Harold (Hal) Hendrix Options

[John Simkin]

I have been interested in the activities of Harold (Hal) Hendrix after discovering he was an important figure in Operation Mockingbird. Hopefully people will use this thread to collect information about this important CIA asset.

Hendrix worked for The Miami News. He specialized in Latin American affairs. Other journalists nicknamed him the "Spook" because they suspected he was being provided with information from the CIA. Some years later, the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations discovered that Hendrix was used by the CIA during the late 1950s and early 1960s to write "black propaganda" against Fidel Castro.

In October, 1962, Hendrix reported on the Cuban Missile Crisis. According to William Pawley, Hendrix was fed information by Ted Shackley, the CIA chief in Miami (quoted by David Corn in his book, Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades). As a result Hendrix wrote a number of articles on the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. The following year he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism as a result of his reports on Cuba.

In September, 1963, Hendrix joined Scripps-Howard News Service as a Latin American specialist. Instead of moving to Washington he remained in Miami "where his contacts were". In an article on 24th September, 1963, Hendrix was able to describe and justify the coup that overthrew Juan Bosch, the president of Dominican Republic. The only problem was the coup took place on the 25th September. Other journalists claimed that Hendrix must have got this information from the CIA.

Hendrix also reported on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A few hours after Kennedy had been killed, Hendrix provided background information to a colleague, Seth Kantor, about Lee Harvey Oswald. This included details of his defection to the Soviet Union and his work for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. This surprised Kantor because he had this information before it was released by the FBI later that evening.

Hendrix left the Scripps-Howard News Service in 1966 and went to work for the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, as director of inter-American relations in Buenos Aires. Later he moved to ITT's world headquarters in New York. In 1970 ITT sent Hendrix to represent the company in Chile.

On 4th September, 1970, Salvador Allende was elected as president of Chile. Hendrix was disturbed by this development as Allende had threatened to nationalize $150 million worth of ITT assets in Chile if he won the election. It later emerged that Hendrix worked with the CIA in the overthrow of Allende.

On 20th March, 1973, Hendrix denied under oath to Frank Church and his Multinational Corporations Subcommittee that he ever been a paid agent of the CIA. However, an investigation by Justice Department lawyer Walter May discovered documents that showed that Hendrix had lied under oath.

Hendrix was allowed to plead guilty to lying under oath (which cost him a $100 fine and a one-month suspended sentence) in return for his cooperation with the Justice Department in its pursuit of perjury charges against higher-ranking ITT and CIA officials in the Chile matter.

[John Simkin]

There is very little on Hal Hendrix on the web. This is surprising as he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. This is his Namebase entry:

http://www.namebase.org/main2/Harold-V-_28...29-Hendrix.html

Atlantic Monthly 1982-12 (38)
Blumenthal,S. Yazijian,H. Government by Gunplay. 1976 (167-8)
Corn,D. Blond Ghost. 1994 (114, 244-6, 331, 351-2)
Covert Action Information Bulletin 1980-#7 (11-2)
DiEugenio,J. Pease,L. The Assassinations. 2003 (305)
Fonzi,G. The Last Investigation. 1993 (325-7, 364)
Freed,D. Death in Washington. 1980 (58-61, 137)
Hinckle,W. Turner,W. The Fish is Red. 1981 (86, 117, 169)
Kantor,S. The Ruby Cover-up. 1992 (376-82)
Liberation Magazine 1977-04 (5-6)
Marchetti,V. Marks,J. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. 1974 (330, 345)
NACLA. Latin America and Empire Report 1973-10 (10)
NACLA. Latin America and Empire Report 1974-08 (11)
NameBase NewsLine 1997-04 (13)
New York Times 1977-12-27 (40)
Powers,T. The Man Who Kept the Secrets. 1981 (290, 292, 385-6)
Ridenour,R. Back Fire. 1991 (131-2)
Rolling Stone 1977-10-20 (59)
Sampson,A. The Sovereign State of ITT. 1974 (256, 271)
Sergeyev,F. Chile: CIA Big Business. 1981 (8, 127-30, 134-5, 139-40)
Summers,A. Conspiracy. 1981 (134-5, 438)
Trento,J. The Secret History of the CIA. 2001 (374, 379-80)
Uribe,A. The Black Book of America in Chile. 1975 (152-3)
Vankin,J. Whalen,J. The 60 Greatest Conspiracies. 1998 (70-1)

[John Simkin]

Here is an interesting passage from Probe Magazine:

Gaeton Fonzi has written a book that details his search for Maurice Bishop called The Last Investigation. To Fonzi's detailed summary of reasons that David Atlee Phillips was indeed the Maurice Bishop that Veciana saw with Oswald, there is a more recent addition. In the back of his updated paperback version of Conspiracy, Anthony Summers tells of Jim Hougan's talk with CIA agent Frank Terpil. Jim Hougan will be familiar to Probe readers from our last issue. He's the author of the best book on Watergate, Secret Agenda.

Hougan got to know Terpil rather well while making a PBS documentary about him. In a tape-recorded interview, Hougan asked why Terpil was going on and on about David Phillips and the AFIO. Among other things, Terpil alleged (as have others) that Phillips' "retirement" from the CIA was phony, and that he continued to work for the CIA through the AFIO. Hougan asked Terpil why he kept talking about Phillips-was it personal, or political? Political, Terpil replied. Hougan asked where Terpil and Phillips had met. Terpil's answer is astonishing, and terribly important. Terpil had met him in Florida while living there with Hal Hendrix's daughter. Really? Asked Hougan. Yeah, said Terpil, Phillips used to come around with Hal Hendrix, but he wasn't using his real name. He was using an alias. What alias? Bishop, Terpil said, Something Bishop. Maurice Bishop? Hougan asked. Yeah, Terpil replied, Maurice Bishop. Hougan wanted to be sure Terpil wasn't putting him on, but came away convinced that Terpil did not understand the significance of what he was saying and that Terpil was answering honestly. Hougan asked how Terpil knew Bishop was Phillips. Terpil said he had run Bishop through the agency's file system in the CIA's Miami headquarters to find out who this Bishop character was. The name that came out: David Atlee Phillips.

When Probe asked Hougan about this incident, he responded, "Now, in my opinion, Terpil was telling the truth about this-because, frankly, the subject of David Phillips' background and alias would never have come up if I hadn't grown irritated with Terpil's constant kvetching about the AFIO." As a follow-up, Hougan contacted both Seth Kantor, who confirmed his call to Hendrix, and Hendrix's daughter, who Hougan says "seems to be as big a spook as her father was." She issued an "I'm afraid I don't remember" when queried about having lived with Terpil, which, as Hougan noted, "is not a denial."
http://www.realhistoryarchives.com/collect...dden/bishop.htm

[Ron Ecker]

A few hours after Kennedy had been killed, Hendrix provided background information to a colleague, Seth Kantor, about Lee Harvey Oswald. This included details of his defection to the Soviet Union and his work for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. This surprised Kantor because he had this information before it was released by the FBI later that evening.

I assume that newspapers and other news organizations would have had a file (or access to one) on Oswald due to the fact that his defection to Russia and then his return would have been reported to some extent in the news. The question is, what type of information retrieval system did a newsman like Hendrix have for such old news stories in 1963? How fast could Hendrix have reasonably retrieved this information from his newspaper or elsewhere based on Oswald's name?

[John Simkin]

I assume that newspapers and other news organizations would have had a file (or access to one) on Oswald due to the fact that his defection to Russia and then his return would have been reported to some extent in the news. The question is, what type of information retrieval system did a newsman like Hendrix have for such old news stories in 1963? How fast could Hendrix have reasonably retrieved this information from his newspaper or elsewhere based on Oswald's name?

It was the information about Oswald's activities in 1963 that surprised Kantor. It takes several pages in Kantor's book (Who Was Jack Ruby). However, here is a brief summary of this story as it appears in Anthony Summers' The Kennedy Conspiracy (2002).

In 1975 a distinguished Washington newspaper correspondent, Seth Kantor, discovered that the FBI was continuing to suppress 1133 (a document submitted to the Warren Commission) and was bemused to find that the document was a record of his own phone calls from Dallas on the afternoon of the assassination. The journalist found that the official reason for turning his calls into a state secret was that public disclosure "might reveal the identity of confidential sources of information...." Kantor began an intensive effort to get the document released and crosschecked with his own notes of that afternoon, which he had kept. In the end he was given the document, which appeared to contain the less-thanworld-shaking information that Kantor had placed phone calls from Dallas City Hall, Parkland Hospital, and the airport at Love Field. Kantor's notes finally revealed that one of the calls he made was to a Florida number, Coral Gables MO 5-6473. This was the number of Hal Hendrix, a Miami journalist, also working for Kantor's newspaper group, who was offering information on Oswald. Hendrix, on the afternoon of the assassination, was able to give Kantor details of Oswald's past, his defection to Russia, and his pro-Castro activities on his return-information that would become common knowledge soon enough, but the Hendrix call has a special significance. He was no ordinary journalist.

Hendrix had won a Pulitzer Prize earlier in 1963 for his coverage of the Cuban missile crisis, and in autumn that year he excelled himself again. In September, he predicted the coup that ousted the pro-Kennedy President Bosch of the Dominican Republic. Hendrix appeared to have an inside track, for he wrote of a coup twenty-four hours before it happened. A key advantage Hendrix had, reportedly, was a CIA source at Homestead Air Force Base, south of Miami. In the months and years to come, Hendrix became known as "The Spook" to his Washington colleagues because of his phenomenal relations with American intelligence. In 1976 he pleaded guilty to withholding information from a Senate committee investigating links between multinational corporations and the CIA. He had lied to the committee with the collusion of the CIA and had concealed his access to CIA information. This was the man who knew so much about Lee Oswald on the afternoon of November 22, 1963.

[John Simkin]

Gaeton Fonzi (The Last Investigation) also has interesting things to say about Hendrix.

The trail that led from Maurice Bishop to Virginia Prewett to the Citizens Committee to Free Cuba produced another individual with close ties to David Phillips. In 1961, when Phillips was handling the propaganda desk for the Bay of Pigs operation and, as such,was in constant contact with friendly media types, there was a reporter on the Miami News named Hal Hendrix, whose coverage of the invasion seemed to be deeper and more detailed than any other journalist's, local or national. In 1962, Hendrix's coverage of the Cuban missile crisis was so penetrating and insightful it garnered his paper a Pulitzer Prize. The next year Hendrix got himself promoted to a more prestigious job, covering Latin America for the Scripps-Howard News Service. Still based in Miami, Hendrix's sources remained quite extraordinary. In a piece for Scripps-Howard dated September 23rd, 1963, Hendrix wrote a colorful and detailed description of the coup that toppled Juan Bosch, the leftist president of the Dominican Republic. If Hendrix's report didn't come from inside sources, it was an amazing display of clairvoyance-the coup didn't take place until the following day. Hendrix's close ties with the CIA were so apparent that, according to one staffer, he was sometimes referred to in Scripps-Howard's Washington office as "The Spook." However, that wasn't something Seth Kantor particularly remembered when he called Hendrix in Coral Gables on the afternoon of November 22nd, 1963.

Seth Kantor was the Scripps-Howard representative in the President's press corps that tragic and chaotic day in Dallas. The weight of the news service's coverage fell especially heavy on Kantor because he had worked for a Dallas newspaper and knew the locals. (One local he knew was Jack Ruby. Kantor had met and spoken with Ruby at Parkland Hospital moments before Kennedy was pronounced dead. Ruby later denied he was there and the Warren Commission, eager to squelch any evidence that Ruby's shooting of Oswald wasn't spontaneous, concluded that Kantor was mistaken.) After Oswald was arrested, Kantor checked in with his managing editor in the Washington office and was told to call Hal Hendrix at home in Florida. Hendrix was leaving for an assignment in Latin America, Kantor was told, but had some background information on Oswald he wanted to relay. Kantor called him and Hendrix provided a detailed briefing about Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union and about his activities in New Orleans handing out pro-Castro leaflets. Calling from the hectic Dallas police station, Kantor was too busy with what he was hastily scribbling to bother asking Hendrix where he had gotten the information-or how he had gotten it so soon after Oswald had been arrested and connected to the assassination.

Seth Kantor didn't recognize the significance of what had occurred until years later-although the Government obviously did much sooner. When the Warren Commission published its volumes of evidence it included a document listing the FBI's checks of telephone calls Kantor had made that day. The document, however, was based on an FBI report that was not released. Listed in the original FBI report, but not in the document published in the Warren Commission's volumes of evidence, was Kantor's call to Hal Hendrix. Why had that call to Hendrix been purged?

ome years later, Hendrix went to work for the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation in Chile. In 1973, a Senate Multinational Corporations Subcommittee began looking at the role the CIA and ITT played in trying to prevent the election of socialist Salvador Allende in 1970. Under oath, Hendrix was asked about the source of a cable he sent to an ITT vice president notifying him that the American Ambassador in Chile had received a green light from the Nixon White House giving him "maximum authority to do all possible-short of a Dominican Republic-type action-to keep Allende from taking power." The cable also said that the Chilean army had been assured of "full material and financial assistance by the U.S." and that ITT had pledged financial support to the anti-Allende forces. As the Church Committee would later learn, David Phillips was in charge of the CIA's anti-Allende operation. But when asked during the 1973 probe about the source of the cable, Hendrix told the Senate investigators that his source was "a Chilean who was a personal friend." He lied. Three years later, a CIA cable was discovered that revealed not only that Hendrix's source was a CIA officer but that the Agency knew he was going to lie. Hey, what are friends for?

On March 23rd, 1978, I wrote a memo to Chief Counsel Blakey about Hal Hendrix. A front-page story in the Washington Post revealed that two executives with ITT had been charged in connection with the Government's probe of CIA ventures in Chile, and that Hendrix had become a Government witness. My memo noted: "The two ITT aides are now charged with conspiring with Hendrix to block the Senate investigation of charges that ITT worked with the CIA to fund opponents of Allende in 1970. Last year, Hendrix pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge after being indicted for perjury in his Senate testimony. I suggest it is a most opportune time to subpoena Hendrix before our Committee in the hope of getting some valuable information from him. Considering his recent experience, Hendrix might respond more validly to a subpoenaed interrogation than he would to informal questioning...."

I had figured, considering Hendrix's propensity to lie about his CIA activities, there was little chance of his telling the truth. Now, however, having been caught lying once, the pressure to tell the truth under oath might produce valuable evidence, both regarding his knowledge of Oswald's activities and his relationship with David Phillips. I considered Hendrix an extremely important witness.

Unfortunately, it wasn't a good time to ask Blakey to continue pursuing the evidence that pointed to the intelligence community because he was deeply involved in structuring the Committee's public hearings with their accent on Organized Crime. There was never any response to my Hendrix memo.

[Ron Ecker]

It was the information about Oswald's activities in 1963 that surprised Kantor.

That had also made the news in New Orleans due to the encounter with Bringuier, Oswald's arrest and his interview on the radio. It's again a question of how fast Hendrix could be expected to retrieve such a news story based on Oswald's name. Granted, it's probably not coincidence that the newsman doing this fast retrieving happened to be CIA. I hate coincidences.

[John Simkin]

I believe that the original intention was to set-up Oswald as part of a pro-Castro plot. I suspect Hal Hendrix played an important role in this. If we research his actions in 1963 I would not be surprised that Hendrix was making sure that Oswald got the necessary publicity that identified him as being pro-Castro.

It is important to realize that at 5.43 on the day of the assassination Charles Egger, managing editor of the Scripps-Howard bureau in Washington, told Kantor to contact Hendrix as he had information on Oswald. Hendrix claimed he could not use the information himself as had to go on an important assignment to Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Kantor monitored Hendrix’s articles and discovered that this was not true. Instead, nearly all the articles were about the threat of Cuban Military influence in Latin America.

I suspect that the CIA, by leaking him stories about Cuba, was helping him to get into a more influential media position. This made him more useful for Operation Mockingbird and also placed him in a better position to set up Oswald.

It is also important to mention that Hendrix worked closely with David Phillips.

[Lee Forman]

Gary Wean from his 'There's a Fish in the Courthouse.'

At the time JFK was killed Ruby had himself a perfect alibi, but wasn’t covered at the time Tippet was shot. The description by eye witnesses of the killer fit Ruby so close, the Mishpuckas decided he needed an alibi. Seth Kantor, a White House Corespondent provided it. At Parkland Hospital where Kennedy was taken only a handful of reporters were allowed in. Kantor claimed that just before entering, Ruby tugged on his sleeve asking him if he thought he should close the Carousel until further notice out of respect for Pres. Kennedy. Kantor told him it was a good idea and hurried on into the hospital. This was the exact moment Tippit was shot, the perfect alibi. Kantor had known Ruby from four years previous while a news reporter in Dallas. Even more disturbing, Seth Kantor was also connected with Oswald, Candy Barr, and Melvin Belli, and even more coincidental, he was one of the very few outsiders let in to the hospital area where the Magic Bullet was planted. But strangest of all, Ruby denied going to Parkland Hospital and repudiated Kantor’s alibi for the officer’s death. Kantor was stuck with this sinister embarrassment which not even the Warren Commission was able to swallow.

  In Wash., D.C. just prior to JFK’s trip to Dallas, a White House Correspondent, Seth Kantor obtained the latest information of the Presidential motorcade routes. Through inside D.C. informants and sources Kantor was one of the first to learn of the secret Peace talks Kennedy was setting up with Fidel Castro. Besides knowing Belli and Cohen who were are the Hollywood meeting and Jack Ruby, Oswald and Candy Barr in Dallas, he knew Weinberger in D.C. Kantor was tied in full circle.

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[John Simkin]

I have collected up what I have found on Hal Hendrix here:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhendrixH.htm

[Larry Hancock]

John, as an interesting supplement to this you might order a copy of RIF 104-10072-10289 from NARA. The title is rather uninteresting e.g.
"Special Activities Report on a JMWAVE Relationship" however the
content has to do with a several year relationship between JMWAVE
and various personnel at the Miami Harald.

The document describes relationships with AMCARBON-1, AMCARBON-2 ...
and apparent multiple identities of individuals (which totally confuses me).
Apparently AMCARBON-2 was approched in Sept 1962 at the same time
AMCARBON-1 was given identity 4. Apparently AMCARBON-1 had gotten
a significant promotion at the paper at that time and increasing confidence
by Indentity-3 management. Someone with the crypt Reuteman made the
introduction for AMCARBON-2 to JMWAVE, can't tell if he was a Harald
employee or not., sounds like it though.

All of this is too much for me but of course it suggests that JMWAVE had
working relationships with several personnel at the Harald and that Hendrix probably fits one of the CARBON crypts. Supposedly AMCARBON-1 originally
started to work for Identity 3 (the Harald?) in 1957 on the City Desk, then
went on to Florida political stories.

You would probably be more interested in the fact that the memo gives a long list of sources for AMCARBON-1 and discusses how JMWAVE used him as a progaganda outlet e.g. "a propaganda outlet throuh which items of interest to KUBARK could be surfaced in the free world press"....the memo goes on to list specific incidents and their related stories.

There is also a variety of interesting dialog about the ground rules for using press assets and media tactics.

Seems like a great document to have for your Mockingbird thread.

-- Larry

I have collected up what I have found on Hal Hendrix here:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhendrixH.htm

[Don Bohning]

I don't doubt that Ted Shackley fed information to Hendrix. I do know they were close. Regarding the definition of a CIA "asset," I just don't know. He did win a Pulitzer Prize in 1963 for the Miami News for his reporting on the missile crisis, as you state.

I have inquired of a lot of my friends who Hendrix got his information. I think some of it may well have come from the CIA, but a mutual friend who worked for the overt CIA office in Miami told me that he came to them and suggested they talk to a Cuban exile who had just arrived in Miami from Cuba with information about strange goings on in Cuba. The overt officer - which had responsibility for questioning incoming Cuban refugees - talked to the guy Hendrix had suggested and it helped lead to the over flight which identified the missiles.

Sometime in this period, The Miami News, which was owned by Cox Newspapers, sold its building and leased space and moved its operation into a new Miami Herald Building on Biscayne Bay, which means that Hendrix would have been working in The Herald Building, but not for the Herald. Hendrix subsequently went to work for Scripts Howard, as you note, and The Herald gave him a desk in the Herald newsroom in exchange for publication rights in Miami to his Scripps Howard material.

There is no question that he had great contacts with the CIA in those days, as did Jules Dubois, a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and Jerry O'Leary [and ex-marine or army colonel], a Washington Start [now defunct] correspondent.

I am not exactly sure about his role in the Dominican coup, but do recall that Juan Bosch, in one of his memoirs, basically blamed Hendrix for the coup.

I think I remember a picture of some sort when Hendrix comes in from behind a curtain in the National Palace as one of the military coup leaders tells Bosch he is out.

Regarding Hendrix, Chile & ITT, I am familiar with it mostly from news accounts but know he [and an ITT colleague named Bob Berrellez, a former AP Latin America correspondent who died several years ago] actively working with the CIA, something that has been well documented. I suspect Powers may be right in his assessment, especially when Hendrix was working with ITT. That is quite clear.

I do not know if he was working with Dave Phillips re the Allende coup. If memory serves correctly, Ted Shackley was head of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division at the time of the 1973 coup. I do know that Hal was extremely bitter about his indictment, feeling that he was working to oust Allende in collaboration with the CIA in the best interests of the US government. Unfortunately, in his memoirs, Shackley barely mentions Chile, except to say he had nothing to do with Allende's death.

[Tim Gratz]

Does anyone have the document referred to by Larry in his Post #11?

Larry says the document lists specific incidents and ground rules.

I think it would be most interesting to review the document in its entirety.

[John Simkin]

Jack, you might be thinking of this passage. Forum member, Don Bohning, is still a close friend of Hal Hendrix. He is still alive but I don't expect he will be making any death-bed confessions.

Seth Kantor, Who Killed Jack Ruby? (1978)

Some of the more disrespectful reporters in Scripps-Howard's Washington bureau referred to Hendrix as "The Spook", because of the handouts he reputedly took from the CIA.

Some years later, information received by the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations was that Hendrix had been into "black propaganda" during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when Castro was establishing and strengthening his power base in Cuba. Black propaganda is a CIA term for political stories, not necessarily supported by fact, floated to hurt "the other side."

Perhaps Hendrix was not a black propagandist, but here is an example in an article he wrote, November 11, 1964, of his approach. The article dealt with the success of "spontaneous" sabotage "which increases Castro's inability to cope with communist Cuba's steady economic disintegration." In the article, Hendrix quoted unnamed Cuban escapees who were praising the work of saboteurs smuggled into Cuba, but "they add bitterly that considerably more could be done to make life increasingly miserable for Castro if infiltration and raiding parties were not harassed by both British and United States authorities."

It was about 6 p.m., November 22, 1963, when I telephoned Hendrix at his Coral Gables home, apologizing because I had to place the call collect from the Dallas police station. He said that was no problem, and he was preparing to embark immediately on a trip into Latin America; otherwise he would be writing the information he was about to give me himself.

The information he gave me, according to my notes, concerned details of Lee Harvey Oswald's past, particularly Oswald's time span in Russia and his later connection with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans. Hendrix gave me a bunch of knowledgeable background on Oswald's appearance on New Orleans radio station WDSU, the previous August. In a show moderated by William Kirk Stuckey, Oswald had debated Carlos Bringuier, an anti-Castro activist and Cuban refugee. On the show, Oswald had been sharply critical of U.S. intolerance of the Castro government.

[Mark Valenti]

Here is an interesting passage from Probe Magazine:


Hougan got to know Terpil rather well while making a PBS documentary about him. In a tape-recorded interview, Hougan asked why Terpil was going on and on about David Phillips and the AFIO. Among other things, Terpil alleged (as have others) that Phillips' "retirement" from the CIA was phony, and that he continued to work for the CIA through the AFIO. Hougan asked Terpil why he kept talking about Phillips-was it personal, or political? Political, Terpil replied. Hougan asked where Terpil and Phillips had met. Terpil's answer is astonishing, and terribly important. Terpil had met him in Florida while living there with Hal Hendrix's daughter. Really? Asked Hougan. Yeah, said Terpil, Phillips used to come around with Hal Hendrix, but he wasn't using his real name. He was using an alias. What alias? Bishop, Terpil said, Something Bishop. Maurice Bishop? Hougan asked. Yeah, Terpil replied, Maurice Bishop. Hougan wanted to be sure Terpil wasn't putting him on, but came away convinced that Terpil did not understand the significance of what he was saying and that Terpil was answering honestly. Hougan asked how Terpil knew Bishop was Phillips. Terpil said he had run Bishop through the agency's file system in the CIA's Miami headquarters to find out who this Bishop character was. The name that came out: David Atlee Phillips.

When Probe asked Hougan about this incident, he responded, "Now, in my opinion, Terpil was telling the truth about this-because, frankly, the subject of David Phillips' background and alias would never have come up if I hadn't grown irritated with Terpil's constant kvetching about the AFIO." As a follow-up, Hougan contacted both Seth Kantor, who confirmed his call to Hendrix, and Hendrix's daughter, who Hougan says "seems to be as big a spook as her father was." She issued an "I'm afraid I don't remember" when queried about having lived with Terpil, which, as Hougan noted, "is not a denial."[/color]
http://www.realhistoryarchives.com/collect...dden/bishop.htm

Anything Terpil said is suspect. This is a guy who was deeply involved in setting up shady deals - arming Uganda's Idi Amin, trading drugs for weapons, assassination plots, etc.