Authors: Lamar Waldron
Assassination: An A-to-Z Encyclopedia
(New York: Citadel, 1993), p. 119.
15.
John Newman,
Oswald and the
CIA
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), p. 412.
16.
CIA 104-10169-10458.
17.
Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics
III
(online excerpt available at maryferrell.org), his note 48.
18.
Ibid, citing XAAZ-17958 10 Dec 63; Sum-802
LEGACY OF SECRECY
mary of Oswald case prepared for briefing purposes; NARA #104-10018-10040 PS#62-142.
19.
Peter Dale
Scott,
Deep Politics III
(online excerpt available at maryferrell.org), citing HSCA vol. III, pp. 86, 91.
20.
John Newman,
Oswald and the CIA
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), p. 413.
21.
Ibid, pp. 279-82.
22.
Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics III
(online excerpt available at maryferrell.org), his note 49
23.
John Newman,
Oswald
and the CIA
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), several passages.
24.
Ibid, p. 409.
25.
FBI memo, Brennan to Sullivan, 11-27-63.
26.
HSCA 180-10142-10036.
27.
Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), p. 285.
28.
CIA memo 9-25-63 about 9-12-63 CIA call regarding Cain and the DRE.
29.
Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), p. 236.
30.
Ibid, citing FBI memo.
31.
Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: Paragon House, 1989), pp. 410, 411.
32.
Ibid, pp. 410-412.
33.
Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), p. 236.
34.
Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: Paragon House, 1989), pp. 410-12.
35.
Confidential Kennedy Foreign Policy source, 4-18-96.
36.
Arthur Krock, “The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam,”
The
New
York Times
, 10-3-63.
37.
John Newman, “Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City,” at pbs.org.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
1.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), pp. 13, 14.
2.
CIA 104-10306-10018; 104-10306-10017, p. 14.
3.
“The Fourteen Minute Gap,” essay by Rex Bradford and documentary by Tyler Weaver, at maryferrell.org; Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have
Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), p. 284;
4.
CIA 104-10306-10018.
5.
HSCA 180-10142-10036.
6.
Anthony Summers,
Not In Your Lifetime
(New York: Marlowe & Co., 1998), p. 38.
7.
For example, see FBI 124-10285-10066.
8.
John Newman, “Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City,” at pbs.org.
9.
HSCA Secret Service interviews declassified by the Assassinations Records Review Board, cited by Vince Palamara
in
Deep Politics
magazine 4-97; Bernard Fensterwald interview of Abraham Bolden 3-29-68.
10.
FBI 105-82555-1437.
11.
Phone interview with Don Adams, 6-14-06.
12.
Miami Police Intelligence interview with William Somersett, transcribed on 11-26-63 and additional Miami police files; Dan Christensen, “JFK,
King: The Dade County links,”
Miami
magazine 12-76.
13.
CIA 104-10419-10342 and related papers in the CIA’s Russell Holmes work files.
14.
Fensterwald affidavit for the Justice Department, 7-7-82.
15.
“Project Pilot,” pp. 21, 67 cited in and quoted from Douglas Valentine,
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of
America’s War on Drugs
(London, New York: Verso, 2004), p. 328.
16.
Dick Russell,
The Man Who Knew Too
Much
(New York: Carroll & Graf/R. Gallen, 1992), p. 561.
17.
Virgil Bailey phone interviews with Gary Shaw 4-26-80, 4-28-80; additional information from the files of Bud Fensterwald; Jean-Pierre Charbonneau,
The Canadian Connection
(Ottawa: Optimum, 1976) pp. 47, 262; Senate Committee on Government
Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics,
Sept./Oct. 1963.
18.
Gary Shaw interview with Hal Norwood, 4-28-80.
19.
John McCone Memorandum for the Record, 11-25-63.
20.
Interview with Dean Rusk, 1-5-90.
21.
Foreign Relations of the United States, vol.
XI, Department of State, #375 and #376, 11-12-63; Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon
& Schuster, 2000), p 449.
22.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(New York: Ballantine, 1979), p. 664.
23.
G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
The Plot to Kill the President
(New York: Times Books, 1981), p. 320.
24.
The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History
, MPI DVD, 2006.
25.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), p. 18.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
1.
CIA 104-10306-10018.
2.
Miami Police Intelligence interview with William Somersett, transcribed on 11/26/63 and additional Miami police files; Dan Christensen, “JFK, King: The Dade County links,”
Miami
magazine 12-76.
3.
Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War against Castro and the Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), p. 498.
4.
FBI memo, DeLoach to Mohr, 6-4-64.
5.
Peter Dale Scott,
Deep
Politics and the Death of JFK
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) p128.
6.
Michael T. Griffith cited HSCA in “Just the Facts,” 2001.
7.
Article by Tim Smith in
Deep Politics
vol. 3 #4, 7-98.
8.
Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) citing personal telephone conversation, October 1979.
9.
Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: Paragon House, 1989), p. 311.
10.
FBI 124-10273-10448.
11.
Blakey and Billings, op. cit., p. 324; Summers,
Conspiracy
(McGraw-Hill, 1980), p. 483; John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), p. 603.
12.
Michael Benson,
Who’s Who in
the JFK Assassination: An A-to-Z Encyclopedia
(New York: Citadel, 1993), p. 72.
13.
Warren Commission vol. XIV, pp. 471, 596, 597; Carl Sifakis,
The Mafia Encyclopedia
(New York: Facts On File, 1987), pp. 103, 104.
14.
Miami Police Intelligence interview with William Somersett, transcribed on 11/26/63 and additional Miami police files; Dan Christensen, “JFK, King: The Dade County links,”
Miami
magazine 12-76.
15.
J. Edgar Hoover FBI memo, 11-24-63.
16.
Gary Cornwell,
Real answers: The True Story
(Spicewood, TX: Paleface Press, 1998), pp. 143-53.
17.
J. Edgar Hoover FBI memo, 11-24-63.
18.
CIA memo 85657, 11-28-63.
19.
Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: Paragon House, 1989), p. 396; G. Robert Blakey and
Notes
803
Richard N. Billings,
The Plot to Kill the President
(New York: Times Books, 1981), p. 63.
20.
David E. Scheim,
Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy
(New York: Zebra, 1989) citing Warren Commission Document #84, p. 91 and Warren Commission Exhibit #1536.
21.
Henry Hurt,
Reasonable
Doubt (
New York: Henry Holt, 1987), photo section showing 11-30-63 FBI memo.
22.
Airtel to Hoover from SAC Miami, 10-24-63.
23.
FBI Airtel to Hoover from SAC Miami, 7-30-64.
24.
Anthony Summers,
Official
and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993), many passages.
25.
David E. Scheim,
Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy
(New York: Zebra, 1989), p. 221.
26.
CIA 1993.08.04.16:20:46:530028.
27.
HSCA 180-10142-10036 (HSCA timeline).
28.
HSCA vol. X, p. 59; CIA document from HSCA, Record Number 180-10141-10419.
29.
Phone interviews with
Naval Intelligence source, 10-27-91 and 12-91.
30.
Ibid; HSCA vol. XI, pp. 542-551.
31.
Foreign Relations
of the United States
, vol. XI, Department of State, #384, 12-3-63.
32.
Interviews with confidential Kennedy aide source, 3-17-92.
33.
David Talbot,
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 22.
34.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(New York: Ballantine, 1979), p. 664.
35.
FBI memo from Handley to Rosen 11-24-64, released 6-18-94.
36.
A. J. Weberman, citing FBI 44-24016-112,1247; 62-109060-1528; FBI DC-44-1639 BL-E-cover pg; FBI CG 44-645- DWS: p. l6, cover
page B.
37.
A. J. Weberman, citing FBI DC-44-1639 BL-E-cover pg; FBI CG 44-645- DWS: p. l6, cover page B.
38.
HSCA Report, p. 231; FBI Airtel to Director, 10-1-74.
39.
FBI teletype 12-8-63 C62-6115-55; FBI 12-9-63 B62-6115-69.
40.
Warren Commission document #149, 12-10-63 FBI memo.
41.
Douglas Valentine,
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs
(London, New York: Verso, 2004), pp. 309, 310.
42.
G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
The Plot to Kill the President
(New York: Times Books, 1981), p. 325
43.
Seth Kantor,
The Ruby Cover-Up
(New York: Zebra Books, 1992), pp. 415, 416.
44.
CIA 104-10435-10001.
45.
Walter Sheridan,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972), p. 300.
46.
Warren Commission Document #87
47.
New Orleans Police Report #K-12634-63.
48.
New Orleans States-Item
, “Two arrested for Federal Agents here,” 11-25-63.
49.
David Heymann,
RFK:
A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy
(1998).
CHAPTER NINETEEN
1.
John H. Davis, Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1989), p. 298.
2.
FBI 124-1200-33; CD 301, pp. 286-93.
3.
Phone interview with Don Adams 6-14-06; Michael L. Kurtz, The JFK Assassination Debates (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas,
2006), pp. 218, 219.
4.
Miami Police Intelligence memo 12-4-63; Peter Dale Scott, Paul L. Hoch, and Russell Stetler, eds., The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond: A Guide to Cover-Ups and Investigations (New
York: Vintage, 1976), pp. 133, 134; Phone interview with Don Adams 6-14-06; Dick Russell, The Man Who
Knew Too Much (New York: Carroll & Graf/R. Gallen, 1992), p. 552.
5.
Ibid.
6.
CIA 104-10306-10017.
7.
Tom Tripodi, Crusade: Undercover Against the Mafia and KGB (Washington, DC, Brassey’s, 1993), p. 87.
8.
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs (London, New York: Verso,
2004), p. 270; Andrew Tully, CIA: The Inside Story (New York: William Morrow, 1962), pp. 45-53; Ber-
nard Fensterwald affidavit for the Justice Department 7-13-82; “De Gaulle Plot Reported,” UPI in Dallas
Morning News 6-15-75; CIA 104-10419-10342.
9.
Letters from Souetre and other information provided
by French journalist Stephane Risset to the authors in 1998; Bernard Fensterwald affidavit for the Justice
Department 7-13-82.
10.
Michael T. Griffith, “Just the Facts,” web article 2001.
11.
Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked (Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), pp. 462-66.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Ibid.
14.
HSCA vol. X, pp.
199-205.
15.
The way the stories were leaked indicates that the Mafia was their driving force. Had CIA officials floated the stories to stampede the U.S. into invading Cuba, it would have generated the stories
in major markets all at once. In fact, David Atlee Phillips and E. Howard Hunt had participated in such
an intense publicity strategy in 1954, in order to topple Guatemala’s elected government.
16.
FBI 124-90033-10074.
17.
John Martino, article in Human Events, 12-21-63. (Note: Any ghostwriter involved in
the article would have only been using the information given to him by Martino, and that writer would
have had no knowledge of Martino’s criminal activities).
18.
Harold Weisberg interview with Colonel
Castorr, on file at the Assassinations Archives and Records Center; FBI memo to J. Edgar Hoover, 7-31-59;
Warren Commission Document #1553D, pp. 1, 3.
19.
Warren Commission Document #657.
20.
Anthony Summers, Conspiracy (New York: Paragon House, 1989), p. 423.
21.
“A Sad and Solemn Duty,” Time
Magazine, 12-13-63.
22.
FBI memo, DeLoach to Mohr, 6-4-64.
23.
“Touched,” Time magazine, 4-15-66.
24.
Dick Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), p. 195; Joachim Joesten, Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy? (New York: Marzani & Munsell, 1964), pp. 150, 151.
25.
Ibid Russell, p. 199.
26.
Warren Commission, Document #1015.
27.
The Inspector was transferred out of New Orleans on 4-1, so Oswald’s visit had to have been before that date, in March or even earlier; see Church Committee Report, vol. V, p. 91.
28.
The subjects of the photographs, the gun, and the communist groups are covered at length in many passages in: Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt (New York: Henry Holt, 1987);