NEWS ARTICLE-WATERGATE BURGLAR QUIZZED ON CIA.

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00468285
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: July 16, 2025
• Publication Date: April 12, 1975

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and LEW WhittOle ee.ase4tre Will 'break down and
the Communists ultimately Wittin Secret testimony before the gain earitrei-of all Vietnam:: -
Rockefeller COnalission. "This Would Mean that
Watergate burglar Frank Stuis nine years of American ttYing
&has eonfiteed-thathe was in, have been ILI vain. For the US
s�Olved in genteel CIA assastina- government has spilled the
deoPlats, blood Of 51.009 Ameriein boa
Rut he has emphaticeib' de- and *wandered MO billion to
flied charges that ha was in DUI prevent a Communist takeover
las on the day Piesidont Ken- of &sigh Vietnam.
nedy was shot or that he had �..one intelligence allaitais
a **thing to do with tire Tionnedi suggeSte that a sporadic coarse.
smastleatiou, fire at least, should -endure for
, .
Sturgis offered to take A lie several months ... IhiLenes
detector test it the commission the .C.Csminunist Infraltniettiris-
had any doubt that he Wlut tell- has been rebuilt in the. Sauth.
Ink the truth. No Pub' graph We. Warns the analytia, the Conienu-
hoseever, was administered. nista will seek to, end their long
Watergate conspirator E. struggle for control of all Viet. '-
Howard Hunt Jr.. who was also noM with a final military efface
,
called before the commission to alve.
answer the same charges, "Secretly, the Joint Chiefs
tried similar denials (bathe was don't believe President Thiess
inked in any way te'sfio tragic can survive. He is preparing for
events in Dallas, the political ravages by tighten-
Questioned for two- dart by
senor -enuesel Robert Olsen,
Sturgis described maissinatieti
piers in Cuba. the Dominican
Republic, Guatathale. Haiti and
Panama. lie hail participated in
the plotting against 'leaders,
both high and Io., in alt these
countries, he testified. ;
The conspirators int:itsied
Persons be -knew to be oin-
nected with the CIA, he sad.
Own tele had been limited to
helping "set tin" assassieatton
attempts. He had tests taken
part in atry actusl murders. he
swore. �
MI the assassination plots. tie
explained, had been aimed
against foreign leader!, noise
aiaInst American eltisens. Most
of the .sittetispti bad failed, he
said. although he ariss Involved
In the advaneis Work.thatled to
the sweet** assassination of
dictator Tentillcrin the Doesdist-
can Republic.
Sturgis described Cuba as the
"hub" of assassination acheniest
He perionally had Participated
in plots. ha said. against sever-
rat nitasts leaders from Fidel
Castro 011 shwa. Sturgis had
beets one ei Castro's command-
ers after the takeover of Ha-
vana. During this peeled Stilt,
gis claimed:he:had reported to
IA melee< in the U.S. eat-
The special cOmMisskin,
headed by Vice President Rock-
efeller., Is exsetieleg
dente" which aliegidly links
Sturgis and Hunt to the Ken,
nedy assasisinatien. The chief
exhibit is a picture of tee VS.
grantS, raseniNing Sturgia and
Hunt who were plekod up in
Dallas after the assassination.
upon elose examination, the
picture of the man who is sup-
to Sturgis does not re-
senible him in some important
ttettt its. The relative height of
Cl'..' two men in the picture Also
doesn't correspend to the actual
height of Sturgis and fleet
Nevertheless, counsel Olsen
crosse`saminesi sturgis'eleselY
soeut the Xenuedy asiessins-
lion. Had Sturgis seer been In
Dallas, Olsen aski,si. Yes. Stur-
sis acknowledged. "several
times."
Had he been there on the daY
of the assassination. asked 01-
stientthe day at this lionielei MS;
snit. As witnesses: ...hie Wife,
nephew and mother-In-law
could place hiny In Vase on
that day, he testif
had be gene Mr.Daltes on the
day before Or after the asaasal-
netters. Olsen demanded. Stur-
ifis,rept led W itha Rat 7nis."
Had he ever visited the asset.
siruition alt., Olsen keeled.
Again Sturgis said -he had not.
Than he ou.ervtio'. Wu.) a 119 du-
teeter tost and enserer.ritseations
about both the:Hennedy issiassi-
nattots end his Myrilyentent In
CIA assassination plots..
also denied that he
had anything to do with the at-
saasthatiens of Rtibert F. Ken.
nest) or Martin Luther King. Ito
was questioned, ; tdo.'abont
ports that the. Watergate bur-
glars had broken Into the Chi-
ken ernbasay In Washington.
Sins-ell denied that he had ever
participated in the beridarY
the Washington embassy but
volunteered that he had once
bretvn into thci Chilean em-
bassy In Havana.
Footnote: Both Sturgie. and a
spokesman for the Roekefeller
Comtnission refilsesi to com-
ment en Sturgis' testimony.
"The final report will speak for
itself." aar,t the spokesman.
Pastaian rrealletion;�The
Joint Chiefs of Staff expected
President Husyen Thleu to
lose South Vietnam all along.
although the great retreat was
more sudden and spectacular
than they had anticipated.
LAs far back as Feh. 1. 1972, we
leg his military control overthe
country. This will maim his. re-
gime even more unpopular wits
the people and, therefore, more
vulnerabld to Communist agile-
Hon.'
"After Ifileu has been weak,
coed ptsticsiiy, Hanoi presum-
Ably will try to finish him off
. . The Joint Chiefs have grave -
doubts aboiit the South Viet.
naineie arms ability to repel
an otiensive ,without massive
Aniceican aliand artillery sup-
port"
The Joint Chi.' s more than
two years ago predicted almost
precisely what is happening.
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