Legacy of Secrecy (167 page)

21.
Ibid.
22.
CIA document: Warren Hinckle and William Turner,
Deadly Secrets
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1992), p. 289; CIA document: 4-25-77, Record Number 104-10400-10123, Russ Holmes Work File,

Subject: AMTRUNK Operation, declassified 12-26-98; Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War against

Castro and the Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), p. 247.
23.
The New York Times
and several Cuban-sponsored publications printed accounts of the trial.
24.
JFK 1994.05.16.14:12:04:280005.
25.
CIA MFR 4-14-66 cited by A. J. Weberman.
26.
Warren Hinckle and William Turner,
Deadly Secrets
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1992), p. 289; 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), p. 363 citing
The New
York Times
, 3-6-66.
27.
Interview with Dean Rusk 1-5-90; Anthony and Robbyn Summers, “The Ghosts of November,”
Vanity Fair
, 12-94, p. 105.
28.
CIA 104-10169-10090.
29.
CIA 104-10102-10087.
30.
Cuban Officials and JFK Historians Nassau Conference, 12-7-95; Nassau Conference Report,
AARC Quarterly
,

Fall 1995-Winter 1996.
31.
Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), many passages.
32.
Haynes Johnson,
Sleepwalking through History
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), p. 271; interview with Harry Williams 7-24-93.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

1.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), p. 250.
2.
Ibid, pp. 259-64.
3.
Banister: see CIA #104-10109-10370 for 8-26-60 and 9-21-60 CIA memos about considering using

Banister and his small detective firm as a “cover operation” for an unspecified project (A. J. Weberman

notes that at that time “Guy Banister CIA Headquarters files #201-428810 and EE-28810 were opened, and

file #222918F-SB/2 was opened on Guy Banister Associates.”); for Banister-Bellino, see Joe Oster state-

ments in Banister files at the Assassination Archives and Research Center, Washington, DC. For Nixon’s

role in Cuban operations at the time, see Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan,
The Arrogance of Power:

The Secret World of Richard Nixon
(New York: Viking, 2000), many passages; for Maheu’s role, see Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967.
4.
Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967; John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), p. 87.
5.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), pp. 261-63.
6.
Ibid; CIA #104-10133-10005.

7.
G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
The Plot to Kill the President
(New York: Times Books, 1981), p. 152.
8.
Ed Reid,
The Grim Reapers
(New York: Bantam, 1970), p. 292; William Brashler,
The Don
(New York: Ballantine, 1977), p. 304.
9.
FBI 124-10221-10200.
10.
Ed Reid,
The Grim Reapers
(New York: Bantam, 1970), p. 160.
11.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 329.
12.
FBI 124-10204-10205.
13.
FBI 124-10204-10205.
14.
CIA, Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967.
15.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), pp. 320-23.

16.
Clifton Daniel,
Chronicle of America
(Liberty, MO: JL International Publishing, 1993), pp. 810-12.
17.
FBI 124-10280-10088.
18.
HSCA vol. X, pp. 37-56.
19.
Jane Franklin,
The Cuban Revolution and the United States:
A Chronological History
(Melbourne, Australia: Ocean, 1992), pp. 77, 78.
20.
CIA 180-10142-10307.
21.
HSCA 180-101432-10215.
22.
Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media,”
Rolling Stone
, 10-20-77.
23.
Warren Hinckle and William Turner,
Deadly Secrets
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1992), pp. 301-09.
24.
Ibid.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

1.
Richard Goodwin,
Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), pp. 462-65.

2.
Ibid.
3.
Jack Newfield, “I want Kennedy killed,”
Penthouse,
5-92.
4.
Authors’ interview with Richard Goodwin, 4-15-98.
5.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(New York: Ballantine, 1979), p. 664.
6.
Henry Hurt,
Reasonable Doubt (
New York: Henry Holt, 1987), p. 57
7.
Anthony Summers,
Official
and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993), many passages.

8.
Rosen to DeLoach FBI memorandum, 11-13-66.
9.
Tolson memo re: meeting with Justice Fortas, 2pm,

Notes

809

10-7-66.
10.
Ibid.
11.
Bernard Fensterwald, Jr., and Michael Ewing,
Coincidence or Conspiracy
(New York: Zebra Books, 1977), pp. 99, 100;
Washington Post,
1-21-75
12.
Ibid Fensterwald, pp. 101, 102.
13.
Ibid, pp.

103.
14.
US House of Representatives,
The Final Assassinations Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations
(New York: Bantam Books, 1979), pp. 208, 213.
15.
E. Howard Hunt with Greg Aunapu,
American
Spy
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), p. 157.
16.
Tad Szulc,
Compulsive Spy: The Strange Career of
E. Howard Hunt
(New York: Viking, 1974), pp. 100, 103; E. Howard Hunt with Greg Aunapu,
American

Spy
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), p. 157.
17.
Church Committee vol. I, part 10, p. 198; Ibid Hunt with Aunapu, pp. 149, 157.
18.
U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, commonly

known as the Smith Mundt Act; Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster,

2000), pp. 330, 408.
19.
Tad Szulc,
Compulsive Spy: The Strange Career of E. Howard Hunt
(New York: Viking, 1974), p. 104; Hunt CIA personnel files released to the National Archives in 1993 and 1994.
20.
E. Howard Hunt with Greg Aunapu,
American Spy
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), p. 148.
21.
Church Committee vol. I, part 10, p. 193.
22.
E. Howard Hunt with Greg Aunapu,
American Spy
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), p. 158; memo titled “Everette Howard Hunt, Jr.” in CIA file at the National Archives declassified as part of the 1994 CIA Historical Review Program.
23.
E. Howard Hunt,
Undercover
(New York: Berkley Publishing, 1974), p. 133; Jim Lesar, “Valenti/Helms Plan for CIA Television Show”
AARC

Quarterl
y, Fall 1995/Winter 1996; CIA memo quoted by A. J. Weberman.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

1.
FBI 124-10204-10205.
2.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), pp. 353-56.
3.
See “Luc-chese Crime Family Epic, Part II” at www.crimelibrary.com.
4.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), pp. 356-59.
5.
Sandy Smith, “The Fix,”
Life
magazine, 9-1-67.
6.
G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
The Plot to Kill the President
(New York: Times Books, 1981), p. 324; Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), p. 276.
7.
Miami Herald
, 7-31-75; Frank Sturgis interview by Andrew St. George,
True
magazine, 8-74.
8.
One of those Trafficante associates was Manuel Artime.
9.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), p. 367; CIA, Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967; 124-10333-10036.
10
. Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American
Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), pp. 279-82.
11
. Ibid, pp. 281-83; George Michael Evica,
And We Are
All Mortal: New Evidence and Analysis in the John F. Kennedy Assassination
(West Hartford, CT: Evica, 1978), several passages.
12
. Ibid Rappleye and Becker, pp. 283-85.
13
. David E. Scheim,
The Mafia Killed President
Kennedy
(New York: SPI Books, 1992), pp. 41, 42.
14
. Sid Blumenthal and Harvey Yazijian,
Government by
Gunplay
(New York: Signet, 1976), pp. 216, 217; David Talbot,
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy
Years
(New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 318.
15
. Martin Waldron letter to the New Orleans Police Department,
The
New York Times,
11-21-66.
16
. Ibid.
17
. Walter Sheridan,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972), p. 408; Richard Billings’ New Orleans Journal at www.jfk-online.com;

John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), many passages.
18
. Ibid Sheridan, p. 492.
19
.

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

1
. New Orleans FBI memo, 6-10-67; Carl Oglesby, “The Conspiracy that won’t go away”
Playboy
, 2-92.

2
. Richard Billings’ New Orleans Journal at www.jfk-online.com.
3
. Joan Mellen,
A Farewell to Justice
(Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005), several passages.
4
. Seth Kantor,
The Ruby Cover-Up
(New York: Zebra Books, 1992).
5
. Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), pp. 328, 329.

6
. Ibid, pp. 327, 330, 331.
7
. Ed Reid,
The Grim Reapers
(New York: Bantam, 1970), p. 292.
8
. Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), p. 280.
9
. 1993.07.01.11:26:17:340

800.
10
. 1993.07.01.11:26:17:340800.
11
. FBI copy of CIA memo 124-10285-10054.
12
. FBI 124-10285-10058; FBI 124-10280-1011.
13
. Joseph A. Califano, Jr.,
The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House
Years
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), pp. 295, 377.

CHAPTER THIRTY

1.
David Phillips memo to Chief, CI/R & A: CIA OGC 67-2061, CIA MFR 2.14.68 Sarah K. Hall, cited

in A. J. Weberman web book chap. 7. Rosemary James and Jack Wardlaw,
Plot or Politics
(New Orleans:

Pelican Publishing, 1967) was the book in question. See also CIA #104-10406-10022; CIA #104-10435-10007.

2.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), pp. 330, 408.
3.
Church Committee vol. I, part 10, p. 185; Ibid.
4.
Ibid Thomas.
5.
CIA 104-10404-10376; CIA 104-10209-10156; Lee Harvey Oswald CIA Soft File, p. 201.
6.
CIA 104-10182-10075; Dick Russell,
The Man Who Knew Too
Much
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), pp. xxviii, 126.
7.
CIA 104-10404-10376; CIA 104-10209-10156; Lee Harvey Oswald CIA Soft File, p. 201.
8.
Richard Reeves,
President Kennedy: Profile of Power
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), pp. 291, 606, 626, 707.
9.
Ibid, pp. 291, 606, 626; later claims have her persuading JFK to try LSD.
10
. Alfred W. McCoy,
The Politics of Heroin
(Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books,
810

LEGACY OF SECRECY

1991).
11
. CIA 104-10404-10376; CIA 104-10009-10024.
12
. CIA 104-10404-10376.
13
. CIA 104-10404-10376.

14
. CIA 104-10404-10376.
15
. CIA 104-10404-10376.
16
. CIA 104-10404-10376.
17
. CIA 104-10404-10376.

18
. Bernard Fensterwald, Jr., and Michael Ewing,
Coincidence or Conspiracy
(New York: Zebra Books, 1977), pp. 102, 103; CIA 104-10404-10376.
19
. CIA 104-10404-10376.
20
. Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics III
, excerpts available at maryferrell.org.

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

1.
Warren Hinckle and William Turner,
The Fish Is Red: The Story of the Secret War Against Castro
(New York: Harper & Row, 1981), several passages.
2.
Cuban Officials and JFK Historians Nassau Conference, 12-7-95; Nassau Conference Report,
AARC Quarterly
, Fall 1995-Winter 1996; Dick Russell,
The Man Who
Knew Too Much
(New York: Carroll & Graf/R. Gallen, 1992), pp. 292, 293, 507, 518, 537, 546, 641, 702, 703.

3.
Ed Reid,
The Grim Reapers
(New York: Bantam, 1970), pp. 99, 16.
4.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, 11-25-66

and 11-26-66; Dr. Jerry D. Rose, “J. B. Stoner: An Introduction,”
The Fourth Decade
, 11-95; FBI Atlanta Field Office file 105-3193, 12-1-63; David Ferrie long-distance phone record, p. 16, on file at the Assassination

Archives and Research Center.
5.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and the Mob
(New York: SPI, 1993), several passages.
6.
Hoover to Director, U.S. Secret Service, 2-3-67.
7.
Bill Barry,

“2 weeks before JFK was Killed: Assassination Idea Taped,”
Miami News,
2-2-67.
8.
Miami News
, 2-3-67, cited in FBI 124-10183-10239.
9.
Bill Barry interview, 2008.
10.
FBI #124-10183-10239.
11.
FBI 124-10209-10451; Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab,
Mob Lawyer
(New York: Scribners, 1994), pp. 226-28.
12.
Dick Russell,
The Man Who Knew Too Much
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), p 544.
13.
G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
The Plot to Kill the President
(New York: Times Books, 1981), 384
14.
Max Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 392.
15.
George Michael Evica,
And We Are
All Mortal: New Evidence and Analysis in the John F. Kennedy Assassination
(West Hartford, CT: Evica, 1978), p. 230.
16.
Treasury Department/Secret Service memo to J. Edgar Hoover, 2-13-67.
17.
Max Holland,
The
Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 396.
18.
Treasury Department/Secret Service memo to J. Edgar Hoover, 2-13-67; Ibid, pp. 389, 390, 416.
19.
Ibid Holland, pp. 389, 390.
20.
Richard D.