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[Alan Dale]

Thanks Mr. Healy.

Mr. Josephs:

I used Newman's book, which never got the praise it deserved, both in my chapters on Oswald, and towards the end in my chapter entitled "Mexico City and Langley".

In that latter chapter, I discovered something that was really kind of surprising even to me, who knew a lot about Garrison.

Garrison was the first guy to actually propose that Oswald did not go to Mexico City. THat he was impersonated. When I read his handwritten memo on this I was really taken aback. Because if you read any of the 1966-67 books, that is Weisberg,Lane, Meagher, Epstein, even Popkin, none of them propose this. Popkin thinks Oswald may have been impersonated at Odio's but not Mexico City. Weisberg actually thinks the CIA did a nice job in supplying the WC with info about Oswald in Mexico City. (Everyone makes mistakes--even big ones. Even Harold.)

But working with just the volumes--just the volumes--Garrison was convinced it was not Oswald at the Cuban consulate or Russian consulate. He is up until the wee hours of the morning writing this hand written memo to Ivon. ANd by the time its over, he actually is proposing sending someone to Mexico City to talk to Duran. And furnishing him with photos of people like Thornley to find out who was really there.

This is in 1968! This was a quantum leap forward in the case. By about a decade.

It got buried of course because of what happened to Garrison, the orchestrated campaign to literally destroy him and actually incinerate his evidence via Harry Connick. (An operation which I detail at length.) And in fact, I am the first person to actually discuss his futuristic Mexico CIty ideas, and its 2012.

Hello Jim,

For all who have not been refreshed by listening to the complete audio of Jim Garrison's appearance with a very primed and adversarial Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, 31 Jan., 1968, here's Mr. Garrison's summation from the final segment of that program:

"...I am trying to tell you that there is no question, as the result of our investigation, that an element of the Central Intelligence Agency of our country killed John Kennedy, and that the present administration is concealing the fact. There is no question about it at all...I know it, and if you will just wait, you will see that History will support this as fact."

Mr. Garrison is forcefully declaring, unambiguously, in public, on network television, that an element of the CIA killed President Kennedy.

It was late January of 1968.

The fact that this many years later some extremely serious scholars who've labored over an ocean of declassified documents, scrutinized every syllable of congressional testimonies and investigative reports, awaited decades of incremental improvements in scientific methods and technologies, and persevered in an intellectual war against an entrenched authoritarian bureaucracy which is resistant to free inquiry have come to the same conclusion is rather astonishing.

I'm looking forward to reading your book.