by Joan Mellen
p. 364: “Affidavit”: September 27, 1986, Papers of Jim Garrison, NARA.
p. 365: Garrison and Hitchcock: Occasional notes of Jim Garrison in Garrison Family Papers.
p. 366: “the least you could have done”: Interview with William Walter, January 3, 2000; interview with Monique Poirrier, January 12, 2000.
p. 366: “I would have spotted it”: Interview with Judge Denis A. Barry, May 17, 1998.
p. 366: walk around the block: Interview with Judge Tom Early, January 10, 1998.
p. 366: “Enjoy your Christmas!”: Interview with Danielle Schott, May 19, 1998.
p. 366: he didn’t want to get out of bed: Interview with Dr. Frank Minyard, January 8, 1998.
p. 367: idea of Judge David R. M. Williams: Interview with Judge Williams, June 16, 2000.
p. 367: Liz as his administrator: See handwritten wills, September 2, 1978 and November 28, 1982, courtesy of Lyon Garrison.
p. 367: “Do something good”: Interview with Judge James C. Gulotta, June 9, 2000.
p. 367: “it’s the biggest in the state of Louisiana”: Interview with Judge Denis A. Barry, May 10, 1999.
p. 367: The death of Jim Garrison: See “La. Judge Jim Garrison Dies; ‘JFK’ Film Based on His Ideas,” by J. Y. Smith. Washington Post, October 22, 1992, p. B6.
p. 368: the bed sores were on the pressure points of the bone: Interview with Dr. Frank Minyard, June 21, 1999.
p. 368: “five beloved children”: Last Will, Handwritten, November 28, 1982, courtesy of Lyon Garrison.
p. 368: “every American owes him a debt of gratitude”: “Conspiracy Theorist Garrison, 70,” by Sean McNamara, USA Today, October 22, 1992, p. A2.
p. 369: “Agency by the big toe”: Jim Garrison interviewed in Steve Tyler’s He Must Have Something. See also Fred Powledge, “Is Garrison Faking? The DA, The CIA, and the Assassination,” New Republic, June 17, 1967.
CHAPTER 23
All quotations from Thomas Edward Beckham come from interviews with Mr. Beckham in Louisville, Kentucky.
p. 370: “big operation”: Jim Garrison at the New Orleans conference, September 1968.
p. 370: “How many more Oswalds”: Interview with Gordon Novel, September 1, 2000.
p. 370: “I guess I will see them there soon”: Angleton quoted by Trento, The Secret History of the CIA, p. 479.
p. 370: “you’ve got a mailbox now”: This chapter is based on interviews with Thomas Edward Beckham, March 30 and 31st and April 3, 2002.
p. 370: “caught in the act”: State Department Memorandum, To: Director, O/ SY thru: Chief, O/SY/E, Subject: Item in East Village Other, August 20, 1969, September 2, 1969, NARA.
p. 371: pictures flashing: Loran Hall describes his training with military intelligence: Loran Hall in Executive Session before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, October 5, 1977, 014660, NARA.
p. 371: a government document: U.S. Army Air Defense Command, Office of Commanding General, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Beckham, Thomas Edward, Unit Com. section: Field Code: T-Bird, The Republic of Vietnam, Biet Dong Quan, HQ-43567G2-File, courtesy of Thomas Edward Beckham.
p. 373: “He is indeed aware”: This document is part of the Testimony of Richard M. Bissell before the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, June 11, 1975, Record Number: 157-10011-10018, 135 pages, SSCIA box 231, folder 5, NARA.
p. 373: “fallback position”: Conversation with Gerald Patrick Hemming, August 18, 2003.
p. 374: Roy Hargraves admission: See Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked, Appendix A, pp. 268-306.
p. 377: Jack Martin denounces Beckham to the FBI: FBI 124-10058-10072, HQ, 62-109060- 4618, From: SAC, New Orleans, To: Director, FBI, February 20, 1967, 9 pages, NARA.
p. 378: “the military habit of responding to orders”: Jim Garrison to Zach Sklar, March 16, 1988.
p. 377: “Angelo Kennedy . . .”: Interview with Angelo Kennedy, Miami, June 27, 2005; telephone conversations, June 28, 2005; June 30, 2005; July 11, 2005.
p. 379: “If you come across him, stay away”: Conversation with Edward I. Arthur, June 29, 2005.
p. 379: worked with wealthy Kennedy backer Ted Racoosin: Interview with Howard K. Davis, June 29, 2005.
p. 382: “Jim Garrison was closer to the truth”: Interview with Donold P. Norton, January 24, 2003.
p. 383: “a high level plot”: Interview with Dr. Robert N. McClelland, December 31, 2003.
p. 383: “the CIA had to be involved”: Interview with Isidro Borja, January 5, 2004.
p. 383: “it could be the CIA”: Interview with Jose Antonio Lanuza, February 5, 2004.
p. 383: “he was so close”: Interview with Mary Ferrell, February 11, 2002.
p. 384: “No one talked”: The source for this information is employed by a major research library in the United States and prefers to remain anonymous.
p. 384: Docu-drama: Papers of Jim Garrison, courtesy of Lyon Garrison.
p. 384: “they knew they’d been danced with”: Jim Garrison in The Garrison Tapes.
p. 386: “I wish I could have told him”: Conversation with Thomas Edward Beckham, July 24, 2003.
UPDATE: A FAREWELL TO JUSTICE REVISITED
p. 387: Of all the information that came to hand after the 2005 publication of A Farewell to Justice, the most breathtaking document was one in which CIA acknowledged that Clay Shaw was its “highly paid” contract employee: Agency: CIA. Record number 104-10337-10006. Record series: JFK. Agency file number: PROJFILES-CIA MATTERS. From: J. Kenneth McDonald. To: Director of Central Intelligence. Title: CIA Matters – JFK records, background. Date: 02/10/1992. Pages: 82. Comments: JFK-M-21 : F7 : 20030804-974400 : unit index]. Memorandum for: Director of Central Intelligence. VIA: Director of Training and Education. Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence. From: J. Kenneth McDonald, Chief, CIA History Staff. Subject: Survey of CIA’s Records from House Select Committee on Assassinations Investigation. I am grateful to Malcolm Blunt who discovered this document.
p. 389: Shaw’s service to CIA and his activities in Rome. HSCA 11110215. HSCA. Record number: 180-10143-10220. Record series: CIA segregated collection. Agency file number: 29-04-01. From: CIA. Date: 6/28/78. Pages: 6 Document type: notes. Subject(s): Garrison, Jim; Shaw, Clay; CIA, Files: BOX 19. These are the notes of an HSCA investigator, and was a late (2003) release by CIA. This document adds another detail, that Monroe J. Sullivan was used under CIA’s Project QKENCHANT on an unwitting basis.” (Italics added).
p. 389: The Bloomfield Archive and Canada (Librarian and Archivist: See: T-1517-04. 2006 FC 1378. Maurice Phillips (Applicant) v. Librarian and Archivist of Canada (Respondent. Indexed as: Phillips v. Canada (Librarian and Archivist) (F.C.) Federal Court, Noel J. – Montreal, October 17; Ottawa, November 14, 2006.
p. 391: Angleton lies to the Church committee: Angleton’s testimony is Agency: SSCIA. Record number: 157-10014-10005.
p. 392: “Normally that would fall under the jurisdiction”: Testimony of James Angleton before the Church Committee: Agency: SSCIA. Record number: 157-10014-10005. Records series: Hearings. Agency file number: 01-H-05. From: Angleton, James. Date: 06/19/75. BOX 1. NARA.
p. 392: Rand Development Corporation and Robert E. Webster: CIA. 104-10181-10093. From: Justin F. Gleichauf To: Chief, Contact Division. Title: Grant Gleichauf Telecon for 29 APR 60. Date: 05/00/60. Pages: 2. Subjects: RAND Corp. JFK64- 17:F20 1998.03.21.10:20:41:513108. NARA. (403 last)
p. 392: Webster letters: CIA. 104-10276-10362. Title: Process Sheet for OO/C Collection: Copy of letters from Robert E. Webster and N. Reznichenko, Chief Consular Division, Soviet Embassy. Date: 03/12/62. Subjects: Webster, Robert. JFK64-17:F20 1999.02.11.10:05:58:733128. NARA. There are several such process sheets; there is also a letter from James R. Murphy reporting on a telephone call in which James H. Rand advised that he was going to Moscow to “attempt to get Robert E. Webster out of the Soviet Union if this has not been accomplish
ed already.” The entire affair is murky.
p. 393: Webster embedded in Leningrad, debriefed by WOFACT: See: CIA. 104-10182-10063. Record Series: JFK. Agency file number: 80TO1357A. From: Director. To: [Redacted]. Title: SUBJ REF (201-810018). Probably identical with Mikhail Georgiyevich Nakhodin who was personal interpreter for U.S. citizen. Date: 01/16/67. Pages: 3. Subjects: REDTOP, LCIMPROVE, PHOTOS. JFK64-18:F2 1998.03.27.20.15:41:013102. NARA. See also: CIA. 104-10182-10062. Record series: JFK. Agency file number: 80T01357A. From: James Angleton. To: Director FBI. Title: Robert Edward Webster Internal Security. Date: 02/15/67. Pages: 1. Subjects: FBI, Nakhodin, Mikh, Oswald, Marina. JFK64-18:F2 1998.03.27.20:10:50:106102. NARA.
p. 393: “real names” and “aliases” for Eleanor Reed and Rudy Balaban (SR): Agency: CIA. Record number: 104-10182-10065. Record series: JFK. Agency file number: 80T01357A. Assassination Records Review Board, Final Determination Notification. September 4, 1998. CIA. 104-10182-10065. From: DC/ SR/6/SUPPORT. To: Chief, SR/6. Title: Debriefing of Robert Edward Webster. Date: 04/16/63. Pages: 17. Subjects: Defected, Webster, Robert. JFK64-18:F2 1998.03.27.20:23:49:810102: NARA.
p. 394: a document of Webster’s debriefing that has surfaced: Report of Covert Assessment. 10 Aug 1962. #5623 appears at the bottom of the document. One page. Name: Webster, Robert. Dates of Assessment: 23-24 July 1962. Date of Birth: blank. Sex: Male. Official Requesting Assessment: Mr. Rudy Balaban, SR/6.
p. 394: “a self-centered and shallow person….”: Report of Covert Assessment. August 10, 1962. Name: Webster, Robert. Dates of Assessment; 23-24 July 1962. Official Requesting Assessment: Mr. Rudy Balaban, SR/6. #5623. CIA Historical Review Program.
p. 394: SR6 division collects papers from Webster: CIA conducted a training course in “Soviet Realities”: This information comes from my interview with Donald Deneselya, who served in the Soviet Russia Division of SR Counter Intelligence for three years in the early 1960s. His desk was a mere fifteen feet from the usually open door of the office of Counter Intelligence Chief, Tennent Bagley. Interview with Donald Deneselya, July 30, 2009.
p. 395: Dick Russell interviews Robert Webster: Author conversation with Dick Russell.
p. 395: Webster and a girlfriend ran into Marina Oswald at a “Rest Hotel”: Conversation with Donald Deneselya, November 15, 2011. Vera Platonova: See: CIA. 104-10276-10426. Title: List of loan and retention items. From: Robert E. Webster. Pages: 2. JFK64-17:F23 1999.02.12.13:04:54:293128. NARA.
p. 395: final: Robert E. Webster’s address is found in Marina Oswald’s notebook: CIA. 104-10182-10063. From: Director. To: [blank]. Title: Subj Ref (201-810018) probably identical with Mikhail Georgiyevich Nakhodian. . . personal interpreter for U.S. citizen. Date: 01/16/67. Pages: 3. Subjects: REDTOP, LCIMPROVE, PHOTOS. JFK64-18:F2 1998.03. 27.20:15:41:013102. NARA.
p. 396: May 31, 1960 document: Conversation with Jerry Prehn, January 2, 2012. The document itself bears no identifying riff. It was released through the CIA Historical Review Program. The first stamped date is 31 May 1960. The fifth person to whom it was routed was “JP” on the 2nd of June, at SR/9.
p. 396: Thomas Casasin, Oswald, REDWOOD: Casasin was the Chief of Soviet Russia (SR) 6: See Interview of Thomas Casasin, August 17, 1978, American Embassy/Paris, France. By Surell Brady. 9 pages. NARA.
p. 397: “operational interest in the Harvey story”: CIA. Subject: Mr. Lee Harvey Oswald. To: Walter P. Haltigan. 25 November 1963. Signed Thomas B. Casasin. The line cited appears in the “Addendum,” Signed T.B.C. Haltigan’s real name was “Jim Flint,” and he was part of SR9, the operations component of the Soviet Russia Division.
p. 397: REDWOOD involved “clandestine operations”: Ibid., Interview of Thomas Casasin, August 17, 1978.
p. 397: REDWOOD featured an assassination program: John J. Loftus, America’s Nazi Secret (Trine Day: Walterville, Oregon, 2010), pp. 33, 48.
p. 397: “Oswald’s unusual behavior in the Soviet Union”: For more on this subject, See Joan Mellen, “Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?” available on maryferrell.org.
p. 397: Casasin has been cryptic in his interviews. Before HSCA, Casasin remarked that “there were some type of special design plants in Minsk which were of interest to CIA.” (Oswald had been placed in Minsk). Casasin added that “Counterintelligence did have their own closely held operations . . . it was possible or even probable that Counterintelligence ran operations in [my] own geographical area.”
p. 397: Description of Donald Deneselya’s discovery of the Oswald debriefing document: (Interview with Donald Deneselya, July 22, 2012)
p. 398: Oswald debriefed by CIA: The actual document describing Oswald’s debriefing has not emerged. What is available is a document describing how Eleanor Reed debriefed Robert Webster, a false defector based in Leningrad whose trajectory matches that of Oswald: CIA. 104-10182-10074. TO: Eleanor Reed. FROM: [03] IR/CR. SUBJECT: Appraisal of Interrogation. NARA. This document is dated 17 August 1962.
p. 399: Deneselya is assigned to Golitsyn: See Joan Mellen, Our Man In Haiti: George de Mohrenschildt and the CIA In The Nightmare Republic. (Trine Day: Walterville, Oregon, 2012.) Chapter Four describes Deneselya’s work for Golitsyn. Dialogue between Deneselya and Golitsyn, Interview with Deneselya, August 12, 2012. Deneselya appears to have a photographic memory.
p. 400: Deneselya considered calling Jim Garrison: Interview with Donald Deneselya, July 22, 2012.
p. 401: DDI and DDP virtually “separate organizations”: Karalekas, p. 41.
p. 402: the structure of JMWAVE and the Directorate for Plans: CIA. 104-10301-10008. From: [Redacted]. To: [Redacted]. Title: Documents describing the organization of the Directorate for Plans. Date: 00/00/00. Pages: 5. JFK-M-01:F1 1998.09.54:17:716031. ARRB Request. CIA-IR-1. NARA.
p. 402: “operational activities within the United States”: Verne Lyon, “Domestic Surveillance: The History of Operation CHAOS,” CovertAction Information Bulletin, Summer 1990. Lyon was a former CIA operative.
p. 402: AINS/EINS numbers: See: CIA Special Collections. New Memo/Standard. 11 August 1998. Memorandum for J. Barry Harrelson, Gary Breneman. From: Frieda P. Omasta. Office: ADA/ IRO. Subject: PRIORITY Name Traces For JFK/ARRB – Andrew (Andy) Anderson. Reference: CIA IR-19/DA/IRO 32b. NARA.
p. 403: Bruce Solie sends a memorandum for the record to his staff indicating that they “maintain the integrity of the envelopes of files viewed by HSCA: Memorandum for the Record: 18 July 1978. From: Bruce L. Solie. Chief, Security Analysis Group. Subject: Crisman, Fred Lee. #588 817.1 page with attachment. NARA. Solie did not attend the daily morning meetings of CIA officers: SSCIA. Record number: 157-10005-10224. Agency file number: R174. Title: Testimony of Lawrence Houston. Date: 06/02/75. Pages: 111. BOX 248-1. P. 19.
p. 403: “Confidential Correspondent Program”: Memorandum for: Inspector General. Via: Deputy Director for Administration. Subject: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Operations (Anti-Pinkerton Act). 20 June 1975. This document is 4 pages long and is signed by Charles W. Kane, Director of Security. The distribution was to: Addressee; DDA; DD/Security; OS Registry, w/o atts; SSCIO file; SAG (Security Analysis Group); Chrono. CIA. 104-10122-10152. Record series: JFK. From: Kane, Charles W. To: IG, CIA. Title: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Operations (Anti-Pinkerton Act). Date: 06/20/1975. Pages: 4. Subjects: CIA files; Maheu, Robert; PRIV. EYES. JFK44: F2 : 1994.03.23.11:30:11:280007. NARA.
p. 403: police program…AID: Memorandum for: Director of Central Intelligence. Subject: After Action Report on the Findings of the Working Group. 23 October 1962. 12 pages. No riff available.
p. 403: Deputy Director for Research is a cover: Memorandum for the record. Subject: Notes on discussions between myself, Carter, Kirkpatrick Coyne and Schuyler in review of report of the Kirkpatrick Committee. March 29, 1962. 5 pages. Signed by John A. McCone, Director. No riff available.
p. 404: AESTORAGE: CIA. 104-10162-10001. Agency file number: 80T01357A. From: Bagley, Tennent, Chief, SR/CI. To: [Redacted]. Title: Info Re Ivan Gavrilovich Alferye
v. Date: 09/15/1964. Pages: 1. JFK64-1:F2 1997.12.02.09.15:16:123092. Later in the decade, Bruce Solie sent a memorandum for the record to his staff indicating that they should “maintain the integrity” of the envelopes of files viewed by HSCA: Memorandum for the record, 18 July 1978. From: Bruce L. Solie, Chief, Security Analysis Group. Subject: Crisman, Fred Lee. One page with attachment. NARA.
p. 404: “we no longer have the breakouts” Agency: ROCKCOM. Record number: 1781000210156. Agency file number: A-1 (G) CIA CORRES.-ASSASSINATIONS. (10). From: Knoche, E. H. To: Belin, David. Date: 05/30/75. Pages: 1. NARA.
p. 404: As DCI, Colby doesn’t know what Angleton is up to: Memorandum – May 8, 1978. To: G. Robert Blakey. From: Gaeton Fonzi. RE: Interview with Joseph Burkholder Smith. 9 pages. Courtesy of Mr. Fonzi.
p. 404: “ no one outside their own ranks”: Cline, p. 168.
p. 404: Agency’s policy was “to minimize the amount of publicity that CIA receives”: Memorandum for: Director of Central Intelligence. Subject: Final Report of Working Group On Organization and Activities. 6 April 1962. 35 pages. No accompanying riff. NARA.
p. 405: “procedures designed to prevent outside scrutiny…extreme security measures”: Paul Sakwa, Subject: “C.I.A.: Problems Of A Clandestine Agency,” n. d. box WH-3a. Folder: CIA General 5, Paul Sakwa, WHF, Schlesinger Papers, John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. Boston, Massachusetts. Drummed out of CIA, as Jonathan Kwitny explains, Sakwa restored to selling embargoed technical equipment to the Soviet Union, for which he was indicted for conspiracy.
p. 405: Handwritten list headed Vol. 6 OS files –provided CI-staff. NARA. No date. There is no identifying material on this one handwritten sheet obviously meant for CIA internal use only.
p. 405: the Oswald file…sensitive documents beginning in April 1959: 384: “handwritten sheet…documents which were pulled: Jack Martin: This handwritten list, headed “Vol. 6 OS files” provided CI – staff,” was accompanied by no identifying material. This one handwritten sheet seems to have been meant for CIA’s internal use only. Of all the files OS suppressed, foremost, apparently were the predictable Oswald files, and the more surprising files of “Jack Martin.”