CLAIMS TO KNOW FORCES BEHIND KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
By Arthur Maglin
Interest in the New Orleans assas- The April 4 New York Times reportsination investigation is running high ed that on April 3 the Dallas police arand the American press continues to re- rested Sergio Arcacha Smith, who identiport new developments. Of the latest fied himself as a former anti-Castro Cuban events, perhaps the most significant is leader, on a warrant issued by New Orleans Mark Lane's becoming involved in the Gar- District Attorney Jim Garrison. Garrison rison probe. Lane, the author of Rush to alleged in the arrest warrant that Arcacha Judgment, is the Warren Commission's most conspired with Gordon Novel and David Ferwidely known critic. rie -- two figures in Garrison's investi-
gation of the assassination ~- to burglar-
In a story datelined Copenhagen, act el Louisiana, munitions bunker Denmark, the March 31 New York Post re- +n ° ported: The April 4 Times also contained
the following small item which we quote in
full:
"Attorney Mark Lane said ina signed article in the Copenhagen newspaper Estrabladet today that he knew who fired the fatal shot at President Kennedy in Dallas.
"Putnamville, Indiana, April 4 (AP)
-- A rifle of the same model as the one
used to kill President Kennedy was found
in a Terre Haute, Indiana, hotel three
days after the assassination, a former
police chief said today.
"But he did not identify anyone and said the time was not ripe to publish all the information he claimed was available. "Frank Riddle, the retired chief,
said the rifle, a 6.5-millimeter Italian
"The investigation into the Dallas Mannlicher-Carcano, was traced to a salesassassination being conducted by New Or- ? ; : leans district attorney Jim Garrison man from San Antonio. He said the rifle would lead to political chaos in the was taken by Secret Service agents. United States, Lane said. "Mr. Riddle said the San Antonio
"'T know who fired the fatal shot authorities had informed him that the
: salesman had no criminal record, was a
K -. ’
Lane's article said." °
To be noticed in this item is the
Lane claimed that he was the only reference to the salesman having been a person, apart from those on Jim Garri- member of the long-defunct Young Commuson's staff, who had seen the extensive nist League. Red-baiting items of this evidence collected in New Orleans. sort have repeatedly appeared in the press
ever since the Garrison investigation
"'One of the strongest movements broke into the public view. This note in in America planned and started the events the probe bears careful watching, since that led to the murder of the President, ' certain forces would undoubtedly like to said Lane. see an "anti-Communist" turn given to the
probe. However, the new leads being turned
"'No foreign power was involved in up do not fit in with any McCarthyite thethe planning or execution of the assassi- sis, pointing instead in actuality to the nation....Anti-Castro Cubans played an most reactionary forces in the United important role in the assassination.'" States.
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