FOURTH TRIAL FOR GORDON NOVEL

Approved for Release: 2019/10/22 C06816165 N0,2,81 13 January 1981 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Fourth Trial for Gordon Novel 1. The attached newsclipping describes the circumstances of a fourth trial being ordered for Gordon Novel (0), who was convicted in a third trial in December 1978 of conspiring to firebomb a building in the central business district of New Orleans during Mardi Gras of 1976. During the first trial of Novel in November 1976, as a defense, Novel attempted to show that...