BIRCHITE PROF 'DEDUCED' HIS SHOCKERS ON ASSASSINATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 25, 1964
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- LIV,'R: I relied priiuarti? OLIVER: That is ,right. He ,Kennedy were planning; c., ~
Ity,,,dAMES S. L1 WIS io
the interview given by Cap !said "We were in a state of .another show to bamlxozie . he
t Cloy to the Jackson (Miss) American suckers lust heiortl
JENNER: Upoh what source, w at you state in your sp.,ech
did you rely in making t h q!h said, but rather that before
statement that the special de- t assassination his special
q g ver'
as it appears in the official re=
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port: .
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131:ch Society and stated in tes-p pared the spee411. ?Limony. that he was present LIVER: That is right. And his mind a secret plan, that
when the society was formed't t a funeral had. 'been re-jlris policies and the people with
Dec. i9, 1958, in Indianapolis, h rsed. whom he surrounded himself in
the opening years of his ad-
One 'of - Oliver's charges was ENNER:' Yes, but not Press- ministration were intended to
that an army unit had been re-,d t Kennedy's. provide a demonstration of their
bearsing Mr. Kennedy's funerals LIVER: But it turned out, fatuity and probably disloyalty
for a week before the assassins- t be that. 1-the fatuity of the measures
don, Jenner said. ENNER: The only point 11 and the probable disloyalty of
Jenner's uestionin of Oli i
fl, It. ftevflu P. 6!t. . rion-Ledger. readiness and had just fuusbed the election next November."
ja funeral rehearsal because What is your source, if any,
startled the nation by stating 1+;NNER: Do you have ait.ligre was grave concern for for the statement that Khruah-
that President John F. Kcnnec y of that? Pr?csident H'oover's health." chev and Kennedy were pia
dy "memory will be cherished Oliver said he made no effort
With diSLastc" was the ne a-?ri LVVE1964. R O(Oliver ist 0 f P't O-. 0; check on the per:,on whe ning,~ as you put it, anoih
to-last person to be called by presented wrote boon the letter containing show.
the Warren Commission. .a lrppnrg)? information about the funeral OLIVER: ?'lie frequent re-
Albert E. Jenner, Jr., Chicago' ;I~rNER: I have marked aslbut that he did ascertain there l?orts of preparations fir an u -
attorney and as istant connseli0 er Exhibit No. s a photo-`;was a Captain Cloy. vasion of Cuba planned, it would
for the commission; `said the'St tic reprint of an article bead- Among the major sources list. seem, to substitute for Castro
University of Illinois 'professor?~li "A Lot to.Remembc;r; Me- ed by Oliver are Frank Capell, 'a less well-known Communist.
was "cooperative but didn't sup-;C b Army Officer Big Part. in''publisher of a periodical called -' JENNER: Here again this
port his extremist statements.'' K, inedy Funeral" by Kenneth. the Herald of Freedom, of Stat- was a statement of deduction
Jeinier took Oliver's Lestil~1ony T liver. 1'n Island. Capell "srves as on ,your part?
nn Sept.. 0 almost a yesr after LIVER: This is a reproduc-i,a research consultant for me," OLIVER: Yes.
the as,;as iai Li.ou. It: appears on!tic t. of the clipping Oliver said. JENNER: From newspaper
Pages 709 to 744 in Volume 15. ? FNIr'iJR: Would you sy{,u, Another source was right-wing accounts and radio broadcasts
of the 2i:-volume Warren Corn.. i n New Orleans publisher Kent and general information t h a t
mission Report, the last vol. here in that clipping it; Courtney.
s rs iri any "respect that Cap was abroad?
ume to deal. with testimony. - Most of . Oliver 's remarks
t u Cloy made the statement, OLIVER: General :nforma-
Oliver had asserted in a Johnl . about the assassination a a-
t.i t he and his unit were re- feared in a two-part series 1 en- Lion, rumors you pick up, what
Birch Society magazine that Air.. ,
Kennedy was "'executed by the h rsing for the funeral of Pres titled "Marxmanship in Dallas" you are told by various ana,.rsts
it nit Kennedy a week in ad; and so on.
Communist conspiracy because(`, a of 'the assassination? in American Opinion, a publi- t JENNER: On Page 26 von
he was planning to turn Ameri r ~i cation of the John Birch So- state: "One writer has recently
can " LIVER: VIy first ~nawed. -i ciety.
sur est-r? that it. was trip' 'IA
~'1{ ('OM1V [S',JON, Jenner;( .ter I received from sorneonei ., Ltirii, I :
,was that Mr Kennedy was
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of President Kennedy. ,o
said, wanted to find out if any i Arlington, or Alexandria, in ^.1111ge 1
executed by the Communist con- that
lot Oliver's sources could possi-if ming me that the Army hads spiracy because he was plan- of no evidence o suppor~
(bly help theca get the full storylr earsed the funeral more thanlnurg to turn American." A see- lesopinion. CIA is But obviously Mr. Du"~
behind the assassination. a week before the funeral. Ilion of the hearings reads:
Oliver, 'Jenner said, "had no Who is the writer to which
~brcis for many of his state' s\1NERi But you had the; JENNER: What was your you have reference?
menls except clipping s he said, c pping prior to your speed( source for that statement?
pu1g a the Santa Ana Valle , OLIVER: I do not recall. I
the had seen or 'comments onl y Hieh OLIVER: Well, as I have in- wrote this of course, in Deem-
:televisiot that he said het 110?1, ' dicated, what I called there thin ";ber. I wouldn't want to recall
.thought he had heard." LIVER: Oh yes, quite= s ine! comforting hypothesis that one rt who said it. I have the impres-
Thc classics. nrofessar.is na,lh o More that. 4 heard so frequently since Ken- t sion it was in some one of the
iior,ci councilor for the .joi);t ENNEtl: And b. fore youI!necly s inauguration, and which ".innumerable magazine articles
innumerable
one s bears that he had in l
till
national independence instead
of "interdependence."
JENNER: You then day
"Now it was generally suspected
neral a week before the assns-;P sident Hoover, who aasifor some time before the as-
sinuti.7"banitized - App'r ef' For Release : 01 5 131 -446 '6600070001-1
tachment to which you referlu t had been rehearsing f:,r t :e
began to rehearse for the futa ?cipated possible funeral [of
wii notice in the' article thattthat he was planning to execute,
the assassination but I
would not want. to say which
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