.1.7711 XXi No. 3 THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Of NEW YORK MON, JANUARY 19,1976

Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows: Senator Javits SleepsWith Agent for Iran By JACK NEWFIELD (P. 63)

VOICE FIND T

Senator Javits's wife Marian Is defies PR for Iran for 667,500 a year.

How a gutsy hero saved the creators of Superman comics. BY ELLIOT S. MAGGIN (P. 14)

Louise Lasser stars in 'Mary Hartman'. BY S. J. DIAMOND (P.116)

1 BY DICK RUSSELL ('10)

He may know who conspired to . assassinate Martin Luther King A

Author, cou-man, self-described mercenary, the eta to be "SO 611-etrnerk*ii hike." He is silevan hens, in sire Jack Youngblood la believed by some to be one ol the rare pictures of himas. New Weans lop. directly bwoived la the fling .....ninetloa, by ntbers -

Hollywood uncovers plain Bette Midler. BY BLAIR SABOL (P.118)

You saw the film (`Nashville'), now meet the candidate: Jimmy Carter. BY JAMES WOLCOTT (P. 75)

The hidden battle of 1976: It's about $$$ BY COCKBURN & RIDGEWAY (P. 19)

Here NV G4) Again.

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Defin tit By KEN AULETT I (P. 9)

'A number of strange characters and stranger tales have surfaced amid the recent

assassination conspiracy revival. The story of Jack Youngblood is the strangest of all.'

Jack laungblood was one of the U. S. military's promising young men In the early ISSIls. In 1961. with Robin Moore, he wrote a book (this photograph la from the jacket) about his adventures Is a flying gunrunner in Cuba and Laths America. Some feel he's a faker. James

Karl Ray's lawyer thinks he's a kit man.

Does This Man Know Who Conspired

story concerned u Jealous-husband motive for the hiring of King's assassin And Anderion's source was ruin other than J. Edgar Hoover, she leaked It to him through an Imermedlary shortly after King's naurder, and which Anderson's investigatien finally coecluded was probably a dellber ate hoax.

The name of Jack Youngblood, however, didn't surface publicly until Me Encll s.gc News release. In 1974, in a series n1 articles for Computers and People magazine, Memphis lawyer and Investigative reporter Wayne Chastain exhaus-tively documented all evidence linking Youngblood to the assassi-nation. but gave him the ;pseud-onym "Jack Armstrong."

"I'm not too pleased with seeing his real name published." Chas-lain said last week. "I've been trying to set up sat interview with him. Now I think he's been reared off. People say he's still living out mound Allene, Arkansas, and comes In on weekends to get drunk. but he lives way out on a ranch and has no phone. Three weeks ago. a deputy sheriff down there told me he disappeared, maybe up to Canada."

What makes Jack Youngblood run7 The story, as Chastain re-counts iI, begins at 4030 pen, the day of King's death. in a short.

Tufautght ° 1915 Thu Village order joint called Jim's Cafe. Until Voice. Inc. a burned clown lase year, Jim'a

woo an invisible place, a haven for the drawn-and out white boarders in the rooming house above, on the periphery of Memphis's black ghetto. That's why it felt strange to cafe owner Lloyd Jowen when a man In dark sweater and white dress short—s man who "ant warnt our regular run of custom-er—sal down in order "eggs and

A black waitress remembered him as "very handsome," with dark eyes. dark wavy hale, high cheekbones, and a brooding quiet that made her think he was part Indian. "lie kept going over to the well where the telephone was ice med." she said. "but he never picked up the phone. He looked at the well std appeared to be angry about something. There was a telephone book nearby, but to didn't bother using it."

AI 5 p.m., the stranger departed. Exactly an hour later, Lloyd Sowers heard a wound like "a bacicflre from a truck" echo from behind his cafe. And Martin Luther King was dead—less than a block away on the second-flour balcony of the Lorraine Motel.

When the Memphis pollee guns timed Sowers that night, the tint thing he mentioned was "the egg, and sausage man." ft the MAR comes back, the police captain told him, call Immedlately—"He Is probably our man."

Oddly enough, the very neat

morning, he did. At first, Jowere hardly recognized him. He was wearing dark glasses, and carry. ing a large nutcase. At the same table, a different waitress took the same order—"Eggs and sausage." And lowers quietly telephoned the police.

When the stranger left this time. Jowers watched from his doorway as two homicide cups took him away In a waiting squad car. All day hong. Jewels listened to the real for word. No suspect had been named, but already Attorney General Ramsey Clark was staling "no evidence of a conspiracy."

That night, the police captain again came by Jim's Cafe for coffee. —That guy you put in on must have had acme real tonne, tiona." Sowers said the captain told him. "One phone call, and he was gone lima than an hour atter the boys brought him in."

All this ewe told to Wayne Chas-tain, who'd been traveling with Dr. King's entourage for two year. off and ort Chastain had spent the last two days of King's life covering his Memphis speeches for the Press-Scimitar. Within ID minutes after the aseassinatton. he was on the scene interviewing witnesses.

But to his astonishment. Chas-tain could find oniv one notice officer who would later acknow-ledge the "egos and sausage man's- arrest There wasn't even a record of it with the police

Bureau of Identification. Accord lag to Chastain, Frank Holleman— then director of the Memphis Po- llee and Fire Departments-finally conceded it had happened_ Chas- tain quotes Holleman as toying: "We picked him up for the FBI, who wanted to check him out on something completely different from the Fang slaying." Holieman refused to identify the suspect.

Contacted last week in Memphis, Holioman refused to diecusa any aspect of the assassination. saying. "I'm enough of a lawyer to know that the rase IR still pending, and feel it would not he wise to com-ment at this time." Asked about an arrest in a cafe the morning after. he replied: "Not to my knowledge.

do rot recall any such thing." in confidence. another high-

ranldng Memphis pollee official allegedly told Chastain—then later denied making the statement thei the "eggs and sausage man" was both an undercover FBI in-former and an army Intelligence operative.

Another remarkable response, Chastain writes, came from the FBI's Special Agent in Charge in Memphis, Robert Jensen. Lass week, Jensen couldn't be tracked deem; the Memphis office says he has either been transferred or re-tired, but in 1968 Chaxtain reports Jensen admitting the cafe visitor had been picked up for questioning in the King case. "We are net the crasareads here," Jensen is quoted as having said, -There's nothing in the man's story to connect him in any way to King's death."

Both Chastain and Ray's lawyer Livingston ray that Yuungblisod's photograph was Identified by cafe owner Sowers and his waitress as the "eon and sausage man" ar- rested that April morning. Dowers was unreechable for comment, and Use lady's identity Is being kept confidential. But two other principals. Russell X Thompson and the Reverend James Latimer in the bizarre chain of events did talk last week by telephone, and this is what they remember.

Five days after King's murder, Resell X Thompson—a Memphis attorney who had gained notoriety in winning cases for „Abe Legal Defense Fund and NAACP—re- ceived a call "from a man In Chicago who wanted to talk to me elsoin a murder."

As arranged, early the real morning the stranger showed up in Thompson's office. He was 'a nekly-complenened six-footer with blondish hale which Thernmon later told Chastain could conceivably have been dyed. He gave his name as "Tony Ben-asides." admitting it was an alias. and said he wanted Thompson to represent him in ease the police charged him with Dr. King's murder. The Sawyer remembers his adding something to the effect that he'd already been picked up far gees:timing the previous Fri-day (the same day the "eggs and sausage man" was arrested and released).

"He then went on to say he knew who killed Dr. King," Thompson says. "His roommate In Denver, whose alias WWI Pete."

Despite Thompson'. warning that he'd have to know his true name and report this in the law in

BY DICK RUSSELL There is a resin from Arkansas

who, if he did not conspire to assuninate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., might be able to tell tlw world who dd.

His name is Walter (Jack: Youngblood—soldier of fortune, published author. confidence man extelordInalre. He's a mysterious figure who befriended Fidel Castro and the late Guatemalan dictator Carlos Castillo-Armas, who may appear In the Warren Commission appendix as a possible gunrunning associate of Jack Ruby, and who most recently was rumored to be either In Robert Vesco's employ in Miami or secluded on a ranch In Arkansas or hustling an all deal on the Alaska Pipeline. Jack Youngblood Is also quite probably a onetime employee of either the CIA. the Fat, army intelligence. or all of Ihnse.

A number of strange characcens and stranger tales have aniseed amid the recent aleassination- mnspiracy revival. to the King case alone. a young convicted drug dealer from Atlanta claims he was framed because of his knowledge about the plotters; CBS New, files a shady Canadian with "the real Mary" to New York, then discounts him, rumors circulate that the Black Congressional Caucus has loomed the identity of a o-dre of wenithy Southern financiers.

The Youngblood story is the strangest of all. According to an interview released in December by zodiac News Service to San Fran-C1503. It's the belief of Robert Livingslon—Mernphn attorney for King's convicted slayer James Earl Ray—that hang was mur- dered "by a hit man who was contracted by an agency of the federal government." Livingston last week confirmed that state-ment. and admitted that the man he means is Jack Youngblood.

Although some arnassination re smirches. do discount Young-blood's Involvement in the King case. Likings-tun is not alone to his suspicions Some years bark MO Memphis citizens Identified Youngblood from a photograph as a wellstresned man who dined to a ghetto cafe, a half-black sway and one hour before King's assassina- tion on April 4, MS. Three other people, a lawyer and two mints- ters, believe he could also be the mystery man who visited them Eve days later, using separate aliases to tell similar stories about the plot's supposed modus operate M. And Ray himself, serving 99 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary, has identified Youngblood Ina pIrture as the man he thought was tailing him in two Memphis taverns an the fateful day.

There Is in allMid the possibility that Youngblood might originally have been observing Ray for sometxxly, or perhaps carrying out a "disinformations' scheme to plant false leads. Even to. a stag-gertng Implication is Involved— because pan of the assassination scenario reportedly• described to the Memphis rranceters by the "mystery man" In 1968 is similar to a story revealed In Jack An-derson's column late In 1975. That

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Cunningham sulks, his 'friends' depart.

BY KEN AtJLEF$A Slate Democratic Quirinal, Patrick Cur!

atheism, whose firm has made a truedie Rom politic, Is seam*. lie has told friends he is hurt and upset that the man who appointed him. Hugh Carey, has not come to his defense against a series at press leeks and sometimes innuendo from Site special prosecutor Maumee Nadjari. He is depressed tbal his incoming phone rails have dwindled from an average of over 100 per day to roughly five. Meetings have been am celed, calls not returned. and Cunninghouti in-credulously watems his "friends" run away from him. One old friend who hasn't is Boston Mayor Kevin White. He cur short n vacation lest week in order to lend Cunningham his support me advice.

• • • Governor Hugh Carey'a office, widen has

loudly prothaird the smear Ludes of special site prooeentor Maurice NadJari, may haw indulged in some private smear tactics of Id owe. On December TS, the governor received a letter fall of innuendos about Healed-The writer Charged that Nartjarl and a mysterious woman were Involved Ina hushed-op ilea CoonerUcts auto accident; four year, later, the welter reports, he was standing at a her and )sot happened to overhear two men talking about the accident, claiming that false accident reports were Bled and records destroyed. Shocked by Oda "Watergate-type scandal and rover-up," en Dreeinber St the 'overuses drat assistant row-eel, Michael Nadel, hastily rlbspatched the rill-sen'y leper pins a rover note to Atineney General Louis Lefkawilx reqaesting that hr "please whise of your dispoailkin."

lefkowIts dutifully compiled by meeting with Narijlei and showing him the evidence, NadJarl, always a portrait Of sweet calmness. exploded. Lellaraitt asked him to write a memo. Healeri • reportedly batiste the desk and shoaled. "G>wd-der= ill Yon will Basco U. Me." The proaecukor them explained that Ike mystery woman sma pour other than his wife, sad Lefko wits said Ilmt

the othereisargea were onasease. man se official la the attorney general's

offs, mslmit the letter [allowed up by Carey's sdsff or ewe discarded as mash! Perham Its larassroar did nel know the letter was forwarded to Wasatch:' "That's like saying.- angrily repo& an aide to Nadler!. "that Bennett Glordsnan. chief of our appeals human, was speak* for himself oat Maury when he reepeaded to Pet Conninglairn'a Mint-Rey', Ames. Thai's ridimiloua." What may also hr rldlooloaa Is that the storey general emu the special prosecutor have been instructed, con-cedes* Carry spokesman, henceforth to pin all their oommunleations with the governor Na welting. To carry out Corey's wishes, Lefleaselts and Swathe reportedly speed all of Friday rimming writing memos.

Manhattan Borough President Perry Sutton him _scheduled a 550 and elfla a ticket fundraiser for January 19. The proceeds. reads the invita-tion, will be used "to fund community surveys and political action." Which Is an elegant way of saying Sutton Is planning to run for Meyer and :mints to conduce a citywide poll. He desires. says a close aide, to be able "hi spot trends." He ts everted to contract with Metropolitan Cam' paign Services. Mc.. which is currently polling for Senator Birch Bayh in the state and nation. The head of a he firm is Richert' Dresner—one of the "West Side kide"—which doesn't hurt, as Bayh learned, if you want to win a network of NDC support. The poll can't answer two key guesnans which haunt Sutton: Can he. as black, speak to and for the white middle clam the city needs to retain? Would he, out of a sense of loyalty. step aside if his friend Abe 'Berme decided to seek reelection? Nobody Mows, but he_ame and his advisors have begun to talk of the mayor's reelection, noting what they call "the warm response" he receives an the streets. • Presumably the public would have to curse at or punch him to prove be teas unpopular, rl

(CIA) in Mexico and Guatemala and Salvador in '65. And he looked like eamebedy with Intelligence cannectlanc He knew too much. Ni01 many of the guys grittronning for Castro ever went public. (Brill Morgan had kinds set a precedent for lt. SU maybe a replacement was needed and the man was Youngblood. But Youngbinacee bunk was 99 per rent bullshit- He was a guy floating around for himself or Ion somebody. trying gm al"

For the Lau la years, the ramp of the swarthy six-footer who once considered playing football at Ar iceman has been largely Mason from public elnmant Bad Youngblood Is sall around. Robin Moore. who went on to tame and fortune writing books Like "Green Perms," "French Connection" and "Making of a linppy Hooker." has "wen him every so often" in the 15 yearn since their collaborae lion on "The Devil to Pay."

Gemmed In Connecticut last week, Moore said he'd last spoken ii Youngblood "about three or tour months ago."

"The last ] heard, he was hum ling oil investments, ring to get Involved in some hustle on the pipeline In Alaska. lie wants to write a hook on the pipeline. Yeah, he urd to bes con man. but I think he's pretty straight right now.-

As for the King case, Meellply enough Youngblood's supposed In-volvement came as no surprise to Robin Moore. Moore say!' the elle-gadon came up tong ago, and dot

author Gerold Frank "spent a week with Youngblood and dia. cussed that." But Franit, who emote what mime people regard as the definitive hook an the long staying 1-An American Death"). rimier mentions Youngblood.

Ord Moore ever ask lark about his possible rale? "Ile said he really knew nathing. If he did. he seal he would have come to me and had me write a book and make some money."

Who then. Is Walter /Jack) Yfaithabload! Mall addressed to hint In Allene. Arkansas, where he's purportedly been a wealthy gentleman farmer, comes back: "Not Deliverable in the 1),S. At This Time." plausible that Oh single man clued possess real knowledge about who lulled Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy? Or Is he merely the reenter banter of our none?

Everybody has a different opal-ion Bernard Feasterweld, Ray's Washington attorney, thinks of Youngblood's Memphis role: "It could well be, but the evidence semis a little thin. I have the gravest doubts about identifying people through photographs."

Harold Weinberg, the King cam's most obsessive private in-vestigator, believes: "It's utterly improbable that a man having anything to do with an aissaialna-drill would make himself available afterward In the vicinity. Uremia be were port of an operation of dia-infant:Intim. But why?"

Weisberg, at the same time, Is

"almost certain Youngblood tons in Memphis about the time of the crime. He hard an old friend there, a prominent attorney_ Rao 1 don't know if he's the 'eggs and sausage man' they arrested, or the man who visited that lawyer Russell ThOmpron"

Henry Lux, then the Memphis thief of police, haa "some vague memory" of the cafe arrest. and no recollection of either the Ben-tddes or Rannevetube incidents

Donald Freed, in tracking down Youngthood's Las Angeles leads, concludes: "Youngblood has to he seen as one of history's greatest agent-provocateurs, at a level beyond anything conceived of. He seems to be in acme kind of halms with law enforcement. newspap-ers. and organized crime—and in touch with revrinchiste elements of the CIA, FBI. and Cuban G-a."

Andrew St. George, who knew him well enough, simplifies mat-tern; "Youngblood le a crook, But Ian a violent cricninel, because Ilia specialty a Mintrianithip. Bunko and badger games, swindling widows, bilking stewardessea. He's a con man, a swindler, a fraud_ But women loved him—s handsome, clean-cut, persuasive, all-American fake."

Perhaps Jack Youngblood hirm self says It best, in the final words on the dust Jacket of "The Devil to Pay": "1 am not a moralise or a deep thinker,- he writes. "I'll do ithrldng for money, for anyone but a Ceamearast If I can live high till I'm -in that's enough,"

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YoungblooMe Castala-Armas be-came Guatemala 'a pi-efficient, and as Youngblood describes: "My Payoff was a handsome me."

In 1957 he moved on to other Pastures. Captured records of ex-Cuban dictator Fudgencto Ba-tista share a supposed price on Youngblood's head in Havana that year. He had been taken into custody over a can caper pulled in an elegem casino at the expense of a top Batista lieutenant. His sem tome was de-aril by firtng squad. until for reasons wiesplatned he somehow escaped to Heiden.

There. he went to work for a rebel leader named Fide: Castro. as a highly paid gunrunner. pllut-kg Hack market weapons first from Philadelphia and Si. Louis by way of a secret airfield near Houston, then south to Mutant City. Eventually. he would accept a topcamenand position to Castrn's revolutionary arm y.

It should be remembered that. at this time. Castro had given no tridleition of any Communist lean-ings. In fact, a considerable CIA [action openly supported his planned takeover from the corrupt Batista. The agency probably wanted to keep its hand in eithee way. And an old army buddy of Youngblood's thinks he became a key CIA operative assigned to pen-etrate Caztro's unetlerground.

In ':Tie Deed to Fey," witch deals almost entirely with his Cuban adventures. Youngblood brags openly about traireng revo-lutionaries In commando Medea in the mauntains—and about becom-ing a bounty hunter when Castro carted paying 5500 per bead for every enemy killed by a guerrilla_ When Latta Maio power, Youngblood stsyed an In his en-tourage. He had Ma own plane met according to Chastain. flew from Havana to Miami almost daily.

Then, in June 1355 he was ar-rested in Florida for conspiring with three Miami Springs polies-men to kidnap former Cuban Sen-ator Rolando Maiderrer. Master rer who was called "IM Tigre" and finally met his demise in Miami bat year when a bomb blew up Ills car, had been Parlete's unofficial emeutioner and the number ten ms on Castro's maatavanied For 5100.000 from Fidel, Youngblood had allegedly ar-ranged to Wert "El Tigre" Mime to facie a Cuban firing squad.

On the day of the trial, though, Yeautgbiood vanished. The Miami News reported: ''A Check of county and city recorde showed Youngblood had been picked up by the city for investigation and re-leased on $560:1 bond. Although charges have been flied against him by the state. he am yet fns eat been picked up or booked. No one metre to know why Youngblood disappeared_ Charles Branham, attorney representing the Springs police ufficers, said his clients had seen Youngblood outside Me courtroom before the hearing but didn't know what happened to

Chastain's research concludes that Youngblood was let go "far policy reasons," when Florida oli ticiala discovered his atrong des to both the FBI and CIA. He even speeder* that Yertutgbloud wen "bodily seised from slate ark-era by FBI *gents" outside the Dade County courtroom.

After this hidden% Youngblood's inurreys back to Havana mp-g:m..0. mapped. But not his inter

est in Cuban affairs. Andrew St. George, a writer who also traveled with Castro before his coming to power, particularly recalls Yourighloodai interest In the disap-pearance of Carrillin Cienfuegos, Fidel's alai of staff.

"When I was working for Life magazine for several years," ba, George said last week, "the disap-pearance of Cienfuegos was a great !artery."

"I gat a call to go to Miami, secret coded urgent tap priority message, where 1 was met by the Time-Life bureau chief. He says, 'Cienfuegos has been found. He defected because communism was on the rise. and Is holed up organ. Lena a rebel hantha I had been delegated to run him down.

"Life had given $5000 for the tip, and the tip earned out to be Youngblood. We chartered a little plane to Haiti, where hr gave us song and dance abut how Clem amigos) couldn't ace on Just yet. Nothing happened. I wrote a long report for Life saying Youngblood was a swindler_ Then I got called hack to Miami again. Life bugled him—another $5000 and we fly off on another chartered plane to a little Mencan Island at Merida. sleepy little godforsaken iewn.

"So we are driving around town because Youngblood says Cleo-luegoa is coming to meet us on a. private plane. when l realize another car Is fallowing us. We rounded a corner, I got out and told the driver to move on. The other cab came into view and I sass a guy in the back, with his head down to hide from me- And It's a guy from NBC—a Miami cameraman!

"Youngblood not only sold my bow but went to NBC and sold them the nation that I knew where Denguains eras- And if they'd tall ens, they'd Find out. Eventually, things became clear even to Life. But I know he kepi our $10.000 sad NBC's 53060. This guy had some-thing goat)"

Did St_ George know of any Youngblood connection to the ire telligenee business! "I have no evidence of that f talked to 2 CIA man in Havana. Paul Burns. about him. He said he was a croak and a liar, not to be trusted. The CIA even offered to get Ida criminal record. but Life didn't warn It"

There is a mention in the War-ren Commission appendix on the ammainatIon of President Kennedy of a "Yormgitiood." Ire a fairly common name In the South-west and, except for the COntent, It wiled be unfair to cast aepetaions on the man from Arkansas. How-ever, the name surfaced with Dallas lady named Nancy Peron Rich. vertu said that In 1962 she and her husband attended several meetings about running forte to anti-Castro guerrillas in Cuba and getting refugees out. At the last meeting. ate said Jack Ruby showed up, met privately with the Penned. and apparently paused him maney.

She also remembered someone named "Youngblood," who would help in the gunrunning venture. This Youngblood. she believed, was an emaciate of Ruby's and perhaps "a government wet of acme cwt

Gerry Patrick Hemming, a one-time CIA contract man and trainer of Coburn male forces In Florida, believes Youngblood did have in- telligence ties. Reached last week in Miami, Where he now has a private investigating firm. Hem- ming said. "He was tied in with Berry DeLarm. Youngblood's pilot leend, who was with the company