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The f i r s t page o f CD 1080, a s r e p r o d u c e d on pa13e 269 o f COUP D'EfATIN Al'lERICA, bea r s t h e l e t t e r h e a d o f t h e :B'BI and i s . d a t e d l•iay 22,1964 and d a t e l i n e d Bos ton . I t b e a r s t h e h e a d i n g H a r i l y n D o r o t h e a E u r r e tand t h a t i s t h e o n l y t ime h e r name a p p e a r s on t h e whole page . Thee s t o f t h e t e x t d e a l s e n t i r e l y w i t h Haro• ld R. I s a a c s .

T h i s i s t h e "ev idence" t h a t O s w a l d ' s c o u s i n "was an a g e n t o f t h e CIA"

Page 23 of' t h e book i s i n t e r e s t i n g ; h e r e a r e a few e x c e r p t s :

"Oswald mav have been p a r t o f an o p e r a t i o n to p u t anagen t beh ind t h e I r o n C u r t a i n

"Oswald ' s h a r d s h i p d i s cha rge from t h e I · :arines i n Septembei·1959 was nrobal)lV p a r t o f t h e p l a n

" J u s t b e f o r e Oswald l e f t f o r t h e S o v i e t Union, t h e CIAmay have s e n t a no the r phoney d e f e c t o r t h e r e . "

· . .rebster vms work ing f o r t h e nand l leveloPiaent Oorpora t io l .which mil?:ht have been ::t f r o n t f o r t h e Rar1d C o p o r a t i o n , an o t o r i ous CIA-fu.n.ded t h i n k - t a n l c .

The n e x t s e v e r a l 1)ages o f t h e book have more S})ecu la t ions a b o u t Osw a l d ' s CIA c o n n e c t i o n s . Then comes page 31 on which i t i s a s s e r t e dt h a t " r h c h a e l and Ruth P a i n e were c l o s e l y a s s o c i a t e d w i t h t h e i nt e l l i g e n c e communi ty." I t i s Ruth Pa ine , a c c o r d i n g t o page 15 o ft h e book, 1·1ho was " a woman w i t h c l o s e t i e s t o t h e CIA 1·1ho " g o thim (Oswalcl) a job a t t h e Texas Schoo l Book D e p o s i t o r y. "

And g e t t h e b e a u t i f u l t i e - i n d e s c r i b e d on page 5' -:

"To s t a g e a demons t : ca t ion , . Oswald h i r e dp e o p l e f rom a l o c a l employment agency t od i s t r i b u t e l e a f l e t s . Ten y e a r s l a t e r Dona ldS e g r e t t i would be h i r i n g d e m o n s t r a t o r s t op e r f o r m a t t h e campaign r a l l i e s o f I ; ixon 1 so p p o n e n t s . "

Imagine : Os1·1ald s e t t h e example f o r S e g r e t t i

Page 36 : "Hunt worked i n t h e Off i c e o f P o l i c y C o o r d i n a t i o n , t h e

p r e d e c e s s o r o f t h e CIA." Everybody knows be fo re t h e CIA t h e r evi s

t h e OSS, t h e Ofi ' ice o f S t r a t ee ; i c ServiceG and th: : t t , o f cou r se ,sounds j u s t t h e s'a.me a s Off i c e of' P o l i c y Cool 'c1ination when b o t h11ames a r e spolcen i n t h e same b r e a t h .

:Page 43: \ 'li t h t h e h e l p o f t h e i n t e l l i g e n c e commtmi t y , Oswald manac;edt o g e t on two r a d i o :Programs i n Nm· O r l e a n s . No s o u r c e f o r t h i s

a l l e g a t i o n i s g i v e n , y e t t h e d e s c r i p t i o n on page 2 o f The T h i r d P r e s s '"Spr ing-Summer 1975 C a t a l o g " s a y s : "Avoid ing any s e n s a t i o n a l i s m , t h ea u t h o r s have m a r s h a l l e d l i t e r a l l y hundreds o f f a c t s i n an impre s s i v e ,o r d e r l y and v e r y r e ad a b l e f a s h i o n , c l e a r l y i d e n t i f y i n g f a c t f roms p e c u l a t i o n . 11 Narve lous .



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A l b e r t Johns ton revieHed t h e book f o r P u b l i s h e r s ' ; /eekly ( 6/23/75)and c a l l e d i t e x p l o s i v e . And: These t1·;o young men may y e t becomet h e . To edward and B e r n s t e i n o f a r.rore appa l l i nG coverup t h a n Wa t e rg a t e .

Sy-ndicated revie1·1er Jolm Barkham s a i d : Ton o r even f i v e y e a r s agosuch a ( bbok) 1·10Uld have been d i s n i s s e d a s t h e p r a t t l i n e o f a feve red

im ag ina t i on . But a f t e r \ · fa tergate and t he r e c e n t r e v e l a t i o n s conc e r n i n g t h e CIA you b e g i n t o wonder. Barlcham however cloesn' t buyt h e e n t i r e \ ' /eberman-Cani'ielcl t h e s i s and i s m i l d l y c r i t i c a l o f t h echarge::; o f CIA i n vo l veruent. Barkham i::; no t t h e most lmo\·Jleclgeabler ev i ewer o f b o o l ~ : sI n comrnenti:ng on t h e t r a n s l a t i o n o f t he S o v i e tsponsored memoirs o f E a r s h a l l Zhulcov (pul) l ished i n Apr i l 1971 byD e l a c o r t e P r e s s ) , Barlcharn s a i d t he t r a n s l a t o r was only i d e n t i f i e dby t h e i n i t i a l s .P .N. ancl t h e p u b l i s h e r was r e m i s s i n o t g i vin t ; t i lef u l l name. As anyone v1i t h even t he s l i g h t e s t fo , ra i l i a r i t y v1i t h f..iovietm a t e r i a l s knovJS, c\ .P.H. a r e th0 i n i t i a l s ( i n Ruosion) f o r l1ovos t iP r 0 s s Agency- - -an arm o f th0 Sov i0 t gov0rnment-- -ancl n o t o f an i n d i -v i d u a l })erson. r

Another rev i0w app0ared i n t h e August 24, 1975 Houston Oh:ronicl0,w r i t t 0 n by s p o r t s w r i t e r H a r t i n Ralbovsky. H a t u r a l l y, a f a m i l i a r yw i t h s p o r t s q u a l i f i e s one f o r w r i t i n g about t h e JI• K a s s a s s i n a t i o n .Ralbovsky s a i d the book ':las a s t o n i s h i n g and f r i gh t cming . To bef a i r , he a l s o says i t i s wo0fu l l y. und0 r r e sca r ched d e s p i t e t he p u bl i s h 8 r ' s fore\ ' lard t o th0 c o n t r a r y.

Accorclinc; t o . t he SQ.rrtcm]le.r-l-,-l9.7J P u b l i s h e r s _ ;·F0ckly, t he bool\: vl8nti n t o a second p r i n t i n g f o r a t o t a l o f TO, 000 co1Ji8 13Th p r i n t anclJapanese t r a n s l a t i o n r i t ; h t s h&d b00n so ld t o Ril)PU Shobe Ltd .

Th0 ~ l l a g a z i n eHi;::h Times (October-Hovm:Jber 1975) coLllllented:Like th0 bes'tCJ. e't'ec·iiTv8S i n myste ry nove l s who s00 0 v i l l u r k i n g

i n e v e r y dim shadow, Ueberman anc1 Canf i e ld approach t he m y s t e r y o i

Jo:hn F . K0nnecly's murder w i t h an advantac;e t h a t s t r a i g h t guys nev e rhad : complet0 pa rano ia . ~ m e l Sl10rlock Holm0s med i t a t ed w i t h ap i p e . \'T8berman ( I have lcnOim him f o r f i v 0 y e a r s ) med i t a t e s w i t h aj o i n t , s a i d t he r ev i ew er Rex Weiner.

Horman Hoss, w r i t i n g i n t he Nov0J.1b0r 1975 Penthouse : The book d i l ig e n t l y p u r s u e s l i n k s betw0en II1mt and OsvJald.

To pa raph r a s0 Chairman r.Jao: Let a thousand l a w s u i t s bloom; l 0 ta cou1)l8 of ' a u t h o r s ' r;et t h 0 i r lumps. 11

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SPECIAL REPORT

· FORD FOUNDATION UNnED CHURCH OF CHRIST= -AND UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PUT UP

MO.NEY-FOR-_PRINTER OF COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA, -- ;

. t _ E _ · _ ~ H I R DPRESS JOSEPH OKPAKU PUBLISHING COMPANY Inc.Address: 444 Celftral Park West, New York NY 10025 ·

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FORD FOUNDATION GRANT RECIPIENT: $250,000 to assist a pioneerblack-owned and managed trade book publisher. Third Press has a general list withemphasis on black and Third World themes. The Foundation's investment is beingmatched by such other institutions as the Cooperative Assistance Fund and thePresbyterian Economic Development Corporation. (Source: Ford FoundationLetter, April 15, 1972).

Publishers Weekly (May 1, 1972) reports:

The Third Press received a ten-year $250,000 loan to consolidate the Press as ablack-owned and managed trade book publisher

I am particularly pleased at getting this Joan because we can now continue whatwe have been doing at the Third Press without the uncertainty which comes froma lack of funds,' Mr. Okpaku told PW.

'The Greatest joy to us is that this is the culmination of incredible efforts by asubstantial number of people in the publishing world.'

Mr. Okpaku explained that, although the Press does not expect to alter its level ofoperation, the Joan will enable him to wntinue his publishing plans with a greatersense of security.

Besides the (Fordl Foundation loan, the same amount has been jointly committedto the Third Press by our other groups: the Cooperative Assistance Fund,. UnitedChurch of Christ, Coalition Venture Corporation, and the Presbyterian EconomicDevelopment Corporation.

The Third Press was founded by Mr. Okpaku in 1968 and the firm's books wereto be distributed by Dial/Delacorte Sales. The first book the company publishedwas VERDICT: T H E EXCLUSIVE PICTURE STORY OF T H E CHICAGO 8.The book contained some 200 drawings by Vema Sadock of the NBC ar t department



in Chicago, drawings which were made by Sadock during the trial of Bobby Sealeai1d the Chicago 7. The text of the book was by Mr. Okpaku, a 26-year old nativeof Nigeria. The book also contained excerpts from the trial transcript. 'I 'he finalchapter of the book, t i t led The Reckoning, attempted, in Okpaku's words, toarticulate the basic validity of the criticism· of society being made by young people

· today.

Okpaku attended Northwestem and Stanford Universities. He is the founderand editor of the Journal of the New African Literature and the Arts.

The New York Times (June 26, 1970) did a long feature story on Okpakuand his company. Okpaku told the interviewer that the book VERDICT was astudy in microcosm of the ills of American society. According to the Times, Okpakudecided to publish VERDICT after he saw the illustration of Bobby Seale, the BlackPanther leader, bound and gagged in his chair at the Chicago trial. Okpaku said hefelt there had to be some way to preserve the anger he felt a t that moment. So hecalled NBC and spoke to the artist who did the sketch. He told Miss Sadock tha t hedid not have any money to pay her for the sketches tht;J.t he wanted to p u t into the

book. Miss Sadock agreed to provide the i l lustrations and DialjDelacorte agreed todistribute it, while the Washington firm of Judd and Detweiler agreed to print thebook. '

Okpaku told the Times he had to raise 30,000 to publish V E R D I C T and gethis company started.

The Third Press is located at Okpaku's 8-room apartment, which he shareswith his roommate, Ode Okara. Together, these two constitute the staff of the company, said the Times.

B y early 1971, the distribution agreement with DialjDelacorte evidently wasno longer valid because Publishers Weekly (March 15, 1971) in a feature story onOkpaku and the Third Press announced tha t VERDICT and Okpaku's other bookswere being distributed by The Viking Press.

The same issue of P W also reported that Okpaku had applied to the FordFoundation's Office of Program Related Investments. Ford hired J. K. Lasser, themanagement specialist, to make a financial investigation of Okpaku's operations,and the report Lasser drew up was highly favorable. In February 1971, Ford actedfavorably on Okpaku's behalf. ·

Okpaku, said PW, originally tried to get funding from an organization whoseinitials are AAP (we do not know what this stands for and P W did not spell i t out) ,

and that the negotiations with AAP collapsed. Then, the person handling Okpaku'scase a t Ford Foundation privately arranged with the United Church of Christ toco-sign a Chase Manhattan bank loan of 7,500 to cover Okpaku's immediate costof type-setting, etc.. _

With this assistance fr om the UCC, V E R D I C T quickly went to press.Some months later, Okpaku published W H Y R O B E RT K E N N E D Y WAS

. KILLED by Godfrey Jansen. A portion of the book appeared in Life magazineand i t was the income from Life which paid for the production of the book.

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·who were working on Angela's defense . He sent her, through the lawyers, copies ofhis previous books, including VERDICT. By November 1970 Okpaku was readyto make her an offer for the book. He was quite certain that the book would be soldto a paperback publisher and that the i n o ~ efrom this sa le would a t once be sentto Angela for her legal defense . Paperback by New American Library.

At this stag e, according to W (Novemb er 15, 1971), Okpaku was "talking withthe closest circle of Miss Davis' friends , including Howard Moore, her chief attorney; Margaret Burnham, co-counsel; and Bettina Aptheker, her closest friend,who gave Mr. Okpaku the first inkling of the nature of th e book: i t was to be a workof composite authorship on the subject of the political prisoner.

Julian Bond writes in his foreword: "Read it, and remember, and learn, andact "

Bettina Aptheker and Angela Davis, in a joint preface, write:"As Marxists we view fascism not only in terms of the terrorist methods towhich it has recourse , for these may be present before the fascist arrangement is

consolidated. Fasci sm represents the triumph of the counter-revolution, that ,fasci sm is the preventive counter-revolution to the socialist transformation ofsociety.

The girls also quote Georgi Dimitrov's speech to th e 7th Congress of the Communist International ( 1935), where he said that the revolutionary proletariat "mustnot allow fascism to take i t unawares, i t mu s t not surrender the initiative to fascism, but must inflict deci sive blows on i t before i t can gather forc es, i t must notallow fascism to consolidate its position, i t must repel fa scism wherever and whenever i t rears its head, it mu st not allow fascism to gain new positions . " ' :

**Dimitrov, WORKING CLASS UNITY-BULWARK AGAINST FASCISM NewYork, Workers Library Publishers, 1935, pag e 24. Also in Dimitrov T H E UNI'r.EDFRONT, New York, International Publish ers, 1938, page 25. '

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E N E W Y O R K TIMES, THURSDAY, D E C E M B E R 7 1972

Esquire Sued by Black Author jOn Editorial Changes in Article

IBy c. GERALD FRASER I

A black author and publisher necr, he also has a doctorate insuing Esquire magazine charg- dramatic literature and is aed yesterday that its .editors playwright,had changed an article he wrote He charged that Esquire'sfor them doing substantial in- white editors transformed hisjustice'' to him, to black. in cl- article into a mere cataloguelectua s and to the pubhshmg of a handful of black intelleccompany he owns. tuals, their views grossly nlis-

Joseg. J_Qlm.P;..k , the author, represented. This damages boths<ililthat Esquire's editors ma- his credibility and his capacitynipulated his article so that

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it to get authors to work for JJisno longer represents an accu- company, he said.;a te statement ~ n black A ~ c As printed in Esquire, the1ca • • and \r: olates specJfJc seven-page article consists simguarantees t h ~I g ~ v eto the ply of photographs and captionsblack commumty w1th regard of what the magazine describesto this article. in an introduction as 11 black

In State Supreme Court yes- intel lectuals he [Mr. Okpaku]terday; Mr. Okpnku sought a thought worth watching. Mr.preliminary injunction to halt Okpaku also objected to an inthe publication and distribution traduction written by Esquireof the January, 1973, issue of editors that contai11ed such pasEsquire. That issue contains the sages as .. black pointy headsarticle under his name titled: . . . [were] parking bicycles

Black New Grey Matter-Why with a skill at least comparableshould a Negro intellectual to that of tJ1eir white counter-move next door to you? parts.

. As. originally s.ubrnitted to Mr. l\ledina said last nightEsqutre, the ar.tJ::Ie was a lhat Esquire woul file by next?road :ml\rey of dtfteren.t trends Monday affidavits indicatingm contemporary black mtellec- thal the magazine had a pertual thought. feet right to do everything we

Judge Gerald P. Culkin told did." 'lawyers for both parties to sub- -mit all additional legal papersby Monday and he rcscnrcddecision.

Harold Medina Jr., of Cravath, Swaine :rvroore, who/represented Esquire, said the;magazine was already ~ i n the:pipeline." Subscribers' copieshave gone out,· and newsstanddistribution llns begun, he saidin < telephone interview. ·

tvlr. Okp:tku (the fit'Sl k is silent) is publisher and presidentof the Third Press-Joseph Ok·paku Publisinng Company. Hisfinn is the largest black-owned Ibook publishing company in thecountry. A Nigerian-born, engi-_ _ ; _ . . - - - - - .. - l · · ·

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t;f OKP KU · ~ KE SESQUIRE TO COURT ( f ro m · P u b l t s h e r s /e e k l y 1 2 / 11 /72 )J ~ s e R h0 ~ ~ , president and publ i sher of The Third Press , took Esquire mag azinet ~ t on t h i s da te in a show cause complaint seekin g to en jo in t ha t magazinefrom publ i sh ing , in i t s January i s sue , an i l l u s t r a t e d a r t i c l e ca l led Bla c k NewGrey Hat t e r. Okp aku c l a i med t ha t Esquir·e · s ubs t an t i a l l y a l te red an a r t i c l ehe agreed to vrri .t e on black i n t e l l e c t u a l s i n America, and t ha t as a r e s u l t i tv io l a t e s sp e c i f i c guar antee s " given to the black c o r r~ u n i ty as to the conten tand t enor o f the a r t i c l e . Okpaku a lso claimed t ha t the a r t i c l e d oes a sub-s t a n t i a l i n ju s t i c e to b l a ck i n t e l l ec tua ls , to my c r e d i b i l i t y as a black person ,to the c r e d i b i l i t y of those fea tu red in the a r t i c l e a s black l eaders of ·thought ,and to The Third Press - J oseph Okpaku Publishing Company as a forum for blackthought i n Ame r i ca . 11 In another court ac t ion , the t e mp ora ry r e s t r a in ingorder obta in ed by Hacmill a n , Ltd. (Currents , Decem b er 4) , pr ev en t ing Cro\vellCol l ie r and }fu cmil lan , Inc . , from shortening i t s name to Na cmillan , I n c . , wasvacated in Federa l cour t by Judge Dudley B. Bonsal . on Dec ember 4.

P u b she r s Weekly 1 2 / 1 8 /7 2SQUIRE AND OKPAKUESOLVE S ~ _ . /

. Jo s · u;· pn: sidc:nt and publisher of The Third Pres s, Jnnounced a t ameeting at the otliccs of Esquire on December 7 that he int e nded to d isco nt nue with o ut pre ju dice th e specific motion to st o p th e d is tributi on of theJanuar y 197J issu e o f l ::rqu ir e ma g:u i ne.Mr . Okpaku had ea r lier so ught a prel imin ary injunc tion to halt the pu b lica t ionand di stributi on of th at iss ue fo llowi nghis claim that an article b y him a ppear ingtherein was '' grossly m u t i ~ t ~ c l However acco rd ing to Esqui re th e iss ue wa saln:ad y in t h ~ :mail to i ts s ub scr ibers andnew ss tand s at the tim e of Mr . O kpa k u' ss ta tem ent. E ui re t it led t he illust rat edarti c le, H iac k Ne w Gra y M at te r: Wh yS ho uld a N ~ ~r o ln tellec tu ul Mo ve Ne xtDo or to You ·?-;, PW D ecember I I .

Esq uire iss ut::d a s tat emen t on De cember II cxrlainin g the ir rol e in the affair.Accord ing to Do n Enc kso n, ex ecutiveedi tor of the mag a Linc it wa s a rccd inform a lly t hat an a uc m r t wo uld be ma deto gi ve Mr . Okpak u space in a forth co m-ing issue o f t he m al~ a 1i ne t prese nt his

views in a ma nn er a nd fo rmat t l.l be mutually agre ed ."On the o the r hand. Mr. Ok p aku s tated

that n o th ing ~ h o r t of a s ide- by-,;idc pu blica tio n of (his) ori ); inal and E squ ire's parod y o f it would g ive the publi c an opp ortunit y to decid e o n the iss ue of u b st a n ce

or literar y mer it. ..In an sw er to M r. Okpa ku 's cla im th at

Esq uir e went ah ead a nd c h a n ~ ed his article without co nsultati o n, Er ic kso n answer ed there wa s no by- lined ~ r t ic le invo lved. It was a ph o to feature :wdcapti o ns that were co mmi ss io ned . If Mr.Ok p a ku claim s otherwi se , he doc s so erro neo usly ."



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Okpaku: To Publish for ProfitBy F.RJ'\'EST HOLSENDOLPH

Joseph Okpaku's dream of becominghe nation's first profitmaking blacku b l i ~ e rof · o-eneral interest books, ah a l l ~ g e. ~ a t 'he took up five years

ago, h ~ sno c yet come wit i ~ ,his g r ~ s p .

But the Nigeria-born \\-'nler, ed1Lorn<L founder of Third Press, dcspiyeonsiderahle reason to be gloomy, ~ ~

1opeful tl1at he ·can "turn the cornern the not-too-distant future.

vir. Okpaku's odyssey is the familiart o r yof the. ·budding' small business-

man's scramble for capital. t is alsonew story, ·o( how to be a minority

usinessman in a changing market andn an economy unsettled enough toave uri'rione large, established b ~ s i n e s s

5 a.5 well as a lot of small busmesses.

''I'm in -a capital-intensive busin,esshat oftCn takes eight years to reachhe -break-even point," :i'vfr. OkpakU said

an interview. "I'm not discouragedst bec:J.Use I have not made it :inve years."So far, a certain :sense of boldness

a.1 set Mr. Okpaku apart from mosther young black entrepreneu_rs ' ' thove tried their hand at publishing. He

: ~been Juch-y too, he admits.He started out publishing mosUy

orks ~ b y blacks, dealing mostly withack subjects, then gradually altereds fonnula·. The same publisher ·wJ10oughL out "Verdict ," a sympatheticcount of the trial of the Chicago.

in 1970, last year published JerroldrHorst's biography of Gerald Ford,ich ·J1as become his biggest sellerr him. The book was written before.

Ford became President."Mr. Nixon's resignation really helped, i\fr. Okpaku said.Mr . Okpaku, who first came to the

nited States in 1962, attended Northstern University and won a BachelorScience degree in c i ~ i lengineering1965, In 1966, he rece1ved a mastersl'ee in structural engineering from

t ~ n f o r dUniversity and -he is nmv anford drJCtoral candidate in dramaticorature and theatre l1istory.Mr. Okpaku and his wife, Sheilah Okpaku, now ,Separated, have ae year old son. TI1e publisher, who32 years old, is not an Americant i z e n . . .'bu( lives and works in Ne''{k on a p e r m ~ m e n tvisa.11e publisher showed his asserlives a t 'the start in 1970. With noital at all, Mr. Okpnku signed atract to do a two-volume anthologyblack writers. He used his a d v a n c ecouple of thousand .dollars" he says; expense advances foti his first

authors, one of them being •himself.Help, came from unexpected source.'i,

,Said, mainly through C:uier Smitll,

: : ~ s s i s t a n tpublisher o Time-Life Books.A prinler in \Vashington would wor.k

__ .,t Dial Press agreed to be hJson C1 u . p··rdistributor. Time offered so_me P"-. ~

s l ~ c kand design and typescttmg a s s ~ s l ·

. And J K Lasser an accountingnnce. . · · • . . . .:firm specializing ~ n the ~ u b h s h m g~ u s t -

ncss, volunteered tts s e ~ v 1 c e s . "~ Returns from lthe fJrst book, Ver:dicl ," were used to bankroll t h ~secondhook Proceeds from that went Jllto thethird' book, and soon for 10 volume:"·. The first book that v.·a.s l.o. gttll1rprominence, done a Y ~ ~ rafter. JL a l ~

began·, WflS Angela Da.vls s a u t o b J O ~ r ~ ~ ~ -

l I f They Come m the M o r n m ~ .l Y ~ l rOkpaku had .been visiling J.\l1ssDavis in prison after she was .apprehended in flight from prosecutJOn in

California. · d •ct. One day 'her lawyer called an sal '.

' 'Hey, Joe, you want to do A n g e l a ~book?"

Mr. Okpaku as he recalls it, hardlykn .ew. what t o say. c I_ ~ · ~ sp l e a s ~ d

but the timing wasn' t quite right,"he said.

; lt Was great to get the book-a\1at the white publishers were tryingto get it," he said. But he was just

, c ~ m p l e t i n gnegot,iations wit.h the FordFoundation and other fundmg sourcesfo

1r a $500,000 loan. 11 hnd no wny

of knowing how they would feel aboutmy publishing the book of a professedCommunisi/ ' Mr. Okpaku said.

The loan package' consisted of $250,"000 from ·Ford; SIOO,OOO from the Presbyterian Economic Development Corporation; $75,000 from the Cooper.ntiveAssistance Fund; .$50,000 from CoalitionVenture Capital, and $25,000 from theUnited Church of Christ.

The nonprofit investors turned outto he more imPressed ·bv \1iss Da\•is'ssales potential than ·her i d e o l o g ~ .

however. But still, it look a full yearto sign all of the contr<Jcts for theloans, Mr. Okpaku said. "And all thewhile 1 WH. i building up ac:counts payable [bills]," he said. "Each time I would~ : e l a· C\)mmitment from One of thelenders, f found thal all of the moneyWC\ 1 already commillcd."

nre natura or the publishing business

is that virtually nil of the capital com. mitment-paper, printing, planning andpromotion, plus the manl:script and

"ilistribution-are required before a centof income can be realiaed. There is nosteady sales flow, just a spurt a t thetime tlJe book goes on snle. and the entrepreneur can only hope that the spurtmatches the ·finanCial commitment hehas already made

Like oil drilling, Mr. Okpaku said,publishing is not the kind of enterprisethat ,bankers will readily . bet on. t

is too speculative.Says Mr. Okpaku, whose sales \'Olume

is now edging toward $2-million n year,"it would help to have nt least $1.5-million in the. bunk, as working capital,so thnt you could take off nnd run

without getting scared and be abloto gamble once ,jn a While.

"Just. on.ce I would like to be nhleIa afford to shop around f o ~ U ~ echeap

est printing rates, the best d:al, ratherthan take the guy who will extendthe credit. That's the wny .to gel aheadof it all." ·

Mr. Okpaku takes pride Iri the fnclthat he has broken away from thenat•rower, black-book market. ln hisview, many militarit black pubiJshcrs"shape their anxieties mto an ideologyand then try to ·sell them." This won'twork, he says.· The rcnl black publisher, he feels,~ s not necessarily the one whose booksreflect militancy, hut the 'Dnc who

,achieves financial independence-and· thery Jms freedom· to publish whatever

he wishes

As part of the .effort to. establishhi:; capital base, I'vlr. Okpaku s branchino- into olher businesses. He ha-" star tedar;anging lour.<; to Africa with the larg·esL pl'Oject: being a gmup foray for theAfrica Arts Festival in Lagos in De·cembcr.

He has also started the Third Pre.:;sReview of Books, an attempt .to cstab·\ish a serious international view ofcurrent black literature, with a -plannedsix issues a year.

A more ambitious plan is to setup a Univcrsit.Y Press in. Km;·ait,, andpossibly .a Third Press 1n N1gena-akind of cooperative enterprise with theNigerian Government.

Finally, he l1as not discounted thepossibility of selling a 20 to 25 percent equity share in his business.

"In some wnys Joe Okpaku remindsme o f the legendary figures who eslab-,

r Jished the nation's major publishinghouses" says Charles Harris, a black'"'ho Paved the way into mainstreampublishing for his rae<; by -becomingan editor a t Doubleday in the lateJ 950's. He left Doubleday in 1967, b.: ·came a senior editor at Random Houseand in 1971 was named the first directorof the Howard University Press.

"He is strong, persistent and resourceful," Mr. Harris said. "A11d although J do not agree wiU1 him allor the time I find much to admire."

Evincing ~ candor that occasionallyhas failed to win friends among h sAmericnn peers, Mr. 'Okpaku says thathis African background has been aparticular source of strength.

"Our African heritage has given usthe kind of strength that allows forfailures," he says. "because it has givenus a strong SCI1,SC of 'individual worth. ·The black \'isitor brings with him hisslron<> family base, his sense of belong·ing s ~ n e w h c r e ,and that's crucial."

Mr. Okpnku . says he vi.sils Lagosthree or four times a year, sometimesjust to siL nnd think in an o f f ~ c et h ~ t

he maintains there. "The expenence· 1sa source of inspiration to me," he says.



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Joseph OJ\paku in the office of Third ·Press here

Luck and. the C I ALater this month, Joseph Okpaku's

Third Press will publish a book, ayear in preparation, by investigatorsMichael Canfield and Alan J. Weber-man.

Called Coup d'Etat In America,the C.I.A. and the Assassination orJohn F Kennedy, the title alone hasthe r n ~.of money, and 1\Ir Okpakucheerfully admits that the fortuitousdisclosures about tlle Central Intelligence Agency in recent months lendcredence and saleability to the investigative worJ\.

The 300-page hook, wilh 7 0 pagesr which u .in life form of an ap

pendix of documents, purporl toshow that T ce Harvev Oswald was adeep-CO\'Cr C.I.A. agent who acted

for the agency in killing the President in November, 1963.



.,The Washington Posr/Poromac/]uJr 27, 1975

BEAFTERMATH: MR. FOR YS FIRSTMOUTHPIECE

Hz was the first appointment of.Gerald Ford's administration, and Jerald ter orst was also thefirst tO-leave last September when his dose friendand new boss decided tO pardon Richard Nixon. I .felt t h t mercy, l ike jusrice, should be evenhanded, said terHorst resigning after serving only

a month as White House press secretary.At a welcome back parcy ac the National PressClub, the future of h ~ form-er Detroit ]\Tews bureauchief still looked reasonably brighc: his biography of1\fr. Ford was about ro be published, paperbackhouses were calking about a S 1 million purchaseprice, and terHorst was set t o begin a syndicatedcolumn with the benefit of a name made famous byhis sudden resignarion·in·protesr.

Today, tcrHorsr sends a thrice-a-week \'V'ashingwn column to I 00 newspapers, but his book Ger ·aid Ford and rhe Future of chc Presidency was nora big success story. To his dis y;-he Js haVing i f ~

ficulry gett ing an accountin of rhe sales and roy31}

ties (weal cash advanced i _nby hird r e s s ~under $10,000) and has re a t n c d ~ U a . v ~ y e c . t o . p t o r e c r

himself. Big money paperba · t e . . c e . s . t . i n . t h e b o O ~

which was written in a hcat·while he ·went fromnewspaperman to press secretary to o l u m n i s t ~sud.

denly disappeai-ed with Mr Ford s par_don ofNixon.

oseph Okpaku · terHorsr's hardback publisher, expresses genuine surprise at hls s tar writer's disappointment and says sales and royalty scaremenrs· will be drawn up on August 1, as per theiragreement .i\Ieanwh.iJe, Okpaku estimates some25,000 copies of red·Jorsr's book went to bookscores; j£ most of those were sold, red-forst shouldhave a respectable enough track record to begin ananticipated book ol).narional politics.



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JCER JEW CLOTHES AND f i O I ~ E YIF SHE WOULD RETURN TO LOUISIAIA ··:: - .:._ .· ·_ · · - :-~: · · . · ·• 0 • - . . ' •

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: ; * . ., • : =: .. .· . ·_;. - . .ID F U R ~ J S KCERTAJI TESTIMOIYe • . ' . .' . ' . ·-:. . . . .

~ ALSO ALLEGED IS CHARGE THAT ONE JOKI CAt:CLER, IOTORIOUS . ..: · :· · · ~ .._

BURGLAR, VAS RELEASED FROM JAIL BY GARRISON . FOR PURPOSE OF. , ; ~ : . : :: ~ :: ..

Pl.AIJTIIG £VIDENCE I I APARTI'iENT 0 ~ CLAY SHAVe . -- . . . ._:- . • _ _ : -~ · -. . . ._.__.· . : . .

PRJ tlCIPAL CHARGE BY AYNES WORTH J NVOLVES ON£ ALVI- R ~ ·. . . _ . <·: . ·.; . . .. . . . . . .. . .

B E A U B O ~ E F .C L O S ~PERSONAL FRIEND OF DAVID FERRIE. GARRISOI . ·· · : > .: ~..>: _·• • •

IS ALLEGED TO HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BEAUBOU£F BEIIG USED TO •. . . . ··.- ·.· . . . . __ -: - - ~

_ BLACKMAIL BEAUBOUEF TO TESTIFY CONCERNING KNOWLEDGE OF COUSPIRAcYe

I t IS STATED GARRISON•s J NVESTIGATORS INTERVIEWED BEAUBOUEF · -· · .- , -:.'·. · - ·._. . . . . . .. ~ . ~- · :· : : . : . .. - ,

· J I :PRESENCE or BEAUBOUtF•s ATJORt:EY VHO RECORDED INTERVIEW. _:.::___ -~ - _ . : - _: : ; -: ....: _. . _ .•·-·:• .. . . . .: . . . - ' ,.. , _ .._ ... . · · - . : ,· · · · - ~ ~- -- -~: - : : · ·- - . ·

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BY G A ~ R I S O N ' SINVtSTIGATORS I t : V o l V l f ~ GMONEY Arm - t i E ~E M P L O Y ~ E I I T-~ . : :.> i ; : . : : _ : . ~ -- :~ - .-_ ~. . . ~ : . . . . . .· · ~ - ~· · . ': • ·;·.

THIS A T T O R t ~ E Y ,HUGH EXHlCIOS• HAS REPORTEDLY TAKER T A P E ' : :: · · : : ~: : ~... ; : -~ ~ - .- - : . _:; · ·. - .. .. . . . . · . ·. . . . . ' . . . ·.. :. : . . . . ·. · · . · . ; .··.. · - ·-· "·: : ~~-...-. . >. : - ~ ·- -~ .. ·_- :.: · :··. .RECORDING TO WASHINGTON I I ATJEr.Pt tO SElL IT TO NBC tiEVS. ·-.< "~: .:·.. : : : , :~ ~: - _; - - ,.._ .. .. .

. . . ' . •. . . . . . . . . ,: . - .. . . : : ~ ' -:- <: :< · . ' - -: - : > = ~:··.:: - _AYNESWORTH STATES SEVERAL OTHER ATTORNEYS HAVE H ~ A R DTHIS _ - -_: . _.:~ .... ·.·. ·:__ -·_; . ·. ·.• .·

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RECORD NG. AYNESWORTK CLAIMS WHEN GARRJSOrl LEARNED tHIS ·.·. _- ·.. · ~· _::, . ·~ . : .. ._ , -··. . : .. . . .. . . . . • · . ~ : . .: : ··~ : : : ~ :.~ : ·: . ~ :.::-

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AYHESWORTH ALSO ALLEGES THREATS H A V ~BEEII .. ADE AGAIIST ·. : ·- ;~ :; .. :: : :~.. ~ ·.• . . • . . . • A . · , ~ . c .· · · ,

CARLOS QUIROGA, .A CUBAN REFUGEE, AND . LAYTON M A R T E N S ~OETAILS . : ::.~~ ~ ~~ } . _ :: : ~,:. . • . · -· . . . . . . . -.. . :~ t . .. . . ~> . : : ·.

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INDIVIDUALS MIGHT BE IILLED OR HARMED BY GARRISON'S STAFF AID ·: .- :. - : . ~. . . . . ~ .. . . . . . . . . - . ·. ~ , . " . . . .

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JAGEIICI ES I I ORDER TO EXPLAII _KI S U L U P I A T ~fA I ~ R EBY U ~ ~ I~ ~ T ~~ ~· , . . .

I I TO FEDERAL INTERFERENCE. .. · . . .. .._ - . . . .. .• · . . . .

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MGAZI.IIE .OR fOUR TVENTYSIX SIXTYSEVEII COVERIIG ABOVE . · · . - .._ : :,' · :<.:: . : :.:·. ·. . . ~ . . .

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DAVID FERRIE WAS INTERVIEWED REPEATEDLY PRIOR TO HIS· : ; .-. . . - _ .. : · · : .

DEATH AND CONSISTENTLY DENIED ANY XHO:-n-EDGE OF CONSPIRAcY I ~ · <:;.·SSASSINATJON CASE. FERRIE lt:SJSTED INVESTIGATJOI VAS • r A R e r . - ·_ · , · · :: --

TESTifiiONY Of PERRY RUSSO, GARRISou•s CHIEf W T N S S~: _ ; ..-:. ·:: . : ._;: . : . : .

O I S C R E ~ ~ T E _ , DDUE. TO ALLEtED CO T ~ A D ICTI 01 AID liiSTABJ LITY • .• > >• •

OF RUSSO. AYNESIIORTH CLAU1S EXISTENCE Of INTERVIEW REPORT BY : '·: _·

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GARRISON S ASSJstAtit VKJCH RUSSO JNITJALLY C L ~ I I J E D~ ~~ :·y , :: : ~ · :· . . ,KNOWLEDGE OF A CONSPIRACY • . · · . . · . , . ·-- . . . .-.· .... · - · · · . . · : : . - ··· · --. .. . .. ._._. . .. . · . . ..- . ~ · ::. . .. . ~ -. ,, -·· . : · · -~ - - - ~ . . : _..· ........·.. ~ - · - : - -~- :~

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AND fURNISH. CERTAII TESTIMONY. · . ·-·· ·-.- ' . . . : - : . -~- - . ·. _ .• · ~ , :_ :_<--:::;::·_.:-. · -~: __. - -~ :.. -. . . ' :.. . : .. .·. ' : . ~ . . . : . .. . - ~ . . ·-. . : , . - ~ .... . -

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BURGLAR, VAS RELEASED FROM JAIL B ~GARRISON FOR P U R ~ O S EO F.> :< :~ ~-: -- <

PLAIITUIG EVIDENCE I I APARTI IENT 0 ~ CLAY SHAV. - ; · - . . .- . •. ·. ~ - - : -~- . · ~· - ·.. . . : . -. - i :: - ~ . .-_.. ..-... .. :. . . '

PRINCIPAL CHARGE BY AYNESWORTH INVOLVES ONE ALVII R. -• , . I

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BEA UBOUEf1 ClOSE PERSONAL FRIEND OF DAVID FERRIE. GARRISOI :··_ ·. >-_::-; - ·. · ·_ · .' , f ... . • . .

IS A.LLEOED TO HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BEAUBOU£f BEIIG USED TO ·.-- -. - '. · - . ·---- -, .. . . . . : . . - . . . ..· --- .. ..... -

BLACKMAIL BEAUBOU£f TO TESTifY CONCERNING XNOVLEDG£ OF CONSPIRAcY. .

I f IS STATED GARRISON S INVESTIGATORS INTERVIEWED BEAUBOUEF ·.·• ...· ;- ::._·-_ : ·.·- · .. . - .. .' . . : . __ .. -. . . . - ..- • . ..

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AYNESWORTH ALSO ALLEGES THREATS HAVE BEEff MADE A G A I I I S I_ .~ -: ~ ; ~ ~, .: ~ . _ ..

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INDIVIDUALS MIGHT BE KILLED OR HARMED BY GARRISON S STAFF A . D. : ·. ·;~. :...... :. ~ ·., , . . .. . ..

EXPRESSED OPINIOI GARRISON XrtOWS HIS CASE JS. DISINTEGRAtltG . · ;· --:·· .. ~· ·. :,.. _ •

... . . - - . .HD GARRISON IS LOSIIG HIS . SANITY. AYNESWORTH BELIEVES . : . . .. . ·. : ' _. . .. . ~ ·· . • .

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AGENCIES I I ORDER TO EXPLAJI HIS ULTIMATE FAILURE BY A T T R I B U T I N G~. ;.. ·.~GARRISON WOULD WELCOME OPEl INQUIRY BY FBI OR OTHER . .

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I I TO FEDERAL ltJTERFERENCE. .: : : . . . ··. ·. . . . . . . .

AYNESVORTH CONCLUDED THAT STORY KE fiLED VITH IEWSWEEI ·. _~· ·. . .. . · . ·, . . ... . . .. . . - . .. . . . ., . . ~ .

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c,f t h e d e a l ATh'ESWORTH was t o become t h e D a l l a s C o r r e s p o n d e n t f o r•Nsw-sweek" nagazine. (Xt should be no ted t h a t t has be6n d e t e rmi ned AYllt"ESWORTH hf lS j u s t r e c e n t l y been d e s i g n a t e d t h e Correspondentf o r N e ~ ~ e k w~ g ~ ~ i n s1 ~ ~ ~ l l a s o A l l t h r e e men p l ~ n n e dt o l ~ t e r

w r i t ~ a b o o ~b ~ s ~ d~ ~ t h ~documents t h e y had obta ined and ~ ~ e i nformiSlt cn known t o t h e ~c C Y m ~ , : e r i ' l i x t gb o t h JACI( R..tmY ana LEE HARVEYOSWALOo ·

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b y Congressnen FORD, a member o ft h e ·p r a s i d e m:t ·gs C O J ~ 1 s e i a l ' l o~ I m B Rd i d t h i s acco rd ing t o t h esource , b e c a ~ u s eA ~ N D E Rhad i n fo rma t ion t h a t FORD . had p r e v i o u s l yf u r n i s h e d so le s m a l l 0 i n s i g n i f i c a n t · p i e c e o f i n fo rma t ion . : t t wasn o t knO'V,.'ll t o t h e s ou r c e w h e t h e r congressman rom> had f u r n i s h 6 dt h i s i n f o r m t i o n · t o · ~ N D E Ro r t o a news media. The sou rce d i d

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T h ~ vo i ce sounded i d e n t i c a l with the v o i c e o f t h e c a l l e r who hada n o~n . } - m .~ u s l y C O li : tt ~ c t s d SA B A ~ l on J u l y l 1964o T h i s ~ n o n y m o u s

sou rce f ~ : r r rd . l h l ~d t h e f C ~l l C J W i n gi n fo rms t ion s

on J' 'Ully 7 ' 1964 , . D a l l a s D i s t r i c t At to rney HENRY WAD£became so Eilngxy a t h i s a s s i s t a n t WILLIAM P . AIBXJ\NDBR., . t h a t he~ n t e dt o f i r e ALEXANDER a t t h a t tim.eo WADB was persuaded n o tt o b y A s s i s t a n t D i s t r i c t A t t o r n e y J I M BOWIE. WADE had a s c e r t a i n e dt h r o u g h a s-ea :rch o f A u : x A ~ ' " D E R 's o f f i c e 1n AimmNDER • s · a b s e n c e ~

t h a t A ~ N D~E R ~~ S i n posst_;ss on o f nume _o u s cop ie s o f i t ems t aken·f r a a WAWE · i i ~ B~ " i t . h o ul ' t P 9 r x U S ~ i o nl ' ld -~ i . c hi t ems ware i n c o nn e c t 1 o ~~ t h t h e recGnt t r i a l o f J-ACK RUBY 8nd th e , i n v e s t i g a t i o no f ~ HARVEY 00\'&l'.Do . WADE a l s o h a d a s c e r t a i n e d t h a t h i s o'££icec o u l d n o t account f o r a l l t h e .c o p i e s o f p h o t o g r a p h s · made _ _b y · t h eR6cordek Company, Dalliille, on June 1 ' & 2 , 1964, o f two r o l l s o ff i lm b o ~ r ~$ d b y t he D ~ t ~ ic ~ A ~ t o r n e y • sOff i ce from the D a 1 l ~ s

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o f I n v e s t i g a t i o n f rom a n unknovm m a l e c a l l e r b y SA ROBERT M.P ~ T T o ~ h e c a l l e r s t a t e d t h a t i £

t h e FBI was s e e k i n gi n .

f o = a t i o n abciu.t t :hs d i a r y , t h e y s h o u l d c h e c k em SNOOKY DAVIS 0

' l 'h6 c ; ; . l l e r a'i:art<sa h e h a d d s f i n . j : t e ir:fo=ai:5.r.m t h a t DAVIS, noi s employed as. an i n v e s t i g a t o r f o r t h e D a l l a s cou..' lty D i s t r i c tA t t o r n e y ' s offic.1a ana who i s a c l o s e a s s o c i a t e o f Ass is ta .- : : tD i s t r i c t A t t o r n e y BILL (viTLLIB1<1. F. ) ALEXJ>J:ID8R, was t h e o n e whC>

o r i g i r . a l l y p i c k e d u p t h e d i a r y a Tld t h e r a a f t e r r e p r o d u c e d s i xc o p i e s o f i t

T h i s 2-.nonymous · c a l l e r s t a t e d . t i l< t one c c p y o f t h ed i a r y w;;.s g i v e n t :o Newsweek m a g a z i n e <:nd a n o t h e r copy was

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D a l l a s M o r n i n g N6¥1S.The c :o ; l l e r s t a t . s d t h t ~ 5 ,000 e x c h a n g e d b a n d s b u t d i d n o ti n d i c a t e any s p e c i : i c s w i t h r e s p e c t t o who made t b e paymen to r ~ n o r e c e i v e d t he same. Tne c a l l e r s t ~ t e dt h a t A L E X P ~ ~ E R

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This 2 1nonyroou s c:=.ller a l s o s t a t e d t:hat A.ssista::1tD i s t r i c t AtttD::nsy JT.l 1 EOYITE was · p resen t dttri .ng tb e mee t ingi n t h e D a l l a s cou .n ty J a i l b e t v ; e e n Ji .CK RUEY and C b i e f J u s t i c e~ J R LW?JmEN, a=tar ~ ~ i c hmeetL>g BOWIE submi t ted a r e p o r t t oD i s t r i c t A.t tc rn .ey RE: NRY \'lt'.DE 0 The .cal l t 'Zr sta:t . ; ;a t : 1 1 ~ tALW.l\.NDE'Rgot .

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vec·tivc is N c ws w c ~ ·~ . wluch a t timess cc r n~ tu p ar rot t lw ad mini s tr ;u inn hnc

as f a i t h f u l ~' 's f l ,c stia h a,,J.. , th e Kremlin' s . Tlw r l la ~ a l i n ~ .· ·s " " e : ~ . p l · r t " "m thcca s e i t i" u h · \~ n , · , • . wi i il~- ~ 1~ II the ,tilll e ' J- t · -a ~ ~ ~~~ ' l n , , i , l n ~\ a ·, a n ;tl"l' re

porter for the D oll." \ t ,ml in N , · ~ ·

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v in Bl·auhocuf , F er r ic' s cor; p . minn o n lthe T c : ~ . a strip t he afternoon o f the assass in tltion, t hat two DA i n v e ~ t i g at o r s

tr il•d to hrilll hi m . What A ~ne\\H>rthdidn't re p ort was th a t the ta pe re cor d ingof the o n v c r ~ a t i o nmade ~ Hea u h o e u r sat torney h ; ~ dhl·e n ca n:fully edited todelet e the investigator's emphat ic w arn-in g s to Beauboeuf that the y sough t t• n lythe truth . a nd that thl·,· would 'ubjcc thim to l ie dl·t cc tm te st ing t i l v e r i f ~a ~ faras p0 ss iblc t hat he was tel ling tht.: truth.

The tandem a t t ad on Garri so n. w ithmu c h o f the pr ess copy s0undmg l i ~ e ithad hcc:n g h o ~ t w ri t t c nby Rid1ard I k lms,seems to hc t ht· p r c li m i n a r ~to legalm oves aimed a t renHw ing t h~ DA fromoffic·e or cwn jail ing him .

The beha' ior of U.S. Attorne y Gen -eral Ramsey Clarf, has hcen mo s t sug -

1. ges t ive that su l ·h a p i a ~is in th e worl..s.

IOn M ar c h 2. 1967. the day _a fta ClayShaw was a rr es ted. t he attorn ey gen-eral announced t ha t S h aw had been

I. nv esti gated by the FBI in 1963 and, "cleared" of any complicity in the as

sa ss ination. Thre e months late r . afte rthe world had been noisi ly au \ ·isc d th a tthe prestigiou s FBI had found Sh;m : inn oc ent. Clark s h e e pi ~h l y admi tt ed thereh ad been no i nv e ~ t i g a t i o na t al l. Theretra ct io n ha rdly ca used a ripple in the

Th e n o n c o e r . q uo tedC l a r~ as tellin g an audience of law s tu

dent s a t the Univer si ty of Vir gi ni a t hatG a rr iso n " to ok a perfe c tly tine man.

Cla y Shaw, and ruined him just fo r pe r -. sonal ag g ra nd ize me m ,' ' and th<tt the

De p a rtment would pr o sec ute th e DA .

Department spoke sman lam e } : ~ p l a i n l · d

th a t the boss had "discusse d this mallcrhy p othe t ically in re sponse to a l l l e ~ t i o n

But the mo:. t reas onublc lntcrprl ·tationis that C l a r ~let ~ l i p p r ec i s e ~ wha t " 'as

on his mind . The notion is n: in f o rcl•d 'th e al l ida, ·it 0 f Gord n n NO\ d 's fornwr

wi fe. ~ a r k n c~ 1< 1 1 1 t ·u ~ o .\\ hn tnld G :lrri so n that R ic hard To" l e ~ 11f N B C '~

Nl 'W r l e a n~ a tlillat t : tr il·d " ' l d h er tol6 ti f y a g :t i n~ a th e i n n: ~ ti ) . at Hl n . " l k~ ai d t h e~ we rt• n ot l l l t : r ~ . · l~ Will i ( to dj , .l'fCdtt the p robe," >he ~ \ \ l l f l '. I ll' s;11d

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swato kill Kennedy.

The letter concludes with an as -$ertlon by Hoover that the FBI intended to take no further action''beyond informing the commission.That seemed to suggest that Hoover had decided not to look into thepossibility that Kennedy was assassinated in retaliation for a CIA plotto murder Castro.

At the time of the letter - June17. 1964 - Hoover was aware ofthe CIA plot, but according to Senate testimony last year, no one onthe commission knew of it exceptthe late CI director Allen Dulles.

Senate and House investigatorsare trying to determine whether abroader inquiry y the commissionmight have caused it to question itsconclusion that Oswald actedalone .

A copy of the Hoover memo wasfirst published by 'tagh A ne: l ·intth of the Dallas 11mes H e r a l d ~

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earlier this week: .. t 's my information . that such a memo does notexisL



Cuban officials that he intended tokflllh"esident JoiJ Q F Kennedy, ac·cording to informed sources.

The sources said Friday thatHoover's memo attributed this in·formation to a highly reliable informant who claimed he beard 1t

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Castro, according to the tnforma·tion in the memo, reportedly saidhe had been advised by Cuban m-bassy officials in Mexico City that THE ASSERTIONS

= = = . . . . . . . . . . .......... ~ ~ ~tbe Hoover memo goany information currentlyrecord concerning allegedments made by Oswald in histo the Cuban Embassy in

ty before the murder ofqy

There has been persi ;tentmise about a possible inof the Castromurder of Kennedy,counter-stroke- againstto kill the Cuban leader.also been speculation thatsassination may have beenwork of Cuban-exile terrorists.

However, all of thesehave been fourth- or fifthcounts originating withof doubtful reliability.

THE HOOVER memoSCribed S haVing been A t l o ~ r

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t ~Warren Commission, appointed

by the late President Johnson to in·vefigate the assassination. But for-1 m r commission staffers said Fri·

d j that they had no recoUectionof flaYing received such a memo, orllafing been told by Hoover o rotl{er FBI officials of tbe informa·tioi in it.

<»fficials of the Justice Depart·ment and the FBI refused commenton:the memo s existence or its conteQts, and other sources familiarwifh the assassination inv estigationsaid they had no knowledge ofwl\ether it was sent to the WarrenCOftmission.

Jhe sources who told The Wash·

ington Post about the documentsaijl its existence apparently hadbefn unknown until recently. I tw ¥ discovered, the sources said, astb4 result of information that cameto , h e attention of the Justice De·partment, and that prompted At·torney General Edward H. Levi toorder a search of FBI files.

Alter the memo was found, thesout;es added, Levi put a clamp ofseGIJCY on the matter, and only asmii}J number of persons in theJuStice Department and FBl knewaboilt the document s existence.

s A RESULT, the sources said,t ~ are unable . to answer .sue .

Lee Harve' Oswald••• M e ~ i c oity Visit

questions as why the memo appar·ently never reached the WarrenCommission, whether the information was accurate and, i so,whether Castro was informedabout Oswald s intentions before o rafter Kennedy was killed .

Documents released recently bythe CIA under the Freedom of In·formation Act establish that Oswald visited Mexico City less than·two months before the assassination and met there with officials ofthe Cuban Embassy.

One of these CIA documents ,dated May 5, 1964, states that before October 1963, Oswald visitedthe Cuban Embassy two r three ·times and was in contact withthree alleged Cuban intelligenceagents, identified as Luisa Calderon, Manuel Vega Perez and RogelioRodriguez Lopez.

Oswald also is known to havetalked with an embassy officialnamed Silvia Duran. She reportedlyhas said that she dealt with Oswald only about his unsuccessfulattempts to obtain a visa to visitCuba.

THE SOURCES were unable toidentify the informant described inthe Hoover memo as having obta .ined the information from Castro.Some of the sources said, though,that they believed, as an ·educatedguess, that it was Rolando Cubela,a high Cuban official and Castrointimate whom the CIA recruitedn 1961, and who later figured inI ~ plans to kill Castro.

In the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation last year, itwas disclosed tbat the CIA employed a highly placed Castro government official with the crypto.nym AM LASH in efforts to assassinate the Cuban leader. Cubela andAMLASH were publicly reportedto have been the same man.



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writer with the morning paperwhere his feature copy isprominently displayed on page1. Newsrag insiders say if Biffleminds his p 's and q's he'll behighballed into a Paul Crume" Big D " column slot on page 1.

When Hush Aynesworth, thatdarling right-wing reporter forthe evening paper, signed in atWF AA/ The Dallas Momin1 News

that Sunday Michael Canfieldand A. J. Weberman were onKZEW s "Zoo Talk," Aynesworthnoticed the signatures that hewas si1ning below and threw at(. .nper tantrum and walked out

withouton that

th e a uthors of Coupd 'etat In America: The CIA andthe Asuuination of John F.Kennedy.

Speaking of A J. Webenun-he says that he's been asked todo

theliner notes for Bob

Dylan 's new LP. nd A.J. saysthat he'll do it . That lawsuitbetween Weberman and Dylanconcerning Weberman 's piratingDylan tapes has been settled byWeberman's agreeing to stop

According to Austin s .. editoreff NiBfatbircl, former Yippie

leader Abbie Hoffman hassuccessfully changed his appearance . Although Hoffman hasbeen underground " these pasttwo years, he spent several dayswith Nightbird taking in theAustin scene . Nightbird says ,

" He was dressed in a suit, acowboy ha t , boots and waswearing glasse s. He fit right in. "

The Senate Intelligence Committee has been told thatPresident Lyndon Johnson suspec ted tha t th e CIA was involvedin t he assassination of PresidentJohn Kennedy . Cartha Deloach , atop aide to the late John EdprHoover, stated th a t Johnson 'sfea rs wer e to ld t o h im b y one ofL.B .J.'s a id es, Marvin Watson .Del oa c h says Johnson becameext re me ly worried that he mightbe murd e re d in a s imilarc on spiracy . The former FBIofficial says L.B .J. requestedextra FBI protection and insistedtlYt the Bureau assign an agen tto fly on every internationalpres idential fligh t. Deloach saysJohnson hoped that the presenceof the FBI on the plane woulddiscourage sabotage attempts .

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