Clay Shaw Military Records

[Peter Lemkin]

If they have been used in any court case they will be in the case files and should be public domain as such unless sealed by the judge. But is this the case with Shaw?

The only court case was Garrison's and his papers are available [but not easy to get all of them....and a few were disappeared or are 'held']. Somewhere on the internet for a while it was possible to download most of them. Barbour https://shows.acast.com/houseofmysteryra...4166bc8c31 may have put them up and may still have them in some electronic form. If the included much on his military life, I don't know. Shaw has never been a major research interest of mine, but I remember hearing his assignments at the end of the War were interrogating some top Axis captives and working along with those who set up Gladio in which his ITM played a role - if my memory serves me...but ALMOST NONE of that would be available in government docs you will get.....it doesn't work like that.

You likely should look at Mellen, Joan. A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case that Should Have Changed History. Washington DC: Potomac Books, 2007 for any hints on Shaw. Joan is a a very good researchers and knew Garrison personally. One of Garrison's lower level researchers is still around and lives in the L.A. area. I have his contact, but he is a strange guy and not likely to help out much. Sadly, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation of JFK researchers have died or are old and not active much. A few still push on and others have taken their material and run with it. There is a lot out there, but finding it is another thing. Things at NARA are MUCH more difficult to get than they once were if on 'sensitive' topics. NARA has a website where you can search by a persons name...don't expect it to pull up even 5% of what they have on a person, though. Some of it is readable online. Much of it you must go to NARA or hire someone who is a researcher there to get things for you for a fee. FOIA lawsuits now are not very productive if the materials weren't previously provided someone else.