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104-10105-10139 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (5/1/1967)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch10156 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-1 5-10139 MEMORANDUM FORs Deputy Director for Support JECT : Claimed Agency Affiliation by Conspiracy Case Figures 1. This memorandum is for your information only. 2.' On the afternoon of 24 April 1967, the Federal Bureau of Investigation advised this Office. of claimed Agency affiliation by a fugitive witness in the New Orleans investigation into a conspiracy to assassinate the late President. According to the FBI information, received from a newq media source, Gordon Dwane Novel, the fugitive witness, had indicated he is currently employed by the CIA and the alleged burglary of a munitions bunker at Houma, Louisiana, in 1961, involved CIA and was not a burglary. According to Novel, the Schlumberger Well Service had an arrangement with CIA wherein it leased a bunker in which ammunition, bomb casing. and other material would be stored for CIA. According to Novel, it was intended to ship the material out of the U.S. in Schlumberger boxes labeled machinery. Again according to Novel, following the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Schlumberger interests became upset and wanted out of their contract with CIA. Three months after the invasion, states Novel, arrangements were made for the material stored in the bunker to be removed by Novel and his group. At the time the material was removed, he states, an individual involved also took some of Schlumberger's low grade powder and fuses and other material. lovel has reportedly supplied someone with the names of the others involved with the burglary. He specificially told the media source that he and one Areacha Smith are still employed by CIA and that should he be returned to New Orleans to face charges of burglary of the bunker, he would offer this as his defense. 3. The following day, 25 April, a story in the New Orleans States Item charged there is mounting evidence of Central Intelli- gence Agency links in District Attorney Garrison's presidential assassination conspiracy probe, noting that at least one figure in A,. F_7.

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