EX-CIA LEADER NOVEL CALLED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050094-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: February 17, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

The Times Picayune CPYRGHT
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eDruarv 1 nnvn~i iT
turn" to testify in New Or
I ans If President Lyndon B
ohnson and the CIA pay fo
is "personal financial losses'
United States government, we e
many Louisiana politicians, i -
eluding Mr. Garrison, and t j
governor and the office of t
hile included as a -figure I 'leans. My personal stereo ar>jl
e investigation. monaural tape library Is extel~-,
Garrison Asks -Dulles
Testify March 7, 8
The subpenas for both Dulle
nd Novel were issued throug
e court of Criminal Distric
udge Matthew S. Braniff.
'BY CIA' ELEMENTS'
In asking for the Dulles sub
ena, Garrison's office claime
hat he would have "pertinen
owledge as to substantial r
orts that Lee Harvey Oswal
as an agent and-or employ
f the CIA." Oswald was sal
'the Warren Commission to
ve been the lone assassin of
Kennedy.
Garrison also asserted that
he "has succeeded in identify
hng the assassination of Presi-
dent Kennedy as an: operation
conducted by elements of the
CIA." The DA further charged
That the Warren Commission
suppressed certain documents
'which may have a bearing on -president Johnson and the C1
the case.. pay my extensive personal fi .
Garrison also claimed that nancial losses for defending th
'CIA his organization worked at'jand guarantee t h e ' probabl
in his Kennedy assassinatio `?? L, quVl 4lYG L CIJV UL i IBS (n- I-- IU lYll. "01I IJVIL I.7 (ILUUUII
y asion in Cuba, and used Os- from granting immunity on,
probe-the first for a forme ald's name. Oswald was in may return to testify to - Mr
Central Intelligence 'Agency di Russia at the time. Garrison about his fraud and in
rector, and the second for GRANTED IMMUNITY volvement In the death of Davi
long-sought former bar operator The subpena request further-! Ferrie.
alleged to have CIA connections.. tated that Novel, former opera-' "I don't believe Mr.Garriso
The new Grand Jury subpe- or of a Rampart st. lounge, hadj will take a lie detector test o
a id b Gi'ff
nssueyarrsons oice
was for Alien W. Dulles, head
of the controversial CIA until
Sept. 27, 1961, who is asked to'
appear before the Orleans
Parish Grand Jury March 7
and 8 to give testimony in
connection with the DA's In-
vestigation of the death of
President John F. Kennedy.
The other subpena again
called for the appearance of
Gordon Novel. Earlier efforts by
Garrison to have Novel return
here to testify have been un-
availing.
NOT DECIDED
Friday night, Novel told The
Times-Picayune by telephone
from Columbus, Ohio,. that he
had not read the new subpena
and had not yet decided''wheth-
er t play my, 'game or his
o' LI(GaroUL =7
nlisted. CIA aid in order to
void having to return to New
rleans fot? Garrison, and that
he late David W. Ferrie was
mployed by the CIA while
ulles was at the helm.
Ferrie died last Feb. 22. He
as?named by. Garrison as be-11more .cooperative, and t don'~?
ennedy. '
In his statement to The Times-,
icayune, Novel outlined his po-
ition on Garrison's latest move;
five points. The text of Novi,
l's statement follows:
"Number One " My primary.
usiness In New Orleans was,
nd still Is, in the electronic in?;
lligence equipment manufac
ring . field. , I am not a night'
ub owner, That was merely a{
and his involvement-on one, o
on his truth. serum or on hi
s hypnosis before his grand jury
duel in some place other that
"Number Two-I never co -
mitted any burglaries and a
most certainly not a materi 1
witness except to Mr. Garr -
son's attempts to fraudulent](
and maliciously involve nlysel ,
who was his former person I
chief of security in his allege
investigation of the alleged co
spiracy to allegedly assassinat
John F. Kennedy.
"Number Three-I have neve
stated to anyone that I eve
consciously worked at, any time
for or with the CIA.
"Number Four-In referenc
to his new subpena, I, persona
ly, haven't read it so I will jus
have to see it before decidin
whether to play my game. o
his.
"Number Five Perhaps I
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