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| MEMORANDUM FOR | : | C/E/BC/C |
| SUBJECT | : | Role of Vancouver, Canada, in Disinformation re the Garrison Investigation |
| REFERENCE | : | OCOW-6315, 22 August 1967, subject: KEYWAY/Garrison Investigation of Kennedy Assassination: Donald P. NORTON, file 100-300-17. |
1. Reference forwarded a CI/R&A memorandum about NORTON to Since that date FBI reports have shown that NORTON is a con man, and U. S. Air Force Medical records have revealed that he was discharged in July 1950 as a result of psychiatric problems, having tried on two or more occasions to commit suicide. NORTON's lies about CIA first appeared in the Vancouver Sun on 5 August 1967.
2. The attached FBI report, DBB 77295, 10 April 1967, concerns another example of disinformation appearing in Vancouver, involving the Sun, and related to the Garrison case. A check of agency files showed that we have no record of Trevor LAUTENS, Mario GRACIAS, or Miss Dorothy WHITTY. The reference of the unidentified caller to GRACIAS may have been a garble for Manueal GARCIA Gonsales, whom Garrison has named as one of the assassins of President Kennedy but who appears to have disappeared or to be non-existent. There are no Agency traces (including JMWAVE) on GARCIA.
3. The Communist press generally and Soviet news media specificall⟨y⟩ have given Garrison's story enthusiastic coverage and support, because it is obviously in their interest to maintain that President Kennedy was
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