DULLES CALLED IN PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050096-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 96
• Publication Date: February 16, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW MEANS STATES-ITEM
Nair Orleans, La.
Sanitized.- Approved f6r ee4ei A-RDP
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ie aistrict attorney
subpena for Allen W. Dulles, former director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, to appear before the jury March 7
and 8 in connection with the probe of the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy.
A new subpena also was issued today for Gordon Novel,
former New Orleans nightclub owner. Previous efforts to
get Novel back to. New Orleans to testify have been un-
successful. . .
DISTRICT ATTORNEY JIM GARRISON said his office
"has succeeded in identifying the assassination of President
Kennedy as an operation conducted by elements of the
.CIA," and said both Dulles and Novel' were needed to
testify about CIA activities.
Both subpenas were issued through Criminal District
Judge Matthew S. Braniff.
The request for the Dulles subpena' alleges that Dulles
was CIA director until. Sept. 27, 1961, and as such "would
have pertinent knowledge as to substantial reports that
Lee-Harvey Oswald was an agent and-or an omploye of
the CIA."
THE DOCUMENT SAID POSSIBLE information relative
,to CIA knowledge or contact with Oswald (named.by the
Warren Commission as the sole'slayer of the President) was
(suppressed in certain commission documents.
It charges that while Dulles headed the CIA, the. organ-
ppizgtion negotiated with a New'Orleans firm for the purchase
of trucks and vehicles to use in the CIA-sponsored Bay of
Pigs invasion of Cuba and used the name of Lee Harvey
tOswald, who was at that time in Russia.
J . THE SUBPENA REQUEST QUOTED a copyrighted story
.in the States-Item April 25, 1967, as making public Novel's
'claim to have been employed by the CIA during Dulles'
t,tenure as' chief. "Gordon Novel fled the state to avoid,
rtestifying and sought to enlist the aid of the CIA in. pre-
venting his return," the document said.
The request said "David W. Ferric, who has been named
in an indictment as 'a conspirator to the murder. of John F.
Kennedy, was an employe of the CIA at a time when Allen
. Dulles was the head of the CIA., Among other things, he was
a flying instructor in Guatemala prior to the abortive. Bays
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of Pigs invasion."
Dulles was never called be-
fore the Warren Commission,
the document said.
The document said it was is-
sued for the purpose of being.,
presented to a judge in New
York, "where said Allen W.
Dulles now is, upon proceed-
ings to compel said Allen W.
fy..."
Both the Dulles and Novel
subpena requests contain pro-
- visions granting the men im-
munity from a r r e s t and
process service, while in Lou-
isiana on matters which arose
prior to their entrance into
the state' to answer the sub?
penas.
IN THE PAST, Garrison has
refused to grant Novel such
immunity, Novel has said he
would be willing to return if
it were granted.
Tlie Novel subpena request
says 'Novel now lives in Co-
lumbus, Ohio.
It alleges that Novel "by
his own admission in public
statements is affiliated with
the CIA."
It further alleges that Novel
"has been established to be
a frequent visitor of and as-
sociate of attorney Dean A.
Andrews who has been con-
victed of perjury in connec-
tion with his testimony' rela-
tive to the conspiracy to mur-
der John F. Kennedy."
ALSO, IT says he' was an
associate of F errie in connec-
tion with CIA activities.
. "Information has been giv-
en to the DA's office which
located Novel at No Name
Key in Florida where.a num-
ber of CIA employes were
training for an invasion of
Cuba," the request said.
It also says Novel has been
identified by a witness as a
frequent visitor of Edgar Eu-.
gene Bradley in North Holly-
wood, Calif. Bradley has been
charged in Orleans Parish as
a conspirator in the Kennedy
slaying.
Novel, the request says, has
been identified by various wit-
nesses as having been in vari-.
tion on gun-running activities
involving Clay L. Shaw who
has been indicted by the Or-
leans Parish Grand Jury as
a conspirator to the murder
of John F. Kennedy, and Jack
Ruby, whom it is commonly
accepted is the slayer of Lee
Harvey Oswald," the docu-
ment says.
IT SAYS Steven Plotkin,
Novel's attorney, when-press-
ed for information relativ to
the gun-running activities as-
serted the attorney-client priv-
ilege and named ? Gordon
Novel as the client involved.
The document requests that
Novel be taken into imme-
diate custody and delivered to.
an officer of the state of Loui-
siana to assure his attend-
ance.
It says Novel was sub-
penaed to appear before the
grand jury March '17, 1967;
and adds:
"Gordon Novel, by his own
public admissions, sold his
business on the weekend and
left the city to-avoid nbt only.
the aforedescribed subpena
but also a new subpena which
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