Shane O'Sullivan

Hi James

Wow, those Mili photos sound amazing. I just saw some of the Helms and Hunt ones on the Time-Life website, maybe I can email Getty Images about the others next week.

Do you know when the Joannides and Morales photos were taken? Helms and Hunt were taken at the Watergate hearings in 1973 - maybe the same assignment?

Shane

Thanks, James. According to Jeff Morley, no photo of Joannides is publicly available, so anything you could come up with would be great.

Cheers

Shane

Thanks for letting me know, Bernice. Will do.

Shane

Hi James

I'm trying to identify the guy in the attached picture - I'm not very good on nationality but from the suave dress and manner and Mediterranean look, I initially guessed at George Joannides or Dick Helms' right-hand man, Tom Karamessines. Do you have any photos of them to compare this to?

Jeff Morley describes Joannides as well-dressed, 6’ tall, 41 years old in 1963, Mediterranean-looking, Greek-American, which seems to fit. Or could he be a senior member of one of the Cuban groups?

Thanks

Shane

Thanks, James! It's a possibility.

Has anybody any idea who this guy is? I believe he's a Cuban exile linked to JM-WAVE.

Shane

I'm an Irish documentary producer and independent researcher based in London. I'm interested in the JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations.

James,

Funny you should ask about Castillo, I was just researching his story in back-copies of the Manila Times yesterday and attach the picture printed when his story broke on April 22, 1967. Here's the information from the Times:

Castillo used the passport of Antonio Reyes Eloriaga, 29, North Dover St, Chicago, IL. Eloriaga left the Philippines for the US on September 12, 1963 after completing his second year of medicine at Manila Central University and took up a medical technology course at Alexan Brothers Hospital in Chicago. Eloriaga's mother said he stopped writing to them in August, 1966 and they became worried.

Castillo arrived in the Philippines on Feb 2, 1967 and was arrested Mar 2. His known aliases, besides Eloriaga, are Angelo Rodriguez, Razo Hernandez, Mario Rodriguez, Ignacio Gonzales Grajeda. He is described as short and stocky, 5'6 to 5'7.

Castillo said Mrs Dole, a woman of German descent, gave him instructions in Dallas and was one of many who worked on him and placed him in a trance for the Kennedy job.

He told investigators he was a private in the Segunda Organization Defensiva in Santiago, Cuba when he was chosen for training in espionage work. He was trained in an espionage school, the Special Operations Group CID, under Colonel Calma in a camp located about 15 miles from the Bay of Pigs. On the faculty was Karnovsky, a communications expert, some Cubans and a handful of Americans. He identified an American, James R. Myers, who attended to his needs as a civilian in Cuba and in the US.

Castillo said in September, 1965, he was told to contact Eloriaga in Chicago to prepare for his mission. He was brought by fishing trawler three miles off the shore of Florida and on reaching the shore, he was given identification papers and two plane tickets for Chicago.

He arrived in Chicago on Sept. 24 and contacted Eloriaga with whom he planned his Philippines trip. The plan was for Castillo to assume the complete identity of Eloriaga and to frame US authorities into deporting him back to the Philippines as an overstaying visitor.

This worked successfully. Castillo stole a car in Chicago, drove it through California to New Mexico and Santa Fe where he was arrested by state police and the FBI and sentenced to four days in jail. The Justice of the Peace Elmer Bassett said Castillo was as nervous as a tomcat in a creamery, had a hard time remembering his name and had no ID. Bassett said someone called him several hours after Castillo appeared before him, and asked him to release Castillo. ‘But I don’t know who it was...I just told them I couldn’t do that’.

Castillo was later deported to the Philippines by the FBI on Feb. 2, 1967.

Castillo’s file shows an arrest in 1962 for carrying a concealed weapon, investigation of hold-up and robbery in Newark, NJ in 1964, and an indefinite sentence the same year to the Bordentown, NJ, state reformatory for larceny. Dr Carl Pfeiffer did MKULTRA research at Bordentown at the same time.

I find the whole Castillo story very convincing. Next to Sirhan, he is the best example we have of a 'Manchurian Candidate'. I'd be very interested in where Castillo has been since the Philippines and what connections he has to other individuals at JM WAVE beyond Eddie Bayo.

Shane

Biography: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=2267

Little seems to have been written about Gordon Campbell. According to Hinckle and Turner's 'Deadly Secrets', he was deputy station chief at JM/WAVE, overseeing CIA naval operations in the Carribbean. He lived on a yacht with his wife at Dinner Key Marina in South Miami.

Do we have any information on him before or after JM-WAVE? Did he continue to work with Shackley and Morales? Where was he on November 22nd? Is he still alive and are there any photographs of him?

Thanks

Shane O'Sullivan