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evidence against Hunt came, however, when attorney Lane presented the
deposition of former CIA operative Marita Lorenz
HUNT, STURGIS AND RUBY IN DALLAS
Miss Lorenz testified that one day prior to the president's assassination
she arrived in Dallas (traveling from a CIA "safe house" in Miami) in a twocar
caravan. Accompanying Miss Lorenz on what she described as a secret
mission were several CIA operatives, led by Miss Lorenz' CIA "handler,"
Frank Sturgis, armed with telescopic rifles. According to Miss Lorenz she
had not been apprised of the purpose of the mission.
Upon arrival in Dallas, according to Miss Lorenz, they met with not
only E. Howard Hunt, who was functioning as the CIA operatives'
paymaster, but also nightclub operator Jack Ruby who later executed the
president's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
When Hunt himself took the stand, attorney Lane, while questioning
Hunt, pointed out numerous inconsistencies in Hunt's testimony. Hunt
himself had told several stories, over the years, about where he had been on
the day the president was assassinated.
It was Miss Lorenz' testimony, however, that convinced the jury that
the CIA had been involved in the Kennedy assassination. The jury found in
favor of The Spotlight and dismissed Hunt's claim.
Leslie Armstrong, a Miami resident who was jury forewoman in the
case, issued a statement in conjunction with the release of Lane's written
account of the trial:
"Mr. Lane was asking us [the jury] to do something very difficult. He
was asking us to believe John Kennedy had been killed by our own
government. Yet when we examined the evidence closely, we were
compelled to conclude that the CIA had indeed killed President Kennedy." 314
In his best-selling Plausible Denial Lane recounted this exciting trial and
demonstrated other compelling evidence that he uncovered which proves that
the CIA did indeed have a hand in the president's assassination But in
Chapter 16 of Final Judgment we will look more closely at the activities of
both E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis, examining remarkable evidence
which points further toward the involvement of the Mossad—alongside the
CIA—in the JFK assassination conspiracy.
THE NOVO BROTHERS
But there are other interesting connections, in the meantime, that
should be explored. Lane has described how Miss Lorenz had gone even
further in her testimony, naming other CIA operatives who had been in the
two-car caravan organized by Frank Sturgis in which Lorenz traveled from
Miami to Dallas. According to Lane, "Before Miss Lorenz testified, I asked
her, Will you tell me the names of the people who traveled with you in
that two-car caravan?'