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Dimiter Adamov Dimitrov alias U. S. Army General Donald A. Donaldson

As the final pages of this issue went to press. with several sections already printed. word reached us from extremely reliable sources that this man had been murdered on December 7, 1977. receiving seventeen shots to the head. His body has not yet been found. and no word has yet appeared in the press. If this report is true. it adds still another shock wave to the already terrifying article which begins on page 40. For this man is — or was — "the missing General' whose testimony would go far toward solving the mystery of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Until the General, or his body. is found, we at Gallery. fear also for the safety of noted Dutch journalist . whose courage. diligence, and professionalism are evident in this newest Gallery investigative report.

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'At? • INTRODUCTION BY L. FLETCHER PROUTY. Former chief liaison officer between the Pentagon and the CIA, Col. Prouty is Gallery's National Affairs Editor

fourteen-year cover-up that has per- n 1950, Henry Kissinger was a sisted since John Kennedy's death. Student at Harvard, - William F. Yale More than a hundred persons have died: I Buckley was editor of the many others have been threatened in Daily News, and Willem Oltmans, son of order to shut them up. Even today, our a rich Dutch family, was an under- major television networks will not handle graduate at Yale. Kissinger went on to this subject objectively. Time and become the Executive Secretary of the Newsweek will not discuss the assassi- en route to Council on Foreign Relations nation objectively, nor will most of the his jobs as National Security Advisor and media. At the same time, books that are Secretary of State for Richard Nixon. Na- patently untrue are published. They are Buckley became editor of his own aimed at obfuscating and smearing at- magazine. Oltmans re- tional Review tempts to get at the truth of the assassi- turned to the Netherlands and became nation. one of its outstanding television jour- Willem Oltmans After De Mohrenschildt's death, nalists. In this capacity he has become 011mans went on national television in one of the world's foremost critics of the interview him there. Unaccountably, De this country in an attempt to tell his story. and of its findings The networks put Oltmans on and then in the case of the murder of President Mohrenschildt disappeared. and for weeks Oltmans was unable to locale immediately began a vicious campaign John F. Kennedy. to smear him. The newspapers general- Foreign correspondents have had art him. Finally, Oltmans heard from De Mohrenschildt that the House Assassi- ly ignored hiS news conferences, and if advantage over their American counter- they covered them, they distorted what parts. They have not seen, read, and nation Committee was going to inter- view him. On the day he was to be inter- he said. heard the countless lies and misstate- More important, in May 1977, not long ments that have flooded this country viewed —March 29,1977—George De Mohrenschildt was found dead in the after Oltmans returned to Europe, he since Kennedy's death in November was visited by a Bulgarian calling 1963. Today the crime of the vast Manalapan, house where his daughter was living. himself General Donald A. Donaldson. cover-up of that murder is a far more ter- Donaldson claimed to have inside rible crime than was the murder itself. It De Mohrenschildt joined a list of well over one hundred people who, in one knowledge of the Kennedy assassi- has never been proved that Lee Harvey nation. He told Oltmans a story woven Oswald killed, or ever shot at, JFK. way or another, have died in unusual cir- cumstances—apparently because they around some knowledge of it, but he Foreign correspondents have always always stopped short of a real reve- been puzzled that the state of knew something about the death of JFK. This is Pitmans' story, and Gallery lation. This is the story of Donaldson's never conducted its own investigation visits to Oltmans, and it repeats into the murder —an investigation that presents it not so much because it is going to solve the case of Kennedy's Donaldson's claims. might have led to a trial. It may be that Donaldson is real and Foreign correspondents see these death, but because it shows that the cover-up still lives. that he knows something about the questions more clearly than we do, and Kennedy assassination. It is much more this is what led Willem Oltmans to There have been many phony stories about Kennedy's murder, about Oswald, probable that Donaldson is another pan in 1967 to talk with Oswald's mother. Dur- of the cover-up and that he was sent to ing their long discussions Oltmans and about the Cuban connection. For instance, Priscilla Johnson McMillan Oltmans to feed him lies and, ultimately, learned that in 1962 the Oswalds had to discredit him. We would like to believe been befriended by George and Jeanne claims to have interviewed Oswald in the . Certain newspaper Donaldson's story, and if he will surface, De Mohrenschildt (see the November him the space to recount reporters have been used to surface Gallery will offer Gallery: "The Mysterious Death of a Key his story openly. JFK Assassination Witness") shortly phony Oswald and assassination sto- ries in order to break down the validity I believe Donaldson is a typical "cover after the Oswalds had arrived in Dallas story" character. He might well be from the Soviet Union. and credibility of legitimate researchers and writers. Witness George Lardner's an intelligence ploy. The object of Oltmans read the countless pages of and "Donaldson" —and others like him—is De Mohrenschildt's testimony in the stories in The Washington Post The Chris- to provide Oltmans—and others like him Warren Commission Report — no one those of Priscilla Johnson's in tian Science Monitor —with a story that can be broken down else had been questioned at such length after publication. In this case. not only by the Commission—and then called on Books have been written by, or for, such ''experts" as Hugh McDonald of would Oltmans look bad. but so would him and his wife. He interviewed them, his true De Mohrenschildt story. It is a talked with them, and became their the Los Angeles Police Department. and clever and much-used ruse. friend and confidant. Over the years, who wrote Appointment in Dallas. Robert Morrow, who wrote Betrayal. This is the world of the Kennedy mur- Oltmans collected many hours of taped ders, No one has ever proved that Lee conversations with George and visited These books are usually identifiable by their smooth "authenticity" and their Harvey Oswald killed JFK. Until that has the De Mohrenschildts regularly. been done, and until the real murderers In February 1977. when he met them contrived bending of the truth. This is part of the game played by the secret have been found, the killers walk the in Dallas, Oltmans found things streets, and the men who hired those changed. George was visibly upset and murderers of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. killers remain in power. This is the real concerned that someone was out to kill mekng of the story of General Donald him. Oltmans arranged through NOS Neither , Fidel Castro, nor Nikita Khrushchev himself A. naldson of Bulgaria. television in the Netherlands to fly • —L Fletcher Prouty with De MohrenSchildt to Europe to could have had anything to do with the

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THE MISSING GENERAL by Willem Oltmans

n September 15, 1975 a Gen- personal. classified Presidential mes- , approached the heart of eral Donald A. Donaldson sage to the then prime minister of But- the assassination, and he was im- sent - a strictly confidential, gana, Ivan Bagrianolf. Reportedly, the mediately discredited. Others, includ- registered letter to Senator letter contained an appeal for the Bul- ing , talked and wrote a Frank Church, then chairman of the garians to join the West instead of the lot, but you alone really hit the mark Senate Select Committee on Investiga- Communists. one hundred percent," said General tion. He wrote, "I have been following When civil war erupted in Greece. Donaldson. the progress of your Committee at General Donaldson joined General He asked how I had discovered home and abroad very closely...A have Zervas. In 1947 he was attached to George De Mohrenschildt's involve- decided to come forward and volunteer General Skobie, the Commander of the ment in the JFK assassination. an appearance before your respectful British Army in Greece. During Tru- I told him that early in 1967, a serious Committee....I assure you that I am man's administration, Donaldson re- and famous Dutch clairvoyant, Gerard holding the answers to some very im- portedly surfaced in the Panama Canal Croiset of Utrecht, invited Carel En- portant questions.... One of the an- Zone area. Why this Bulgarian an- kelaar, head of national Dutch televi- swers that ! know is who gave the order ticommunist, twice condemned to sion, and myself to his house. Croiset's to assassinate President John F. Ken- death by the leaders of his native coun- vision was then duly taped and nedy. The President knew who gave try, turned up in Hollywood a few recorded. He explained first that the the order. and he told me about it as he years later is not clear. Purportedly, he true killers of John F. Kennedy were had received a warning. He asked me co-produced a score of films with Cecil still at large and that the to look for prospective assassins B. De Mille. and the world were exposed to unac- among groups and people your very ceptable dangers unless these con- Committee is now investigating. This spirators were exposed. He gave a pre- means there was a well organized con- cise description of the man behind Os- spiracy to assassinate the President. wald who was responsible for the as- And the President was extremely puz- sassination in Dallas. Croiset spoke of a zled about the man who gave the order father-son relationship. He gave phys- to kill him." ical particulars and warned that the Who is this general who wrote man had a name consisting of two Senator Church this astonishing letter? separate words, that he was well Dimiter Adamov Dimitrov was born placed in society, and that he had oil after World War 1 at Metkovetz, near connections. Croiset used the word Lom, Bulgaria. As a very young man, "geologist." Dimitrov joined the resistance move- ment against the Nazis. In 1943 he founded the Bulgarian Democratic Lib- eration Movement. When the Com- (1,111V0 li1111111, A.4 oh rrncellild 1 munist takeover threatened, he fled to 0- • D_ r the United States. Only weeks after the death of Count President Franklin D. Roosevelt. by George De Mohrenschildt (Lee t Jamey Presidential decree, declared Dimitrov Oswald's closest friend in Dallas) on an American citizen and gave him a March 29, 1977 in Palm Beach. Florida, I new name — Donald A. Donaldson. was telephoned in Amsterdam by a Mr. Concurrently, he made the Bulgarian Jim Adams. He said he wanted to pro- resistance fighter a titular general to duce an epoch-making film. which was give him the clout to deal with the au- to include details of the JFK assassina- thorities of that Balkan country. In 1944 tion. Since he had seen on television Roosevelt then ordered General that I had been involved in investiga- Donaldson hack to the Balkans with a tive reporting of the Dallas murder, he felt we should get together. I met Mr. Adams on May 31, 1977 at the Amster- Gerard Croiset dam Marriott Hotel. Adams turned out to be General Donald A. Donaldson. On March 11, 1967 I visited with Mrs. "My friends at the Pentagon." he as- , the mother of the sured me, "know that I am talking to accused assassin, in Fort Worth, Tex- you. You showed unusual courage to as. I asked her whether her son Lee bring out the details on the involve- had befriended a prominent oilman in ment of George De Mohrenschildt with Dallas. Oswald. Yuu were right that De "Of course," she replied. "That's Mohrenschildt was the key contact be- George De Mohrenschildt, Why would tween the conspirators in Washington, this man cater to my son, unless he in- D.C. and the Dallas ambush team. tended to use him?" She showed me "Apparently. you did not realize the part IX of the Warren Commission Re- imminent dangers involved in your port in which several hundreds of mission. But actually, you were right. pages of George and Jeanne De Jim Garrison, the District Attorney of Mohrenschildt's testimony about their 43

1;m57, A•g^;;,'M7MPMCFM7,,l'aT' nM:'/1S'W,M;M:..SWATTOMPRigMtt It was no longer permissible for me as a journalist to withhold from the House Committee or the Justice Department any information I had obtained that might help other investigators to unravel the murder mystery of the century. relations with Oswald were reprinted. 1974, George De Mohrenschildt wrote he would have had it." George was also a geologist. me that if I intended to visit Henry I returned to Dallas on February 23, I did a filmed interview with the De Gonzales, then the lawyer, Pat Russell, 1977 to fullfil a lecture engagement at Mohrenschildt couple on October 15, would be happy to accompany me to the Mary Craig, Class, a prominent local 1967 in their Dallas apartment for NOS San Antonio. It troubled De Mohren- Woman's Club. Afterwards, I was to television of the Netherlands. A local schildt that a new investigation into the meet with the lawyer Russell for lunch CBS crew did the camera work. Later, Dallas murder was to be launched. At at the Cipango Club. George had been in 1975, this forty-minute film was to the end of our long conversation (with released after six weeks at the Parkland disappear mysteriously from the files Mr. Russell present), he exclaimed, Hospital. He had resumed teaching at of the Dutch Broadcasting Corpora- "After all you told us, I feel very re- Bishop College. As a surprise, Russell tion, NOS television, in Hilversum, lieved." brought De Mohrenschildt along for Holland. Thus, the only full-length I received the first indication that the luncheon. I must say that out- filmed interview with the man behind George was in deep trouble on Decem- wardly at least he seemed the same. Oswald was lost forever. ber 4, 1976 when I flew into Dallas and But I immediately noticed a consider- In the years that followed I kept in called him from the airport without giv- able tension and nervousness in him close touch with George De Mohren- ing him advance notice. His wife an- that I had not seen or known before. schildt. We corresponded most regular- swered the phone and said that her I sat next to George. After a while he ly. I used to visit his Dallas apartment at husband was very sick and in the hos- whispered to me in French, so the least once a year and stay as his house- pital and that it was impossible to visit others would not understand, that he guest sometimes for several days. Until with him. When I called Mr. Russell, he needed to speak to me most urgently. 1974, neither the De Mohrenschildts' informed me that De Mohrenschildt Immediately after the luncheon I left story about Oswald nor their general was in the Parkland Hospital Mental with De Mohrenschildt in his car for behavior changed much. George, were Clinic for observation, and he was re- Bishop College, and we found a quiet he to be questioned, seemed com- ceiving rather heavy drug treatments. place in a corner of the library. When pletely in control about what he would His memory was impaired. George we sat down, George looked extremely say and also when he would decide to was in serious trouble. depressed. It was there that he finally stay mum. Most of the time he I was shocked. I had known George confessed to his involvement in the JFK ridiculed all conspiracy theories, but for almost ten years. Here was a man murder. He stressed that he felt re- when we were alone, on long walks, who was completely in control of his sponsible for Oswald's role. He want- for instance, he would say that some- life, extremely cynical about the great ed to confess. He said that for some day someone would confess, and only affluent American society, totally criti- time he had been receiving threats then would the world finally learn cal of the Dallas oil world and the so- against his life, and he was absolutely what had really happened on Novem- called high-living rich, as well as aris- sure that he would be killed. He begged ber 22, 1963 in Dallas. "If you are in- tocrats (after all, he knew something of me to please take him to Europe to safe- terested in finding the murderers," he that world as he truly was a White Rus- ty, out of reach of potential assassins. once said, "you have to search among sian count by birth). He delighted in the Cubans." having black students at Bishop Col- But in 1974, simultaneously with ef- lege where he chose to teach French forts by Representative Henry Gon- and Russian instead of still associating zales of Texas to have the Kennedy in- with the crooks and gamblers of the in- vestigation reopened, George seemed ternational oil tycoons. He used to say to become increasingly nervous. When that his association with Lee Harvey I arrived September 10, 1974 for one of Oswald had made him lose important my periodic overnight stays, 1 was met business contacts because of the wide at the airport by George and Jeanne, publicity the Warren Report had given who almost immediately announced to his close friendship with Lee and that it would be better to await any dis- Marina. But it had turned out for the cussion of the JFK assassination or of better, because without this adverse Oswald until their lawyer, Pat S. Rus- publicity, he would probably never Michael Eddowes sell, would arrive after dinner. Never have entered the academic world. before had I seen them act or speak De Mohrenschildt was the outdoor When later in 1977 British lawyer this way. type. He was always suntanned. He Michael Eddowes published his ac- On September 6, 1974 George had jogged a couple of miles a day and count, The Oswald File, and reported written me a letter saying in part, "In played an ardent game of tennis in that, presumably, I had first given De case of my removal from the scene—by which his wife participated. Whenever Mohrenschildt drugs and then had assassination or otherwise — you will possible, he would drive his Mustang interviewed him, one can only wonder be able to sell the tapes. The proceeds convertible with the top down. For me, whether there are no efficient ways to (one-half) are to go to my daughter it remained a mystery how this man stop people, in our system of a free Alexandra." This was the agreement could suddenly have become a mental press, from further confusing or pollut- we had made in 1969. If the seven case. But many months after his un- ing the already mysterious events sur- hours of sound tape we had made were timely death, Jeanne De Mohrenschildt rounding Kennedy's assassination. to be sold or turned into a book, I remarked to me, "We had him com- From Bishop College, I telephoned would share the proceeds on a fifty- mitted to the Parkland Mental Clinic Carel Enkelaar, head of Dutch NOS fifty basis. because we knew [she and lawyer television. I informed him that Gerard Just after that visit, on September 13, Russell that one more interview, and Croiset's vision that George would

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mttmnt,maurtsstrsrmsysvirtmerrssz.,,,t-zymtwommszstIstsTkssretts President Ford belatedly realized that Kennedy had been hit by five bullets, that Oswald never could have acted alone, and that there had been a conspiracy.

someday confess and do so to me had through with his confession. of March 29. That same afternoon, finally materialized. Enkelaar asked me Instead of contacting George again, I George De Mohrenschildt was found to bring De Mohrenschildt to the Neth- informed Robert Tanenbaum, lawyer dead, erlands at my earliest convenience. for the Select Committee, on March 28, General Donald A. Donaldson We arrived in Amsterdam via New indicating where De Mohrenschildt seemed to know, at least he so assured York and London on March 3, 1977. could be reached. Tanenbaum said, me, that he had received through his That same evening, we drove to the "We will have an investigator there to- highly placed contacts in Washington, house of Croiset in Utrecht. The clair- morrow." D.C. the relevant information that voyant found his vision dating back to So it was. The investigator did visit George had been killed after he had 1967 completely confirmed. the villa of Mrs. Tilton on the morning agreed to come to the capital to testify. The next day, De Mohrenschildt negotiated with Mr. Enkelaar and a representative of the Strengholt Pub- lishing Company to obtain an exclusive contract on the story of his relations THE JFK TRIGGERMEN AND WHY THEY ARE NOT IMPORTANT with the accused assassin of President By Richard Sprague John F. Kennedy and why he felt re- sponsible for Oswald's role. Richard E. Sprague was consultant fo the Congressional committee investigating On March 5, 1977, while the contract assassinations. A pioneer In the field of electronic computers, he is a consultant to was being drawn up, I drove with De the President's Commission on Electronic Funds Transfer Systems (EFTS) and to Mohrenschildt to to keep a the Battelle Memorial Institute, a think-tank of Frankfurt, Germany. He has written luncheon appointment with an old numerious articles and books. friend, the Soviet Charge d'Affaires, Vladimir Kuznyetsov. Mr. Kuznyetsov had been stationed for some years in The Hague and was now serving in the diplomatic corps in . George told us he would go for a walk in the city, since he had not been back there for some twenty years. He was to join us for luncheon at the Me tropole Hotel in an hour or so. De Mohrenschildt never returned from that walk. I doubt that he had planned to disappear in Brussels, be- lack Lawrence "Frenchie7 one of several aliases cause he had left all of his possessions, including his pipe, in the guest room of the house he was staying at in Amster- dam. Again, Mr. Eddowes concludes in The Oswald File that De Mohrenschildt might have wanted to come to Europe to ask the Soviet KGB for protection. But neither the Russians nor the Poles, writes Eddowes, accepted him into their country. According to researcher Eddowes (he misspells Enkelaar for Angelier, and Kuznyetsov for De- nisov), "De Mohrenschildt was possi- William Seymour Emilio Santana bly threatened with death or exposure as a longtime Soviet agent." hese four photographs show the men who are believed to have fired shots at After George disappeared in Brus- President Kennedy in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. By sels on March 5, I went into closed ses- Tthe year 1970, evidence accumulated by the Committee to Investigate Assas- sion before the Select Committee on sinations, Washington, D.C. pointed to these riflemen shooting from four positions. Assassinations in Washington, D.C. on However, as incredible as it may seem, Willem Oltman's article makes clear that the March 15, 1977 to give a full account of identities of the actual Dealey Plaza team, including shooters, radio communica- tions men, coordinators, and others, do not really these events. On March 25, De matter in the overall conspiracy Mohrenschildt surfaced at the villa of and especially in the cover-ups. The murder was a carefully orchestrated intelli- Mrs. Charles Tilton III at Manatapan gence operation; it was and is being covered up by high-level intelligence people near Palm Beach, Florida, where his whose influence reaches into the White House Itself. daughter Alexandra was staying. He The photographic evidence alone proves that Lee Harvey Oswald did not fire any sent me a telephone message through a shots that day. Once one moves beyond the stage of thinking that Oswald did the friend in Houston. asking me to call shooting, the questions about who was shooting become secondary to the ques- him. He said that he had been most tions about who planned and commanded the execution and wh y they did so. More grateful for my efforts to bring him to important, who covered up the truth, and who today is responsible for the continuing massive efforts to cover up? safety, but he had been too scared to go

45 Donaldson maintained that tin.: cols) .reason the Kennedy family had so far not told the world who killed the President was fear for the live.; of the Kennet!' children.

Aristotle Onassis' only son,Alexandros, Donaldson said, "George was was a CIA murder, and it was carried cheated. He asked immunity from the out for the sole purpose of frightening wrong quarters. His wife and lawyer Jacqueline Kennedy's husband suffi- realized that this was unsafe. He ciently to deter him from trying to wanted to confess, but also in Brussels, promote future activities that might he approached the wrong people. He lead to the exposure of the Dallas as- perhaps honestly felt that you wanted sassins, Donaldson maintained that to deliver. him to the Soviets. It was a the only reason the Kennedy family mistake you went to lunch with your had so far not come forward and told friend Kuznyetsov. You should not the world who had killed the President have left De Mohrenschildt out of sight was their total fear for the lives of the a single minute. I also think you are far Mexandros Onassis many Kennedy children. too honest in your reporting. You told By the middle of June, 1 extracted the Select Committee in Washington all from General Donaldson his agree- those details. You should not have months prior to the 1976 election) that President Kennedy had been hit by five ment that I could quote him and pass mentioned your meeting with Kuz- on all the information he had given me, nyetsov at all. Now, perhaps, you will bullets, that Oswald never could have but only to President Carter. While the have to prove to your enemies that you acted alone, and that there had been a conspiracy to kill the President. Ford general made the rounds at Dutch are not a KGB agent." banks in an effort to get his film fi- Donaldson further volunteered that supposedly referred to the fact that at nanced, I wrote a paperback about De after George contacted the wrong the time that he was a member of the Mohrenschildt and presented it on people in Brussels, he came to Wash- Warren Commission, the CIA and the June 15 at a press conference at the ington, but was told to go to Florida FBI did not supply the information rel- government press center in The where he would be less exposed. He evant to the case and that the Warren Hague. Simultaneously. I sent Presi- first traveled to Dallas in an effort to re- Commission members had acted in dent Carter a message that if I could cover some papers which he was afraid good faith when they declared Oswald meet him, I would pass on to him some would be destroyed by his wife. (Mrs. to be the sole assassin. For Ford, this new and vital information on the JFK De Mohrenschildt, probably sensing episode must have been doubly painful assassination. the imminent danger surrounding her since he had published Portrait of the husband, had left him in January and Assassin (Simon and Schuster) in 1965 By the middle of July 1977, however, still waiting for a White House reply, stayed in California.) in which he elaborated in over five "De Mohrenschildt was murdered hundred pages that Oswald had acted Donaldson announced from Amster- by two men. They first offered him safe alone in Dallas. dam that Carter now had a Pentagon conduct to Mexico," said General When I later declared at a Washing- report on his desk containing full de- Donaldson, "and they also asked him ton, D.C. press conference that former tails of an assassination plot against himself, He counseled me to again to sign a false document drawn up by President Ford had been fully briefed apply for a meeting with the President. the CIA. George did so and was killed. by my new witness, Donaldson, as far back as February 1976, it was notewor- Out of this second request, contacts After all, these experts know only too of- well how to make it look like a suicide." thy that a spokesman for the former developed with Hamilton Jordan's Several weeks of intensive talks with President declared at a Colorado ski re- fice, the office of Robert Lipshutz, the the mysterious Bulgarian general pro- sort that Ford had "no comment" to personal lawyer of the President at the duced the following information. After make. White House, and finally, I was asked he spoke of the earlier mentioned letter Donaldson further maintained that to please meet with Robert Keuch, the to Senator Church, there was appar- Mrs.Jacqueline Kennedy was in posses- personal lawyer dealing with assassi- nations For both the President and the ently no agreement on his terms nor sion of a top secret report on the assas- Attorney General, Griffin Bell, at the had an actual appearance before the sination of her husband. Also, Theo- Justice Department. Church Committee taken place. What dore Sorensen, former top Kennedy did result from these contacts was a aide, supposedly knew details of the I met with Mr. Keuch August 29, 1977 meeting in February 1976 between assassination. It was also made clear at 10:00 A.M. The Presidential lawyer Donaldson and President Gerald Ford that President Jimmy Carter had nomi- argued that since the President would at the White House, lasting several nated Sorensen for the post as CIA di- delegate to him whatever I had to say hours. At first, Donaldson passed on rector because only Sorensen would anyway, I could tell him in good con- this information to me under back- have been able, with his knowledge of science whatever information I had. l ground rules, but after 1 continued to the clandestine operations of this intel- replied that my source (General press him on the "Ford meeting," he ligence service, "to clean it out once Donaldson) would not allow me to I finally said that "Washington had and for all of all murder operations and speak to anyone but the President. so agreed" (he indicated his Pentagon Mafia connections." Of course, a mas- would first have to consult with him. sources or collaborators) that I could sive CIA offensive against Sorensen At noon the same day, I called a press use the Church-Ford developments. succeeded sufficiently in discrediting conference at the Washington Hilton He even supplied me with a copy of his him almost overnight to the point Hotel and drew the attention of the letter to Church, including the stub to where his nomination became unac- press corps to the existence of a new prove it was mailed as a registered ceptable. The Sorensen withdrawal witness in the JFK assassination who letter. was Carter's very first political defeat. maintained he knew who ordered the According to General Donaldson, Furthermore, according to Donald- assassination of the President. President Ford belatedly realized (eight son, the untimely death of shipowner (continued on page 102) 46 GALLERY WWWWWAtt,W 24RWW,Mk;

Oswald, She was found dead. THE MISSING prepared to wait any longer. I offered to Donaldson himself had showered a arrange a television interview through GENERAL series of warnings upon me to be ex- NOS-TV in the Netherlands that would tremely careful if I returned to the (continued from page 46) be circulated worldwide. And further, United States, because the Kennedy we were ready to pay him one hundred I could not at that point release the assassins would not hesitate to bump thousand dollars. name of Donaldson, and this obviously me off as well. Donaldson flew into a rage. He irritated a number of writers and jour- I flew back to London and, on Sep- nalists, and I can hardly blame them for threatened to shoat me if I released any tember 4, met with General Donaldson of the information "even if I have to go that. In some respects the press confer- at the Holiday Inn near Heathrow Air- ence was premature. But on the other to prison for it for the rest of my life." In port. I confronted him straight away more than one way, his nervousness hand. I needed the publicity to exert with an ultimatum. I told him I had had pressure on the authorities and reaction reminded me strongly of and, at the enough of playing games and that if he the last days of the life of George De Mohrenschildt. I ignored his threats, flew hack to New York. and on September 8, 1977 I went before the cameras of ABC-TV in New York for fourteen minutes. On "Good Morning, America" I showed Donaldson's picture and parts of his letter to Senator Church, and I gave the fullest information possible at the time, about this mysterious Bulgarian- turned-American general, and later, Hollywood producer. I carefully stated during this ABC interview on David Hartman's show Dorothy Kilgallen jack Rutiy Lee Hang Oswald that my investigation into the data of- fered by General Donaldson had same time, protect myself in more than knew who ordered the JFK assassina- reached an end for rne, that I had no one way. For instance, I remembered tion, then he was in my view an ac- way of further discovering whether he what had happened to Dorothy Kilgal- complice of the assassins by with- was speaking the truth and to what ex- len after she had spoken for half an holding that information for fourteen tent his statements could be corrobo- hour with , the assassin of years f also told him that I was not rated by facts. I said that I had turned my notes over to both the Justice De- For Shelf- Preservation... partment in Washington, D.C. and the Select Committee on Assassinations Your copies of GALLERY can now be collected in for further study and examination. a distinctive, individualized protective case for a In my opinion, the crime to kill the lifetime of pleasure and personal reference. The President of the United States justified GALLERY "collector" comes in two styles, file box my position, and it was no longer per- or binder, both in a handsome blue-black finish missible for me as a journalist to with- with silver lettering. hold from the House Committee or the Justice Department any information I had obtained in the course of my own investigation, information that might assist other investigators to unravel the murder mystery of the century. A few weeks later, while I was in the Soviet Union for the purpose of con- ducting a series of interviews, the Deputy Director General of the Tess News Agency, Sergei Losev, happened to show me a lengthy cable he had re- ceived from his Tokyo office, Herein it was reported that Japanese free-lance writer Nobuhiko Ochiai had written a Each holds a lull year's issues of 12 magazines. Indicate choice of either file or binder, complete and return the coupon with the appropriate amount. series of reports for the magazine Sie- Files: $4.95 each; three for $14.00: six for $24.00, postpaid. Binders: (Issues open flat.) $5.50 each; three for $18.75; six for $36.00. postpaid (Add $1.00 for each file or binder outside U.S.A.)

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kio 16-1 tokyo tass 22/9 77 after he reportedly passed secret infor- :assassination 5 tokyo: :assaSsInation: mation to government sources. he also says that nixon had the full tokyo sept 28 (lass/ as kyodo — re- another important figure in the case, support of the california syndicate, in- ports—a japanese journalist charges in russian exile george de mohrenschildl, cluding los angels gangster mickey ca- a weekly, news magazine here that the a man deeply involved in deltas oil inter- hen, who contributed heavily to his 1946 late fbi director I. edger hoover and ests and lee harvey oswald's most inti- house of representatives election cam- former de head alien duties, with the mate friend. paign. knowledge and approval of former pres- the writer says that nixon's role in the ident richard nixon, planned and insti- :assassination 4 tokyo: death of kennedy was made clear by the gated the assassination of president he [Ruby] made contact with david watergate arrests of e. howard hunt, john f. kennedy. ferrie, the cia contact with the mob, the bernard barker, and frank sturgis, all free-lance writer nobuhiko ochiai con- night before he shot oswald. men who took part in the bay of pigs In- tends in a six-week series appearing in according to the writer, the final go- vasion and are suspected to have par- the "shukan bunshun" weekly maga- ahead for the assassination was given ticipated in the assassination. zine that hoover and the cia set into ac-• by dulles, who still commanded the he examines the historic rivalry be- tion against kennedy the same fierce loyalty of the anti-castro agents tween nixon and kennedy dating back to underworld-cia team involved in at- despite having been removed from his . their early days together in congress, tempts to assassinate.- fidel castro of post at the cia some months before, and and shows how in the assassination of tuba, because the liberal, strong-willed hoover, who hated the kennedy family john kennedy in 1963, robert kennedy in president represented a "national secu- for trying to usurp his entrenched power 1968, and the attempted assassination rity risk" and considered john kennedy a grave of george wallace in 1972 nixon was al- nixon, the writer says, was fully aware risk to the interests of the country. ways the man with the most to gain. of the plot on the president through his the cia, then under john mccone, he cites numerous points in the intimate ties with the fbi director, and feared that kennedy was considering watergate tapes where nixon refers to would later go to great lengths, Including detente with castro in 1963, and even the bay of pigs and the need to keep the watergate break-in to stifle attempts tried to pass castro a gift of a poison.; hunt quiet. to reveal truth behind the assassination. coaled diving suit through unwitting united nations representative william :assassination 6 tokyo: :assassination 2 tokyo: attwood. who went to cube that year for nixon promised to pay hunt dollar one ochiai, who has accumulated data on talks with the Cuban premier. million in hush money, a sum far exceed- • the assassination on 91 trips to the U.S. ochiai asserts that nixon was cogni- ing the criminal seriousness of the dem- over the past 14 years, links cia-affiliated zant of the assassination ptaris because ocratic headquarters break-in. Cuban expatriates incensed over ken- of his close lies with hoover and his fre- nixon left deltas only three hours be- nedy's refusal to provide u.s, military quent dealings with anti-kennedy fac- fore the assassination, yet in later ques- support in the april 1961 bay of pigs tions of the military-industrial complex. tioning by the fbi he somehow was un- fiasco with mafia hit men in the intri- able to remember exactly when he was cately planned attack on the president's in the texas city. motorcade on november 22, 1963 in ochiai also goes into the make-up of deltas. the warren commission, saying that it he traces the involvement of was dominated by men such as alien - gangsters sam giancana. john rozelli, dulles, former chase manhattan bank and santos trafficante in repeated at- chairman john mccloy, and gerald ford, tempts on the life of castro and con- who would later play leading roles in the cludes that henchmen for the same nixon administration. he notes that gangsters, acting under orders of cia alfred goldberg, who drew up the final contract agent , were later report stating that there had been no plot commissioned to kill kennedy. against the president, along with duties ferrie was found dead in 1967 shortly and ford were members of the george- after new orleans prosecutor jim garri- town strategic research center, a cia son opened his unsuccessful case think tank. against fellow agent . gam Lyndon Johnson, who the writer claims cane, under heavy fbi guard, was mur- was not involved in the cover-up but was dered in his chicago home in june 1975. anxious to settle the affair quickly in only several days before he was sched- order to cement his own power, at that uled to appear as a witness at senate time issued orders that certain important hearings on the assassination. documents were not to be made public until the year 2039. ochiai says that :assassination 3 tokyo: some of these documents stored in the rozelh's battered corpse was found in From October 27th issue of national archives in washington are al- miami beach in august 1976. shortly Shukan Bunshun. ready being destroyed by the fbi.

104 GALLERY kan Bunshun in which he wrote that the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and I former CIA director Allen Dulles, with the knowledge and approval of former President Richard M. Nixon, "planned and instigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy." According to Nobuhiko Ochiai - who had since 1963 made more than a hundred trips to the United States to investigate the Dallas affair—the final go-ahead for the assassination was given by Dulles (who had been sacked by Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs fiasco) who, as CIA director still commanded the fierce loyalty of the anti-Castro agents. The CIA, tinder John McCone in 1963, feared that JFK was considering detente with Cuba. McCone therefore tried to send Fidel Castro, among others, a poisoned diving suit. In another part of his report, the Japanese writer maintained that George De Mohrenschildt was killed in Palm Beach by Florida gangster Traf- ficante, who held close ties with the CIA. The Japanese report was littered with new information. To my surprise, when I returned to Amsterdam and New York in October,' I realized that no Western publication had published even a single line of this story. At this writing, G-'neral Donald A. Donaldson is missing. Neither the Select Committee on Assassinations nor the Justice Department, none of the television networks or other media have been able to trace the elusive pimpernel, either in the United States or Western Europe. Neither has any- one so far paid much attention to some of the statements I hive reported that he made to me. History seems to repeat itself. When, for instance, I informed Jeremiah O'Leary of The Washington Star on March 16 that George De Mohrenschildt was missing and relayed the entire story to him, he kept the interview on file. Only after the dead body of the former Dallas oilman and friend of Oswald's was discovered in Florida did O'Leary print, on April 2, 1977, the interview that I had conducted weeks before. At that time, obviously much too late, it did make the front page headlines of The Washington Star. The many years that I have been fol- lowing the Kennedy probe have con- vinced me that most journalists seem to be prepared to report on aspects of this case only after another dead body has been turned up. Are they now waiting for the corpse of General Donald A. Donaldson (alias Dimiter A. Dimitrov) to float down the river Thames before they take his case senously? Were this to happen, it would mean that I had lost my second witness.

/0,3 Shukan Buns h n, the rnagazihe in which Ochiai's airicles appeared

:assassination 7 tokyo: port during the bay of pigs invasion but the writer also reveals that was turned down by kennedy, and that — lee harvey oswald learned radar his brother, earl cabell, mayor of dallaS. operations at the u.s. military base in at- had inexplicably changed the city's tradi- sugi, japan, and that in 1959 the cia sent tional parade route so that the presi- .him to russia to purposely divulge infor- dents car ran in front of the texas school mation about u2 reconnaissance flights. book deposttory, this was followed by the downing of the u2 flown by pilot francis pry powers in :assassination 9 tokyo: may 1960 and the break-up of the — the day before the assassination eisenhoweir-khrushchev summit con- lack ruby paid a visit to right-wing oilman . terence scheduled to open in paris 16 h.l. hunt's office in dallas. as did eugene , •• days later. hale brading, a murderer in the hire of •• —oswald and his russian wife marina syndicate bbss meyer lansky. brading were advanced dollar 1,500 by the u.s. was stopped by police after the shooting ' embassy In moscow for their return trip in the dal tex building on the corner of to the u.s. houston and elm streets, a position • —oswald was an fbi informer in 1962 numerous investigators have claimed after returning to deltas. was the origin of some of the fire on the —oswald was sent to new Orleans in president. brading was quickly released . aoril 1963 and was ordered to carry out — the night before the assassination 'pro-castro activities while he was em- ruby had dinner with ralph meyers of ; ployed at a coffee processing plant army intelligence, son of ed meyers. whose owner was rabidly anti-castro. he head of a pepsi bottling plant in queens, was during this time making frequent vis- and that both ruby and cia agent david its to 544 camp street, the office of "re- 'erne had been in frequent contact with a tired" fbi man guy bannister and the chicago number belonging to a girlfriend hang-out of cia agent david terrie e. of ed meyer's brother lawrence. howard hunt also had an office in the same building. :assassination 10 tokyo: the writer who has spent 11 years in :Assassination tokyo: the united states and was educated in • — in September 1963 Oswald was Pennsylvania colleges, states that the given a passport In new orleans and kennedy assassination was only the sent to mexico where he met with cia most dramatic instance of the efforts by mexico city bureau chief e. howard hunt. the u.s. military-industrial complex, al- hunt told him to apply for a visa to tuba, lied with the cia. the fbi, and the mob. to possibly with the intention of implicating control the course of u.s, policy from the castro in the assassination, but oswalcfS cold war through watergate. visa request was turned down. in an interview with kyodo, ochiat says —ruth and michael paine. who helped that "to the extent mat the puzzle of ken- oswald obtain a lob at the texas school nedy's assassination is not solved, the book depository, had cia connections. real america, and that source of power — deputy director of the cia charfes which moves Me country from within. cabell desperately pleaded for air sup- will never be understood.- 0