4 By Mark Law WAS KENNEDY'S DEATH A SOVIET PLOT? Michael Eddowes is a private investigator extraordinary. He is a wealthy man who uses his money and leisure to untangle the web of conspiracy in which he believes! the West is now entangled TELEGRAM{ SUNDAY MAGAZINE ▪ • yip ; 14.sea i - :.ociety assoel. nal with Cliveuan- Yeoman's Row. this quiet and While Eddowes was staying with -1•:•• expensive cul-de-sac off Bromp- Hungarian count in Budapest, lb ton Road in London. One house, German invasion began. He and hi. with its bevy of plants beside the wife managed to get out just in time. ',1a door, seems particularly tranquil. The count was murdered by the But beyond that door one hears of Germans the next day. mother world - a world of assassi- Now England faces other enemies lation squads, governmental skul- and Eddowes is on their trail. A duggery. fiendishly cunning conspi- series of conspiracies, he says, can be -ators and dark plots. This is the traced through the Profumo affair. world of Michael Eddowes, a 73- the Chinese invasion of India, the year-old lawyer with a passionate Cuba crisis, the Kennedy assassi- relief that the West is struggling in nation and the war in Vietnam. the tentacles of a massive conspiracy. He says he first became aware of Some of the evidence which might it in 1962 when, after a car accident. reveal this conspiracy, he feels. lies he went for treatment to D' buried at Fort Worth in Texas, in Stephen Ward, an osteopath. the grave of Lee Harvey Oswald, Through him he net Christine He man who is presumed to have Keeler and Commander Eugenic assassinated President Kennedy. His Bistro Vino restaurants (above) pay for Eddowes' investigations. Since Ivanov (the Soviet Naval Attache;. Except that, according to Michael the first opened in 1958 he has taken a keen interest in their management "The Ward consulting rooms were 4d owes, private investigator extra- an espionage centre", says Eddowes. ordinary, it may not be Lee Harvey decision and awaiting the outcome. are about John Kennedy, his "His contacts were enormous - the Oswald's body in the grave, but that Michael Eddowes is a small, smart assassination and the KGB. The Cabinet and so on. 1 realised I wee of a Russian imposter - a clever energetic man. With a red and white tall-ceilinged and large-windowed on to something terrifying. member of Department 13. the KGB spotted handkerchief at his neck, a room would be bright in the day- "The Ward affair was all organ- • ' otage and assassination squad. gold watch chain and neatly casual light, but a venetian blind reduces ised under the direction of Krusche'. In pursuit of conclusive evidence clothes he looks like a successful it to the gloom of dusk. In this light, - the whole thing! The government ".-'r his controversial theory, Michael English actor in Hollywood. In fact conspiracy can thrive. tried to turn it into a sex scandal. Jowes gained agreement from he seems a little out of place in the Eddowes is rather in the tradition which the newspapers liked, In fat Oswald's widow, Marina, for the old-world splendour of his study, of the amateur English sleuths of as a spy scandal". '-edy to be disinterred and examined. with its dark red carpet, velvet fiction. He is a rich man using his Eddowes* public part in the story -'owever Oswald's brother, Robert, curtains and large gilt mirrors. The wealth and leisure to untangle was confusing. He delivered and won the latest round in his battle to books on the far side of his vast mysteries of his choice. One could published a letter to the Admiralty keep the grave undisturbed. leather-topped desk are turned to believe that in the course of a day he alleging that Ivanov had asked • Idowes is appealing against this face the visitor's chair. Most of them might be encountering as equals Christine Keeler to get secret infor- Richard Hannay, Sherlock Holmes mation about the West's nuclear or Lord Peter Wimsey. He says plans from John Profumo, th, Ve* things like "poor devil", and "a Minister for War. Very soon after. great dark conspiracy". He has Eddowes left for the U.S. always known important people. - While in America he was inter- G. As with those heroes of Buchan, viewed by John Malone, the head of Conan Doyle and Sayers, events the FBI in New York, and Eddowes seem contrived to occur around him. claims he was able to help him When Eddowes went on a jolly establish that Ward was involved it FF11 TIC 111:CA1 Surf jaunt in Germany in the thirties with arranging the departure for New RE QUOTATION some aviator chums, he arrived in York of the beautiful Maria PLANS Tr IOU?. SPRIFTOTION Add a Mulberry for a Munich on the Night of the Long Novotny to compromise the newly AR .'JI6E mum bi7ger and better home Knives (he rivettingly re-enacts an elected President Kennedy. 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Val/ CLUJ All ROM home extension ideas. the small hours of the i..r rning. iltSTAll MUNRO& When he was back in Germany spending the spare time he does have See har yourself mu what adding two years later he saw a German OM NI WIRING Mulberry can do for you. your family tending the fruit trees in his root TONP17i IT S MUG ORE your 1.1tntyle and bost Labour Corps as it marched along garden or driving off in his Rolls- 11DY P ATE of ail for merennt 4tdE•agea a road. Out of curiosity he followed Royce for a trout fishing weekend u nave of poor -"'s - it at a distance on his bicycle. "They south Wales or Derbyshire. It we- (Callr.FEITISAT611411,11M1 p. xne .`ti carried spades on their shoulders and in Derbyshire that he was born. --64WW0*(Noly' sang marvellous songs. They He comes from a family a marched all day and never put a lawyers and went to school a rn .V Ur, •In... Ltd.. ME POS1 Osha. spade in the ground. In the evening Uppingham. He was unable to go orr MS ]f-_ar phase Mw.nn,r 0111-271 1151, 1 ••• 01 ■ 1 r$15 ,11. Nrnmsixon OP 5 LS 0.5E.. 4o, Loma, they went through some gates. to Oxford, as planned, because hi (1. .5' 1155 IS Lamm bres 214. Nalel a wN, 0.41 69. In STE B I There were two sentry boxes and lather, a solicitor, had a heart attack Name inside them were men with spades and at 19 Michael Eddowes had to Ark' ress on their shoulders". He rushed back help out in his office. He then served to England and told John Walter. his articles in Leicester and Lander whose family owned a share of The before rejoining his father's firm. He Tinres, that Germany was building stayed for two years, but was rom first plans to final plaster j an army. "I didn't know his wife ambitious and decided to seek h L PP =I WEI MI Mil !III illo aro MN was a member of the Anglo-German fortune in London. He became TELEGRAPH suNnav Mai.Orla ' Society associated with Cliveden"! While Eddowes was staying with a Hungarian count in Budapest, the German invasion began. He and his wife managed to get out just in time. The count was murdered by the Germans the next day. Now England faces other enemies and Eddowes is on their trail. A series of conspiracies, he says, can be traced through the Profuma affair, the Chinese invasion of India, the Cuba crisis, the Kennedy assassi- nation and the war in Vietnam He says he first became aware of it in 1962 when, after a car accident, he went for treatment to DI Stephen Ward, an osteopath. Through him he met Christine Keeler and Commander Eugenie inns. Since Ivanov (the Soviet Naval Attae110. The skin of a ianagement "The Ward consulting rooms were man-eating an espionage centre". says Eddowes. tiger watches -nedy, his "His contacts were enormous - the from the floor KGB, The Cabinet and so on. I realised I was of Eddowes' windowed on to something terrifying. study, where • the day- "The Ward afTle- was all organ- he conducts •.' reduces ised under the direction of Krusches his fight •s this light, - the whole thing! The government against tried to turn it into a sex scandal. conspiracy to tradition which the newspapers liked. In fact and injustice r'cuths of it was a soy scandal".