The Kennedy Brothers: The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby (61 page)

8
  Davis,
Mafia Kingfish,
pp. 91—93.

9
  Ibid., pp. 97—98.

10
  See FBI airtels 92—113, 27 June 1961 and 4 September 1961, FBI numbered files, AA.

11
  This investigation is summarized in FBI memorandum to Director (92-3267) from SAC, Los Angeles (92-113), 14 February 1963, FBI numbered files, AA.

12
  FBI airtel to Director, 26 March 1961, FBI numbered files, AA. See also Rappleye and Becker,
All-American Mafioso,
p. 201.

13
  Richard Nixon,
RN:
The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978), p. 596.

14
  Interview, O’Donnell.

15
  Peter Lawford to Robert F. Kennedy, 7 April 1961, Personal Correspondence, RFKP, JFKL.

16
  Oral history of Robert F. Kennedy, JFKL.

17
  J. E. Hoover to Robert F. Kennedy, 9 June 1961, Personal Correspondence, RFKP, JFKL.

18
  Quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, p. 483.

19
  See Summers,
Official and Confidential,
pp. 246—66.

20
  Ibid., pp. 257—65

21
  Ibid., p. 281.

22
  Nicholas Katzenbach, Kennedy’s chief deputy, later expressed the problem of bugs before the Senate Judiciary Committee: “The practice (of electronic surveillance) is self-defeating. . . a wiretap constitutes a grant of immunity to the subjects through tainted evidence.” Testimony of Attorney General Katzenbach, Committee print, 13 July 1965.

23
  See Roemer,
Man Against the Mob,
pp. 69—70.

24
  Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times, p.
296. Schlesinger believes Kennedy may not have fully realized that he was sanctioning their use.

25
  Interview, Fuesel.

26
  Victor S. Navasky,
Kennedy Justice
(New York: Atheneum, 1971), pp. 44—46.

27
  Edmund G. Brown to Robert F. Kennedy, 12 December 1961, Personal Correspondence, RFKP, JFKL.

28
  John C. McWilliams,
The Protectors: Harry S. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
(Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1990), pp. 215—16.

29
  Budd Schulberg, “RFK — Harbinger of Hope,”
Playboy,
January 1969.

30
  
Variety,
3 May 1961.

31
  See Wald and Schulberg folders, 1961—1963, Personal Correspondence, RFKP, JFKL.

32
  Interview, Fuesel.

33
  Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, p. 286.

34
  On a late occasion, Rosselli told Las Vegas SAC Dean W. Elson that he had told his new apartment manager that he should get a discount for the FBI detail that would move into the neighborhood and bring down the number of burglaries and street crime. Memorandum to Director (92-3267) from SAC LA (92-113c), 14 March 1963, FBI numbered files, AA.

35
  Electronics expert Gordon Novel claimed to have also seen such a shot, shown to him by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton: “What I saw was a picture of him [Hoover] giving Clyde Tolson a blow job.” See Summers,
Official and Confidential,
pp. 243—45.

36
  Roemer,
Man Against the Mob,
p. 206.

37
  Ibid., p. 207.

38
  Davis in
Mafia Kingfish
states that it was via a Trujillo-provided jet (p. 100). The draft Staff Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, March 1979, concludes that it was Ferrie, citing a border control report.

39
  Ranelagh,
The Agency
, pp. 357—59.

40
  As cited in Hugh Thomas,
Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom
(New York: Harper & Row, 1971), pp. 1372—74.

41
  Interview, Recarey.

42
  “Did Switch Doom Bay of Pigs?”
Miami Herald,
5 January 1997.

43
  Lucien S. Vandenbroucke, “The Confessions of Allen Dulles: New Evidence on the Bay of Pigs,”
Diplomatic History
(Fall 1984). Also Richard M. Bissell Jr., “Response to Lucien Vandenbroucke’s’ ‘The Confessions of Allen Dulles,’ ”
Diplomatic History
(Fall 1984).

44
  Hersh,
The Dark Side of Camelot
, p. 207.

45
  Judith Exner,
My Story
(New York: Grove Press, 1977);
New York Post,
22 December 1975; Hersh,
The Dark Side of Camelot,
pp. 306—8.

46
  Liz Smith, “Judith Exner’s Final Revelation about JFK,”
Vanity Fair
, January 1997.

47
  Quoted in the Church Committee Report, “Assassination Plots,” p. 313.

48
  Szulc,
Fidel,
p. 543.

49
  Interview, Blas Casares.

50
  Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
p. 269.

51
  Interview, Mario Martinez Malo, Brigade 2506 veteran.

52
  Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
p. 267.

53
  Thomas,
Cuba,
p. 356.

54
  Szulc,
Fidel,
p. 547.

55
  Oral history, Joseph Spalding, JFKL.

56
  Szulc,
Fidel,
pp. 548—49.

57
  Interview, Recarey.

58
  Peter Wyden,
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979), pp. 210—71.

59
  The man who reportedly vomited was Richard Drain, code-named Bill; in David Phillips,
The Night Watch
(New York: Atheneum, 1977), p. 109.

60
  Copies of these messages were provided to the author by Blas Casares.

61
  Interview, Casares.

62
  Oral history, Robert F. Kennedy, JFKL.

63
  Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
pp. 283—84.

64
  Ibid., p. 284.

65
  Quoted in Ralph Martin,
Seeds of Destruction
, p. 333.

66
  Interview, O’Donnell.

67
  Richard Goodwin,
Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), p. 400.

68
  Harris Wofford,
Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992), pp. 152—53.

69
  Theodore C. Sorensen to Robert F. Kennedy, pre-administration personal correspondence, 14 December 1959.

70
  Wofford,
Of Kennedys and Kings
, pp. 103—53.

71
  This is drawn from RFK’s speech file on the Athens speech, RFKP, JFKL.

72
  Address by the Hon. Robert F. Kennedy, University of Georgia Law School, 6 May 1961, Speeches 1961—1964, RFKP, JFKL.

73
  Thompson and Myers,
The Brother Within
, p. 152.

74
  Wofford,
Of Kennedys and Kings
, p. 153.

75
  Thompson and Myers,
The Brother Within
, pp. 169—70.

76
  Wofford,
Of Kennedys and Kings
, pp. 157—58.

77
  The Cal-Neva opened in April 1962.

78
  Personal memo from J. Edgar Hoover to the attorney general, 16 August 1962.

79
  This account of the July 13 incident is drawn from Roemer,
Man Against the Mob,
pp. 138—45.

80
  Roemer,
Man Against the Mob,
pp. 145—51.

81
  Rappleye and Becker,
All-American Mafioso
, pp. 218—19.

82
  Rosselli did briefly own a 1961 Chevy Monza, but when a girlfriend cracked it up, he went back to his usual mode.

83
  J. Edgar Hoover to Robert F. Kennedy, 15 December 1961, personal correspondence, RFKP, JFKL.

84
  Quoted in Davis,
Mafia Kingfish,
p. 136.

85
  Tad Szulc, “Cuba on Our Mind,”
Esquire
, February 1974.

86
  Interview, O’Donnell; Wyden,
Bay of Pigs
, pp. 289—312.

87
  Interview, O’Donnell. The president told William Manchester that he had lost “all illusions about the infallibility of the Joint Chiefs” in
One Brief Shining Moment,
p. 137.

88
  Mansfield to JFK, 1 May 1961 cited in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times,
p. 509. See RFKP, Cuba 1961, with note from Angela Novello, JFKL.

89
  Interview, David Ormsby-Gore.

90
  Gore Vidal, “President Kennedy,’
London Sunday Telegraph
, 9 April 1961.

91
  Interview, Casares.

92
  McNamara quoted in the Church Committee Interim Report, p. 142.

93
  Church Committee Interim Report, p. 77.

94
  Hoover memo quoted in
Church Committee Interim Report,
p. 127.

95
  Hoover memo to RFK (and RFK’s notation) quoted in ”Assassination Plots,” Church Committee Report, pp. 127—28.

96
  Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, pp. 508—9.

97
  Interview, George Ball.

98
  Interview, Averell Harriman.

99
  David Halberstam interview with James Reston, in Martin,
Seeds of Destruction
, p. 352.

100
  Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days
, p. 463.

101
  Quoted in Heather A. Purcell and James K. Galbraith, ”Did the U.S. Military Plan a Nuclear First Strike for 1963?”
American Prospect,
Fall 1994.

102
  Oral history, Robert F. Kennedy, JFKL.

103
  Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy.

104
  Quoted in Norman Sherry,
The Life of Graham Greene,
vol. 2 (New York: Penguin Books, 1990), p. 412.

105
  DOD Task #69, 3 August 1962, from Edward Lansdale, AA.

106
  Quoted in Ranelagh,
The Agency,
p. 386.

107
  Interview, James Symington.

108
  Wofford,
Of Kennedys and Kings
, p. 386.

109
  Helms is quoted in Ranelagh,
The Agency,
p. 385.

110
  Ranelagh,
The Agency,
pp. 385—88. The quarterly
Foreign Affairs
described the book as ”the best and most comprehensive history” of its kind.

111
  Wofford,
Of Kennedys and Kings
, p. 398.

112
  Quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, p. 530.

113
  Cable 5816, CIA Station (Scott), 19 Nov. 1961 to Base, confirming receipt of Harvey’s cable, AA.

114
  Collier and Horowitz,
The Kennedys,
pp. 286—87.

115
  The description of the president’s reaction is from Manchester,
One Brief Shining Moment,
p. 245.

116
  See his personal correspondence 1962 file in the weeks and months following. RFKP, JFKL.

117
  Quoted in Martin,
Seeds of Destruction
, p. 359.

118
  Oral history, Robert F. Kennedy, JFKL.

119
  Quoted in Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, p. 483.

120
  Manchester,
One Brief Shining Moment,
pp. 165—66.

121
  Interview, O’Donnell.

122
  Interview, Lawford.

123
  Collier and Horowitz,
The Kennedys,
p. 283.

124
  See Bradlee,
A Good Life
, pp. 267—69. Bradlee was married to Mary Meyer’s sister, Tony.

125
  Mahoney,
JFK: Ordeal in Africa,
pp. 175—79.

126
  Manchester,
One Brief Shining Moment
, p. 245.

127
  Martin,
Seeds of Destruction,
p. 363.

128
  Interview, Powers.

Triumph: 1962

1
  See Paul O’Neil, “The No. 2 Man in Washington,” Life, 26 January 1962, p. 18.

2
  
Time
, 16 February 1962, p. 22.

3
  Interview, David Ormsby-Gore.

4
  Galbraith’s comment is on the jacket of Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days.
See also his article in
Washington
Post, 30 November 1963, about JFK.

5
  O’Neil,
Life
, 26 January 1962.

6
  Undated clipping from March 1962 file, RFKP, General Files, JFKL.

7
  Interview, William French.

8
  Gore Vidal, “The Best Man, 1968,”
Esquire
, 2 March 1963.

9
  Interview, Mary McGrory.

10
  Typewritten phone message dated 13 December 1961, RFKP, General Files, telephone logs, JFKL.

11
  
Time
, 16 February 1962, p. 22.

12
  Memo from Angela Novello to the attorney general, 4 November 1963. RFK’s handwritten notation is on the bottom of the document, RFKP, JFKL.

13
  Bradlee,
A Good Life,
p. 243.

14
  Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, p. 642. The incident, much embellished subsequently, was recorded in Schlesinger’s contemporaneous journal.

15
  Interview, O’Donnell.

16
  
Time
, 16 February 1962.

17
  RFK letter to Angier Biddle Duke, 18 July 1961; correspondence file, 1961, RFKP, JFKL.