Legacy of Secrecy (177 page)

Notes

829

Winslow and available at his Cuban Information Archives website;
New Orleans Times-Picayun
e, 11-22-73.

31.
HSCA vol. X, pp. 43, 44; Ann Louise Bardach,
Cuba Confidential
(New York: Random House, 2002), many passages; CIA 104-10068-10010; HSCA 180-10143-10215.
32.
Stansfield Turner appearance on CNN,

7-14-04
33.
Miami Herald
, 4-1-77; Michael Benson,
Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: An A-to-Z Encyclopedia
(New York: Citadel, 1993), p. 313.
34.
Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), pp. 192, 193.
35.
Ibid, p. 77; HSCA 180-10108-10069.
36.
Ibid Fonzi, p. 40, 41; David Corn,
Blond Ghost
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 118.
37.
HSCA vol. X, pp. 37, 48; Gaeton Fonzi,
The
Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), p. 433.
38.
Gaeton Fonzi,
The Last Investigation
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 1994), p. 209.
39.
Philip H. Melanson,
The Murkin Conspiracy
(New York: Praeger, 1989), p. 167; HSCA vol. VII, p. 360.
40.
Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the
CIA
(New York: Knopf, 1979), p. 349.
41.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters, Rebels, Politicians, and
the Mob
(New York: SPI, 1993), p. 432.
42.
Jefferson Morley, “What Jane Roman Said,” 12-17-02.
43.
David Talbot, “The man who solved the Kennedy assassination,” Salon.com, 11-22-03.
44.
HSCA vol. IV, pp. 158, 159, 173, 174.
45.
HSCA Report, pp. 118-21, plus additional files at the Assassination Archives and Research Center; HSCA vol. XI, pp. 539-51.
46.
U.S. House of Representatives,
The Final Assassinations Report of the
Select Committee on Assassinations
(New York: Bantam Books, 1979), pp. 208, 213.
47.
Ibid, p. 208.

CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE

1.
Joseph Kraft article in
San Francisco Chronicle
, 4-20-83.
2.
John H. Davis,
The Kennedy Contract
(New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), 213-219; G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings,
Fatal Hour
(New York: Berkley Books, 1992), pp. xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xliv.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Letter from Informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88, available at the National Archives.
5.
Letter from Informant to Justice Department, 4-6-88, available at the National Archives.
6.
Letter from Informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88, available at the National Archives.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Priority FBI memo from Dallas office to FBI Director, 11-88, available at the National Archives.
10
. Letter from Informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88, available at the National Archives.
11
. Ibid.
12
. Ibid.
13
. FBI contact investigation 3-7-86, report dictated 3-6-86, FD-302 declassified 6-98 and on file at the National

Archives.
14
. John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), p. 562.
15
. Letter from Informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88, available at the National Archives.
16
. Letter from Informant to Justice Department, 4-6-88.
17
. John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), p. 565.
18
. Letter from Senior Case Manager, Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, CA, to FBI agents, 6-21-88.
19
. Letter from Informant to Justice Department, 4-6-88.
20
. Letter from Informant to FBI headquarters in Washington, 4-18-88, available at the National Archives.
21
. Priority FBI memo from

FBI San Francisco Office to FBI Director, Washington, 9-88, available at the National Archives.
22
. As for why the FBI never prosecuted Marcello or his family using the CAMTEX information, Agent Kimmel

told us the bribes to move Marcello might have been considered entrapment by a jury. Another FBI agent

who was involved added that convicting a family member for the bribe would have been difficult, since

defense attorneys could have portrayed it sympathetically, as an attempt to make the elderly patriarch

more comfortable in his final years. The agent added that if Marcello’s brother had approved the funds to

actually spring Marcello, they would have had a better case—but that never happened. It’s also possible

that political considerations in the Reagan administration, far above the level of those agents, kept the

information from being used against Marcello, his family, or associates like the governor, since parts of

Marcello’s information and CAMTEX also crossed over into the ongoing Savings and Loan scandal and

Iran-Contra.
23
. Dan Christensen “Court Secrecy Practices at Center of Drug Boss’s 11th Circuit Appeal,
Daily Business Review
, 11-22-04.
24
. John H. Davis,
The Kennedy Contract
(New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), pp. 220, 221.
25
. Noel Twyman,
Bloody Treason
(Rancho Sante Fe, CA: Laurel Publishing, 1997), pp. 298, 299; FBI 124-10253-10112 and FBI Dallas 175-109 3-3-89, both cited by A. J. Weberman.
26
. Letter from Informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88, available at the National Archives. The

only point in the Informant’s extremely lengthy account of his talks with Marcello that might indicate

Marcello’s advancing years is when the Informant writes one sentence as if David Ferrie is still alive. It

can’t be determined if that was simply an assumption on the Informant’s part or if it was based on some-

thing Marcello said—that can only be clarified when the “hundreds of hours” of CAMTEX audio tapes are

released.
27
. John H. Davis,
The Kennedy Contract
(New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), p. 221.
28
. Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), pp. 181, 182.
29
. Richard Helms with William Hood,
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency
(New York: Random House, 2003), p. 229; Christopher Marquis, “Richard Helms, Ex-CIA Chief, Dies at 89,
The New York

Times
, 10-23-02.
30
. E. Howard Hunt with Greg Aunapu,
American Spy
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), pp. 135, 144.
31
. A Presumption of Disclosure: Lessons from the John F. Kennedy Assassination

830

LEGACY OF SECRECY

Records Review Board,” report by OMB Watch, 2000, at ombwatch.org; “’Denied in Full’: Federal Judges

Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets,”
Huffington Post
, 10-22-07, which says, “Even though the JFK Act states that all assassination records must be made public by 2017, a top CIA official noted in a court filing that

the Agency has the right to keep as many as 1,100 still-secret JFK records out of public view beyond that

date.”

EPILOGUE

1.
“Cuba releases from jail last prisoner of ill-fated Bay of Pigs invation,”
The San Diego Union
, 10-19-86; for the drug scandal, see many passages in Andres Oppenheimer,
Castro’s Final Hour
, (New York: Simon

& Schuster, 1992); Juan O. Tamayo,
Miami Herald
, 9-1-97; Cuba Transition Project report, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami; interviews with Harry Williams 2-24-92, 4-92, 7-24-93. 2-21-95.
2.
Lamar Waldron’s written testimony sent on 11-9-94 for the Review Board’s 11-18-94 public hearing in Dallas, on file at the National Archives and noted in the Review Board’s 1995

Annual Report; Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board
Final Report
, 1998.
3.
NBC Nightly News
with Tom Brokaw 9-29-98; “A Presumption of Disclosure: Lessons from the John F. Kennedy Assassination

Records Review Board,” report by OMB Watch, 2000, at ombwatch.org; “’Denied in Full’: Federal Judges

Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets,”
Huffington Post
, 10-22-07.
4.
Jeff Franks, “Castro announces surgery,”

Reuters, 11-29-96.
5.
“Chief of Cuba’s Armed Forces Raul Castro attends event in honor of victims of

Cuban downed airliner in Havana,” Reuters story and photo, 10-7-06.
6.
Fabian Escalante message, 10-06, posted by Wim Dankbaar on the JFK Forum at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk; Wim Dankbaar e-mail

confirmation 11-06 to authors.
7.
Frances Robles, “Raul Castro asserts leadership at big brother Fidel’s birthday party,” McClatchy Newspapers; Cuban media reports, all 12-2-06:
Periodico 26
;
Granma
; Prensa Latina Latin American News Agency.

Index

16th Street Baptist Church, 7

AM code names, 204.
See also
specific

Arab/Israeli conflict, 656

names

Arlington National Cemetery, 188,

A

AMCROW, 204

648

ABC News, 22, 275, 632, 732

AMCRUX, 204

arms traffickers, 78, 163, 245, 295,

Abernathy, Ralph David, 562, 572,

American Civil Liberties Union, 580,

296, 446–449, 453

580, 588–589, 594, 620

664

Army Intelligence, 24, 84, 137, 165,

Accessories After the Fact
, 353

American Communist Party, 293

214, 245, 515, 521, 524, 765

Ace Security, 629, 630

American Nazi Party, 510, 536

Army’s Criminal Investigation

Adams, Don, 78, 229, 256, 508

AMFOX, 204

Command, 725

AEFOXTROT, 303.
See also
Nosenko, AMGLOSSY, 204

Arnez, Desi, 649

Yuri

AMHALF, 204

Arnold, Carolyn, 110–111

African Americans, 600.
See also
civil AMJUDGE, 204

Arnold, Gordon, 112, 117

rights movement

AMLASH, 19, 35, 136, 172, 180, 204,

Artime, Manuel, 17–18, 26–29, 34,

Afro-Cuban movement, 767

224, 282, 297, 311, 325, 326.
See also

39–40, 297–306, 322, 361, 448, 454,

Agency Crisis Watch Committee,

Cubela, Rolando

526, 547, 703–704, 716–720, 725–

135

AMOT, 38, 63, 98–99, 162, 207, 208,

726, 736, 741, 745, 763, 771.
See also

Agency for International Develop-

212, 272.
See also
Cuban exiles

Cuban exiles; JFK-Almeida coup

ment (AID), 679

AMTHUG, 35.
See also
Castro, Fidel

plan; activities in Miami, 718;

Agnew, Spiro, 703, 729

AMTRUNK, 18, 19, 158, 172, 201,

Artime-Mafia CIA Memo, 741;

Ainsworth, Kathy, 546, 642

204, 224, 274, 283, 311, 325, 739, 740

breach of security, 311; Castro-

Alabama, 44–45, 485, 487, 539

AMWHIP-1, 19

McGovern document and, 717;

Aleman, Jose, 59, 158, 244

AMWORLD plan, 13–23, 28, 30, 33–

Central American camps, 710; in

Alexander, Bill, 188, 191

41, 54, 63, 75, 83, 86–87, 96, 102,

Costa Rica, 271; death of, 742;

Alien Registration Act, 532

127, 138–139, 143–147, 157, 172,

Hunt and, 714, 725; involvement in

Allen, Ivan, 603

193, 201–202, 204, 207–208, 224,

drug trafficking, 158, 326, 328, 742;

Allende, Salvador, 243, 711, 724, 728

237, 274–276, 283, 297–304, 309,

JFK assassination and, 55–56, 63–

Almeida, Juan, 3, 11–28, 34–35, 42,

311, 325–326, 329–330, 454–456,

65, 68, 86, 93–96, 102, 127, 138, 143,

63, 67, 73–76, 93–96, 115, 133, 151–

523–524, 526, 547–548, 676–677,

146–147, 153–159, 161–162, 175,

152, 154, 161–162, 174, 182–183,

698, 703, 712, 728, 733, 736, 740–

182, 201, 204, 208, 211–215, 227–

187, 211, 224, 234–235, 249, 259,

742, 745, 749, 765–767, 769, 771.

228, 234, 260, 262, 271, 280, 283,

268, 280–291, 294–296, 298, 310,

See also
JFK-Almeida coup plan

742; the Mafia and, 741; Magnum

322, 325, 446, 454, 461, 526, 621,

Anastasia, 5, 61

rifle and, 327; in Nicaragua, 271,

727, 733, 736, 765–767; Afro-Cuban Anderson, Jack, 106, 125, 158–159,

718; RFK and, 306; Saigon and, 703

movement and, 767; Bay of Pigs

172, 261, 457, 461–462, 467–468,

Aryan Nations, 545, 546

and, 736; Castro, Fidel and, 736;

524, 532–533, 553, 612–613, 636,

Assassination Archives, 193

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

705–706, 718, 722, 735;
American

Associated Press, 11–12, 196, 199,

and, 749; Cuban government and,

Exposé: Who Murdered JFK?
, 760;

566, 761

376–377, 442, 749; in the Cuban

articles about CIA-Mafia plots,

Association of Retired Intelligence

Revolution, 165; desire to defect,

704, 708, 713, 732; articles about

Officers, 106, 732

736; disappearance of, 767; Hunt,

JFK assassination, 557; articles

Atlanta, Georgia, 488, 494, 504, 569,

E. Howard and, 359–361; JFK and,

about RFK’s 1963 Cuban

605; African American higher

767, 768; leaves Cuba for Algeria,

operation, 557; Castro retaliation

education, 493; African American

280–281; meeting with Andrew

theory and, 392–395, 413–418, 420,