LANE TAKES HIS BEST SHOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100610030-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: January 28, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
hPPEARED 28 January 1985
Lane takes his best shot
Lawyer zeroes in, on Hunt i n libel case"
Miami (UPI}-Lawyer HUNT, WHO served 32 Lane said that Lorenz VAR '
Mark Lane, defending a tab- months for his Watergate testify that she drove from
loid charged with libeling conviction" and was paroled Miami "to 'Dallas with/'Lee
convicted Watergate burglar in February 1977, sued The Harvey` Oswald, Frankl~hm
E Howard Hunt, today-puts Spotlight,for-ljbel and won a } gis-and: several anti c
his conspiracy theory -,of _ p app judgment in 1981. Cubans =the day before;l
John F. Kennedy s assassin The weekly;-Won a new nedy=ivas4hoi? . ~ `
tion to a court testa
trial. because =of-flaws in=a ~"Sturgis also was ,~'?be-
The Spotlight, a Washing judge's charge to The jury,;-'- cotta-involved-in the Water
-ton-based weekly published , .
by the ultra-right-wing Liber- Labe, author of "Rush to te` tes-
Judgment,,, *hich criticized rc
ty Lobby, alleged in 19 978 that the ' Warren Commission's A
Hunt was in Dallas when the assassination report, will de- tify, Lane said, that she met
President was shot and Hunt while in Dallas.
fend The Spotlight
hinted that Hunt had a.part__.. ~..._- ..:v . ,.. m .. ---.Lanesaid that t-heAntends
in the assassination. He said that he would ro- to prove'during the trialthat
The story was written _ duce evidence that the CIA Marchetti's published' report
former SJA agent victor was involved in the Kenned on Hunt was true.
Marchetti and claimed that a assassination on Nov. In the `first trial the de-
1966 CIA memo place Hunt Lane say isprincipal fence was unable produce
in Dallas on Nov, 22, 163 witness- will ;+.' be- Manta ; the CIA Memo on which Mar-
and linked him to the Lorenz, former' mistress of chetti allegedly based -his
assassination. Fidel Castro: article:
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