Legacy of Secrecy (168 page)

Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade, 1999), p. 332.
21.
For an example, see Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000).
22.
Treasury Department/Secret Service memo to J. Edgar Hoover, 2-13-67; Hoover letter to Rowley, 2-25-67.
23.
FBI 124-10209-10451.
24.
James Kirkwood,
American Grotesque
(New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 1992), p. 141.

25.
Max Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), pp. 389, 398.
26.
Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994).
27.
Generally, see Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006) and Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994).
28.
Dick Russell,
The Man Who Knew Too Much
(New York: Carroll

& Graf, 2003), p. 182; Warren Hinckle and William Turner,
Deadly Secrets
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1992), pp. 233, 270, 321.

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

1.
Michael R. Beschloss,
Taking Charge
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), pp. 561-63.
2.
Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy
(New York: Paragon House, 1989).
3.
People and the Pursuit of Truth
, vol. 1 No. 1, May 1975.
4.
Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), p. 425; David C. Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
(New York: Harper & Row, 1980), pp. 186-89.
5.
David Talbot,
Brothers: The Hidden
History of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Free Press, 2007), pp. 322, 323.
6.
Ibid, 314.
7.
Ibid, 312, 313.
8.
Ibid.

9.
Ibid, 325-326.
10.
Ibid, 312, 313.
11.
Jim Garrison,
A Heritage of Stone
(New York: Berkley Medallion, 1975), pp. 110, 111; G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
Fatal Hour
(New York: Berkley Books,

1992), p. xxii.
12.
“JFK Death Link to Anti-Castro Plot Weighed,”
The New York Times
, 2-21-67, cited in
Miami News
, 2-21-67.
13.
Jim Garrison,
A Heritage of Stone
(New York: Berkley Medallion, 1975), p. 111;

“Facts Don’t Jibe in Ferrie Death,” UPI, 2-23-67; James Kirkwood,
American Grotesque
(New York, NY:

Harper Perennial, 1992), p. 142.
14.
St. Petersburg Times,
12-31-91; Richard D. Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers:
The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade, 1999), p. 338.
15.
Phone interview with John Diuguid 9-30-04; Ronald Goldfarb,
Perfect Villains, Imperfect Heroes: Robert F. Kennedy’s War against Organized
Crime
(New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 74, 147; Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War against
Castro and the Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), pp. 402, 403.
16.
Michael R. Beschloss,
Taking
Charge
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), p. 564.
17.
Haynes Johnson, “The New Orleans ‘Plot’,”
The
Washington Sunday Star
, 2-26-67 and Paul Hoch letter 10-11-92.
18.
Ibid.
19.
1994.05.09.10:43:33:160005.

20.
HSCA Report, pp. 142, 143.
21.
Walter Sheridan,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972), pp. 406-08.
22.
Authors’ interview with former Justice Department prosecutors

Marvin Loewy and Thomas Kennelly, 11-4-93; Ibid, pp. 408-09.
23.
Ibid Sheridan; manuscript from the

Billings/Brown/Turner holdings on file at the Assassination Archives and Records Center.
24.
FBI report,

Notes

811

12-2-63, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Dan E. Moldea, T
he Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and the Mob
(New York, SPI, 1993), pp. 163, 164; David E. Scheim,
The Mafia Killed President Kennedy
(New York: SPI Books, 1992), p. 124.
25.
Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab,
Mob Lawyer
(New York: Scribners, 1994), p. 191.

26.
Ibid, pp. 191-94.
27.
Ibid.
28.
Ibid, pp. 193, 194.
29.
Walter Sheridan,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972), pp. 407-11.
30.
Ibid.
31.
Ibid, pp. 443, 444.
32.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), pp. 334, 335; Max Holland,
The Kennedy
Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 409.

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

1.
Harold Weisberg,
Oswald in New Orleans: Case of Conspiracy with the C.I.A.
(New York: Canyon Books, 1967), pp 256, 257.
2.
Michael R. Beschloss,
Taking Charge
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), pp. 565-66; Max Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), pp. 404-09.
3.
Warren Commission Exhibit #1444.
4.
Michael R. Beschloss,
Taking Charge
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), pp. 565-66; Max Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), pp. 404-09.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Ibid.

8.
Ibid.
9.
Ibid.
10.
Ibid.
11.
Ibid Holland, p. 414.
12.
Ibid, p. 415.
13.
Ibid; see also several passages in Walter Sheridan,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972) and Peter

Dale Scott,
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
14.
Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967.
15.
Jack Anderson column, 9-13-76; Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), p. 271;
16.
Gus Russo,
Live
by the Sword: The Secret War against Castro and the Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), p. 446.

17.
CIA, Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967, p. 112.
18.
Evan Thomas,
Robert
Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 334, others.
19.
CIA 104-10438-10038.
20.
Max Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), pp. 414, 415; Anderson’s byline was noted in some newspapers, like the
San Francisco Chronicle
, but not others, like the
New Orleans States-Item
.
21.
New Orleans States-Item
, 3-3-67, p. 25. It’s essential to note that the most important analysis of Jack Anderson’s 3-3-67 and 3-7-67 columns was first done by Peter Dale Scott in the 1970s, in
Crime and

Cover-up
, and in the 1990s, in
Deep Politics II
. As with all of his work, both are highly recommended.

22.
Richard D. Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade, 1999), p. 333.
23.
New Orleans States-Item
, 3-3-67, p. 25.
24.
Ibid.
25.
Richard D. Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers: The
Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade, 1999), p. 333.
26.
New Orleans States-Item
, 3-3-67, p. 25.

27.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(New York: Ballantine, 1979), p. 532.
28.
Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967, p. 66.
29.
See the so-called CIA “Family Jewels,”

pp. 21, 27, available in the National Security Archive’s Electronic Briefing Book No. 222.

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

1.
Hoover to Attorney General memo, 3-3-67.
2.
Ibid.
3.
FBI 124—10183-10239; Hoover to Attorney General memo, 3-3-67.
4.
Max Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 416.
5.
Walter Sheridan,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972), several passages.
6.
The
Washington Post
, 3-7-67.
7.
SSCIA 157-10011-10025.
8.
David C. Martin,
Wilderness of Mirrors
(New York: Harper & Row, 1980), pp. 188, 189.
9.
Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War against Castro and the
Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), p. 446.
10.
CIA 104-10122-10306.
11.
CIA 104-10133-10005.

12.
William E. Kelly, “The Exhumation and Reinterment of JFK”
Dateline: Dallas
, Spring/Summer 1993.

13.
Ibid; Gus Russo,
Live by the Sword: The Secret War against Castro and the Death of JFK
(Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998), p. 405.
14.
Ibid Russo, p. 406.
15.
Ibid, pp. 328, 389, 390, 404-06.
16.
William E. Kelly, “The Exhumation and Reinterment of JFK,”
Dateline: Dallas
, Spring/Summer 1993.
17.
The New York Times
, 3-18-67 in Max Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), pp. 421, 422.
18.
Life
magazine 9-8-67; William W. Turner,
Rearview Mirror
(Granite Bay, CA: Penmarin Books, 2001) p. 169;

Joan Mellen,
A Farewell to Justice
(Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005), p. 256.
19.
Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967, p. 120.
20.
Ibid, p. 127.
21.
Carl Oglesby, “The Conspiracy that won’t go away,”
Playboy
, 2-92.
22.
Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar,
JFK: The Documented Screenplay
(New York: Applause Books, 1992), p. 217.
23.
Richard Billings’
New Orleans Journal
at www.jfk-online.com, 3-67.

24.
Max Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 415.
25.
Ibid.
26.
Ibid, p. 416.
27.
FBI 124-10183-10239.
28.
FBI 124-10183-10239.
29.
FBI 124-10183-10239.
30.
FBI 124-10183-10239.

31.
FBI 124-10183-10239.
32.
FBI 124-10183-10239.
33.
FBI 124-10183-10239.

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

1.
CIA, Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967; for example, among the material Helms withheld from LBJ was the involvement of Manuel Artime in the CIA-Mafia plots, and the Mafia’s

payoff of $200,000 to Tony Varona in the summer of 1963.
2.
Dick Russell,
The Man Who Knew Too Much
812

LEGACY OF SECRECY

(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), p. 414.
3.
Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms

& the CIA
(New York: Knopf, 1979), p. 136.
4.
Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics II
(Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2003), pp. 66-67.
5. I
bid.
6.
CIA, Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967, pp. 120-23.
7.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 336.
8.
SSCIA 157-10011-10019.
9.
CIA files about Manolo Ray are available at maryferrell.org, including those under his CIA code-name of AMBANG (sometimes given as AMBANG-1); online interview

with Manolo Ray, 2-9-06, arranged by John Simkin, www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.
10.
Dick Russell,

The Man Who Knew Too Much
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), pp. 413, 414.
11.
Ibid.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Max Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 416.
14.
U.S. Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities,
Alleged Assassination Plots
Involving Foreign Leaders
(New York: Norton, 1976), p. 164.
15.
Ibid; Richard Reeves,
President Kennedy:
Profile of Power
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), p. 713.
16.
CIA, Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967, p. 6.
17.
Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics II
(Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2003), p. 68.
18.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(New York: Ballantine, 1979), p. 855; Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 598.
19.
Ibid Schlesinger.
20.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon

& Schuster, 2000), p. 339.
21.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(New York: Ballantine, 1979), pp. 856, 859; Taylor Branch,
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 599.
22.
Nick Kotz,
Judgment Days
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), p. 371.
23.
FBI 124-10280-10110.
24.
FBI 124-10280-10110.
25.
Richard Helms with William Hood,
A Look Over My Shoulder:
A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
(New York: Random House, 2003).
26.
CIA, Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967, p. 128.
27.
Max Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
(New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 418.
28.
Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the
CIA
(New York: Knopf, 1979), p. 179; Ibid.
29.
Ibid Powers.
30.
Church Committee vol. X, p. 106; Ibid, p. 180.
31.
CIA, Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Castro, 1967, p. 131.