July 5-6, 2016 -- WMR Exclusive. CIA document: Clay
Shaw was a CIA asset
Ever since 1967, when New Orleans District Attorney Jim
Garrison indicted New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw for
conspiring to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in Dallas
in 1963, a phalanx of journalists, authors, professional
"debunkers," aided by the CIA-influenced Wikipedia, have
sought to portray Shaw as an innocent victim of a overlydriven D.A.
However, those who have defended Shaw's innocence must
contend with a CIA memorandum, dated September 29,
1967, from CIA general counsel Lawrence R. Houston to CIA
director Richard Helms, that states explicitly that Shaw
served as a "contact" for the CIA's Domestic Contact
Service's New Orleans office from 1948 to 1956. However,
the CIA memo indicates that Shaw's relationship with the CIA
continued even longer and that he introduced CIA deputy
director General Charles Cabell to the New Orleans Foreign
Policy Association in May 1961. Cabell's visit to New Orleans
in May came a month after the CIA's ill-fated Bay of Pigs
invasion of Cuba, some of the training for which took place in
New Orleans and its general vicinity.
Kennedy fired Cabell, along with CIA director Allen Dulles,
after the Bay of Pigs disaster.
General Cabell's brother, Earle Cabell, was the mayor of
Dallas when Kennedy was assassinated in the city. Mayor
Cabell was also partly responsible for the lackluster Dallas
police investigation of the president's murder. It was the
connection of Shaw and others in New Orleans to Kennedy's
assassination that prompted Garrison's investigation even
after the Warren Commission rubber-stamped Lee Harvey
Oswald, a native of New Orleans, as the "lone nut" assassin.
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CIA lawyer Houston clearly was concerned about where
Shaw's trial in New Orleans in 1967 might lead. When it was
determined by the Houston that Shaw had a prior
relationship with the CIA and Charles Cabell, Houston was
worried. He wrote: "the Department of Justice has so far
taken the position that if any effort is made by either the
prosecution or defense to involve the CIA in the trial, the
Government will claim executive privilege."
Houston was concerned that Shaw's attorneys might try to
"graymail" the CIA by threatening to disclose even more
information about Shaw's relationship with the CIA, one that
the CIA was publicly denying. Houston was also denying any
agency relationships with other key witnesses for Garrison's
prosecution, including those mentioned in the Houston
memo: Carlos Quiroga, a friend of Cuban Democratic
Revolutionary Front (CDRF) leader Sergio Achacha Smith;
Rudolph Ricardo Davis, a member of the Bay of Pigs training
group across Lake Pontchartrain in Lacombe, Louisiana -- a
group that included, according to Houston, five contacts of
the CIA's Miami station: Victor Paneque, Fernando
Fernandez, Michael W. Laborde and his father Lawrence J.
Laborde, and a Cuban named "Santana;" Cuban Carlos
Bringuier, with whom Oswald staged a street fight in New
Orleans; Gordon D. Novel; and Donald P. Norton, an Oswald
contact in Monterrey, Mexico.
Garrison alleged that all these individuals were in some
contact with Oswald, Shaw, and pilot David Ferrie.
Houston's memo describes some angst within the CIA over
the Shaw trial, "If during the trial it appears that Shaw may
be convicted on information that could be refuted by the CIA,
we may be in for some difficult decisions." Houston does not
describe what the "difficult decisions" might have been.
Houston seem pleased that since Oswald and Ferrie were
both dead, Garrison would, under Louisiana law, "have to
prove at least one overt act in pursuance of the conspiracy"
and that task would be more difficult with two of the alleged
conspirators deceased. Houston does mention the press
outside of Louisiana as a willing accomplice to the JFK
assassination cover-up, one that continues to this very day.
Houston wrote: "There is one positive aspect at the present
time, which is that outside of Louisiana the U.S. press and
public opinion appear to be extremely skeptical if not scornful
of Garrison's allegations.”
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