TWO NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS: "CIA WITHHELD DATA IN JFK PROBE" AND "FRENCH TERRORIST REPORTEDLY IN DALLAS WHEN JFK WAS SLAIN"

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00341541
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: September 10, 1976

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".�Rt4,;;;:tzt.:4!.., � Yet sources 'privy to the�-Secret cussions the highest levels of the ' .CIA during those, hectic days now tell iir,that the CIA deliberately withheld'. the evidence from the Warren Coni- ritiicsion investigating�Kennedy's death. `;:�--tr: Our sources , cite two reasons -for holding back this evidence. One was a' -- resolve to cover up the seeret that the CIA had enlisted Mafia Mobsters to kill' Castro. -74-: There also was a legitimate concern that the Castro revelations might in- flame the American fpeople, : whose. grief could have turned into: a terrible' terePieSicterit -John .7;,.:Xermedy-li 1962. Yet. neither Kennedy nor Hoover ,gan, has waived the confidentiality we _ ,was struck down on Nov: 24 1963; the - later divulged this important informal!: . had promised .Central -Intelligence 'Aginer received'Z.7't tion to the_WarrenCominissioujoihr , . - .1967. � Morgan told us, , anuary, evidence suggesting.: that Cuban Pre,_ about the CIA-Mafia aSsassmation plot -Of course; CIA officials nier Fidel Castro arranged the assassi;:', knew about, the assalainationischethe: Not the least of them .was the late CIA: ,,:i,,:� ., ny that.,the-plot-COOldhavehackfired chiet.:Allen,'W, Dulles;-;:who'approved ',,.; against - President:':.KennedY., '.;There the- original' plan. He later- served on .,.. ,- were ",- anspicioust.-isireunstances�,:te, the Warren- CommmisSion; yet he , sat jpointed -.. out,: indicating " that: Castro: 1.',....;silentlYi.throughout the . investigation t: ---�-' may have learned of the attempts on .: Without mentioning the Cuban angle..,:: ,:.::::::. his life': and '' May ..have. retaliated ,4TA: Within hours of President- Kermit, -t,-� against Kennedy. ..4.1'dy's death; the US. embassy Cabled in- -: - ,, Morgan refused :',:to. - identify . his't 'formation from Mexico City suggest- .:.,:: Sources because it would have violated 'ing that the Cubans may have been be-. ,..'..,:� . the attorney-client privilege. But he hind the assassination. Our Sources say r 'was an attorney, of such 'stature that - that the CIA developed similar. infor- :I,. we didn't doubt his word: He had been., .xnation in Washington. Y'',.:;:-...,-..K:�::�,. _.... "t!, t� chief inspector. or the , FBI. He had. di-, 4,1_.,:The firdiai.aan t04.,,,,,t'ia'aiil'413;r47 ----. rectedlhe historic: congressional inves; .. , *Kennedy's Side after the. shooting:wasit - ... - .=-� ' tigatio,n-rof the Pearl Harbor bombing.,- CIA Director John A. McCone; who're, ' "..,' Later, he ran the investigation into the. � wrath that might have Precipitated vniained alone with the:AttorneyGen,:., ,,, knew.. 11, , - $ �'eral' at. his - McLean, fi Vs..':'. home ' for.. Gen- some rash action:;:t.:a' � ' '::::, 'i�:. ,i1�7:,'-.,,,:y '� ii, bait( il kii1174.,',..... ..t.k..!.t41;0�:'Z", � ..:''' '..-?-'71:hily, a few key. people- about , the CIA plot in assassinate Castro: One � .-8111cCone. SWoreto-iis -that:Castro' was Attorney General Robert F. 'Ken- name was never mentioned du the :-, ... � nedy,_ who Was,,his:'brother's :personal ' ., three. hours.. lhit hourg:,.. CIA records., show' .ii SOUree ;.Thea on March. 3,;-1967; We , Kennedy noW.- watchdog over the CIA. ". that the, next day MeConOri:4 only.,,,,:: wrote that Robert Kennedy.. ��`.'may have been established that Rob 'i� � .:' ,,.,�,"mentioned Castro to the . new ,Presi, :, i,. approved an assassination plot, which; : ' Robert has .'"......7.1 -?: ' was briefed on May 7, 1962, about the r dent, Lyndon B.:Tohnion;.,but briefed - then possibly backfired .against his late , ':.' ' ' ! �-:- ' '':-:: ���:-:,.'H'----"-- - - :attempt to use underworld, killers tO' 1 brother.,.,..--. ,a,,-1.-n.-7N i,q7,11ci .him on, the information from:,-MeXica,:,..,1: , -1.-.1inock off Castro. .!.."'..'.',.",,it ,",.,.': t" " - -"': , 4,:i...,..,.,1;-..,, 4 4.v,,,43-44-i,,,,,,4-7-7z.Thnext: day, according to records Two daYs.later, Robert Rennedy ca et; no ','- One 1._ brought the Cuban ,,,now-airailable, ,:Nelinedy's - secretary -:tioned the CIA to '.'"gO ahead with:connection to the attention of the War-..,..�Lcalled for a copy of the May 7,1.962,-, ' :the assassination - Without: consulting . 'ren Commission. ' We were the first to -them% which summarized the briefing _ - him: Since Robert Kennedy rode herd. get :;Yiord. of:. the TailtiCaiff6'!plott: to he he: had recehied-nn7the-:assaisinat..ion on the CIA, it must be assumed that he Chief 'Justice �Earl.-.Warren,,;:the -corn,: - .� plot _:i.,-0*-!";',4TVgi5.f.7.411Vt7:,it,.-�-::-*' ' was kept advised of subSequent assassi- mission chairman, four Years.latei."-;;T:_...i,:r",:,..A on March 7, 1967, reported more nation attempts. However, there is no - . We are: now free to reveal' our role -,jj:::''.`.iletailc''!',A reported CIA plan in 1963 to....... ,t,---,documentary evidence of this.�-"����:f.i.'",'"*"/.., in thodrama;'Two'"Of oiir!Confidential assassinate.�-CubaS.,s.Fidel Castro," ' we - , . . _ Recordsinow,-.,available - show: that:'. sources;i:Clk:::agent.. Willia.M.,..,,Harvey. .,.....� wrote,' '...`: --. , ;may have . resulted:, in :a -: Robert Kennedy informed FBI chietJ:,:' ' and Mobster. John ROsselli, are dead. A :::,:iteounterplot' by. Castro . to .assassinate''. ' Edgar Hoover *.Ofithe-f,plot on; May . lk-, '' third.. source attorney Edward g.:11.1.or-: - President Kennedy:7.42,ii-:-�,r,; �-.-,S. ..i',--,--,'' ---,..,,4,,,,iriei.,i,.� ..-1,-zu�-___ i�fjosiiic. ,.. - -,,,,�,-,1--.44.-;- ,-------,:k --:'----ii: Afti�._-i,:�,-05.,-.::_z!�-..;- _ , � � - �.- ..1:4;46,: excesses. of thelate Sen-Joseph"McCay. thy .?� We got. Morgan'Sf permission,, to write ,a cautious story. We confirmed the generat., outlines;", from ._ a , CIA DETROIT, MICHIGAN NEWS E - 650,180 S -7 848,213 e-k0t3 2 2 1976 By SETR-KANTOR. � . News WashingloR &stew WASHINGTON - U S intelligence sources have now revealed an undercover international manhunt was conducted in 1964 for a mysterious French army deserter who reportedly had been .in Dallas the day President Kennedy was assas- sinated there, and then was expelled from the United States by authorities the next day The manhunt was triggered by the French government, according to a March 5, 1964, FBI communique to the CIA, becauselt was feared �- in Paris that the deserter, former army Capt.. Jean Suetra, was preparing to assassinate France's President Charles de Gaulle. In the communique, the FBI asked the CIA. what it might know about Suetra. The CIA had 'ar'several details situSuetraaan internationally knowiuterrorisr who had been_operatmo_out of Algeria-as an officer in �the-Secret Arm;Organ--. ization OAS; The OAS had been involved in several assassi- nation attempts on De Gaulle � French intelli- gence agents were fearful that Suetra would make another attempt to kill De Gaulle when the French leader flew to Mexico on March 15 fdr a round of meetings with Mexico's President Adolpho Lopez Mateos_ French agents met with the FBI in New York City on March 5 and said they had learned Sue- tra had been in Fort Worth on the morning of Nov 22,, 1963, when President Kennedy had been there. Suetra - who also went under the names of Michael Roux and Michael Hertz, according to CIA files - then was in Dallas that afternoon . when Mr Kennedy was shot. According to the French agents, Suetra was apprehended shortly after the shooting and "was expelled from the United States, at Fort Worth or Dallas, 18 hours after the assassina- tion.' The French were especially anxious to learn the reason for Suetra's expulsion and his desti- nation, which they believed had been either Mexico or Canada. In return, the CIA made available to the French government information it had on the mysterious Suetra from three different CIA files, as well as an apparently recent photo- graph of him. Whatever informatioq on Suetra the CIA turned 9..;,:er to the French,--still remains hidden from the.�Public. � r,-� aiaa, k jti � But no overt attempt was. made on the life of De-Gaulle, who-was-under heauy protection dur- ing his three-day visit to Mexieo la ter that month. Suetra's identity and his reported apprehen- sion in Texas, along with his expulsion from the United States on Nov 23, 1963, have remained hidden from the American public until now The CIA has released only the bareabones information among a number of documents it recently has made available under the federal Freedom of Information Law Washington attorney Bernard Fenstenvald Jr has been waging a lengthy battle with the. CIA, using the federal law .to.get the intelligence agency to make public its long-secret files on the Kennedy assassination. � The Detroit News has asked the French gov- ernment, through the French embassy in Wash- ington, to comment on Suetra. But two different- embassy officials say there are no current files on him. Also asked to comment was. the Justice De- partment's Immigration and Naturalization Service, the agency that would have been responsible for Suetra's deportation: . Agency spokesman Vernon Jervis said "a computer search of our files has turned up noth- ing on Suetra under any of the three names he used.'' However. Jervis said that if Suetra had been asked to sign a statement of -voluntary depar- ture," admitting that he had reached :he United States under illegal circumstances, "there would not necessarily be any record available today." -