California Condor Eben McMillan 29 may 1964 John Reed Talking With Dan Garcia, At 11:55 A.m. Mr. Seldon Morley, Agricultural Commissioner, County of Kern, drove into Horsethief Camp with Ben Easley. Mr. Morley explained that the News reporters were, all over the place, around Bakersfield, gathering material for an article on the Condor shooting incident yesterday. The Purpose of his trip was to get to Dan Garcia before the News reporters did, in order that he could advise Mr. Garcia regarding what to say about the incident as it would have a bearing on how the Agricultural Commissioner's Office might appear. Mr. Morley particularly wanted Dan Garcia to make it plain to anyone seeking News that Mr. Howard Binkley was not an employee of the Kern County Agricultural Commissioner's Office and was only under the jurisdiction of Overseer Dan Garcia while the crew was in the field engaged in the putting out of poison, and that during the lunch break, at which time the shooting incident occurred, Mr. Garcia had no responsibility over what any of the crew did, providing such action did not interfere with the treatment or handling of the supply of Compound 1080 treated Poison grain. Mr. Morley told Dan Garcia, "When a News man comes to you, which they probably will do tonight, tell them the truth. Don't hold back anything, but, be awfully careful that they do not get you to say something that is not so. They are good at that sort of thing," he said. Mr. Seldon Morley told me that in conducting Pest Control -