European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                \ m files a a .1 with a Dud by Daniel Schorr special to new Day a hat a Bummer coming up to 30 years since president Kennedy s assassination nov. 22,1963, and still no credible evidence that he was done in by the Pentagon brass hats the Cia spooks or the mafia mob. Or for that matter by the soviet Kab or cubans Fidel Castro. Oliver Stone s movie Juk to docudrama and a shelf of conspiracy books had revved us up for reve lations when the secret files in the National archives were pried open. Out came tumbling More than ,000 boxes of memos photos and investigative re. Ports a a conspiracy Buff s dream come True. What did we learn not much. Lee Harvey Oswald titbits. His urinalysis report for example. An uncorroborated allegation of an affair with a cuban consulate clerk in Mexico City. A lot of rumours that took lengthy routes to dry holes. And a blizzard of paperwork produced by the Cia and Fri concerned mainly with covering their own assets. But wait dredged up from the sea of paper a conspiracy finally emerges. Not a conspiracy to kill the president but a conspiracy of the Fri and Cia to cover up activities they initially feared might have contributed to the assassination. J. Edgar Hoover testified to the Warren commis Sion that the Fri had no reason to believe Oswald was dangerous. But that statement is demolished by what we know of How the Bureau tracked Oswald from his return from the soviet Union in june 1961, until almost right up to Kennedy s arrival in Dallas. The Fri interviewed Oswald As a returned defector charted his contacts with the soviet embassy in Washington watched his pro Fidel Castro activities in new Orleans and his move to Dallas. Agent James Hosty asked Oswald a friends if he had a mental problem. On nov. 5, Hosty talked to Oswald a wife Marina in his absence. Hosty then received a Lee Harvey Oswald with a Bolt action Rifle of the same Type used to shoot the president. Threatening letter from Oswald warning him to stay away from his wife. That letter was destroyed on Hoover s orders on the Day of the assassination flushed Down the toilet Hosty later testified. The Ciao a Nightmare was the fear that Kennedy s murder might turn out to be a reprisal for its repeated attempts to assassinate Castro. Hence it conspired to keep the Warren commission from know ing about these plots a which were being pursued on the very Day of the murder in Dallas. The commission on which former Cia director Allen Dulles sat was persuaded by the Agency not to interview Silvia Duran the cuban consulate clerk in Mexico City who had told the mexican police that Oswald had come to the consulate in september 1963, saying he planned to avenge Castro by killing Kennedy. The Fri and Cia coordinated their testimony in Advance to make sure in the words of Cia counterintelligence chief James Angleton they did no to give Quot different  despite the possibility of a cuban connection both Hoover and Cia director John Mccone testified that there was Quot no evidence of any conspiracy foreign or Domestic. When ques lbs toned by commission member rep. Gerald Fprd Deputy Cia director Richard Helms smoothly added that Quot we Haven t stopped our  not until 1975 did Ford then president learn from a Cia inspector general s report of the at tempts on Castro s life. In a Senate investigation that followed my disclosure on lbs of the anti Castro plots Helms admitted in dosed door testimony that he had withheld information about them from the Warren commission because Quot i Wasny to  there remains no serious reason to question the Warren commission s conclusion that the death of the president was the work of Oswald alone. The new Book by Gerald Posner Case closed removes any lingering doubt. But the Warren commission might have had a due to what possessed him to do it had it not been so scandalously manipulated by americans intelligence agencies. We might have understood the events in Dallas better and been spared 30 years of conspiracy theories had our intelligence agencies not conspired to Stonewall an investigation just to protect themselves. Danklef a ctr if a Finlof final Btl for National Public  Abby where were readers when Juk died Abigail Van Buren whose dear Abby advice column appears daily in the stars and stripes has written a Book titled where were you when president Kennedy was shot the following is an interview with her q what motivated you to ask your readers the question where were you when president Kennedy was shot a i was motivated to write the Book because i knew that everyone who was 4 years old or older at the time would remember where he or she was when the shocking news came about president Kennedy. I thought it would make a great collection. It did. Q were you prepared for the volume of responses you received a no i knew Many would recall the moment. But i was not prepared  outpouring of affection admiration and sorrow this question provoked. Q was there a particular response a or group of responses that you found exceptionally poignant touching or insightful at there were too Many to relate. Q How does the number of responses to this question compare to other questions you have asked of your readers Over the years a no others could compare with this. It topped everything else a with More than 300,000 responses. Q Wien or How did you realize that you wanted to make these responses into the Book Quot where were you when president Kennedy was shot Quot As i became so fascinated just Reading the responses i became Quot hooked and could do Little else. That s when i knew that Many others would be As fascinated As i was a and would appreciate the responses. Not Only in this country but in foreign lands. The world mourned president Kennedy a death. It was an Eye opener for me. Q what do your readers who Are younger than 30 years old have to learn from president Kennedy a assassination and this Book a that on this tragic Day an entire nation grieved together and will always remember the moment they heard the news. Q a lot of people compare our new president to president Kennedy. What advice do you have for president Clinton at i never offer unsolicited advice but were president Clinton to seek my counsel i would give him my Best thinking. I can to be More specific because my advice would depend on his questions. Univ Fml Pitta Syndicate the Kennedy arrive la Vienna Austria on june 3, 1961, for meetings with soviet Boss Nikita Khrushchev Sis out scum Tefar november 21,1993 sunday Page 5