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Lamar Waldron posted 24 parallels between CIA assassin recruiter QJWIN and Michel Victor Mertz as an endnote supplement to Legacy of Secrecy.
See http://www.legacyofsecrecy.com/documents.html
Similar or the same information was published in Waldron and Hartmann's Ultimate Sacrifice in chapter 43, note 40.
It's worth a look but best understood in the context of the books.
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Lamar Waldron posted 24 parallels between CIA assassin recruiter QJWIN and Michel Victor Mertz as an endnote supplement to Legacy of Secrecy.
See http://www.legacyofsecrecy.com/documents.html
Similar or the same information was published in Waldron and Hartmann's Ultimate Sacrifice in chapter 43, note 40.
It's worth a look but best understood in the context of the books.
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Lamar Waldron posted 24 parallels between CIA assassin recruiter QJWIN and Michel Victor Mertz as an endnote supplement to Legacy of Secrecy.
See http://www.legacyofsecrecy.com/documents.html
Similar or the same information was published in Waldron and Hartmann's Ultimate Sacrifice in chapter 43, note 40.
It's worth a look but best understood in the context of the books.
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Lamar Waldron posted 24 parallels between CIA assassin recruiter QJWIN and Michel Victor Mertz as an endnote supplement to Legacy of Secrecy.
See http://www.legacyofsecrecy.com/documents.html
Similar or the same information was published in Waldron and Hartmann's Ultimate Sacrifice in chapter 43, note 40.
It's worth a look but best understood in the context of the books.
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James, who is the man standing between those you identify as Ivan Vidal and Felipe Vidal Santiago?
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These links are a continuation of the online comic by Dan Archer, this time depicting the murder of Rene Schneider in 1970.
http://www.archcomix.com/?p=99
http://www.archcomix.com/?p=103
http://www.archcomix.com/?p=106
I am posting this here only because of the proximity to the other Archer comic links in this thread.
I am not aware of any evidence that Henry Heckscher had anything to do with Rene Schneider's death.
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You Can Handle the Truth by Tara McKelvey for The American Prospect discusses President Obama's promise of transparency.
The article includes a brief mention of Joannides and new quotes from G. Robert Blakey.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articl...andle_the_truth
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Jeff Morley's latest article on Joannides and the FOIA:
Obama’s Openness v. CIA Secrecy
JFK Files Show Hurdles to Obama's Transparency Goals
http://washingtonindependent.com/29193/cia-v-foia
The most important revelation is that the CIA has now acknowledged in court two "covert projects" that Joannides served on: in Miami 1963, and as the agency's point man for the HSCA in 1978.
“Joannides served undercover in both of these assignments,” the CIA chief of information programs stated.
Steve
(Morley mentions Mickey Kappes from JM/WAVE, but I think he meant Stephen Kappes.)
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Lamar Waldron on Fox News discussing Legacy of Secrecy:
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html...ww.foxnews.com/
Unfortunately the video keeps cutting out.
Steve
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Bill,
I agree that it wasn't "the Hemingway plot that led to JFK's murder".
However, I think that Lansdales's memo raises problematic questions as to the Kennedy's conduct that should be examined within the wider historical context.
One reasonable interpretation of that document is that the Kennedy's approved at least one assassination plot against Castro.
That operation - if it existed - didn't necessarily lead to JFK or RFK's murder, and such plotting of course doesn't absolve anybody's responsibility for the Kennedy's deaths.
You wrote that "the JFK Library is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, and that it "isn't the Kennedys who are with holding the records, its the US government."
You view is at odds with the authors. They made specific charges in 2001 that "Kennedy family ... strictly limits access to the records" at the JFK Library and that historians "have been turned away by the Kennedys".
They also claim that RFK took boxes of "classified and confidential papers" that are now controlled by the Kennedy family and not "subject to the Freedom of Information Act".
I'm not sure which of you is right.
That's why I raised the questions: Is the JFK Library withholding documents that are under the Kennedy family's discretion to release? If yes, why are those materials not available for research? What is in them about Giancana, and others? Are those papers not subject to FOIA requests, as the authors claim?
These should be legitimate concerns to all of us.
Steve
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Bill, thanks for posting this intriguing article and the recent follow-up.
If we assume the accuracy of Lansdales's memorandum, then the Oval Office meeting with JFK and RFK presents troubling questions.
"A delicate and sensitive" operation involving "fractioning the regime"? What else could they have been discussing but the liquidation of Castro in veiled bureaucratese?
The authors are careful to say that the plan is not entirely clear. And Landsdales's point of view is only one of several.
However, I do think it's significant that Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archive believes it refers to assassination.
Does anyone have a link to the complete memo at the Mary Ferrell archives or at NARA?
The JFK Library (as of 2001, at least) has squirreled away unreleased documents referring to Sam Giancana (and others of interest) from the CIA, FBI, and State Department? Is this still going on?
Why won't the Library let historians and researchers view these papers, which were paid for by taxpayers?
What are they hiding?
Most here support the release of government files under FOIA and The JFK Act.
The authors' point is well-taken that we should hold the JFK Library to the same legal standards for any Kennedy papers generated in the course of taxpayer funded official business.
If we don't, it's our loss.
Steve
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Historians in Handcuffs is a good article from The Nation by Jeff Kisseloff.
Quotes James Lesar, FOIL and AARC attorney "who has spent four decades investigating the assassination of President Kennedy" (!)
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090126/kisseloff?rel=hp_picks
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On September 23, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon granted summary judgment in favor of the State Department and dismissed Jefferson Morley and David Talbot's Freedom of Information Act requests for State records on David Morales and George Joannides.
Morley and Talbot had asked for passport information, visa papers, code names, and aliases. The State Department released three unredacted passport applications for Joannides and one for Morales, but refused to confirm or deny the existence of any pseudonyms.
Judge Leon ruled that the State Department properly cited two FOIA exemptions in failing to comment as to whether or not the requested records even existed in State archives. First, Judge Leon held that pursuant to Executive order governing "Secret" material, the mere confirmation or denial by State of the existence of such alias information would reveal sources and methods and damage national security. Judge Leon agreed with the assertion by Margaret P. Grafeld of the State Department that revealing whether State granted such aliases would undermine the "covert nature" of "intelligence-gathering activities". Second, Judge Leon ruled that the State Department is not compelled to come clean merely because the CIA has already "officially acknowledged" aliases for Morales and Joannides in documents released under the JFK Act.
It is unknown if Morley and Talbot are appealing this ruling to the Circuit Court level.
Note: The above suit arose from routine FOIA requests from Morley and Talbot. In December 2006, David Talbot filed FOIA requests with the CIA for temporary duty travel records for 1968 and all photographs of George Joannides, Gordon Campbell, and David Morales. (Those proceedings were granted a stay by Judge Leon in August 2007. Their current disposition is unknown but is not affected by Judge Leon's ruling.)
Judge Leon's opinion can be found here: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p...c?2007cv0277-34
This article by Michael Doyle at http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/law/20...d-alias--1.html summarizes the lawsuit.
Will Hilary Clinton's appointment as Secretary of State effect such future similar requests, in light of her
that "I will do whatever I can consistent with legitimate concerns about national security to release information"?Steve
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On September 23, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon granted summary judgment in favor of the State Department and dismissed Jefferson Morley and David Talbot's Freedom of Information Act requests for State records on David Morales and George Joannides.
Morley and Talbot had asked for passport information, visa papers, code names, and aliases. The State Department released three unredacted passport applications for Joannides and one for Morales, but refused to confirm or deny the existence of any pseudonyms.
Judge Leon ruled that the State Department properly cited two FOIA exemptions in failing to comment as to whether or not the requested records even existed in State archives. First, Judge Leon held that pursuant to Executive order governing "Secret" material, the mere confirmation or denial by State of the existence of such alias information would reveal sources and methods and damage national security. Judge Leon agreed with the assertion by Margaret P. Grafeld of the State Department that revealing whether State granted such aliases would undermine the "covert nature" of "intelligence-gathering activities". Second, Judge Leon ruled that the State Department is not compelled to come clean merely because the CIA has already "officially acknowledged" aliases for Morales and Joannides in documents released under the JFK Act.
It is unknown if Morley and Talbot are appealing this ruling to the Circuit Court level.
Note: The above suit arose from routine FOIA requests from Morley and Talbot. In December 2006, David Talbot filed FOIA requests with the CIA for temporary duty travel records for 1968 and all photographs of George Joannides, Gordon Campbell, and David Morales. (Those proceedings were granted a stay by Judge Leon in August 2007. Their current disposition is unknown but is not affected by Judge Leon's ruling.)
Judge Leon's opinion can be found here: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p...c?2007cv0277-34
This article by Michael Doyle at http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/law/20...d-alias--1.html summarizes the lawsuit.
Will Hilary Clinton's appointment as Secretary of State effect such future similar requests, in light of her
that "I will do whatever I can consistent with legitimate concerns about national security to release information"?Steve
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On September 23, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon granted summary judgment in favor of the State Department and dismissed Jefferson Morley and David Talbot's Freedom of Information Act requests for State records on David Morales and George Joannides.
Morley and Talbot had asked for passport information, visa papers, code names, and aliases. The State Department released three unredacted passport applications for Joannides and one for Morales, but refused to confirm or deny the existence of any pseudonyms.
Judge Leon ruled that the State Department properly cited two FOIA exemptions in failing to comment as to whether or not the requested records even existed in State archives. First, Judge Leon held that pursuant to Executive order governing "Secret" material, the mere confirmation or denial by State of the existence of such alias information would reveal sources and methods and damage national security. Judge Leon agreed with the assertion by Margaret P. Grafeld of the State Department that revealing whether State granted such aliases would undermine the "covert nature" of "intelligence-gathering activities". Second, Judge Leon ruled that the State Department is not compelled to come clean merely because the CIA has already "officially acknowledged" aliases for Morales and Joannides in documents released under the JFK Act.
It is unknown if Morley and Talbot are appealing this ruling to the Circuit Court level.
Note: The above suit arose from routine FOIA requests from Morley and Talbot. In December 2006, David Talbot filed FOIA requests with the CIA for temporary duty travel records for 1968 and all photographs of George Joannides, Gordon Campbell, and David Morales. (Those proceedings were granted a stay by Judge Leon in August 2007. Their current disposition is unknown but is not affected by Judge Leon's ruling.)
Judge Leon's opinion can be found here: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p...c?2007cv0277-34
This article by Michael Doyle at http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/law/20...d-alias--1.html summarizes the lawsuit.
Will Hilary Clinton's appointment as Secretary of State effect such future similar requests, in light of her
that "I will do whatever I can consistent with legitimate concerns about national security to release information"?Steve
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John, thanks for posting the 1961 photo of Robertson that you credit to The Bay of Pigs: Cuba 1961 by Alejandro Quesada.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKrobertsonW.htm
Steve
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Mr. Kelly, do you have citations for the information about Robertson (aside from the date of death & place of burial)?
On the section for Culpeper National Cemetery at www.interment.net, U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs burial records reveal that there are two entries for Robertson, with the caveat that his records "have not been verified as accurate".
Robertson, William A, b. 08/03/1920, d. 12/01/1970, MAJ USMCR, Plot: E 173, bur. 06/13/1977, *
Robertson, William Jr, b. 08/03/1930, d. 12/01/1970, MAJOR USMGR, Plot: E 173, bur. 12/04/1970, *
Two different dates for his birth and burial.
http://www.interment.net/data/us/va/culpep.../index_rhsc.htm
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As to the photo comparison, James Richards posted that while he believes Robertson was "part of the operational plan" and commanded a Cuban assassin in Dealey Plaza, he doubts that "the man photographed at the corner of Main and Houston" is Rip Robertson, due to recent photos he had seen (as of April 2008).
In addition, James wrote that while stationed in the Congo, Robertson made "damning" statements to people that he was in Dealey Plaza on 11/22/63.
James also said that he was going to put up a website by the end of 2008 with new images of Dave Morales, and "some interesting images of Robertson and O'Hare (Bishop)" that would answer "a lot of questions".
See http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...=5781&st=75.
Steve
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Dan Archer of Archcomix.com tells the story of the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, in comic form.
It's worth a look. Archer utilizes historical documents and cartoon versions of Dave Phillips, Henry Heckscher (often misspelled as 'Hecksher'), Helms, Nixon, and Kissinger:
Latest episode: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=98
His 3-page piece for bashmagazine.com called The First 9/11 details the 1973 Chilean coup:
Page 1: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=64
Page 2: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=67
Page 3: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=68
His next story, called The Other 9/11 is a longer version of the The First 9/11:
Page 1: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=69
Page 2: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=72
Page 3: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=73
Page 4: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=79
Page 5: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=81
Page 6: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=80
Page 7: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=82
Page 8: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=85
Page 9: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=88
Page 10: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=90
Page 11: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=98
You can start at http://www.archcomix.com/?p=64 and hit 'Next' to read all of them in order.
Steve
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Dan Archer of Archcomix.com tells the story of the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, in comic form.
It's worth a look. Archer utilizes historical documents and cartoon versions of Dave Phillips, Henry Heckscher (often misspelled as 'Hecksher'), Helms, Nixon, and Kissinger:
Latest episode: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=98
His 3-page piece for bashmagazine.com called The First 9/11 details the 1973 Chilean coup:
Page 1: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=64
Page 2: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=67
Page 3: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=68
His next story, called The Other 9/11 is a longer version of the The First 9/11:
Page 1: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=69
Page 2: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=72
Page 3: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=73
Page 4: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=79
Page 5: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=81
Page 6: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=80
Page 7: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=82
Page 8: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=85
Page 9: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=88
Page 10: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=90
Page 11: http://www.archcomix.com/?p=98
You can start at http://www.archcomix.com/?p=64 and hit 'Next' to read all of them in order.
Steve
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John,
Did Halpern's daughter ever answer your questions? Did you find any of the 1980's interviews?
Thanks,
Steve
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Vanity Fair article on Legacy of Secrecy:
Legacy of Mystery by Rob Sheffield, linked at http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feature...1?currentPage=1.
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Gus Russo responds to Max Holland's critique on Dale Myers' JFKFiles blog, in the wittily titled post Holland-aise Sauce: More Grousing From the Sidelines.
http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2008/12/holla...using-from.html
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Jim,
You wrote in this thread:
"One thing cannot be denied, Scott was familiar with the Lee Harvey Oswald and Whitney Shepardson’s friend Demitri de Mohrenschildt's brother George was perhaps Lee Harvey Oswald's closest friend in Dallas."
Are you saying Win Scott knew George or Demitri Mohrenschildt? There was no mention of either brother in Our Man in Mexico, Jeff Morley's biography of Scott. Do you have a reference?
Keep up the research efforts.
Steve
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WikiLeaks 1976
Bill Harvey's Old Pals: Don't Call or Write Us - Even if Dave Phillips Sent You
David Sanchez Morales was upset.
A feared man of mercurial temperament, the retired Agency operative phoned from Arizona his old friend and boss Theodore G. Shackley at home in Virginia on a Friday in June 1977.
Dave Morales had previously served as Ted Shackley's faithful chief of operations when Shackley was chief of station in Miami. Morales was calling Shackley with a heads-up: Morales had received a letter from Washington journalist David C. Martin asking for his help with a book Martin was writing about William King Harvey.
Harvey, a rotund former FBI man who was marginalized by J. Edgar Hoover for his maverick style and drinking bouts, was Morales and Shackley's colleague in the CIA's Secret War against Cuba. Code-named Operation Mongoose and run out of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Mongoose and its associated covert programs were the tip of the Agency's spear pointed at Cuba, and emanating from the CIA's Miami station known as JM/WAVE.
The content of the Martin letter made Morales believe that their compatriot and propaganda expert David Atlee Phillips (now head of the Association of Retired Intelligence Officers) had indiscretly passed Morales's name to David Martin as someone to contact for stories about Bill Harvey. The thought that Phillips would do so angered Morales, who told Shackley that he would not respond to Martin's letter.
Shackley, then in 1977 at the peak of his career as the Agency's Associate Deputy Director for Operations, was not surprised to hear from Morales, a now heavy drinker and legendary covert warrior at the CIA. He had been called by David Martin about Bill Harvey in September 1976. It is unknown if Shackley assisted Martin. However, David C. Martin's article about Bill Harvey, The CIA's 'Loaded Gun' (and subtitled The Life and Hard Times Of 'America's James Bond,' William King Harvey) was published in the Washington Post on October 10, 1976. Notes 1 & 2.
The following Tuesday, June 27, 1977, Shackley notes his conversation with Morales in an internal memo and makes it clear for the record, the Offices of Security and General Counsel, and the office of the Director that he would not help Martin out on a book about the "real or imagined" exploits of Harvey.
The next evening, June 28, former Berlin operating base chief David E. Murphy (who worked with Shackley and Morales in Berlin) called Dave Phillips about a letter he had just received from David Martin. The letter mentioned Dave Phillips as a reference for Martin's bona fides and asked for Murphy's help with Martin's proposed Harvey book. During the phone call, Dave Phillips praised David Martin and tried to convince Murphy of Martin's discretion and reliability. Murphy had none of it. He told Phillips he would not to discuss covert operations with Martin, nor would he reply to Martin's letter. His wife was recuperating from cancer and he didn't want people calling his house.
The next day, June 29, Murphy told Bruce L. Solie, Chief of the Security Analysis Group, about the Martin letter. The SAG speculated in a memo regarding Morales's call to Shackley that Dave Phillips was collaborating with David Martin on his Bill Harvey book by providing Martin with the names and addresses of former Agency employees that knew Harvey.
The SAG memo circulated among top brass: Dave Phillips's problematic conduct in releasing to a journalist the names of CIA covert operators linked to Bill Harvey had to be contained.
The situation was sensitive. Phillips had retired in 1975 and formed the ARIO to champion, lobby, and promote the cause of intelligence. He had a good rapport with many at the Agency. The Office of Security wanted General Counsel to contact Phillips; others wanted Shackley, a former close covert co-worker, to call him. In the end, Director of Security Robert W. Gambino had John K. Greaney, a lawyer in the General Counsel office, call Phillips sometime around July 20, 1977.
During the call, Dave Phillips told Jack Greaney that David Martin gave Phillips a list of names that Martin wanted to speak to, and Phillips would contact those persons on Martin's behalf. Phillips told Greaney that he never gave contact information to Martin unless the former employees were willing to meet with Martin and give Phillips permission to release their information first. Phillips told Greaney that this is precisely what happened with Dave Morales and two others.
In other words, according to Dave Phillips's explanation as recorded by Jack Greaney, Phillips contacted Dave Morales on Martin's behalf, Morales expressed a willingness to meet with Martin, and Morales gave Phillips permission to release his contact information to David Martin. Only then (according to Phillips' version) did Martin write to Morales asking about Bill Harvey.
If Dave Phillips is to be believed in what he told Jack Greaney, then Dave Morales was not being truthful to Ted Shackley when Morales implied that Dave Phillips had surreptitiously released Morales' name to David Martin.
If Dave Morales is to be believed in what he implied to Ted Shackley, then Dave Phillips was not forthcoming with the Office of General Counsel in stating that Morales had given Phillips consent to release Morales' name and address to David Martin.
Gaeton Fonzi, investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, discusses in his book The Last Investigation how Dave Phillips appeared before the Assassination Committee in August 1978 for an informal session of off-the-record questioning about Dave Phillips' actions in Mexico City when Lee Harvey Oswald was there. At the end of the session, Fonzi asked Phillips: "By the way, do you know what happened to Dave Morales"?
Phillips answered: "No, not really. Last I heard he was down in the Southwest, I don't know where. I think maybe New Mexico." Note 3.
When questioned by the HSCA in 1978, apparently - after a year - Dave Phillips didn't recall his own claims to the Agency in 1977 (1) that he wrote or spoke to Dave Morales in Arizona the summer before; (2) that Morales expressed to him a willingness to meet Martin; (3) that Morales gave him permission to release his name and address to Martin; (4) that he had subsequently given Morales' name and Arizona contact information to writer David Martin for a book about Bill Harvey; and (5) that the above events became such a problem for the Agency that they had to call him about it and ask him to stop leaking names and addresses.
Was Dave Phillips of a forgetful mind when it came to his contacts with and memory of his former action man and paramilitary expert David S. Morales, or was he intentionally dissembling in front of the HSCA? Note 4.
Was Dave Phillips improperly passing protected identities from the ARIO roster to a journalist, or was he merely fulfilling his role as the head of the ARIO in promoting intelligence officers and their history by permissively feeding David Martin some leads?
Was Dave Phillips lying to his former employer when called on the carpet about his actions, or was he merely acting with the consent of Dave Morales and others, who wanted to share a few memories about Bill Harvey for David Martin's book?
There always seems to be a few sides to the story with David A. Phillips.
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The leak was plugged, and David Martin's book about Bill Harvey and James Angleton, the well-reviewed Wilderness of Mirrors, was eventually completed and published in 1980.
Today, David C. Martin barely recalls Phillips's involvment in helping him obtain contacts for his research about Bill Harvey. Martin did not know about the flap it caused at Langley. Note 5.
-- Steve Rosen
If the hyperlinks don't work, the first linked document is located in several places, including: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=2
NARA Record Number: 104-10121-10116
Other references, as well as a version of the first document attempting to censor Morales' name (except in one perhaps mistaken spot) are located in Dave Phillips's OS/SAG HSCA files:
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...mp;relPageId=50 (and other pages from 45 to 55).
NARA Record Number: 1993.07.21.16:11:16:210280
Note 1: David C. Martin, The CIA's 'Loaded Gun', The Washington Post, October 10, 1976, p. 33. An excerpt from the archives of www.washingtonpost.com:
"THERE SHOULD have been more people there when they buried Bill Harvey last June. In a way, when the most controversial clandestine operator in CIA history died of a heart attack at 60, it was the end of an era. Twelve months before his death, William King Harvey had been a key witness in the Senate intelligence committee's investigation of the CIA's futile efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro. "
Note 2: David C. Martin's article, The CIA's 'Loaded Gun', is posted on The Harold Weisberg Archive at Hood College, found at http://jfk.hood.edu/. The article is linked at:
Any copyrights are those of the original copyright owners.
Note 3: Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation (New York: Thunder's Mouth, 1993), p. 368.
Note 4: Dave Phillips had reason to be circumspect about David Morales. According to Phillips's autobiography, The Nightwatch, he had worked with Morales, who he called "El Indio", in 1954 to overthrow Jacob Arbenz in Guatemala, and in other operations. "El Indio" was a paramilitary expert and back-alley man. David Atlee Phillips, The Night Watch (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1977), p. 49. There was apparently a close working relationship between the two men that remains nearly completely in shadow. Dave Morales was the sword to Dave Phillips's pen.
Note 5: Telephone interview with David C. Martin by Steve Rosen, June 28, 2011.
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Robin Finn, many thanks for posting part of one of the documents already.
New US Congress
in JFK Assassination Debate
Posted
AP: Obama Can't Reform FOIA Fast Enough
Contradictions Abound In Promise To Fulfill Freedom Of Information Act Requests
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/17/...in4870945.shtml
This story discusses a 1960s FBI memo written from Cartha "Deke" DeLoach to Gerald Ford about a supposed $6,500 payment from the Cuban government to Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City.
The CIA black-lined parts of the memo in 2008 before turning it over to the AP, even though it was released over 2 decades ago in full.
Jefferson Morley discusses in Our Man in Mexico that David Atlee Phillips vouched for Gilbert Alvarado, who floated this $6,500 payoff story.
Alvarado was a CIA informant, a key fact that was largely unknown to the U.S. officials who had to evaluate and act upon the payoff story's implications.
Phillips later distanced himself, "theorizing" in The Night Watch that the Alvarado story was a figment of Nicaraguan intelligence - an organization created and controlled by the CIA.
Why does the CIA consider the Alvarado story worthy of being censored today?