CHAPTER 14: A MURKY PASSAGE
Note: Elsewhere, I have tried to indicate in full where information has come from. In this case, because of the nature of the material and the personalities involved, I have protected a number of sources who presented cogent reasons for concealing their identities.
1. Richard D. Mahoney, Sons and Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999), 269. I made repeated attempts to talk with Mr. Mahoney, but he did not reply to my messages.
2. Sally Harvey, in conversation with the author, March 9–12, 2002.
3. I met Marajen Chinigo only once, very briefly, at her villa in Palm Springs. The dowager died December 22, 2002, having survived to see her ninetieth birthday. The Chicago Tribune’s obituary contained a quote from “former singer and game show host Peter Marshall, who was a neighbor of Mrs. Chinigo in the Palm Springs, Calif., area, and who became a good friend. ‘Her [Palm Springs] circle included a lot of stars, especially Loretta Young, who was one of her closest friends. She was so wonderful. Really, she was from a different era. You don’t find that gentility much any more.’”
4. The quotes and the substance of this section are from a series of interviews, conducted during 2002, with former employees of the Chinigo complex of interests. They were fleshed out in many, frequent conversations I had from 2001 to 2004 with the man I identify as Marajen Chinigo’s conservator. During those conversations, he reported his chats with Marajen; he relayed questions from me and supplied answers she had given him. Our conversations are simply too numerous to note individually. I have extracted, edited, and consolidated the substance.
5. William E. Dyess, The Dyess Story (New York: G. P. Putnam Sons, 1944), 38.
6. A Google search of Macchia Albanese yields this information, which includes some tantalizing gems: “This dialect of Albanian is spoken in several ‘village pockets’ in Calabria, Avellino, Molise, Puglia, and Sicily in Southern Italy. There are about 80,000 to 100,000 speakers out of an ethnic population of 260,000. Anyway, speakers are diminishing and the language is very endangered…. The Arberesh are descendants from migrants of the 15th century.”
7. Max Corvo, The OSS in Italy, 1942–1955: A Personal Memoir (New York: Praeger, 1990), 35.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., 94.
10. Michael Chinigo, “Lowdown on Mafia Revealed,” Chicago American, August 29, 1954. I queried John Foreman about the “nine sensational stories” I had heard were buried in the News-Gazette morgue and requested a clearer photo of Chinigo and Luciano than the smudgy photocopy reproduction he had sent me, along with the Chicago American story. Foreman had earlier told me that further information conceivably linking Chinigo to the Mob, with specific undertones of threat to his life, did exist in the deep files of the Champaign News-Gazette. Then, Foreman replied brusquely that he didn’t have time to search further and that this was all he knew. John Foreman, e-mails to the author, June 10 and 23, 2003.
11. Gore Vidal, phone conversations with the author, January 8 and 11, and September 24, 2002.
12. Douglas Fleming, phone interview by the author, January 14, 2002.
13. Curtis G. Pepper, phone interview by the author, January 18, 2002.
14. Sam Papich, e-mail to the author, July 23, 2002.
15. Fleming, phone interview, January 14, 2002.
16. Vidal, phone conversation, January 11, 2002.
CHAPTER 15: THE CONSCIENCE
1. Senator Gary Hart, letter to the author, April 16, 2001.
2. F. A. O. Schwarz Jr., phone conversation with the author, April 11, 2001.
3. Anita Potocki, phone conversation with the author, January 13, 2001.
4. Ted Shackley, in conversation with the author, May 21, 2001.
5. Sam Halpern, in conversation with the author, May 23, 2001.
6. Sally Harvey, in conversation with the author, March 9–12, 2002.
CHAPTER 16: INDIANAPOLIS AND DEATH
1. This and other quotes by Sally Harvey are from our conversations, March 9–12, 2002.
2. Rev. David P. Kahlenberg, sermon at Bill’s funeral, June 12, 1976; and David P. Kahlenberg, letter to the author, January 2001.
3. Herb Natzke, in conversation with the author, February 11, 2001.
4. CG Harvey, letter to the author, April 10, 1983; and CG Harvey, videotaped monologue, given at the Indianapolis Lutheran Church, February 22, 1998.
5. Jack Hall, in conversation with the author, March 10, 2001. When Jack Hall was studying and teaching in Boston, he came to know the Kennedys. “Part of their campaign strategy was tea parties in various neighborhoods. I used to go with Rory Childers who was the son of the Irish prime minister. After a while, I started treating Jack, at the Baptist Hospital in Boston, for Addisons Disease….
“Jack Kennedy was well-meant but superficial. Impetuous. Bobby Kennedy was focused. He would do whatever it took.
“I’m not surprised there was trouble between Bobby and Bill Harvey. The Kennedy’s didn’t track. They were all show—touch football and Marilyn Monroe. They learned that way of life from Joe Kennedy.”
On Cuba: “They had an inability to make decisions. They liked a lot of show.
“Clara [CG] had great distaste for Bobby. She used to say, ‘He warped information … shut off information he didn’t want to hear.’”
Hall was careful not to make a connection, but in another part of our conversation, he seemed to go off on a tangent. “I knew a man, an ex-student of mine, who was the CIA doctor. He was doing appraisals of the health of CIA people.” The man was, of course, Dr. Arthur Tietjen, and he and Hall published the work Probability Risk Research, or Health Hazard Appraisal Prospective Medicine. “We were trying to identify the useful life expectancy of people in their mid-sixties.”
Dr. Hall says that he hoped to persuade one of his very wealthy clients “to build a museum here in Indianapolis for outstanding women, and Clara would certainly be among the first to be in it.” Jack Hall is the only person I’ve ever met who referred to CG by her true first name. No one else would have dared.
6. David C. Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors (New York: Harper & Row, 1980), 222. “He died holding his wife’s hand, at ten minutes past two in the afternoon of June 8.
“‘Bill was 60, too young to go,’ his wife wrote in a letter to his colleagues at Bobbs-Merrill. ‘He had many plans ahead. He had lived a very full and satisfying life by his own estimation. He said few men were blessed with the opportunity he had to serve his country.’ She had received more than three hundred letters of condolence from all over the world, she said. She had also received some unexpected callers—two attempted break-ins at the Harvey home. ‘They’re after his papers,’ she said, ‘but I burned everything.’”
7. CG Harvey, letter, April 10, 1983.
8. Bill Harvey, letter to Jim Angleton, June 3, 1976, photocopy returned by Angleton to CG, April 22, 1980. Angleton returned the letter specifically to undercut allegations in Wilderness of Mirrors that there was bitterness and rivalry between Harvey and himself.
9. CG Harvey, letter, April 10, 1983.
10. Dick Cady, a retired Indianapolis Star reporter, eulogy at the memorial service for CG Harvey, October 7, 2000.
11. CG Harvey, letter, April 10, 1983.
CHAPTER 17: AFTERLIFE
1. F. A. O. Schwarz, phone conversation with the author, April 11, 2001.
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INDEX
Abwehr, 12
Africa, 148, 238
Agee, Philip, 245
Albania, 30, 288–89, 352
Albatross, Operation, 97
Aldo’s, 124
Anderson, Jack, 192, 196–97, 199, 214, 223–24, 227–28, 260, 309
Angleton, Cicely, 29, 244, 304
Angleton, James Jesus, 26, 90, 111–12, 212, 233, 236, 296; and Chinigo, 279; and Harvey, 34–35, 64, 204, 257, 303–305; and Peter Karlow, 103, 187, 229; and Philby, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33; and ZRRIFLE, 116–18, 152
Arnold, Charles, 86, 159
Arnold S., 152, 159, 207, 334
Assassination Records Act, 216
Assassination Records Review Board, 216, 337
Bacci, Bruno, 288
Bailey, George, 89, 240, 252, 330
Bamford, James, 75
Barnes, Tracy, 28, 61, 113
Barron, John, 30, 31–32, 35, 49–50, 52, 61, 262–63, 325
Battleground Berlin, 72, 78, 79, 81
Bay of Pigs, 112–13, 117, 118, 121, 122, 137, 144, 174, 179, 198, 204, 260, 315
Becker, Ed, 198–200, 228
Bentley, Elizabeth, 15–16, 17, 322–23
Berlin Brotherhood, 58, 63, 66, 244, 264
Berlin Command, 3
Berlin Operations Base (BOB), 89–90, 204, 297; and the Berlin Tunnel operation, 92–93; description of, 1–2; description of case officers, 42–43; with Harvey as head, 37–40, 41–69, 327; history of, 40–41; on June 16–17, 1953, 1–4, 44–45. See also Berlin Tunnel
Berlin Tunnel, 32, 38, 39, 48, 52, 56, 60, 71–98, 116, 132, 311, 330
Berry, Clarence, 21, 28, 55, 74, 75, 78, 83–85, 86, 90–92, 94, 95, 96–97, 147, 159, 274, 322
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