Legacy of Secrecy (169 page)

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

1.
Miami FBI memo, 8-7-67.
2.
William W. Turner,
Rearview Mirror
(Granite Bay, CA: Penmarin Books, 2001), p. 206.
3.
Evan Thomas,
The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 332.
4.
HSCA #180-10143-10215.
5.
Joseph J. Trento,
Prelude to Terror: The
Rogue CIA, and the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence Network
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005), pp. 44-45.
6.
Tom Tripodi,
Crusade: Undercover Against the Mafia and KGB
(Washington, DC, Brassey’s, 1993), pp. 4, 129-32, 169.
7.
William W. Turner,
Rearview Mirror
(Granite Bay, CA: Penmarin Books, 2001) p. 208.
8.
Interviews with Harry Williams 2-24-92, 4-92, 7-1-95; Richard Billings,
New Orleans Journal
, at www.jfk-online.com.
9.
Miami FBI memo 8-7-67;
Miami Herald
4-17-05; Dade County Manager’s Office files on Felipe Rivero, found by former Miami-Dade County Archivist Gordon Winslow and available

at his Cuban Information Archives website; Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006).
10
. Ibid Dade County files.
11
. Jean-Guy Allard, “The Miami Mafia in Canada,”
Granma
, 4-16-04; after being questioned by the FBI, neither brother was charged.
12
. Jane Franklin,
The Cuban Revolution and the United States: A Chronological History
(Melbourne, Australia:

Ocean, 1992), pp. 79, 80.
13
.
Miami News
, 5-23-67.
14
. Miami FBI memo, 8-7-67.
15
. Ibid.
16
. Ibid.
17
. Jean-Pierre Charbonneau,
The Canadian Connection
(Ottawa: Optimum, 1976), pp. 249-51.
18
. CIA 104-10075-10179.
19
. Ken Silverstein, “Six Questions for Jefferson Morley on
Our Man in Mexico,”
Harpers
, 4-17-08.

20
. HSCA 180-101432-10215.
21
. Ann Louise Bardach,
Cuba Confidential
(New York: Random House, 2002), p. 183; CIA 104-10068-10010; HSCA 180-10143-10215.
22
. CIA 104-10408-10029, 8-25-76, CIA memo.

23
. Miami FBI memo, 8-7-67.
24
. Miami FBI memo, 8-7-67; Jane Franklin,
The Cuban Revolution and the
United States: A Chronological History
(Melbourne, Australia: Ocean, 1992), p. 80.
25
. Miami FBI memo, 8-7-67.
26
. Evan Thomas,
The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
(New York: Simon

& Schuster, 1995), p. 333; Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), p. 425.

27
. 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.

28
. David Atlee Phillips,
The Night Watch
(New York: Atheneum, 1977), pp. 185-87.
29
. HSCA vol. X, pp. 44-54.
30
. Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), p. viii; John H. Davis,
The Kennedy Contract
(New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), pp. 34-35.
31.
David E. Scheim,
The Mafia Killed President Kennedy
(New York: SPI Books, 1992), pp. 258, 259.
32.
John H. Davis,
Mafia
Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), p. 236; Ibid.
33.
FBI Los Angeles Field File 58-156, pp. 331-37; Dan E.

Moldea,
The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and the Mob
(New York: SPI, 1993), pp. 64, 87, 110, 186, 187; Ed Reid,
The Grim Reapers
(New York: Bantam, 1970), p. 291.
34.
FBI Los Angeles Field File 58-156,

Notes

813

pp. 331-37.
35.
Ibid; John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), p. 384; FBI Memo, 7-23-68.

36.
Walter Sheridan,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972), p. 408; Hoffa manuscript from Assassinations Archives and Records Center collection, p. 42; Tom Kennelly

interview by the authors, 11-4-93.

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

1.
New Orleans FBI memo, 6-10-67.
2.
CIA 104-10419-10021, Russ Holmes Work File, declassified 8-26-98: J. Edgar Hoover memo to Attorney General Ramsey Clark, 5-17-67.
3.
CIA 104-10419-10021, Russ Holmes

Work File, declassified 8-26-98: letter to Assistant Attorney General, 6-2-67, citing UPI 5-8 and 5-9-67;
The
New York Times,
5-10-67.
4.
Washington Evening Star,
5-22 and 5-26-67.
5.
FBI memo, New York to Director, 6-2-65.
6.
Phone interview with John Diuguid, 9-30-04.
7.
John H. Davis,
The Kennedy Contract
(New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), p. 154; Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster), p 338; interview with business associate of Frank Grimsley, 1-30-08.
8.
Ibid Davis; David Talbot,
Brothers:
The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 312.
9.
William W. Turner,
Rearview
Mirror
(Granite Bay, CA: Penmarin Books, 2001), pp. 157, 158.
10.
David Talbot,
Brothers: The Hidden History
of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Free Press, 2007), pp. 326, 327.
11.
Ibid.
12.
William W. Turner,
Rearview
Mirror
(Granite Bay, CA: Penmarin Books, 2001), pp. 160, 161.
13.
Ibid, p. 161; Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar,
JFK: The Documented Screenplay
(New York: Applause Books, 1992), p. 494.
14.
Michael T. Griffith,

“Just the Facts,” 2001.
15.
Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar,
JFK: The Documented Screenplay
(New York: Applause Books, 1992), p. 493.
16.
William W. Turner,
Rearview Mirror
(Granite Bay, CA: Penmarin Books, 2001), p. 158.
17.
Walter Sheridan,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972), p. 420.
18.
Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab,
Mob Lawyer
(New York: Scribners, 1994), p. 195.
19.
Walter Sheridan,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972), pp. 414-55.
20.
Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab,
Mob Lawyer
(New York: Scribners, 1994), p. 198.
21.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), p. 287.
22.
Ibid, pp. 286-89.
23.
Ed Reid,
The
Grim Reapers
(New York: Bantam, 1970), pp. 188-90; David E. Scheim,
The Mafia Killed President Kennedy
(New York: SPI Books, 1992), pp. 359, 360.
24.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), pp.

363, 364.
25.
William W. Turner,
Rearview Mirror
(Granite Bay, CA: Penmarin Books, 2001), p. 168.
26.
Life
magazine 9-1-67; Walter Sheridan,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press,

1972), many passages.
27.
Life
magazine, 9-1-67.
28.
Ibid; Martin Waldron letter to the New Orleans Police Department,
The
New York Times,
11-21-66.
29.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), pp. 352, 353.
30.
Ibid, pp. 351-53.
31.
Ibid.

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

1.
Philip H. Melanson,
The Murkin Conspiracy
(New York: Praeger, 1989), pp. 165, 166.
2.
Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), pp. 131-134.
3.
US House of Representatives,
The
Final Assassinations Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations
(New York: Bantam Books, 1979), p. 480; Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), p. 139.
4.
Dan E. Moldea,
The
Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and the Mob
(New York: SPI, 1993), p. 175; Walter Sheridan,
The
Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
(New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972), pp. 415, 453; Shenker had been the conduit for paying Missouri Senator Edward Long $160,000 to hold his wiretap hearings the previous

year, designed to help Hoffa and embarrass Bobby Kennedy.
5.
FBI Martin Luther King, Jr. Main File

100-106670, Section 103, p. 110.
6.
Ibid, p.108; HSCA King vol. III, p. 597; William F. Pepper,
Orders to
Kill
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995) pp. 107-109.
7.
HSCA King vol. VII, pp. 347, 351-355, 360, 368, 369; it should be noted that in some of his testimony to the HSCA, Ray’s brother disavowed certain of the

comments he had made earlier to the journalist.
8.
HSCA King vol. VII, pp. 347, 351-355, 360, 368, 369, 376.
9.
HSCA King vol. III, p. 16.
10.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and the
Mob
(New York: SPI, 1993), pp. 64, 87, 110, 186, 187; Ed Reid,
The Grim Reapers
(New York: Bantam, 1970), p. 291; HSCA vol. X, pp. 199-205; Goldfarb,
Perfect Villains and Imperfect Heroes
(New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 139-142; Douglas Valentine,
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs
(London, New York: Verso, 2004), many passages.
11.
HSCA King vol. III, p183; Jean-Pierre Charbonneau,
The Canadian Connection
(Ottawa: Optimum, 1976), pp. 202, 203.
12.
Ibid, pp. 246-249.
13.
Ibid, pp.

251-253.
14.
Philip H. Melanson,
The Murkin Conspiracy
(New York: Praeger, 1989), pp. 6-16, 162, many others.
15.
Jean-Pierre Charbonneau,
The Canadian Connection
(Ottawa: Optimum, 1976), pp. 294, 451.
16.

FBI Martin Luther King, Jr. Main File 100-106670, Section 103, p. 86.
17.
Ibid, Section 103.
18.
Ibid; HSCA vol. VII, pp. 347-376.
19.
William Bradford Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), pp. 37, 38.
20.
Philip H. Melanson,
The Murkin Conspiracy
(New York: Praeger, 1989), p. 125.
21.
William Bradford Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), p. 36; Jean-Pierre Charbonneau,
The Canadian Connection
(Ottawa: Optimum, 1976), pp. 199-247.
22.
HSCA vol. VII, pp. 347-376; Gerald
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Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), pp. 166, 167.
23.
HSCA vol. III, pp. 174-183; HSCA vol. VII, pp. 347-376.
24.
FBI Martin Luther King, Jr. Main File 100-106670, Section 103; HSCA vol.

VII, pp. 347-376.
25.
William Bradford Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1970) cited by Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), pp. 163, 164.
26.
Gerald Posner,
Killing the Dream
(New York: Random House, 1998), pp. 161-166; HSCA King vol. III, p. 180.
27.
Ibid HSCA, pp. 177-183.
28.
HSCA King vol. III, p182.
29.
Jean-Pierre Charbonneau,
The Canadian Connection
(Ottawa: Optimum, 1976), pp. 202, 203.
30.
Ibid, p. 252.
31.
Ibid.
32.
HSCA King vol. III, p. 183.
33.
William Bradford Huie,
He Slew the Dreamer
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), p. 51.
34.
HSCA King vol.

III, p. 183; Jean-Pierre Charbonneau,
The Canadian Connection
(Ottawa: Optimum, 1976), pp. 202, 203.

35.
HSCA vol. VII, pp. 347-376.
36.
Many passages in the following: Staff and editors of
Newsday, The
Heroin Trail
(New York: New American Library, 1974); Douglas Valentine,
The Strength of the Wolf: The
Secret History of America’s War on Drugs
(London, New York: Verso, 2004); John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989).

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE

1.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), pp. 348, 349.
2.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(New York: Ballantine, 1979), pp. 852, 853.
3.
Clifton Daniel,
Chronicle of America
(Liberty, MO: JL International Publishing, 1993), p. 815.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Taylor Branch,
At
Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 622.
6.
Melissa Ray Greene,
The Temple Bombing
(New York: Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp. 152-155.
7.
Ibid.
8.
J. Anthony Lukas,
Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years
(New York: Bantam Books, 1977), pp. 2, 3, 199-202.
9.
This is not to say that many of those political figures weren’t also racists, simply that they had a strong financial and political incentive to stir racial hatred.
George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire
on
The American Experience
, PBS, 2000.
10.
Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), pp. 375, 376.
11.
FBI memo by Don Adams, 12-1-63; 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.133.