Authors: Lamar Waldron
Notes
829
Winslow and available at his Cuban Information Archives website;
New Orleans Times-Picayun
e, 11-22-73.
31.
HSCA vol. X, pp. 43, 44; Ann Louise Bardach,
Cuba Confidential
(New York: Random House, 2002), many passages; CIA 104-10068-10010; HSCA 180-10143-10215.
32.
Stansfield Turner appearance on CNN,
7-14-04
33.
Miami Herald
, 4-1-77; Michael Benson,
Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: An A-to-Z Encyclopedia
(New York: Citadel, 1993), p. 313.
34.
Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), pp. 192, 193.
35.
Ibid, p. 77; HSCA 180-10108-10069.
36.
Ibid Fonzi, p. 40, 41; David Corn,
Blond Ghost
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 118.
37.
HSCA vol. X, pp. 37, 48; Gaeton Fonzi,
The
Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), p. 433.
38.
Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), p. 209.
39.
Philip H. Melanson,
The Murkin Conspiracy
(New York: Praeger, 1989), p. 167; HSCA vol. VII, p. 360.
40.
Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the
CIA
(New York: Knopf, 1979), p. 349.
41.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and
the Mob
(New York: SPI, 1993), p. 432.
42.
Jefferson Morley, “What Jane Roman Said,” 12-17-02.
43.
David Talbot, “The man who solved the Kennedy assassination,” Salon.com, 11-22-03.
44.
HSCA vol. IV, pp. 158, 159, 173, 174.
45.
HSCA Report, pp. 118-21, plus additional files at the Assassination Archives and Research Center; HSCA vol. XI, pp. 539-51.
46.
U.S. House of Representatives,
The Final Assassinations Report of the
Select Committee on Assassinations
(New York: Bantam Books, 1979), pp. 208, 213.
47.
Ibid, p. 208.
CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
1.
Joseph Kraft article in
San Francisco Chronicle
, 4-20-83.
2.
John H. Davis,
The Kennedy Contract
(New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), 213-219; G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
Fatal Hour
(New York: Berkley Books, 1992), pp. xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xliv.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Letter from Informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88, available at the National Archives.
5.
Letter from Informant to Justice Department, 4-6-88, available at the National Archives.
6.
Letter from Informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88, available at the National Archives.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Priority FBI memo from Dallas office to FBI Director, 11-88, available at the National Archives.
10
. Letter from Informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88, available at the National Archives.
11
. Ibid.
12
. Ibid.
13
. FBI contact investigation 3-7-86, report dictated 3-6-86, FD-302 declassified 6-98 and on file at the National
Archives.
14
. John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), p. 562.
15
. Letter from Informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88, available at the National Archives.
16
. Letter from Informant to Justice Department, 4-6-88.
17
. John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), p. 565.
18
. Letter from Senior Case Manager, Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, CA, to FBI agents, 6-21-88.
19
. Letter from Informant to Justice Department, 4-6-88.
20
. Letter from Informant to FBI headquarters in Washington, 4-18-88, available at the National Archives.
21
. Priority FBI memo from
FBI San Francisco Office to FBI Director, Washington, 9-88, available at the National Archives.
22
. As for why the FBI never prosecuted Marcello or his family using the CAMTEX information, Agent Kimmel
told us the bribes to move Marcello might have been considered entrapment by a jury. Another FBI agent
who was involved added that convicting a family member for the bribe would have been difficult, since
defense attorneys could have portrayed it sympathetically, as an attempt to make the elderly patriarch
more comfortable in his final years. The agent added that if Marcello’s brother had approved the funds to
actually spring Marcello, they would have had a better case—but that never happened. It’s also possible
that political considerations in the Reagan administration, far above the level of those agents, kept the
information from being used against Marcello, his family, or associates like the governor, since parts of
Marcello’s information and CAMTEX also crossed over into the ongoing Savings and Loan scandal and
Iran-Contra.
23
. Dan Christensen “Court Secrecy Practices at Center of Drug Boss’s 11th Circuit Appeal,
Daily Business Review
, 11-22-04.
24
. John H. Davis,
The Kennedy Contract
(New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), pp. 220, 221.
25
. Noel Twyman,
Bloody Treason
(Rancho Sante Fe, CA: Laurel Publishing, 1997), pp. 298, 299; FBI 124-10253-10112 and FBI Dallas 175-109 3-3-89, both cited by A. J. Weberman.
26
. Letter from Informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88, available at the National Archives. The
only point in the Informant’s extremely lengthy account of his talks with Marcello that might indicate
Marcello’s advancing years is when the Informant writes one sentence as if David Ferrie is still alive. It
can’t be determined if that was simply an assumption on the Informant’s part or if it was based on some-
thing Marcello said—that can only be clarified when the “hundreds of hours” of CAMTEX audio tapes are
released.
27
. John H. Davis,
The Kennedy Contract
(New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), p. 221.
28
. Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), pp. 181, 182.
29
. Richard Helms with William Hood,
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
(New York: Random House, 2003), p. 229; Christopher Marquis, “Richard Helms, Ex-CIA Chief, Dies at 89,
The New York
Times
, 10-23-02.
30
. E. Howard Hunt with Greg Aunapu,
American Spy
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), pp. 135, 144.
31
. A Presumption of Disclosure: Lessons from the John F. Kennedy Assassination
830
LEGACY OF SECRECY
Records Review Board,” report by OMB Watch, 2000, at ombwatch.org; “’Denied in Full’: Federal Judges
Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets,”
Huffington Post
, 10-22-07, which says, “Even though the JFK Act states that all assassination records must be made public by 2017, a top CIA official noted in a court filing that
the Agency has the right to keep as many as 1,100 still-secret JFK records out of public view beyond that
date.”
EPILOGUE
1.
“Cuba releases from jail last prisoner of ill-fated Bay of Pigs invation,”
The San Diego Union
, 10-19-86; for the drug scandal, see many passages in Andres Oppenheimer,
Castro’s Final Hour
, (New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1992); Juan O. Tamayo,
Miami Herald
, 9-1-97; Cuba Transition Project report, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami; interviews with Harry Williams 2-24-92, 4-92, 7-24-93. 2-21-95.
2.
Lamar Waldron’s written testimony sent on 11-9-94 for the Review Board’s 11-18-94 public hearing in Dallas, on file at the National Archives and noted in the Review Board’s 1995
Annual Report; Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board
Final Report
, 1998.
3.
NBC Nightly News
with Tom Brokaw 9-29-98; “A Presumption of Disclosure: Lessons from the John F. Kennedy Assassination
Records Review Board,” report by OMB Watch, 2000, at ombwatch.org; “’Denied in Full’: Federal Judges
Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets,”
Huffington Post
, 10-22-07.
4.
Jeff Franks, “Castro announces surgery,”
Reuters, 11-29-96.
5.
“Chief of Cuba’s Armed Forces Raul Castro attends event in honor of victims of
Cuban downed airliner in Havana,” Reuters story and photo, 10-7-06.
6.
Fabian Escalante message, 10-06, posted by Wim Dankbaar on the JFK Forum at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk; Wim Dankbaar e-mail
confirmation 11-06 to authors.
7.
Frances Robles, “Raul Castro asserts leadership at big brother Fidel’s birthday party,” McClatchy Newspapers; Cuban media reports, all 12-2-06:
Periodico 26
;
Granma
; Prensa Latina Latin American News Agency.
Index
16th Street Baptist Church, 7
AM code names, 204.
See also
specific
Arab/Israeli conflict, 656
names
Arlington National Cemetery, 188,
A
AMCROW, 204
648
ABC News, 22, 275, 632, 732
AMCRUX, 204
arms traffickers, 78, 163, 245, 295,
Abernathy, Ralph David, 562, 572,
American Civil Liberties Union, 580,
296, 446–449, 453
580, 588–589, 594, 620
664
Army Intelligence, 24, 84, 137, 165,
Accessories After the Fact
, 353
American Communist Party, 293
214, 245, 515, 521, 524, 765
Ace Security, 629, 630
American Nazi Party, 510, 536
Army’s Criminal Investigation
Adams, Don, 78, 229, 256, 508
AMFOX, 204
Command, 725
AEFOXTROT, 303.
See also
Nosenko, AMGLOSSY, 204
Arnez, Desi, 649
Yuri
AMHALF, 204
Arnold, Carolyn, 110–111
African Americans, 600.
See also
civil AMJUDGE, 204
Arnold, Gordon, 112, 117
rights movement
AMLASH, 19, 35, 136, 172, 180, 204,
Artime, Manuel, 17–18, 26–29, 34,
Afro-Cuban movement, 767
224, 282, 297, 311, 325, 326.
See also
39–40, 297–306, 322, 361, 448, 454,
Agency Crisis Watch Committee,
Cubela, Rolando
526, 547, 703–704, 716–720, 725–
135
AMOT, 38, 63, 98–99, 162, 207, 208,
726, 736, 741, 745, 763, 771.
See also
Agency for International Develop-
212, 272.
See also
Cuban exiles
Cuban exiles; JFK-Almeida coup
ment (AID), 679
AMTHUG, 35.
See also
Castro, Fidel
plan; activities in Miami, 718;
Agnew, Spiro, 703, 729
AMTRUNK, 18, 19, 158, 172, 201,
Artime-Mafia CIA Memo, 741;
Ainsworth, Kathy, 546, 642
204, 224, 274, 283, 311, 325, 739, 740
breach of security, 311; Castro-
Alabama, 44–45, 485, 487, 539
AMWHIP-1, 19
McGovern document and, 717;
Aleman, Jose, 59, 158, 244
AMWORLD plan, 13–23, 28, 30, 33–
Central American camps, 710; in
Alexander, Bill, 188, 191
41, 54, 63, 75, 83, 86–87, 96, 102,
Costa Rica, 271; death of, 742;
Alien Registration Act, 532
127, 138–139, 143–147, 157, 172,
Hunt and, 714, 725; involvement in
Allen, Ivan, 603
193, 201–202, 204, 207–208, 224,
drug trafficking, 158, 326, 328, 742;
Allende, Salvador, 243, 711, 724, 728
237, 274–276, 283, 297–304, 309,
JFK assassination and, 55–56, 63–
Almeida, Juan, 3, 11–28, 34–35, 42,
311, 325–326, 329–330, 454–456,
65, 68, 86, 93–96, 102, 127, 138, 143,
63, 67, 73–76, 93–96, 115, 133, 151–
523–524, 526, 547–548, 676–677,
146–147, 153–159, 161–162, 175,
152, 154, 161–162, 174, 182–183,
698, 703, 712, 728, 733, 736, 740–
182, 201, 204, 208, 211–215, 227–
187, 211, 224, 234–235, 249, 259,
742, 745, 749, 765–767, 769, 771.
228, 234, 260, 262, 271, 280, 283,
268, 280–291, 294–296, 298, 310,
See also
JFK-Almeida coup plan
742; the Mafia and, 741; Magnum
322, 325, 446, 454, 461, 526, 621,
Anastasia, 5, 61
rifle and, 327; in Nicaragua, 271,
727, 733, 736, 765–767; Afro-Cuban Anderson, Jack, 106, 125, 158–159,
718; RFK and, 306; Saigon and, 703
movement and, 767; Bay of Pigs
172, 261, 457, 461–462, 467–468,
Aryan Nations, 545, 546
and, 736; Castro, Fidel and, 736;
524, 532–533, 553, 612–613, 636,
Assassination Archives, 193
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
705–706, 718, 722, 735;
American
Associated Press, 11–12, 196, 199,
and, 749; Cuban government and,
Exposé: Who Murdered JFK?
, 760;
566, 761
376–377, 442, 749; in the Cuban
articles about CIA-Mafia plots,
Association of Retired Intelligence
Revolution, 165; desire to defect,
704, 708, 713, 732; articles about
Officers, 106, 732
736; disappearance of, 767; Hunt,
JFK assassination, 557; articles
Atlanta, Georgia, 488, 494, 504, 569,
E. Howard and, 359–361; JFK and,
about RFK’s 1963 Cuban
605; African American higher
767, 768; leaves Cuba for Algeria,
operation, 557; Castro retaliation
education, 493; African American
280–281; meeting with Andrew
theory and, 392–395, 413–418, 420,