A Farewell to Justice

by Joan Mellen

  p. 458: Samuel Halpern’s oral history for CIA: CIA. 104-10324-10000. Agency file number: History staff. From: Latell, Brian and Warner, Michael. Title: Interview with Sam Halpern by Brian Latell and Michael Warner. Date: 04/07/98. Pages: 24. Subjects: History Staff; Halpern, Sam. JFK-M-10:F3 1999.01.22.08:56:53:670120.

  p. 458: CIA’s Office of Security deemed Edward Lansdale persona non grata: CIA. 104-10309-10018. Agency file number: OFF: Of SEC work files. From: Kane, Charles W. Director of Security. To: Inspector General. Title: Memo: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Operations (Edward Geary Lansdale). Date: 06/05/75. Pages: 3. Subjects: Lansdale. JFK-WF04:F1 1998.09.17.14:10:44:466128. Memorandum for: Inspector General. Attention: Mr. John Leader. Via: Deputy Director for Administration. Subject: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Operations (Edward Geary Lansdale). NARA.

  p. 458: Samuel Halpern: “do something about getting rid of Castro and the Castro regime”: Episode 10: Cuba. National Security Archive Interview with Samuel Halpern. Available at gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ coldwar/interview/episode-10/halpern1. html

  p. 458: See Chapter 11: Re: Bobby and assassination attempts on Castro: See A Farewell to Justice, for a discussion of John Gordon, Officer in Charge, First Naval District, Boston Massachusetts who conveyed that after the Bay of Pigs, Allen Dulles, Admiral Arleigh Burke, Dean Rusk and Robert F. Kennedy made arrangements in Guantanamo Bay to hire an individual to assassinate Fidel Castro. When Senator Edward Long of Missouri confronted them with this information they admitted that such a meeting was held and arrangements were made. However, the man with whom arrangements were made to assassinate Fidel Castro sold out to Castro. See: FBI. Record number 124-10246-10393. Agency file number: 89-69-4123, 4124. From: SAC, NO. Date: 07/25/68. Pages: 2. Subjects: JFK, Alleged Plot to Assas. Castro, Fidel, Bay of Pigs.

  p. 459: Seymour Hersh investigates Bobby Kennedy’s use of Charles D. Ford (Fiscalini) to enlist members of the Mafia in assassination plots against Fidel Castro: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1997), pp. 286-288; 292.

  p. 459: CIA internal review of Charles D. Ford: [from the desk of [03]. Note for: Becky L. Rant, Frieda P. Omasta. From: [03]. Office: [03]. Office: OPS/CO/IMB. Date: 06/09/97 -02 pm. Subject: Record Search: Charles D. Ford. AIN 0038497. Like Jack Martin, he had an Agency Identification Number.

  p. 460: The Office of Security denies that it has any knowledge of what Charles D. Ford/aka Fiscalini was up to with respect to operations against Fidel Castro.: CIA. 104-10310-10196. Record series: JFK-MISC. Agency file number: CIA-DDPFILES. From: Gambino, Robert, Director of Security. To: The Review Staff. Title: Memorandum: Senator Select Committee Request (Charles Ford). Date: 09/04/75. Pages: 2. Subjects: Ford, Charles. JFK-M-07:F1 1998.11.16.16:34:56:590120. ARRB Request. CIA-IR-34.

  p. 460: Charles Ford contacts Ernesto Betancourt: Memorandum for the record. Subject: Contacts with Ernesto Betancourt, et al., at the Request of the Attorney General. 28 September 1962. 4 pages. Signed Charles D. Ford, TFW/ Special Assistant. Available on maryferrell.org website.

  p. 461: Pershing’s history with FBI: U. S. Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigations Headquarters. FBIHQ Investigative and Administrative Files. Miscellaneous Document From Volume 1 of 1. HQ 137-2460. FBI. 124-10193-10385. Agency file number: 137-2460-NR. From: NO. To: HQ. Date: 08/20/67. Pages: 7. Subjects: NO 1082-C, James Riddle Hoffa. NARA.

  p. 463: telephone call from Judge Denis A. Barry was on October 30, 2005.

  p. 464: Gary Schoener interviews Margaret Hoover: Conversation with Gary Schoener, April 18, 2006; emails from Gary Schoener, August 17, 2012, August 18, 2012. The items Schoener sent to Senator Schweiker on November 5, 1975 were as follows:

  Three Memos he wrote, on 8/14/68; 7/7/68; and 12/13/68.

  A letter from himself to the Manager of the Silver Slipper Club dated Oct. 2, 1967 with his reply.

  Letters to Schoener from Mr. Blair Bice [publisher of the Pennsylvania Mirror newspaper].

  Transcript of a taped interview with Mrs. Hoover with notes on the transcript of the taped interview.

  A 2 page story on Fernández, retyped from a negative copy sent to Schoener by Blair Bice.

  Copy of a ticket found by Mrs. Hoover to the Silver slipper Club, plus part of a torn note found by her.

  Copy of a brochure from the Mirage Motel found by Mrs. Hoover which shows the Silver Slipper Club’s location on the back.

  Copy of a letter from Senator Scott to Mrs. Hoover acknowledging receipt of a pile of items she sent him.

  CD 139: FBI report on the Manager of the Silver Slipper Club.

  Missing were copies of the plane tickets from Altoona to Pittsburgh and Mrs. Hoover’s personal reproduction of the note she found, along with Schoener’s letters from Mrs. Hoover.

  p. 468: stolen identities: See John Armstrong’s Harvey & Lee: How the CIA framed Oswald (Quasar, Ltd: Arlington, Texas), 2003.

  p. 469: For this list of unreleased testimonies before the Church Committee, I am indebted to Rex Bradford.

  p. 469: David Atlee Phillips “was the mysterious Maurice Bishop, Oswald’s case officer”: email from John Quirk, April 16, 2013.

  p. 471: Starnes: “the enormous power that is now vested in the CIA”: Richard Starnes, “Truman and the CIA,” New York World-Telegram, December 24, 1963, p. 13.

  p. 471: President Truman accuses CIA of operating a “shadow government”: Harry Truman writes an editorial a month after the Kennedy assassination: “I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA”: See Harry S. Truman, “U.S. Should Hold CIA To Intelligence Role,” The Washington Post, December 22, 1963, p. 1. Drafts of Truman’s editorial are available at the Truman library in Independence, Missouri. In one draft, Truman referred to CIA as a “cloak & dagger outfit”: Document 94. Papers of David M. Noyes. From The Desk of Harry S. Truman. Dec 1, 63. Truman Library. The Truman editorial did not appear in later editions of the paper: See unpublished manuscript by Ray Marcus. Courtesy of Mr. Marcus.

  p. 471: CIA gets what it needs: “The C. I.A. gets what it needs”: Peter Baker, “Obama’s War Over Terror,” The New York Times Magazine, January 17, 2010, pp. 30-39; 46-47.

  p. 472: CIA had expanded its domestic presence: Dana Priest, “CIA IS Expanding Domestic Operations, More Offices, More Agents With FBI,” The Washington Post, October 23, 2002, p. A2.

  p. 472: Cofer Black talks about “operational flexibility” and uses the phrase “all you need to know”: Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (Little, Brown and Company: New York and Boston, 2011), p. 14.

  p. 472: peace prize: “we will not eradicate violent conflicts in our lifetimes”: Jeff Zeleny, “Accepting Peace Prize, Obama Offers ‘Hard Truth’,” The New York Times, December 11, 2009, p. A17.

  p. 472: drones: “The C.I.A. does not comment publicly on its drone program”: Christopher Drew, “For Spying and Attacks, Drones Play a Growing Role in Afghanistan,” The New York Times, February 20, 2010, p. A6.

  p. 473: Greenwald: Obama authorizes the murder of Anwar al-Awlaki far from any battlefield: Glenn Greenwald, “Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. Citizen,” salon.com, April 8, 2010.”No matter where he is found”: Glenn Greenwald, “Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U. S. Citizen,” salon.com, April 7, 2010.

  p. 473: Awlaki: “the lead role in planning and directing the efforts to murder innocent Americans”: the murder of al- Awlaki was reported in “C.I.A. Strike Kills U.S.-Born Militant In A Car In Yemen,” The New York Times, October 1, 2011, pp. 1, A8-A9. See also: Charlie Savage, “Secret U. S. Memo Made Legal Case To Kill A Citizen,” The New York Times, October 9, 2011, pp. 1, 12. See also, Editorial, “Justifying the Killing of an American,” The New York Times, October 12, 2011, p. A22. The Times made its point of view clear in the headline of the front page lead story reporting al-Awlaki’s murder by including the words “U.S.-Born.” Killed with al-Awlaki was another American citize
n, Samir Khan, dismissed as an editor of an on-line magazine called “Inspire,” supporting Al Qaeda. The New York Times story included the views of critics, noting that these murders committed without judicial process, and on the basis of secret standards and evidence, violated the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution promising that no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

  p. 473: Awlaki’s son: the death of Anwar al-Awlaki’s son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki at a barbecue: Glenn Greenwald, “The Killing of Awlakis’ 16-year-old son,” salon.com. October 20, 2011. Greenwald notes that the Washington Post published his birth certificate indicating that he was born sixteen years ago in Denver, Colorado.

  p. 473: Patriot Act: Obama didn’t support an amendment to the Patriot Act calling for oversight: “Overlooking Oversight,” Editorial, The New York Times, Sunday Opinion, June 5, 2011, p. 7.

  p. 473: “help the CIA in any way it could”: Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, Top Secret America: The Rise Of The New American Security State (Little, Brown and Company: New York and Boston, 2011), p. 6.

  p. 474: “CIA has a lot to answer for.” Editorial. Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2011. p. A10.

  p. 474: “it will come from the C.I.A. and not from the Pentagon”: Krock’s article was headlined “The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam,” The New York Times, October 3, 1963. Krock is paraphrasing Richard Starnes.

  p. 474: The New York Times computer: CIA had access to the New York Times computer: Memorandum for the record. Subject: CI Staff Responsibility for CIA publicity. 7 July 1975. 3 pages. Signed: Theodore C. Poling. CI/R & A/0. NARA.

  p. 475: Is this what America does? “Is This What America Does?” William Glaberson, “Obama Detention Plan Poses Fundamental Test,” The New York Times, May 23, 2009, pp. 1, A11. See also: Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Obama Would Move Some Terror Detainees to U. S.,” The New York Times, May 22, 2009, pp. 1, A16.

  p. 475: David Cole: “Can we really claim that we live in a democracy ruled by law?”: David Cole, “Killing Our Citizens Without Trial,” The New York Review of Books, November 24, 2011, pp. 27-28.

  p. 475: Manning: “if Manning is guilty of a crime, let him be tried, convicted, and punished….”: “Private Manning’s Humiliation,” The New York Review of Books, May 12, 2011, p. 62.

  p. 475: killing machine: “One Hell of a Killing Machine”: Greg Miller and Julie Tate, “CIA Shifts Focus To Killing Targets,” The Washington Post, September 1, 2011. Available online. For an analysis, see Spencer Ackerman, “How the CIA Became ‘One Hell of a Killing Machine,’” Wired, September 2, 2011. Available online. Ackerman quotes the head of CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, as bragging: “We are killing these sons of bitches faster than they can grow them now.” p. 475: “the covert commander in chief”: David Ignatius, “The covert commander in chief,” The Washington Post, September 10, 2011. Available at http://www.washingpost.com/opinions/the-covert-commander-in-chief/2011/09/08/giQAbZB8F_print.html. Ignatius, admiringly, compares Obama to John Le Carre’s, George Smiley, at ease in the “secret world,” less effective in the political light of day. Ignatius does close his ambiguous piece with a warning, however: America “needs, as well, a leader who can take the country out of the shadows and into the light.”

  p. 475: David Atlee Phillips: “A secret organization is a risk in any society”: Phillips was interviewed by Allan Francovich for his 1980 documentary, On Company Business.” This quotation appears in Part I.

  p. 475: Lamia: “intelligence services are tools for the defense of democracy”: Philippe de Vosjoli, Lamia [CODE NAME LAMIA]. (Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1970), p. 328.

  p. 476: “a state within a state”: Paul Sakwa, Subject: C.I.A.: Problems of a Clandestine Agency, pp. 1-10. Sakwa’s manuscript can be found in the papers of Arthur Schlesinger at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library and Museum. N.d. box WH-3a, folder CIA General 5, Paul Sakwa, WHF, Schlesinger Papers. Sakwa’s name has been redacted from this document. Writing that joining the Agency was like taking holy orders for life, Sakwa recommends that “the most senior officers must have unqualified loyalty to the President. Preferably, they should hold views which are in concert with, if not identical to the foreign policy views of the President.” Sakwa urged that the Agency as “an arm of United States foreign policy . . . should be subordinate to the Department of State.” That opportunity seems to have passed.

  p. 476: Ron Paul: Congressman Paul declares that CIA has effected a “coup”: In our interview, Congressman Paul added that it isn’t as if President Obama telephones CIA for his marching orders, even as Obama is clearly enacting CIA-approved policies: Interview with Ron Paul, April 12, 2010. Quotations are from Ron Paul’s address before the Campaign For Liberty Atlanta Regional Conference, January 2010. Paul’s speech was available on YouTube. “The CIA runs everything”: Ron Paul, Address before the Campaign For Liberty Atlanta Regional Conference, January 2010.

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