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104-10105-10175 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (05/25/1967)

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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                                         25 May  1967



MEMORANDUM  FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT  :  Gordon NOVEL



      1.  On 23 May Mr. Papich left with us a copy of  attached
FBI  teletype.  FBI will confirm this information by  formal
memorandum.

      2. Mr.  Papich requested information on two points with
permission  to make our reply available to the Attorney General:

           a) nature and extent of CIA interest in the
              Double-chek Corporation.
           b) our comments and observations on the draft
              letter purportedly prepared by Gordon NOVEL.

  03 3.  After   onsultation with Mr. Jacob Esterline, DC/WH,
  . James Powell   SOD, and Mr. Lawrence Houston, OGC, the  following
reply was give   r.  Papich:
                Double-chek is a shell corporation used
           in the past by CIA to recruit pilots.  It was
           also used as a front for the payment of the
           Birmingham widows.  No individual bearing
           the name of Gordon NOVEL had any connection with
           Double-chek nor with CIA.
               Mr.  Lawrence Houston is in constant touch
          with  the Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
          Nathaniel  Cossack, on this matter, and will
          tell  him about present developments.

                Mr. Houston comments that anyone could
           have prepared the letter but it really does
           sound like NOVEL's cock-eyed approach rather
           than Garrison.  There is a fair chance that



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