SECRET 2 “The friends whom Underhill visited say he was sober but badly shook. They say he att ributed the Kennedy murder to a CLA clique which was carrying опа lucrative racket in gun-running, narcot

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“The friends whom Underhill visited say he was sober
but badly shook. They say he att ributed the Kennedy
murder to a CLA clique which was carrying опа lucrative
racket in gun-running, narcotics and other contraband,
and manipulating political intrigue to serve its own ends.
Kennedy supposedly got wind that something was going on
and was killed before he could the whistle on it'.
Although the’ friends had always known Underhill to be
perfectly rational and objective, they at first didn't take
his account seriously. think the main reason was,'
explains the husband, ‘that we couldn't believe that the
CIA could contain a corrupt element every bit as ruth-
more efficient--as the mafia.'
verdict of suicide in Underhill's death is no
means convincing. His body was found a writing
collaborator, Asher Brynes of the New Republic. He
had been shot behind the left car, andan automatic pistol
was under his left side. Odd, says Brynes, because
Underhill was right-handed. Brynes thinks the pistol
was fitted with a‘silencer, and occupants of the apartment
building couid not recall Hearing a shot. Underhill obvi-
ously had been dead several days.
"Garry Underhill's chilling story is hardly implausible.
As a spy apparatus the CIA is honeycombed with
contained cliques operating without any real central
2. of Agency records has yielded the following information
about John Garrett UNDERHILL
a. DPOB: 7 August 1915, Brooklyn.
Attended high school in Brooklyn and was graduated
from Harvard in 1937.
с. Died.8 Мау 1964.