Legacy of Secrecy (163 page)

the airport on the morning of 11-22-63, shortly before the former Vice President left Dallas. Though it

suggests the possibility that Hunt was trying to get Nixon out of Dallas prior to JFK’s motorcade, the

report is highly suspect. The report was made long after the fact, during the Watergate investigations,

and the Nixon aide whom the witness claims she recognized was John Ehrlichman.
20.
CIA document,

800

LEGACY OF SECRECY

JMWAVE to Director, 12-5-63, released in 1994 by the CIA Historical Review Program.
21.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), p. 199.
22.
FBI report 11-25-63, 94-448-12; HSCA vol. X, pp. 113, 114; Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980), pp. 497, 506.
23.
Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), p. 329.
24.
Ibid; David E.

Scheim,
Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy
(New York: Zebra, 1989), p. 62; G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
The Plot to Kill the President
(New York: Times Books, 1981), pp.

46, 397; Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980), p. 483; HSCA vol. X, p. 113.
25.

FBI report 11-25-63, 94-448-12; Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980), pp. 497,

506.
26.
Michael Benson,
Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: An A-to-Z Encyclopedia
(New York: Citadel, 1993), pp. 284, 285.
27.
Phone interview with John Diuguid, 9-30-04.
28.
Miami Police Intelligence interview with William Somersett, transcribed 11-26-63.
29.
HSCA vol. X, pp. 198-205.
30.
Gaeton Fonzi,
The
Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), p. 112.
31.
Ibid; Fonzi interview 1-16-76 with Silvia Odio from the National Archives, in Jim DiEugenio “Sylvia Odio vs. Liebeler & the La Fontaines,”
Probe
, Sept.-Oct. 1996.
32.
Ibid Fonzi, p. 113; Warren Commission Document #1546, p. 213; NARA 124-10158-10186; Warren Commission Document #1546; Warren Commission vol. XI, pp. 367-389; Larry Hancock,

Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006) pp. 40-46, many others.
33.
Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab,
Mob Lawyer
(New York: Scribners, 1994), pp. 147, 148.
34.
Ibid, p. 148.
35.
Phone interview with confidential high Florida law-enforcement source, 12-10-96.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1.
Richard D. Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade, 1999), p.

295.
2.
David S. Lifton,
Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988), pp. 157, 160, 161.
3.
Interview with Dave Powers 6-5-91 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library; William Novak,
Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O’Neil
(New York: Random House, 1987), p. 178.
4.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), p. 39; Henry Hurt,
Reasonable Doubt (
New York: Henry Holt, 1987), p. 49.

5.
HSCA interview with Francis O’Neill, 1-10-78.
6.
William Matson Law,
In the Eye of History
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer Productions, 2005), pp. 124, 125, 130.
7.
Ibid, pp. 35, 43, 51.
8.
Ibid, p. 84.
9.
Dr. George Burkley’s Oral History at the JFK Presidential Library.
10.
Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War
against Castro and the Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), p. 325.
11.
Washington Post
, 11-23-63.

12.
David S. Lifton,
Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988), pp. 403-407.
13.
Ibid, photo section following p. 282.
14.
Michael Benson,
Who’s Who
in the JFK Assassination: An A-to-Z Encyclopedia
(New York: Citadel, 1993), p. 138; Michael L. Kurtz,
The
JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), p. 86.
15.
David S. Lifton,
Best
Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988), pp. 590, 595, 646, 647; HSCA vol. VII, p. 15.
16.
William Matson Law,
In the Eye of History
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer Productions, 2005), pp. 132, 133.
17.
Ibid, pp. 258, 1259; David S. Lifton,
Best Evidence: Disguise
and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988), p. 651.
18.
Douglas Horne, Press conference presentation, May 15, 2006; also Horne e-mail report, May 21, 2007.
19.
William Matson Law,
In the Eye of History
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer Productions, 2005), pp. 186, 220.
20.
Cape
Cod Today
, 3-20-07.
21.
William Matson Law,
In the Eye of History
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer Productions, 2005), p. 47; David S. Lifton,
Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988), p. 607.
22.
Alexander M. Haig, Jr., with Charles McCarry, I
nner Circles:
How America Changed the World: A Memoir
(New York: Warner Books, 1992), pp. 113, 114.
23.
Joseph A.

Califano, Jr.,
The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), pp. 13, 14.
24.
Department of the Army document dated 9-14-63 provided by the State Department, in SSCIA record number 157-10005-10372 dated 3-27-76, declassified 2-18-94.
25.
Alexander M. Haig,

Jr.,
Inner Circles: How America Changed the World: A Memoir
(New York: Warner Books, 1992), p. 116.
26.

Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: Paragon House, 1989), p. 409.
27.
Larry Hancock,
Someone
Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), p. 289; John Simkin citing Henry Wade testimony

to the Warren Commission June 8, 1964 at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.
28.
Larry Hancock,
Someone
Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), p. 305.
29.
Dan Rather with Mickey Herskowitz,
The
Camera Never Blinks
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), many passages; Bob Schieffer in “JFK: Breaking the News,” PBS, 11-20-03.
30.
Jack Anderson column,
Washington Post
9-7-76.
31.
Travis Kirk, cited by A.

J. Weberman, at ajweberman.com.
32.
Anthony Summers,
Not In Your Lifetime
(New York: Marlowe & Co., 1998), p. 253.
33.
Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: Paragon House, 1989), p. 98; interview transcript with Jesse Curry from British television show Panorama, on file at the Assassination Archives

and Research Center.
34.
Ibid Summers, p. 414.
35.
William Manchester,
The Death of a President
,
November
20-November 25, 1963
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967), p. 333.
36.
Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: Paragon House, 1989), p. 58.
37.
New Orleans Times-Picayune
, 3-23-56 and 3-31-56.

Notes

801

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

1.
Richard D. Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade, 1999), p. 417.
2.
Michael J. Cain,
The Tangled Web: The Life and Death of Richard Cain
(New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2007) many passages; HSCA vol. X, p. 172, 193;
Chicago Tribune
12-28-73, p. 16; Peter Dale Scott,
Deep
Politics II
(Skokie, Ill.: Green Archive Publ., 1995), p. 132; CIA Office of Security Varona File Summary, Record Number 180-10144-10405, declassified 8-23-95; CIA memo, 3, 272, 992, released 1993; CIA “Process

Sheet for OO/C Collections” from Cain’s file, reports number 28925 and 28499, both released in 1993; CIA

Memo for Chief, Western Hemisphere Division, Subject: Salvadore Giancana and Richard Cain, 1-10-74,

released 1994.
3.
Bernard Fensterwald, “The Case of Secret Service Agent Abraham W. Bolden,”
Computers and Automation
, 6-71.
4.
CIA memo for Director of Security, subject: Cain, Richard Scully, 12-19-69, declassified 1992.
5.
Sylvia Meagher provides a good summary in
Accessories After the Fact: The Warren
Commission, the Authorities, and the Report
(New York: Vintage, 1992).
6.
Ibid, pp. 102, 106, 107.
7.
David S. Lifton,
Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988), pp. 503-04; Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), pp. 25, 47, 48.
8.
Tom Johnson,
Dallas Morning News
, 11-6-69.
9.
Anthony and Robbyn Summers, “The Ghosts of November,”
Vanity Fair
, 12- 94.
10.
Michael R. Beschloss,
Taking Charge
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), p. 23.
11.
Roger S. Peterson,
Declassified
, American History, 8-96, citing Carl Bernstein,
Rolling Stone
, 10-77.
12.
CIA 104-10048-10124.
13.
Peter Noyes,
Legacy of Doubt
(New York: Pinnacle Books, 1973), pp. 116-18.
14.
Ibid, pp. 117, 118.
15.
“Threats on Kennedy Made Here,”
Tampa
Tribune
, 11-23-63.
16.
Church vol. V, p. 62.
17.
Phone interview with J. P. Mullins 12-10-96; phone interview with high Florida law-enforcement source 12-10-96.
18.
“Oswald made visit in September to Mexico,”

The
New York Times
11-25-63, p. 8; Sylvia Meagher,
Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the
Authorities, and the Report
(New York: Vintage, 1992), pp. 311, 312.
19.
Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have
Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), p. 247.
20.
Ibid.
21.
Jean Daniel articles,
New Republic
, 12-14-63, 12-21-63;
Milwaukee Journal,
12-24-63.
22.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), p. 162.
23.
Ibid.
24.
John Newman, “Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City”

at pbs.org.
25.
Evan Thomas,
The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 307.
26.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 449.
27.
CIA 104-10295-10152.
28.
Jefferson Morley,
Washington Monthly
, 12-03.
29.
Ibid.
30.
Ibid.

31.
Ibid.
32.
David Talbot,
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Free Press, 2007), pp. 275, 276.
33.
RFK Oral History at the JFK Library; Edwin O. Guthman and Jeffrey Shulman, eds.,

Robert Kennedy: In His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years
(Toronto, New York: Bantam, 1988), p. 379.
34.
Email to the authors from Bayard Stockton, 12-8-05.
35.
Ted Shackley,
Spymaster:
My Life in the CIA
(Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2006), pp. ix, xvi, 55, 68.
36.
CIA 104-10423-10226.

37.
David Corn,
Blond Ghost
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p.262.
38.
John Simkin, David Morales biography at the British educational website www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.
39.
CIA 104-10423-10226.

40.
David Talbot,
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 276.

41.
Peter Wright,
Spycatcher
(1987), cited at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.
42.
Adam Walinsky Oral History, JFK Presidential Library, cited by David Talbot,
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 439.
43.
CIA 104--10110-10243.
44.
David Corn,
Blond Ghost
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 98.
45.
CIA 104-10241-10071.
46.
CIA 104-10241-10126.
47.
HSCA vol. X, p. 78.

48.
CIA 1993.08.04.16:20:46:530028.
49.
CIA 104-10429-10231.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

1.
John Newman,
Oswald and the CIA
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 356, 35, many others.
2.
Interview with confidential Naval Intelligence investigator source 10-27-91; Anthony and Robbyn Summers,

“The Ghosts of November,”
Vanity Fair
, 12-94.
3.
Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), p. 295; HSCA 180-10142-10353.
4.
Anthony Summers,
Not In Your Lifetime
(New York: Marlowe & Co., 1998), p. 264.
5.
John Newman,
Oswald and the CIA
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), p.

377.
6.
Ibid, several passages; Anthony Summers,
Not In Your Lifetime
(New York: Marlowe & Co., 1998), p. 384.
7.
Confidential Kennedy Foreign Policy source, 4-18-96.
8.
See Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartman,
Ultimate Sacrifice
, (New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2005), chapters 45-46.
9.
Mentioned in the
Warren
Report
, Oswald’s resume is available online at ajweberman.com.
10.
Chicago Tribune
12-28-73, p. 16; Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics II
(Skokie, IL: Green Archive Publ., 1995), p. 132.
11.
John Newman,
Oswald and the
CIA
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), p. 356.
12.
CIA 104-10169-10458.
13.
Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics III
(online excerpt available at maryferrell.org), citing TX-1915 of 11-23-63; NARA #104-10015-10055 PS#64-33. Cf. MEXI 7029 232048Z; NARA #104-10015-10091 PS#78-94.
14.
Michael Benson,
Who’s Who in the JFK