iAvBoy: What “vital evi-
Bn th did the CIA withhold
GaRisc Warren Commission?
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Nis fan Exhibit number 237.
tin Photograph of a stocky,
| a middleaged man pub-
nti without explanation or
the Cation in the 26 volumes
if Gtren Report. There’s a
pent Story behind Exhibit
et 237. Throughout the
Summer and fall of 1963,
Reval was shepherded in
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this companied him. Now,
the Gtticular time, Mexico
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uecining diplomatic ties
re @, and leftists and
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had placed a hidden
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fellow" Couldn’t be one and

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min Setting to Monterray. He
. the case which I had
n Ow long are you
Wye here °W™, and I said—Well
Sightsecs thought I would do
ae I parked the car
aid, WC Went in and-had a
me an I meet you later?”
fron, °t about 7 o'clock that
hnoW aber, the hotel. Well, I
he a Out People going into
lockeq ad this cash money
Ratap it in the trunk of my
i Ne T went out and walk-
and cnity of the hotel,
: did meet me in front
Sing 5 Said again, “How long
€ here?” | said, “three

or four days maybe.” He said, “Fine,
I'll be around, let’s go eat,’ and we
went to a restaurant.

No mention was made of the money
or documents. After dinner, he said,
“You’ve got a case for me.” I said,
“Yes, in the trunk of the car.” He said,
“Fine.” We went back to the hotel. He
left me for about 30 minutes. He came
back and had with him a small under-
arm kit and in this was sealed docu-
ments. In other words, it had a couple
of big manila envelopes and some small
envelopes. They were sealed. I didn’t
look at them. I turned the case over to
him. He disappeared. Then he came
back. In the trunk of the car I had put
the auto case. I asked him if he wanted
to drive around town and he said, “You
do the driving, I can’t.” So we drove
around the town. This man spoke rather
fluent Spanish. I knew he was working
with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

Question: How did you know?

He told me this. He told me this
himself, and he told me that he was
from Texas, and that he and his wife
were either living in New Orleans, or
that he was moving there, or they had
just left. I don’t know. I have forgotten
which. He mentioned New Orleans, and
he made mention that Mr. Shaw had a
home in New Orleans. Now I never
knew that, until his moment. And I
told him, I thought he was from Birm-
ingham. He said he might be but he
has a house in New Orelans, and that is
when I really learned for sure that Mr.
Shaw was in contact with numerous
people in New Orleans who were work-
ing with the Agency. And also, in a
very mild manner, was supporting Fair
Play for Cuba. I was also told by Har-
vey Lee Oswald that he had just recent-
ly returned from Europe, in fact the
Soviet Union.

He discussed nothing. He was very
quiet. He nibbled his fingers’a bit, but
he had clean fingers. He was a very
clean cut young man. He was no grub
and he was no dummy. I don’t care
what anybody says. He was a very fine
person to talk to. The only thing that
I noticed about this young man, that
bothered me, was the fact that he
wouldn't look you in the eyes when he
talked to you. He was always looking
around — looking off, you know. The
three days that I was with him he
seemed a highly intelligent young man.
He was about 23 years old, but he
looked a lot younger than this.

He was small in stature but he had
a very good build on him. And the kid
had muscular arms and dressed in
sports clothes, very neat, nothing odd
about him at all. Very quiet spoken.
Did not smoke. Did not drink. He never
smoked in our presence. Now with
whom he was staying or where he was
staying in Monterray, I do not know.
Mr. Garrison has looked into this mat-
ter. They knew that he was in Monter-
ray during this time, or. in Mexico, and
they thought the Monterray area, but
they didn’t know for sure. By this time
they have verified this, no doubt. As
to where he was staying, I don’t know.

Question: Is this the only time you
saw him?

Yes. Other than these three days
with him, except what I have read, that
has been presented by the United States
government since his supposed assas-
sination of the President of the United
States. :

In Banff I went to the Alberta Piano
Co. and gave my name as Don Norton.
I'm on a holiday and looking around
for the possibility of settling in Canada,
teaching music or playing. And as luck
would have it, I’m an authority on
Baldwin organs, still am. As luck would
have it they had just placed an organ
in what they called a Georgian Ter-
race Restaurant on McLeod Trail own-
ed by Barney Gilham (or Gelfan), the
Kentucky fried chicken king of Alberta

area—Barney Gelfan. And they had no-
body to play this organ. So they asked
me if I would take it. This place was
located at the Stampeder Hotel on Mc-
Leod. Barney was advertising on Chan-
nel 2 television. I got into Calgary on
one day, and two days later I was
playing at the Georgian Terrace and
they interviewed me on my third day

have been blank paper. But I went
downstairs, delivered it to him, and
walked away. I suppose he drove off.
That’s the last time I saw him.

I walked back in, and this little bar-
tender there at Barney’s restaurant,
who had befriended me and seemed to
know everybody, and I said, ““Who was
the gentleman that spoke to me before

: Donald Norton talking to reporter Phyllis Clarke. “They all told me the same
thing. ‘You ought to just keep your mouth shut.’ ”

there at the restaurant. They interview-
ed me on television, and I started play-
ing regularly three nights a week.

I had already been told, after estab-
lishing myself, and getting my name
‘known about town, I would. be contact-

ed by a gentleman who would say to .

me, ‘‘The weather is very hot in Tulsa.”
This was the pass word, and this would
be the man I was to deal with and turn
over the documents to. Well here I am,
my name was in great big lights in
front of the restaurant, my picture was
in the paper, I was playing on televi-
sion, on the Rido Road Show three
nights a week—Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays.

I had been in Calgary for six weeks.
Then this man walked up and asked me
to play a song—I don’t remember the
title, and he said, ““Where you from”

GARRISON: As I studied Os-
wald's movements in Dallas, my
mind turned back to the after-
math of the assassination in
1963, when my office questioned
three men—David Ferrie, Alvin
Beauboeuf and Melvin Coffey—
on suspicion of being involved
in the assasination. | began to
wonder if we hadn’t dismissed
these three men too lightly, and
we reopened our investigation
into their activities.

—Playboy, October, 1967.

”

and I said, “Georgia,” and he said, “It
must be kind of lonely in that part of
the country.” I said, ‘‘You’d better be-
lieve it,’ and he said, ‘Yea, and it is
kind of hot in Tulsa too.” I said, “Oh,
how are you,” just recognizing him. I
almost said it in right into the micro-
phone. He said, “What time do you
take your break?” I said, “in a few
minutes.” He says, “I’m parked in the
lot right around the corner. Are you
staying in this hotel?” I said: “Yes.”
He said: “Fine, I’ll meet you at the
car.’ He described the car and it w.is
just outside in the lot of the hotel.
Sure enough, I take my break, go up-
stairs, I get my little case, which I had
not opened but once and saw they were
sealed,, As far as I know they could

I took my break.’ He said: “I don’t
know his name, but he’s an American
and I believe he works with one of
the large oil companies here. In fact, I
think he has something to do with geo-
logical surveying.” That’s all I knew
about this man.

After returning south I was told:
“Why don’t you go back up into At-
lanta, and go back into the music busi-
ness.”’ So I did, I became partners with
one ‘Albert Fulton, who is still director
of the Atlantac Pops Orchestra in At-
lanta, Georgia.

My job was to book Cuban entertain-
ers from Miami into the Atlanta area,
and I did just this. I booked them in
through Albert’s booking licence. Mr.
Shaw was constantly in and out of
Atlanta talking to numerous of these
men. I remember, theré was a doctor
or lawyer or something, and I don’t
know what they talked about, but they
all played at the El Morocco in Atlan-
ta, and this is where I was in my office.
Shaw was in Atlanta as late as May-
June 1963. We did not discuss Harvey
Lee or any of these people, but he was
always conferring with these Cuban
musicians.

I was sitting in my office, with one
of my superiors from Fort Benning,
Georgia, when on the 22nd of Nov. the
president of the United States was shot.
I said, “Isn’t that something!”

Later that day, Lee Harvey Oswald’s
picture was flashed on the screen as
being a suspect.

I flatly turned to the superior of
mine and said, “Oh, no, that can’t be.
That’s Harvey Lee. I was just with
him last year.’ My superior turned to
me at that moment and he says, “‘I sug-
gest you keep your mouth shut.” I
Started asking questions again and I
was told flatly to forget it and every-
thing would be all right.

Well I kept this under my hat, but I
approached a few more people at Fort
Benning and Fort McPherson about it
and they all told me the same thing:
“You ought to just keep your mouth
shut. Do what you are told.”

Well, things went on, and the inves-
tigation started into the assassination,
the name Lee Harvey Oswald was blast-
ed all over the papers. I continued with
my Own activities through this time.

Next week: Norton leaves the U.S.
and comes to Canada.

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