Mark Lane - Another bizarre example of Hoover's monmaniacal obsession with collecting compromising material on his enemies, concerns the premier JFK assassination conspiracy theorist of the 1960s, Mark Lane. Lane was a lawyer and activist who had been elected to the New York State Assembly as a left-wing representative of a district encompassing parts of Manhattan and East Harlem. After the assassination of President Kennedy, however, Lane would devote himself to the examination of the evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald full-time and attempted to insert himself into the proceedings of the Warren Commission as de facto defense council for the accused assassin. In 1966, two years after the original publication of the Warren Commission report, Lane would publish Rush to Judgment, the first major book to challenge the conclusions of the Warren Commission, which spent 29 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, launching his decades long career as one of the most prominent critics of the official story of the JFK assassination. In 2017, as a result of the JFK Records Act, the FBI's files on Mark Lane were released, showing that contemporaneous with Lane's Warren Commission criticism, the FBI was hard at work collecting compromising information about his sex life. Among the disclosures was a 1964 FBI report detailing the contents of a 1962 interview with a woman named Phyllis Golden. According to the report, while being interviewed under subpoena for passing a bad check, Golden had told a New York district attorney that quote, "She had something to hold over Mark Lane for the rest of his life." Even though Mark Lane had absolutely nothing to do with the check fraud case that was the ostensible subject of the interview, the DA would spend considerable time pursuing this angle during her questioning. According to the FBI report, Golden said she had gone to Lane's apartment with another woman named Lee Stevens, where the three engaged in a series of bizarre sex acts.
''The first thing was Mr. Lane had his temperature taken. First he un-dressed himself as far as the shorts were concerned. Then he laid face down on the bed, and I said 'you will have to remove your jockey shorts too.' And he took them down, and in that I assisted him. After that I inserted a candle into Mark annaly. After that I tweezed some pubic hair and then Lee beat Mark with his own belt on the buttocks, then pins were inserted around the annal area and into the testicles. Then he got an enema, both of us gave him the enema, I believe I held the boy and then I put it in, and then he started to masterbate after the enema was completely in him, and he wasn't supposed to relieve himself until after he masterbated. But he claimed he had to relieve himself and he did. And then when Mark came back into the room the next thing on the instruction sheet was for him to masterbate himself, and at which point he got embarrassed and he. decided he couldn't do it, and a comment was made by either Miss Stephens or myself that the tests can't continue unless he does it, so then Lèe inserted a candle into his anus, and then I believe she beat him again, I am not positive. Then Lee, having read the instruction sheet with me suggested the obscene pictures. Before the pictures, the first set of pins and needles were just regular, so 'Lee lit the needles and I put them in, we both did it.' About this point Golden said Lane said it was too embarrassing for him to masterbate, or something like that, and 'Lee asked him' if it would be easier if she did it. And with that "she proceeded to masterbate him."
The first thing was Mr. Lane had his temperature taken. First, he undressed himself as far as the shorts were concerned. Then, he laid face down on the bed, and I said, "You'll have to remove your jockey shorts, too." And he took them down, and in that, I assisted him. After that, I inserted a candle into Mark. After that, I tweezed some hair, and then Lee beat Mark with his own belt on the buttocks. Then pins were inserted around the area and into the then he got an both of us gave him the I believe I held a boy and then I put it in and then he started to after the was completely in him and he wasn't supposed to relieve himself until after he but he claimed he had to relieve himself and he did. Did he reach a yes he did. It was at this point that Lee suggested taking the pictures and I got the camera. One of the pictures showed Mark lying face down on the bed with the candle inserted. Another was taken of Lee beating him. Another was taken of Mr. Lane on his stomach, not only with a candle inserted, but also with two stems of artificial flowers. A fourth was taken of Lee singing his hair around the with a lighted match. I show you a photograph and ask you if that's one of the pictures that you took. Yes. Whose picture is that? Mark Lane. A copy of this picture was obtained through extremely confidential means and is available only through the staff director. In January of 1962, when this interview occurred, Mark Lane was just a left-wing local New York politician. Kennedy wouldn't even be assassinated for almost two more years. It's unknown whether or not the FBI ever used this information as leverage over Mark Lane, but the declassified FBI file suggests that FBI agents were requesting copies of these documents, at least as late as 1972. And it's extremely hard to imagine a legitimate law enforcement purpose for this some 10 years after the interview had taken place. And why was a New York district attorney interrogating a woman over a local politician's sexual preferences for a case that was ostensibly about check fraud anyway? The FBI report on the interrogation wasn't written until 1964, a full 2 years after the DA's Phyllis Golden interview had taken place, when Lane was already well known as a Warren Commission critic, and Lane was never charged with a crime. These documents would have been known to only a handful of people in the New York DA's office. So, how did the FBI even learn of their existence, much less obtained copies of the photos? The report says that the DA couldn't have obtained them from either of the two women. So, what were these extremely confidential means by which the DA's office came to possess the photos? And why would the FBI be collecting this kind of information about a prominent Warren Commission critic if not for blackmail? According to the journalist Jack Anderson, the blackmail material in Hoover's office safe was destroyed immediately after his death. So, the FBI report on Mark Lane is one of the few remaining primary source documents that shows the kind of compromising material Hoover was collecting on public figures.
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By: Psych History Show
Raped by: Otto Heckel
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