"George said that if anyone THE NEW YORK TIMES, I didn't_ like what he did they would get the same treatment," the a the agentlestitied.. qUoting d F.B.I. Agent Testifies Panther defendant. S In cross-examination, Mr. Metucas's lawyer, Theodore I. o: Told of Shoothig Murder Victim Koskoff, asked Mr. Twede whether he had ever made a w By JOSEPH LELYVELD report that Mr. McLucas had in special to The Why Yon Tht4tO r said that he. obeyed the order til to make sure Rackley was dead NEW HAVEN, July 21 ---, th Fears for Life Cited because he feared "that if he ct Wain% McLucas admitted last' failed to do as ordered he yestr 'that he had fired a shot In fact, the F. B. I. agent, would be shot by George into the body of Alex Rackley Lynn G. Twedsi of Salt Lake Sams." M Order to make sure that he City, testified that Mr. McLucas The agent hesitated and the was dead, an agent of the Fed- question had to be read back to eral Bureau of Investigation had indicated he had "become m, testified here today. disenchanted with the party be- to him twice before he an- Fi McLucas, the first of swered directly, "yes." cause of the violence" and Mr. Koskoff used the cross- of eigh( Black Panthers to stand wanted to quit. But he was fo trial here in connection with examination to stres small acts de the Rackley slaying, was said afraid to do so because "Ife had of mercy Mr. McLucas had told to have told interrogators in learned too much," the agent of performing---dressing Rack- quoted him as saying, and ley's wounds, sending out for w Salt Lake City jail that he had . acted on orders from George feared he might be killed. orange juice for him and cut- to Mr. Twede testified that Mr. ting his bonds because when al Sams Jr., who was said to have McLucas said he had been on handed him a .45-caliber pistol his hands started swelling after h;pi his way to California at, the Sat* tied him to a bed. that had been used moments time of his arrest and ex- sc before by Warren Klmbro to pected to be named a Panther Testimony Is Debated to shoot Rackley. "field director" with "complete Sams and Kimbro have both - area be- The jury was excluded from g pleaded guilty to second-de- authority" over the the courtroom throughout the tween Boston and the Mason- gree murder. According to he Dixon Line. morning session as Mr. Kos- agent, Mr. McLucas said that 1toff argued strenuously on be- t. it was Sams who had stage- If the defendant felt any am- bivalence about the party in half of a motion to suppress managed the torture and ex- Mr. Twede's testimony. ecution of the 25-year-old Salt Lake City, he appears to have reaffirmed his allegiance i In the course of questioning' Rackley after denouncing him since then. As he left the court- the F.B.I. ' man at this stage, as an informer. defense counsel asked whether On the night of the murder room this attention*. *her , !2etLettotteems4- etmemate any lawyer had been appointed Sams turned the victim loose for Mr. McLucas in Salt Lake in woods near Middlefield, hearing his alleged admission City when he was arraigned be- Conn., with instructions "to be read into the record, he gave fore a United States Commis- careful" because of "Minute- the putts clenched fist salute men in the area," according to stoner. The agent replied that to sympathizers in the gallery ne lawyer had been named. the F.B.I. man's notes on the who replied, "Right On!" interview with Mr. McLucas. Mr. Koskoff then produced MORE documents proving that Mr. Order from Higher Up Referring regularly to notes e ivrede was wrong. Subsequent the interro- As Rackley staggered into that he took during t questions demonstrated that the woods, the defendant's nar- gation, Mr. Twede said Mr. Mc- tha agent had made no effort ration reportedly continued. Lucas told of having asked to contact this lawyer in the Sams handed his pistol to Kim- "why?" when Sams gave the b two times he went to the jail bro and said, "Ice him—it's order for Rackley to be tied up ti to question Mr. McLucas. an order from national head- in the basement of Panther a In both instances, the de- saying quarters." headquarters here two days be- 0 fendant signed waivers Mr. McLiicas was-said tolteve fore the murder. The notes did h he knew his rights and did not explained to his interrogators— not show that Sams had of- need his lawyer. But Mr. Kos- two New Haven detectives and fered any,answer, only that the 0 koff argued that these were two F.B.I. agents—that Sams defendant had bowed to the insufficient to make his State- told local Black Panthers that order. ar Meets admissible as evidence, C right he head been sent here by na- Torture Is Described because the agent had no tional headquarters and that he of to initiate such conversations "had more authority than any- It was Sams also, Mr. Mc- ft at that stage. one elite on the East Coast" Lucas was reported to have tr in the party. said, who ordered that water be F The Interrogation of Mt. Mc boiled and scalded the victim a, Lucas took place on June 8, with it when Rackley denied at 1969.. -18 days after the Rack- ever having informed on the IE ley murder and two months be- Panther 21 in New York, who a fore the arrest of Sams, who had been arrested the previous quickly supplied the police with month on charges that they a: a statement saying that Bobby had plotted bombings. ri G. Seale, the national chair- Rackley, who was gagged d man of the Black Panthers, had with a towel at the time, man- ordered the execution. Mr. Seale aged somehow to signal a kind a is now among those awaiting of confession after the fourth n trial. pot of boiling water had been Nothing Mr, McLucas was re- emptied on him, according to t ported to hava said in the inter- the Information cOntained in e rogation implicated Mr. Seale. the agent's notes. a But neither did he appear to have expressed any doubts about Sams credentials as an agent of the party's national headquarters.