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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch85053 and id is 1 raw text is: 14-00 )0 * 104-10256-10277 2023 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. o3 erard J. Hahn Chief, E/G Attachment: .As Stated, Herewith E2 IMPDET CL BY 057018 . , SEC;:EY

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