Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510117-7
Body:
5 JUNE 1975
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By ROY 3IEYERS
(Copyright, Cleveland Press,' 1975)
l sistant U.S. attorney under. McCurdy,
;now maintains that the only thing in the
':four large envelopes was the affidavit,
which alleged that Alex (Shondor) Birns
'had given stolen Canadian securities to
Gold.
The Roekefeller Commission investi-
gating the CIA, has been, given,informa-
tion allegedly linking the unsolved 1963
slaying of Clevelander Mervin: Gold with
Mafia involvement in the CIA's abortive
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.:...
A spokesinau? for the: commission; told.;,
(Birns, who was the prime suspect in
" the Gold murder case, died last Mar- 29
lt~ the fiery explosion. of. his Lincoln
. d' itinental. in the p'arkipg,lat of, a West
The Press that a Clevelander has.turned -tae par.
over information that is now in the !