JYI assaasination records addeals New Orleans 17. We: rg Records not searched or provided - William

Os aid's literaturo distributions

In earlier aldasals I have alleged that the FBI has and has notbearched for pertinent d

records it merely kept out of its main files. The salmis subjects of such withholdings

include Oswald's career and activities id ReWbrlaane his possible associations, other

executive agencies anr hat most people would presume to be minidaal investigative neods.

William George 4audet had served the td;A. he also was next to Oswald i. lino when

Oswald obtained his visa to enter "exioo. The YTI, coatrary to its present posturings,

disclosed Gaudet's CIA connection at the time it Ohed disclosure of records it provided

to thd Warden COGMJ,W4011. While tea the Comaission did not elect to publish the rna

record disclosing Gaudet's CIA connection, it lid publish an -Pa record atatird; that

Jack Ruby had purchased a painting from one Larry Borenstein, inferring moo kind of

red political taint to Ruby thereby. Larry Borenstein is reputedly the nopnew of the Trotsky

late on ismaxaks (Bronstein„4.

„Mama: the rely available records that attracted dy attention years ago are YBI

reports indicating that it had spoken to Sin at virtual .y the same tire the day of the

asdassination but atributing his Nnereabouta to hoth A'sw wrleans and Waveland, Miss.

Gaudet could not have been at both places at the same time and it would ap ear that the

it should not have been unaware of the strange nature of its reportings.

Gaudet wrote an article for the Biloxi, risi.gupdlailt "Or'dM of 11/24/80, the

comramoration date of the assassinations t is atdached.

From the records provided to m it would apdear that the P-dI had no intorobt in

the fact that sodeene other than daudet aldcgedly phoned it to provide misleading and

deceptive i, Iforuuti.oas This up ears to be improbable.

to record has been ivvidea indicating that audet was interviewed about Oswald's

literature distributions, yet ia is and for acne years has been apdarent that Baudet

had knowledge an no reluctance to talk about them. While id this article Gaudet is

inhibited by spasm linitations, on other so:sultans he referred to having seen swat

and others picketing outsido the International .crade Mart (run by the alto Clay Shaw)

on more than the one officially—publioised occasion.

It may interest y to know that under the name of his publication, smerioap

Rot, Gaudet had ofAces in the Trade sart building (its). outside of sew0IiiiWth

Orleans Latim serican Aorta had off ices where other CIA fronts, proprietar*ea and)or

assets also were housed. The circulation of Gftudette pahlication was never sufficieat

to pay or his office apace alone.

If the ii31 had realsy investigated Sawsld's literature distribution an other

activities with a vies to learning mote than it already knew it would not easily have

avoided intesviesing Gaudet about them. It also does not appear to be/likely that a man

with Gaadet'a background and srojudices would not have volute red to the Fl what he has

without reluctance convoyed to subsequent interviewers. However, no s*ch information is

included in any of the records provides.

1149sesdis, a xY scrlir:r 3Ppoala &mica dctail, the FJI 11414 Iookinj for another and

not publicly identified Oususd associate. T1i3 also should he 'led it to leudet.

Uarlier resords, isslusing tllose of the 21I, rsflect the fact that on tLday 01 his

1111 r' ti soc: hiZ cal lo3a1 TV, Oswald bad :Tiorc than one assoolate. i also as:ash

an Archives copy of the Secret Service wrapper for the WD$U film (subject of my ignored

1969 request) which is explicit in stating that there ssiselnother such Oswald associate

who remains unidentified.

110 recordsk have been aosounted for as withheld either under claim to classification

or as referrals.

The kinds of information not provided are well within the assigned ressonsibilities

of the n31. I do not assure that it did not de its job. It therefore seems to be apparent

that it has and withholds pertilwsit information, including by avoiding searches of the

proper files and indices.