MARCUS REPLIES TO ITEK

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The purpose of the letter in your August 8 issue from Howard Hall, public relations manger of Itek Corporation, is not clearly apparent, since Mr. Hall does not attempt to refute any substantive point contained in your June 2 article regarding photos connected with the Kennedy assassination.

However, he does stress that Itek's analysis of the Nix film"... was undertaken by Itek as a public service and was not subsidized by UPI or anyone else." In so doing, his apparent aim is to counter any impression that Itek's heavy dependency on federal contracts might in some degree have been a factor in their decision to undertake a lengthy and costly analysis of a photographic image which no recognized Warren Report critic had alleged to be a valid human figure.

(Their conclusion that this image was indeed not valid lent comfort to those who choose to believe the Warren Commission's findings, and at the same time confused many persons into believing that Itek had examined and refuted the validity of the much more compelling human-like images discussed in your June 2 article.)

Itek, of course, is entitled to point out the facts as they see them. However, in this connection I believe it also proper to point out that Itek president Franklin Lindsay has, for many years, served in an official capacity with numerous governmental and quasi-governmental agencies(see "who's Who in America," Vol. 34); and that there are strong indications of an association with the CIA (for example, see his letter to the editor, Boston Globe, July 7, 1964, in which he castigates a Globe editorial, which had spoken favorably of a book exposing certain CIA activities).

In view of the federal administration's unmistakably clear position in opposition to a re-opening of the assassination controversy, Mr. Lindsay's governmental ties would appear a legitimate consideration in viewing Itek's involvement in this matter. Raymond Marcus