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Gordon Novel:
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A Comparison Between Gordon Novel and "The Umbrella Man":
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Gordon Novel had previously worked for the CIA and this brought him into the orbit of Guy Banister who was funneling arms to the anti-Castro Cubans for their raids on Cuba. Banister had set up various places to hide the weapons and ammunition.
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison learned about Novel during his prosecution of Clay Shaw in the late 1960s. Novel described one such mission to Schlumberger Corporation to retrieve land mines, hand grenades, and rifle grenades that were stored in their explosives bunker. One of the people who accompanied Novel to Houma, Louisiana, was David Ferrie. (On The Trail of The Assassins, p. 40 [hardcover]). The Schlumberger Corporation was French and had ties to the French counter-revolutionary Secret Army Organization (O.A.S.) which had tried to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle several times in the late 1950s and the early 1960s. The CIA had supplied Schlumberger with anti-personnel ammunition, and it was taking it back on this trip. (Ibid.)
When Garrison discovered all this, he wanted to talk with Novel, but he was in Ohio and didn’t want to return to Louisiana. This led to Garrison trying to extradite him back to Louisiana since the trip to Schlumberger took place in that state. An informant advised Garrison that Novel had taken a photograph of the truck they had used to transport the ammunition from Schlumberger. Garrison was further advised that Novel had sold the photograph to Walter Sheridan of NBC. Since the stealing of the munitions was a felony Garrison felt the photograph was evidence and Novel’s sale of it was another crime. (Ibid., p. 179)
The extradition process began in April 1967. Garrison’s main questions were – why the ammunition from the Schlumberger bunker, why it had been bought into New Orleans, and why the photograph of the truck had been sold to Walter Sheridan. (Ibid.)
The extradition process made Novel go public about some of the CIA's activities. He said in interviews that the Schlumberger bunker raid “had been a CIA enterprise all the way.” Novel was highlighting the role of the CIA to escape prosecution for his role in the raid. Garrison explains this further.
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‘To polygraph operators and to friends and associates,’ the paper [New Orleans States-Item] wrote, ‘Novel has said the munition burglary was no burglary at all—but a war material pickup made at the direction of his CIA contact.’ Novel indicated that the Schlumberger bunker at the blimp base was in actuality ‘a CIA staging point for munitions destined to be used as part of abortive Bay of Pigs attack on Castro’s Cuba.’ (Ibid., p. 180)
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Novel identified two men that have been tied to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) for many years as being part of the raid – David Ferrie and Sergio Arcacha Smith. (Ibid.)
At some point a draft of a letter was found in Novel’s old apartment in the French Quarter by two women who had moved into it. The letter came to the attention of Hoke May who worked for the New Orleans States-Item as a reporter. May showed the letter to Garrison and asked him if he could publish it. Garrison said to go ahead. Garrison first made sure that it was authentic.
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The authenticity of the letter was confirmed by Novel’s attorney, Steven Plotkin, who stated, “Everything in the letter as far as Novel is concerned is actually the truth.” Gilbert Fortier, a leading New Orleans handwriting expert, concluded after comparing the letter with other samples of Novel's handwriting that it indeed had been written by Novel.
The letter was addressed to Novel’s apparent New Orleans CIA contact, a man identified only as “Mr. Weiss.” ...This letter was written in January 1967...In his letter Novel stated:
"Dear Mr. Weiss: This letter is to inform you that District [sic] Jim Garrison has subpoenaed myself and an associate to testify before this Grand Jury on matters which may be classified Top Secret. Actions of individuals connected with Double Chek Corporation in Miami in first quarter of 1961. Our connection and activity of that period involves individuals presently about to be indicted as conspirators in Mr. Garrison's investigation. We have temporarily avoided one subpoena...we want out of this thing before Thursday, March 1967...
I have been questioned extensively by local FBI recently as to whether or not I was involved with Double Chek's parent holding corporation at the time. My reply on five queries was negative... Our attorneys and others are in possession of complete sealed files containing all information concerning matter. In the event of our sudden departure, either accidental or otherwise, they are instructed to simultaneously release same for public scrutiny...
I took the liberty of writing you direct and appraising you of current situation, expecting you to forward this through appropriate channels. Our connection and activity of that period involves individuals presently about to be indicted as conspirators in Garrison’s investigation…Garrison has subpoenaed myself and an associate to testify before his grand jury on matters which may be classified TOP SECRET...
Novel’s letter went on to say that the Agency should take “appropriate counteraction relative to Garrison’s inquisition concerning us.” (Ibid, pp. 180-181)
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Novel further suggested using the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to handle Garrison by having him called to active duty to get him to back off. This never happened and the extradition of Novel from Ohio didn’t either. This was the first time that a extradition request by Garrison’s office had ever been refused, but it wouldn’t be the last.
More background on Novel includes:
-- He was a CIA employee as of at least 1963.
-- He was alleged to have been seen with Jack Ruby at Ruby's Carousel Club.
-- According to researcher Paris Flammonde, he was friends with Dave Ferrie (Ferrie, as well as being up to where his eyebrows would have been in the Kennedy assassination, was a practitioner of hypnosis and black magic) and knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
-- He was an employee of the Double-Chek Corporation and the Evergreen Advertising Agency (both CIA fronts). (Benson, Michael, "Who's Who in the JFK Assassination", Carol Publishing Group, 1993, pp. 317-8)
"In his youth, Gordon Novel belonged to a neo-Nazi group and was arrested and charged with bombing a Metarie, Louisiana, theater that admitted blacks. Later, he sold spy devices in New Orleans. Gordon Novel claimed he worked with the Cuban Revolutionary Front during the Bay of Pigs, as a Director of the CIA proprietary, the Evergreen Advertising Agency, and had created cryptographic messages for the CIA." In 1967, the CIA reported that they never utilized either Novel or the Evergreen Advertising Agency. (Weberman, AJ; Nodule 24 - Page 19.)
During New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's investigation of the Kennedy assassination, Novel was recommended to him by one of Garrison's political supporters, automobile dealer Willard Robertson. Novel was then an anti-eavesdropping expert, and Garrison was reportedly worried about FBI surveillance. Novel told Garrison about Dave Ferrie's arms pickup in Louisiana to arm anti-Castro Cuban exiles. (Epstein, Edward Jay, The Assassination Chronicles, Caroll & Graf, 1992, pp. 197-8)
When information regarding Garrison's investigation was leaked to NBC reporters, Garrison suspected Novel, and Novel was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury. Novel instead fled to Ohio, where he was arrested on burglary charges Garrison had filed accusing Novel of participating with Ferrie in the arms pickup.
Here are some of the issues Novel faced in the years after his intersection with Garrison.
In May 1967 he staged an assassination attempt on himself which was reported to Raymond Rocca.
In 1968, after a fight with his in-laws, Gordon Novel exhibited CIA credentials to the arresting officers.
In 1970 Gordon Novel was arrested on a charge of illegal interstate transportation of an eavesdropping device and was subsequently convicted.
In 1974 Jack Anderson reported that Charles Colson asked Gordon Novel to help him build a giant degaussing gun to erase tapes that incriminated NIXON, stored at a CIA site.
The FBI stated that Gordon Novel was involved with Morningstar Associates, 'an organization with supposed connections to the CIA and Department of Defense.' In the Summer of 1976 Gordon Novel and his partner, John Langford, were charged with possession of an incendiary device and aggravated arson. The men were involved an alleged plot to firebomb some property in the New Orleans Central Business District on Mardi Gras day, 1976, after attempts to purchase the property for $70 million had failed. Gordon Novel hired an undercover Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent who later admitted CIA ties to do the job. Jim Garrison represented Gordon Novel.
At his trial Gordon Novel testified the Agency was after him because of international arms dealing. The trial, covered extensively by Spotlight, ended in a hung jury. On October 30, 1976, the judge declared a mistrial." (Weberman, AJ; Nodule 24 - Page 23.)
In 1976, Novel lived with arms dealer Mitch Werbell. On January 17, 1977, when Novel was arrested for arson, Werbell bailed him out. (Weberman, AJ; Nodule 21 - Page 79.)
Gordon Novel had been hired by Aubrey Young to install electronic debugging equipment in the office of Governor John J. McKeithen. Young was McKeithen's aide and was reportedly tied to mobster Carlos Marcello (see source info for details) (Weberman, AJ; Nodule 27 - Page 91.)
Reportedly, Novel claims to have been hired by Nixon aide Chuck Colson to degauss the Watergate tapes. Later, he worked with John Z. DeLorean, whose coke dealing, money laundering, and intelligence connections are too complicated to go into here.
He has also been accused of threatening UFOlogist Bill Moore and writer Jim DiEugenio. Novel's friend John Alexander had once allegedly used Novel's reputation to threaten researcher Martin Cannon.
Novel never appeared before the Grand Jury or at the Shaw trial. Another block of Garrison’s investigation was successful.
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Gordon Novel:
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A Comparison Between Gordon Novel and "The Umbrella Man":
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Gordon Novel had previously worked for the CIA and this brought him into the orbit of Guy Banister who was funneling arms to the anti-Castro Cubans for their raids on Cuba. Banister had set up various places to hide the weapons and ammunition.
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison learned about Novel during his prosecution of Clay Shaw in the late 1960s. Novel described one such mission to Schlumberger Corporation to retrieve land mines, hand grenades, and rifle grenades that were stored in their explosives bunker. One of the people who accompanied Novel to Houma, Louisiana, was David Ferrie. (On The Trail of The Assassins, p. 40 [hardcover]). The Schlumberger Corporation was French and had ties to the French counter-revolutionary Secret Army Organization (O.A.S.) which had tried to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle several times in the late 1950s and the early 1960s. The CIA had supplied Schlumberger with anti-personnel ammunition, and it was taking it back on this trip. (Ibid.)
When Garrison discovered all this, he wanted to talk with Novel, but he was in Ohio and didn’t want to return to Louisiana. This led to Garrison trying to extradite him back to Louisiana since the trip to Schlumberger took place in that state. An informant advised Garrison that Novel had taken a photograph of the truck they had used to transport the ammunition from Schlumberger. Garrison was further advised that Novel had sold the photograph to Walter Sheridan of NBC. Since the stealing of the munitions was a felony Garrison felt the photograph was evidence and Novel’s sale of it was another crime. (Ibid., p. 179)
The extradition process began in April 1967. Garrison’s main questions were – why the ammunition from the Schlumberger bunker, why it had been bought into New Orleans, and why the photograph of the truck had been sold to Walter Sheridan. (Ibid.)
The extradition process made Novel go public about some of the CIA's activities. He said in interviews that the Schlumberger bunker raid “had been a CIA enterprise all the way.” Novel was highlighting the role of the CIA to escape prosecution for his role in the raid. Garrison explains this further.
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‘To polygraph operators and to friends and associates,’ the paper [New Orleans States-Item] wrote, ‘Novel has said the munition burglary was no burglary at all—but a war material pickup made at the direction of his CIA contact.’ Novel indicated that the Schlumberger bunker at the blimp base was in actuality ‘a CIA staging point for munitions destined to be used as part of abortive Bay of Pigs attack on Castro’s Cuba.’ (Ibid., p. 180)
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Novel identified two men that have been tied to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) for many years as being part of the raid – David Ferrie and Sergio Arcacha Smith. (Ibid.)
At some point a draft of a letter was found in Novel’s old apartment in the French Quarter by two women who had moved into it. The letter came to the attention of Hoke May who worked for the New Orleans States-Item as a reporter. May showed the letter to Garrison and asked him if he could publish it. Garrison said to go ahead. Garrison first made sure that it was authentic.
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The authenticity of the letter was confirmed by Novel’s attorney, Steven Plotkin, who stated, “Everything in the letter as far as Novel is concerned is actually the truth.” Gilbert Fortier, a leading New Orleans handwriting expert, concluded after comparing the letter with other samples of Novel's handwriting that it indeed had been written by Novel.
The letter was addressed to Novel’s apparent New Orleans CIA contact, a man identified only as “Mr. Weiss.” ...This letter was written in January 1967...In his letter Novel stated:
"Dear Mr. Weiss: This letter is to inform you that District [sic] Jim Garrison has subpoenaed myself and an associate to testify before this Grand Jury on matters which may be classified Top Secret. Actions of individuals connected with Double Chek Corporation in Miami in first quarter of 1961. Our connection and activity of that period involves individuals presently about to be indicted as conspirators in Mr. Garrison's investigation. We have temporarily avoided one subpoena...we want out of this thing before Thursday, March 1967...
I have been questioned extensively by local FBI recently as to whether or not I was involved with Double Chek's parent holding corporation at the time. My reply on five queries was negative... Our attorneys and others are in possession of complete sealed files containing all information concerning matter. In the event of our sudden departure, either accidental or otherwise, they are instructed to simultaneously release same for public scrutiny...
I took the liberty of writing you direct and appraising you of current situation, expecting you to forward this through appropriate channels. Our connection and activity of that period involves individuals presently about to be indicted as conspirators in Garrison’s investigation…Garrison has subpoenaed myself and an associate to testify before his grand jury on matters which may be classified TOP SECRET...
Novel’s letter went on to say that the Agency should take “appropriate counteraction relative to Garrison’s inquisition concerning us.” (Ibid, pp. 180-181)
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Novel further suggested using the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to handle Garrison by having him called to active duty to get him to back off. This never happened and the extradition of Novel from Ohio didn’t either. This was the first time that a extradition request by Garrison’s office had ever been refused, but it wouldn’t be the last.
More background on Novel includes:
-- He was a CIA employee as of at least 1963.
-- He was alleged to have been seen with Jack Ruby at Ruby's Carousel Club.
-- According to researcher Paris Flammonde, he was friends with Dave Ferrie (Ferrie, as well as being up to where his eyebrows would have been in the Kennedy assassination, was a practitioner of hypnosis and black magic) and knew Lee Harvey Oswald.
-- He was an employee of the Double-Chek Corporation and the Evergreen Advertising Agency (both CIA fronts). (Benson, Michael, "Who's Who in the JFK Assassination", Carol Publishing Group, 1993, pp. 317-8)
"In his youth, Gordon Novel belonged to a neo-Nazi group and was arrested and charged with bombing a Metarie, Louisiana, theater that admitted blacks. Later, he sold spy devices in New Orleans. Gordon Novel claimed he worked with the Cuban Revolutionary Front during the Bay of Pigs, as a Director of the CIA proprietary, the Evergreen Advertising Agency, and had created cryptographic messages for the CIA." In 1967, the CIA reported that they never utilized either Novel or the Evergreen Advertising Agency. (Weberman, AJ; Nodule 24 - Page 19.)
During New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's investigation of the Kennedy assassination, Novel was recommended to him by one of Garrison's political supporters, automobile dealer Willard Robertson. Novel was then an anti-eavesdropping expert, and Garrison was reportedly worried about FBI surveillance. Novel told Garrison about Dave Ferrie's arms pickup in Louisiana to arm anti-Castro Cuban exiles. (Epstein, Edward Jay, The Assassination Chronicles, Caroll & Graf, 1992, pp. 197-8)
When information regarding Garrison's investigation was leaked to NBC reporters, Garrison suspected Novel, and Novel was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury. Novel instead fled to Ohio, where he was arrested on burglary charges Garrison had filed accusing Novel of participating with Ferrie in the arms pickup.
Here are some of the issues Novel faced in the years after his intersection with Garrison.
In May 1967 he staged an assassination attempt on himself which was reported to Raymond Rocca.
In 1968, after a fight with his in-laws, Gordon Novel exhibited CIA credentials to the arresting officers.
In 1970 Gordon Novel was arrested on a charge of illegal interstate transportation of an eavesdropping device and was subsequently convicted.
In 1974 Jack Anderson reported that Charles Colson asked Gordon Novel to help him build a giant degaussing gun to erase tapes that incriminated NIXON, stored at a CIA site.
The FBI stated that Gordon Novel was involved with Morningstar Associates, 'an organization with supposed connections to the CIA and Department of Defense.' In the Summer of 1976 Gordon Novel and his partner, John Langford, were charged with possession of an incendiary device and aggravated arson. The men were involved an alleged plot to firebomb some property in the New Orleans Central Business District on Mardi Gras day, 1976, after attempts to purchase the property for $70 million had failed. Gordon Novel hired an undercover Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent who later admitted CIA ties to do the job. Jim Garrison represented Gordon Novel.
At his trial Gordon Novel testified the Agency was after him because of international arms dealing. The trial, covered extensively by Spotlight, ended in a hung jury. On October 30, 1976, the judge declared a mistrial." (Weberman, AJ; Nodule 24 - Page 23.)
In 1976, Novel lived with arms dealer Mitch Werbell. On January 17, 1977, when Novel was arrested for arson, Werbell bailed him out. (Weberman, AJ; Nodule 21 - Page 79.)
Gordon Novel had been hired by Aubrey Young to install electronic debugging equipment in the office of Governor John J. McKeithen. Young was McKeithen's aide and was reportedly tied to mobster Carlos Marcello (see source info for details) (Weberman, AJ; Nodule 27 - Page 91.)
Reportedly, Novel claims to have been hired by Nixon aide Chuck Colson to degauss the Watergate tapes. Later, he worked with John Z. DeLorean, whose coke dealing, money laundering, and intelligence connections are too complicated to go into here.
He has also been accused of threatening UFOlogist Bill Moore and writer Jim DiEugenio. Novel's friend John Alexander had once allegedly used Novel's reputation to threaten researcher Martin Cannon.
Novel never appeared before the Grand Jury or at the Shaw trial. Another block of Garrison’s investigation was successful.