• • MARK LANE ON NEWJFK INQUIRY b POVERTYCHIEF LINKED TO RACKETS , S a ecial Bicentennial Section 6 ` The method chosen by the police agencitt to , • prevent the Warren Commission from getting ‘' the fact§ was Simple, yet ingenious'. The report tzenbach to Hart. reveals that "senior FBI officials" and "senior CIA officials" and "senior govermient offi- cials" were in possession of evidence that might evade of Deception have been invaluable to the Cotimission. historic , work was accomplished under the Senior officials appointed middle-echelon by Mark Lane auspicesof Sen. Richard Schweiker(R-Pa.)and bureaucrats to liaison with their oppOsite ust three days after the assassina- Gary Hart (D-colo.). numbers at the Warren Commission and to tion of President Kennedy, Depu- DC is pretty' much' a chain-of-command share with the Commission representatives the ty Attorney General Nicholas town, with the pecking order thoroughly well evidence with which they were familiar, Katzenbach sent a letter to the _established' and adhered to. Therefore the By denying the middle-echelon officials White House stating that "the fati _question arises: on whose behalf was a deputy access to the decisive materials, the police public • must be satisfied that attorney general sending directives to the new agencies had constructed an obstacle that was Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have President and then to the members of the •effective and invisible—invisible because those confederates who are still at large; and that the ( H E. President's Commission, including its chair- charged with the responsibility of briefing the - man, the Chief Justice of the United States? Comniission were acting in good faith and gave Atapresscorderence held inconjunction with the appearance that they were carryingouttheir The "other matter" occupyingSen. WARREN the release of the report, Sen. Schweiker stated assignments fully. The intelligence coverupwas Hart was an effort to subvert the that he would like to see that question answered operated on the old intelligence "need to know" work of his own Committee. REPORT . and urged that it could be arranged if Mr. basis and the middle-echelon representatives in > >> Katzenbach was asked to explain his role while many cases did not know how they had been under oath in an appearance before a Congres- utilized until they testified before the Senate evidence was such that he would have been I ht. t)lh. 1.11 Rep.., tht sional investigating committee. Committee. ■■ convicted at trial." The Katzenbach directive to I • In its report, the Church Committee' con- Sen. Schweiker, who played the major partin the White Housecontinued,"speculationabout Prt.,,,IcIVIlti 1 kc,111,1‘ , chided that it had "developed evidence which directingthecommittee'sworkontheassassina- Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off." At e, impeaches the process by which the intelligence tion, recently summed upthe implicationsof the that time, while Katzenbach insisted that the es- agencies arrived at their own conclusions about Senate report. He, said that the Warren White House should condemn Lee Harvey the assassinati,on, and by which they provided Commission's conclusions, including the con-- Oswald as the lone assassin, the Warren to each member of the Warren Commiision on information to the Commission." The Report_ elusion that Oswald was the lone assassin, had Commission had not yet beenappointed and the Dec. 9, 1963; urging that the Commission continues, "the evidence indicates that the been rendered invalid since the basic evidence FBI investigation into the crime had barely immediately issue a press release stating that investigation of the assassination was deficient had been denied to the Commission. He added gotten under way. Oswald was the lone assassin: Had the Commis- and that facts which might have substantially that he supported the unanimous recomthenda- Katzenbach recognized the need for the sion acted favorably upon that directive, its • affected the course of the investigation were not tion of the Senate Committee that the Perman- establishment of some apparatus to support his image of integrity would likely have been provided the Warren Commission or those ent Senate Select Committee on Intelligence rush to judgment,and he urged the White House thoroughly compromised, for the commission individuals within the FBI and the CIA, as well "continue the investigation in an attempt to to act since "we should have some basis for was not even to call its first witness until two as other agencies of government, who were resolve these questions." Among the questions rebutting though" that there was a "communist months more had passed. charged with investigating the assassination." to be resolved, Sen. Schweiker said, are: Who conspiracy" or "a right wing conspiracy*" Thus The Katzenbach correspondence, sup- The significance of that finding should be killed President Kennedy? and Why was he before Oswald had been dead 24 hours the pressed for twelve and one-half years, was examined in the light of the Warren commis- killed? Thus more than a decade after the Warren extremists of the center were movingtocover up uncovered along with other evidence by Senate sion's early decision to secure no independent the facts. Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by invegtigators and to rely instead forinformation Report was issued, a Senate committee com- Even more illuminating of the shadowy role Sen. Frank Church (D.-Idaho). The Commit- upon the FBI, the CIA,and otherexistingpolice prised of those with differing political' (Continued on page 13) played by Mr. Katzenbach was the lettei he sent tee's final report was published last week. This agencies. • - And Sen. Hart in a televised network interview FK Report . urged that the report which he signed be ,;; (Continued Ok- from page 6) - benignly neglected, lest we "toy ,, with the 1, !Niewpoints—including Sens. Tower,poldwat- reputations of important men." . Kr, Mondale, and Baker—rendered the Warren Lemming-like, the extremists of the center- (Report inoperable , and called for a serious_ were trying *ice again to lead us anywhere jnvestigation to uncover the ancient coverup. except to the terrible truth about a man-made The Counter-Attack tragedy; a tragedy that has dramatically altered - -s, out lives. Yet this is not 1964, and a fulland open The American - news media, which have _discussion of these events is possible. One swallowed whoe (but never really digested The hundred and thirty-seven members of the , Warren Report since it was issued in September Housibave submitted resolutionsca Ilingforan 1964), were less unanimous in understanding investigation of the assassination by a jSelect and reporting the implications of the report that Committee of the House. The Senate Commit- -disposed of it The media ambiguity was aided tee has acted. Segments of the media have fairly by the curious part played by Sen. Gary Hart, represented the work of the Senate Cominittee. ostensibly a co-author of the new document but Although much has been recently publi4ed upon its completion a leading figure in teh about the Committee's suspicions that Fidel campaign to subvert it and to place its integrity Castro may have been the assassin, the media in doubt. has universally failed to quote the report's Some weeks ago when the Senate Committee conclusion—"that it has no evidence that Fidel announced that it had unanimously recom- Castro or others in the Cuban government mended a new investigation into the assassina- member. He had informed the media the night ships to the warren Commission." platted President Kennedy's assassination in tion of President Kennedy, Sen. Hart told the before that the report that was about to be As Sen. Gary Hart emerged as the Nicholas retaliation for U.S. operations against Cuba." press that the Committee had uncovered no released "contained nothing of interest". The Katzenbach of 1976, those concerned with the If a serious investigation now ensues, before evidence to place into question the fact that next day when the report was released Sen. Hart continuing searchfortruthwere disconcerted to long we may learn that Lee Harvey Oswald IOswald wastheloneassassin. Thusthe impact of again urged the media to ignore it since "our learn' that Sen. Schweiker had not been worked for the FBI in New Orleans and Dallas, the historic determination of the Senate committee could find no efidence at all to appointed to the Permanent Senate Intellignece that he spent an inordinate amount of time with Committee was blunted, as the NewYork times, question the fact that Oswald was the lone Committee, While Sen. Hart had. contract agents for the ClAiO NewOrleans, that for example, featured only Sen. Hart's assu- assassin." That assurance was given considera- Those in the media still clinging to the old he was the military adviser to the CIA's anti- rance that oswald remained in solitary guilt. ble media play despite the fact the Committee's discredited and now officially discarded "offi- Castro front organization, the Free Cuba When the full report was released to the med ia investigation had never contemplated that cial truth" began to perceivethe Senate reportas 1 Committee, while he gave out literature for the last week, Sen. Churchand Sen. Schweikerwere question. a threat, Sen. Schweikeras an ofject ofderision, Fair lay for Cuba Committee, and that jack present. Sen. Hart's absence was noted by a On the first page of its report, the Committee and Sen. InOuye (D-Hawaii,chairman of the Ruby, who killed Oswald in the Dallas police reporter who inquired about it at. the news explained its scope: "The Committee did not Permanent Committee) as a target. Fred basement, had been an FBI informant since conference; it was explained that Sen. hart had review the findings and conclusions of the Graham, in commenting upon the Senate March 11, 1959. been detained on another matter.