F.B.I. seeks men in Carter 'Death plot’

Press, 9 May 1979, Page 9

F.B.I. seeks men in Carter 'Death plot’

NZPA-Reuter Los Angeles The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said it is seeking additional suspects in an alleged plot on the life of President Carter. The shooting is said to have been planned for last Saturday while the President was in Los Angeles. In custody is Raymond Lee Harvey, aged 34, arrested by Secret Service agents with a starter’s pistol in his pocket on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Hall of Administration. He was charged with corn spiracy to kill President Carter, said Herbert Clough, special agent in charge of the Los Angeles F. 8.1. office. “Harvey related to the secret service agents that the

pistol had been given to him by a Mexican known to him as Julio earlier in the day,” an F. 8.1. statement said. “Harvey was supposed to Are the pistol at the ground as a ‘diversion.’ Harvey also told the Secret Service that on the night before he was present with two other unidentified Mexicans and the Mexicans discussed killing the President,” it continued. If convicted, Harvey could be sentenced to life in prison, the F. 8.1. said. The pistol was incapable of use as a weapon at the time, the F.B.L said. The man who allegedly supplied the gun was identified as Oswaldo Espinoza, aged 31, who is in the Los Angeles city jail on charges of burg; lary from a car.