5 Williams, John. “Interview with Richard Sprague.” Probe, Vol. 7 No. 2, p. 17.
6 Author’s 1996 interview with HSCA lawyer Al Lewis in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
7 Op. Cit., Probe, p. 19.
8 Ibid., p. 18.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid., p. 22.
11 Probe, Vol. 5 No. 6, p. 14.
12 Ibid; also Tanenbaum interview on Radio Parallax, April 8, 2004.
13 Op. Cit., Probe, p. 15.
14 Probe, Vol. 3 No. 5, p. 23.
15 Author’s 1994 interview with L. J. Delsa in New Orleans.
16 Bob Groden at the 1993 JFK Midwest Symposium in Chicago.
17 Op. Cit., Probe, p. 24. In fairness to Schweiker, when I interviewed him in Washington in 1995, he said he did not recall saying this to Tanenbaum. He said his staff lawyer, Dave Marston, may have. Yet Tanenbaum states that when the information was revealed to him, only he and the senator were in the room.
18 Ibid.
19 This case was depicted in Tanenbaum’s book Badge of the Assassin, which was made into a television film of the same name.
20 Author’s 1996 interview with Robert Tanenbaum in Beverly Hills.
21 Werbell was an expert at designing what he called “suppressors” for rifles. See Hougan, Spooks, pps. 34–48, especially the footnote on page 36.
22 Probe, Vol. 6 No. 5, p. 27.
23 Hurt, p. 402.
24 Probe, Vol. 2 No. 5, p. 13.
25 Probe, Vol. 6 No. 5, p. 28.
26 Fonzi’s letter to the editor of Tony Summers’ book, Conspiracy, dated October 1, 1979.
27 HSCA Vol. 10, p. 200.
28 Statement to Jim Garrison by A. H. Magruder, February 23, 1967.
29 Bob Dorff at 2003 Lancer Conference; Dorffs private e-mail to the author in 2010.
30 Author’s 1995 phone interview with Gaeton Fonzi.
31 Gibson, Donald. “Clay Shaw, Freeport Sulphur and the Eastern Establishment.” Probe, Vol. 4 No. 1, p.17.
32 Ibid, p. 20.
33 Ibid.
34 Lifton, David, ed., Document Addendum to the Warren Report, (El Segundo, CA. :Sightext Press, 1968), pps. 89–90.
35 In fact, there is a photo of Whitney with John Foster Dulles taken in the fifties in the referenced Gibson article. Further, Whitney was the cousin and close friend of Tracy Barnes, Dulles’ Golden Boy in the CIA, the man he entrusted the overthrow of Arbenz to in 1954.
36 Fonzi, pps. 118–19.
37 Author’s 1991phone interview with Gary Schoener.
38 Fonzi, p. 131.
39 Ibid., p. 125.
40 Ibid., p. 141.
41 In his fine book, The Last Investigation, Fonzi builds a very good case for this through numerous witnesses who identify an artist’s rendering of Bishop and others who knew that Phillips used that alias.
42 HSCA memorandum by Jonathan Blackmer to Robert Blakey, dated September 1, 1977.
43 Probe, Vol. 5 No. 6, p. 15.
44 See the Walter Pincus entry at the Spartacus Educational web site.
45 Ibid.
46 Washington Post, November 21, 2005.
47 Op. cit., Probe.
48 Lane, Plausible Denial, p. 31.
49 Dick Russell, On the Trail of the JFK Assassins, (New York, Skyhorse Publishing, 2008), p. 53.
50 New Orleans States-Item, March 5, 1977.
51 Op. cit., Probe.
52 Congressional Record, April 5, 1977. This was part of the vigorous attempt by Sprague’s defenders to correct the record after he resigned.
53 Op. Cit., Probe.
54 Russell, op. cit., pps. 170–71.
55 Ibid., p. 172.
56 Marrs, p. 285.
57 Ibid, p. 286. Jim Marrs discovered that Mendoza got registered to practice in Dallas in April of 1976, two months before he treated DeMohrenschildt. He left in December, leaving the Medical Society a false forwarding address. See Marrs, p. 286.
58 Gallery, November, 1977, “The Mysterious Death of a Key JFK Witness” by Mark Lane, p. 112.
59 Op. Cit., Oltmans HSCA testimony, p. 37.
60 Ibid., pps. 45, 68.
61 Ibid., p. 56. It is pretty obvious by this point in Oltmans’s deposition that Tanenbaum does not believe him.
62 Op. Cit., Gallery, November, 1977.
63 Rose, Jerry, “Loose Ends in the Death of George DeMohrenschildt,” The Third Decade, Vol. 1 No. 1, p. 22.
64 HSCA testimony of Willem Oltmans, April 1, 1977, p. 75.
65 Ibid.
66 Ibid., p. 73.
67 Ibid., p. 51.
68 Ibid., pps. 41–42.
69 Ibid.
70 CBS Evening News segment of April 1, 1977. Almost all the above claims made by Oltmans are in this report.
71 Op. Cit., Oltmans HSCA testimony, p. 51.
72 Time Magazine, April 11, 1977.
73 HSCA Vol. 12, pps. 132–33.
74 Ibid, p. 287.
75 Gallery, April, 1978, pps. 43ff
76 Ibid., p. 103.
77 Op. Cit., The Third Decade, p. 25.
78 Ibid., p. 27.
79 Ibid.
80 Op. Cit., Gallery, November, 1977. p. 112.
81 Ibid., p. 114.
82 Author’s 1992 interview in Cincinnati with Jerry Policoff who talked to Angleton about this matter.
83 Op. Cit., The Third Decade, p. 24.
84 Russell, p. 173.
85 Author’s 1996 interview with Lewis in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
86 Fonzi, p. 256.
87 Interview by the author and William Davy of Triplett in Falls Church, Virginia in 1994.
88 Author’s 1993 interview in Dallas with Fonzi.
89 Fonzi, p. 231.
90 Author’s 1995 telephone interview with Eddie Lopez. According to Lopez, when this quote was leaked to the press, Blakey was furious.
91 CIA Memorandum of July 17, 1978.
92 Ibid. It turned out that a congressional committee later found out that Blahut was part of a larger CIA operation code-named MH/Child. (Washington Post, 6/28/79.)
93 DiEugenio, James. “The Sins of Robert Blakey: Part 2.” Probe, Vol. 6 No. 1, p. 32.
94 Op. cit., Lopez interview.
95 HSCA interview of Mrs. Murrett on November 6, 1978. See especially pages, 7–9, 15–16, and p. 23.
96 HSCA interview of Eugene Murrett on Novmeber 7, 1978. See especially pps. 3, and 9–12.
97 HSCA Vol. 9, pps. 95–99. In a long discussion I had with Lamar Waldron and Giorgio DiCaprio in 2011 at Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way production office, they both mightily resisted this new information, which tells me they were not familiar with the HSCA declassified files.
98 G. Robert Blakey and Richard Billings, Fatal Hour (Berkley Books: New York, 1992) p. xxvii.
99 Fonzi, p. 255.
100 HSCA Vol. 10, p. 125.
101 Ibid.
102 HSCA interview of Delphine Roberts by Robert Buras, August 27, 1978.
103 HSCA Vol. 10, p. 128.
104 Journalist Scott Malone’s research notes on his August 14, 1978 interview with Newman.
105 Op. cit., Roberts interview by Buras.
106 Ibid.
107 Ibid.
108 Ibid.
109 Ibid.
110 HSCA interview of Oster by Bob Buras, January 27, 1978. The presence of Kennedy at Banister’s does much to explain Hoover’s almost immediate FBI cover up of the Kennedy assassination.
111 HSCA Report, p. 219.
112 Melanson, p. 93.
113 In addition to Roberts, Martin, Campbell, and Gaudet putting the two together, there are the two INS agents, Smith and Roache, Roberts’s daughter, and Vernon Gerdes, who told Gordon Novel’s lawyer Steve Plotkin he had seen the two together with Ferrie. (Wackenhut Memorandum of 4/7/67).
114 Mellen, A Farewell to Justice, p. 347.
115 Author’s 1994 interview with L. J. Delsa in New Orleans.
116 Author’s 1995 phone interview with Wallace Milam.
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117 This includes authors Bill Davy and Joan Mellen.
118 Probe, Vol. 6 No. 1, p. 32.
119 Author’s 1993 interview with photoanalyst Richard E. Sprague in Alexandria, Virginia.
120 Ruth Paine fully expected to be deposed by the HSCA. She was seen at the National Archives at the time going through her files (Author’s 1996 phone interview with Jerry Policoff).
121 HSCR, p. 50.
122 See Eaglesham’s web site, “The Sniper’s Nest: Incarnations and Implications.”
123 WC Vol. 7, p. 46.
124 See, for example, Commission Exhibit 512.
125 WC Vol. 3, pps. 401–02.
126 Michael Kurtz, Crime of the Century, (Knoxville, Tenn: University of Tennessee Press, 1982), pps. 50–51.
127 HSCR, p. 45.
128 See the Contra Costa Times, August 21, 2006, for the study done by Pat Grant and Rick Randich; see Washington Post, May 17, 2007 for the study conducted by Cliff Spiegealman and William Tobin.
129 HSCR, pps. 44, 48. For critiques of Canning, see Chapter 15 at patspeer.com, and Probe, Vol. 6 No. 1, pps. 10–11. Blakey and Richard Billings, one of the main authors of the HSCA report, also relied upon the HSCA medical panel chaired by Michael Baden. The findings of Baden and his panel have been shown by several authors to be dubious. Some good critiques of this subject are by Gary Aguilar and Cyril Wecht in the book Trauma Room-One, pps. 170–264; two separate essays by Gary Aguilar and David Mantik in the book Murder in Dealey Plaza, pps. 175–297; and David Mantik’s essay in the book Assassination Science, pps. 93–139.
130 Author’s 1994 interview with Lopez in Rochester, New York.
131 Letter from Brooten to Weisberg dated April 7, 1977.
132 Biles, p. xii.
133 Robert Tanenbaum, 2003 Duquesne Symposium at the Cyril Wecht Institute of Forensic Science in Pittsburgh.
134 See John Hunt’s, “The Mystery of the 7:30 Bullet” at the JFK Lancer site.
135 See John Hunt’s “Phantom Identification of the Magic Bullet” at the JFK Lancer site.
Chapter 16
1 The actual quote is “The play’s the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.” Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2.
2 See the WR, pps. 299–311, 658–59, 730–36.
3 CIA cable of December 20, 1963.
4 HSCA Memorandum of interview of the Tarasoffs by Ken Brooten and Jonathan Blackmer dated December 5, 1976.
5 Slawson Trip Report, p. 5.
6 Probe, Vol. 4 No. 1, p. 14.
7 Ibid.
8 HSCA Vol. 11, p. 149.
9 Ibid.
10 Helms’s dissatisfaction is expressed in a memo Whitten wrote after a meeting with the Deputy Director on December 24, 1963. Yet Whitten was puzzled as to what Helms objects to in his initial reports, because Helms would not reveal to him the precise problems he had with them.
11 McKnight, pps. 347–9.
12 Ibid., p. 323, also pps. 366–68. This turned out to be a mangled story. When the FBI tracked this rumor down, the actual substance of it was that Oswald was a CIA agent masquerading as a communist, not an FBI operative. (See Probe Vol. 3, No. 6, p. 15).
13 McKnight, p. 347.
14 In 1994, Slawson was asked by the ARRB if he would discuss certain aspects of his Mexico trip. He said he “was not at liberty to discuss that.” This was thirty years later, and a law had made the ARRB the governing authority on JFK records. Yet, Slawson was still loyal to the CIA and Warren Commision. (See Newman, Oswald and the CIA, p. xiv.)
15 Newman, Oswald and the CIA, p. 615.
16 Probe, Vol. 4 No. 1, p. 15.
17 Armstrong, p. 628.
18 Op. cit., Probe.
19 Ibid.
20 Lopez Report, pps. 191–92.
21 Op. cit., Probe, p. 28.
22 Lopez Report, p. 190; Armstrong, p. 646.
23 Lopez Report, p. 192.
24 Ibid., p. 193.
25 WR, p. 301.
26 Probe, Vol. 3 No. 6, p. 15.
27 Lopez Report, p. 190.
28 WR, p. 302; Lopez Report, p. 190.
29 Author’s 1994 interview with Ed Lopez in Rochester, New York.
30 This annex is referred to in the text of the report. And it was confirmed to me by Lopez in my 1994 interview with him.
31 Probe, Vol. 7 No. 2, p. 21.
32 WR, p. 322.
33 Gaeton Fonzi interview of Odio, January 16, 1976 for the Church Committee.
34 PBS 1993 Frontline special, “Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?”
35 WC Vol. 11, pps. 370–71.
36 Ibid, pps. 369, 375.
37 Ibid., p. 377.
38 Op. cit., Fonzi interview.
39 WC Vol. 11, p. 373.
40 Ibid., p. 371.
41 Ibid., pps. 370, 386.
42 WR, p. 733.
43 WR, pps. 731–32.
44 WC, Vol. 11, p. 372.
45 Op. cit., Fonzi interview with Odio. Liebeler was referring to a speech Warren gave the Commission staff at their first meeting of January 20, 1964. In a memo by Melvin Eisenberg, he writes that Warren said “this was an occasion on which actual conditions had to override general principles.... He placed emphasis on the importance of quenching rumors, and precluding future speculations such as that which has surounded the death of Lincoln.”
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid.
48 Author’s 1994 interview with Triplett in Falls Church, Virginia.
49 Lopez Report, p. 117.
50 Ibid., p. 121.
51 Bill Simpich, “Twelve who Built the Oswald Legend, Part 7,” at OpEd News.com
52 Hardway and Lopez identified this person as KGB officer Yuri Moskalev. Anne Goodpasture lied about the day this photo was taken. It was taken on October 2, not the October 1. The authors also conclude that Goodpasture knew this man was not Oswald well before the assassination, by October 11 (See Lopez Report, pps. 139–41, 159, and 179).
53 Ibid., p. 303.
54 Ibid., pps. 47, 70; Author’s 1994 interview with Lopez in Rochester, New York.
55 Lopez Report, p. 47.
56 Tanenbaum speech at Midwest Symposium in Chicago, 1993.
57 Lopez Report, p. 63.
58 Ibid, p. 133.
59 Op. cit., 1993 Tanenbaum speech.
60 Armstrong, p. 659.
61 See, for example, the Lopez Report, pps. 18, 40.
62 Ibid., p. 128.
63 Ibid.
64 Newman, Oswald and the CIA, p. 393.
65 Ibid., p. 398.
66 Ibid., p. 636.
67 Newman, John. “Oswald, the CIA and Mexico City: Fingerprints of Conspiracy.” Probe, Vol. 6, No. 6, p. 4.
68 Ibid.
69 Ibid, p. 29.
70 CIA Summary Report of December 13, 1963, prepared by John Whitten.
71 Hurt, p. 252.
72 Transcript of phone call at 10:00 a.m. on the twenty-third, available at Mary Ferrell Foundation. As Rex Bradford notes, although there is a transcript of this call, for some reason, the actual tape of the call is not available.
73 FBI memorandum from Hoover to James Rowley of November 23, 1963.
74 December 15, 1995 ARRB deposition of Anne Goodpasture, excerpted in Newman’s Oswald and the CIA, p. 653.
75 Mexico Station cable 7023 to CIA HQS of November 23, 1963.
76 FBI memo of November 23rd, from Rudd to Gordon Shanklin.
77 Armstrong, p. 651.
78 Lopez Report, p. 164.
79 Armstrong, p. 652.
80 Ibid., p. 659.
81 CIA internal memo by John Whitten, December 13, 1963.
82 Transcript of phone call of November 29, 1963. This audio tape is now on You Tube.
83 Transcript of Earl Warrren’s Oral History interview of 9/21/71 at the LBJ Library at University of Texas.
84 Lane, Plausible Denial, p. 42.
85 Transcript of November 29th call between Johnson and Russell is at the History Matters web site.
86 Executive Session transcript of the Warren Commission, December 5, 1963, pgs, 1–3.
87 Probe, Vol. 6 No. 6, p. 29.
88 Newman, Oswald and the CIA, p. 616.
89 Ibid., p. 618.
90 Hosty, p. 48.
91 Ibid., p. 101.
92 Ibid., pps. 166–67.
93 Jefferson Morley, Our Man in Mexico (Lawerence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2008) p. 1.
94 Ibid., p. 286.
95 Pease, Lisa. “James Jesus Angleton and the Kennedy Assassination: Part 2.” Probe, Vol. 7 No. 6, p. 29.
96 CIA Memorandum of November 27, 1963 from Winston Scott to Clarke Anderson. Not only does one have the voice problem and language problem and Duran’s testimony that Oswald was not there on the twenty-eighth, but this call is just silly. Oswald says he is calling from the Cuban consulate because he forgot his own address and had to go retrieve it.
97 NODA Memorandum of January 18, 1968, from Jim Garrison to Lou Ivon.
98 McKnight, p. 72.
99 JFK Countercoup blog dated June 8, 2012.
100 Author’s 1994 interview with Lopez in Rochester, New York.
101 Op. cit., JFK Countercoup.
102 Op. cit., Probe, p. 30.
103 Ibid.
104 This was the famous legal proceeding depicted in Mark Lane’s book Plausible Denial, Spotlight v. Howard Hunt.
105 Pease’s milestone essays appeared in Probe Vol. 7, Nos. 5 and 6.
106 Anthony Summers at the Chicago Midwest Symposium in 1993,
107 Letter from David Phillips to Vincent Bugliosi, July 1, 1986.
108 Ibid. Phillips’ hopes were posthumously realized when Bugliosi published his mammoth book, Reclaiming History in 2007.
109 Russell, p. 272.
Chapter 17
1 Newman, JFK and Vietnam, p. 138.
2 Blight, p. 129.
3 Newman, JFK and Vietnam pps. 236–37; Blight, p. 129.
4 For Gilpatric’s comments on the withdrawal issue, see Blight, p. 371; McNaughton’s are mentioned in Roger Hilsman’s letter to the New York Times of January 20, 1992.
5 Goldstein, p. 239.
6 Records of eighth SecDef conference held in Hawaii, published in Probe Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 3, pgs 20–21.
7 Newman, JFK and Vietnam, pps. 401–02.
8 Ibid., p. 407.
9 Ibid., p. 69.
10 Ibid., p. 72.
11 Douglass, pps. 374–75.
12 Goldstein, p. 239.
13 Douglass, p. 375; Newman, op. cit., p. 442.
14 Newman, op. cit., p. 443.
15 Robert McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (New York: Vintage Books, 1995), p. 102.
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