NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: A REPORTER AT LARGE

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00381898
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• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: July 13, 1968

104-10522-10111 THU, NEW `1"011M:li JULY 1311943 AGREAT .111.11W A Mr fiCA ns curtly told him, "At this stage, we are must have responded with some autva.cil to be closing (bans, rod ripen- measure o* he.wilderinent'when, tog Mem" ft later turned out that on March!, 00.7. thev heard the new, some of the doors left ajar but on- that Jim Garrsoo, the District At- torney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, , hail arrested a prominent New Orleana vitiren, Clay L. Shaw, for "participa- . non in a conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy." The cursclusans of the Warren Comm:F..40n. published some two and a half tears before, bad of- fered the authoritztive judgment that Lee Harvey Oswald alone was rcspon- sible for the assassination. And although a host of slouhts were subsequently ratted concerning the adequacy of the Warren Commission's investigation and the reliabilire of its concluaiona, it seemed incredible that the New Or- leans District Attorney could 'declare, as Garrison had, "MY staff and I solved the assassination creeks ago. IWouldn't say this if we didn't have the evidence beyond a shadow of a ti011bf." Indceii, the possibility tf..it i local prosecutor had found the answera to questions that had baffled the inacstigative resources of the federal government seemed so remote to most journalists that, soon � after the initial stir provoked by Shaw's arrest, news of the "assassination plot" was generally rel.:gated to the hack pages and treated about as seriously as flying-saucer reports. I, for one, hoWCVer. was preparHto believe that Distr'x:t Attorney Garri- son's claims might bave some substance to them. Io the -course of writing my book "Inquest," I had futiii that the .Warren Commixsa,n's investigation hail been srverdv crsted hilt by bu- reaucratic pressures eaertesl. from with- in and by limits f time imposed from without. Far from being the rigor- ous and exhaustive exaniination that it was taken to be, the Commission's work was, at certain crucial points, reduced to little � more than an ex- ercise in the clanication of super- ficial evidence. When one delved more deeply, some far niece d.'tlicult problems than any acknowled;ed by. the Com- mission began to aFT.var. Even members of the commission's own staff found . this to be true. For example, When one stat1. lawyer sugges/. -.al, late in the in- vestigation, that it might be worthwhile to look further into the partly cor- roborated claim of one witness that Oswald had been sestaciateal not long before the asaawirution with two un- identified Cuban voles, his Superior � operied led to associates of Ossvald's in New Orleans, so it acemed entirely conceivable to me that Garrison just might ha ve stumbled upon some valu- able information that the Commission bad, for one reason or another, side- stepped. . Consider, for example, a story at the root of Garrison's investigation, which in a meeting among Os- wald and three men � vid Ferric, Carlos Q ga, and W. Guy �Paniater-7all of whom the Warren Cornmisaiim bad had 1:0:15011 to he in- terested in. Ferric, who, according to rhe testimony of tine Commission wit- ness, commanded a unit of the Civil Air Patrol in which Oswald may have been a member briefly, liii been ar- rested in New Orleans shortly after the assaysina (ii, on a tip that he was in- volved with Oswald, and then released. Carlos Quiroga, a prominent Cuban exile, had visited Oinvald's home several times in New Orleans, for Ate purpose, he alleged, of appraising Ossvalirs pro- Castro activities. W. Guy Banister, a private detective known to he associated with anti-Castro activists in New Or- leans, had an office in a building whoss: address appeared on some of the pro.: Castro literature that Oswald occasion- ally handed nut on the streets. All this information was in the hands of the Comtnisi,ion, yet none of these three men was questioned by the Commis- shm or its staff. ft seemed to Inc that leads such as these, if they had been pursued, could have provided a possible bridge between the known and un- known worlds of Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans. And once such a +91,..s if 4.7 '�' ...'*-1.1:,;�.. 1,,,, ,,, -1 -, ---:--, ---� ' N.,........... %),.,;:: "....,...... .i..., � ,,, 21/ t.. �Aa'" CIA HISTORICAL IEW PROGRAM RELEASE IN FULL . 35 A REPORTER AT LARGE, GARRISON bridge was crosses!, x whole new set of clues to wits Oswald killed the Presi. dent might have been found. Cull Garrison have discovered such a bridge? Skeptics tendril to dismin the possibility on the ground that Gar- rison was a flamboyant anti extreme- I) ambitions politician. According to Aaron Al. Kohn, the managing direc- tor of tie Nletropolitan Crime Coin- mission of New Orleatis, "Garrison never lets the respottaibilitiet of being a prosecutor interfere with being a poli- tician." However, the fact that Gar- rison was politically motivated did not necessarily�to my *flint!, at least� preclude the possibility that he might be in to something. �Vhereas it might not always have been in the interest; of the 1Varren Commission, which was concerned as much with dispelling doubts as with aseertainiog facts, to pursue leads that might generate fur- ther doubts, or possibly damage the el- fectivene.ss of federal agencies, an am- bitious politician, it seemed to me, might well pursue leads to their con- clusion, especially since solving "the ease of the century," as Garrison called it, would certainly enhance his repotation. Convinced that it was fwissitile�indeed, probahle�that Garrison could find de- tails of Oswald's affairs that the Com- mission had missed, I went to New 0e. 1,7itos shortie after Garrison announced that he was getting to thur hiof torn of the ";tssassinatiou plot" and arrested Shaw. UVE lit since he was first elected Dis- trict Attorney, hi 1961, Jim Gar- legally changed his given name to in (ruin Earling Carothers� has been a controversial figure in New � Orleans. Ile has-fooglit long and bard against prostitutes, homosexuals in the French Quarter, and the more vid- nerahle purveyors of vice, hilt, accrirding to his critics on the Nfetroprilitan Crime Commission, he has negle.:ed the problem of organized crime in New Orleans. "People worry about ...the critic 'syndicate,' " Garrison once sad, "but the real danger is the political establishment, power massing against, the individual." 'alien the city's eight' criminal-court justices exercised their' statutory right to oversee the financing of his anti-vice campaign, Garrison charged that their actions "raised in- teresting questions about racketeer in fluences.." A court subsequently eon victcd Garrison of criminally libellinb the right judges, but the conviction t At reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court, in a decision that held that individuala have the right to criticire public nth. dab; even though the charges may turn nut to he unfounded. Garrison is popu- larly referred to in New Orleans all ,the Jolly Green Giaint*in Image con- jured .up by his imPrising physical . stature (sia fret six inches) and his ..political glad hand. %Viten I met him, ira_ntitkApril, his welconse was gra- cious, if slightly fulsome; he told me, almost solemnly, that it was his reading or my hook that first Sct him thinking about launching an investiga- tion his own. (Liter, I learned that this was a standard greeting, ex- . (roiled to almost all critics .of the ; Warren Commission.) Over a leisure- ly dinner at Broussard's, Garrison be- gan to tell me about the conspiracy be had uncovered. It wal a diffuse nar- rative, in which it appeared that Os- wahl had only been feigning die role lie. wont to considerable lengths to es- tablish for himself as a pro-Castroite and had in fact been part of an anti - Castro assassination team trained by David Ferric. Ferric, in turn, was in some important way,--Garrison never explained exactly how7-personally in- volved with Clay Shaw. When a plan to shoot Castro was aborted because , Oswald could not obtain a visa to Cuba, the assassination team turned its atten- tion to President Kennedy, and, on j November 22, 1963, carried out its mission. How had Garrison -discovered this conspiracy? "It's exactly like a chess problem," he explained. � "The War- ren Commission moved the same pieces , hack and forth and got nowhere. I made a new move and .solved the problem." The movehe meant .WaS the arrest of Clay Shaw. He pointed out that after Shaw was. arrested men from the District Attorney's office searched Shaw's home, in the French Quarter, , and found in it a cache of new cvi- dcncc, which he suggested that I should see, because it would give me "a new perspective on the case." Early the next morning, I went to the District Attorney's office, which is housed, next to the Parish Prison, in, the Criminal District Court Building, � a massive structure at Tulane Avenue , and South Broad. Garrison had not yet ; arrived, but one of his assistants, James� C. Alcock, told me that Garrison had left word that I should ."start going through the evidence." I did so with Jones Harris, New Yorker of inde- pendent means who .has devoted the better part of the last three years to a private investigation of the assassina- tion. Six Card h., f carlollS were brought out containing pei minal he. longings rif Clay Shaw: letters, photo- graph'., financial rectirdS, lakeprinta for renovating houses in the French Quarter, the mannacripts of plays he hail written yeara agii, calendars, ,.cheekhooks, addreiti books In one Km( were a black costume, a net mask, and some plastic slippers�all of which ShaW had claimed were part of his 1965 Mardi Gras cmtume. Aleock sant that the District Attorney's statt had yet to examine all this material, and .he suggested that Harris and I look through Shaw's address books and financial records in hopes of discover- : ing some information that might inter- est Garriarin. We were left alone with the evidence. Though none of these materials, as far as I could see after examining them, had anything directly to do with the assassination, the odd way in which Garrison treated them did give me, when I thought about it later, "a new perspective on the case." I recalled that a judge's order had forbidden discus- sion or disclosure of any evidence in the case. The very fact that I Lurk and I were allowed to examine objects 'seized. from Shaw's home and &sig., nated "evidence" seemed to be is direct violation of that order. 1VIty, I won- dered, should the District Attorney risk having his ease thrown out of court on a technicality by letting outsiders go freely � through the evi- dence? Moreover, it seemed curious that Clay Sl'aw's papers had not al- ready been rigorously seri:MU/cif by Garrison or his staff, especially since .Garrison had told several people, in- cluding me, that one of the main rea- sons for arresting Clay Shaw on March 1st was to prevent him from destroy- ing his personal papers. Six weeks had passed, and yet from what I saw it appeared that no real investigation of Clay Shaw Was going on at all but only a search for peripheral characters connected with David I:err:e. If Gar- rison believed that Shaw had.openly conspired to kill the President, why was the inquiry into his activities being. treated With such ap- par.mt nonchalance? A discovery that Jones Harris made while we Were going through the papers provided considerable in- sight into the nature of Garrison's in rest iga t ion . What. Harris found was a five-digit number that was common to both Shaw's � and Oswald's address TIIC ristrt' 1/I Sala W'S book was "Lye Odom, PO Box 19106, Dallas, Tex." In Oswald's hook, the number 191(16 Wa 'I pre- ceded by the Csrillic letters' ( which, like other Rtmuan letter, on the page, the Warren Coin- misaion. had asaintied were made during 0V.liti'S two- and-a-half-year stay in the Soviet Union ). Though the coinci- dence of it ti in hers proved nothing. in it- self, it was striking, and Garrison decided that further in vestigatiim was merited. Shortly thereafter, Garrison announced to the press that he bad found the entry "PO 19106" in both Oswald's 3 l!ti Shs.ew's address books, and that the num- was a "nonexistent or fictional number," which removed "the possibility of coinci- dence." Moreove r, Garrimm said that "PO 19106" was a code that, when deci- phered, produced Jack Ruby's unlisted tele- phone nuinber, WU 1-5601, ant, "no oth- er number on earth." The inethi41 by which Garrison "deci- phered" the . code is worth following. Starting with the "scrambled" number 19106, Garrison "unscrambled" it (by choosing the nearest digit, then the farthest, OA the next nearest, etc.) to produce the number 16901. Ruby's number was 15601, so by unscram- bling the- digits Garrimm managed to niatch the last two digits in the two numbers. The next step was to subtract 1300 front 1690-1, and�presto--- I 560 1 . Finally, Garrison converted the prefix "PO" to "WH" by a system that, according to the proininent cryp- tographer Irwin Mann, yields .at lenst six different prefixes; Garrison chose Ruby's. A few days after Garrison . an- nounced that he had deciphered the code, it became known that the num- ber 19106 in Shaw's address hook was by no means "nonexistent or fictional." PO Box 19106 had been, as Shaw's address book indicated, the address in Dallas of a man named Lee Odom. Odom stated that he had been intro- duced to Shaw in 1966 by the manager , of the ko�oseselt 11,4,1 iNew Oilcans. N,w tdephonc book. and had bredv thscu..sed with. Shaw �Vhat was Garei;on's mallow in all the pc.ssibility of bringing li1004.1ess bull- this? Ile him,self noted, in an extended fights to New Orleans; he -bad le It inter vie w in 111,,yboy for October, his h US; ise!V4 iulul f Box 19106, 1967, timi pre-trial publicity prejudicial Dallas, Texas --with Shaw. In fact, ill ihe defendant "could get otir whole Odom's post-oflice box could not yes- case thrown nut of 'court," yet he him- sib!y have ht:en the number in Oswald's self had jeopardized his case by releas- bo..k, because the post-tifficc.box num- ins inhumation that � was not only her 19106 did not exist in Pallas be. prejudicial to � Clay Shaw but un- fore it was assigned to Odom, in founded. 1965�long after Oswald's death, in 1963. It was clear that Garrison had II' was aboard a jet flight between done some questionable interpolating of New Orleans and New York in his own in moving from a coincidence late NOVernber of 1966 that the Gar- to a conspir.icy. First, lie had told news- rison investigation started taking shape. men that the number in Oswald's bosdc Prompted by a cover story in Life' was PO 19106, although in fact it that Called for a new investigation into was ;i1 19106. ( %%lien a television the assassination,�three prominent pas- � interviewer later asked him, how IiC sengers--SenatOr Russell 13. Long, of had determined that the prefix was Louisiana; Joseph M. Hank, jr., a PO, rather than II he answered. wealthy New Orleans oilman; - and with perfect aplomb, "More or less by District Attorney Jim Garrison�he- looking at it.") Then, on the basis of gall speculating alutot the events - in - his deductions, he had announced that , Dallas three years before. As their con- the post-otlice-box number was fie- veisation was reported in New Or- , tional. And, finally, he had converted all: official magazine of the city's the number in Shaw's book iltui jack Chamber of Commerce, the three R uhy's phone nil tuber by r...arranging agreed that, in Rault'S :words, ". . it the digits, subtracting an arbitrary would be almost preposterous to believe � number, and changing the letters "PO" Out one Juan, an individual such as to "WM" Garrison had 'constructed Oswald, could have been the only one a piece of evidence against Clay Shaw involved in this thing." and had disclosed it to the press. Yet the Attorney did ton seem particularly perturbed When questions were raised about the logic of his de- ductions. 1Vhen he was asked on a lo- cal television show how the number of a post-office box that didn't exist instil 1965 could have been used to represent Jack Ruby's phone. number in 1963, he replied, "%1'ell, that's a problem fur you to think over, because you obvious, ly missed the point." Indeed, Garrison counterattacked in a press conference. saying, "WC are very interested in knowing who introduced Mr. Odom Senator Long citeil. defi- ciencies in the Warren enin ISSInn's in "I think if 1 were investi- gating," he said, "I'd find the hundred hest 'riflemen in die world and find the ones who were in Dallas that day." Garrison recalled that in 1963 his office had been interested in "a very unusual type of person who made a very curious trip .at a very curious time about the date of the assassinntinn," and the District: Attorney added that lie "might want to Mr. Shaw, how many hulltights to now go back into some of those Mr. Odom has actually produced"�C vellts�" as if this fact Were relevant. to his in- The individual whom Garrison had vestigation�and "We are particularly in mini, was David %Vahan) Ferric, interested in clarifying now why there and be was, to say' the least of � it, "a . is also coded in Lee Oswald's address very unusual type of PerSon�" Garrison book the local phone number of the later characterized Ferric as both an Central Intelligence Agency." Using "evil genius" and "a pathi:tic and lor- an entirely different system of deci- !urea creature." To comp:mate for pherment, Garrson managed to con- �hring completely hairless, Ferric pasted vertthe number 1147, which appeared what looked like clumps of red mint- in Oswald's book, to 522-8874, the key fur on his head and wore artificial C.I.A.'s phone 'number. Oswald's codes s-yebrows. (Explanations of how Ferric were "subjective," Garrison said, in lost Ins hair have become part of the that they varied from number to nuns- folklore of the assassination. William her. There seemed little point in Os- IV. Turner, author of a so-called "of- . wald's having gone through such an tidal history" of the Garrison investiga- elaborate procedure, however, because tion which appeared in Ramparts, .re- the C.I.A. number that Garrison re-1 ported one speculation that the loss (erred to was--and is--listed in the might have been "a physiological reac- -3- till ti to tiuc estrenw twles required for clitillestinc flight's'' Ile went in tf) say that Chinese Na � lionalist U-2 pilots base reportedly experienced the same "Itair-loss phe- nomenon." Fred Powledge, after in- terviewing Garrison, wraite in the Rrpibli.- that Ferric's "interest in h.nnosexuality led him to shave cuff all his body hair." Ilowever., the question was decisively answered by Harold Weisberg, a critic of the �Vairen Cont- i mission, whose stepbrother, Dr. Jack ,Kety, had treated Ferrie for the disease � alopecia, which can render its YkilMS hairless.) Rather like Oswald, Ferric was a failure at virtually everything he tried. Ile trained for the priesthood, and WAS .fismissed from two seminaries as a result of eccentric personal behavior. Later, he became a "bishop" in a quasi- political underground cult callod the Orthodox Old Catholic �� Church of North America. Ferric ran a service station in Ncw Orleans. his greatest ambition seems to have been to become a fighter pilot. In 1950, lie wrote to Secretary of 1)efensc Louis A. .1,4111- son, demanding, "1-Vit.m aln I going to get the commission, when the Russians are bombing die hell mit of Cleveland?" In a letter to the commanding officer of the First Air Force, he wrote-, "There is 'nothing I would enjoy better than blowing the hell out of � -every damn Russian, Communist, Red or whal- have-you.... Between my friends and I we can cook up a crew that can really blow them to ! hell... . I want to train killers, how- ever had that sounds. It is what we ! need." Ferric never received an Air Force commission, hut he did succeed in becomtng the leader of a unit in the Civil Air Patrol (a civilian organization made up of volunteers), and he also set. himself to training youths in jungle- warfare tactics. Oswald, according tn witness before the %Varren ConnuiS- sion named Edward Vochel� may have belonged to Ferric's outfit for a brief time in � the nineteen-fifties, when he - was a teen-ager. Ferric was also en- gaged in a long-term project to dis- cover a cure for cancer, and it was said that at one time he housed thou- sands of white mice in his apartment in New Orleans. For a while, he was em- ployed as a pilot for Eastern Airlines, bin hc was suspended, in 1961, as a consequence of an .arrest on a morals cha.gr, and later dismissed. After that, he managed to make a meagre living as a free-lance pilot, an independent psychologist-, and a private detective. At ahorit the time of the Bay of Pigs rd,t, %.11�, made i number ot be Lee Haney invasion, in 1961, he became a., onh Fmk .�rder to gam his Leo,s sasi sociitted with sortie Cohan emirs, and, j dence, and .X1;sito Fowler. a Cuban 0.,"tam that t:iss titievng had .'. accimling to one Of them, he thew fire- exile and the Drys:tor in Intel national occio-red in ioo .�a time o hen bomb raids against Cuba and helped anti-Castro tetugses escaPe. It has also been reported that, in pursuit of his desire .to "train killers," he became in- volved in teaching paramilitary tactics : to anti-Cagroites in St. Tammany Parish, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans. In 1963, Ferric was employed as a - private ihvestigater for the law firm then representing Carl,* Marcella who was reputed to be the head of the New Orleans Mafia. Marcedlo had been ne- ported in an extralegal manner-he waseabslucted� by Justice Department malt. According no one story, Ferric that he suffers from "telephomtis clandestiuely flew Marcell� back into when, he has taken a drink and that this country. On the dar of the assassi- it was on such an occasion that he nation, Ferrie -.claimed, he was, in � telephoned theDiStriet Attorney's of- court, listening to a judge. declare rice about Ferric, continued to narrate the Marcello _deportation illegal. To a vast number of disconnected yarns celebrate the victory, Ferric drove. to about Verne and the assassination. Ac- cued to include various efforts to track Texas on a "goOse-hunting" eVoili- Cording to a typical uric the'e, Fe" :doo n, with Torres's help, any Cubans lion with two friends. Meanwhile, Car- hypnotized Oswald and then dispatched :in Nlia�,i who might base known Fer., iso n r'soffice received a tip front 3 him on i the ascassinItion misson A i, C- rie, T w These etfirs turned out to he inn- New Orleans private sIctcctive named cording to annther. Ferri., had a work- productive but quite espensive�more rack S. 'Martin to the effect � that Mg association with certain anti-Castro than hall the total en,ndittires�,nd 1. 'Ferric had trained Oswald in marks- activities conducted by the private de- Garrison began to suspect that Ttirres's Manship and was his "getaway tective XV. Guy Banister. Garrison activity did not justify the expense. M- int." Martin was said to he a member found this connection especially pro- ward the end of January, the Florida .0f the same cult in which Ferric was a vocative, because Banter, up to the manhunt was called off. bishop. On his return to New Orleans, time of his death, in 1964, main- But Garrison had other leads to fol- Ferric was arrested and questioned, mined nifices in a building at 544. low�notably an old clue from a New hut, according to F.B.I. reports, Mar-� Camp Street, a block from the Wit- ;Orleans laWier named Dean Adams ; Andrews, Jr. Andrews' original story, which he told to the Secret Service shortly after the assassination, was that , Oswald had ermine to iris office a few times during the summer of 1963 in the hone of finding sonic means by which the "undesirahle" discharge he Trail been given by the Marine Corps could converted into an honorable one. The day after the ass:assinatinn, Andrews, who was: in the hospital tin- der sedation recovering from pnetimo- nia, said he received a phone from a man he knew as Clay Bertrand,� � whom he described as "a lawyer with- out a briefcase" tor local homosexuals. According to.Andrews, Bertrand.askea hint to go to Dallas and defend Os- wald. When Andrews was questioned by the F.B.I., he gave several dif- ferent descriptions of Bertrand, and finally said that the character bearing that name was merely a figment of his. imagination. .A few months later, he again changed his story, telling the Warren Commission that he had re- cently seen Bertrand in a bar, and de- scribing him as "a boy" who was "5 foot S inches" and had "sandy hair." Relatxtits for the City of Ness Orleans, .(hwald was knoon to be lit - who made discreet inquiries about Fee- ing in Texas and although rue's aCtlYnws among, anti-Castro exiles. Qrttnrga categoricalli derned Later, a self-styled intelligence expert Out such a- morting- had eyes' using the pseudonym I3,11 Bo,ler � taken place, Garrmon intensi- joined Garrison's gaff. fled his efforts in this direction. The first step was to compile a dye.- lie began digging into the ac- sir on Ferric. Cameras were secretly thitjcs ant'Castro Cuhattsi set up across from Ferries apartincnt, and disoivered the sites of he was followed everywhere he went, what had been two secret training and friends were questioned about camps in St. Tammany Parish. Ferric his activities. Little came of this stir- was rumored to have used one of them %enhance. For further infoonation, to train his corps of ciimmandos. In Garrison turned back to Martin, whose the hope of Mutating the inert under tip had first linked Oswald and Ferric.. Ferric's command, hired Her- agents and put on a plane to Guam- Martin, who told Secret Service agents nardn Torres, a private deteetive front Miami who claimed to have assisted the Secret Service by spotting poten- tially danger-us Cubans during I visit President Kennedy made tY Nliami in 1963. In December, 1956, and janit- arV, 1967, the Mrs-gip:inn was broad- tin admitted that he had made tip the ham B. Redy Company, where whole story, and Ferric was released. Oswald worked, and one The F.B.I. may not have thought of the questions the Warren much of Martin's tip, hut it was this Commission had /eft titian- tip that enabled Garrison to begin his swered was why the address investigation, in December,.1466, with "544 Camp St." appeared as a specific suspect in mind�David Fee- Oswald's headquarters on rie. Garrison set about his work with some pro-Castro lite rat lire the assistance of a small hut industrlons that Inc handed out. Since staff. His 'chief investigator, a police- Banister's office was, as Gar- man named Louts Ivon, had requbi- rison put it, "a mares-nest of tinned other members of the New Or- anti-Castro activity," Garri- leans Police Department to do the son postulates! that Oswald necessary legwork. William IL Gun- might heart "agent provoca- vich, a partner in one .of the city's larg- 'tete in Banister's employ. cst private-detective agencies, handled Garr6int followed tin .this interrogations and the extraterritorial lead by sistematically Ties- aspects of .the investigation. Thomas .tioning Banister's former ens- ' Bethel!, a yming British writer who ployees. One of them, a ship- ,. was living in New Orleans, was put in ping clerk and sometime pri- ' charge of research. Assistant District vate investigator named David " -Attorneys Alcoa, Andrew J. Sciam- F. Lewis, Jr., added richly to . bra, Richard V. Burnes, and Alvin V. the developing drama. Lewis Oser questioned the more important claimed that he had been wit- . witnesses and prepared the legal nes:: to a meeting among Ban- , groundwork. Other tasks were per- ister, Ferric, the anti-Castro . formed by some of Garrison's personal leader Carlos Quirdga, and a -- them Max Gonzales, person he called Leon Os- a law clerk in the criminal court and a wald, who he later thought No other dITCS 01 Bertrand's identitY :11111 �Vc