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104-10256-10277 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/07/1975)

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104-10256-10277  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
7 January 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: O/DDO (Attn: Mr. (Burns)
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 tYCSHAKER/l,
a cooperative lenior editor of Stern) the magaziane plans to
fly reporter Ge d Heidemann to Dallas about 9 January for
interviews. The reporter working on the story at Stern,
Frank Heigl, claims to be in touch with dissident CIA
staffers who were forced out after Dallas. Heigl 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 deposi-
tory after the assassination of President Kennedy. The maga-
zine was attempting to identify Watergate defendants Ho'card
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-
mann 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
Attachment:
.As Stated, Herewith
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