knoll at 12:40 p.m., ten minutes after the shots  were
    fired.   It picked up a man who looked like Oswald and  drove  under
    the triple overpass.

3.  A railroad train carrying three "tramps" began to leave the  freight
    train area west and north of the TSBD at around one o'clock,  thirty
    minutes  after the shots.  The train was under the tower control  of
    Lee Bowers and was stopped by him.  The tramps were arrested.

4.  A  police car stopped in front of Oswald's rooming house and  honked
    twice around 1:10 p.m.

5.  Policeman  Tippit's  patrol car was far out of position in  the  Oak
    Cliff  area near Ruby and Oswald's rooming houses.  Tippit was  shot
    by two men, one of whom was Billy Seymour.

6.  A  small airplane was sitting at the Redbird Airport, a location  in
    the  same direction as Oak Cliff, a little further out  from  Dealey
    Plaza.   Its  engines were running.  It was ready for takeoff  at  1
    p.m.

7.  David Ferrie went to Houston, Texas on the afternoon of November 22,
    driving  at high speed through bad thunderstorms to get  there.   He
    was  positioned at a pay telephone at an ice skating rink  near  the
    Houston airport, until receiving a phone call there.  After that  he
    returned to New Orleans.

                             Escape Routes

These  escape  plans were modified after the assassination.   It  became
unnecessary  for  any  of the Dealey Plaza  participants  to  escape  by
airplane.   The framing of Oswald and the failure of the Secret  Service
or  FBI  to  detect  any of the  escaping  gunmen  or  their  assistants
permitted  these changes.  One of the men in the Dealey  Plaza--probably
pretending  to  be  a  Secret Service  agent--reported  an  "all  clear"
situation  to  Shaw in San Francisco.  Shaw notified  Ferrie  that  they
didn't  need  an  airplane to escape with while Ferrie  was  waiting  in
Houston.  Ferrie changed his plans and drove back to New Orleans.

The gunmen who did escape followed these routes:  Jack Lawrence got into
his car parked behind the cupola and either drove or was driven back  to
his  cover  job  location  at the automobile  agency.   He  left  almost
immediately afterward and travelled to North Carolina.  Frenchy ran back
to the freight car area and climbed into one of the box cars sitting  on
a  siding northwest of the TSBD.  He was arrested at 1 p.m. by  Officers
Harkness, Bass and Wise, but was released by Sheriff Elkins later in the
afternoon.  Santana walked out the back entrance of the Dal Tex building
and  may have joined Seymour in a white station wagon on Elm  Street  at
12:40  p.m.   Seymour  left the roof of the TSBD via  a  back  stairway,
exited from the freight entrance in the rear of the building, and walked
on  Houston  Street past the Elm Street extension.  He walked  down  the
grassy  knoll to Elm Street where he was picked up at 12:40 p.m. by  the
white station wagon.

The  other Dealey Plaza participants, Crisman, a tall tramp, Braden  and
Hicks  escaped  by  various means.  Braden was  arrested  and  released.
Hicks  drove home.  Crisman and the tall tramp followed Frenchy's  route
into the box cars.

                            Tippit Shooting

David Belin of the Warren and Rockefeller Commission is fond of  saying,
"Lee  Harvey  Oswald killed policeman Tippit.  Since  the  case  against
Oswald for the Tippit slaying is so strong, it follows that Oswald  also
shot the President."  The case against Oswald in the Tippit murder is as
weak  as  the  case  against him in the  JFK  assassination.   The  most
important  evidence  showing  that  Seymour  and  another  one  of   the
assassination  team shot Tippit is the fact that six witnesses,  ignored
by  the  Warren  Commission,  saw two men shoot  Tippit.   One  of  them
resembled Oswald.  They ran away from the scene in opposite  directions.
Seymour ran toward the Texas Theater, throwing the planted shells up  in
the  air so that witnesses would see and recover them.  (This act  would
convince  most  people  that Oswald did not shoot  Tippit.)   The  other
assassin  ran in the opposite direction.  There is some indication  that
Seymour entered the theater in a manner to draw attention and then  left
before  the  Oswald arrest.  While the shells recovered  were  found  to
match Oswald's pistol, none of the bullets recovered from Tippit's  body
matched.

               Comments and Congressional Actions Needed

The above scenario comes much closer to explaining what happened to John
Kennedy  than  either the Warren Commission Report  or  the  Rockefeller
Commission  report.   It matches the known evidence from the  two  prime
sources,  the Warren Commission files in the National Archives, and  the
evidence  produced  by  the Garrison investigation (most  of  which  was
turned over the the Committee to Investigate Assassinations, Washington,
D.C.).

However,  without subpoena power, and with extremely limited  resources,
no  group  of  citizens such as the Committee or  Mark  Lane's  Citizens
Commission can determine the ultimate truth about the assassination.

Only  a  properly  constituted Congressional  committee  or  group  with
resources  and subpoena power, and with the power and courage to  combat
the Power Control Group involved in the assassination and its  cover-up,
whoever they may be, can reach the truth.

This  chapter  has been prepared as a guideline for  such  a  committee,
rather than as the ultimate solution.

It  should be utilized in conjunction with two other  documents  already
submitted to the four Congressional groups interested in the case.   The
groups are:

(1)  The Senate;

(2)  The House Special Committee on Intelligence;

(3)  Thomas Downing, Representative from Virginia, who introduced  House
     Resolution 498 to reopen the JFK assassination investigation;

(4)  Henry  Gonzalez,  Representative from Texas, who  introduced  House
     Resolution  204 to reopen the assassination inquiries on  John  and
     Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and George Wallace.

                           The Two Documents

1. "Recommendations for the Senate and House Committee's  Investigations
   of  Illegal and Subversive Domestic Activities of the CIA  and  FBI,"
   memorandum by Richard E. Sprague (submitted to them).

2. "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy:  the Involvement  of
   the  Central Intelligence Agency in the Plans and the  Cover-Up,"  by
   Richard E. Sprague, in "People and the Pursuit of Truth," May, 1975.

                           Dramatis Personae

Bill Alexander - Assistant to District Attorney Wade, Dallas County.

Ronald Augustinovich - CIA agent.  Participated in Mexico City meetings.

Officer  Marion Baker- Dallas motorcycle police officer  entering  Texas
School Book Depository after shots.

Guy  Banister  - Head of clandestine CIA station in New  Orleans  -  ran
Banister Detective Agency.  Front for anti-Castro Cuban groups.   Former
FBI agent and member of New Orleans police.  Died of "heart attack" June
1964.  David Ferrie worked for him.  Oswald used his office and address.

Officer Billy Bass - Dallas police officer;  arrested "tramps" in Dealey
Plaza.

Lt. Batchelor - Dallas police lieutenant.

David Belin - Warren Commission lawyer.

Major L. M. Bloomfield - Resident of Montreal, Canada.  Member of  board
of Centro Mondiale Commerciale, CIA front-organization in Rome.  Visited
by Ferrie and Shaw in fall 1963.

John Howard Bowen - CIA agent.  Alias Albert Osborne.  Long  clandestine
record.   On  bus to Mexico with Oswald.  Participated  in  Mexico  City
meetings.

Lee  Bowers  - Railroad tower control operator, Dealey Plaza.   Died  in
curious accident.

Jim Braden - Alias Eugene Hale Brading.  Mafia hoodlum and CIA  contract
agent.  Acted as radio man in Dealey Plaza.

CIA - Central Intelligence Agency.

Fred  Lee Crisman - OSS and CIA domestic agent from Tacoma,  Washington.
Participated with Frenchy and others as radio man in Dealey Plaza.

Harry Dean - CIA operative in Mexico City.

Jean DeMenil - Louisiana and Texas industrialist.

Johnny   Mitchell  Deveraux  -  CIA  agent,  Mexico  City.    May   have
impersonated Oswald in Mexico.

Sheriff Harold Elkins - Dallas County Deputy Chief.

FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation, then headed by J. Edgar Hoover.

David  Ferrie  -  Resident of New Orleans  French  Quarter.   Pilot  for
Eastern  Airlines.  Bay of Pigs, CIA contractor for pilot  training  and
clandestine  flights.  Associate of Clay Shaw, Lee Harvey  Oswald,  Jack
Ruby;  murdered Feb. 1967;  death termed "suicide" by officials.

"Frenchy"   -  Real  name(s)  not  yet  determined.    French   Canadian
adventurer.   CIA contract agent.  Training for second invasion of  Cuba
in  Florida  Keys.  Knew Howard, Hall, Seymour,  Hemming,  and  Santana.
Fired shots.  Also involved in King assassination.

Guy Gabaldin - Former OSS operative and CIA agent in Mexico City.  Movie
made  about  his World War II exploits, Jeffrey Hunter  played  Gabaldin
role.  Assassination planning done in his Mexico City apartment.

Loran  Hall - Anti-Castro adventurer from southern California.   One  of
three  men who visited Sylvia Odio and said JFK would  be  assassinated.
Close  friend of Lawrence Howard, William Seymour and other no-name  key
adventurers.  Raising funds for them in 1963.

Sgt. Harkness - Dallas police sergeant.

Richard Helms - Deputy Director - Plans, CIA, in 1963.

Jerry Patrick Hemming - CIA agent and trainer of mercenaries at  no-name
key.

Jim  Hicks  - Radio specialist from Dallas.   Was  radio  communications
coordinator  in  Dealey  Plaza.  Placed in mental hospital  run  by  the
military.

Jerry Hill - Police sergeant, Dallas.

Mary  Hope  -  Friend of Augustinovich.   Participated  in  Mexico  City
meetings on the assassination.

Lawrence Howard - Anti-Castro adventurer.  No-name key group.  Friend of
Loran Hall and William Seymour.  Visited Sylvia Odio.  Kept no-name  key
photo album.  Provided Garrison with pictures.

E.  Howard  Hunt  - CIA agent.  Acting  station  chief  CIA  clandestine
station in Mexico City in 1963.

Lt. Johnson - Dallas police lieutenant.

Jack  Lawrence  -  Resident of West Virginia  and  southern  California.
Minuteman and adventurer.  Fired shots.

James Martin - Marina Oswald's business manager.

Sgt. McDonald - Police sergeant, Dallas.

Lt. Montgomery - Dallas police lieutenant;  helped frame Oswald .

Clint Murchison - Texas oil millionaire.

Richard  Case Nagell - CIA operative in Mexico City;   testified  before
Congressional Committees.

OSS - Office of Strategic Services.

Lee Harvey Oswald - Dallas and New Orleans resident.  CIA and FBI  agent
and informer.  Patsy in assassination.

Marina Oswald - Wife of Lee Harvey Oswald.  Helped to frame her husband.

Sid Richardson - Texas oil millionaire.

Jack  Ruby  - Mafia connections.  Anti-Castro CIA contracts.   Owner  of
Dallas night club.  Recruited to shoot Oswald.

Emilio  Santana - Cuban adventurer.  Anti-Castro, in no-name key  group.
Was in Dealey Plaza firing shots.

William Seymour - Mexican-American adventurer and hired killer.  On  no-
name key training for second invasion of Cuba in 1963.  Impersonated Lee
Harvey  Oswald  and  resembled Oswald.  Fired  shots  in  Dealey  Plaza.
Killed Officer Tippit.

Clay Shaw - New Orleans French Quarter resident.  Manager  International
Trade  Mart,  CIA  contract  agent, member board  of  directors  of  CIA
organization,  Centro  Mondiale Commericale. Murdered in  1974.   Living
double life as Clay Bertrand, friend of David Ferrie.

Sergio  Arcacha  Smith  - Anti-Castro Cuban.   Devoted  to  overthrowing
Castro.   CIA  contract agent.  Close to Guy Banister, Ferrie,  and  New
Orleans  CIA  operations.   Fled to Texas,  escaped  Garrison  subpoena.
Protected by Governor John Connally from extradition.

Carlos  Prio  Socarras - Former premier of  Cuba.   Violent  Anti-Castro
millionaire.   Backed  Cuban invasion plans and CIA efforts.   Lived  in
Miami area.  Murdered in 1977.

James Tague - Spectator in Dealey Plaza, hit by piece of curbing  thrown
up by bullet striking near him.

J.  D.  Tippit  -  Dallas policeman, shot on  November  22,  1963.   Co-
conspirator in assassination, Mafia and CIA functionary.

Tammie True - Owner of CIA safe house in Dallas.

Roy Truly - Manager of Texas School Book Depository.

TSBD  - Texas School Book Depository Building in Dealey  Plaza,  Dallas,
from which Oswald was supposed to have fired shots at President John  F.
Kennedy.

General  Walker - Right-wing former Army General.  Resident  of  Dallas.
Supposedly shot at by Oswald.

Breck Wall - Friend of Clay Shaw and Jack Ruby.

Marvin Wise - Dallas police officer, arrested "tramps" in Dealey Plaza.
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[1] For  a complete listing of articles on political  assassinations  in
    the  United  States, published in "Computers and  People"  (formerly
    "Computers  and  Automation"),  see the issues of  "People  and  the
    Pursuit  of Truth," May 1975, p. 6, and June, 1975, p. 5,  published
    by  Berkeley  Enterprises, Inc., 815  Washington  St.,  Newtonville,
    Mass. 02160.

[2] "1978  Los Angeles Free Press" - Special Report No 1, page 16,  copy
    of  receipt given to Commander James J. Humes MC, USN  "for  Missile
    removed on this date (Nov. 22, 1963)," signed by Francis X. O'Neill,
    Jr., James W. Sibert, FBI Agents.

    Also  "Postmortem,"  by  Harold  Weisberg,  page  266,  the  missile
    receipt.

[3] As  mentioned  earlier,  it is also possible that one  of  the  team
    called him from a telephone inside the TSBD.