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the assassination we stumbled across a governmental
domestic intelligence operation, although we did not
know it at the time. Needless to say, the federal
pressure on our office ever since has been indescrib-
able.
Although massive discreditation with regard to our
efforts has been accomplished in the national press,
the government pressures on us have not ended in any
way. Steady probing continues in an apparent effort
to determine what progress we have made concerning
the involvement of the nilitary-intelligence combine
in the President's assassination.
As for the International Trade Mart, this is now a
new office building in a new location. Today it
houses a much larger variety of occupants and is not
as confined to foreign-connected offices. In 1963,
however, it was a building the contents of which
might well have been designed by Deighton or LeCarre.
Incidentally, this is the building shown behind Lee
Oswald in most of the photographs of him giving out
"Fair Play for Cuba" literature. It is also the
building where Oswald got his steamship ticket to
Europe, from which he went to Russia, in 1959.
Q.
12. One of the mysteries about President Kennedy's murder
is just where the "lone assassin" theory originated.
It is common knowledge by now that most of the people
in Dealey Plaza heard shooting from more than one
direction, most of the shooting being heard from the
grassy knoll to the President's front. Yet if one
examines the news service stories in the press several
days after the assassination, the official account of
the "lone assassin" to the rear is as firmly jelled
as if no other facts had ever been available.
A.
The first dissemination of the "lone assassin" story
was broadcast to Air Force One, carrying the new
President back to the nation's capitol shortly before
6:00 o'clock p.m. (E.S.T.) on the afternoon of the
assassination. Yet at this time back in Dallas al
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