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104-10106-10466 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (5/1/1967)

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                                                        I MAY 1967


        MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for   Support        c

        SUBJECT           :  Claimed Agency Affiliation-by
                             Conspiracy Case Figures



               1. This memorandum  is for your information only.

               2. On the afternoon of Z4 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 news media source. Gordqt 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 casings and other
        rmaterial would be stored for CIA. According to Novel, it was
        intended to ship the-makerial out of the U. S. in Schiumberger 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. Novel has reportedly supplied someone with the
        names  of the others involved with the burglary. He specificially
        told the media source that he and one Arcacha 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



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