Spy tells her story By STEVE DUNLEAV- partner, Watergate bur- days before Kennedy Superspy Marita Lor- glar Frank Sturgis, with was shot. enz broke her silence last threatening her if she Her daughter, Monica night and said: "I don't continued to talk to au- Mercedes Perez (uninez, like being threatened • thorities about facts sur- 15, bought a loaded pis- I can be dangerous . . rounding the Kennedy tol on Monday to protect my daughter can be dan- assassination. She has her mother from 53- gerous." claimed she and Sturgis year-old Sturgis. Miss Lorenz has ac- went to Dallas with Lee "Fm very proud of my cused her old espionage Harvey Oswald a few Continued on Page .1

Continued from Page 1 And she confirmed that if daughter for protecting me," she did write a book, it she said from her luxury would be sizzling. apartment on East 88th "Love letters from Cas- Street. tro," she said, then perhaps, POLICE GUARD realizing she might be break- She made the statement ing orders to keep silent, while holed up with five de- added: "I can't talk. I can't w tectives, two of them armed say anything." with shotguns. Miss Lorenz, who has The detectives have barred claimed In the past that she reporters from the building, is a crack pistol shot, was refuse to take her out to Fidel Castro's mistress for eat and taste test food that eight months. is ordered in from onside. After being recruited by In a disjointed talk, Miss Sturgis for the assassination Lorenz said she had not of Castro, she landed in slept for two days and was Havana with a loaded gun. exhausted but added: "Be- "And believe me, I know tween the police, my daugh- how to use It and wouldn't ter and the way I can han- hesitate to use it if I have dle myself, I have good pro- to." tection. MISSION FAILED The daughter's father is former Venezuelan dictator Miss Lorenz added that Marcos Perez Jimines. her assassination attempt, "Ail I want now is a little which failed when poison bottle of Chablis wine to re- capsules melted in some cold lax with," Mrs. Lorenz said. cream in which they were She bristled at the sugges- concealed, almost cost her tion she w a s working life. through a lawyer to sell her She said two armed Cub- memoirs. ans to tried to pistol whip "What lawyer? I have no her and kidnap her from a lawyer." She appeared an- telephone booth on. East 60th gered at the talk of money. Street in March of 1960. "I don't need money. You They fled when a passerby keep it, you need it." approached. WORKED ON BOOK "Since then I always have Despite her denials that made sure that I have had she is interested in money access to a gun," she said. or publication of books, she During conver4ttion with has worked on, her memoirs, The ,ygst last nigh gap of with two authors..-in,-tht sbiortgun-kotipailefeitive:., past 18 months, forcibly ejeCted a TV re- •" ' i can be dangerous'

Liaison Agency Photo Marita Lorenz shows her marksman,- " - » the bedroom. of her apartment.

porter who had got into the apartment. Meanwhile, Miss Lorenz is scheduled to face a grand jury in connection with her allegations that Sturgis had threatened her. GRAND JURY PROBE At hls arraignment, the District Attorney's office charged that Sturgis instilled "fear into her that she would be killed," if she continued to talk to investigators of the subcommittee about the 'Kennedy assassination. They claimed that Sturgis had threatened that he or someone else would harm her or "the Company would get her." The -word company is a reference to the CIA. Henry Rothbiatt, Sturgis' lawyer, in an attempt to low- er the unusually high bail of $25,000, said that Miss Lorenz's charge stemmed from the fact she was wri- ting a book and was search- ing for publicity. Miss Lorenz has claimed in testimony that she, Stur- gis and Lee Harvey Oswald were among seven people who traveled from Miami to Dallas as part of an assass- Photos by Jean Michell /Ileum Maritza's 15-year-old daughter Monica stip, nds beside a photograph of her father, ination squad. 1-'0r(/. .Jiminez, former Venezuelan dictator. Morita shows off part of the arsenal she keeps at home. NEW YORK POST, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1177 3 Sturgis papers tie Castro, JFK death By STEVE DUNLEAVY out cocaine to the States. Watergate burglar Frank The rub came when he was Sturgis has In his possession Ji1ntAr4 V, 1%4 asked to help Castro have a document which he claims Kennedy killed. is proof that Fidel Castro "Ruby almost certainly or- was linked to the assassina- •ran U. f•CinTOrk ganized the killing, may tion of President John F. A. L. TAIlBJCRIA have actually been a second Kennedy. gun and then he covered his T h e document, a report LM.f.SSIITATIO11-• tracks by taking care of written by an investigator 1,T-1DM= IliFOR.V.T1011--JI-CIC 1.:113! Oswald. Ruby was definite- for the Senate Internal Sec- ly in Cuba meeting with urity subcommittee, places Castro." Jack Ruby in Havana two reference is nada to the reports under the FBI GOT STORY months before Kennedy's as- dose ace =her dated 11/28/63, 12/3/63, aid IA/64. Sturgis, who has gone be- sassination. On January 24 1%4, the writer woe ad- fore every inquiry and sub- Part of the report, written vised by JOSE 1. OOLVI...."Z 1.47:117/ of the Stban Student committee Investigating as- Jan. 27, 1964 by agent Al Directorate that there were JaniceLiana of a tri sassination, passed his In- Tarabochia, appears on this . » nu..0 added formation on to FBI agents thrto_ureee incida Cote ad-740.Eled that allay bed. Ben Kantey and Al Mar- page and tells of Jack Ruby, -travailed to the Ccriaattat Iclend fr.a ITe....1.ea late in the killer of Lee Harvey Os- 1962 or 1963. quez. wald, meeting with a Castro Sturgs believes that if the agent. Feather investigatien reveeled that Jack Cuban Student Directorate tf1-di/4. hod vicited a SOWIMI Piitaan or LETTER CITED reArata. letter and the Tarabochia ?mean ewes and operate° a eurcaarp v nn across report had been made avail- The Castro agent was the fine the rritel Seville. Faakirch renidence is on :'reds sole American businessman between the streets of Lniale and Tracadero. able to the Warren Commis- allowed to operate in Havana sion and investigated, the whole complexion of the as- without hindrance from the Part of the secret memo Sturgis had on him. authorities. His name was sassination, inquiry would Solomon Paskin, and he have been differentn. owned a curio shop in the "How did you get it?" Commission report. Sturgis "It was a dreadful cover- Hotel Seville. Tarabohcia asked. "It's a says his information on the up," Sturgis belives. "The violation whoever gave it to Ruby report is as follows: Johnson Administration just The report was filed after made sure none it got out. Tarabochia intercepted a let- you. I'm afraid I really can't "In September 1963, two of comment on It other than months before the assassina- Castro believed that after the ter from the Cuban Student Cuban missile crisis, Ken- Directorate which said in the fact it was processed as tion, Ruby met with Castro raw intelligence. In other through this guy Paskin, nedy would always interfere. part: "The assassin of Lee "But as far back as 1959 Harvey Oswald was in Hav- words it was not definitive who had a special business Intelligence." concession in Havana. At the when I was very close to ana." meeting was Che Guevara, Castro, he made it very clear Tarabochia, who is still an STURGIS VERSION Che's mistress, Tanya, a that assassination was very investigator with the same But Sturgis, a man who KGB agent and an American much in his mind if foreign- Senate subcommittee, has fought side by side udtih known in the undercover ers got in his way. confirmed he was the author Castro during the early world as 'The Mexican.' "Everybody has been talk- of the report headed: "Pres- days of the revolution, can't "Ruby knew Cuba well He ing about CIA and FBI ident Kennedy's Assassina- understand why the report had been running guns in coverups, but this was a tion — Additional Informa- never found its way into there for Castro. In return, coverup on the part of the tion — Jack Ruby." the controversial Warren Castro was letting him take Johnson Administration.