tant contact with the DA's 'PEW- SCHEME' ffice while Townley, Phelan nd Sheridan made repeated Z.. 40 VI isits to attempt to persuade him to appear on last night's NBC Offered 'Deal' to Ruin program. "Sheridan offered to set me up in California, protect my job and guarantee that Garri- DA's Case, Russo Claims son would never get me ex- tradited back to Louisiana," Star witness Perry R. Rus- the late David W. Ferric and Richard Townley of WDSU- he said. so said today -he "played Lee Harvey Oswald to kill TV at New Orleans and Sat- RUSSO SAID Sheridan along" with a National Broad- President John F. Kennedy. urday Evening Post writer made the promises if the wit- James Phelan. Today, Russo said he had ness would "side with NBC casting Co. team whose mem- never made that statement. bers told hirii they were out and the defense." He identified the three per- HE SAID TOWNLEY told Russo quoted Phelan as to wreck Dist. Atty. Jim Gar- sons who contacted him on him the, group had been warning him that Garrison rison's Kennedy death plot in- behalf of NBC as Walter Sher- "working closely with the de- would "leave me standing in vestigation. idan of the NBC news staff, .-1 See PROBE—Page 7 the cold all alone and that I Russo met the piess in the would be the only one who would get hurt. DA's office shortly. before 2 Garrison appeared briefly p. m. and told newsmen an at the start of the news con- NBC representative offered to Continued from Front Page ference, but said he had "set me up in California" if nohting more to say about fense" and had been swapping NBC and its critical presenta- he cooperated with the net- information with Shaw's attor- work's attack on Garrison. tion. neys. EARLIER, HE charged that Russo indicated that Town- The witness's press confer- NBC is using "the big lie" ence came in response to an ley threatened h i m with as its "main weapon" to de- NBC special report last night wrecking his personal reputa- stroy the Kennedy inquiry. which questioned the authen- tation unless he cooperated "There really should not be with the NBC staff and its much question left about ticity of his evidence against program. Clay L Shaw. where NBC's orders are com- "He said that Mr. Dymond ing from," he declared. (defense lawyer F. Irvin Dy- The NBC documentary, T H E PROGRAM. quoted mond) was going to tear me "The JFK Conspiracy: The Russo as saying he had not apart on the stand, and that Case of Jim Garrison," de- after the trial was over I told the truth when he ac- clared that Garrison used tes- would be discredited in every- , cused Shaw of conspiring with timony which "did not pass a one's eyes." lie detector test" to hold Shaw HOWEVER, THE witness for trial on charges that he said he was told nothing conspired to kill John F. Ken- "would be held against me" nedy. if he cooperated in the anti- FURTHERMORE, THE net- Garrison program. work commentary said Gar- Russo said he was told by rison ordered the polygraph members of the trio that both test and knew his witness did NBC and the Central Intelli- not pass. gence Agency were "out to The DA jumped the gun on wreck the Garrison investiga- NBC Saturday by filing an tion." official 'complaint with the Russo said the CIA was Federal Communications Com- mentioned "repeatedly" dur- mission "for activities inter- ng his conversations with fering with the prosecution of 'Sheridan. He quoted Sheridan an open case." as saying that a number of The network used Alvin persons involved in the inves- Beauboeuf, Dean A. Andrews tigation were present or for- Jr., convicted burglar John mer CIA employes. t,"John the Baptist" Cancler, GARRISON HAS charged ‘$aturday Evening Post writer that Kennedy was murdered James Phelan, Layton Patrick by anti-Castro Latins who Martens, a Yale psychology once worked for the CIA. He professor and a New York said the powerful intelligence code expert in its attack on service covered up the cir- the Garrison investigation. cumstances of Kennedy's NBC commentator Frank death because its former per- McGee summed up the pro- sonnel was involved. gram by asserting: • Russo said he was in con- Litu. onnnnt say that the murder of John F. Kennedy clair announced last week whose story in The Saturday did not happen the way Jim Evening Post, kicked up a Garrison says It did. We can- that an "intensive investiga- tion" by his department had small storm of controversy not say he does not have the last month, repeated the evidence to prove it. cleared both Dets. Lynn Loi- sel and Louis Ivon of the ac- charges he made in the ar- "We can say this: The ea ticle. he has built against CIa ShaShaw cusations that they attempt- ed to bribe or intimidate He said he was given con- • eirrriZit, Beauboeuf. flicting reports on Russo by 1,7 • ANDREWS, A SUSPENDED the DA's office. Russo is the Gandorwasdaud — Garrison witness who testified in the knew it. One prospective wit- DA's assistant in Jefferson Parish, said he could not iden- preliminary hearing for Shaw. ness admitted he was going HE SAID HE overheard to lie." tify Clay Shaw as the mys- terious "Clay Bertrand." Shaw, Ferrie and Oswald plot- The DA, responding to ques- - The hip-t a l k i n g lawyer, ting Kennedy's murder follow- tions this morning, said he wearing his inevitable sun- ing a party at Ferrie's Loui- did not watch the NBC pro- glasses, told .the television siana ave. pkwy. apartment gram last night. audience: .- s during September, 1963. "I had more important "I wouldn't know Clay things to do," he said, "and Shaw if I fell over him on the the program does not justify street dead." comment." ANDREWS TOLD THE He said he might have Warren Commission a man something further to say to- he knew as Bertrand asked day or tomorrow. him to represent Lee Harvey Meanwhile, the man who Oswald after the president was in charge of giving a lie was killed. detector test to star Garrison Garrison has charged that witness Perry R. Russo said Bertrand and Shaw are the Russo proved incapable of same man, and the Orleans taking a polygraph examina- Parish Grand Jury has indict- tion. ed Andrews for refusing to LEONARD GURVICH, a connect the two. partner in Gurvich Brothers Last ni ht, however, NBC Detective Agency, said Russo commentao M said was "highly nervous" when a NBC know Bert- polygraph test was attempted rand is and Lila is not 'several months ago. Clay Shaw. The network identified Bertrand as a homo- sexual and said it was with- The test was halted, Gur- holding his real identity to save him embarrassment. vich said, and he and Asst. McGee said the information DA Andrew Sciambra attempt- about Bertrand has been ed to calm Russo by talking turned over to the U.S. Jus- with him. tice Department in Washing- "After this short pause," ton. the detective said, "a second "JOHN THE BAPTIST" attempt was made and again Cancler said Garrison investi- the polygraph operator ad- vised he was unable to get gators Loisel and Ivon at- tempted to persuade him to specific readings." enter Shaw's apartment on Gurvich said he is not Dauphine st. and place some- aware that any further at- thing in it. tempts were made. Cancler,, a convicted bur- Garrison contends Kennedy glar serving time in Parish was murdered at Dallas in Prison, said the attempt was 1963 by. "Latin adventurers" made before Shaw was ar- and others who were angry with Kennedy over his han- rested March I, the same day his home was searched by dling of the Bay of Pigs in- DA's men who seized five vasion and the Cuban missile boxes full of papers and per- crisis. Beauboeuf, a former room- sonal belongings. The same charge was print- mate of the late David Fer- rie, said two Garrison inves- ed last week in The New York imes. Cancler several times tigators tried to bribe him to give false testimony in the alked with reporters here ho attempted to have him case. ign a sworn statement hack- Beauboeuf's charge repeat- ' ed earlier charges which the rig up his story. Cancler re- New Orleans police depart- used. , ment has said were not true. InPhelan. the magazine writer Asst. Police Supt, P. J. Tros- Ferrie, a one-time airline frequently have difficulty de- pilot, died Feb. 22—five days termining the difference be- after the Garrison investiga- tween facts and fantasy. He tion became public. Oswald, gave the opinion that Russo whom the Warren Commis- was asked "very leading" sion holds responsible for questions under the influence Kennedy's murder, was shot of the drug and hypnosis. to death by Dallas nightolub A New York cryptographer, owner Jack Ruby two days Irvin Mann, said he had ana- after the President was killed. lyzed the code which Garri- Garrison has contended that son announced he had found Ruby was a party to the con- in the notebooks of Oswald spiracy. In formal pleadings, and Shaw. the DA has charged that MANN SAID IT was "not Ruby and Oswald met with necessarily" a code and that Shaw at Raton Rouge during the deciphering method used the fall of 1963 to plot the by Garrison might have President's slaying.