within the State Department of the United States and being carried on » within the confines of various military installations between high ranking gov- ernmental officials, civilian and mili- tary. I had been playing organ at the main officers open mess at Fort Benning, Georgia, for a period of three months when I was approached about working PLAYBOY: How could your ‘probe damage the prestige of the CIA and cause them to take countermeasures against you? GARRISON: For the simple reason that a number of the men who killed the President were former employees of the CIA involved in its anti-Castro underground activities in and ground New Orleans. The CIA knows their identity. So do | — and our investigation has estab- with this particular agency. Having played in the Fort Benning area for three months, performing for certain private parties and all official parties at Fort Benning, I was in a position to overhear much conversation supposedly at this time top secret. I innocently approached a man who was with the Criminal Investigation of the military police of the United States Army and asked him how could they trust me. They didn’t know who I was and here I was performing all around these drunken officials, usually winding up as a guest of the party and not ne- cessarily a performer. People present were Doctor Verner Von Braun from Red Stone Arsenal, certain three or four star generals of the United States army, Senators, Congressmen and high ranking officials from the State Depart- ment at Washington. The C.D. agent told me thatI checked out and didn’t have to worry about my position as far as any top secret matters were concerned. Approximately two weeks later this to the table and had a drink with them. - The C.I.D. man conveniently left the table. The other civilian, whom I did not know at the time, showed me some credentials and announced that he was from the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington. He asked me if I would be interested in keeping an ear to the ground regarding some of the supposed homosexual activities taking place at Fort Benning, naming names, dates, places and so forth. I told him of course I was not interested. He told me that this job would pay me $500 per month in cash (in other words it would be non-taxable). I still told him I wasn’t interested. He then brought up something thac had happened in my past. At the age of 19 years, when I was working for the first National Bank at Columbus, Georgia, I knew they were to hold back two weeks pay on .me. At the end of a month I hadn’t re- ceived my pay, so I conveniently took $35 and went to Daytona Beach, Flori- from Florida to Georgia where I was taken before a Federal judge. Then this is what the man from C.I.A. told me: that I had been arrest- ed and sentenced for embezzelment and that he could stop me from working at Fort Benning. He could stop me from working anywhere. They could make it very rough for me. But being” more or less an average human being, I didn’t want to dig up any past be- cause that was supposedly forgotten. I agreed to go along with him started in the later part of May of 1957 working for the Central Intelligance Agency. My job was to meet and document certain activities going on in the con- fines of certain homes and clubs in Fort Benning, Georgia, and the sur- rounding Third Army area. This is what I did. I started receiving my pay at the end of that particular month. One im- portant thing that happened just after I started working for the Agency, was that I took certajn training, which in- cluded the use of small side arms, tear gas, clerasetaphonome gas (which is i i commonly known as puke stuff) and numerous times, I finally one td various tactical commando training. At I want to go in there, and in i rit Fort Benning during the day, three his knowledge, I did go into net days a week, I attended classroom and pound. I had no identification oh field problem training periods. all and I walked around an adil bi: In my training, one of my important tures of the inside of this DUN, periods was in learning how to pene- certain displays, which wea trate the security of the Setret Service out the instructions whl vale of the United States itself. given. The young man Wa tat In September, of 1957, I went to guard duty but he never Wi Augusta, Georgia, to play at a wedding I penetrated, at least M© “oot Ever since the shooting of President John F. Kennedy, there has been reception on Friday and on Saturday to fired from the job or put in It widespread disbelief in the “solution” put forward by the United States play a huffet that was to be held in house because of his failure Federal Bureau of Investigation and the subsequent endorsation of their honor of Pres. Dwight Eisenhower who my activity... position by the Warren Commission. pa teerey apie golt ge se see Bb ruse time in pei Raia : 2 z a, Georgia, at the championship go e main post a ff according mone tantiat lanes eureaet Seg coees hae oe ee Bod : Major John Eisenhowtl tt duck tn de wth tie eal ee nee o-grea ’ 1 was assigned to penetrate presiden- dent Eisenhower. I sho , coll The following < lusive Tri : : ° tial security, secret service security and daily. I would be asked bY os dil! e following is an exclusive Tribune interview with Donald P. Norton, get into a position where I could shoot; my superiors how many tim ial who claims to be a former CIA agent and is scheduled to be a witness at which means get into a position where, “shoot” John today and td this trial. if I had a live weapon, I could kill the three or four times. The i iE The three and a half hour taped interview will be carried in three parts president of the United States. There he was the son of the Pres! fey in the Tribune. The first, which follows, explains how Norton became a CIA were three men on this assignment at United States and he als? rot agent and how he knew David W. Ferrie whose name figures prominently in this particular time. I, in fact, did pen- ret service men who f°" 9 Garrison's case. etrate security and “shoot” the presi- around at all times. a eats” An interview with Garrison in the October issue of Playboy bears out dent of the United States. : _ Question c= “shogy mou | the validity of much that is contained in this interview with Norton. ae aa iie for.this ee vet i ate amaNe position where yO 4 . . . u 1s, anyone cou n e€m- S! ‘ a or veto hao complete cabot inthe theo thot Kannedy wes shot iver In sucha ponon Had T been, Where, 1 coll, Sg wT HES : : me _OSSOSSINGTION WAS caught at this particular time I would them. Oh I carried a W f all fl p rom the most reactionary section of the military-industrial complex have been arrested, detained, and then, time. It had no cartridges © ide “4 and men who had been employees of, the CIA. of course, the matter would have been it had a silencer on it and the | The Tribune has done the best it can to check on the veracity of the covered and straightened out without that I had to simulate these of f | story that Norton tells and has been able to confirm a number of details in it. to much ado, as to who I was. -would be under a conditit “A \ : 58 j After such attempts were made, as I volvement. Now they Wr” ial My name is Donald P. Norton. My same man from the Criminal Investiga- understand it,-in ‘Washington, they would walk. this closamaa a (3 hometown is Columbus, Georgia in the tion Division brought with him another 1 Il th ; : : idea is United States of America. man dressed in civilian clothes and wouldcail the Seensiaery ce oRenenvss see: bis ee pe a fate In 1957 in the latter part of May, I visited with me at the main officers ancien and, thy. would eet..atoyal son. is. somera ia t ha 7 become an operative for the “Se Geen mess at Fort Benning, Georgia ange ia yea oe! “ puld he sue poen ce abou Re tab q Intelligence Agency of America. This while I was playing. When I took a BADE SO a Pees DERE AG: eMISE SREY BUS 4 came about because of the McCarthy break, the C.1.D. mar asked if they , investigations into homosexual activity could see me for a moment. I went over h , Donald Norton talking to Tribune reporter Phyllis Clarke: ok ath mic display we had at Fort Benning, Georgia. This is something that no one ever did, and I did it quite by accident because the young fellow who was on guard duty there I had seen from time to time at the various service clubs where I performed free. I didn’t know too many enlisted men because my job concerned officers in the United States Army. He was on guard duty and I penetrated by becoming friendly with him over a period of three or four weeks, promising him that I would make a tape recording of his voice and submit it to Nashville, Tennessee and see if anything would happen on it. I just asked him one day, ‘“‘what’s in there?” and he told me, “Oh its top secret,” and I said, “what is it?” “Something to do with atomic weapon- ry, its a display. or something.” I knew in advance that Doctor Vernor Von ‘Braun and many of his fellow scientists _ from Redstone Arsenal had given in-- structions to some of the personel at Fort Benning in the use of nuclear weaponry. So after talking to the young fellow then this is living proof lished this without the shadow : da, for a week-end. I was promptly but they would never reveal the C.I.A. Pui ofadoubt. picked up and held by the F.B.I.. They operatives. done at any time.. . jay J fh : —Playboy, October, 1967. took me back across the state line I was also used to penetrate an ato- Question — Why did y af Benning? .. GeO I laft: Fort Benning: | because my use there "ino oi Colonel Wade, the many of © gh ployed me, was accus®’ pest gilt ment. I was told that ™ ho gil im other words. the Be 50 tt ray side, was getting Og My should too. I was cee shop in Atlanta, Geore ed 105 miles away. I ©? ys Fort Benning, on and Sundays. I com ral lanta. to I went at that time ness ye instrument repair bus! ser ty ager of the Paramoum” |, wg fi Atlanta Georgia. MY Yep praise instruments foF 4, United States Bands area. At this time I a courier for the Control a pecam? i AN Agency because I ses Sit lanta to the home a al Third Army military © ond "ol I started this at t 1 1958. During this UM A te » io =e ‘ iors 4G Octaber 20; 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page &