Legacy of Secrecy (160 page)

The Third Alternative
(Pennsylvania: 1993), chapter 10; Bernard Fensterwald interview of Abraham Bolden 3-29-68; HSCA Document #180-10070-10273, interview of Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden by HSCA

staffers Jim Kelly and Harold Rese; Bernard Fensterwald interview of Abraham Bolden 3-29-68.
3.
These are just a few of the references about the Chicago plot, which is detailed extensively in Lamar Waldron

and Thom Hartman,
Ultimate Sacrifice
, (New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2005)
,
chapters 50-52; phone interview with Pierre Salinger 4-10-98; phone interviews with Jim Allison 4-15-98 and 4-16-98; Edwin

Black article,
Chicago Independent
, 11-75; CIA memo for Director of Security, subject: Cain, Richard Scully,
794

LEGACY OF SECRECY

12-19-69, declassified 1992; HSCA 180-10105-10393, Secret Service memo 3-29-63, declassified 12-1-93;

Bud Fensterwald, “The Case of Secret Service Agent Abraham W. Bolden,”
Computers and Automation,

6-71; HSCA Report, p. 231; UPI article 5-21-64; HSCA 180-10070-10273 interview with Abraham Bolden

1-19-78, declassified 1-5-96; Vincent Michael Palamara,
The Third Alternative
(PA, 1993) many passages; CIA F82-0272/1, 82-1625 (4); CIA 104-10308-10209, declassified 9-21-98; F82-0272/2: cable to CIA Director from (censored), 1-64.
4.
Michael J. Cain,
The Tangled Web: The Life and Death of Richard Cain
(New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2007), many passages; HSCA 180-10105-10393, Secret Service memo 3-29-63,

declassified 12-1-93; CIA memo for Director of Security, subject: Cain, Richard Scully, 12-19-69, declas-

sified 1992; CIA memo for “Chief, LEOB/SRS” from Sarah K. Hall 12-11-67; CIA memo to Chief, SRS

from M. D. Stevens, 10-9-67, declassified 1992; 12-12-67 CIA memo to Director of Security, #272141.
5.

Frank DeBenedictis, “Four Days before Dallas,”
Tampa Bay History,
Fall/Winter 1994;
The New York Times,
11-19-63;
Tampa Tribune,
11-17-63; Mary Evertz, “John F. Kennedy: The Exhibition,”
St. Petersburg Times,
11-11-99.
6.
These are just a few of the many references for the Tampa attempt, which are detailed at length in Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartman,
Ultimate Sacrifice
, (New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2005): phone interview with J. P. Mullins 12-10-96; phone interview with high Florida law-enforcement source

12-10-96; HSCA 180-10074-10394, cited in JFK Assassination Records Review Board Update presentation

by Joseph Backes at the 1996 JFK Lancer Conference.
7.
“Threats on Kennedy Made Here,”
Tampa Tribune,
11-23-63; “Man Held in Threats to JFK,”
Miami Herald,
11-24-63: It is bylined, “Tampa (UPI),” so it may well have appeared in other newspapers.
8.
Phone interview with Blanche Andrea Leon 3/2/96; Skip

Johnson and Tony Durr, “Ex-Tampan in JFK Plot?”
Tampa Tribune,
9-5-76; CIA 104-10075-10006.
9.
HSCA Report, pp. 118-21; 12-4-63 “secret” “classified message” from the office of CIA Director John McCone

(though signed by Richard Helms) about the Tampa suspect and not wanting “to blow the [censored]

operation,” declassified 4-6-94, Document ID 1994.04.06.10:28:12:530005; numerous Lopez files from the

CIA Russell Holmes work files collection and the Assassination Archives and Research Center. Much more

about Lopez is detailed in Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartman,
Ultimate Sacrifice
, (New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2005).
10.
Miami Police Intelligence files; Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), pp. 218-19.
11.
Dan Christensen, “JFK, King: The Dade County links,”
Miami
magazine, 12-76; HSCA Report, p. 232; Miami Police Department transcript of

11-9-63 Milteer conversation with William Somersett; phone interview with confidential high Florida

law-enforcement source 12-10-96; Miami Police interview with William Somersett transcribed 11-26-63.

12.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), pp. 218, 219.
13.
Note that Commander Almeida had been in the Sierra Maestra mountains with Fidel

Castro, unlike Rolando Cubela;
The
New York Times
11-19-63;
Marietta Daily Journal
11-19-63; Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War against Castro and the Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), p. 275.

14.
Ralph Martin,
A Hero For Our Time
(New York: Fawcett Crest, 1988), p. 503, cited in Vincent Michael Palamara,
Survivor’s Guilt: The Secret Service & the Failure to Protect the President
(Pennsylvania: 2005), p.

21.
15.
“International relations chief Alberto Fowler dies at 58,”
New Orleans Times-Picayune,
12-30-87;
U.S. News & World Report, 1-7-63
; Statement of Alberto Fowler in the Office of the District Attorney 1-23-67; memos by Harold Weisberg on file at the Assassination Archives and Research Center;
New Orleans

Times-Picayune,
11-22-73; Harry Williams interview 2-24-92.
16.
Phone interview with confidential high Florida law-enforcement source 12-10-96.
17.
HSCA vol. X, pp. 199-205; Larry Hancock,
Someone Would
Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), pp. 461-70; Statement of Mr. A. H. Magruder, taken by

Det. Frank Meloche and Sgt. Fenner Sedgebeer, 2-23-67; John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Sig-

net, 1989), pp. 606, 607; HSCA vol. X, pp. 198-205; Ronald Goldfarb,
Perfect Villains and Imperfect Heroes
(New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 139, 140; John H. Davis,
The Kennedy Contract
(New York: Harper

Paperbacks, 1993), pp. 54, 55.

CHAPTER SIX

1.
Michael Benson,
Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: An A-to-Z Encyclopedia
(New York: Citadel, 1993), pp. 329, 330; Robert Oswald testimony Warren Commission vol. I, pp. 264-469; John Edward Pic testimony

Warren Commission vol. VIII, pp. 196-202; Greg Parker article 10-21-04; Robert L. Oswald, “He was my

brother,”
Look,
10-17-67; Herbert Philbrick,
I Led Three Lives
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1952); Roger M.

Grace, “Channel 11 Loads Its Schedule with Syndicated Shows,”
Metropolitan News-Enterprise,
1-22-2003; Wesley Britton, “They were Communists for the FBI,” August 2004, and Britton also cites Daniel J. Leab,

I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.
:
The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic
(University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000).
2.
Anthony Summers,
Not In Your Lifetime
(New York: Marlowe & Co., 1998), pp. 234, 235; Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(Paragon House, 1989), p. 125; Dick Russell,
The Man Who
Knew Too Much
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), p. 126.
3.
Cindy Adams,
New York Post
, 2-12-92, cited by Michael Benson,
Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: An A-to-Z Encyclopedia
(New York: Citadel, 1993), p. 110.
4.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006),

Notes

795

pp. 149, 150.
5.
Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), p. 191.
6.
Anthony Summers,
Not In Your Lifetime
(New York: Marlowe & Co., 1998), pp. 82, 83, 152-59.
7.
Ibid, pp. 82, 83, 152-72, and others; Warren Hinckle and William Turner,
Deadly Secrets
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth,

1992), pp. 193, 194.
8.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), pp. 149, 150.
9.
CIA 104-10310-10208.
10.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), pp. 162, 240.
11.
Ibid, p. 163.
12.
Ibid, p. 184.
13.
Ibid, pp. 159, 186.
14.
Ibid, p. 184.
15.
Ibid, pp. 185, 186.
16.
Lisa Pease, article in
Probe,
vol. 3, No. 3, March/April 1996.
17.
E. Howard Hunt deposition, 11-3-78, document #180-10131-10342, declassified 2-9-96; Joseph

B. Smith,
Portrait of a Cold Warrior
(New York: Ballantine, 1981), pp. 229, 230; John Newman,
Oswald and
the CIA
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 95, 236, 240-44.
18.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination
Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), p. 165.
19.
Interview with Antonio Veciana, 6-2-93.
20.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), p. 161.
21.
Interview with confidential Naval Intelligence investigator source 10-27-91; article about Win Scott in
Washington Post
3-17-96.
22.
Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics III
(online excerpt available at maryferrell.org); Douglas Valentine,
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs
(London, New York: Verso, 2004), many passages.
23.
Anthony Summers,
Not In Your Lifetime
(New York: Marlowe & Co., 1998), p. 289.
24.
Warren Commission vol. XVI, Exhibit #102, pp. 441-42.
25.
Ibid.
26.
Skip Johnson and Tony Durr, “Ex-Tampan in JFK Plot?”
Tampa Tribune,
9-5-76; Dr. Jerry D. Rose, “J. B. Stoner: An Introduction,”
The Fourth Decade
, November 1995 FBI teletype 11-27-63, Springfield to Director and Dallas. According to the FBI report, the secretary said Oswald’s visit happened in the summer of 1962

or 1961, but the New Orleans TV reference clearly places it in 1963.
27.
Sylvia Meagher,
Accessories After
the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report
(New York: Vintage, 1992), pp. 45-63; Seth Kantor,
The Ruby Cover-Up
(New York: Zebra Books, 1992), pp. 386-89; Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy

(McGraw-Hill, 1980), pp. 87, 88; Henry Hurt,
Reasonable Doubt
(New York: Henry Holt, 1987), pp. 96, 97.

28.
David Atlee Phillips,
The Night Watch
(New York: Atheneum, 1977), p. 12.
29.
CIA 104-10240-10337

shows that the torn-bill technique was also used for Manuel Artime as part of AMWORLD, so that he

could identify his intelligence contact; interview with Antonio Veciana, 6-2-93; Ronald Goldfarb,
Perfect
Villains and Imperfect Heroes
(New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 139, 140.
30.
Richard D. Mahoney,
Sons

& Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade, 1999), p. 418.
31.
San Jose Mercury News,
9-28-88.
32.
Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980), pp. 105-7; G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
The Plot to Kill the President
(New York: Times Books, 1981),
pp. 21, 363.

CHAPTER SEVEN

1.
Ronald Goldfarb,
Perfect Villains, Imperfect Heroes: Robert F. Kennedy’s War against Organized Crime
(New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 139-42.
2.
Wallace Turner, “Las Vegas: Casinos Get Millions in

Loans from Teamsters Fund,”
The
New York Times
, 11-22-63.
3.
Army document, from Director of Foreign Intelligence to Office, Secretary of the Army attn: Mr. Joseph Califano, General Counsel; Dec. 11, 1963,

Califano Papers, Record Number 198-10004-10011, declassified 10-7-97.
4.
Haynes Johnson, “One Day’s

Events Shattered America’s Hopes and Certainties,”
Washington Post
11-20-83.
5.
Interviews with Harry Williams 2-24-92, 4-92.
6.
Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1978), p. 272.
7.
CIA 104-10236-10350.
8.
Anthony and Robbyn Summers, “The Ghosts of November,”
Vanity Fair
, 12-94; Anthony Summers,
Not In Your Lifetime
(New York: Marlowe & Co., 1998), pp. 310, 449; William Turner interview with Harry Williams 11-28-73; Warren Hinckle and William Turner,
The Fish Is Red: The Story of the Secret
War Against Castro
(New York: Harper & Row, 1981), pp. 153, 218.
9.
Church Committee vol. V, p. 101.

10.
Church Committee vol. V, p. 19.
11.
CIA, Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967, p. 93a.
12.
Noel Twyman,
Bloody Treason
(Rancho Sante Fe, CA: Laurel Publishing, 1997), p. 451.
13.

Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), pp. 389, 390.
14.
Ibid, pp. 384, 385; Noel Twyman,
Bloody Treason
(Rancho Sante Fe, CA: Laurel Publishing, 1997), pp. 402, 427.
15.
Nassau Conference Report,
AARC Quarterly
, Fall 1995-Winter 1996.
16.
Richard D. Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers:
The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade, 1999), p. 229; Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have
Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006) many passages.
17.
Cuban Officials and JFK Historians Nassau Conference, 12-7-95; John Simkin, David Morales biography at the British educational website www.

spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.
18.
David Corn,
Blond Ghost
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 85.
19.

Wayne Smith comments on BBC “Newsnight” report 11-20-06; Eric Hamburg,
JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone,