Angleton Spying on a Garrison Witness

For those who doubt the seriousness of the CIA's interest in Garrison's investigation - look at this doc just found. Look who it's to, by and for. And of course - this is about Garrison's key witness not against Shaw, but against the Single Bullet Theory, Dr. John Marshall Nichols.

28 FEB 1969 (Microfilmed Apr 4 1969)

MEMORANDUM FOR: Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich

SUBJECT Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination Dr. John M. Nichols

1. Dr. John Marshall Nichols, a University of Kansas pathologisht, has testifed at the Clay Shaw trial that photgraphic evidence of President Kennedy's assassination was 'compatible' with the theory that the fatal shot was fired from the front.
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2. A search of CIA records reveals the following information concerning Dr. Nichols. One Dr. John M. Nichols, considered identical, was born 28 March 1941 at Charleston, West Virginia. Dr. Nichols received an AB degree from West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia in 1942, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1950. From 1950 to 1951 subject was employed as a Physiology Assistant, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; from 1951 to 1954 he was employed as a medical doctor, University of Liverpool, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, London, England. Subject was employed by the Department of Pathology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, from May of 1955 through at least January of 1957. Newspaper reports indicate that subject is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, Kansas, and that he resides in the kansas City suburb of Prairie Village.

3. Passport files at the Department of State indicate that Dr. Nichols was issued a passport in December 1950 for three years' proposed travel to Great Britian for medical education. This passport was renewed at Liverpool in December 1952. In November 1954 subject was issued a passport for a two 2weeks business and pleasure trip to Lire, the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. His mailing address at this time was Department of Pathology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. This passport was validated for travel to Czechoslovakia and the USSR in March 1956.

4. It is requested that any additional information which you may possess on this subject be provided to this Agency.

FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR PLANS:

Signed:

JAMES ANGLETON

CSCI-316/00659-49

This memo was cc'd to six different directorates of the CIA.

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