by Joan Mellen
p. 406: Jack Martin and David Lewis’s Affidavit is available at NARA.
p. 406: On how Thomas Edward Beckham became a priest. Investigation Interview Schedule 005213. Name: Jack S. Martin. 12/6/77. Robert Buras and Lawrence Delsa. 2-6-78. NARA.
p. 406: For the memo from Scott Miler: Assassinations Records Review Board. Agency: CIA. 104-10170-10134. JFK. 80T01357A. September 1998. CIA. Title: Routing Record Sheet. Re: Jack J. Martin. 05/01/67. One page. Subjects: Martin, Jack J. JFK64-25:F4 1998.02.21.12:01:39:216108. See also: CIA. 104-10170-10134. From: Withheld. To: Mr. Scott Miler. Title: Speed Letter. The Attached FBI Report DBB 73951. Contains A Reference To A John J. Martin. 03/20/67. JFK64-25:f4 1998.02.21.11:59:53:280108.
p. 407: For the document regarding Joseph James Martin: Agency: CIA.. 104-10300-10323. Record series: JFK- 80T01357A. From: Stevens, M. D. To: D/ Chief, Security Research Staff. Title: Memo Re Joseph James Martin. Date: 04/06/67. 5 pages. Subjects: Martin, J. J. NARA.
p. 407: Sylvia Odio’s visitors, Murgado, de Torres and “Leon” Oswald. See the original edition of A Farewell To Justice, Chapter 23.
p. 407: For CIA’s reference to a “generic” Jack Martin: CIA. 104-10331-10189. JFK. Agency file number: PROJILES-CORRESPONDENCE. From: Wickham. C/IMS. EXT Supp Group. To: C/JFK Declass Project/HRP/OIM/DA. Title: Memo: DO Response to Quest For Files On Selected Names From HSCA Investigation. Date: 08/24/1998. Pages: 2. ARRB Request. NARA.
p. 408: For the list of people with AINS numbers: CIA Special Collections. New Memo/Standard. 11 August 1998. Memorandum For: J. Barry Harrelson, Gary Breneman. From: Frieda P. Omasta. Office: ADA/IRO. Subject: Re: PRIORITY – Name Traces for JFK/ARRB – Andrew (Andy) Anderson. Reference: CIA IR-19/ DA/IRO 32b. NARA.
p. 408: Remarks of L. J. Delsa on Jack Martin: Interview with L. J. Delsa by the author, New Orleans, December 7, 2005.
p. 409: Jack Martin informs to the FBI: FBI 124-10040-10174. Agency file number: 62-109060-4407. From: SAC, NO. To: Director, FBI. 01/17/67. NARA.
p. 409: On Martin’s call to the CIA asking that Lloyd Ray telephone Louis Ivon: Director, Domestic Contact Service. From: Chief, New Orleans Office, Lloyd A. Ray. 3 March 1967. Re: Musulin/Ray telcom 3 Mar 67. NARA.
p. 409: On Jack Martin’s connection to a Dallas murder: D. K. Rogers, Detective, Criminal Intelligence Section to Captain W. F. Dyson, July 6, 1967. Subject: Criminal Intelligence (1) Jack Martin aka Jack S. Martin. True name of Edward Stewart Suggs. W m 47 DS 41771.
p. 409: On Charity Hospital and Jack Martin: Hospital Record dated January 28, 1957. From: U. S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. 6/21/68. State Police, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Attention: General Thomas D. Burbank. Re: Edward Steward [sic] Suggs.
p. 410: equipment coming from…the Central Intelligence Agency through Sergio Arcacha Smith: Outside contact report. Lawrence Delsa and Robert Buras. 10-18-78. NARA.
p. 411: “return to Suggs file.” This legalsized sheet bears a riff as follows: CIA. 104-10170-10225. From: RID/201 To: CI/ RA Title: Routing and record sheet: Insufficient bio data. Date:00/00/. Pages: 2. Subjects: Johnson, PERAAC.[sic]. JFK64- 25:F8 1998.08.27.05:58:28:373129: Two copies of same page. This document was released under the Historical Review Program in full in 1998.
p. 414: Osborn document to the Director of the FBI denying Crisman was CIA: Memorandum for: The Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Attention: Mr. Fred J. Cassidy. Subject: Fred Lee Crisman aka Doctor F. L. Crisman, Jon Gold. 10 April 1970. OS/SRS/ WFO’s: fmt – 9 Apr 70. Signed Howard J. Osborn, Director of Security. The Agency issued other denials of its relationship with Crisman: See also: Chief, Personnel Security Division, OS.
Director: Domestic Contact Service, (Chief, Services Division)
Chrisman, [sic] Fred Lee – Alleged CIA Agent/Alleged Former OSS Employee/ Known to District Attorney, James GARRISON, New Orleans, Louisiana – SEA-88- McLeod/Thorne telephone conversation 2 April 1970. 10 April 1970. Signed: B. Frank Young.
p. 414: copies of DCD information: Memorandum for: Donald P. Gregg, SA/ DO/O. Attention: Norbert A. Shepanek. From: Robert A. Barteaux, Chief, Information Processing Group. Subject: House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) Request (U). References: a. House Select Committee on Assassinations Letter dated 19 January 1978, B. SA/DO/O Letter dated 31 January 1978. p. 415: Ruth Elliff document: DCD-185/78. 17 February 1978. Memorandum for: DDO/ISS/IP/EIS. From: Ruth Elliff, DCD/FIO/PAO
Subject: House Select Committee on Assassinations (OLC 73/0070-4)
Reference: OLC 78-0070/9, 1 February 1978, Same subject. Another document dated 4-2-70, after the conclusion of the Shaw trial, says “Wayne Richardson 1250 “wants a fast check on Fred Lee Crisman. “Was he ever an Agency employee?” No is the answer, but p. 2 notes, “Requested reimbursement from Tacoma, Washington to New Orleans. Not from whom.
p. 415: Telephone calls from Judge Charles McKnight, November 6, 2007; August 15, 2012; August 23, 2012.
p. 417: On the death of Gloria Wilson: Conversation with Hadley Hudnall, December 9, 2005. Clinton, Louisiana. Brown & Root:
p. 418: “We’re just building all this for the VC anyway” This was a comment quoted by Welsh and made by a Brown & Root worker in Vietnam: Welsh, “Building Lyndon Johnson,” Ramparts, p. 61.
p. 418: it was CIA’s Office of Security rather than the clandestine services that did research on sensory deprivation: Alfred W. McCoy, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation From The Cold War to the War On Terror (Metropolitan Books: Henry Holt and Company: New York, 2006), p. 38.
p. 418: CIA was the “lead agency” in the torture: Alfred W. McCoy, p. 6.
p. 419: Gurvich went on to deny that he was an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency: FBI. 124-10251-10230. To: Director and Dallas. From: New Orleans. 6/26/67. 89-69-3231. NARA.
p. 419: “No corporal would have reported to Herman Brown”: Tape #3. Gurvich conference. 8/29/67, pp. 3-4. Papers of Edward Wegmann. NARA.
p. 419: Hugh Aynesworth expresses “some interest” in working for CIA: CIA. 104-10170-10210. From: Moore, Walton J. To: Chief, Contact Division (LA Branch). Title: Possibility of Hugh Grant Aynesworth Making Trip to Cuba. Date: 10/10/63. Pages: 1. Subject: Aynesworth. JFK64- 25:F4 1998.08.27.05:23:25:920129. NARA.
p. 420: Aynesworth was also an informant for the FBI Houston field office: See: FBI. 124-10237-10375. 10 pages. NARA.
p. 420: For CIA’s interest in Hugh Aynesworth following his telephone call to George Brown, See: CIA. 25 January 1968. Director, Domestic Contact Service, Chief, Houston Field Office. REF: Headquarters memo 22 Jan 1968.
For internal CIA checks on Hugh Aynesworth, see: CIA. 104-10189-10135. From: Director, DCS, OSS. To: Chief, Houston Field Office. Title: Memo: Case 49,364/ Hugh Grant Aynesworth. Date: 01/22/68. Subjects: Aynesworth, Hugh. FJ64-24:F 14 1999.02.16.16:46:089:140120. NARA.
For Paul Hartman of Counter Intelligence checking on Aynesworth, see: CIA. 104-10189-10137. From: DCS/OPS. Support Staff. To: DO/DCSL. Title: Copy of Routing and Record Sheet: Aynesworth, Hugh Grant. Date: 02/02/68. Pages: 1. Subject: Aynesworth, Hugh. JFK64- 24:F14 1999.02.16.16:51:39:793120. NARA.
p. 421: “Possible Attempt to Embarrass Agency”: CIA. 104-10170-10150. From: Chief, Houston Office. To: Director, DCS. Title: James Garrison/George Brown - Possible Attempt to Embarrass Agency. Date: 12/27/67. Pages: 1. Subjects: Haynes/Grant. JFK64-25:F7 1998.03.03.16:04:44:686107. NARA. See also: CIA. 104-10435-10011. Russ Holmes Work File. From: C/Houston Office. To: D/ DCS. Title: Memo: James Garrison/George Brown - Possible Attempt to Embarrass Agency. Date: 12/27/67. Pages: 1. Subjects: Garrison, James. JFK-RH0:F050-1 1998.11.16.10:37:28:340129. NARA.
See also: CIA. Memorandum for: DCS/ OSS. Attention: Mr. George Musulin. 4 January 1968. Subject: Garrison investigation of Kennedy assassination: George Brown. Reference: Memorandum from Chief of DCS office in Houston, HOU-251- 67. 27 December 1967. Subject: James Garrison/George Brown – Possible Attempt to Embarrass Agency.
See also: CIA. 104-10170-102
32. From: Chief, Houston Office. To: Director, Domestic Contact Service. Title: Case 49364 - Possible Involvement of George Brown in Garrison Matter. Date: 01/11/68. Pages: 1. Subjects: Garrison, Frensley. JFK64-25:F8 1998.08.27.06:10:05:293129. NARA.
See also: CIA. 104-10170-10251. From: DCS/Operational Support Staff. To: DO/DCSL. Title: Routing and Record Sheet; Garrison Investigation - Garrison/George Brown - Possible Attempt to Embarrass. Date: 01/02/68. Subjects: Garrison. JFK64-25:F7 1999.0827.07:38:01:686128. NARA.
p. 421: “Is George Brown the president or an officer”: CIA. 4 January 1968. Memorandum for: DCS/OSS. Attention: Mr. George Musulin. Subject: Garrison investigation of the Kennedy assassination: George Brown. Reference: Memorandum from Chief of DCS office in Houston, HOU-251-67, 27 December 1967, Subject: James Garrison/George Brown – Possible Attempt to Embarrass Agency. NARA. See also: CIA. Memorandum to: Director, Domestic Contact Service. Attn: OSS (Musulin). From: Chief, Houston Office. 11 January 1968. Subject: Case 49364 – Possible Involvement of George Brown in Garrison Matter. REF: Haynes/Musulin Telecon 5 Jan 68. NARA.
p. 423: Dated December 20, 1967. Ibid., CIA. 104-10117-10203. From: Hall, Sarah K. To: Chief, LEOB/SRS. Title: Memo: December 1967 Ramparts Article Entitled: “The CIA’s Brown and Root Dimensions.” 8 pages. 12/20/67. NARA.
p. 424: [08], [24] and [01] are CIA “postponement codes.” This document is available at NARA. It bears no date, or identifying riff. One page.
p. 425: George Brown “both a DDP and a DCS contact”: CIA. Memorandum No. 8. Subject: Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination. 1/11/68. NARA.
p. 425: Robert F. Kennedy’s papers kept secret: Bryan Bender, “Kennedys Keep Vise-Grip on RFK Papers,” The Boston Globe, August 5, 2012. Available on line. The Globe reports that a “sticking point” has been “the family’s desire to have all of RFK’s papers appraised for their monetary value so that when they deed them to the National Archives they can receive a tax deduction.” This implies, of course, that the papers are owned by the family rather than the government, even as they seem to be government documents generated at meetings of government agencies.
p. 427: Robert Kennedy in Cracow, Poland. I am indebted for this reference to author David S. Lifton. RFK endorses the Warren Report: “a misfit”: Arthur J. Olsen, “Robert Kennedy Says Oswald Acted On Own in Assassination,” The New York Times, June 30, 1964, p. 1.
p. 428: “completely satisfied”: “Robert Kennedy Says He Won’t Read Report,” The New York Times, September 28, 1964, p. 11, column 7.
Citations courtesy of David S. Lifton. p. 428: For a general history of the Otepka case, see William J. Gill, The Ordeal of Otto Otepka (Arlington House: New Rochelle, New York, 1969).
p. 428: My interview with Mr. Otepka in Florida took place on April 13, 2006. Further conversations were by telephone, including May 23, 2007.
I have also drawn from an interview with Irv Heineman, April 9, 2006. Mr. Heineman had interviewed Otto Otepka earlier.
p. 428: “During the period 1961 to 1964….”:
HSCA. Record Number 180-10102-10298. From: Otepka, Otto F. To: Epstein, Edward, Reader’s Digest, 3/28/78. 3 pages. NARA.
p. 434: Michaux Henry Wilkinson, “The Phenomenon Of Administrative Dissent: The Case Of Otto Otepka.” A Dissertation presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. May 1977. Available from the University of Virginia and from Indiana University library.
p. 438: Robert Kennedy refuses to meet with Jim Garrison despite the intervention of Frank Mankiewicz: Memorandum from: G. Robert Blakey. From: Betsy Palmer. 002890. Subject: File Review at the FBI on October 20, 1977. Date: October 26, 1977. Re: Interview with Richard G. Lubic.
p. 438: Bobby Kennedy not interested in meeting Jim Garrison: Memorandum for: G. Robert Blakey. From: Betsy Palmer. Subject: File Review at the FBI on October 20, 1977. DATE: October 26, 1977. 002890. NARA. This document includes a summary of an interview with Richard G. Lubic after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
p. 438: “We remember with affection his brother”: Garrison welcomes a visit to New Orleans by Robert Kennedy. 3/31/68. New Orleans Times-Picayune.
p. 439: Billie White Answering Service. Notebook of Anne Dischler, 3/13/67. Courtesy of Mrs. Dischler.
p. 440: Guy Johnson’s being cleared for QKENCHANT also is mentioned in this document.
p. 441: Otepka’s letter to Edward J. Epstein is To Mr. Edward Epstein from Otto Otepka, March 28, 1976. Agency: HSCA. Record number: 180-10102-10298. Agency file number: 09305. From: Otepka, Otto F. To: Epstein, Edward; Reader’s Digest. Date: 03/28/78. Pages: 3. Subjects: Otepka, Otto F. Comments: List of American Defectors attached. Box 171.
p. 444: Jim Hougan exposes Walter Sheridan’s role in the Otepka case, and in facilitating Robert F. Kennedy’s wire tapping efforts in Spooks: The Haunting of America – The Private Use of Secret Agents (William Morrow and Company, Inc.: New York, 1978); Interview with Jim Hougan, May 17, 2007.
p. 446: Walter Sheridan issues unconvincing denials of his involvement in the Otepka case in The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa (Saturday Review Press: New York, 1972). Sheridan repeats the falsehood that Mr. Otepka had broken a law by furnishing information to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (“he had been caught in the act”). This was simply not true: Dean Rusk as Secretary of State had granted Mr. Otepka permission to testify, and the law mandated that as a government official he turn over documents in his possession to Congressional committees.
Sheridan admits to no responsibility for the wire taps, but terms it a “mistake” that Security Division personnel had placed a bug on Otepka’s telephone. Sheridan recounts as well his confrontation with Sidney Goldberg at Goldberg’s “small” office, noting, gleefully, that Goldberg was the only employee on the paper. If he had any questions, Sheridan says he told Goldberg later on the telephone, he should send them to “Jack Miller.”
Sheridan denies every charge made against him, operating, as always, with the knowledge that higher authority would protect him. He concludes his discussion of the Otepka case with the nasty speculation that Goldberg was in “dire financial straits” when he wrote the article about Otto Otepka, and hoped to obtain money from the Teamsters’ pension fund or the Manchester Union Leader. Indeed, Union Leader publisher William Loeb had come down hard on Sheridan for his wire tapping of Jimmy Hoffa and his lawyer, and for his general obstruction of justice in the Hoffa case. Loeb’s source was none other than his friend Cartha (“Deke”) DeLoach, third in command at the FBI.
See also: Otto F. Otepka, “Memorandum For The Record.” September 20, 1968. Subject: Robert F. Kennedy, Walter Sheridan, Edward Grady Partin, et al. Courtesy of Mr. Otepka.
p. 447: Money came to Partin from a bank in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts: Donald L. George v. F. Lee Bailey, Andrew J. Tuney, Jr. Investigative Associates, Incorporated. Civil document number 42242. 15th Judicial District Court. Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. Petition in open account suit. March 7, 1969. This affidavit also includes an account of Mr. John Gordon’s informing lawyer Guy Johnson of a meeting between Robert F. Kennedy, Dean Rusk, Allen Dulles and Admiral Arleigh Burke. The purpose was “to hire and have trained by the C.I.A., an unnamed man to assassinate Fidel Castro.” The incident is described in A Farewell To Justice.
p. 448: Sick and tired of the whole Hoffa matter: Ibid., Donald L. George petition.
p. 449: Bobby Kennedy approves CIA wiretapping of reporters: Memorandum. To: Memorandum for the file.
From: James A. Wilderotter, Associate Deputy Attorney General
Subject: CIA Matters. Date: January 3, 1975. 6 pages. NARA.
p. 449: an “ace in the hole” is what Hoover called his information: J. Edgar Hoover to Honorable Marvin Watson, Special Assistant to The President. September 26, 1966. By Liaison. 2 pages. LBJ library.
p. 451: Bobby Kennedy signs off on Hoover’s request that the FBI wiretap Martin Luther King, Jr. See the “Afterword, pp.
490-491 of Harris Wofford, Of Kennedys & Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: New York, 1981, 1992).
p. 455: See also, for the trajectory of the Oswald file: John Newman, Oswald And The CIA (Carroll & Graf Publishers: New York, 1995). See pp. 170-172.
p. 456: Bobby Kennedy’s anti-Castro efforts. See: Memorandum for: The Review Staff. Attention: Mr. Walter Elder. Via: SA/ DO. Subject: SSC Request. Reference: Review Staff 75/2723/A. Signed Richard S. Sampson, Chief. Latin America Division. Signed Raymond A. Warren for Richard S. Sampson. CIA. 104-10310-10062. Agency file number: CIA-DDP files. From: Chief, Latin America Division. To: The Review Staff. Title: SSC Request. Date: 10/16/1975. Pages: 1. JFK-M-07 : F3 : 1998.09.23.20:23:44:840031.
p. 456: Get Castro: told by author William Pepper that an independent film producer who had eight Emmys to his credit and was a close confidante, knew that RFK had addressed the troops at Homestead Air Force base with Oswald in the crowd. I attempted to verify the story. Frank Mankiewicz knew nothing. George Stevens, Jr. said he did not know of any such film producer to whom Robert Kennedy was close. John Seigenthaler and John Nolan who had been Justice Department lawyers had never heard the story. Peter Edelman at the Georgetown School of Law hadn’t either. Ed Guthman never heard of it. Nor did ex-Time writer Richard Lubic.
Conversation with Guthman, April 19, 2006
Conversation with Richard Lubic, April 17, 2006
p. 456: President Kennedy in favor of the assassination of Fidel Castro: Conversation with Joseph F. Gargan, April 4, 2006.
p. 456: entrusted the whole Cuban situation to his brother: Isidro Borja turns down the Bobby Kennedy group: Interview with Isidro Borja, April 24, 2006.
p. 457: Helms backed up Halpern: See: CIA. 104-10303-10001. Record series: JFK-MISC. Agency file number: CIA-OP. Title: File on Ford, Charles/RFK-Mafia. Pages: 20. Subjects: Ford, Charles; Testimony; Siscalini [sic], Rocky. JFK-M-03:F6 1998.09.18.07:48:32:030120: ARRB Request. CIA-IR 13.