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Deputies find Bth body
PROSPECT, S.C. (UPI) -
Deputies found an eighth body
Wednesday —a child between
—two and four years old—
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Donald H. Gaskins, also known as Junior Parrott, is taken in chains to be arraigned and
charged with murder in the deaths of three of eight persons found buried near Prospect,
S.C. Gaskins is one of three men so charged. At right is Sheriff W. C. “Billy” Barnes of
Florence County. (UPI)
Callaway embarrassed
about promotion SNAFU
WASHINGTON (UPI) - During the
1950 s and early 1960 s the Army, obeying
a congressional mandate, put reserve
officers on promotion boards to ensure
fairness whenever the careers of other
reservists were being determined.
Then, say Army lawyers, somebody
apparently decided to ignore the law.
By the post-Vietnam years, even its
existence was forgotten.
Now both the law and the Army’s
disregard of it are back in the spotlight,
put there by several hundred former
career reservists who charge they were
forced out of the service just short of
retirement by illegal promotion board
actions in 1974 and 1975.
Former Army Secretary Howard H.
Bundy cautions against
ban on covert CIA moves
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buried near a swamp outside
this farm village and said they
would continue their search of
the area.
Callaway, for one, says he may have
“inadvertently” failed to enforce the
law because he did not know it existed.
Callaway, now President Ford’s
campaign manager, says he learned
about the law only recently and is “very
embarrassed by that.”
The legal battle between the cast-out
officers and the Army has set in motion
an unprecedented disclosure of the
military promotion system’s inner
workings.
Capt. Ed Newton, an Army lawyer,
said Wednesday promotion boards for
years apparently have broken the 1952
law requiring them to include reserve
officers when ruling on the careers of
reservists. But, he argued, the omission
caused “no substantial harm.”
Three men have been
charged with the murders of
the only three victims yet
identified, but no motive has
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Call
ing CIA plots to assassinate
some foreign leaders “inexcus
able and unauthorized ac
tivities,” a high ranking
Kennedy and Johnson adminis
tration official has told Con
gress some future covert
actions might be necessary to
check international terrorism
and avoid nuclear danger.
McGeorge Bundy, former
presidential adviser on national
security, now head of the Ford
Foundation, also told the House
intelligence committee Wednes
day sharp cuts in the CIA
covert branch would improve
its efficiency.
But he warned against
eliminating all covert activities.
“It is at least worth considera
tion whether there may not be
need for some highly secret
activity in emerging fields like
those of international terrorism
and nuclear danger,” Bundy
said.
“I find it hard to exclude the
possibility that in these fields,
situations could arise in which
covert action of some sort
would be the least evil choice
available,” Bundy said.
Bundy also favored “covert
financial support” of govern
ments threatened with seizure
by Soviet-financed Communist
movements.
Terming the CIA assassina
tion plots “inexcusable and
unauthorized activities,” Bundy
said, “The whole area covered
by the Senate intelligence
committee’s assassination re
port was never authorized by
the 40 or the 303 committees.”
Bundy said despite his
membership in the 40 Commit
tee, which reviewed covert
operations before execution, he
was unaware of some covert
CIA operations recently pub
licized. The 303 Committee was
a predecessor of the 40
Committee.
Bundy said, “It can happen
and I think it has happened
that an operation is presented
in one way to a committee and
executed in away that is
different from what the com
mittee thought it had au
thorized.”
been offered.
Florence County Sheriff
Frank Barnes said his men
would be digging in the same
area again today. Authorities
began finding decomposed bo
dies in shallow graves last
Thursday near this tobacco
farming community.
Tight security was main
tained around the area all day
Wednesday with only law
enforcement officers allowed
near the site. Barnes told
newsmen of the latest find after
digging had stopped for the
night.
“We found a body of what
appeared to be a two-to four
year-old child,” Barnes said,
adding' the body was too
decomposed to determine the
sex of the child.
The body was found about 10
feet away from a grave where
the body of a woman in her 20s
was found Monday night. The
two sites are about a mile from
the area where the other six
bodies were found, two to a
grave.
Barnes indicated officers may
be planning to look at some
other sites in the county but
said efforts for the next couple
of days will concentrate on the
area where the bodies of the
woman and child were found.
Walter Leroy Neely, Donald
Henry Gaskins and James K.
Judy were arraigned Wednes
day in Florence. Neely and
Gaskins, also known as Junior
Parrott, were charged with the
deaths of Dennis Bellamy, John
Henry Knight and Johnny
Sellers. Judy was charged with
the murder of Sellers.
It was Neely who first led
officers to the site where the
six bodies were found.
Gaskins had been held in the
Central Correctional Institution
in Columbia awaiting trial on
charges of auto theft and
contributing to the deliquency
of a minor.
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but police neglected to notify
his family of the tragedy.
As a result, Nicolaysen’s
body lay unclaimed in the
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, December 11,1975
Broward County morgue for 25
days until police in the tiny
town of Parkland, northwest of
here, notified his family, who
had been searching frantically
for him.
Broward County medical ex-
aminer Dr. Geoffrey Mann said
it was the police’s responsibility
to contact the family of
Nicolaysen and could not figure
out why that wasn’t done.
“He was known to the
police,” Mann said.