Oh, puh-leaze. You're relying on CIA and FBI asset Hugh Aynesworth?! From Hasty Judgment:
Aynesworth was a staunch WC supporter who proved time and again he was not above bending the facts. When New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison investigated the assassination a few years later and charged New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw with involvement in the assassination plot,
Aynesworth made maliciously false charges against Garrison and ignored all evidence against Shaw (Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, New York: Warner Books, 1988, pp. 187-188; James DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Investigation, New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992, pp. 159-165; and William Davy, Let Justice Be Done: New Light on the Jim Garrison Investigation, Reston: Jordan Publishing, 1999, pp. 131-135).
A 1969 article on the Garrison investigation in the Columbia Journalism Review identified Aynesworth as one of three journalists who had gone "beyond the normal bounds of journalistic interest in the story." The authors of the article even suggested Aynesworth, because of his obvious bias, should have considered taking himself off the case as a journalist and simply joined the Shaw defense team (see Davy, Let Justice Be Done, pp. 134-135, citing Columbia Journalism Review, Spring 1969, pp. 38-41). In later years it came to light that Aynesworth acted as an informant on the JFK case for the FBI and was also a CIA assert.
