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Gordon Novel, sought as a with*. by Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison in his Kennedy assassination probe, is Scheduled for arraignMent Friday oil charges of, interstate transportation of Unlawful eaves= dropping device!! in Reek Nev. Federal Marshal bon WeaVer last Thursday , arrest, ed NOVel on US. grand Jury. indictments, .Novel was freed the nettday On $10,000 bond, The imotment Said Novel had in his possession a briefcase with ,a radio receiver, recorder and microphone at an Indian pyramid tribal council

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transported the device to Nevada front Ohio sometime before last July 29. .NoV , a, former. New Ore1 leans nightclub operator now living in Reno, hail salt he itriews nothing about the '/Cennedy assassination and . once filed a $80 milliOn.suit against Garrison and his backers, IMP'S Garrison's statements ruined his reputation. . Novel dropped that Suit in: lite/ rather. than return to New Orleans to testify. Natal also filed a $1 milHon damage suit in February,
1969, against Ohio Bell Tele-:

meeting at Nixon, :north of here. The indictment said he

phone Co., for allegedly tapping his telephone in Columbus, Ohio.

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NOVEL IS FOUND .9.111XIN RENO

Once, sought as a Witness in District Attorney 'Jim Garrison's K ennedy assassination probe, Gordon Novel was convicted in federal' court in Reno, Nev Thursday, of -interstate transportation of unlawful eavesdropping devices. Formerly of New Orleans, Novel was indicted in January by a federal grand jury which accused him of bringing a device "primarily useful for interception of wire and oral cornMunications" from Columbus, Ohicoto Reno. ...Novel's trial before a federal jury began Monday. Novel; 31, will be sentenced Oct 30 by U.S. Dist. Court Judge Bruce Thompson. He could receive as, much as five years in a federal prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Novel, who once owned a nightclub in New Orleans, has claimed he knows nothing about the Kennedy assassination. He filed a $50 million suit against Garrison and his backers, but dropped It in 1967 rather than return to New Orleans to testi Al7J1I A

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