by Gus Russo
Newbrough, Joe, 149, 187, 197
Newfield, Jack, 35–36, 382, 384
Newman, John, 123
Newman Building
Arcacha Smith and, 143–44
Cuban Revolutionary Council offices in, 147, 148
Guy Banister and Associates and, 139–40, 196–97
Martens and, 146
Oswald and, 196–98
Schlumberger munitions stored at, 152–53 See also 544 Camp Street
Newton, Isaac, laws of motion and, 470
Nicaragua, Cuban exile training camps in, 172
Nichols, John, 466
Nikonov, Vacheslev, 104–5, 109
Nixon, Richard M., 8–10, 12, 22, 50, 421–23
Bay of Pigs and, 517 n 23
interest in Kennedy assassination plans vs. Castro, 580 n 15
Norman, Harold, 294–95, 299
NOTLOX plot, 53–54
“Nova” trajectory study, 470, 477
Novel, Gordon, 151
Novello, Angela, 388, 403, 409
nuclear testing, JFK proposal on, 159
Nuñez, Rafael, 17, 149, 248
O
Ochsner, Alton, 138, 152
O’Connell, James, 51, 52
O’Connor, Pat, 91–92
O’Donnell, Kenny
on Bay of Pigs operation, 22
on death of Patrick Kennedy, 279
Hoover and, 72
JFK Dallas trip warnings and, 274
on JFK Texas trip, 253–54
on LBJ during hours after assassination, 321
on RFK and Cuba Project, 37
on RFK and Warren Commission, 370
on RFK reaction to LBJ vitriol, 396
security objections, JFK Texas trip, 255
Ofstein, Dovid (Dennis), 117, 128
Oliva, Erneido, 173–74, 272
Olivares, Carlos, 227
O’Neal, Birch, 352
O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 370, 440
Operation Ajax, 8
Operation Anadyr, 148
Operation Bingo, 162
Operation Dirty Trick, 162
Operation Free Ride, 162
Operation Good Times, 162–63
Operation Invisible Bomb, 163
Operation Judas. See AM/TRUNK
“Operation Midnight Ride,” 124, 126
Operation Mongoose, 43–45
Arcacha Smith and, 143–44
Operation Picador. See AM/TRUNK
Operation Square Dance, 390
Operation Toreador. See AM/TRUNK
OPLAN 316, 178
OPLAN 380–63, 176, 177–79
AM/TRUNK and, 182
lack of secrecy regarding, 195–96
LBJ allows to fade away, 390
need for secrecy regarding, 233–34
revision/updating of, 250–51
organized crime. See Mafia
Orlich, Francisco, 186
Orosco, Modesto, 285
Ortiz, Autilio Ramirez, 226–27
Oswald, Audrey Marina Rachel, 257
Oswald, June, 111, 201
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 86–130
ability to speak Russian, 532–33 n 58
abusing Marina, 128–29, 192
address book of, page removed from, 338
alerts television of his demonstration locations, 201
assassination, JFK, 294–305, 461–86
backyard photo of, armed, 115, 116–17, 444, 536–37 n 10
Bethlehem Children’s Home and, 90
bomb-making, 109–10
captured in Texas Theatre, 316
on Castro, 194
clandestine rendezvous and, 307–8, 318
communism and, 294
confrontation with Bringuier and, 199–200
Cuban consulate in LA and, 532 n 50
Cuban Embassy officials, Mexico City and, 222–23, 345–46
Cuban intelligence agent contacts, 225
Cuban socialism and, 119–20
in Dallas/Fort Worth, 113–29, 256–62
death of, 335–36
debriefing on return to U.S., 121–23
delivers warning note to Hosty, 259–60
desire to kill Eisenhower, 538 n 26
Duran and, 218–19, 220, 222, 236–37
early life, 88–93
escape route to Oak Cliff, 307–10
FBI monitoring of, 114–15
funeral/burial of, 348–49, 569 n 109
gun-handling ability, 125–26, 261–63, 294–98, 463
in Havana, evidence regarding, 341–42
inquiring about office space at 544
Camp Street, 550 n 23
interrogation of, 330–32
KGB surveillance of, 105–6, 108, 109, 111
as loner or never alone, 127–28
Lopez and, 311
lying nature of, 92–93, 127, 332, 462–63
Marine Corps service, 96, 98–100
marriage, 107, 108
Marxism, need for, 94–95
McLaney as inspiration for, 68
McLaney New Orleans explosives raid and, 71
in Mexico City, 212–26, 229–30, 257–59, 352, 421, 553 n 50
in Minsk, 104–6
in Moscow, 100–104
motorcade details, learning, 265, 268–69
murders Tippit, 315
in New Orleans, 191–205
in New York as teen, 91–92
night of 11/21/63, 270–71
offer/declaration to Cubans to kill JFK, 224
planning Walker shooting, 126–27
plans to go to Cuba, 203–4
political development, 92–98
political purpose of, 449, 456–57, 458
positive qualities of, 87–88
possible brain damage of, 531 n 19
post-JFK assassination bus ride, 300
Proenza and, 221
Quiroga visit and, 201
radio debate, New Orleans, 201, 202–3
reaction to murdering JFK, 317–18
reading habits, 537–38, n 24
returning to U.S., 109
returns to Dallas, 256–57
Secret Service report, “Preventing Assassination” report and, 456
shoots at Walker, 124–25
as fake defector, 534 n 74
as spy, 198–204
Sterling and Homer Wood and, 263
suicide attempt, 101–2
Texas School Book Depository job, 256, 257
timing of retrieving rifle from Paine house, 267–68
treatment in police custody, 567–68 n 60
two-suitcase problem and, 342
with Cubans in New Orleans, 551 n 61 See also assassination, JFK; rifle, Oswald’s
Oswald, Marguerite
after Oswald’s death, 337, 530 n 12
imagination of, 89–90
mental instability of, 92
in New York with Lee, 91
Oswald’s funeral/burial and, 349
Oswald, Marina Prusakova, 106–8
daughter’s birth, 257
on emigration to U.S., 109
FBI monitoring of, 114
Howard interrogation of, 337–38
insulting Oswald, 192–93
moves to New Orleans, 192
psychology of, 560 n 53
on naming baby “Fidel,” 120, 204
on Oswald and Castro, 194
Oswald’s funeral/burial and, 349
on Oswald’s guilt, 330, 336–37
on Oswald’s lies, 330
Oswald’s lies on Walker shooting and, 127
on Oswald’s plan to go to Cuba, 203–4
on Oswald’s return to Dallas, 256
on Oswald’s view of Walker, 124
Sterling and Homer Wood and, 263 See also Prusakova, Marina
Oswald, Robert
on his mother, 89–90, 96
on Lee in New York, 93
Lee’s funeral/burial and, 348–49
Oswald, Robert Le
e, 88
Oswaldo-Kennedy file, Cuban Military Intelligence and, 226–27
Otepka, Otto, 407
Oval Office tapes, JFK, 322
P
Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza, 19
Paine, Michael, 116–17, 126, 264
Minox photos and, 531 n 20
Paine, Ruth, 116
Marina and June live with, 191–92, 204
on Oswald and Marina, 90–91
Oswald visits Marina at home of, 256
Panzeca, Sal, 412
Pappich, Sam, 71
Parkland Memorial Hospital, 300–301, 302
Parmet, Herbert S., 31–32, 161, 234
Parrott, Thomas, 47, 74
Paterson, Thomas G., 5, 84, 453
Patterson, John, 12
Pawley, William, 9
Payne, Robert, 194
PBSUCCESS, 8
peace speech, JFK, 157–61, 233–34
Peake, Herschel, 272
Pearson, Drew, 359, 375, 394–95
Pearson, John, 45
Pena, Orest, 204–5
Penebaz, Fernando, 309
Peres Mundriera, Conrado, 222
Perry, Dave, 262
Perry, Malcolm, 301
Perry, Walt, 283
Person, Albert “Buck,” 16
Peterson, Trudy, 389
Petrov, Vasili, 102
Phelan, James, 401
Philby, Kim, 62
Philippines, Communist Huk guerrilla rebellion of, 42
Phillips, David Atlee, 209
awareness of Soviet missiles in Cuba, 149
CIA coverup and, 353
on CIA operation in Mexico, Fall 1963, 230
Duran and, 219–20
on Helms and CIA responsibilities, 430–31
on Mexico City CIA station, 211 See also Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Pic, John, 89, 90, 91, 96
Pino Machado, Quinton, 227–28
Platt Amendment, 3, 6
poison pen to kill Castro
Belin learns of, 425
Cubela and, 240, 290
FitzGerald omits telling Elder about, 303–4
Pontius, Ron, 286
Pope, Harry, 466
Portell-Villa, Herminio, 227
Portrait of a Revolutionary: Mao Tse Tung (Payne), 194
Posner, Gerald, 89, 96, 487–88
Postal, Andy, 436, 437, 438
Postal, Julia, 316
Power, Thomas, 62, 73, 404
Powers, Dave, 20, 277
Powers, Francis Gary, 102
Powers, Thomas, 429–30
President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, The, 60, 446
Presidential Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), 32
presidents, U.S., Ruby enthusiasm for, 495
press, American, on JFK peace speech, 160
Price, Howard, 261
Printseva, Galia, 108
Prio, Carlos, 222
Proenza, Alvaro, 221, 346
Proenza, Teresa, 221, 338, 346
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 194–95
Project RIFLE, 61
Prouty, L. Fletcher, 169, 431–32
Provence, Harry, 284–85
Prusakova, Marina, 107–8
Puckett, Fay, 257
Q
QJ/WIN, 62, 432
Quintero, Raphael “Chi Chi”
on AM/TRUNK, AM/LASH coordination, 181
on AM/TRUNK viability, 182
on Castro’s Mexico City intelligence agents, 212
on Cuba invasion training, 16
on LBJ shutdown of Cuban exile training, 391
on NOTLOX Castro assassination plot, 54
on RFK, Cuban invasion training, 173
Quirk, Robert E., on Castro/JFK parallels, 451
Quiroga, Carlos, 152, 186–87, 200–201
R
Rabel Nunes, Jose “Ricardo,” 181
Rabel Nunes, Luis/Louis, 149, 152
Rabel Nunes, Sylvia, 181
Raggio, David L., 186
Ramparts, Halfen story in, 414–16
Ramsey, Norman, 445
Randle, Linne Mae, 256, 288
Ranelagh, John, 36
Rankin, J. Lee, 363, 370, 374–75
Ray, Lloyd, 137
Ray, Manuel, 141
Ready, Jack, 297
Reboso, Manolo, 22, 145, 164, 171, 250
Redbird Field, getaway plane and, 308–10, 564 n 6
Redlich, Norman (Warren Commission staff), 370
Reedy, George, 377, 396
Reeves, Richard, 61, 439
Reeves, Thomas, 33
Reily Coffee Company, 192, 193, 194
Reston, James, 25, 231
Reynolds, Don, 281–82, 289, 290
Reynolds, Steve (pseudonym), 67
on FBI McLaney camp raid, 184
on Kennedy/McLaney connections, 67–68, 69
on McLaney’s Castro assassination plan, 70
on McLaney’s Cuba oil refinery bombing plan, 69
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 145–46
Rico, Antonio, 176
Riddle, Harry, 66
Ridglea West Elementary School, Oswald and, 91–92
Riestra, Guillermo, 176
rifle, Oswald’s, 115, 261–62, 263, 288–89
acquired, 118
ballistics/fingerprints tests and, 444, 462
capability of, 465–67
dry-firing, 193
nitric powder residue tests and, 463–64
vs. Marine Corps rifle, 465
RKO Pictures, Joe Kennedy and, 67
Roach, Clyde, 436
Roberts, Delphine, 153
Roberts, Earlene, 256, 314
Roberts, Emory, 297
Roberts, Juanita, 383
Rocca, Raymond, 225, 352, 354
Rockefeller, Nelson, 231–32, 426
Rockefeller Commission, 366, 423–28
ties to intelligence community and, 425
Rodriguez, Alfonso, 180
Rodriguez, Arturo, 229–30, 245–46
Rodriguez, Ernesto, 198
Rodriguez, Felix, 52, 174
Rodriguez Diaz, Humberto, 223
Rodriguez Lopez, Rogelio, 225, 311
Roemer, Bill, 493
Roosevelt, Kim, 8
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 62
Rosenbloom, Carroll, 67, 68, 526 n 89
Ross, Barney, 492, 493
Rosselli, Johnny, 451
Castro assassination planning and, 51, 76, 241, 242
FBI surveillance of, 71
on Harvey sandbagging Castro assassination plans, 82
Hoover investigation of, 393–94
Joe Kennedy, Sr. and, 67
murder of, 436
Phase Two assassination attempts and, 63
RFK’s coverup of, 72–73
Sinatra and, 435
Trafficante suspicions, 246
Warren Commission and, 365
Rostow, Walt, 42, 61, 415–16
Rothman, Norman, 50–51, 65–67, 241
Rowan, Dan, 71
Rowley, James, 394–95
Rubenstein, Fanny, 492
Rublee, Jack, 336
Ruby, Earl, 491, 492–93, 495
Ruby, Hyman, 496
Ruby, Jack, 491–501
in Dallas, 493–94
early life, 492–93
kills Oswald, 335–36, 497–98
reaction to JFK assassination, 496–97
reaction to shooting Oswald, 336
starts packing pistol, 494–95
Warren interview of, 484
Rudberg, Max, 500
Ruiz-Williams, Enrique “Harry.” See Williams, Harry
Rusk, Dean
Cuba invasion and, 20
on Dulles lie abut CIA, foreign government motive for JFK assassination, 366
on JFK and Eisenhower planners, 33
on JFK’s anti-Castro position, 11
on limited FBI investi
gation, 355
OPLAN 380–63 and, 179
post-Bay of Pigs strategizing and, 58
Russell, Dick (writer), 210, 421
Russell, Richard B. (Senator)
appointment to Warren Commission, 361–62
attendance at Warren Commission sessions, 368
on Castro’s intelligence agents and Oswald in Minsk, 453
concerns about Warren Commission report, 371–72, 378
dissent to Warren Commission report, 372–73
on LBJ destroying McCone’s file on Castro connection, 329
Russo, Perry, 411–13
Ryan, Jeremy (pseudonym), 341–42
S
Safire, William, 434
Salinger, Pierre, 278
San Román, José “Pepe,” 21, 155, 170, 171
San Roman, Roberto
Lee writes against, 195
meeting with RFK, 11/22/63, 289
meets with JFK, 170
receives weapons purchases funding, 271
on RFK assistance in Cuban exile community, 164
RFK/autonomous projects meeting, 173–74
RFK rents home for, 171
Williams and, 164
Sanchez, Celia, 346
Sanchez, Nestor
JFK assassination and, 304
JFK Cuban coup-coded speech and, 275
on meeting to get assurances for Cubela, 272
meets with Cubela, 238
meets with Cubela 11/22/63, 290
omits reporting poison pen delivery, 339
Sanchez Arango, Aureliano, 13, 18
Sanford, Terry, 66, 282
Sans Souci Casino, Havana, 50–51
Sanson, Nicolas, 238 See also Sanchez, Nestor
Santa Ana mission, CIA, 13–14, 183
Santana, Carlos, 12–13
Santos Pesa, Ricardo L., 261
Sapp, Viola, 266–67
Sawyer, Herbert, 300
Scalice, Vincent, 462
Scelso, John (pseudonym), 351–52, 421
Schiro, Victor, 138, 147, 152
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
on bugging Democratic National Convention, 1964, 398
on JFK/RFK regard for Dulles (Allen), 32
JFK v-p running mate meetings and, 282, 285
on Miro, Cuban exile crackdown, 241
on Operation Mongoose, 80
on presidential reputation, 23
on RFK and CIA, 37–38
on RFK misgivings about Warren Commission report, 383–84
Schlesinger, James, 424
Schlumberger Wells Services Company, 151–52
McLaney Camp raid and, 183–84
Santa Ana mission and, 183
Schmidt, Volkmar, 116
on Oswald’s anger toward Kennedys, 118, 119, 120
on Oswald’s political development, 93, 118–20
redirecting attempt, Oswald’s anger and, 123–24
remorse over discussions with Oswald, 126
Schorr, Daniel, 224
Schwartz, Fritz, 438
Schweiker, Richard
on Church’s objectivity, 438