Mr. Bringuier: . . . And I was more angry, and I went near Oswald to hit him . . . when he sensed my intentions, he put his arm down as an X, like this here . . . (demonstrating).

Mr. Liebeler: He crossed his arms in front of him?

Mr. Bringuier: That is right, put his face (sic) and told me, "O.K. Carlos, if you want to hit me, if you want to hit me, hit me."

Perhaps the character of this "fight," which served as the basis for Oswald's actions consistent only with the establishment of a "cover," may help us understand another thing Oswald did that certainly proves he was not hiding his activities from the Cuban refugee groups, particularly not from Bringuier .

This comes out in other documents the Commission did publish and then ignored in the Report. They are printed sideways, two to the 6x9 page, making them frequently almost or entirely illegible to the naked eye for reduction is about four times. Also, some are reproductions of Xeroxed copies of indistinct carbon copies

From this "fight" in the 700 Block of Canal Street, in front of the Ward Discount House in which Bringuier had once worked, Oswald went to jail, under arrest. There he was searched. He had with him according to Secret Service Agent Anthony E. Gerrets (Exhibit 1414, 22H828ff), a "booklet, 'The Crime Against Cuba' . . . with a rubber stamp impression F P C C 644 Camp St., New Orleans.' . . ."

But there is no record of his ever having lived at or rented at that address. The contrary is true.

An earlier document (Exhibit 1413, 22H826) estab1ishes this. On November 27, 1963, Sgt. Horace J. Austin, Jr., and Detective Robert M. Frey reported to Major P. J. Trosclair on their investigation of this. They had interviewed Sam Newman, owner of that building, who told them he had never rented space to Oswald or the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee."

Newman also disclosed that earlier he had rented an office to a Cuban group whose name he recalled as the Cuban Revolutionary Society," actually, the "Cuban

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Revolutionary Council." Their office was on the second floor at 544 Camp Street!

There are other interesting tidbits about the Cuban Revolutionary Council in these reports. For example:

Newman is quoted as having said, "Guy Bannister was well acquainted with this organization" (22H826).

"Mr. Manuel Gil . .. member of the 'CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL' ... employed as Production Manager by 'THE INFORMATION COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS' . . . he makes tape recordings . . . which recordings are broadcast in Latin American countries . . . some of these recordings are used in Louisiana schools . . ."

The Information Council of the Americas, also known as "INCA," is the owner and distributor of the broadcasts Oswald made in New Orleans following his arrest when, as part of his establishment of a "cover," he engaged in allegedly pro-Castro debates. It is a propaganda outfit.

What these documents do not show and should, what perhaps explains all the gaps and omissions, the obvious things never seen, is the antecedents of the Cuban Revolutionary Council. It is so completely a creature of the CIA the CIA ordered its organization.

This is a matter of public record. It was never really a secret. Certainly it was no secret from the government that brought the CRC into existence.

Prior to the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs, the CIA was worried about the acrimonious disputes and disagreements between the major anti-Castro groups. Accordingly, on March 18, 1961, at the Skyways Motel in Miami, the CIA ordered an amalgamation between the two major groups, the Frente Revolucionario Democratico and the Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo. Six days later Tony Varona of the Frente and Manolo Ray of MRP signed the concord under which Jose Miro Cardona became head of the CRC.

From the first there was no pretense. The CRC was

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the CIA. Tracy Barnes of the CIA circulated the draft of the first CRC "manifesto" through higher echelons of the government. Arthur Schlesinger, former Presidential assistant, found it "a document so overwrought in tone and sterile in thought that it made me wonder what sort of people we were planning to send back to Havana." In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger has lengthy passages on the CRC and its organization, domination and control by the United States Government (243ff), including his own embarrassment after the Bay of Pigs when he and A. A. Berle (who was American Ambassador to Brazil and who figured in the overthrow of the Vargas government in Brazil) were sent to placate the CRC leaders, held as virtual CIA captives at the abandoned airbase at Opa-Locka, near Miami.

But for the moment the thing of greatest interest in these documents is that Oswald, when arrested on August 9, had pro-Castro literature on him that bore the identification of his own phony "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" with a return address that was not his and was that of the anti-Castro Cubans.

What does this all add up to -- all these things not in the Report of the President's Commission, the Report that former members and staff of the Commission during the fourth week of February 1967 were still hailing as exhaustive and complete? Commission Member Congressman Gerald Ford told United Press International that Garrison should "immediately" transmit everything he had to "officials in Washington" where, according to Ford, 'It can be properly analyzed by proper authorities." Proper? Properly? The Commission of which Ford was a member was the "proper" authority. This is but some of what it suppressed. And if this is a sample of how the information would be "properly" evaluated, the country can forego another such evaluation.

Wesley J. Liebeler again was the most articulate

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member of the staff to speak. He first belittled what anyone else might know on the ground that the Commission's own investigation had exhausted the subject. He referred to the alleged size of the investigation and the thickness of the files (without mentioning the large percentage still suppressed) and then demanded that Garrison immediately make known everything he had, without regard for the requirements of the law, the rights of those accused of crimes or the interests of an honest prosecution. Simultaneously, he labeled Garrison irresponsible.

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2. THE RAVELED THREADS

It is true, as government defenders allege, that the Commission conducted an "investigation" of some of the New Orleans events, including the involvement of David W. Ferrie. Again Wesley J. Liebeler took part. Another assistant counsel who helped was Albert W. Jenner, noted Illinois lawyer and former head of its bar association.

Each of these Commission lawyers interrogated young men who had been with Oswald in Beauregard Junior High School in New Orleans in about 1955, when they were teen- agers . Without in any way surprising the lawyers, they both testified about associations with David W. Ferrie.

I briefed news media people about this in confidence beginning the afternoon of Friday, February 18, because not to have placed reservation on it would have been to associate Ferrie's name in advance of a criminal prosecution with a crime with which he was not then charged and because the premature publicity launched that day could not but hurt the current investigation. In doing this I informed the news people of the source of the testimony. Also, I was apprehensive because of the many strange deaths in this case.

When the press began an assault on Garrison and a defense of the Commission and its Report, this testimony was widely quoted as proving that Oswald and Ferrie did not know each other in those days. That is not what the testimony says.

Two witnesses gave this testimony. One, Edward Voebel, had come forth immediately at the time of the assassination. The other, Frederick S. O'Sullivan, may have. I recall no such report. Voebel was questioned by Jenner in the Old Civil Courts Building, Royal and Conti Streets, New Orleans, on April 7, 1964 (8H1-16). O'Sullivan was questioned by Liebeler at

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the same place on "April 7 8," although there is no indication the deposition extended over two days from its published form.

Most of Jenner's interest was in building up a case against Oswald as a brawler and a kid with an inordinate interest in guns. At one point Jenner told Voebel, "I'm trying to get a picture of this boy as he became a man, and that includes what he was doing and thinking when he was 14 or 15 years old . . . " When Voebel seemed reluctant to talk about what to him were such trivia as smoking and drinking, neither of which Oswald did, Jenner told him, "All right; those are the things I am interested in, what you think of Lee's habits and personality and so forth, from the time you knew him, and don't worry about whether it is important or not. That's my problem" (8H4).

This is consistent with the establishment of an ex parte prosecution case, possible in the absence of opposing counsel, but not with an impartial search for unprejudiced information, the presumed but far from the actual purpose of the Commission's work.

Voebel stood up to Jenner, saying, "Right. Now I want to make one thing clear. I liked Lee . . . He was the type of boy that I could like, and if he had not changed at all, I probably still would have the same feeling for Lee Oswald . . ."

He did tell Jenner that once Oswald planned to steal a pistol (8H9-10), which Jenner milked dry. He also testified that Oswald had less interest in guns than he had in a sequence possibly indicating the not unusual practice, that Jenner had rehearsed or questioned him in advance of the recording of the testimony:

Mr. Jenner: But you did have some measure of common interest that you told me about?

Mr. Voebel: I guess you are trying to get at the gun. Is that that what you have in mind?

Mr. Jenner: Well, I am not going to say what I'm trying to get at.

Mr. Voebel: Well, I know Lee seemed to have an interest in guns.

Mr. Jenner: And these were regular weapons, not toys?

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Mr. Voebel: That's right, military weapons. My uncle started a collection while he was in the service, and he brought back a few foreign military weapons.

Mr. Jenner: was that World War II?

Mr. Voebel: World War II.

Mr. Jenner: Your uncle?

Mr Voebel: That's right, my uncle.

Mr. Jenner: And you also would say that you had an interest in guns; is that right?

Mr. Voebel: Yes, I was interested in guns. In fact, we had guns round the house all the time. We were always interested in them, my uncle and I, and I learned to shoot a pistol when I was about, oh, 7 years old, you see.

Mr Jenner: Did Lee share your enthusiasm for collecting weapons?

Mr. Voebel: Oh, no; I don't think even told Lee about how I felt about that . . . (8H7)

Not until next to the last page of the testimony did Jenner get the questioning to where Voebel might mention Ferrie's name. He had so little interest in this he did not bother to ask Voebel for Ferrie's first name. Voebel had been interested in the Civil Air Patrol, which had a cadet program. He interested Oswald, who earned money and saved to buy a uniform and joined (R679), but seems not to have remained in the CAP for long. Jenner asked, "Who was the majordomo of the CAP unit you attended?".

Voebel replied, "I think it was Captain Ferrie. I think he was there when Lee attended one of the meetings, but I'm not sure of that. Now that I think of it, I don't think Captain Ferrie was there at that time, but he might have been. That isn't too clear to me" (8H14) .

Here Jenner returned to questions about Oswald's history. "History?" Voebel asked, and Jenner said, "Yes; his background -- anything about his family before he met you?"

Not one question did Jenner ask to make more certain Voebel's testimony about whether or not Ferrie and Oswald had met, knew each other, were in the same unit or anything else that might be important. He did not ask a single question about Ferrie. He

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concluded (8H15) on a vile note, consistent only with an effort to develop poisonous opinion about Oswald or with something suppressed in the Report that is important in the story of Oswald in New Orleans. This, in turn, is consistent with the thrust of the entire Report.

Jenner asked if Oswald displayed any interest in girls. Voebel replied, "He wasn't very interested in girls."

"Did he have any sex deviation of any kind?" Jenner asked.

"None whatever," Voebel told him, then explained, "I think he was more bashful about girls than anything else."

Had Jenner the slightest interest in Ferrie, he could have learned that Ferrie had an arrest on morals charges. But he had so little interest in the man who later became an international sensation for the few days before his untimely death he also did not ask Voebel about the other Ferrie arrest record, that of November 26, 1963, in connection with the assassination.

Without the assistance of learned and eminent counsel, in a statement he gave New Orleans Police Sergeant Austin and Detective Frey at 11:45 A.M. Wednesday, November 27, 1963, a few days after the assassination and before association with Commission counsel and their pre-deposition questionings, he said, in the language of their report of that date to Major Trosclair (22H826-7), "Voebel stated that he believed Oswald attended a party (not sure) at the home of Dave Ferrie (Captain) right after the members of the C.A.P.C. received their stripes."

. . . Voebel also stated that Ferrie seemed like a "character," that he rode a motorcycle, and Voebel stated that he had heard that Ferrie was a brilliant man with many degrees. When asked if Ferrie had organized any flying group other than the C.A.P.C. Voebel stated that he did not know of any. When asked if he bad ever heard of the Eagle Squadron Voebel stated that he had not. When asked if he, Voebel, had ever flown with Dave Ferrie, Voebel stated that he had not, but other boys

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had made local flights with him

Eagle Squadron? How exciting. But there is nothing on it in the testimony.

This is not unrelated to other data in the Commission's record that might or might not relate to Dave Ferrie. For example, the report of FBI Agents Eugene P. Pittman and John C. Oakes, dictated at the Los Angeles office on December 2,1963, the day after their interview with Gene Barnes, NBC cameraman (24H453-4).

The third from the last paragraph reads:

BARNES said BOB MULHOLLAND, NCB (sic) News, Chicago, talked in Dallas to one FAIRY, a narcotics addict now out on bail on a sodomy charge in Dallas. FAIRY said that OSWALD had been under hypnosis from a man doing a mind-reading act at RUBY's "Carousel." FAIRY was said to be a private detective and the owner of an airplane who took young boys on flights "just for kicks."

Aside from the phonetic similarity in names, there is an astounding likeness in the descriptions of Ferrie and "Fairy."

While Jenner was content to let the record of Ferrie-Oswald acquaintance rest on ambiguity and to have tried to load it with defamation and prejudice against the man he was determined to "convict," as was the Commission, Liebeler went a little farther with O'Sullivan (8H27-31). He spent parts of the last two pages on the Civil Air Patrol and Ferrie and actually asked O'Sullivan, "Do you know David Ferrie, Fe-r-r-i-e?"

Liebeler also tried to show what was not true, that Oswald had an early abnormal interest in and experience with rifles. This sally did not live up to Liebeler's expectations when O'Sullivan testified that all the CAP had available were 22's, little boys' guns, not military equipment, that he never knew Oswald to engage in practice with even the 22's and never otherwise observed him in rifle practice of any kind.

At the time of his testimony, O'Sullivan was one of

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