INQUIRY LOSING DIRECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600160066-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: February 22, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Inquiry Losing Direction CPYRGHT
Increasingly, questions are being 'may not be released in my lifetime or
likely to' be classified as top secret.
In getting along' with the official in-
vestigation into the assassination of The public may well ask why any
President Kennedy. The event is three secrets should be involved in the in-
Warren' have been held, and these be- working through secret agents and
hind locked doors. IOswaid were involved, it certainly can,
be no secret to them. The disclosure of
The situation has now reached the such connections, assuming any truth
stage where a bill has been offered in in the rumors, to the American public,
the House to require public disclosure of seems only fair. If there are no interna-
what is happening before the. Warren, tional complications, the case of secrecy
1 commission. is even harder to defend.
All sorts of speculations and rumers. It was generally understood, at the
are in circulation, including one that Lee-.,. time the investigative commission was
Harvey Oswald, assumed to be the Ken- created, that its purpose was to obtain
nedy murderer, was on the payroll of all of the facts possible in the case, and
the.. Cegtral.Intelligence Agency as well to give these facts to the public. To make
perhaps of Castro at once and the same' findings nullifies the whole purpose' of
time.. The unhappy' situktion was-: the proceeding. It was established taxi
created in' part by, the. comment of publish.-the. truth" and set rumors and,I
Justice 'Warren that- the statements . theories at rest--certainly,not to'arouse:
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Date: ' ,F....,,., 2 !.) 1964
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(No Great Harm-.-CanT Result
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of, the fissasgination of John F.. Ken* After. _all _ one of several me
nedy. claiming the name " of John Wilke
Circumstances contradict, the lat- Booth died in Enid, 'C"Sla., abou
ter. view. Her "assertion 'concerning. half 'century after. the known assas
a CIA connection stands utterly un- ; sin of Abraham Lincoln supposedl
supported and has been denied.. was shot to death in a Virginia barn !!
The only thing really certain' And a veritable platoon of Jess
about` the President Kennedy slay- Jameses made appearances at inter. I
ing is that a degree of cloudiness vals long after the "dirty little cowwill cloak it until Judgment Day ard" shot "Mr. Howard" in St. Jo'.
and possibly afterwards. Jack , -seph, Mo., April 3, 1882.
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