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November 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was slain, wasbright and sunny in Dallas. Why, then, was there a young man with

an open umbrella on Elm Street, less than 30 feet from the Presi-dent s car as it slowly passed by? Here now is a shockinganswer tothis puzzle by a former consultant to the House Select Committee

on Assassinations.

by Richard E. Sprague and Robert Cutle r

THE UMBRELL SYSTEMPRELUDE TO N SS SSIN TION

INTRODUCTION

T the skeptic who refuses to ac-

cept the idea that the Central Intelligence Agency was involvedin the assassination of john Ken

nedy, nothing could be more convinc-ing than to demonstrate how one of the

CIA s secret poison and weapon systems was u:.ed in the assassination.Such a claim would have been sco ffedat by everyone, but the weapons system itself was made public by Mr. William Colby, CIA director; Mr. RichardHelms, former CIA director; and Mr.

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Charles Se nseney a contract weapons

des igner for the CIA in testi mony before the Senate Select Committee onIntelligence the Church Committee) inSeptember 1975.

The system is based on launchingd ev ices of various types, used tolaunch a se lf- propelled , rocket- likedart, or flechette. The flechette can carryeither a paralyzing or fa tal poison.

The flechette itself is very simple. It isabout the same size and looks like thetip of a large chicken fea ther. It is plasticand has tiny tail fin s. Many varietieswere developed for different uses. The

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great advantage of th is weapon is that itis recoilles:., almost :.ilent, and theflechette travels at a high velocity whichincreases after launch . The flechettescan be fi red :.ingly or in high-impactclusters.

It is propelled to its target by a soltdstate fuel, ignited electronically at the

launcher. It stril..eo; its target, animal or

human, dissolves completely in the

body leaving no observable trace, and

totally paralyzes 1ts victim wlthm two

seconds.The laun ching devices developed by

Mr. Charles Senseney at Fo rt Detrick,

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Analys is of JFK 's Mot ions and the Shots :

Numbers beginning with Z are frames of

the Zapruder .

Cuclal to an understanding of theshots and JFK's reactions to themIs an understanding of President

Kennedy's hand , head, and upper torsomovements at the time he was hit by shots,

and the motions of Governor Connally. Contrary to what most media organizations andsome researchers state, JFK's hands didnot raise to grasp at his throat. The Zapruderfilm shows quite clearly that just the opposite occurred. Photos 1 through 6, areframes 189, 190, 204, 224, 225, and 227from the Zapruder film. The President's righthand can be seen making what appears atfirst to be a slight forward jerk betweenframes 189 and 190 (1 / 18 second) and thensnapping downward from his forehead to aposition well below his throat by framesZ224 and Z225 It also clenches Into a fist.H1s head, dunng th1s two-second hmespan,snaps into a nearly straight-ahead posit1on ,and his left hand ra1ses and clenches 1nto afist somewhat below his right hand level. Hisright fist can be seen to be still movingdownward between frames Z224 and Z225.

The discontinuity between Z189 and Z190added to the continuous downward, fistclenching motion of his right hand from Z190to Z225 has been taken by many re searchers as evidence of a shot striking JFKat frame Z189. The theory of discontinuousmotion caused by a transfer of momentumfrom an externally applied force IS evidenthere. Any discontinuity in JFK's motions occumng in the 1/ 18 second between framescan be taken as evidence of momentumtransfer from a projectile , rather than beingcaused by any Internal neurological

phenomenon, voluntary or involun tary.What actually occurs between Z189 andZ190 IS a backward and upward motion ofJFK's head. His right hand remains in a fixedpos1t1on w1th respect to the side of thelimousine. Th1s indicates a shot from thefront.

A second such discontinuity occurs between frames Z225 and Z227 (2 / 18 second). during wh1ch lime JFK's head andupper torso are dnven forward and downInto h1s clenched fists. The lists rema1n in afixed position w1th respect to the side of thelimousine. JFK's elbows are flung upwardand outward by the force of a rifle bullet strikmg h1m in the back. This is the shot thatcaused the back wound nches downfrom the top of h1s sh1rt and created holes Inhis jacket , his shirt, and his back. It d1d ot

ex1t at his throat.A similar analysis of momentum transfer

from the rear causing a discontinuity In motion can be made lor Governor Connally between frames Z237 and Z238 (photos 7and 8). Finally, JFK's head motiOns betweenframes Z312, Z313, Z314, and Z321 (shownIn photos 9 through 12) demonstrate twotransfers of momentum-one from the rear,between Z312 and Z313, and another fromthe nghtfront, between Z313 and Z314 andup to Z321 . The latter bullet drove JFK'shead and upper torso back and to h1s left,where he bounced off the rear seat into hiswile 's arms.

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M aryland for the C IA ncluded a cane, a

fountain pen , soda straws, and an um

brella.

Th e umbrella was used to shoo t Pre >-

•dent Kenn edy.

Th e flechette struck JFK m the th roat,

causing a small entrance woun d, but

leaving no o ther trace. Th e rrussile was

about 5 rrtillimeters in diamete r, and the

wo und w as 4 m il l imeters. Th e size of

the wound as compared to the size ofthe flechette 1s consistent w 1th other

findings of lh is natu re. Th is particular

wo und , off icial ly ca lled an exit wound

by the Warren Commiss ion, puzz led

m ed ica l examiners and critics of the

Warren Commiss1on alike Th e cn tics

charged that had the th roat wound been

an exi t w ound , i t could no t have been so

small .

JFK was paralyzed by poison con

tained in th e flechette in less than tw o

seconds so paralyzed that the first rifle

bullet that hit h1m did not kn ock him

down, but left him in a nea rly upnght

posi tion . A second volley of shots firedat JFK a few '>econds later struck a sta

tionary, vi sib le target. The paralyzing

flechet te sho t was fi red by a man hold

in g the um brella launcher H e w as in

close prox1mity to an accomplice Usmga radio transmitter, the accomplice sig

naled the riflem en th rough each of their

r especti ve rad i om en in th e Dal Tex

bu i ld ing, th e western end o f the Texas

School Book Deposi tory bUi lding, and

on the grassy knoll .

A n exqu is i tel y t im ed intel l igence

murder w as per form ed . T he paralytic

poison all ow ed two voll eys o f rifle shots

to be fi red mto JFK. e had become a sit hngduck .

In w hat follo ws, the bas1c eVI dence

for th1s soph istica ted murder t echnique

and weapon sys tem w i l l e presented

Much of the evidence , in the form of

photographs, has been under the noses

of assassm ation researchers for many

years. The testimony given by Colby,H elm s, and Se n <;eney o p ened th e

mmds of a small group of researchers,w ho looked at the photographi c, medi

cn l , and ba ll is tics evidence in a new way.

Th e coauthor > of lh is article and re

searcher Chnstopher Sharrett have now

been able to clearly show that assassination had to have been carefullyplann ed, we ll-executed intell igence opera tion , using CIA w eapons and tech

niques.

BASIC QUESTIONS

Throughout the last fourken vears, a

number of qu es tions arismg from the

eVIdence obtained at Dea ly Pl,l za have

p u.n led sen o u s researchers. Wh1le

th ese questions seem to be unrelated, aUof th em are answ ered in very log•ca l

w av by th is new in terp retation o f the

evid ence.



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The qu es tio ns co nce rn Preside nt

Kennedy's throa t wound, the motionsof hie; hands and head before the fatalshot struck, the timing o f the shots, theabsence of bullets, the presence of aman carrying an open umbrella, and thetrajectory of an ea rly s hot from in frontof JfK. IIere are the questions:

The Throat Wound and Trajectory of

the Throat Shot.Assuming the th roat wound in jFK to be

an ent ry wound, why was it so sma ll

(4mm)? How could a rifle bullet leave

such a s mall wound (about the size of asoda straw)?

I f a bullet did ent er jFK's th roa t,where did it go? Why was no trace of abullet fo und? The entry wound apparen tly was not at a downward angle. If abullet was fired from the grassy knoll,hitting JFK in the throat a t Z189 (frame189 of the film shot by Abraham Zapruder), where could it have come fromto enter at a nearly l10rizonta trajectory.

while miss ing everything in its path, in-dueling the Stemmons Freeway sign,Abraham Zapruder, a small tree, thes ide of U1e limousine, Secret Serviceagent Kellerman, Governor Connally,an d the hmousinc windshield? Wheredid th e th roa t ..,hot come from (see

photo #13)?

Why is there a forward motion of jFK'sright hand between Z189 and Z190 , if ashot hit him from the front at that time?Why didn't that bullet drive jFK violently backward (sec photos# I and 2)?

The Motions o JFK s Hands.

Why did the President's hand'> clenchinto fists and drop below his throat asthe resu lt of a bulle t striking him in theth roa t? Why did his head snap around

to the front? These motions, which canbe ob crved in photos #1 to 6, Zaprudcr

frames 189, 190 , 204, 224, 225, and 227,appear to be more like a stiffening action, taking a little less than two seconds, rather than the grasping at h1s

throa t described by many casual observers. jFK did not grasp at his throat a ta ll .

Why didn ' t the bulle t fired at frame

Z225. c; tr ik ing JFK in the back, knock

him down on the .,e.ll? Why arc JFK'sfists s till in the < a rne position after thebullet hits, Z225 to Z227 (sec photo # 6,2118 c;econd after ph oto #5)? he motions make it appear that JFK 's head,torc;o, and fists were frozen in positionat Z225. The bullet forced his head andupper torso dow n and forward into hisfic; ts. It flung his clbowc; ou tward asthough they were pivoting around h1 sfists and shoulders. Why?

Why didn 't jfK duck or turn or c; houtafter he was hit at Z189? IIi< mouthop ened, bu t there 1; ob viously no lip or

mouth motion bet ween 7224 and the

time o f the fatal sho ts. When Governor

john Conn ally was hit , he sc reamed

" like a slue - pig ," sa id jackie Kennedy,and rolled to the floor of the car. Onebullet went completely th rough Connally, and he is a live today. If jFK had

been a ble to fa ll to the floor after thefirst, nonlethal bullet hit him in theback, he might have lived, too. But heco u ld no t, beca use th e flechette ' s

poison had para ly1ed him . The peoplewho thought they heard JFK screamwere imaginmg it.

The Timing o the Shots:Some witnesses sa id they heard twovo lleys of shots separated by a few seconds . The photographic ev1de nce

coupled with other evidence '>howsthere ac tua lly were two volleys of shots:The fi rc; t vo lley was timed be tweenZ189, when the throat c;hot h1t , and

Z237. when a shot hit ConnaUv.• The

back .hot hit JFK at 22 i. The shots inthis vo lley occurred over forty-eightframes, or about two.1nd a half seconds.

If the Z189 .hot i'i tal-en ou t, the othertwo sh o tc; vvcrc separated by o nl ytwe lve frames, or about a half-c;econ d.The ea rl iest overseas reports, sucha<> NZPA-AAP (New /caland Press Association) da telined Dallac;, c;aid , Three

bursts of gunfire, apparently from au

toma tic wec1pons, were heard." These

earliest reports had not been tampered

with .The second vo lley occurred at frames

Z312 a nd Z313, nea rl y simultaneo usly.The shot that missed could have a lso

been fired at about this same time (seephotos #9 and 10).

The ques ti ons a re:Were there two volleys of shots, and

if so, why?How could shots fired from three or

four wide ly sepa ra ted posit ions be

timed so accura tely? Keep in mind tha tthe ea rlies t reportc; c;aid au to maticweapons. O n - th e- s pot wit nesses

hea rd shots so cloc;ely timed that they

reported them to be from automahcweapons. This takes p recision firingunder con tro l.

The Umbrella and The Umbrella ManTUM)·

Ques ti o ns have a lways been ra isedabout TUM (The Umbrella Man) eversince jos iah Thompson and RichardSprague discovered the open umbrellain a se ries of pho togra ph s. Photo#13, apicture taken by Phil Willis at Zapruder

frame 202, shows TUM with op en umbrella . Pho tos #4 , 5, and 6 (frames 224,225, and 227 of Zapruder's film) showthe umbre lla protruding from behind

the Stemm ons Freeway sig n . Photo# 14 (by Richard Bo thun) shows TUM

• fhe authors d • ~ • g r e < o n the l l m m ~ o lh t> onnalh

..,hot Cutler belll ve t il Wllloo IIred at Z223, SpraJituc at7 217 • d1ffert>nce uflt: c. lhdn ,, In ruhtr : ol'lf

ll part nf the f1 rst volley olnd wa i d ~ p i H . l t ( shoe

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No natural reason seemed

to exist for a fairly young

man to be holding an open

umbrella over his head

while the President was

passing by ten or fifteenfeet away.

Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty of the Defense Department witnessed a demonstration of the flechette-launchlng weapon system In his office In washington,D.C In 1960. Here Is his description.

It was in my own office, in a part of the O ffice of the Secretary of Defense, in the

Pentagon in 1960 that I first saw an early version of the weapon fired. On July 29,1960 I flew to Fort Detrick, Maryland by helicopter from the Pentagon to see

developments of this and other new weapons at that top secret installation. 1am able

from personal nd official experience to support the Sprague-Cutler thesis that an

umbrella weapon was used as part of the JFK murder plot.The inventor of the flechette rocket was shown into my office by a fellow staff

member, and I was told that he had something he wanted to demonstrate to the mil itary to see if it could be developed into some use ful tactical weapon system . In his

hand he held several small plastic tubes which looked to me like soda straws, about

thick malt shake size.Then he showed me a small plastic, nylon perhaps, rocket. It

was a perfectly shaped , miniature rocket, complete with tail fins. Inside was a tiny

charge of propellant.

Then , without further introduction, the inventor touched a button, and two tinyflechettes zipped out of the straws and slammed into the thick soundproofing of

the wall across the office. Only their tail fins stuck out from the wall, and the inventor

said that it was a good thing he had only a partial charge in them, because theycould

easily have gone right through a normal wall panel and acoustic board.This early, unengineered weapon was shaped something like a pistol with a flash

light-size chamber above the grip. Th e Inventor contemplated using about twenty

five or hirty st raws mounted together and fired all at once or n clusters This wouldg1ve a buckshot impact and more effective target coverage. I was impressed.

I called my boss' office and introduced the inventor. Again we went through thedemonstration. It was not long before the weapon system was under top secret control and was being worked on by some of the military specialists at Fort Detrick. I

heard about the development of the weapon many times later, but I did not see it

again until it was exhibited at the Church Committee hearings. Shortly after that ,when I saw Cutler's first Umbrella Man book The Umbrella Man: Evidence of

Conspiracy), published in October 1975 and describing an air-rifle type umbrella

weapon , I wrote to him to explain that I thought it much more likely that The Umbrella

Man had used the rocket flechette I had seen demonstrated.It remained for Senseney's Church Committee testimony to close the c ircle when

he stated that he had developed just such an umbrella weapon at the same place I

had gone with the earlier weapon-Fort Detrick. The res t of this remarkable story isdeveloped by Sprague and Cutler.

As you read this article, consider this: It is against Secret Service directives foranyone to be permitted along the route of the President carrying someth ing as con

spicuous a weapon concealer as an umbrella. Furthermore, it is abnormal for any

one standing close to the Presiden t to open an umbrella in sunlight, rai se it, lower it,and maneuver it as th1s man did. Why was th is permitted by the Secret Service?

Who had the power to arrange that TUM not be apprehended with the umbrella

weapon that day?

Consider also that until the day of the JFK assassination In 1963, there was noplace that anybody outside of the very small CIA and Special Forces group (per

haps as many as twenty people) could get access to that flechette-launchingweapon system or anything like it.

Someone had the power to ensure TU M 's nonapprehension and access to theweapon. That person was the murderer.

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less than a minute after the shots, sitting on the edge or the grass near hisoriginal position, with another man

seated next to him. The umbrella i >

lying on the sidewalk. Photos # 15 and

16 (by Wilma Bond) s how TUM aminute la ter, standing near the highway sign ho lding the umbrella.

The temperature was a cool and

breezy 68 deg rees F. The sky was clear

blue. No rain had fallen since early thatmorning. No natural reason seemed toexist for a fairly young man to be holding an open umbrella over has head

w hi le the Pres ident of t he United

States wa s pa sing by, ten to fifteen feetaway (see diagram of relative poc;ahonsof TUM and JFK . An examanallon of

the thousands of photographs takenduring the Presidential proces-;ion and

in and around Dealey Pla.ta that day

revealed not a single other open umbrella.

Thompson and Sprague's specula

tions we re that TUM was gaving vasual

signals - first to go ahead (openingumbrella) , then to fire a second round

(raising umbrella) . AfterwcHd, the

specula tion went, he stayed arou nd tosee whether anyone had noticed any

thing about the actual shooters.A closer analysas of the Zapruder

film show-; that TUM actually raisednnd lowered the umbrella very rnpadly- too rapidly to have been a gootl signal for riflemen as far clway as the DalTex building and the grassy knoll ( ee

p h o t o ~ 3, 4, 5, 6, 17). Why did he do

this?Analysis a lso shows tha t TUM cKtu

aUy rotated the umbrella. Th is rota tionappears in the onganal Zapruder film,includang fra mes up to Z236 thJt show

the umbrella in the -.pace between thesp rocket holes. Measurements of thisrota tion show that it tracks JFK ' c; posation during his travel do wn Elm Streeta t this time period. Why did TUM rota te the umbrella? If he were cln obc;erver, he would turn his head, not theumbrella .

After the shoo ting, why dad lUM :.itdown and then stand up; withan a fewfeet of his posllaon an front of th e:>Iemmons Freeway when en•ry

one else in that vicinity ran or Jumpedaway in the direc t on of the grassy

..noll? Everyo ne, that is, ex(ept one

man ~ ~ h o sat down next to fUM Whowas he, and where wa., he when the

shots we re fired, and what wa:. h('doing with TUM?

THE WEAPON SYSTEM:

-The answers to all of these queshons

and the analysis of the evidence must

begin historically with the develop

ment of the weapon system itse lf. Thereis no better way to tlescribe t than to

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SYSTEM(collllllltt•d from 1mge ol J

hea r about 1t from ex-CIA d1rectors

William Co lby and Rllhard l ldms and

weapon developer Charles Senseney.

Here IS their testimony before the

Church Committee on SC'ptember16 to

18, 1975, as pub l ished in Volume One

1976) uf th,lt Committee'" f inal report,under the IItle, "UnauthoriLed Storage

ot Tol<IC Agents.

Tuesd l'f. september 16. 1975. Testimony

of William E Colby, dtrectorof the Central In·telllgence Agency The Committee met at 10A M 1n the Russell Building.Present Senators Church, Tower. Mondale,Huddleston, Morgan , Hart of Colorado,Baker, Goldwater. Mathias. and SchwelkerAlso present. William G Mtller, staff dtrector,Fredenck A. 0 Schwarz, chtef counsel,Curt1s Smothers and Paul Mtchel, Commtt·tee staff members.

Chairman Church: The parttcular case

under exammat10n today Involves the Illegalpossesston of deadly btologtcal potsonswhtch were retained wtthtn the CIA for ftveyears after the1r destruction was ordered bythe President .The main questions beforethe Commtttee are why the poisons weredeveloped 1 such quanttlles 1n the ftrstplace; why the Presidential order was diS-obeyed; and why such a senous act of Insubordination could rema1n undetected forso many years

William Colby: The spectllc subject todayconcerns the CIA s tnvolvement in thedevelopment of bactenologtcal warfare rna·terlals with the Army s Btologtcal Laboratoryat Fort Detnck, CIAs retentton of an amount

of shellfish tox1n, and CIA s use and tnvestlgatton of vanous chemtcals and drugs .. Information provtded by htm (a CIA officer notdtrectly assoctated wnh the pro1ect1 and bytwo other offtcers aware of the proJect tndi·cated that the protect at For1 Detnck tn·valved the development of bactenologtcalwarfare agents - some lethal - and as ·

soci ted delivery systems suit ble for

cl ndestme use Iemphasis added(. The CIArelattonshtp wtth the Spectal Operations Dt·VISton at Fort Detnck was formally estab·hshed In May 1952

The need for such capab•httes was I ed toearlier Office of Strategtc Servtces M:>rldWar II expenence . whtch mcluded thedevelopment of two d1tferent types of agent

su1c1de ptlls to be used 1n the event of capture and a successful operation usmgbtologtcal warfare matenals to tncapacnatea Nazi leader temporanly

The pnmary Agency tnterest was 1 thedevelopment of dtssemtnatlon devtces to beused wtth standard chemtcals off lhe shelfVanous dtssemtnatlon devtces. such as afountatn pen dart launcher appeared to be

pecultarly SUited for clandestine use Alarge amount of Agency attention was gtvento the problem of lncapacttaung guard dogs.Though most of tho dart launchers weredeveloped for the Army, the Agency dtd re·quest the development of a small, hand· helddart launcher lor 11s peculiar needs lor lhtspurpose. M:>rk was also done on temporary

human Incapacitation techntques . These related to a desire to mcapacitate capttves belore they could render themselves lncapa·ble of talktng or terronsts before they couldtake retaliatory act1on lOr to prevent guarddogs from barktng.l

One such operalton tnvolved the penetration of a facility abroad lor Intelligence collecuon The compound was guarded by

watchdogs whtch made entry difficult evenwhen 11 was empty. Darts were delivered forthe operatton. but were not used

Church : Have you brought wtth you someofthose devtces whtch would have enabledthe CIA to use th1s po1son for killing people?Colby: We have mdeedChurch : Does th1s p1stol fire the dart?Colby : Yes 11 does. Mr Chatrman Theround thtng at the top IS obvtously the stght.the rest of IS what 1s practically a normal45, although 1t IS a spectal However, it

works by electricity. There Is a battery In thehandle, and It fires a small dart. Selfpropelled, like a rocket.

5t llnfar Clrrtrdr wr tlr (/edrette laumlwrInter modifil•d f lr umlll clln . Sc11ntar 1nwcr

nt nxhl

Church : So that when 11 ftres. 11 fires Sl·

lently?Colby: Almost stlently: yesChurch: Whal range does It have?Colby: One hundred meters. I believe;

about 100 yards. 100 metersChurch: About 100 meters range?Colby: Yes .Church : And the dart itself, when It stnkesthe target . does the target know that he hasbeen hit and (ts) about to dte?Colby : That depends. Mr Chatrman, on theparttcular dart used There are dtfferentktnds of these flechettes that were used 1n

vanous weapons systems and a spectalone was developed whtch potenually wouldbe able to enter the target Without perceptionChurch: Is 11 not true, too, that the effort notonly tnvolved design1ng a gun that couldstnke at a human target without knowledgeof the person who had been struck. but also

the toxin itself would not appear 1n the autopsy?Colby: Well there was an at tempt- Church: Or the dart?Colby : Yes , so there was no way of perce1v·ing that the target was h1t

Wednesday, December 17 1975 RtchardHelms' testimony

Huddleston : Mr Helms you sa1d you weresurpnsed, or that you had never seen thedart gun that was displayed here yesterdayWould you be surpnsed or shocked to learnthat that gun, or one like 11 had been used byagents aga1nst e1ther watchdogs or humanbetngs?Helms : I would be surprised 1f 11 had been



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used against human becngs, but I m not surprcsed t would have been used agacnstwatchdogs. I believe there were vanous expenments conducted en an effort to fend outhow one could e ther tranquilize or kill guarddogs en foreign countrces. That does not

surp r se me at all.Huddleston : Do you know whether or not t

was used. in fac t. agacnst watchdogs?

Helms: I believe there were expercmentsconducted agacnst dogs. W hether t was

ever used in a live opera t onal s tuation

aga nst dogs, I do not reca ll.

Thursday, September 18, 1975. Testimonyof Charles A Senseney

Senseney: I worked In the Blologccal Warfare Sectcon of Fort Detrcck from 1953. Iwas the proJect engcneer of the M-1 dartlauncher and followcng on mccroorgancsmprotec t les and so forthSmo th er s : Is t hcs a devcce that looks

roughly like a 45 caliber pcstol wcth a scghtmount at the top?Senseney: Thcs was a follow-on . It was toreplace the M-1 prOJ9Ctce to go into theArmy stockpcle It dcd look like a 45Smothers: Dcd the CIA have. Mr Senseney

the wherewcthal to utclize th1s dart launcher

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agacnst humans?Senseney : No. they asked for a mod ification to use agacnst a dog . Now , these were

actually gcven to them, and they were actu·ally expended. because we got all of thehardware back For a dog . the protectcle hadto be made many tcmes bcgger It was almostthe scze of a 22 cartrcdge, but ct earned achemccal compound known as 46-40 .Smothers: And thec In terest was en dog ln·capacltatcon?

Senseney : Rcght

Baker: Yo ur prcnccple JOb w1th the DOD [Department of Defense I take was todevelop new or exOtiC devcces andweapons cs chat correct?Senseney : I was a protect engmeer for theE 1 , wh1ch was type classcfled and becamethe M-1 They were done for the ArmyBaker: Dcd you have any other customers?Senseney : To my knowledge, our only customer was Speccal Forces and the CIA, I

guess

Baker: Spec1al Forces meancng SpeccalForces of the Army?Senseney : That s correctBaker: And the FBI?

Senseney: The FBI never used anythcngBaker: Look1ng at your prevcous executcve

session testimony. apparently you developed for them a fountacn pen What dtd thefounta1n pen do?

Senseney: The founta1n pen was a varcatlon of an M-1. An M 1 10 ctself was a system.and t could be fired from anythmg [empha

ses added I It could be put I n t o - -

Baker: Could t lire a dart or an aerosol orwhat?

Senseney : It was a dart

Baker: It fired a dart a starter. were youtalkeng about a fluorescen t light starter?

Senseney : That 1s correct.Baker: What dcd it do?Senseney : It put out an aerosol en the roomwhen you puc the swrtch on

.Baker:What about a cane. a walk1ng cane?Senseney : Yes an M-1 projectile could be

fired from a cane. also an umbrellaBake r: Also an umbrella What about astra1ght ptn?Senseney : Straight pin?Baker: Yes, scr

Senseney: We made a stracght pen out atthe Branch . I dcd not make ct , but I know c was made. and was used by one Mr Powers on hcs U-2 m1ss1onHuddleston : Were there frequent transfersof ma tenal be tween Dr Gordon s (a re-



,. .searcher at Fort Detnckl offtce and your office, et ther the hardware or the toxin?Senseney: The only frequent thtng thatchanged hands was the dog profeCttle andtts loaders 46 -40 . Thts was done maybe fiveor six tn one quanttty. And maybe six weeksto six months later, they would bring thoseback and ask for five or six more. Theywould bnng them back expended. that ts .they bnng all of the hardware except theprotecttle, okay?Huddleston : lndtcattng that they have been

used?Senseney: Correct.Huddleston : But tl could have been usedon a human being?Senseney: There is no reason why it couldnot , I guess.Schwelker: Mr. Senseney, I would like toread into the record [from a CIA document]at this point a quote from paragraph nine(exhibit 6, document 67 : When funds permit , adaptation and testing will be conducted of a new , highly effectivedissemtnattng system whtch has been demonstrated tobe capable of tntroductng matenals throughlight clothtng, subcutaneously, intramuscularly, and silently, without pain.

Now, I just have a little trouble, Mr Sen

seney, reconciling your answers tn con,unclton with this project, when the CIA document makes clear that one of the very s p ~clfic purposes of the funding and the operation was to find a weapon that could penetrate light clothing subcutaneously, whichobviously means through the skin, and tn·tramuscularty , whtch obvtou sly means

through the muscles of a person. And areyou saying that you have absolutely no re·collection at all that tosts or programs weredestgned to use any of these 'devtces topermeateclothtng on people and not dogs?Senseney : We put them on mannequins.Schweiker: What's that?Senseney We put clothtng on mannequinsto see whether we could penetrate tl. These

were the reqwements. You almost read theexact reqwements that the SDR quotedfrom the Special Forces there.Schwefker I would not expect you to testthem on live human betngs. t would hopethat you dtd use mannequins, Mr. Senseney.'M>uldn't that be dtrected toward people·

usage. though? That ts the potnt we're trymgto establish.Senseney : That ts what the Spec tal Forcesdtrectton was . You have to look at tl thts way.The Army program wanted lhts devtce. Thatts the only thtng that was delivered to them.It was a sptn-off, of course, from the M-1The M· 1was a lethal weapon . meant to kill aperson. for the Army It was to be used inV te tnam. It never got there, because we

were not fast enough gettmg it into the loglsttcs system.Schweiker: What was the most-utilized devtce of the ones wtth whtch you worked andsupervtsed?Senseney The only thing I know that wasreally used was the dog projectile. The otherthings were In the stockptles. I don I thinkanyone ever requested them.Schwelker : How o you know for certatn tlwas for dogs?Senseney: Well that is what they asked usto test them agatnst They wanted to seewhether they could put a dog to sleep, andwhether somettme later the dog would comeback and be on tis own and look normal

Sc hwelker : Of the devt ces that came

through you, wht ch of these were ut tlized tn

any capactty other than for testtng?Senseney : That was the only one that Iknow of - the dog pro,ecttle I call tt a dogproJeCttle . We were developtng 11 becausethe scenarto read that they wanted to beable to make entrance tnto an area whtchwas patrolled by dogs, leave, the dog comeback. and then no one would ever know theywere tn the area. So that was the reason forthe dog proJectile.

Church : Thank you Senator Schwe tker. Ithink tl ts clear that the CIA was tnterested tn

the development of a delivery system thatcould reach human betngs, stnce not manydogs wear clothtng . And you would agreewtth that . wouldn't you?Senseney: Yes.Chu rc h: Okay.Schwarz: Along the same line, I assumeyou must agree that spendtng money tnorder to make da rts of such a character thatthey cannot be detected tn an autopsy doesnot have much to do wtth dogs?Sen seney: No. that would not have anythtng to do wtth dogs

SUMMARY OF TESTIMONY:In 1960, the C IA pu rchased fr om theArmy at Fort De tri ck, Ma ry land apoiso n-dart weapon syste m, con s isting of smaU flechette·type projectiles ,se lf-pro pe lled by so lid -s ta te roc ke tfu e l, and launched by a se ri es o f de·

vices, including umbrellas. Th e fl eche ttes we re about Smm in diamete rand about a n inch long. Th e potso nsca rried we re of two types . O ne was ale thal poison , apparently used aga ins tenemies in Vietnam. The o ther was aquick-acting, pa ralyz ing poiso n that

too k effec t in less th an two sccondc; a nd

las ted for .,evera l This was intended for usc again s t dogs gua rdtng asecured enemy a rea . It had to ca use

para lys is fas t eno ugh to prevent thedog from bark ing.

Th e fl ec he tte completcly dissolved inth e body, lea ving no trace, so that

enemy age nts wou ld no t beThe dogs recovered a fte r severa l h our s,md behaved as tho ugh t h i n had

happ ened .The launchin g d evices did no t ha ve

to be very accurate ly a imed a nd fired ,beca use th e weapon was design ed fo rd ose range. Th e nec hc ttc could htt c1 ny

pa rt of the body o f a d og or human a nd<, till cau se comple te paralysb . rh eso lid-s tate fu el was tg ntt ed by comp lctmg a n e lectn cal d rcuit.

The umbrella (see The Piece drawing) used a batte ry- powe red ci rl uit.Th e battery and button were located in the handle of th e um bn• l1 :1

Wtrec; runnmg up the .,haft conn ellcdthe button <1nd battery to th e tgnit c r,which was moun ted on th e <; ha ft. 1hL·

tn gger button ac li\'a ted th e ig nite r, firmg the l t d propellant , hich se rit th encchc ttc through the rocl..ct laundwr.1 ... traw- >t/ cd meta l tube- to ib. tMg<.'t.

WHAT HAPPENED INDEALEY PLAZA?

e re t> the ' ' ay the a ...,assina tion team

used the \\Capon sys tem to kill JFK .

The Umbrella:

TUM too k aim by sighti ng a lo ng th ela un cher and tracking j FK as he moved

d ow n Elm Stree t. lle co ntinued totrack JF K a fter firing the fl echcttc a tZ189. ll e q uickly ra ised and lowered

the umbrella after firing. This mo tio nmay ha ve been caused by op erahn g areloading mechanism th e umbrellato put a second flechette in to the firingpos iti on. It could a lso have been a signa l to a radioman accomp lice to tra ns·

mit a bee p, calling for a '>econd volley o fc; hots (see nex t sectio n).

The flechette s truck JFK in th e th roatat Z l89, e ntering a bove hb co lla r, creat mg a 4mm ent ry wo und and ca usi ngimmed ia te pa ra lysis. The traJec tory t:a nbe seen from p hoto #13 to have clea redth e edge of th e limous in e. Th e fl ec he ttewas traveling at a n a ng le from the rig ht

front of the limousine, and it miss edthe o th e r occup a nts o f the car. Th eparalys is took pla ce in about o ne and aha lf seconds, from Z189 to Z216. ByZ224 (see pho to #4), JFK'., a rm s, fis ts,

hea d , a nd sho ulde rs had bee n in apa ra lyzed s tate for a half-second . Th efl eche lte mad e n o no ise wh e nla unched , so that no one heard a s hot atthe time of Z189.

T he fl ec h c tt e ' s m o m e ntum was

sma U beca use tt was ex tremely light·

we ight. As a re > ult , only a small transfe r of momentum occ ur red , drivingJFK c; head o nly s light ly u pw a rd and

bacl..

wa rd . This can be d e tected by acareful compariso n of pho tos #1 and 2,Z l89 a nd Z190. JFK 's right hand can be

seen to re main in a fixed pos ition between these two fra mes (1/ 18 second )with respect to the side o f the car. I lishead moves up and bad. in compa riso nto his hand or th e car.

The Rifle Shots:The first rifle s ho t was fired fro m thesecond floo r of the Dal Tex building. It

st ruck JFK in the ba ck, fi ve a nd th reequ a rte rs inches below hi > shirt-collarline , a t fra me 7225. Smce JFK's mu scleswe re paralyLed , he was like a rigid, sit

ting duck targe t. l is hea d a nd up perto rso we re dri ve n dow n and forward ,an d hi e lbow., we re flung up ward and

out ward, bcc.:1 use no mu scles would

c; top a rota tmg elbow a nd a rm motionpivo ting around two fr o/e n poin t

his fists and his shoulder.,. (Obse rve aU

of the<;e point s be tween ph o tos # 5 and

6, Z225 and Z227 2 18second s apa rt. )If JFK had been in a n onparalyLed

s ta te, t h e ba c l.. s h o t would have

knocked him mu ch farther forward

and dow n.Th e fl ec h ett c di ss oh cd in JFK' s

body, leaving no trace, except for the

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The Timing of t he Shots and

The Accomp l ice:After Jim I l i l h made his o;tatemcnt toj1m Garrison's investigator > in 1968

about being a radio coordinator for tht•firing team , r e > c a r c h e r ~ were con

vinced that rad1o commun1cat1on.,were used between radiomen locatedneilr each of the riflemen <1nd some central coordina ting tran..,milter.

I licks appear > at the centL•r of theplua on the ">Oll th o;1de of [ lm Street,ncar H ouston Street In the Laprudcr

fi lm, he I<; o;cen during the shootingwith both hands -.howmg, no r<1d1o

lran'imitter vi iblc, Jnd no other md lca tion that he i.., doing anythmg but observmg at the Lime of the >huh (photll.,# I, 2, and 1). I licks' reill role'' a.., as theradiosvslem-.upplierand tc..,lL'r. LaterI licks o;howo; up with the radio 111 hb

b,1ck pocket, Wcl l l-.mg down Lim ':>treet(o;ee photo# 18, taken by V i l l i ~ }

In 1977, Cu tler, SpraguL', and Sharrett di-.cm ered the real rJdHl coordinator in a scnes of photo ... In photo

# 13 he appt•cHs w1th rJi'>t. d hJnd ,stc1nding lo the left of the ~ l e m m o n ' >Freeway sign, on the north curb of ElmStreet. l ie is cbout tWL'nty lect .nvay

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known . he will be callt•d T1\ (The 1 \ ~ :comp l ice} In till', .Utldt• I l l'> rcl'iCd

ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS:

. -hand . 1 p p e < 1 r ~ in photo., 4 . 5. c1nd o.Early ob-.crvatllll l ' of h1-. hand u>nclud.ed he a-. w,l \ ng clttlw Pr t"ldt•nt

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Tl\ lan be l'en -.1ttmg ne't tol U\ lm

photo # 14 ,md alkmg .1w.1y down

Elm <,trt•et 111 photos # l'i and In Theradio can be -.el 'n 1n photo #l ' l, t,lkt•nbv )1m l tH,·nc r, 111 TN > belt .llthe bad,,

and ,,1-.u 111 photo.,# 14 ,1nJ 15.Tl\ undoubtedly ' ' a ~ u-.1ng a

buttun-tvpe bt•t•per tran ..nw ..,l(ln tt•chniquc for ~ 1 g n a l m g all r.1d1omen to

have tht• ntlemcn ...hoot in vollt>v-.. rhebutton W i h in lw ral"l'U h.1nd \ ' ' rt•con nt•ctiun to the batlt. rv- pu'' eredtr.ln-.mitter wa-. mounted on h1-. bl'lt atthe back . The fir-.t beep ,,a., tr.ln'>mll- ,ted .,., '>oon a<. fU\1 l.umched the

Occhette. Tlw '>en>nd bt•ep wa<. tr.m-.-1111 l'd a o;;econd nr t1' o ,,head of 7112.

The llr'>t -.1gna I triggt•n•d ntlt• .,hot<;from the -.hooter 1n the 0,11 Te' bUJldmgand tht• .,hoott•r on the west end ol the

-.ixth tloor of tht> TSBD (Tex,,..,S ~ : h o u l

Book Dcpo..,ltnry). Tlw man on the

knoll d1d nut h , n e dt•.u "hot .1t thatt11nc and d1d not fire. The Dal Te' -.huthit JI· K m tht• b.1ek al /225, .1nd theTSBD >hot h1t Cunnalh .11 L217

rhrt'l' <ihOt'> \\'l 'r l' tired In tht• ..,en111d

volley by th t• Dal Te>. nllem,ln , whoo;ebullet narrowly mis..,cd jrK and h1tthe'>ou th ~ : u r b of M 11n Strl't t, bv th t• 1"'-,BO

rifleman, ho'>c >hut truLk jFt-.. 1n thehe.ld at 1.':112, and the man behmd thefeme on the grcbW knoll , wllll now

had a pilth .111d fired the fatal ...hut

The questions plaguing researchers can now be answered.

• The President's small throat wound was caused by a small flechette• The flechette dissolved , leaving no trace, explaining why no bullet was found .• No bullet was fired from the grassy knoll at the time of the first hit. TUM had a clear

shot at Z189.• TUM's flechette was actually moving 1n a slightly upward traJectory. explammg the

backward and upward motion of JFK's head between Z189 and Z190.• The flechette's small momentum explams why there was no violent backward

motion.• JFK 's fists clenched and h1s head snapped to face forward while his nght hand

snapped downward because his muscles were paralyzed quickly by the poison.• The bullet at Z225 didn't knock JFK down, because he was paralyzed.• The paralysis affected the muscles , f1x rng them 1n post\1on and preventmg those

portions of JFK 's upper body from moving when he was hit m the back.His elbows

were not fixed and were flung outward.• JFK did not make a sound , because his vocal cords were paralyzed (see

testimony).• There were definitely two separate volleys of shots. Each of the four gunmen were

prepared to shoot twice upon radio coordinatmg commands. One knoll gunmancould not fire the f1rst volley, because of obstruct ions. The other did not lire at all.

• All the queshons about TUM and the umbrella are answered by know1ng he wasusing an mtelligence weapon system with umbrella launcher and flechette dart.

• Raising and lowenng the umbrella was a s1gnal to TA lor a radio beep to order asecond volley.

• The umbrella rotated because TUM was tracking JFK.• TUM and TA sat down together to assess what happened.• TAwas the radio coordinator and was standing behind TUM, where he could see

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SPRAGU2 FIRST CALL

Can p::_x::J be ob t2 ined?

CommJ.tte(; tu I n v r ~ s t i _ g a t r ~ Assa.ss.:' _:lat1_8ns found o·Jt Stu rg i s :f as in Fl a

s o m e t j ~ r n e i a s t J e a r - aame ·.vi th Hunt

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compar.isnn to seeif

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no t -h a v · : ~ to <3e contemp pixs - Paradr;: ma[; - DD r p ; ; c ~ : n l n . n c e :?,t 3 . ~ L-

; · · z ; ~ 3 ·;.J.i.th J Hunt 1t1i th - F::>ur g :Js yoJ have t·_) be l leve it

S p r . > 1 5 ~ 1 e lsft CTiti. - one o f ~ r easons ·:r-13 C3... lSe F e n _ s t ~ r . v : t . l d r ] : '_in; tCIA a c - : ; ; _ ~ s a t ~ o n s - r::: ,l ....f?h? A f - ' ' t ~ co,.,,..e,.w.r ;<.

Ylaln : ' : ' ~ s . s o n ·.vas cause 5th Estaat·::: - ~ s a c t ~ v ~s i n ~ e Georgetown C o ~ . CTIA has doae no th ing ,

g r ' O c l p ~;>Wbl? f . , . . ,( .

I made mov a·NaJ from com11ttco and tm·Flrd 5 t h 2stat•, , ' ' 1'1 '1 cAI'ti<-

CARIC & 5 th Es ta te merged - CARie m e m h e ~ s rormer ~ 1 : I n t e ~ ; A g ~ n t s .11

T h 2 l ' ? ';3 ho ;nd to be a t l e a s t one person - lhO 's l-·r::r:-<:j_ng f •r :t i: ,)ther· s i J e :·

~ - 1 e 1 3 t fo-:1.--. p r · i n c _ i p l e ~ 3 - I l i k e rr : :sul t3 o u ~ t p u t - .9,s ~ - o n g a3 I agee'.? .-;ith

mx•p o u tp u t I go a long wi th it

Hs.s tal1<ecJ to Skol.n:i.c\_ - S > - o l n i c ~ says h f - ~ Jkay- - no t p a r t of CIP.- .foont

) r g a n ~ z a t L o n or e f f e r t . Convinced Skoln tck lw i s in err-oP ~ ~ n cwppcr t ing

'_·,reber:nan11 None :Jf t - r : ~ · :JOeplP _ ; n D.:aly Plaza. a re 7 · . ~ r a t e r g a t e princip:L·:?3. . non2 Jf

2000 peop l e in my o p i n i o n - m a ~ e s s 1 ~ 1 n d when h ~ - i e sKNO -:T ; : I H P . H ~ < : D P . . H . Y w . ~ t 1 1 : ~ A S >BW.l I= IN 6 0 ' s HU:>JT '.'/as 10 in meetLng •::i th Helms - i i i ll:Cams - VLr-<pa P i c , ~confi rmed by ' d i l l i ams - l ead i n v as io n a t Playa Y' ron - p r i n i p l e s in Ba:; o f

E:l g s - Haynes Johns on t · J ld me he rNa s P.-:; meet1ng - ':Ji1l. tB ms confJ · n < ? d f\ic t' 'ver;)· h. ;nest ind.tvid,}a l - an.;: gu,-r 1AJho .J.nder f_Lre on t h a t beach p - if Hunt

sa id he> 812 s a t meet ing I vJouldn t be l1evc him . TOLD :3TC)RY LONG B l · ~ F O ~ S·Jf._ T 3 R G . ~ . T - ~ ~ C I A was gonna pu t up mor>e money ::-or ne x:t gr-- ; ;p :Jf gu.ys to invs.jc;

Cuba. Wil la ims r ep c ~ ~ a n s in Flo r ida - Hubt l a i s o n man to Helms s t a t i o n e d

in D F th.i.nl<s H ( ~ l m s rnay have been tn on t t . 3(-::=pt-Nov 63 DF m e c ~ t 1 n g s in

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BERNIE- SPRAGUE 1i 1-t:-ct-.C{ [ CAlC

evidence points to fact they weren t tn Dealy P ~ aYou can a lso 1se th is ~ ~ kind of reasoning - from wha t • > ~ e cnow a bo -1tHunts other operations he wo1 ldht have been therP - he wo11n have beensomeNhere else - Sturgis might of - he was a front l iner

Sprag .1e can t find pixet-1re Hunt - onl y one he knows of i s in boo • r

comparet

wi th tramp to convince y )u rse 1:. i t s not the same gu.•

BRADLEY - guys woman t ipped JG on Brad ley he was not ther e and wasinnocent Gar r ison aked me to look through photos - found close resemblancet o t a l l tramp - only onP or 2 f a c ~ g to l e f t I r igh t profi leVERY CLOSE FACIALLY- admit tha t t sp1rred him on

N e c o m b got t J k-nov1 Bradley - t old Spragae t a in t him - guy i s much t a l l e rthan Bradley - Bradley 5 went down to Dealy Plaza e a s r e d h ~ l g h tby t r iangl labion methJd in 2 pixs where he appears near bui ld i ng - min5 2 average 6 4 t0p 6 6 - eliminated Bradley .

O RESEMBLANCE TO BRADEN - resemblance to Stug is - only i f you piclrr ight pictures - m.;st lSe several a ngles and comtemp1ry photos.

l•;AV<Look a t DE'''' pixs of St uggis - most don' t reme mble a q utck glance wil lt e l l you . . . • .

has negs madP from pr in ts he got from paper - loc ked f i l e s t i gh t e r thandrum - Dallas Mornmng news t i e 1xwi n .tn v th the thing

Life-Time has fu l l se t of pr in ts in photo place down in NYC

would h a v to find em - l ong time since I dug those ou t

mails unt rus twor thy - pjc' - up a t 40th Park 256-7167 Bernie

th:n3 ln ~ o p s ear turn8d o· t t ~ b ~ o t t o n I

''My memory i s sl ipping away gradually over l as t c JUple cf years .

seys p h o t o ~ o f Valle i s avai lable-Sko ln ic dug him up i n f i r s t place in (67)regard t Chicago p l Jt - X« sent mug - shots of Va l le to Sprague - looksnothing l i f e Frenchy - •vasn; t in any f of Sprague pixs

poss i b lt J Valle might be pla y ing Oswald®role - no resemelence to O s • ~ J a l dSkolnick say s Vallee was in j a i l according to Sprague

someone might have been using name b J t didnt look l ke him

Did the fenster supplJ s kolnick with i n f t Skolnick dug t up-SpragueGot Sprague i n te rested he convinced BudB.1d interviewed Bolden wen t to C h i ~ a g o - long time a f t e r basicevidence had been turnedup . Skolnick says Fenster gave t to him to t es tinfo . May have been other documen t a t i on from Arvhices .SS looKing for a l l these ~ £ characters a t Chicago & ~ Stadi um

Bud questioned Hurt (??? ) Bud found him ta l ked to him t l ~ e d to t eleoperator who put cal l th r ough - another ca l l to Cali f or Midwestsend one of invest igat or s down- - - - -

wife going to Switzerland - 1 1/ -,c, (CIU... vJ 1aHI() [ J : . H t : f i ~ U t . . f J



. -BERNIE SPRAGUE #2

Tried to find negs ; Dont know what happened tog i f o ~ O n l ~ has one se t of pr ints made from negs them Big loose i f real lyA renc.y is confessimng - l ~ o k i n g foward to seeing

Going to Boston next weekInvites Bernie to l unch - 28th f loor o Park PAYMENT SYSTEMS INC

has 3 second one or 2 of 4th ge n . take an in teres t fav ori te expression

reviews RAYs legal sta tus - SKETCH IN FRAME-UP- reprint of Times Articlealso mw in SF Chronicle.

IsWI LL ~ H E ~ COME FOWARD IF ~ H 3 X ~ K E z i D E N T I F I E D AS FRENCHY'-Bernie

I f that g ~ y turns out to be Frenchy there wil l be 5. people who w 11 bebringing t o...tt

sent copJ t o guy he knows in Boston w o ~ follows undergrounds up theresent c ~ p y to Fif th Es$ate

TO FORCADE - agen t- ~ r k e d for CREEP can show proof- W)rked for FBI5th Estate people have proof of 1 t - he should have beenarrested - gov agent for 10 yea bs

Fenst'erwald .XX says HURT W S IN FUNNYFARM

M e ~ i c a n XxxKK s e t t ~ e m e n t San Fernadc Valley - cal l came from thereWeberman i s a inaccuabete and not t h r o ~ g h2 photos s t i l l t o be made public- fu l l front view /wi l l ~ ~ within next

f e ~ s weekv- Beers - nany important pixs - found m in Xx col lec t i on DESTINY IN DALLAS - wouldnt se l l pixs - got Life t buy em - locked up whenthey Xmxz locked JP Zapr...tder film - Al Chapman got look a t em - th inks they;vebeen destroyed . Once he t old em phot as indicated conspricacy & cops i nvolveddoor was slammed shot . Had access to Lif e ~ i t h BILLINGS there .

rap about - J...tne 1 ~ 7 1 - SS & k i l l ing . Henderson routed JFK motorcade-firedafterward - disappeared tBG) Fred N e ~ k c o m b - expebt on SS 14812 McCormack

Nuys Call f 213- 783- 8037 -S1w lnlck thinl<s Bud a g e n t t l h I L t . m . t x a M i Q U i ~ x ± K f ~ · ·IX:ai:JJJRxt.mxH USIIA-I.l..f • 1 T . , . tt rll-f•P'H'



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Tr:imp i s m,ch o l d ~ r t:1an Hunt so p ix of H_mt 10 : '. 'ears l a te t ro:al<: 1 :JIDC&Ncc

3hoJ1d haV8 _lsed earJ.er pj_x s f~ r ~ n ~ c

. ~ h ? n ~ J a t f ~ r g ~ t c b ~ o ~ 2 3 p r ~ g , l e looked for p e r p e t a ~ r a t o r s ln the LOOO s of pixs

.G.lso st.1rJ} C'(l ; . ~ . r h • : r . s . b o u t s • t:.spect-:?d th : ~ - " · · C 2 ' , - : o : - ~ :tnV·'JlVeO.

Sc; ld • not f1ni t h ~ n . ~ ~ m x ±

: i l l i ams i s one ~ h e p ~ V ~ d ~ d 2 l ib i - lead Bay of P ~ g s Invasion i s tnHaJnes John·3on •0 bc.<o::" on Bx txE POP. P r ~ o v · - ~ · : L : d :l t long h ' _ ; C ' o ~ - ~ ~ . J o:._ . : . : n 2 . p ~ 1 : : = : . n -

n ~ ~ . n 2s. :1assinatton : - e s e a r c h ( ~ ) : - - . in D(-:llas ;,vho clatrr.s another n ~ d 1 _•n ~ - : : . 1 .PlJ.z.:: T.Fl3 I-I. tnt rnadc.: ~ t e a tsat . i :_)n:-:;.

/'\ fti( (I J ~ ~ 1 ~1-L-.nt j_s invo lved - m " " ' · ~ t l n p ; in-DF - but Has

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SetJS man./ othc: ' ' ~ ~ T e r e i n vo lv ed m ~ - · r r - : : decpl: ' /dbo . t · ~ ~ d U n g bcc",:rE:cnnd b l t did not ta· e

Sturgls b1t n ~ v c rt han -I i n ~ I 3c..,_,rs he>ovc-:-r· _n:;·.·I

pa r·t in piannJng.

"l'eers pho to - 2.pp":1r3 ver:1 clear:Ly :·1ith f . ; l l body and fCJ.ce 3h ,.,,;ing - ar::t:Iall 'r;r-imac Ln2: s eRn 1t bs ; f ~ 8 Z r " C - - C ~ > g n 1 / . e • J .



TRAMPS ARREST

~ h r af te r ki l l ingSaywer orders ra i l road tracks s e a r c h ~ d / Harkness given job ( C A - S p r a g u ~ )

Within 45 to 60 minutes af ter JFK-A - ARRESTTRAMPS-time estab

oy - angles of s h a d o w s ~ H a r k n e s s Test to W - Vol 6 P 312 and t iming of\'lilliam All·ens ser is )f photos . (Soragy.e1 C&A_ 11 d s me ' 'tramps :lnd hobosD v Harkness Dallas P o l ~ c e S e r g e ~ t ~ a a n ~ P ~ e o - )

off . frelght t rain jus t as it was a b o u ~ to leave the yards ( S p r a ~ u e NYTf _om VJC testimony

Harld Elkins -Deputy Sheriff-took 3 prisoners from RR yards and turned"then over fO 1;1111 Fri tz Chelf of Homicid <: ( R ~ p o r t :ln Commission Documents

Sprague-NYT)

Will Frl tz - I n t P r o g ~ t e d Oswlad. no record of tramps in his c a r e , Q ~ w a l dnotes missing (Con)

NO RECORD OF ARREST - Turner :nothing in :IR ate s ~ v e r a l others* t q _ ~ e n lnto

c;stndy -~ u n t e d

forP H O T O G R ~ P H E B by -

G. Smith- Fort Worth Star Telegram - 2 pixsln front of cJclo1e f . n c ~ ~ c l o s e to w ~ l l of TBDB (TC)

L a d y 3 ~ X said f i ns t noticed negs missins pee 3 1973(TC)A £ L ~ f . t c c . : t f l - o ~ C L ~ r 6 v l . f J A Ktd A IJivt -rrr 'l ~ f i t ~ t - Y s r i ) ~» D \. t ~ ( t-tu f ~ t t

J . Beers - n ~ 1 1 a s Morning News-2 pixs got there 2o minutes af te r k i l l i

Wm Allen - Dallas Times Herald - 3 photos

:XJI'Udl' Valle - St ugis-Hunt bloc'<ed out 2 bars of l ightValle - Stugris - Hunt ; s head st icking out ln shadm'lsValle-Sturg.i.s-Hunt's h" ad airbrushed u t

In Refutation ar t ic le claims there are a to ta l of 7In Phone Conversation with Bernie claims t h e ~ e ~ e r e 9

Sprague ' s Disinfo- photos taken a t 1 : 10PM- 40 minutes a f t e r ki l l ing .Policeman Harkness, Bass and Wise went t area 1 : 05 PM to seacch c a ~as ordered by Sawyer who u noticed t ra in vras pull ing ou t . . .

DALLAS POLICE RADIO LOG - 12;55 - X2x 15 - 531 - 100 has got aboutsix men shaking down the rai lroad yard back toward that direct ion i

you get anymore info on the shooting

FM TURNER - 2 a t 12 : 50 PM Chelf Lumkin advised to search a cabose of a

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Open l e t t e r to Edi to r s and Readers of the Berkeley Barb and theLos Angeles Sta r

The a r t i c l e publ i shed in the March 15-21, 1974 i s sue o f t he

Berkeley Barb and the March 22, 1974 i s sue of the Los Angeles Sta r ,c la iming t h a t E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturg i s were in Dealey Plaza ,

Da l l a s , Texas on November 22, 1963, should have been thoroughly checkedo u t by the e d i to r s o f the Sta r and Barb before being publ i shed.

The a r t i c l e i s f u l l of p l a ~ a r i s m e r ro r s , misquotes and invented

f a c t s t h a t mis lead the readers o f the Barb and Sta r in unfor tuna te ways.I suppose the reason the author , A . J . Weberman of Greenwich Vil lage ,

New York, d id not s ign the a r t i c l e (or a t l e a s t the Barb and Sta r d id

no t pub l i sh h i s i den t i t y , ) was fea r o f a l i b e l s u i t . Mr . vleberman,and the ed i t o r s of the Barb and Sta r opened themselves up to t h a tp o s s ib i l i t y , when the a r t i c l e suggested t h a t the Committe to I n v e s t i -ga te Assas s ina t ions i s a CIA f ron t organ iza t ion and impl ied t h a t Ihave been working for the CIA s ince before May 1970. Weberman s t a t e sin the a r t i c l e , Judging from h i s (Sprague 's) connect ion with t he

Committee to Inves t iga te Assass inat ions , a CIA f ron t group, the purposeo f running these pic tures was to make sure no-one was on to any th ing .

Webe rman was r e fe r r i ng to four photographs of th ree t rampsunder a r r e s t in Dealey Plaza , which were pr in ted as par t of an a r t i c l eI prepa red for Computers and Automation magazine , publ i shed in t he

May 1970 i s s ue . He concluded t ha t the t a l l e s t o f the t h ree t ramps wasE. Howard Hunt . Weberman borrowed some o f h i s mater i a l from t h a ta r t i c l e , inc luding ten o f h i s photos .

Much as I would l i ke to have discovered Hunt and Sturg is in DealeyPlaza , I must t e l l the Star /Barb e d i to r s and readers t h a t Weberman i swrong . The sh o r t tramp with the f e l t ha t bear s a very s t rong resemblanceto a minuteman from Washington , named Fred Lee Crisman . He i s a l s o

about the same age as Crisman and has two i den t i ca l sca rs on t he r i g h ts ide o f h i s face . The t ramp i s much o lder than Hunt, and whi le Weberman was a b l e to f ind one Hunt photo t h a t bore some resemblance to the

t ramp, it was taken in 1973, t en years l a t e r .

The d i f f i c u l t y with making f a c i a l comparisons o f indiv idua ls i st h a t contemporary photos need to be used , and severa l photos comparingthe same man s f ace , r a the r than j u s t one photo , a re needed fromd i f f e r e n t angles . I s t a r t ed on a pro j e c t in 1972, as soon as Hunt ,

St u rg i s , Barker and Company surfaced , to see if I could f i n d any o fthem in the thousands of still photos and movie frames t aken in DealeyPlaza on November 22, 1973. I a lso began resea rch to f i n d ou t whereeach one was t h a t day. I suspected , and still suspec t , t h a t ll s ixof the Watergate men who were involved in the Bay o f Pigs (All bu tLiddy of the seven burg l a r s ) , were involved in the assass ina t ion o fJohn Kennedy .



I could no t f ind any of the s ix in Dealey Plaza . I d id f i nd

two 1961 photos o f Sturg i s t ha t Weberman mentions in pass ing , onthe cover o f Parade magazine and in an a r t i c l e about Stu rg i s byJack Anderson i n s ide the magazine . These two photos a re , o f course ,

the ones t h a t Weberman should have used in comparing St u rg i s to

the t a l l t ramp , s ince they a re only two and 1/2 years separa t edfrom November 1963. The Stu rg i s photos o f 1972 and 1973 were takennine and t en years l a t e r .

The only contemporary photo of Hunt I could f ind was the r a t h e rfuzzy one Weberman publ i shed from Hunt ' s book Give Us This Day ,t aken in 1960 in Guatamala. t i s no t c l ea r enough fo r a comparison.However, the two Stu rg i s photos in 1961 a re very c l ea r , and comparingthem to two photos o f the t a l l t ramp, one concludes the re is nof ac i a l resemblance a t a l l . I f the S ta r and Barb would l i ke to p r i n tthese comparisons I ll be happy to provide them. In a dd i t i on , a s

Weberman pointed ou t i n h i s a r t i c le , when he te lephoned me , I t o l d

him t h a t Stu rg i s was 5 '1 1 while the t rampis

6 '4 . Sine t he t rampwas obv ious ly no t wearing 5 e l eva ted shoes , (you can see h i s shoesn four photos) he cannot poss ib ly be Stu rg i s .

As f a r as Hunt i s concerned, the c l incher i s t h a t we have known

where he was on November 22, 1963 s ince Apr i l o f l a s t year . He was

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in a meeting in Washington, D.C. with Richard Helms, Lyman Kirkpa t r i ck ,and Enr ique (Harry) Will iams . They were d iscuss ing whether the CIA

would p u t up more funds fo r the a n t i -C a s t ro Cubans who were still ,in s p i t e o f Jack Kennedy's de s i r e s , planning to invade Cuba andthrow o u t Cas t ro . The meeting broke up when word a r r ived abou t the

assass ina t ion . The witness provid ing th i s informat ion i s Wil l iams,

and he d id so long before he o r anyone e l s e knew t h a t Weberman and

Al Chapman(l) would be sugges t ing t h a t Hunt was in Dealey Plaza .Mr. Will iams appears prominent ly in Haynes Johnson ' s book The Bayo f Pigs . He was on the beach a t P l a ~ Giron , fo r the 1961 i nvas ion ,

commanding some o f the invaders .

Not being in Dealey Plaza does no t c l e a r e i t h e r St u rg i s o r Huntfrom involvement in the a s sa s s i n a t i o n o f John Kennedy . Both men wereassoc ia t ed d i r e c t l y with i nd iv idua l s who were involved in t he a s s a s

s ina t i on , based on evidence c o l l e c t e d by the Committeeto Inve s t i ga t e

Assass ina t ions . Sturg i s was r a i s i ng money fo r and was o therwise

suppor t ing a group of a n t i -Ca s t ro i t e s on a p lace ca l led No Name Keyn t he sp r ing o f 1963 . Three of these men became d i r e c t l y i nvo lved

in the a s s a s s ina t i on . Hunt was CIA s t a t i on chie f in Mexico C i t y n

August , September , and October o f 1963. During t h a t per iod t heassass ina t ion planning team met a t the apar tment o f a CIA agent l i v i n gin Mexico Ci ty . Two o the r CIA agents were in the meet ings a t whichthe a s s a s s ina t i on p lans for Dal las were d iscussed . Hunt had to haveknown what was going on, whether o r no t he r an the meet ings .

( l ) Al Chapman i s an a s sa s s i n a t i o n r esea rcher 1n D al l a s who

claims another man in Dealey Plaza was Hunt.



~ e b e r m a n does not help those rese i l rchers who are at tempt. ing to

es t i lb l l sh what r ea l ly hilppened and to bu i ld a c red ib le Cilse fo r r e -opening iln i nves t iga t ion in to the i n t e l l i ge nc e community 's involvementln the JFK assass ina t ion and in the cover up. The e r rors and mis -

s ta tements i n h i s a r t i c l e are n L ~ e r o u s Here are a few more examples .He mentions a p lo t to a s sa s s i n a t e JFK in Chicago in e a r ly November 1963

and a man namedT h o m a ~

Arthur Val lee , who was a r res t ed in connec t ionwith the p l o t . \'leberman r ep r i n t s Va l l e ' s a r r e s t record minus h i sp i c t u re , which he says was never ava i lab le . Sherman Skolnick, whomWeberman quotes a t length as having tu rned up the Chicago p l o t andl1r. Val lee , sen t me a photo of Val lee which I have had s ince 196 9.I don ' t know how Weberman missed t ha t one.

Weberman says I to ld him on the phone t ha t no one had con tac ted

me about the s i mi l a r i t y of the bums to the Watergate people. That i sj u s t the oppos i te from what I to ld him. I sa id t h a t severa l people

had sugges ted to me t ha t Sturg is , and e i the r Barker or Hunt were the

t a l l and shor t t ramps. I mentioned one o f these people by name, ~ ~ o sHeacock. I sa id I had made a de ta i l e d comparison as ou t l ined e a r l i e r

in t h i s l e t t e r and had determined t ha t none o f the Waterga te rs wereany one o f the th ree t ramps.

Weberman then goes on to say , Sprague a l so helped spread the

f a l se l ead t ha t one bum was a Ninuteman from Washington and t h a tanother was known as Frenchy and resembled the Pol ice sketch o f the

man who sho t Dr. King. I admit to ever th ing in t h a t sentence except

t h a t these were fa l se l eads , The Ninuteman i s Fred Lee Crismanmentioned e a r l i e r with the exac t f ac i a l cha rac t e r i s t i c s and twoi den t i ca l sca rs as those of the t ramp. Frenchy i s the name Iinvented fo r the medium s ized t ramp because I thought his c lo the s

resembled a French s t y l e . The po l i ce ske tch o f King ' s k i l l e r publ ished

in every U.S. and Nexican newspaper in the sp r ing o f 1968, was a deadr i nge r f o r Frenchy ' s face . Nost people who have seen the comparison,e i t h e r in the New York Times in the summer o f 1968, o r in the SanFrancisco Chronic le t h a t summer o r in Ramparts magazine in the f a l l o f

1968, reached the conc lus ion t h a t the ske tch must have been drawn fromFrenchy 's photo . Th a t ' s how c lose they were.

Weberman again e r r s when he says Mark Lane had the sketch/photo

comparison p r i n t e d f i r s t in an underground newspaper in 1968. TheTimes a r t i c l e was wri t t en by Pete r Khiss as a r e s u l t o f a press con-fe rence he ld by Trent Gough in New York a t which I made a presenta t iono f the comparison. The San Franc isco Chronic le a r t i c l e and the

Ramparts a r t i c l e making the comparison were both the r e s u l t o f work

by Bi l l Turner , Ramparts ed i t o r a t the t ime , Mark Lane was neverinvolved and the comparson did no t appear in an underground paper .

Fur the r e r ro r s by Weberman a re as fo l lmvs: He says , Plans fo r

the invas ion {Bay of Pigs) were presented to JFK by Howard Hunt.Hunt was never t h a t c lose to P res iden t Kennedy, and he never presented

any p lans to him. The next e r ro r , The order went down from the Jo i n tChiefs of Sta f f t h a t Kennedy Must Die . There i s no evidence o f anykind t h a t t h i s happened. Weberman may be echoing recen t speechesalong those l i ne s by Jim Garr ison o r content ions by Vincent Salandria .



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No on' ' has produced a s h r e d ~ o f ev idence t h a t would l i n k the J o i n t Chiefs

to the ind iv idua l s who invo lved in planning the a s s a s s ina t i on .

Evidence o f m i l i ~ r y pa r t i c ipa t i on and ev idence o f high l e v e l m i l i t a r yc?ver up does ex1s t , however. Some of the s loppy , exaggera t ing types

l1ke \ 'leberman tend to ge t the or ig ina l cr ime confused with the cover

up. The two a re q u i t e d i f f e r e n t , both very impor tan t .

The same people who worked on t he Bay o f Pigs were ass igned

the job o f t e rmina t ing JFK. Again, no evidence . Hunt and St u rg i sa re l i nked to the assass ina t ion team in the loose way desc r ibed

above. Hunt may have d i rec ted o r sponsored some of the Nexico C i ty

meet ings and c e r t a in ly knew about them. It i s a b ig jump, with no

evidence , from t he re to were ass igned the job . Many o t h e r s wereinvolved more deeply . The Bay o f Pigs crew c e r t a i n l y d id no t s t a r tt h ings o f f in New Or leans , when Shaw, F e r r i e , Seymour and o t h e r s

began to p lan the a s sa s s i n a t i o n . J . Edgar Hoover, the man who'dsupe rv i se t he i nves t iga t ion o f t h e i r cr ime, was a pa r t of the

o p e r a t i o n . Again, no d i r e c t ev idence t h a t Hoover was p a r t o f the

a s sa s i n a t i o n plann ing team. There i s p len ty o f ev idence t h a t he knew

it was going to happen, days in advance and took no a c t i o n to s topit

On to Dal la s where Val lee would be j o ined by h i red hi tmanFrank Stu rg i s . Val lee was no t in Da l las , nor was St u rg i s . Nei the r

man appea r s in any of the photographs taken in Dealey Plaza . No

evidence has sur faced l ink ing Val lee to Dal l a s a t a l l . Stu rg i s wasnot lu rk ing behind the gra ssy kno l l as Weberman c la ims . He was inF lo r id a on November 22, 1963.

I f Weberman had done a little more homework and con tac t ed the

o f f i c e s o f t he Committee to Inves t iga te Assass ina t ions , he might havediscovered who the men on the kno l l and in the Dal Tex and TSBD b u i l d -

i ngs r e a l l y were . The ev idence i s the re to be seen and r ead . Perhapshe d i d n ' t want to r i s k being c a l l e d a CIA agen t .

Val lee , who'd spent the n ig h t i n a sec luded p a r t of the BookDepos i to ry Bui ld ing , sho t a t Kennedy from t he r e , ca tch ing him in a

c r o s s f i r e . The r i f l e he used had been s t o l e n from Oswald ' s ga rage

a few n i g h t s befo re . This i s pure Weberman f a b r i c a t i o n . V al l ee ,

as I sa i d befo re , was no t in Dal las . The Manlicher Carcano may

have been f i r ed t ha t day, bu t it was c e r t a i n l y no t f i r e d by V al l ee ,

any more than it was f i r e d by Oswald. It was c e r t a i n l y n o t f i r e dfrom t he 6 th f loo r window o f the TS D as t he Warren Commission

concluded .

In the a e r i a l view of the Dealey Plaza a re a , r e p r i n t e d on t h i spage, you can see how the k i l l e r s meet about ha l fway between the kno l l

and t he Book Deposi tory . (Presumably Val lee from t he TSBD and Huntand Stu rg i s from the kno l l ) . The photo Weberman i s r e f e r r i n g to was

publ i shed in the Barb, not in the Sta r . It i s an a e r i a l photo taken byJe r ry Cabluck o f the F t . worth S ta r Telegram, a t PM on November 22,1963, from a h e l i c o p t e r t h a t Cabluck r en ted fo r the af te rnoon . He

snapped about f i v e photos of the Plaza from the a i r showing d i f f e r e n t



views. I used the one Weberman r e fe r s to , in the c A a r t i c l e to

show the pa th taken by two Dal las policemen with the t ramps as they

escor ted them from the parking l o t / f r e ig h t switching yards behind the

kno l l , t o the Dal las County s h e r i f f s ' of f i c e on Houston St ree t in thePlaza . I had drawn a l i ne on the or ig ina l photo showing the path .

Weberman appa ren t ly mistook my l i ne to i l l u s t r a t e the meet ing o f thetwo groups.

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In fac t , the t ramps photos were taken a t 1:10 PM fo r ty minutesa f t e r the assass ina t ion . The th ree t ramps, a f t e r pa r t i c ipa t ing in

the assass ian t ion , ran from the grassy kno l l back in to the r a i l f r e igh t

a rea , and hid in a box c a r . Policemen Harkness, Bass and Wise wentback to t h a t area a t 1:05 PM to search the f r e igh t t r a i n con ta in ing the

box ca r . They were ordered to do so by Inspector Sawyer, who no t icedthe t r a i n beginning to pu l l out of the yard .

By the ·time the t ramps w·ere a r r e s t e d , the gun shooters f rom the

Dal Tex bui ld ing and from the Deposi tory Building {none o f whom wereVal lee ) , had long s ince depar ted .

Weberman mistakenly says the t ramp's photos were publ i shed in

the e a r l y e d i t i ons o f the Dal las Times Herald and the Ft . worth Sta r

Telegram. There were seven pic tures taken o f them by t h ree photo-

graphers from the Herald, the Telegram, and the Dal las Morning News.

None o f the photos were ever publ i shed u n t i l May 1970 when ComputersAutomation pr in ted four of the seven.

The shor t t ramp t h a t Weberman mis taken ly be l ieves to be E. HowardHunt, i s hidden behind the o ther two in a l l but two photos . However,in one o f Jack Beers two Dal las Morning News p ic tu r e s , he appears

very c l e a r l y with fu l l body and face showing. So Weberman's theoryabout h i s being Hunt and t ry ing to avoid being photographed, doesn ' t

hold up.

There were some p ic tu r e s taken o f the bums t ha t were neverpr in t e d but when we c a l l e d the For t Worth Telegram we were t o ld the

nega t ives had been s to len . Here, Weberman confuses two d i f f e ren tse t s o f photos from two newspapers. The two photos taken by GeorgeSmith of the Telegram, were publ ished in the May 1970 a r t i c l e . Theyare #s 6 and 15 in Weberman's a r t i c l e . They were #s 1 and 2 in mya r t i c l e . The two unpublished photos were t aken by Jack Beers o f the

Dal las Morning News. The News was very sec re t ive about these ando ther Jack Beers ' photos taken in Dealey Plaza . This could be due to

a s e n s i t i v i t y on the pa r t of News management, inc luding Mr. Kruegerand Mr. Dealey ( the man Dealey Plaza was named fo r i s an owner o f the

News), to the f ac t t ha t Beers ' photos he lp prove there was a conspi racy .

As Weberman s t a t e s , the Dal las Times Herald has a l so been very s t i c ky

about l e t t i n g photos of the t ramps and o ther Dealey Plaza photos , ge t

out of t h e i r hands. The Ft . Worth Sta r Telegram, on the o ther hand,has been very coopera t ive . The l a s t t ime I t a lked with them the t rampnega t ives were st ll in t he i r f i l e s and ava i lab le .



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:vlr. Hichard E. Sprague

Personal Data Services

193 Pinewood HoadHartsdale, New York 10530

Dear Sir:

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I have received your letter of v1arch 24th. With

respect to your request, it will not be possible to furnish the

assistance you are seeking as all pertinent material, including

movies and photographs, relative to the assassination of I•resi-

dent Kennedy was made available by this Bureau to the Warren

Commissi{)n. That Commission subsequently turned the material

,over to the National Archives.

Very truly yours,

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NOTE: Our files disclose in a Rosen to Mr. DeLoach memo dated

3/26/68, captioned Assassination of President John Fitzgerald

Kennedy, 11/23/63, Dallas, Texas, i t was noted that Hichard 1:.:.Sprague had .vritten to the Administrative Assistant to Senator

Hobert F. Kennedy, enclosing a number of photographs taken at

the assassiiption site and stated he was a proponent of the theory

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that Sprague assisted individuals who have been severelycritical of the

Warren Commission and the FBI We wrote him on 7/18/68 utilizing

above salutation and complin entary closing in view of data in our files

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Appendix C

STAFF OF THE NIITIONI\L COMMISSIONON ELECTRONIC FUND TR/\NSFERS- -v ' \sof october.T0- --t976T-

Dr. John B. BentonExecut ive Direc to r

Mr. Wayne I . BouchPrDeputy D i r e c t o r D ire c to t - o f Research

Mr. James 0 . Howurd J r .

General Counse l

Sen i o r S t a f f

Mr. Richard SpragueProgram Munuqer

Dr . ~ 1 a r k Bendel

Program Munaqcr

Mr. James 0 . Howard J r .Prograitl Mar1<1gcr and

General o u n ~ e l

Mr. John M. McDonnell

Program Manager

Ms. Kathryn H. Humes

Program Manager

G e n e ~ J l CounseJ s S t a f f

Mr. Henry Polmcr

Deputy Genc·r.:1l CounsPl

·Mr. N. Sc o t t SncksA t t o r n c y - 1 \ d v i > O l

Ms. Diana Jones

Mr. Will iam Neufeld

Are_0-__ f Respons ib i l i t x

Prooram 1 - Use Access und

c0i1-lrul-0f EFT Sys tems;

Pt o q ram 8 - ( n t e r n a t i o n a lDC-v0 1 -)J)mt--n t _;

Proq r-<ull 2 - N,l. -_ i o na l Economj c

P-Olicy JmpJ icat- ;ons; P r o

~ ~ ~ l _ _ _ Cost.-- B e n e f i t - Ai1i.1lysis

Program 4 - EFT Informa t ion

TPiTV-ilCYT; Program 5 - Record-keep ing Pr a C t i c e s _

Proqram 6 - Telecommunica t ions ;Progr-ttffi 7 - Other Technologica lFactor-S

The Consumer I s sues Area

Mathemat ics Po l i t i ca l Sc ience

Pub l i c A dm i n i s t r a t i on