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104-10256-10277 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/7/1975)

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                                                  7 January 1975


          MEMORANDUM  FOR:  O/DDO (Attn:  Mr.

          SUBJECT        :  German Magazine Attempts to Tie Howard Hunt/
                            Frank Sturgis to the Dallas Assassination of
                            President Kennedy


               1.  Recent publicity  against CIA in the U.S. has stimu-
          lated the German weekly  Der Stern to intensify previous
          efforts to tie Howard  Hunt and Frank Sturgis to the Dallas
          assassination of  President Kennedy.JS According t CASHAKER/l,
          a cooperative  :enior editor of Stern) the magazine plans to
          fly reporter Gerd Heidemann  to Dallas about 9 January for
          interviews.  The  reporter working on the story at Stern,
          Frank Heig1, claims  to be in touch with dissident CIA
          staffers who were  forced out after Dallas.  Heig1 sup-
          posedly picked up  these contacts in Ankara and Frankfurt.
               2.  In October  1974, Der Stern paid Dallas photographer
          Jack Beers $1,000 for copies  of pictures he had taken of
          persons being led away by  the police from the book depos-e
          tory after the assassination  of President Kennedy.  The maga-
          zine was attempting to  identify Watergate defendants Hoviard
          Hunt and Frank Sturgis with persons  shown in the Dallas
          photographs to build up a  story implying Hunt (and by
          inference CIA) involvement  in the assassination.  To buttress
          this conjecture, the magazine  hired Professor Rainer Knuss-
          mnn  of the Anthropological  Institute of the University of
          Hamburg to do a scientific  comparison of the Dallas photos
          with stock shots of Hunt and  Sturgis.  His findings are that
          there is a high probability that  Hunt and Sturgis could be
          identical with two persons shown  in the Dallas snapshots
          and that the matter should be pursued  further. A  summary
          translation of the Knussmann  findings is attached.



                                         Chief,  E/G

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