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Gregory s Dallas Photo

In No Wav One of HuntCOMEDIAN Dick Gregory, a Johnny-come-latelv to

the cult of skentical citizens who have spent the past 12

years trying to disorove the Warren Commission, madeheadlines recently when he presented to the Rockefeller

probers a photo purporting to prove that

ronvi:ted Watergate burglars E. Howard

Hunt and Frank Sturgis were in Dallas theday John Kennedy was slain.

Shown in the photo are a pair of hoboes that bear passing resemblances toHunt and Sturgis, but most of the serious

JFK assassination students have felt foryears that they ve identified the two

tramps as members of the right-wing Min-ute Man organization.

The newspaper Rolling Stone recent-lv commissioned a team of forensic ex

th Gregory photo. The team s conclusion:Hunt, who went back to prison this week

his Watergate sentence, has em-. .bill ' Dallas that day and has threaten

contends otherwise.



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Watergate hurglar E. Howard Hunt has denied that'he v.-as part o an allegedCIA plot to assassinate President Jqhn F. · Kennedy.

A spol<esman for Frank

Sturgis, also a convicted Wa-

tergate conspirator, said itwas not Sturgis in a photograph said to show Hunt and

Sturgis nrar the assassina -itlon scene in Dallas on Nov.22, 1963. T h spokesman

would not confirm or deny "if Sturgis was ln Dallas on

the day of Kennedy's death.

Dick Gregory, the activist

and comedian, and two as sociates turned over evidenceto the RodtefeUer commisS io n on Tuesday that theyclaimed showed that Ken

nedy's 1963 death In Da llas

was planned by the CIA

Hunt bitterly criticized thecharges yesterday.

"The ~ l l c g a t i o n s made byDick Gregory and others connecting me tn the murder of

President John Kennedy are

totally without foundation,"

he said."I was not in Dallas Texas

on No\·. 22, 196.3. In fact, Inever v i ~ t e d Dallas until i

eight years later.

-"I did not meet Frank St ur

gis unw 1972 nine years a f

ter we were a l l eged lytogether In Dallas."

A :;pokesman for the1

Rockefel P.r commiss ion 1ordered by President Ford to

study allegations of domestic

sp)ing by the CIA, said T uesday that the panel would con- .sider the evidence presented ·

by Gregory.

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TheWashington StarJOEL ALLBRll I'OH. ubluhu

JAMES C BEU.OWS, Edito r SIDNEY P S T E I N ~ Eddor EDWINM. YODER JR, l Ed11or

SATURDAY JUNE 28 .1975

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&ri't relive the ennedy assassinationMan is nothing not ingenious in inventing

conspiratorial theories to cover the dramatic

and tragic episodes of history, particularly the

assassinations of heads of state. So it is not likely that there ever will be total acceptance of theWarren Commission's findings on the murder of

PresidentJohn F. Kennedy.But while there is no way to prevent individu

als from giving free rein to their fantasies, nor

,any reason to do so, government officials ought

to be cautious about giving speculations concerning the Kennedy case more substance thanthey deserve. The Rockefeller Commission's report on the Central Intelligence Agencyprovides substantial argument against moves toreopen the assassination inquiry.

Although a full review of the Warren report on

the assassination was not within the scope of the

Rockefeller Commission's assignment, thecommission did get into some of the major aile-

gations made by critics, one of which is that the

CIA was involved in the assassination.Underlying the allegations of CIA involvement

are suppositions that E. Howard Hunt and

Frank Sturgis, two men who figured in theWatergate break-in, were working for the CIAand were in Dallas at the time of the assassination. Although Hunt was a CIA employe at thetime, the Rockefeller Commission said Sturgiswas not then or ever an employe or agent of the

CIA. Experts in photo identification told thecommission that there is no basis for claims thatHunt and Sturgis ·appeared in photographs ofseveral derelicts rounded up near the sceneof the assassination. The commission also. saidthere was no evidence that either Hunt orSturgis was in Dallas that day, but rather there

was testimony that they were in Washington andMiami, respectively.

The Rockefeller Commission debunked claims

that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and the manwho killed Oswald, Jack Ruby, were connectedwith the CIA. The commission said there is noevidence that either was an employe of the

agency or ever acted for it in any capacity, directly or indirectly.The Rockefeller panel also concluded that the

human figures (allegedly representing assas-

sins) that some people claim to see in the areaof a grassy knoll in front of the presidentiallimousine in photographs taken at the time ofthe assasination were nothing but images pro·

duced by sunlight, shadows and leaves.The commiss\on bad a group of experts re

view autopsy reports and the movements ofKennedy's body (as shown in films of the assas-

sination) and they concluded that there was nomedical evidence to support claims that the

Prt sident was hit by a bullet coming from thefront as well as those from Oswald's rifle to therear.

Taken together, the Rockefeller Commfssion'sreport reinforces the Warren Commission's find·ing that Oswald acted alone in the assassination. In the absence of any credible evidence tothe contrary, there is no reason to reopen the inquiry and relive those gnastly days, especiallywhen the country has enough on its bands deal•ingwith the troubling problems of 1975

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.Hunt Denies Part in Alleged CIABy TAY MAE DERHer•kl Staff Wroter

Convicted Watergate

' Jurglar E Howard Hunt de

hied Wednesday that hewas part of an alleged ClA

plot to assassmale Presi

rlent .John F. Kennedy. Fcl-• low hurglar frank Sturgis

r-efused to confirm or deny

the charge and said he ex

pects to te.:;tify before theRockefeller commission

shortly.

Both Hunt and Sturgrs

were m Dallas the day Kennedy was murdered. a ccording to alleged "new ev idence'' presented to thr·Rockefeller commts:>ton

H unt- - . · ,.;,.;mu lilu•l

Fa·ank S t · g i ~ Dick Gr<'am·v"" •

• • , • d . ~ O lPIIIih .... .,r t· •••u·•·

r.arlier this week hy come- t1on "a raise and Vlcrous dtd OIJL meet I- rnnk Sturgis fhe Gregory "evidence"dian Dick Gregory. hbcl. Until 197: . mne years after was a still photograph pur·

Hunt Wednesday flatly we were allegerlly together porung to show Hunt and

~ d l n i e d that he was m Dal· T il E GREGOR\' allcga- Dallas." Sturgi$ near the a s s a s ~ i n a -las on Nov. 22. 1 )63. and lions, said Hunt "nre total- Hunt said he ncw•r vJsil- liOn sitr.. A spokesman for

tt'rmed the GrcgQry allcga- ly without foundalton _ • 1 cd Dalls unt1l 1971. the Rockefeller comm1ss•on,= = = = = = = = = = = = = ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; = = = = = : : ; ~ o ~ r d c r c d h\ President Ford probe allegations_of do-

mcsuc spytn" by the CIA,¥t td t h < ~ g f ) r y · s ubmission would oc dul) consid

rrcd by Lhc paneL

turg;s, in 1 statement

that neitht'r confirmed nor

denied the matter of his

prl"' ·n " m D a l l a ~ that day,

a d Wedn"'sda:v that l ceHar-ve,- Oswa l- declared

b) the Warren Commission

to be th sole slayer of the

pre ,uiPnl - had ' 'nude

rPI1tac l w ath cl'rlmn ~ r o u p sthe M•anu area before

Dalla::. tragedy" and

a i t that "reports were

made at the ume."

The- urgis statement

did not y to whom the re

ports were ma.de by whom

thc:y were made or

purpose. Neither d•

dicate what hJS oin the reporting wa

STURGIS added

had made a reportfederal a;:cncte <>

after Nov. · 22 {IMiami."

Agam, lht state

not ind1cate why

would l'tave been nreport to anyone rthe assassmation

president.

Both Sturg1s ar

h.,ve been linkedKennedy killing c

\ears by vanousa s sassination-mve

groups that chaiiEftndings of theCommission.

These groups, w

quently publish w:;ay is new evidencalternatiVe press.

lcged that o s , ~ < ~closely associated

ami"s Cuban ex1le lthe early 1960s. nalso alleged that Ja

the Dallas man w)Oswald shortly afte

J'e."t (and who lateprbon), was also

I i n k e d wtth p1

'\11ami exilrs.

G ROUPS WHO

the Warren s t ~ l e theory ha\e ' dl'the fact that the eat1ing for what ~became the Bay of

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Kelley visits assassination sceneRICHARD MACKENZIEaff Writer

on the sidewalk, s t a r ~ up

the bufldlng that once housed the

clw I Book DcposliOJ1', turning

gazino: at the grassy knoll, he was

a moml'lll the average tounst.

Clarence Kelley, 63, director ofFederal Bureau o JnvestlgaHon, 1l

a first look nt the old red buildingthe triple underpass \\here Presi·John F. Kernedy was a. 'sassmall.'d

than a decad< ago.

He didn't (omment on the facts ofcase but simply satisfied hls

as so many thousands oftors to ~ lfave done ln

)ears since the fatnl bullets v.crc

And th n, guarded by a troop of

~ t s escorted by J. Gordonspcc1al agent In charge of the

office, Kelley cllmb<>d back into

limousine, dro\ C to the airport wxlback to Washington.

Kcllt'y was in Dallas for a noonWednesday of the Greater

Critne Commission and theChamber o( Commerce.

In a lunchron speech and nl a newsKelley called

the removal or handguns fromand irresponsible hands,

stronger gun control lav. s.He nckncmicdged such a call was

, but said the action was

aloe; with Jriandatory prisonfor pen;ons convicted of crimes

hlch bandguns were used.Aitcnvard, Kelley also discussed

allt-gaUons that convicted Water·conspirator E. Hcm'llJ'd llunt can

seen in a photograph taken the day

assassmaUon.

Com<'dian Dick Gregory clalmcd thesho\\ n In the Jlhotograph being

by Dallas pollee oUicers as awas Hunt.

Kelley sald he has seen thewhich was examined by

for the FBI, and said he isIt v.'8.S not Hunt.

Discussing the 11ssasslnatlon, Kelley

not that man.

Asked if the FBI has nny sJI()clal

relationship with the Bcll TelephoneS).slcm-in particular U e South\\estern

Bcll Telephone Co.-Kclley deniedinformat.on L > swapped bch,ccn the

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Photo P aces Hunt, Sturgis at Scene

f JFJ 1 ssassination, Panel Is Told

pre.,ented b) G r e ~ n r andl \ \O a ~ s o c i a t c

RO REn r GRODE:\ , 29

\\ ho rdent1f1ccl htmsell

photographt>t and photll·op·

trcal ~ p e c i a l r t ' ' orkmg

i th G r e ~ o n "howed the

movmg prdu1e frlms at a

news (Qnfcrence Ralph

to them (the junl' ' and the

cnmmrttct>))," S t u r ~ i s ~ a i dT Ita\ e no commrnt to

make to t.he press." .:->turg1s,a,ked tf l>e lr\ ere m Dalla

that da\, I'Cfu,ed to confirm

or dl.'nv 11

(Hunt co u I d not be

reached for c o m m ~ n t J

T'h \Varrcn Cop m1 ,ron

l'X 1mrnt>d the ongrnaJ film.

fm•e magozme O\\ n5 the

ong;nal Zapruder trim and

lias i l '\<'r sl O\\ n t pubhcl\

Groden declrned to s 1

whcre lw obtai ned n {'Of \

A CULT of amat ur a -

choenman, also a Gregoryassoctate, displa\ed a tillphotograph that he ~ a i dshowed convrcted Water

gate conspirator E Howard Hunt and Frank Stun t

at the ~ n : n e nf th<' a:.sa stn Uon.

The movrng picture c o ~ -srsted of frlrn made b\

Abraham Zaprudcr as Kc,;.ned\ was shot while h 1 ~motorcade pa:. ed by the

Texas School Book Deposi

lon rn Dalla, on O\ ' , 22,1963, With ~ o r n e footage

phccs rn from film Groden

etssina rion 'PCCt&Jtq, hn •grown up around matenal

of the kind drsplavcd b)

Grcgon and hh a:.c:oc1a1es.

Some ass hsrnatron huffs

have de\ oted ITJOSt of the1r

time to ll)'ing to prove that

'=SchO<.'nman -ard the ,1111

p turc slwwrd Hunt and~ t u r g l ' m Cthtodv th athird man hart h afcer th •

a s s a o ; ~ i n a • r o n He ard the

third m ~ U t -1 .:1 ..dead • #Z

~ a r d \\as made b) anothrramateur, On tile Nrx

Tht• Zaprudcr f1lm ~ h o w sKennedy clutclung tH h1sthroat and hcg1nnm.., 1o

Iran. fQn\iard after he 1s

ftr"l Jut, when ~ o d d P n l v the

rrghl "'de of h • ~ head ex

piodes and he rock, ' loienf-

ly backward and tn therrghL

er (t)r an FBI ~ k e r c h of aman who Y.as once \\antt>drn tht:> -laymg of Martrn u.ther King.

Schoenman sard the menhe ide.ntrfred Hunt and

were CIA opera

es and were drsgUJ<;ed a.

''Th Picture : \\ere

available to the Warron <lnd the

r ~ : m f i c - a n e tosa1d r t \V nne

ey of the D a l l a ~ Pohce

l n t e l l r ~ e n e1 ron. \Ve don't, ellher

THE\' WERE humstaken to the countv

T d ~ e v had been rn a box

dO\\n b) the Houston'raduct and ~ o r n e

called the police ou

. . 14n sure thevtalked to and turned

e there was

to hold tht'm on.

that Hun

Sturgr.s were in Dallas

the da, of the Kc1 nedy

ha, e cu culat

for se\ Pral 'car >. tur-

reach d at Ju, :'111amr

Tuesda\ nrght, ard

federal . 'rand 1 1r1

the en ate \ \ ~ t c r g a r emru e que troned J 1m

~ u b j e c t

Groden a•d this dearlj~ h o w s that Kcnnt•dy wask1lled h. a shot from the

front and not trom theSchool Book D e p o s J t n r ~ tothe rear, as concluded by

the Warren Conunrs<;ron. •Th1;; Rrgument has beenmad h\ CTlltc:. of the War-

ren Commf >,ion report

sin ll f1t t appeared.

GRODE:\ 0 sard the1110\ 1 1 n ~ h r m cd nflman nid1ng rn a clump ortrees and another man

p o r n r i n ~ a nne frnm a era.;:

w knoll near where Zapruder ' I a n d i n ~

Other criuc, rn the pa t

h, vc made the same argu-

ment tn contending that

lee Har\ cy Oswald, Jdt>ntlfied b.} thl" Wnrren Commhston as the so • as as-

5111 dtd no acr alontFl.rme, purportrdh shn\\t>dmt'n rn blowupc: from th(

nlQ\Je frhn were t n d l ~ t l n c tand Gregory'

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lht \Varrt:>n C o m ' 1 1 1 ~ ron r

r>nrt wa a \CrJI f <r

pOtlhc>rt a1e 100

Slll: 1 an teur Jn \ ~ t •n the D . las u a

c: rr •tl ·r par ' o ccountr \ \ nwctmg of s t< h

rme ttgatnrs, called th A

sa srnatJon lnforma11 n Bu

r<au. attrartcd about 1 000to < program of ftlms,

o r k s h o p ~ and panel d1 •

cu<:s1ons an audrtor1umat B o ~ t o n l n t r s l l ) 1 t

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Photo Places Hunt Sturgis at cene

f Fl( ssctssinatiolt Pa el s Told

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pr 'sentcd b\ Cln•gon and

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RORER GRODb'\, : wwho Jdcnt1f1cd l u m ~ c l f ns ·photographer and photo-op

tical ~ p c c u t l 1 . . , t worklllg

wllh Gregorv. shov.cd Lhemovmg pl(.'turc films at anews conference RalphSchoenman, at o a Grcgorv

a soc1ate. dbplawd a stillphotograph thnt he l'otlld

howed con' 1 ted Watergate conspirators E Ho•li·ard Hunt and l·rnnk Sturg1c;at the scene of thf' n sas:;J-1 lion

Sch enman a1d tl t llllplt.tur showed Hunt and

Sturg1 m cu tod\ Wlt.h 11

th1rd man shonh after th

assaso;m won He Bid the

t,p1rd man '" a 'dl'ad nn::;et" for an I"BI ketch of a

man who ''a once ' 'antedm the laymg of Marun I uther K1ng

Schocnman n1d Lhe- men

hf' i d e n u f u ~ d as Hunt and

turg1s \\ere ClA opcra

uves and wf'rt.: d1 gu1 ed as

tramps

"Tht">e pu.·tures ' ' >remade a\ liable to the Wa1·r n C mmi 100 an d thev

uached no s1gmf1 n c to

them." ..,u1d l t Wayn

Posey of the D.tlla,; PollD 'partment lntelhgcncc

Dl\ l'iiOn "We' don't, C'llher

' 'Til l:.}' WERE hums,

wmos, takPn to the countyJBII fhcy had been m a box-

car down h) the HoustonStreet \oladuct and omebodv called the pollee on

them • • . I'm sure they

were ~ l k e d to and turned

loose hccau e there wasnotbin2 to hold tht'rn on ·

S u ~ e s L J o n that Hunun( tutgJs Wl'le D.tllason the da\ or thE' Kenned\

assmntmll 18\ I CJr ulat

E."d for l '\etal \ears. C,turgl , rrachc at h1s M1 rn1

home 1 ud o ~

mght, sa1ds veral federal grand JUrJ ot

nd t1 Senate Wdter ate

comm lll't' qucstmnPd htnl

un th(' uhjt t t

knO\\ II

to them (the jutiCS and thecommitte .')).'' S t u r g 1 ~ aid

"I ha\ l no omment to

muke tn the press." :-.tu• i ~ .u<:kt'd If he \ ~ t r • fn DuiJ tc:

IIMt day, r c ; u ~ : ' d to confirm

nr den\ it.

(Hunt en u I rl nnt b"'

reached for c o m m ~ n t . )Tile mo' ing JliCtu re con

sisted of frlm made b)

Abraham Zaprudcr as Ken

nedy wns hot \\ htle h1 0;

motorcade passed byt he

Texas school Book DepositorY m Da a on O\ • .22,19113, \\ llh o;ome r o o t a ~ e

~ p l t c e s In from film Grod nsa1d was made b\ another

nmateur. Or\ 11le N1x.

"I he Znpruder him o;hmBKf'nncd) e l u t c h ~ n ; ; nt h1s

throat and b••J mnmJ,( to

Jean forward after he Js

hr.st lut \\hen suddenlv Lhe

righl • J C I ~ of Ius head ex

plndes nnd he rooo vinlent

lv backward and tu the

right.

The \ \ nrrcn Coptmhc;,onexamtned the ong.n,tl f1lm

I in•e magulme n \ ~ ns the

on$ mal Zaprud r film ndha n e ~ o · e r hm\ n tt pnhh ly.Gtnrlrn d c c l i u ~ d In 1\

whl rc he nbtamrd a l'np\

\ CU l l nf anwtr•ur 8 ·

sa tnation ,.pecaahst ha

grown up around mat n.tl

or thf' kmd displayed b)

Grego ) and ln., as oc1ates.Some assn sinauon buffs

'ha\C de otcd mnst of thE'Irume to trymg to pro\ c that

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Groden a1d lhss early

shoY.s that Kennedv was

killed b) a shot r om Utefn>nt and not from the

S ~ : h o o l Book Depo itor, to

the rem·, as concluded bv

thP \Varrcn c•mml"s1on. •I hi argument has been

made hy Cntl<:l' of thl' War-

rc:n C o m m 1 s ~ 1 o n report

tr l:f' II fll St appeared

GRODENmO\ 1e f1lm "'JIIIn'lilll_ :.aman hldmg - . . , . . , " " " ' , ; . " ~

lfees nnd anolher MillliJpoinung n rifle from a gras-

,. knoll near where Zapru

der was tanding.

Olher criucs 111 the pa thar. e made the same argu

ment m contending LhatLee Haney 0 wald, ldPnlJ·fied b\ the \ \ arren Com

miSSIOI\ ll• the SO ' assa ;sm d1d not act alnne

Framb purportedh s h o \ \ ~men in blo\\ Up ; from thP010\'le f1lm w ·rc mdlstlnctand repo tu a Grego ) •new onfcren{ - as mthe pac; ould not tell

h ~ > l th ftlm towed

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fetts eaused bv lea'e" and

poor I J?,hl m,.. 1 tham1n ur ftlm

tht \ \ rrcn mm1 Slon rt'was a vcrup

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sa5 mattot lnformnti n B•1

reau. attructP-d nbom I 000lo u program of films,"orkshops and panel dr'i-cusslon, in an aud1tonumnt Bo ton l ru ersll; l a ~ tweekend.



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Rockefeller Commission said Tuesday it found ''no credible evidence"to support rumors pointing to Central Intelligence Agency involvement in the a ~ ~ a s s i n a u o n of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on.l"iOV. 22, 1963.

As part of its i n v e ~ t i g a t i o n thecommission disclosed, it assembleda new panel of fi\'e experts to restudy mot1on p:ctures taken as Kennedy was shot. Separately andun;mimously, the experts concludedthat Kennedy was struck by onlytwo bullets, both fired from therear, and that no medical evidencepoints to any olher shots.

In an 18-page chapter of its report to Prestdent Ford on its inves

tigation into allegations about 1 le·gal activities by the CIA, the commission d ~ c u s s e d - and dismissedas unsupported by the evidence -two theories:

e That E. }loward Hunt andFrank Sturgis, both convicted ofburglarizing DemocratiC headquarters in the Watergate complex In1972, participated in the assassination. Hunt is a former CIA employewho handled political aspects of theBay of Pigs operation in 1960 and1961; Sturgis was active in antiCastro groups in Miami.

The first of the theories involves

charges that Hunt and Sturgis wereCIA employes or agents at the timeof the assassination. It is further alleged that they were together inDallas on the day of the assassina·tion and that shortly after the assassination they were found in arailroad boxcar situated behind the"grassy knoll," an area located tothe right tront of the presidentialcar at the time of the assassination.

Under the theory, Hunt and Sturgis were allegedly in Dal as andwere taken into custody by the police, but were mysteriously releasedwithout bemg booked, photographed or fingerprinted by the po

iice - although they were allegt:dlyphotographed by press photogra·phers while they were being accompanied to the Dallas County Sheriff's office.

shown on amateur motion p1cturesafter he was h1t would be cau:.edby a violent straightening and stiff.enmg of the entire body as a resultof a seizure-like neuromuscular reaction to major damage inflected tonerve centers in the bram is the

opimon of the fi\ e experts as 'embled by the commission. There havebeen theones the motion showed hewas shot from a grassy knoll directly in front of his car.

e That what to some look likehuman forms with rifles on the

grassy knoll in a few frames of motion pictures could not have beenthat. Instead, the images were produced by sunlight, shadows andlea" es. What appear to be identifiable as huma n beings in frames412, 413 and 414 of a movie takenby Abraham Zapruder do not havethat appearance in frames 411 and415, taken fract1ons of a second before and after.

e There is no credible evidenceto support implications linking Oswald or Ruby with Hunt or Sturgis.Elaborate theories ,that Hunt andOswald may have had contacts be·cause of their mutual anti-Castroactivities are supported by haphazard circumstances and thrown indoubt by other circumstances. The

inferences drawn must be considered farfetched speculation msofar

as they purport to show a connection between the CIA and either

Oswald or Ruby," the report sa1d.

IN MIAMI, S,turgis declined comment on the commission's findingson advice of his lawyer, Miami attorney Ellis Rubin.

But r don't think anyone will

risk saying he was in D a l l a ~ any

more," said Rubin, who said the a c ~cusers "backed off'' after Sturgisauthorized him to file su1t againstpersons making such charges.

As to the commission's fmdmgSturgts had ne,·er worked for theCIA, Rubin sa1d:

He never told anyone he was apaid informant. agent, or employeof the CIA. He always sa1d he l ,asa person whom the CIA knew of

He said they knew of hnn. Theyrecetved information from him;their agents sometimes workedwith h1m; and that he cleared some

activities with them."

A SUIT filed by Hunt last Julyagainst the tabloid National Tattlerfor allegedly presenting such accusations as fact is pending in federalcourt in Baltimc;-e.

Hunt's Baltimore attorney WJI·liam Snyder said Tuesday thatHunt, now c o m p l e t i n ~ his Water

gate burg lary convictioa:' at federal prison farm at Eglm A1r ForceBase, Fla. was "delighted" at newsof the commis.,lon s fmdmgs.

I hope against horre that- thiswill stop people hke D1ek Gregoryand Ralph Schoenman from gettmgon talk .shows and using Mr. Hunt,

Snyder said.BUT THE report probably wlll not

silence those who contend Jinksexbt between the CIA and the assassination. This is espec1ally so be·cause the RoCkefeller Commis·•onlimited its in\ CStJgatlOD.

Neither the litaff nor thecommission undertook a full rev1ew of

the Report of the Warren Commission," the Rockefeller report said.

"Such a task wQuld have beenoutside the scope of the executiveorder establishmg this comnusston,and would have d1verted the timeof the c o m m i s ~ i o n from its properfunction.

The mvestJgatJon was limited todetermming whether there was any

cred1blo ev1dence pomung to CIAinvolvement in the assassination ofPresident Kennedy."

On that point. the commtssion'san:.wer IS "no."



FBI snaps assassination siteBy George Rhodes

Ex aminer News Staff

DALLAS - An FBI photographic expert completed

his work at the PresidentKennedy as sassination sceneand returned to W Shingtonlast night to begin analyzingdozens of photographs he

had ta ken.

Herb Grubert, assistant

special agent in charge ofthe FBI office here, sadd:

, Our photo expert went tothe scene near the Texas

School B o o k Deoositorybuild.i.ng to take photographs

from certain angles and locations to help determine

the dimensions and weightof unidentified persons appearing in newspaper photographs taken immediatelya f t e r P resident Kennedywas shot.

Grubert confirmed F I

agents had obtadnecl six photographs from Dallas newspapers a nd woul<l try toidentify aU persons on them .

Grubert was cryptic in an

Interview.

' 'Ce rtain individuals.said. have madetions that certain individuals.are in the rw wsoaper phot'ls.We have nu indication \\ho

they are.

The Dallas Morning Newsreported yesterday that F BIagents appeared a t the

newspaper last week seeking three negatives fromfilm shot Nov. 22 . 1963 (the

day of the Kennedy sho6ting) by one of their photogr aphers, t he late JackBeers.

The newspaper reportedBeers h a d photo. n'aphcd'h ree sbabb1 y dressed men<t Dealey P laza stwrtly after the shooting.

Apparenlly because t he

CITY FATHERS DON 'T DIG HIS SWIGGIN ' PIG. '

Cliff Crossman's pet's dreams of a dTai'Tlatic career a re crushed

facea of the three men arenot recognizable, the FBI

photo specialist took a series

of photos from the same an·gles and took careful measurements .

The FB I hopes to come upwith the exact measureme nts - he ight and weight.head measurements a n dcharacteristic. to compare

with the Jmown measure

ments of p t ~ alleged to

have been at the scene.

Assassination conspiracytheorists have speculated inre cent months that photographs of two o the three

men (in their news photographs l showed close resemblances to former CL\operatives n d convicted.waterga'te hurgla rs How-

.ard Hunt and Frank Sturgis.Hunt and Sturgis have both.denied they are Ule men nthe photos, the Dallal

UPI Photo

Morning News reported yesterday.

J . Gordon Shanklin, FBIspecial agent 1n char.gehere, confirmed the FBI has

been enlisted .bY the Rockefe ller Commission to investigate.

CommissiOn investigatonbegan questioning Dallas police o:ffl.cers who were ln the

Dealey Pla1a area when the

three men were marched to-

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ward Lhe nearby county jail.

The FBI here says Dallaspollee cvnducted a sweep ofpersons in the area immedia tely after Kennedy wasshot. The FBI says scores

were questioned but neitherfingerprinted no r photo

graphed by police.The FBI alw has obtained

photographs taken by Wire

serv1ce photographers at thetime.

.woouy knows who thesepeople are, they wer e neverformally booked or fingerpt in' ed." Grubert said.Veteran photographer

B e ~ r s who might have been

lo Identify the men inquestion, died about fourmon· hs ago from a heart at-

tack, a Dallas police officersaid.

Lee Harvey Oswald wascharged with the murder of

President Kennedy i>ut bewas shot whi le in the basement of the Dallas County

jail by DalLas night clubowner Jack Ruby \Vbo diedbefore he could be broughtto trial.

J E x ~ i n t ~ P a g e 13:.? Fn., May 9, 1975

Missile launchedVA."'DENBERG AFB - Aresearch and developmentre-entry missile w a slaunched early today by the

Air Fo rce Space and MissileTest Center here.

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Ret.i. *, x:r th ~ a r o l i n a IIDemoe . ,. SE-nator S amErvin says he"d like the iRoekefcl cr Commission to

reopen he lnvestlgation into

the ass:tss inalion of President li< nnedy and for thegovern r nnt to pursue some

lingeri e , Watergate questions, . ··Iudlng what hap-

pened t a $100,000 Nixoncontr ibution that

Bebe R · bozo says he kept

untouch1·d in a safe deposUbox. E o- •n. who chaired th eSenat·• · \ "a l .- t·ga le Commit - Itee, : : ; ; ~ Rchozo is "a bank-

1

er, yo . know , and bankersllke t.o raw Interest ."

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ARTICLE 1: Seven Years Later.

By RALPH BLUMENFELD

.Btm. Edw ard K ennedy said he t crmld

favor a tUM investigati.on [of hi brot hers

Cl3sa .uiMtio>l. ] there W( Te new e v i d e n ~ .Obviowtly it is painful for the famUy, butthe f irst consideration ought to be on the'basis of w11at ne1o evidence is aooilable.

- News Item, May 9, 1 9 7 ~

•rpE KENNEDY managed to startle a lot

.1. oC people with his seemingly offhand re-

mark at a small airport ln Keene, N. H., 10days ago.

No member or the family had acknowledged it ln public before - the persistent

:4Qubt and suspicion about . the murdersot

Piest4ent JiJhn F . Kennedy ln Dallas In 1963a.q4 c.Smator Robert F ..Kennedy in Los An·· ~ In 196&. ~ the family• assasslnation.aa l een a forbidden topic, until now.· evideace? r mlgbt not be 110

,.t;urprising In :be I)aUa.s ca:si. Kost Amert are- aware of t.be c o n t i n ~lt:b-4Jie ~ _Q Cwninbl li POrl that Lee



ack nderson

With Les Whitten

. i o i l t : ~ : : : : = = = : : : : : : : : : : z : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : J WERE THEY IN DALLAS7

W A S H I N G T O ~secret testimony be ore the Rocke

burglarSturgis has confessed tha.t he

involved ln several CIA assassina-

But he ha.s empbatlca.llycharges tha.t he wa.s In Dallas

day President Kennedy was shot

he had anything to do with the

to take a lie detector

If the commission had any doubthe was telling the truth. No poly

test, however, wa.s administered.

•conspirator E. Ho\nrd

who was also called before theto answer the same

thatlinked In any way to the tragicin

Dallas.for two days by seniorSturgis describedIn Cuba, the

Halt

Panama. He had participated lnagalnst leaders, both high

Jaw ln all these countries, he

he

to be connnected with the CIA,

His own role had been limitedhelping "set up" assassination

He had never taken part Inactual murders, he swore.

the assassination plots, he e: ::-

bad been aimed against for·

leaders, none against Americanof the attempts had

he said, although he was Inthe advance work that led

assassination o die·

Trujillo In the Dominican

described Cuba as the "hub"

He personallyparticipated in plots, he said,

against Eeveral Cuban leaders from

Fidel Castro on down. Sturgis had beenone of Castro's commanders after thetakeover of Havana. During this period,Sturgis claimed, he had reported to a

CIA contact In the U. S. embassy.The special commission, headed by

Vice President Rockefeller, is examining"evidence" which allegedly links Stur-

gis and Hunt to the Kennedy assassina-tion. The chief exhibit is a picture of

two vagrants, resembling Sturgis andHunt, who were picked up In Dallas

after the assassination.Upon close examination, the picture

o the man who 1s supposed to be

Sturgis does not resemble him in somedmpotiant details. The relative height othe two men in the picture also doesn'tcorrespond to the aG ual height of

Sturgis and Hunt.

Neverthless, Olsen cross-examinedSturgis closely about the Kennedyassassination. Had Sturgis ever beenIn Dallal , Olsen asked. Yes, Sturgisacknowledged, ''several Urnes."

Had he been there on the day or the

assassination, asked Olsen. No, saidSturgis, he had spent the day at hishome in :M:ianll. As witnesses hls wi e,nephew and mother-in-law could placehim in Miami on that day, he testified.

Had he g o n ~ to Dallas on the day

befcxe or after the assassination, Olsendemanded. Sturgis replled with a f lat"No."

Had he ever visited the assassinationsite, Olsen pressed. Aga in Shsrgis said

he had not. Then he offered to take aUe detector test and anS'.ver questionsabout the Kennedy assassination and

his fuvolvement In CIA assassinationplots.

Sturgis also denied that he had any-thing to do ~ i t the assassinations ofRobert Kennedy or Martin Luther King.He wa.s questioned, too, about reports

that the Watergate burglars h.ad

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broken Into the Ch1lean embassy InWashington. Sturgis denied that he had

ever participated In tlle burglary orthe Washington embassy but volunteered that he had once broken Intothe Chilean embassy ln Havana

Footnote: Both Sturgis and a spokesman for the Rockefeller Commissionrefused comment on Sturgis' testimony.'The final 1·epm-t will speak for itself,"said the spokesman.

he .Joint Chlefa expected PrPsldent

Thieu to lose South Vietnam all along,although the great retreat was more

sudden and spectacular than they hadanticipated.

As fa.r back as Feb. 1, 1972, we reported: "The secret estimate of theJolnt Chiefs is that the ceasefire willbreak down and the Communistsultimately v.111 gain control of all

Vietnam."This would mean that nine years

or American dying have been In vain.For the U S. government has spilledthe blood o 55,000 American bovs andsquandered $150 billion to prevent aCommunist a k ~ v e r of South VIetnam.

"One Intelligence analysis suggests

that a sporadic ceasefire, at least,should endure for several months . . •But once the Communist infrastructure

has been rebuilt In the South, warnsthe analysis, the Communits will seekto end their long struggle for controlo all Vietnam with a final militaryoffensive.

"Secretly, the Jolnt Chiefs don't be·lleve President Thieu can survive. He

Is preparing for the political ra\-agesby tightening his military control over

the country. This \fiO make filSeven more unpopular with the peopleand, therefore, more vulnerable toCommunist agitation.

"After Thleu has been weakenedpolitically, Hanoi presumably will tryto finish im off The Joint Chiefsba.ve grave doubts about 'the SouthVietnamese army's ability to repel anoffensive without massive Americanair and military support."

The.Joint Chiefs more than two years

ago predicted almost precisely what Ishappening



THE MIAMI HERALD

June 11 , 1975 . p .

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f/ /"""t-o-r- . . ~ T 1l

Ji]_ [ · ~ i l itc ~ f u ~ _ · e 2 r ~ 1.WASHIKGTO:\ - (UPI) - The

Rockefeller CommLs1on said Tues

day it found no crcd1ble C\'ldence"t• : : . u ~ p o r t . rumors pointms to Cen·tr I tntelh"'e:'icc Agency involvement m the assassmation of Presi

d ~ n t ~ ~ h n F. Kennedy in Dallas on0\ , ~ - . 1963.

As .P"'t of _Its mYestigation, thecomm:ss1on disclosed, st assembled

a new panel of f i \ ~ :'Xpcrts to re sts..dy motion p:cturcs tuken as KenncCJy. was shot. Separately andunanmlously, the e.xpcrts concluded

t h ~ t ~ { e n n e d y was ::truck by onlyI\ \O oullets. both f•rcd frcm there .r, and that no mt>d:Cal evidencepo nts to any other :shots.

In on 18-pllgc chapter of its re

iOI'L Lo ?rcS:C:cnt Ford on its invest• :' tion mto allcg<Itaons about ille·gal act1v1t:es by the CIA, the com

llll ;S.on di-cus >ed - and dismissed"' - u n s u p p o t c a by the e:vsdence -

two theor1es: ·

TI1at E. Howard Hunt andFrank Sturgis, bot l comic E:d oiourglarizin.; Democratic be. dquar

tcrs ;n the Watergate complex In1972, u r l l ~ . : i p a t sn the assassma

IOn. Hum i:; a formar CIA employewho handled politic . aspects of the

Bay oi Ptg.> operation m 1 ~ 6 0 and061; Sturg1s was acti\ C in anti

Calitro r o ~ p s in lVitam1.

The first of the theories involvesharr;es that Hunt nnd Sturgis were

CIA employes or agents at ti1e time

f the: .. ~ a s s i n a t i o n . It is further ali : < ~ . that they w rc together in

::>all s on the oay of the ..ssassinaon nnd that s11ort y nfte1· the as-

nation they we.. round ;n anl lr ad boxcar .llu .tcd behmd the• W sy knoll," nn are.: :ocatcd to

the rlght f r o : ~ t of t i le p r ~ : . i : l C J l t i a lc ra t the time of the o:;...,oJs'sination.

Under the theory, Hunt and Slur

s were allegedly in Dalla5 and

ere tnken into custody by the po-

.ce, but were m:·.:;ter.ously re eascdth( ut beins boo .:.-d, photoP •d or ltngerpnn • .:d by the po uhhougl_l they were nllcg\:'ulytc. raphcd by prc .s photogra

r .. while they were bc.ng accomd -to t . ~ c Da,lns County Sher·

l ... frlc-e .

. ·£::J_ic.A 1Eshown on amateur mollon pictures As to the commission's finding

a te1· he was hit would be caused Stur""iS had never worked for theby a VIOlent straightening and stiff- C I A ~ R u b 1 n said:ening oi the entire body as a re;;ult He never told anyone he was aof se1zure-like neuromuscular re- paid iniormant. c1gCnt, or employe

act1on to major damage inflected to of the CIA. He always said he wasnerve centers in the brain'' IS the a person whom the CIA knew of.opinion of the fh ·e experts assem- "He said they knew of h1m. Tr.cybled by the commiss1on. There have rece1vcd information from hi m;been theories the motion showed he their agents sometimes worked

was shot from a grassy knoll direct- with him; and that he cleared s.omely in front of his car. activities with them.

0 That what to some look like A SUIT filed y Hunt last J uly

human forms with rifles on the against the tabloid i\alional T a l t l ~ rgrassy knoll in a few frames of mo- for allegedly presentmg such accution pictures could not have been sations as fact IS pending in fcderat

'thal. Instead, the images were pro- court in Baltimore.duccd by sunlight, shadows and Hunt's Baltimore altorncy \Viileaves. What appear to be identifi- liam Snyder said Tucsdc.y that

ahle· as human· beings in frames Hunt, now completing his Watcr-412, 413 and 4 H of a movie taken gate burglary convicuon at the fed·by Abraham Zapruder do not have eral prison farm at Egiin A1r Force

that appearance in frames 411 and' Base, Fla. was delighted at news

.;15, taken fractions of a second b'e· of the commission's finding :,fore and after. I hope a ~ a i n s t hope that thls

·-. will stop people like Dick Gregory

0 There is no credible evidence and Ralph Schocnman irom ~ c l l l n gto support implications linkm"" Os- on talk shows and usin;; Mr. Hunt,

wald or Ruby with Hunt or S t ~ r g J s . Snyder said.Elaborate theories that Hunt and BUT THE report probably will not

Oswald may have had contacts be·· silence those who contend hnr<3cause of their 'mutual anti-Castro exist between the CIA and the asactivities are supported by haphaz- sassination. This is especially so be·

ard Circumstances and thrown in cause the Rocl•efellcr Comm1ss10n~ o u b t by other circumstances. The limited its investigation.Inferences drawn · must be consid- \either the staff nor the com

ered farfetched speculation insofar mission undertook a full rev:ew or

as they purport to show a connec- the Report of the Warren Commistion between the CIA and either sion, the Rockefeller report :'ai-d.Oswald or Ruby, the report said. Such a ta >k would have been

outside the scope of the exccuti\'a

order establishing this commis,ion

and would have diverted the t i m ~of the commission from its proper

1.'\ MIAMI, Sturg1s declined com

ment o_n the C?mmission's flndinJ son adv1ce of h1s lawyer, Miami at·torney Ellis Rubin.

' 'But I don't think anyone will

risk .saying he was in Dallas any

more," said Rubin, who said the ac

cusers. b a c ~ e d off': after Sturgisauthonzed htm to f1le suit againstpersons making such charges. •

• functiOn.The investigation wa s limited to

determining whether there was any~ r e d 1 b l e evidence pointin; to CIAInvolvement in the assassination orPresident Kennedy."

On that point, the commbsion'gan swer is no ."



I fhnt the Cl,\ h,td links with

L' Hurvcy o ~ w n l d identified bythe ~ ~ : o r e . l ~ o m m i s s i o n as Kennc·

v ' ~ sole n : ; ~ a s : : . i n , or with Jacklit.:>y. who killed Oswald two days

n ,er t:1c assassination .Both of these thconcs have been

c • n ; a i , o ' b y per lons disput·11'& the a r r ~ n Commission's con·

l\.sions fmding no cvidl nce of ac:>n ;J.r tcy to 1":1 Kennedy.

T .1c Rockcfdlcr panel asserted:

r v i l l ~ n c c was found d1spt1l·i.1 ILlnl und S t 1 1 r g i ~ ' nsscrlions

y WPTC in \Vashmgton and

V 11 11, r.::-spcctivcly, on :'llov. 22,

l,l(>.L

H,mt wns an emp lOY'- of the CIAm , ovemher 1 )63. had been an

l o y c of the CIA for many years

before that, and he continued to ben:;.,.ociatcd w1th the CIA until hisrct.rcmcnt in 1970. ThroughoutH)o3 he was assigned to duty inWi shin:;ton, D.C., performing work

rclat in , to propaganda operationsm foreign countries. His duties in·eluded travel to sevl ral other citiesm the Ur.ited States, but not to anypl::.ce in the South or SouthwesL

Sturgis was not an employe ot-·· .agent of the ClA either in 1963 ora t any other time. He 'so testifiedunc er oath himself, and a search ofCIA n' ..:ords failed to discover anyc.,;,dence that he had been em·ployed by the CIA or had eversen cd t as an agent, informant or

other operative.0 Motion p1cture analysis by

Lynda L Shaneyfelt, the FBI's top

pho to analysis expert, in a reportdated A:)ril 21, 1975, says none ofthree "derelicts" taken into custody ·by shcnfi s deputies on the assass1·r.allon day is either Hunt <1r Slur· •

g.s.0 T:\c violent backward and left·

ward motion or Kennedy's body



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olice Queried b

out CI Role

:inJ F I ~

SlayingI

EA RL GOU ' Sturgis, Bolh ¥ e fO rmer CIA opera- Y?U know, that these photographs r p tr t attorney 's office·, nor Wise couldt1 ' .. Hunt and 9t1ng is bave des2ia:d resented Howard Hint ~ Frank reached Friday to determi ne

' The Ro ckefeller_sommjsajon in'fes·i ~ the ClA has aueJ>tione'd sevct8 D8JtaS oolicelnen about th:re& ijl i· ,

diiitiflect men escorted through~ Plaza SOOl) 'rrerihe massmation of President Joh n F. Kennedy,lbe Dallas News teamed Friday.

Robert Olsen, an investigator fortbe m i s ~ i o n , told The News he bastalked to several Dallas policemenWflo were in the plaza area on Nov.

1963.Comedian Dick Gregory and otherics or the Warren Report's conclu

ns abouf the assassi nation ba.ve.,...Ired whether photographs of two:: or 1M men are convicted Waterpte

b u ~ g J a r E. Howard Hunt and Frank

they are in the p)lot apb. ~ l l l r g i s . . . There 's b e ~ a good dea l of -. ,ether Olsen spoke to rhera .Olot> n N>fused urd iS<:USS the inquit-- p u b l i c l ~ y abottt that ........ Harknes s said he thought Olsen

ies he made to D lias llOiiaemenlast Y f l s involved in "a very poor way of .

~ ~ ~ I can tell1

ou Is tbat the com- ~ ~ ; l a Police Sgt. Da vid H: - ss e ~ t ~ ~ = ~ i n ~ ~ e ~ e ~ r : ; ; ·mission is limitJnl its investigation to w ~ s contacted by Olsen by telepllooe Report 's intervjew with hl m•mauers or ~ l e g c d CIA Involvement," April l Harkness was on his motoft:y- Olsen said he "didn' t have time."Olsen said in a 1telephone interview cle -in Dealey Plaza when the three United Press International onf1om " And beyond that, I r D ~ were photographed. · . ~ 30 quo ted reliable sources asguess you wiuJh a \lc to wa it unti l our "He was interested In those three . ting the Rocke fe ller Commission in1eport co mes out (June 6)." peq>le that were in that picture, " fina l repo rt, will " have to speak to

Asked whether the commisS ion is Harkness said. " Bu t I couldn't h.elp thfse recurr ing aUega tions o erA in· ·sllll actively Inve stigating the three hlm on that." • vement in the Kenned y assassine.·unidentified 11\tn, Olsen said he was Ha-rkness said he gave Olsen the on, and it coU'Id not do that Wthou r"not at hMrtr to discuss what is ndllies of Billy L. Bass and Marvin L. ooking into itgo ing on in t - lt ivlties of the com- Wtk, tbe two Officers photograj)lle(i l a _ s : N _ e - ~ a n - t - - - d S - , - - e t - r - e - s u - 1 - t s - Fmission on tliat tscore. eslOrting the tr io. Ne ither Bass, who ,•cause they get there FIRS1' and

"There have peen a4legatlons , as now works for the Dallas County 'ORK,ALL DAY Call 745-8123.- (Adv.l

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DALLAS (UPI> - - THE FBI HAS BEEN QUEsTIONING LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS

FRIENDS O THE LATE JACK RUBY IN CONNECTION WITH THE ASSASINATION

PRES DENT JOHN F KENNEDY.

SPECIAL AGENT N CHARGE J . GORDON SHANKLIN SAID THURSDAY THE

COMtHSSION ASKED THE FBI 1'0 HELP QUESTION LOCAL POLICE

ABOUT A PICTURE OF THREE TRAt1PS ARRESTED ON A RAILROAD

NEAR THE PLACE WHERE KENNEDY f vAS ASSASINATED.

S0r1E OBSERVERS THINK THE MEN IN TH PHOTOGRAPH RESEt-IDLE SEVERAL OF

PARTICIPANTS IN THE WATERGATE CONSPIRACY.

WHO RETIRES NEXT MONTH, SAID AN FBI PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERT

1 WASHINGTON AND A LOCAL AGENT QUESTIONED OFFICERS WHO WERE NEAR

ASSASSINATION SCENE.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MONDAY MAY 129;5

3-Men Studied in Kenned ssa.ssination h o t o s~ O t :;..,. vo·k nm•• 2 tVaPrants in Pictures Saicl .,.;q be c:ompa red w:th existing

D LL S. May I I Photo- "' ;}formauon about Mr. Hunt

gr phs of three shabbily to Resem ble Wat ergate s ~ n · VIr . Sturg is as they were

dresEec men being led bv the . .n _1963. . .police from the scene or the Hant nd Stargrs all . stx dtfferent photo-assassine tion of President Ken- _ r a p h s of . he thre: mystenousnedy are being re-examined by . . va;;:;ants are bemg analyzeda photographic expert for the ongmal negatives of the con· by th e _ for the RockefellerFederal Bureau of ln\'estigation. tro\'ersial pictures this week. o m m t s_•_o_n_ _ _ ...,

The expert was sent here and reconstructed the manner

from WashinJtton on orde:-s l in which the picture« werefrom the Rockefeller Commis· ta ken on Nov. 22, 1963, even

sicn. which is investi ating down to the distance from theCentral Intelligence Agency in- ground the person who took t hevoh·ement Jn domestic affair;, pictures held his camera, exaccording to Herb Grube[ ., an plained Mr. Grugbert.

assistant spectal agent oT the Then the Washington-basedbureau. expert 'took n ~ w photogra JhS

The pictures, mostl)' tak"'n from the exact spots the origin.by newsmen covering the as- al pictures were snapped.

s2ssination in 1963, sho1·: thrPl By duplicating the distanv: ,m ~ n who were temporartly d :- and angles and by locatmgtamed by the pohc:.> who reference points that appear\'erged on the assassination sitl' in botit' the 1963 photos and

t e ~ the shots that killed t h ~ the new pictures, he will bePrestdent. able to compute heights and l

Conspiracy theorists contend weights of the thret- men whothat two of the men ha> e were released by the Dallasstrong resemblances to E. How- police in 1963. He will also

Ird nurrt Jr. and Frank A. be able t o obtain details of

Sturgis, convicted in the Water- bone structure and other incli·1

gate break-in both of whom had \'idual traits by ~ t i vassociations with the C.I.A. analvsis, Mr. Grubert'sauL

The unidentified expert took O ~ c e computed, the new data



THE NE W YORK TIMES S T U R D l ~ APRIL .5. 19iS

Panel Aide iscounts Evidence on C I A•

Kennedy Deathns ~ • • • l ' l • x .. ¥e>r• or . . . "t'garding n assertion that E. ' accE'j)t any t\-ldcnre that·might

1BPiin we-" invol\•Pd 'n Ll- i \ r ; , J n . , r l tn tht> \ ~ a ; ; : : o : : i

WASHINGTON. April 4-Tilc Howard Hunt Jr, a f1gure in he brought forth. but he said,in rl n Commission. Mr Furd. w h o ~ oJl. ' ilrr •w()'C " ho'lk rRockefellrr Comm sr;1on invPl'· th':' Watergate c ~ s e . had been response to reponer; ' ques- w a ~ a member or the m m • ~ · u " l l . ' d "You A•e 11 te Jur(tigl'Lmg the Centrallntelllgen;:e t ' I Z e : d near thl" Kenne?y assas- l i o t l ~ , lh:tt nothtnjZ so far h_:1d '>ton s Congressrnd . sa id '"lu h he dft<.lkd IJO\, lhe \ \aAgency has reecieved "no cred· s m a t ~ o n stte wlthtn mmutes of d1sputed the Warren CommLS· at the San Diego newl> . - ~ . l f t r · ' r > : J C Q : r . m L ~ , i o n reacted 1

ible e\•ldence" that the C.I.A. tl1e ~ . : o o t m g m Dallas. I •on conclus:ons. ence that he had sr:, , no co·•chmon. He salj ~ r . a t aft

had any . involYeMent in 111r Photograph. Submitted Mr. Belin first. atte llptcd toje•:idence that would contr1dict h t ~ < \ l r ~ ~ n t a•.stgr.ment ':l 'l tla s ~ a s s m a t t o n of Pres1dent Ken- _ reduce speculation tn early the Warren reJ"'rt but . . nl RoC'kr'P•I"r l l ' l m : - n : ~ q o r w·nedy or that L:ee Ha.:-vev Os· Mr Gregory submitted photos \March when it was raisl'd bv on to note the Rock efeller ( om· 1<"ompleted J,e hnocd tr• hi abwald was not, as the Warren to thl' Rockefellt>r Commission accounts from ";tnesses before m i ~ s l o n was investigat "R n. to d1scuss ·L ; ; · o ; a ~ s m a ~ i o n aCommission found. the lone a•· purporting to show .that t > ~ r .. hi' commi<ston wh.o indicated I Mr. Belin, who serve1 lrgations more f . · \

sassin, the panel's extr.utive Hunt an? Frank A. S t u r g t ~ . that they had been asked about==:==::::::=:=:::==:=:::::=.:::=:=:::::======::::::::===:director satd today. another f1gure m the Watergatt'"the Kennedy assass1natlon.

The a s ~ e r t i o n by David W. c a ~ . wen: ptcked up by the But Prestdent Ford r e o p e n ~ 1Behn was a departure from Dallas poliCe and loo away to the matter vesterdav, Mr. Belinthe commi .sion's policy or no t ,Jatl

1s8ld, when he satd tht Rockeo n u ~ e n u n g on its i n ~ e s t i g a - Mr. Hunt. ln ttsllmony ~ f o r e feller Commission was looking

tion. llle R ~ l l e r Comr Wston, at "the pr?blems" _'IJSed by

'h Belin said he had ch.,sen denied this allega't)on. the confhct cg theones of the

to speak out becaLLSe o a com.l Mr. Belin said t h ~ t the Kennedy US:'sslnatlon.

ment by President Ford10

San ~ c ~ o m m : : l s : s : t : o : n : w o u : : d : c : O I l t U l : ~ u e ~ t ~ o ~ ~ B ~ o ; t h : : ; P r : = e s t : = d : : e : : n : : t : : F : : o : : r : : d = a n = d = ~ = r .Ditgo yesteniaY and .<eve:-alpres:s reports that m1s:ht leadto speculation that there w e ~~ u b s t a 1 1 u v e new evidence oqC.l.A. mvolvement or a con·sp1racy plot m the mu"CCer cr JPresident Kennedy on No>> 11%3

Mr. Belin5ai:j the

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1SIOD, undC' ' il8 charter fromPresident Ford, J1ad an o b l i ~ - ftion to investigate ' f " r : a l l e ~ tJon of ille&al domestiC a<:tlvity

the C.l.A and thaL an alle-,~ t i o n t h t the C.IA. was in·"''lved In President Kennedy'sd._l.h was clt 4rly in th area

ega domestic a.cti\ity.It wu In thia re;;ard that

the ~ i S S l O O has takenevide XIl from a group headed

by Dick Gregory, the comedian.



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Sjle."1al •• .... Yo' ' T: l l \ IZ qgrants ;,. PictiiTts Said ·::Ul be compared with exis'lingDALLAS, May 11 - Photo- t i n f o ~ a t i o n about Mr. Hunt

anptu of three shabbily fo Rtstmblt Waftrga.te s i Mr. Sturgis as they were

d r a : f men being led bv the • 1 " _1963. . .pollee from the scene of th H•nt ami St.rru u: all, stx differef)t photo-. . . .ainetlon ol President Ken· lp-aphs of . he three mystertous

re b e i n ~ re-examined by J 'vagrarru are b e l n ~ t analyzedotographtc expert for the original n e g a t l v ~ of t h ~ by the F.B.I. for the Rockefeller

Burea41 of lnvestisatioo. ~ e n l a l this· jConunlsaion.

i h ~ e x p « t was' sent b ~ ' d reconst:rUet'etl the ma · .

, W a s ~ O J I on onler in which the pictures were

Nthe R eiler C ~ m l i tl .bn on Nov . 22, 1963, even

ai<>n · which is i n v e s t ~ a U n g down to the distance from the I \ \1• fJ teW,enqe J\ieaei Jn- ground the,-penon who lOOk the j \

i ·' t in d ~ e W lrs pictures held his camera, ex- ~ to ~ u : b $ i 1 J i i c l 1 . . . a n p l a i n e d Mr.-nru,bert. jaislatant s p e c ~ a r G r t h e Then, the Washington-based. 1 > ~ 1 expert took .J?eJN photogra11hsL ~ p i c t u r e s , rm:»tlY take from the ~ t i o 6 the origin· e:r ,rietftmen c o v e r t ~ ~ ~ the as· aJ pictures WU4 p P e p · \ \ .~ s i o a t l o n In 1963, sho ' ~ By duplicating d.e s t a n ' - ~ y~ Y.bo .were t ~ r a r i l y de ana 'angles . :n<J: · 'bY )p;ta.tingl

by the pohce who c o r : r e t e r e A c t e p o i n ~ t , _ ~ w r lvetaed on the asussine.tion s t ~ fn bOth > t H ~ 1 9 8 3 ~ ~ and. ~ tlle shots that k.illed th& ~ ...\e wll.l · bePresident. able to cqmpllte he,ights and

· C o ~ p i r a c y theorists coo end w ~ J h of thf- ti\N( men who

• t W o ol th e• men h1.ve m n rel eued y the Dallas

atrong resemblances to E. How- poftee in t fr ' He· ·wltl alsoa1<d 'hunt .rr. and Frank A.. be able ~ obta.in idetails or8t.ul"'il.. convicted in th.e Water- bone structure and o f h ~ n d i -gatebt;eak-fn both of whom had vidual • traits by ~ t j v ea s s o c i a t o n ~ with the C.I.A·. · anaiY'fs,-"Mr: G n l ~ s a i d . ,

'fll.e unidenGfled expert fb6k Once. c.Omputed, -tJ(e neVt, data



~ - ; . S : / e . / 7 f 3 - ~ < RF I Finds of 7Disputed Photos

By EARL GOLZ

The Federal Bureau of lnvestiga·t.ion by Wed nesday had rounded upsi•; of seven known photographs or

negatives of three UlldPnllfi ed me11

being escorted by pollee through

Dealey Plaza soon after President

Jchn F. Ke11ned:t " as shot ther ·

1 hP FBI has hero r nlisted to l•t p

in•estJ,_;.ite the ph otegraphll cor•ro

versy by the Rockefeller Commiss 'lll,

wh1ch 1s investigallng the CIA, ac-

~ maua s orttinq

cording to J . Gordon Sh ankhn. spe cial

agent m charge of the FB I here.

An FB I photography expert from

Washington, D.C., was here Wednes-

day to try to establish the he1ght and

other physical cbaracteristJcs of thethree men in the photos, Shanklinsat d.

Assassination consp1racy

have speculated in recent months that

photographs nf two of the th 1 C men

showed close rese mblrtnces to former

CIA opera tives and convicted · Wa ter

gate burglars E. Howard Hunt and

Frank Sturgis. Hunt and Sturgis

have both denied the) are the men inth e p lotos.

Investigators for the RO , efell ••r

Comm1ssion one month ago beg anquestionmg Dallas police of ilct•rs who

were m Dealey Plaza when ne tno

was be ing marched to wa rd lhE coun1vja1l. A fler qu1zzing SJH. Davir Har .•

ness, who was on a motorcycJr in ne

plaza, the investigators apJ: •rentstoppe d probing iurther until 1ne FJ Iwent nfter the phoros.

Por tions of the Warren Repcrt ind .cate the names o the three mC n we1 P

not officia lly record{'d by the Dallu ,

pollee. rhev appJrently were rr• ease J

1 and not held overnight In ja 1 .

1 An FBI agent last week ap pearerll. at The Dallas News seeking three

n negatives from fiJm shot Nov. 22,

1 3, by the late Jack Beers of thethree shabbily dressed men.

The nega:ives had been rented toStern, a German magazine, and have

not yet been returned to Beers' fam

Ily. Due back last Feb. 15 after threr

months possession of Stern, thewere to he applied to a computer tha1had used ph otograph ic evldenre tr·track rlown Nazi war nm inals.

The F BJ agent took contact print mi\de f1 OJ Beers' film. but the\

aren't as hrgh a qualuv .ts the negati •s th •·mseh:Ps.

f be rR r also harl acq uJred three· other e ~ o J t v f s of phoro\ the

lhTC C ml I fhUe phcro rl UeC tal;

en by th1• w1re services. thr agent toldr:hr I rill":lcr:. ,,, I ile /\, ..

r be OUrLe Of the Sf' ' < nth photo-

J



~ ~ ~ ~ ~ YJwent al ter rhe photos.

Por tions of rhe Wa rren Rep l t ind

ra te the names of the th ree me· , werP

not officially by the D a l lpollee. fhe , a p p : ~ were r r> easf I

1 and not held overnight in j a .

.I An FBI agen t last week appearedI. at The Dallas News seeking t

n negatives from film shot NO\ . 22.

1963, by the late Jack Beers of t h ~three shabbily dressed men.

The negati ves had been rented toStern , a German magazine, and havenot yet been returned to Beers fam -

Ily. Due back last Feb. 15 after th rer

months 11 possession or Stern. the

were to he applied to a computer thathad used photographic evidence tc·track rlown Nazi wa r (Ti mi nais.

The 13 agenr took contact print•

made r ~ m Beers film. but

aren t as hrgh a qualitv 1s the negat i\ •s · · m s e l \ t > ~

fhe rR r also hac acquired th ree

othe r neg.HI\ es of phoruc. showi 1g therl1rre mt • fhue phcro ..td l>ec ; taken by thr w1re servrces. thr agent toldp r '•t:rnr-:1cr:. •t I :1 • •

f he ~ o u n.e of the sc <:nth photo-;?raph hJd not been loc-ated by Wed -nesday.



1711VEW-YORK TIMES SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1

f C.I.A. Link to Kennedy Assassination· ~the Rockefeller commission, re-lthe Rockefeller commission s~ ~ ~ T i l t ~ portedly denied that he was limited by its charter to ~ v ~ t i ·In Dallas at the time of the gate the C.I.A.'s acttvtt1esM ~ r c ~ 7- auassination or that he knew within the United States andc ~ s s 1 o n on Mr. Sturgis then. is thus excluded from any in·. C e n t r a ~ Intelligence Agen· pi . . ~ b C.I.A. quily into tbe agency's covert

1s lookmg Into allegations Em ~ - Y activities abroad.the C.I.A. was SO "eh lw Mr. Sturgu reportedly was Mr. Belin, an Iowa lawyered in the assas.smation employed by the C.I.A. as an who served as a counsel to the

President Kennedy m 1963, opera tive in the Miami area Wlll'l1 n Commission said that~ o i n f c ; t r m ~ &oun:es around the time ot the ~ c y although it was not his inten

u.s mvestigatiOn. inspired Bay t Pip inVllllOn of tion to "reopen the entire lnves-. f o c ~ s of the CQIDm s· Cuba in 1961. . tigation of the assassination of

the sources sa1d, The school book depos itory President Kennedy, "the allega·the recent assertion of a was identified in the final re- tion has been made that the

port of the Warren Commission, C.I.A., and part icularly Mr.comedian and civil rilhts which Investigated the Kennedy Hunt was in Dallas on 22 Nov.

that E. Howard Hunt assassination, as the location 1963:was seized by the Dallas from which Lee Harvey After leaving the Warren

usu fired the shots that kUled Prese- Commission. Mr Belin wrote a

of dent KeMedy and wounded bo ok anaJyzfna • lb work en• John B. Connally, then Gover- titled. Y o ~ r e die Jury, sup-CODVJded two nor or Texas, as they paased by portiJig Ule conclusion that Os

agQ of conspiring to car- in a ~ o t o r e a d e . • Wald was the lone killer ofout the Watergate b u ~ n g DaVlS W. Belin, the executiVe both President Kennedy and

was a clandestine political dl_rector o the panel headed by J. D. Tippit, a Dallas policeat the VIce ~ l d e n t Rockefe

1Uer the officer slam shortly afterward

Presidential. ~ m m i l s on on outside a movie theater.C.I.A. activ ities within theG ~ g o r y group's charge United States. declined today to Aide's Assessment

nded on photographs pub- comment on. specific areas of Asked for a personal assess·year in underground the ~ e l ' s tnqulry or on .any ment or any e\•idence gathered

pur· tentative conclusions it msght by the Rockefeller ~ o m m i s s i o nto show Mr. Hunt and have reached. . . bearing on a posssble C.I.A.

A. Sturgis, one of the The ~ m m i ~ s o n has d e c 1 d ~ . role in the Kennedy assassina·Watergate burglars. Mr. Belin Aid, to release Its lion. Mr. Bello replied:

the police away findings about the ,nature a ~ d "Thus far, 1 have fouud noSCOJM: .of the C.IA. d?mest1,c hard evidence whatsoever toact1vit1es only after sts mvestJ· Indicate that then was any

has been COilJpleted. person involved in tbe assas-. Hunt, In testimony before M set up by Pres1dent Ford, alnaUon of John F. Kennedr,

other than Lee Harvey 0 >-wald. 'Mr Hunt, who is preparing

to return to prison followingthe failure of an appeal seeking

' to overturn his conviction, re-portedly testified in a closedsession with Rockefeller com·mission investigatorson wed-nesday.

Mr. Gregory met with com. mission invesUptors earlier,I according to knowtedgeable· sources, and outlined the a.sser·· tion that centers on the photo

lfBPhs.Mr. Runt reportedly told the

commission staff that he wasat home in the Washington,D.C., area on the day of tbe

• Kennedy Assassination, had• eliDed that evening with his·

family, and supplied the namesof wftnesses who could attestbis whereabouts.

Tbe sources said diU Vr.Hunt also gave the liWestflliortors a stati mlldlllt which Vmaintained that he had nevervisited Dallas until 1971 andhad never met Mr. Sturgis until

the ye.ll afuv that.Mr. BUilt ~ J : e p o r t e d l y de-

Ditld · ......g a f n e d me eutre eymatl'ur assa'isinatlon •· . ; ; aldM ~ CitY m ~ , . ~

ing a Slef of the C.I.A. sLationthere.

The Warren Commlllion fa.quiry. established that Otlwalclvisited Mexico City on Sept. 27,1963, less than two moaths be- . ~ . . ... v ....a.. -- ..





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Founded on PhotosB\ O CREWOSO:\ew York T o m e ~ N ws S >rv•c"

Wr\SHI:\GTO:"i - ThE' Rockefeller Commis JOn on theCentral Intelligence Agency 1s lookmg mto allegations that theCIA was someho\\ mvolved m the asS<Issmauon of Prcs1denlKennedy m 1963, according to mformed sources close to 1ts

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Hunt. t'lln\1ctcd two ears ago of ('tlll'Jnnng to carry outthe \\ atergate rugglll,l plot. '>'as a dandestme pOlitiCal officer

for the Cl,\ at the t1me President Kcnnedv w a ~ murderedThe Gregol) groups charge If> rounded on pho tographs

published last e a r m underground nc\\Spapers and elsewherepurportmg to shu'' Hunt and Frank S t u r ~ s ano r or the

cted \\ R e r ~ a butg .ll"': '

II 10 testummy refnre th 'ROckef l lt 'r Commi:-SIOn.reportt"dly derued that he \\aS m D.lllas at t)le Ume of the

a s s a : - ~ m a t 1 0 n or that he kn£>\1 Sturgis thenSturgJ:; reportedI) \\a-; e m p l v ~ l d thP Cl as an

operallve m the Miami area row1d the tmw of the aglnC)·

rnsp1red Bay of P1gs mvaswn of Cuba 111 1961The School Book J)(>posJtory \las Jdenttflt'll 111 t h ~ final

report of the Warren Comm1sswn. \\.tuch 1mesw:ated theKennedv assassmatJOn. as the locatton from which LeellarvE :Oswald fired the shots that ktlled Prestdent Kenned\and \\.oundcd Joim B. C o n n a l l ~ then governor of Texas. asthey passed by m a motorcade .

DaVId W. Belin, the e x e c u t m director or the panelheaded by \·tee PresJdent Rockefeller. thE: presidential oom·rrusswn of CIA acli\ llil s 11 1th1n the Umtcd States. declinedFnday to comment on spectfic areas or the panel's mquiry oron any tentatJ .e conclusi ons 1t mtght have reached.

The comrrusston has deCldcd. >1m sa1d. to release itsfrndmgs about the nature and scope of th Cl1\ s domesticactivities only after Jts in\'estigati(ln has been completed

Belin, an Iowa Iawver who served as a counsel to the

Warren CommiSSion, satd that although tt 1\as not h1s mten·bon to •·reopen the cntrre investigation of the assassinatwn"of President Kennedy... he allegation has been made that the

CIA. and particularly Hunt. was m Dallas on 22 '\ov. 196.' •After leaVIng the Warren C o m m J s : ~ o n Belin \\Tote a

txlok analyzmg its \\Ork entitled. ··You Arl' The Jury;•

supporting the conclusion that Oswald "a.-; the lone kilh.>r ofboth President Kennedy and J .D. Tippit, a Dallas policeofficer slain shortlY artcrnard outs1de a mone theater.

Hunt also rerortedl) denied a report. WhiCh has lately

gatned some currency among amateur assassinatiOn In-

vestigators, that he met Oswald in Mexico Clty In 1963 h1le

sen1ng as chief of the CIA stauon then

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