by Jim Marrs
A Soviet Defector’s Story
124Nosenko: Epstein, pp. 3–50, 257–274; Summers, pp. 194–202; “How the CIA Tried to Break Defector in Oswald Case,” Washington Star, Sept. 16, 1978; Edward Jay Epstein, “The War of the Moles: Russian Spies Inside the CIA and the FBI,” New York, Feb. 27, 1978, and March 6, 1978; G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings, The Plot to Kill the President, New York, New York Times Books, 1981, pp. 118–134.
Cubans
Disaster at the Bay of Pigs
130Nixon pushes Cushman: Peter Wyden, Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story, pp. 29–30.
130Hunt and Barker: Ibid., p. 33.
131US force barred: New York Times, April 12, 1961.
131“Minimum” scale: Wyden, p. 170.
132Barbara fired upon: http://cuban-exile.com/doc_026–050/doc0041.html.
132Robert Davis: Wyden, p. 300.
132“Orphan” quote: Ibid., p. 305.
133JM/WAVE: Blakey and Billings, p. 159.
133RFK “stops” Mafia dealings: New York Times, March 10, 1965.
135Daniel: Summers, pp. 431–434; Blakey and Billings, p. 144.
135Attwood: Summers, p. 453.
137Mobile visit: WC Report, p. 728.
137Martello and Austin: Summers, p. 301.
544 Camp Street
138CRC at 544 Camp Street: Blakey and Billings, p. 165.
139Banister “agent”: Summers, p. 324; Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt, pp. 291–292.
139Rodriquez: Summers, p. 318.
Oswald and the Exiles
140Veciana: Ibid., pp. 353–392, 508–513; Hurt, pp. 327–337.
141Phillips character: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKphillips.htm.
141Echevarria: Blakey and Billings, pp. 170–171; Hurt, p. 327.
141Odio: WC Report, pp. 321–325; Hurt, pp. 372–374; Summers, pp. 411–418.
143Oswald not at Odio home: WC Report, p. 324.
143Hall: WC Report, p. 301; Silvia Meagher, Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report, New York, Vintage, 1976, p. 387.
Oswald’s Girlfriend
144Oswald quote: Judyth Vary Baker, Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald, Walterville, Ore., TrineDay, 2010, p. 317.
144Gave up following the players: Ibid.
145Charles Le Blanc: XXIII.701.
146Clinton incident: Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, New York, Sheridan Square Press, 1988, pp. 105–108; Hurt, p. 280; Summers, pp. 333–337.
146Ochsner on expendable: Baker, p. 470.
147Eyes opened to corruption: Baker, p. 553.
148The 1972 false Judyth Baker: Edward T. Haslam, Dr. Mary’s Monkey, Walterville, Ore., TrineDay, 2007, pp. 286–288.
148Morgan: Washington Post, May 2, 1976.
148Martino: Summers, p. 451.
149Oswald on policy toward Cuba: WC Report, p. 609.
149A provocation: Bill Moyers, “The CIA’s Secret Army,” CBS Reports, June 10, 1977.
149Johnson stopped investigations: John Armstrong, Harvey & Lee: How the CIA Framed Oswald, Arlington, Texas, Quasar Ltd., 2003, p. 916.
Mobsters
Lucky Goes to War
153Lansky: Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, and Eli Landau, Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob, p. 184.
Carlos Marcello
155Becker: Summers, pp. 287–288; Blakey and Billings, pp. 244–245; Davis, pp. 379–380.
156Michael Wacks: Hillel Levin, “How the Outfit Killed JFK,” Playboy, Nov. 22, 2011.
157Dorfman: Blakey and Billings, pp. 193, 206.
Santos Trafficante and Cuba
158Lansky and Trafficante: Howard Kohn, “The Hughes-Nixon-Lansky Connection: The Secret Alliances of the CIA from WWII to Watergate,” Rolling Stone, May 20, 1976; Blakey and Billings, pp. 227–229.
159Bradlee: Moldea, p. 149.
160Aleman: Blakey and Billings, p. 246; Davis, p. 490; Summers, p. 284.
The War on Hoffa
161Hoffa threat: Levin, p. 148; Fensterwald, pp. 351–352; Blakey and Billings, p. 202; Summers, p. 282.
162Valachi evaluated: Blakey and Billings, p. 200.
163Mob eliminated or crippled: Davis, The Kennedys, p. 484.
Momo and His Girlfriends
164Hoover with Cohn and Costello: http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/frank-costello.
164Exner: Judith Exner as told to Ovid Demaris, My Story, pp. 86–89, 100–105; Kitty Kelly, “The Dark Side of Camelot,” People, Feb. 29, 1988.
165Lawrence Houston: Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2000, p. 171.
167Blakey: author’s telephone interview, June 1981.
Agents
168Truman: Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, p. 304; David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, The Invisible Government, New York, Bantam Books, 1965, p. 101.
169Innocuous words: Marchetti and Marks, pp. 33–34.
170Dulles and United Fruit: David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace, The People’s Almanac #2, p. 309.
170Allen and John Foster Dulles: Wise and Ross, p. 104.
The Manchurian Candidates
171LSD and MK-ULTRA: John D. Marks, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate,” pp. 53–67.
172Edward Gillin: http://cliffordshack-article-archive-storage.blogspot.com/2012/01/cia-lsd-lho.html.
CIA-Mafia Death Plots
173Dr. Rolando Cubela: Epstein, pp. 231–233.
New Orleans
174Ferrie statement missing: Fensterwald, p. 297.
174Marchetti: Robert Sam Anson, “They’ve Killed the President!” The Search for the Murderers of John F. Kennedy, New York, Bantam Books, 1975, p. 122.
174Martin: HSCA IX.104.
174Delphine Roberts: Summers, pp. 324–325.
The Saga of Tosh Plumlee
175Tosh in Florida and Dallas: author’s interviews, 1991–2004.
Was Oswald a Spy?
180Rose: Earl Golz, “Oswald Camera Disappeared During FBI Investigation,” Dallas Morning News, June 15, 1978.
181Lohn: Ibid.
181Minox photos released: Earl Golz, “Oswald Pictures Released by FBI,” Dallas Morning News, Aug. 7, 1978.
181CIA document: HSCA IV.210; “Paper Shows Oswald Eyed,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Oct. 1, 1976.
181Oswald as CIA agent: CIA “201” document: HSCA Report, pp. 200–205.
181Harry Dean: “JFK Exclusive: Oswald was U.S. Agent!” Argosy, October 1976; www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFK-deanH.htm.
182Agents knew of Oswald: Jefferson Morley, “What Can We Do About JFK’s Murder?” The Atlantic, Nov. 21, 2012.
183Cox’s box top: XXIV.345.
184Incredible cable: Mark Lane, “CIA Conspired to Kill Kennedy,” LA Free Press, Special Report Number One, 1978, p. 5.
185Azcue: Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1980, p. 374.
185Duran: Summers, pp. 376–377.
185Phillips: Ibid., p. 384.
185No accurate manner: Appendix to the HSCA Report, the “Lopez Report,” p. 8.
A Message from Oswald
186Oswald note: Penn Jones Jr., The Continuing Inquiry, Feb. 22, 1977; “Alleged Oswald Letter Checked for Its Authenticity by FBI Agents,” Dallas Morning News, Feb. 6, 1977.
187McNally: HSCA IV.357–359.
187William Gaudet: Summers, pp. 363–365.
189Osborne/Bowen: Fensterwald, pp. 232–235; Summers, pp. 369–370.
DeMohrenschildt and the Agency
189Gary Taylor: IX.100.
189Letters to LBJ: http://ciajfk.com/Doris.html.
189Reports to CIA: “Oswald Friend Labeled CIA Informant in Memo,” Dallas Times Herald, July 27, 1978.
190J. Walton Moore: HSCA XII.53–54; author’s interviews with Jeanne DeMohrenschildt, 1978–1979.
190CIA mail opening: Associated Press, “Letters Reveal CIA Opened Mail to Oswald,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sept. 12, 1978.
191Plausible account: Robert Morrow, Betrayal: A Reconstruction of Certain Clandestine Events from the Bay of Pigs to the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Chicago, Henry Regnery Co., 1976.
191FBI ammo document: http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/N%20Disk/Neutron%20Activatin%20Analyses%200226%20Appeal%20FBI%20Releases/Item%2005.pdf.
191Underhill: Robert J. Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone, High Treason, Baltimore, Conservatory Press, 1989, p. 124.
The French Connection to the Assassination
193Alderson: researcher J. Gary Shaw’s interview, Oct. 6, 1977; Hurt, p. 418.
194Helms: “Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Foreign Assassinations,” p. 142.
196Davis in Algiers: Seth Kantor, Who Was Jack Ruby?, New York, Everest House, 1978, p. 16.
196Eldon Moyers: author’s interview, spring 1986.
197Virgil Bailey: interview with researcher Gary Shaw, spring 1980; Hurt, p. 416.
197Steve Rivele: “A New Theory: 3 French Gangsters Killed JFK, New Book Alleges,” Dallas Morning News, Oct. 26, 1988; Turner documentary.
198Conein: Henrik Kreuger, The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism, Cambridge, Mass., South End Press, 1980, pp. 133–135.
198A tremendous power: Richard D. Starnes, “Starnegazing,” Reading Eagle, Oct. 10, 1963, p. 20.
198Watson: “Senate Intelligence Committee Report,” Vol. 6, 1976, p. 4.
G-Men
The Top G-Man
2013,000 citizens: www.vdare.com/articles/why-no-ashcroft-raids.
202Sullivan on communists: William C. Sullivan with Bill Brown, The Bureau: My Thirty Years in Hoover’s FBI, New York, W. W. Norton, 1979, p. 266.
203Mafia monograph: Ibid., p. 121.
203Sullivan on lack of mob prosecution: Ibid., pp. 117–118.
203Don Fulsome: http://crimemagazine.com/j-edgar-hoover-blackmailed-mafia.
203Wicker: Pat Watters and Stephen Gillers, eds., Investigating the FBI, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company, 1973, p. 14.
205FBI alumni: Sullivan, p. 115.
205FBI and Dallas police: Earl Golz, “Hoover’s Vendetta Targeted Dallas Police, Memos Reveal,” Dallas Morning News, Dec. 30, 1980.
206FBI growth: Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover, New York, Free Press, 1988, p. 218.
206Arvad: Davis, p. 111; Powers, p. 359.
206Hoover and JFK: Sullivan, p. 50.
207Files destroyed: Powers, p. 266.
207Hoover and Johnson: Sullivan, p. 60.
208Retirement waived: Powers, p. 396; Note: Hoover’s retention as FBI director was assured by Executive Order 11154.
208Relationship changed: Sullivan, pp. 60–61.
209Tolson quote: Ibid., p. 48.
Did Oswald Work for the FBI?
211Quigley: WC Report, pp. 436–437; IV.431–432.
211Pena: CBS Reports Inquiry, The American Assassins, Part Two, Nov. 26, 1975.
212Walter: “Never Before Published Documents Prove: FBI Had Five-Day Warning,” LA Free Press, Special Report Number One, 1978, p. 10.
213Alba: Summers, pp. 312–313; Hurt, pp. 296–298.
214Coffee company employees: Jim Garrison, A Heritage of Stone, New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970, pp. 128–130.
214Garrison: Ibid., p. 131.
214Oswald as agent: Warren Commission transcripts, meeting of Jan. 22, 1964; meeting of Jan. 27, 1964.
217Hosty note destroyed: “Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the Kennedy Assassination,” p. 95; Davis, pp. 550, 560; Summers, pp. 394–396.
218Marina: WC I.79.
Cuban Grand Central Station
220Maurice B. Gatlin: http://education-forum.ipbhost.com/index.php?show-topic=14855.
221Delphine Roberts: Summers, pp. 322–326.
221Roberts’s daughter: Ibid., p. 296.
221Chief Curry: IV.195.
221Police turn over evidence: “FBI to Receive Slaying Evidence,” Dallas Times Herald, Nov. 26, 1963; Transfer to federal control: “FBI Takes Over All Evidence Police Collected on Oswald,” Dallas Morning News, Nov. 27, 1963.
222Cadigan: VII.434–435.
223Hundley and Powers: Ovid Demaris, The Director, New York, Harper’s Magazine Press, 1975, p. 175.
The Secret Service
225O’Donnell: William Manchester, The Death of a President, New York, Penguin Books, 1977, p. 37.
225Bolden: Fensterwald, pp. 560–562; Groden and Livingston, pp. 136–137; Shaw with Harris, p. 22; author’s interview, 2010.
226Luncheon site decision: Jerry Bruno and Jeff Greenfield, The Advance Man, New York, William Morrow and Company, 1971, p. 90.
227O’Donnell: Ibid., p. 92.
227Angry at Connally: Ibid., p. 94.
227Incomplete information: Jesse E. Curry, Retired Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry Reveals His Personal JFK Assassination File, Dallas, Texas, American Poster and Publishing Co., 1969, p. 17.
228Greer: 11.117.
A Few Drinks at the Cellar
230Rowley: WC Report, p. 451.
231Kirkwood and Hill: “Remembering the Cellar,” Startime Section, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 25, 1984, p. 14; author’s interviews with Pat Kirkwood, 1978 and 1984.
232Johnson on Youngblood: VIII.562.
232Agents waved off: www.jfklancer.com/LNE/limo.html.
233Johnson’s elaboration: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Vantage Point, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.
233Yarborough: author’s interview, summer 1986.
233Secret Service deficiencies: HSCA Report, p. 237.
Rednecks and Oilmen
235Sorenson on civil rights: Davis, p. 410.
A Bullet for the General
237Edwin Walker: author’s interview, November 1964.
237Weissman: V.509.
238Stovall and Rose: XXII.583.
238Marina: XI.294.
240William Duff: www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=11711&relPageId=4.
240Walker’s name in Oswald’s notebook: WC Report, p. 663.
241Paine: III.87.
241Meagher: Meagher, p. 287.
242Bullets don’t match: George Michael Evica, And We Are All Mortal, West Hartford, University of Hartford, 1978, p. 75.
242Compelling evidence: Meagher, p. 62.
243Russell’s opposition: James Hepburn, Farewell America, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Frontier Publishing Company, 1968, p. 71.
243King as instrument: Sullivan, p. 135.
243Hoover gathered material: Ibid., p. 50.
244Coretta Scott King: www.trutv.com/conspiracy/assassinations/james-earlray/3.html.
244Dangerous enemy: Davis, p. 427.
The Miami Prophet
244Milteer: Davis, p. 513; Shaw with Harris, pp. 169–170; Hurt, pp. 410–411; Summers, pp. 429–430, 606–607.
245Kennedy and steel industry: Wallechinsky and Wallace, The People’s Almanac, p. 246.
Nixon and the JFK Assassination
247Nixon’s flight from Dallas: http://mtracy9.tripod.com/kennedy.html.
248Marcello cash to Nixon: Dan R. Moldea, The Hoffa Wars, New York and London, Paddington Press, 1978, p. 108.
249Rubenstein FBI memo: author’s interview with Ford, 1977; Shaw with Harris, p. 54; Groden and Livingstone, p. 254.
250Nixon FBI interview: Warren Commission Exhibit 1973.
251Nixon’s version: Jules Witcover, Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 25, 1967.
251Marina’s statements: WC Report, p. 188.
251Nixon-Haldeman: June 23, 1972, White House Transcript, meeting between President Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman.
252Watergate figures: Fensterwald, p. 550.
252Justice official: Moldea, p. 352.
A Killing on Wall Street
253Wall Street: Book of the Year, 1964, Chicago, Encyclopedia Britannica,1964, p. 847; Lincoln Lawrence, Were We Controlled?, New York, University Books Inc., 1967, p. 146
; Theodore H. White, The Assassination of the President, Year Book Special Report, Chicago, 1964 World Book Encyclopedia, 1964, p. 64; “Stocks Take Record Rise,” Dallas Morning News, Nov. 27, 1963.
254“United States Note”: author’s interview with the librarian of the Comptroller of the Currency, winter 1988; “The Spotlight,” Oct. 31, 1988, p. 2.
Kennedy and Oilmen
257Curington: “JFK Assassins Got $$ From Kennedy-Hating Billionaire,” National Enquirer, June 14, 1977.
Oswald’s Friends
258DeMohrenschildt: IX.179.
259CIA reports filed: “Oswald Friend Labeled CIA Informant in Memo,” Dallas Times Herald, July 27, 1978.
259Mrs. DeMohrenschildt: author’s interviews, 1978 and 1983.
260Oswald’s Russian: IX.226.
261DeMohrenschildt liked Oswald: IX.227.
262Oswald shoots at leaves: author’s interviews with Jeanne DeMohrenschildt, 1978.
263Browder with Ruby: David E. Scheim, Contract on America, Silver Spring, Md., Argyle Press, 1983, p. 201.
263Herb Atkin: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKdemohrenschildt.htm.
264FBI letter: IX.167.
264DeMohrenschildt on FBI letter: IX.167.
265Mendoza: author’s interview with Mrs. DeMohrenschildt, 1978.
267Thomas Merton: Douglass, p. xv.
268Tension with Establishment: Donald Gibson, Battling Wall Street, New York, Sheridan Square Press, 1994, p. 5.
268Two influential groups: Gibson, p. 55.
All the Way With LBJ
269LBJ and Rayburn: J. Evetts Haley, A Texan Looks at Lyndon: A Study in Illegitimate Power, Canyon, Texas, Palo Duro Press, 1964, p. 14.
271Correction made: Clyde Wantland, Texas Argus, San Antonio, April 1962.
271Salas: “Man Admits Fixing LBJ’s ‘48 Election,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 31, 1977.
271IRS files burned: Haley, p. 92.
272Diane Bishop: author’s interview, July 1990.
273Envelopes with cash: Robert A. Caro, Atlantic Monthly, October 1981.
273Halfen: Scheim, p. 169.
273LBJ pardon for Hoffa: Bobby Baker with Larry L. King, Wheeling and Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1978, p. 17.
274Oilmen threatened: Haley, p. 238.
275LBJ dumped: “Nixon Predicts JFK May Drop Johnson,” Dallas Morning News, Nov. 22, 1963.
275LBJ’s treatment: Sam Houston Johnson, My Brother Lyndon, New York, Cowles, 1969, p. 108.
275Wagenvoord: www.spartacus.school-net.co.uk/JFKwagenvoord.htm.