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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. --- 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: http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/C%20Disk/CIA%20Harvey%20William%20King/Item%2002.pdf 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. --- Robin Finn, many thanks for posting part of one of the documents already.

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. --- 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: http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/C%20Disk/CIA%20Harvey%20William%20King/Item%2002.pdf 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. --- Robin Finn, many thanks for posting part of one of the documents already.

Did anyone attend the JFK Lancer November in Dallas 2008 conference on November 21-23? If so, please post about the speakers and presentations. Any information would be appreciated, including news from Abraham Bolden and James Lesar's fight for documents. Larry Hancock was listed as a speaker. Mr. Hancock, your thoughts and observations? Steve

Examined in article by Mel Ayton titled The JFK and RFK Assassinations and the "Manchurian Candidate" Theory, located at http://www.crimemagazine.com/08/manchurian...1001-8.htm#(17)

Bill, great essay on your blog ("45 Years Gone"). Everyone should read it and support the pursuit of disclosure and truth that you advocate at http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/ . Let's also remember J.D. Tippit, tragically murdered 45 years ago today as well. Dale Myers, author of With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit, has a new essay on the 45th anniversary of Tippit's murder at his JFK Files blog. http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html Steve

In this interview from 2006, he doesn't deny knowing Carriles: PLAYER: In fact, recently released federal documents say that in the 1960s you were associated with a CIA-connected, Cuban-American anti-Castro militant named Luis Posada Carriles. He's the guy wanted by Venezuelan authorities for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. And he is wanted by Cuban authorities for a string of bombings in Havana that killed an Italian tourist and injured six people in 1997. The feds claim that back in the mid-1960s you forced Carriles to give you hand grenades, silencers, detonators and fuses that you in turn passed to the Chicago mob. [Rosenthal is shown several newspaper articles about these allegations]. ROSENTHAL: I've seen that. And I have no idea what you're talking about. PLAYER: Is this all fiction? ROSENTHAL: I'm not going to go into it. PLAYER: These same documents claim that you were under investigation by the Justice Department for seven car bombings that took place—shortly after dealing with Posada—in the Miami area. ROSENTHAL: Again, I said I am not going to go into it. http://frankrosenthal.com/frankslife/frank...l_interview.php

Dale Myers' latest report on the Morley v. CIA lawsuit. CIA “Discovers” More Joannides Documents http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2008/07/cia-d...-documents.html

E. H. Hunt's son David responds to the March 20, 2007 L.A. Times story about Hunt's confession (reprinted above). http://weblog.timoregan.com/2007/04/medias...-hunts-jfk.html david hunt screeched... here is how the la times did a job on us. On March 20, the Los Angeles Times ran a story titled “Watergate plotter may have last tale”. I wasn’t surprised because I had initiated the interview and had been waiting for three weeks from the original print date. I hand picked journalist Carol J. Williams because her piece on my fathers’ life and death was impartial and fair. She flew to Eureka for a 5 hour interview with my brother St. John and then 2 hours with me in L.A. What surprised and angered me was the absence of critical information and the presence of disinformation meant to discredit myself and my brother. The following are excerpts taken from the article followed by factual accounting and how it was twisted. Spin: Hunt's daughters headed west to create new lives. Kevan came to California, where she has practiced law for 25 years. Lisa became a fundamentalist Christian and runs an insurance firm in Las Vegas. Reality Notice positive introduction of our sisters who later in the story discredit us. All of their skeletons, for which there are many, are left in the closet. He was convicted twice on felony drug charges in the Bay Area but served no prison time. When he became homeless, he renounced his drug habit, renewed ties with his father and siblings and moved to this Pacific Coast timber and fishing town. Spin: St. John is introduced as a homeless, drug addict and felon. These are all true but he had been sober many years before starting this project. David, now 43, also abused drugs after his mother's death and the years he spent in the violent milieu of Cuban exile politics. He now sells Jacuzzis at a West L.A. spa shop. Spin: I am a partner in a successful Los Angeles business and reside in Beverly Hills. The years I spent with my godfather and second family were some of the happiest and most loved times of my life. It sounds as if I was in some crazed military camp to make my involvement look suspect and desperate. The materials they offer to substantiate their story, examined by the Los Angeles Times, are inconclusive. Spin: The writer briefly looked over hand written notes from my father and viewed less than 5% of video interviews conducted by Eric Hamberg. As far as I know Carol Williams is not an expert in hand writing analysis, JFK Assassination study or relevant history. She lacks any expertise on any level to render the materials inconclusive. None of the accounts provides evidence to convincingly validate that their father disclosed anything revelatory. Hunt answers questions on a videotape using speculative phrases, observing that various named figures were "possibly" involved. A chart Hunt sketched during one conversation with St. John shows the same rogue CIA operation he describes in the memoir. Spin: At no time were we attempting to prove to Miss Williams anything other than we have in our possession information from a person who has long been believed to hold the answers to some of our countries most debated questions. Our position is to provide this information which we believe to be truthful and accurate to the people that have researched the topic thoroughly. Hunt's widow and her two children, 27-year-old Austin and 23-year-old Hollis, dismiss the brothers' story, saying it is the result of coaching an old man whose lucidity waxed and waned in his final months. Spin: Unfortunately neither Austin nor Hollis were present during the interviews. This was a condition set by my father who kept his second family isolated from his previous life. It was an opportunity for a second chance. He had gotten out of jail, married an innocent civilian and spent his remaining 27 years trying to live a normal life. Hollis and Austin had a very secure environment and a father that was easily accessible. I believe he saw the damage his previous lifestyle imposed on his first set of children and he was determined not to repeat it. Neither my brother nor I were allowed to mention anything from my fathers past when they were present. He had told me many times that if Laura, his second wife, thought he had anything to do with JFK that she would leave him. My brother and I have a huge amount of respect for what our step mother had to put up with caring for my father in his last years. She is nothing short of a saint, unselfish and a completely devoted wife. Kevan bitterly accuses her brothers of "elder abuse," saying they pressured their father for dramatic scenarios for their own financial gain. Hunt's longtime lawyer, Bill Snyder, says: "Howard was just speculating. He had no hard evidence." Spin: Kevan had little involvement with our father after Watergate and the death of our mother. She had no knowledge or interest in our fathers well being. She remained bitter to the end and didn’t even attend our fathers’ funeral. This statement is particularly damaging to St.John who makes his living assisting the elderly. Anyone who truly knows my brother including the people he currently cares for would tell you he is honest, kind and devoted to their well being and comfort. "That's the way spies are," David says with a wry smile, remembering a father he never really knew. Spin: I was the only one of his children that was alive during Watergate and JFK assassination that lived with him after he was released from jail. We had a very close relationship until the last two years of his life. His hearing condition made it impossible to communicate via telephone. I was at the hospital visiting with him and left on a Sunday night. He died Tuesday morning Perhaps the biggest omission from the L.A Times article is that I had the foresight to know that people would discredit me and St. John because of our pasts. I was even doubtful when St. John said he had all the info on paper written by our father. This is precisely why I brought Eric Hamberg in. I met Eric on the movie set of Nixon. I accompanied my father to meet with Oliver Stone. Oliver and Eric grilled my father for hours about anything and everything they suspected my father of knowing. The reason why Eric stuck out in my mind is that my father liked him. I found it peculiar because my father didn’t like anyone. It was the first time I had ever heard my father say something nice about someone with opposing political views. Eric Hamberg has devoted years to uncovering the truth behind the JFK assassination. He was responsible for getting the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 passed. He is a respected authority on historical facts of that era. He is beyond suspicion of fabricating evidence for financial gain. I knew if he met with my father and wanted to be part of the project than it was the truth. Eric Hamberg was the original writer that started and secured the book deal for the recently released American Spy novel. It was only in the final stages of the book when my father bowed to pressure from his wife and attorney and changed his mind about going public with this information. At that point Eric knew the truth and ended his involvement with American Spy. It was finished by a ghost writer. The O.J style” If I did it” section was adapted to appease the publisher who was deeply invested in the project. For me the upcoming book is business. We have a valuable legitimate story to share with people who are interested. People write books for money it is as simple as that. For my brother St. John it is more personal. It was during his generation that these events took place. I believe for Eric it is the quest for the truth. If more people that were even remotely involved came forward with what they know we would finally be able to put the subject to rest. But this is a dangerous subject. As of the date the LA Times article came out my brother has been run off the road and his house ran sacked. 08 April, 2007 23:04

Article from Miami Herald on April 20, 2008 quotes Mr. Martinez. http://www.miamiherald.com/home/v-print/story/499585.html Posted on Sun, Apr. 20, 2008 For sale: House of spies BY JENNY STALETOVICH The house at 6312 Riviera Dr. in Coral Gables is grand by almost any measure. It has a 33-foot long living room with dragons carved into its marble fireplace, vases that once belonged to Umberto I, King of Italy, a dance patio, mini-Olympic pool, an elevator, a tidewater pond, more than a dozen bathrooms, two roomy boathouses and a pedigreed architect. Batista once considered buying it and Billy Graham left behind a signed Bible. In recent years, passing motorists have pulled through its noble wrought-iron gates, mistaking it for a country club. Given its extreme curb appeal, it seems incredible that the CIA used the house for secret operations at the height of its covert war against Fidel Castro in the 1960s. Then again, this is Miami -- no stranger to the high jinks of history. CIA operatives would stride across the lush lawn in broad daylight, past the pink cupola and into the boathouse where they would board a souped-up boat, part of an armada that then amounted to the Caribbean's third largest naval fleet. Once armed, and sometimes hooded, they would motor down the Coral Gables Waterway to launch one of hundreds of missions carried out against Cuba's Communist government. Now, after almost 50 years in the same family, the house is being sold. Asking price? A cool $22 million, which includes an island, also a former CIA outpost. ''We used to feel very uncomfortable because of the appearance of ourselves with the house,'' said Rolando Martinez, 85, a spy who used the house but is more famously known as one of the five Watergate burglars. ``When we returned from some operations, I remember we were walking from the house and neighbors walking dogs would call us insurrectos.'' For Wirt Maxey, then a preoccupied kid of 14 or 15, the house was home. If his father was having company in the boat house, he had no idea it was the Company. ''I remember people coming and going at rather odd hours and I was basically told that these people were renting the boathouse and had a right to come and go and leave them alone,'' he said. In his quasi-factual novel Harlot's Ghost, Norman Mailer called the mansion ``a nice, cool, handsome house when all is said.'' For most of the last half century, Maxey's father, Tom, an attorney, maintained the house meticulously, keeping it much the same as when Martinez and the spooks who directed him hatched their missions. The boathouse locker room, where the men showered after missions, remains a cradle of polished yellow tile, a sign with carved iron sea horses distinguishing the men's from the women's locker room. DECISION TO SELL After Tom Maxey died nearly two years ago, Wirt, who had moved back in with his family to care for his ailing father, and his two younger sisters decided to sell the house, along with the island, a 45-wminute boat ride away, which the CIA also leased. Situated in the middle of a chain known as the Ragged Keys, it is officially Ragged Key #3, although Ragged Key #2 is just an outcropping of coral rock. Ragged Key #3, the one with the CIA past, is the only Ragged Key that's inhabited. It includes a two-story home, caretaker's cottage, mini-power plant, pool and dock house and resident dogs who for years have noisily announced the presence of any nearby boaters. The stark white buildings, visible to anyone who has ever tried to navigate the channels and flats of Biscayne Bay, reflect the sun like beacons. Except for the lighthouse on nearby Boca Chita, the island's towering flag pole is the tallest thing in sight. In 1960, when Tom Maxey acquired the house from Edward Christiansen in exchange for legal work, he also got the island. He later told his son the CIA used it to monitor Castro. Originally, the island had a small house. Christiansen built a more modern house with an upstairs that served as a bunk room, said his daughter, Karen Davis, who now lives in Miami Shores. ''He put the pool in, too, and my brother says he had to get an act of Congress to dredge so we could get our boat into the island,'' she said. Wirt Maxey only learned of the CIA deals years later. He can't remember now how it came up, but one day his father told him that the men he'd seen coming and going from the boat house had indeed been running covert operations to Cuba. And the television company that leased the island was a CIA cover. ''It was pretty cool to me,'' he said. ``I remember a boat. Not a fancy boat at all, but kind of a crappy looking boat from the outside. I learned later on from my father that that crappy-looking boat would go 70 mph.'' Other than the crappy boat and men traipsing across the lawn at strange hours, Maxey doesn't remember much. The rest of the tale falls to the countless books and articles inspired by the era. And of course the spy, Martinez, now retired on Miami Beach and spending his time caring for his wife, 82, who suffers from Alzheimer's. Martinez said he came to Florida in 1941 and enrolled at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. At the time, Miami ''was nothing. Later on, I came back. I came in the '50s,'' he said. Officially, he was recruited by the CIA in 1960. All these years later, he remains vague about details, sometimes recounting only what has been officially declassified. He says Watergate -- for which he received a presidential pardon and praise for a distinguished record -- left him wary. Later, he was prosecuted for lying about his involvement with the CIA, even though the agency had sworn him to secrecy. Altogether, Martinez says he ran 354 operations from the house and other bases throughout South Florida. In a 1975 article for Harper's magazine, he described one tense episode to historians Taylor Branch and George Crile III: ``Once a Castro gunboat came after my boat on a mission on the north coast of Cuba and I radioed for help. Before we could even decode the return message, there were two Phantom jets and a Neptune flying over us. It's a trademark of the American forces in general. You have seen how in Vietnam if a helicopter goes down, ten other helicopters will fly in to get the pilot out. That was the same spirit that prevailed in our operations.'' SPIES EVERYWHERE At the time, the CIA was everywhere in Miami: recruiting spies at the Sears on Douglas Road and Coral Way and tossing back drinks at 27 Birds, their name for the Big Daddy's at Southwest 27th Avenue and Bird Road, reports a 2004 study commissioned by the National Park Service. ''Only in a city like Miami could the clandestine empire of (the CIA operations) escape public attention. In the early years of the secret war, Miami already resembled wartime Casablanca,'' Branch and Crile wrote in the Harper's story, which included a photo of the Riviera Drive house. A year after Castro's takeover in 1959, CIA director Allen Dulles had already introduced a plan to President Dwight Eisenhower to overthrow Castro, the Park Service study reported. Eisenhower, in turn, authorized $13 million -- which eventually rose to $50 million a year -- to train and recruit an army of about 1,500 exiles. The study included a list of locations inside and out of National Park boundaries that serves as a kind of tour map. The boathouse, the report says, ``offered a location where infiltration vessels could be hidden from plain view, thus shielding their extensive modifications and true nature from prying eyes.'' Eventually, the CIA's station in Miami, housed on the south campus of the University of Miami (and now Miami MetroZoo), grew to be the largest outside its headquarters in Langley, Va., Don Bohning wrote in his book, The Castro Obsession. About 400 agents oversaw ''thousands of Cuban exiles added to the payroll for everything from propaganda to sabotage,'' and created between 300 and 400 front companies to cover its tracks. With so many exiles and the Communist threat fueling patriotism, recruiting was not difficult, even among private citizens like Tom Maxey, who ran his own law practice along with a real estate investment firm. ''They would openly go up to someone, like at The Herald, (managing editor) George Beebe, and say we need your help. That was not uncommon. I'm sure there were dozens of legitimate companies in Miami that were cooperating. Here you have a major academic institution (UM) cooperating with them, so you can imagine,'' said Bohning, a former Herald reporter and editor. ``The atmosphere was completely different.'' And most would readily agree to help. ''So long as Cuba was a target for intelligence gathering, Miami was the natural starting point for those operations,'' said historian Timothy Naftali, author of One Hell of a Gamble and curator of the Nixon Library. ``Miami has played a key role in the secret history of the United States. In Cold War Miami, the CIA would not have had a hard time recruiting.'' Wirt Maxey does not know how the CIA contacted his father. However, his uncle, Jackson Maxey, worked for the agency in Washington, he said. Years later, Maxey's father told Wirt he informed his brother, Jackson, that he'd been leasing the house and island to Jackson's employer. And his brother never knew. That doesn't surprise Martinez. ''There is something they call compartmentation and they have a good cover,'' he said. ``I'm sure the people who bought the house at the time were well-connected with the government because they had to have national security clearance.'' Back to the house. Built in 1937, it was designed by the architectural firm of Paist and Steward, whose founding partner, Phineas Paist, was supervising architect for Coral Gables at its incorporation in 1925. Initially hired by George Merrick as a colorist, Paist gained fame for his monumental buildings, said historian Arva Moore Parks. His work includes the Colonnade Building, Coral Gables City Hall, the city's old police and fire station and its original Arts Center, now the sales office for the upscale Old Spanish Village project. The house was built for Roy Page, said Gables' Preservation Officer Kara Noelle Kautz. In 1945, owner Larry Hughy was given permission to add the dock, records show, and in 1952, Christiansen added the side wings that include, among other things, the guest house, game room and servant quarters. A year later, he added the pool and boathouses. In the 1950s, Fulgencio Batista, who had a home in Daytona Beach, visited when he was considering buying it as a retreat, said Davis, Christiansen's daughter. Having a house from the era largely intact and in such good shape is rare, Parks said. ``It's a gift.'' Despite its grand scale, Martinez said it worked remarkably well for the spies. ''You could go through the channel to the open seas and return and keep it very silent. No one would suspect that house was used in the operations against the Communist regime of Cuba,'' he said. ``It was a very good house. It was beautiful. And we behaved very according to the house.'' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2008 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved. http://www.miamiherald.com

Article from Miami Herald on April 20, 2008 quotes Mr. Bohning regarding newspaper cooperation. http://www.miamiherald.com/home/v-print/story/499585.html Posted on Sun, Apr. 20, 2008 For sale: House of spies BY JENNY STALETOVICH The house at 6312 Riviera Dr. in Coral Gables is grand by almost any measure. It has a 33-foot long living room with dragons carved into its marble fireplace, vases that once belonged to Umberto I, King of Italy, a dance patio, mini-Olympic pool, an elevator, a tidewater pond, more than a dozen bathrooms, two roomy boathouses and a pedigreed architect. Batista once considered buying it and Billy Graham left behind a signed Bible. In recent years, passing motorists have pulled through its noble wrought-iron gates, mistaking it for a country club. Given its extreme curb appeal, it seems incredible that the CIA used the house for secret operations at the height of its covert war against Fidel Castro in the 1960s. Then again, this is Miami -- no stranger to the high jinks of history. CIA operatives would stride across the lush lawn in broad daylight, past the pink cupola and into the boathouse where they would board a souped-up boat, part of an armada that then amounted to the Caribbean's third largest naval fleet. Once armed, and sometimes hooded, they would motor down the Coral Gables Waterway to launch one of hundreds of missions carried out against Cuba's Communist government. Now, after almost 50 years in the same family, the house is being sold. Asking price? A cool $22 million, which includes an island, also a former CIA outpost. ''We used to feel very uncomfortable because of the appearance of ourselves with the house,'' said Rolando Martinez, 85, a spy who used the house but is more famously known as one of the five Watergate burglars. ``When we returned from some operations, I remember we were walking from the house and neighbors walking dogs would call us insurrectos.'' For Wirt Maxey, then a preoccupied kid of 14 or 15, the house was home. If his father was having company in the boat house, he had no idea it was the Company. ''I remember people coming and going at rather odd hours and I was basically told that these people were renting the boathouse and had a right to come and go and leave them alone,'' he said. In his quasi-factual novel Harlot's Ghost, Norman Mailer called the mansion ``a nice, cool, handsome house when all is said.'' For most of the last half century, Maxey's father, Tom, an attorney, maintained the house meticulously, keeping it much the same as when Martinez and the spooks who directed him hatched their missions. The boathouse locker room, where the men showered after missions, remains a cradle of polished yellow tile, a sign with carved iron sea horses distinguishing the men's from the women's locker room. DECISION TO SELL After Tom Maxey died nearly two years ago, Wirt, who had moved back in with his family to care for his ailing father, and his two younger sisters decided to sell the house, along with the island, a 45-wminute boat ride away, which the CIA also leased. Situated in the middle of a chain known as the Ragged Keys, it is officially Ragged Key #3, although Ragged Key #2 is just an outcropping of coral rock. Ragged Key #3, the one with the CIA past, is the only Ragged Key that's inhabited. It includes a two-story home, caretaker's cottage, mini-power plant, pool and dock house and resident dogs who for years have noisily announced the presence of any nearby boaters. The stark white buildings, visible to anyone who has ever tried to navigate the channels and flats of Biscayne Bay, reflect the sun like beacons. Except for the lighthouse on nearby Boca Chita, the island's towering flag pole is the tallest thing in sight. In 1960, when Tom Maxey acquired the house from Edward Christiansen in exchange for legal work, he also got the island. He later told his son the CIA used it to monitor Castro. Originally, the island had a small house. Christiansen built a more modern house with an upstairs that served as a bunk room, said his daughter, Karen Davis, who now lives in Miami Shores. ''He put the pool in, too, and my brother says he had to get an act of Congress to dredge so we could get our boat into the island,'' she said. Wirt Maxey only learned of the CIA deals years later. He can't remember now how it came up, but one day his father told him that the men he'd seen coming and going from the boat house had indeed been running covert operations to Cuba. And the television company that leased the island was a CIA cover. ''It was pretty cool to me,'' he said. ``I remember a boat. Not a fancy boat at all, but kind of a crappy looking boat from the outside. I learned later on from my father that that crappy-looking boat would go 70 mph.'' Other than the crappy boat and men traipsing across the lawn at strange hours, Maxey doesn't remember much. The rest of the tale falls to the countless books and articles inspired by the era. And of course the spy, Martinez, now retired on Miami Beach and spending his time caring for his wife, 82, who suffers from Alzheimer's. Martinez said he came to Florida in 1941 and enrolled at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. At the time, Miami ''was nothing. Later on, I came back. I came in the '50s,'' he said. Officially, he was recruited by the CIA in 1960. All these years later, he remains vague about details, sometimes recounting only what has been officially declassified. He says Watergate -- for which he received a presidential pardon and praise for a distinguished record -- left him wary. Later, he was prosecuted for lying about his involvement with the CIA, even though the agency had sworn him to secrecy. Altogether, Martinez says he ran 354 operations from the house and other bases throughout South Florida. In a 1975 article for Harper's magazine, he described one tense episode to historians Taylor Branch and George Crile III: ``Once a Castro gunboat came after my boat on a mission on the north coast of Cuba and I radioed for help. Before we could even decode the return message, there were two Phantom jets and a Neptune flying over us. It's a trademark of the American forces in general. You have seen how in Vietnam if a helicopter goes down, ten other helicopters will fly in to get the pilot out. That was the same spirit that prevailed in our operations.'' SPIES EVERYWHERE At the time, the CIA was everywhere in Miami: recruiting spies at the Sears on Douglas Road and Coral Way and tossing back drinks at 27 Birds, their name for the Big Daddy's at Southwest 27th Avenue and Bird Road, reports a 2004 study commissioned by the National Park Service. ''Only in a city like Miami could the clandestine empire of (the CIA operations) escape public attention. In the early years of the secret war, Miami already resembled wartime Casablanca,'' Branch and Crile wrote in the Harper's story, which included a photo of the Riviera Drive house. A year after Castro's takeover in 1959, CIA director Allen Dulles had already introduced a plan to President Dwight Eisenhower to overthrow Castro, the Park Service study reported. Eisenhower, in turn, authorized $13 million -- which eventually rose to $50 million a year -- to train and recruit an army of about 1,500 exiles. The study included a list of locations inside and out of National Park boundaries that serves as a kind of tour map. The boathouse, the report says, ``offered a location where infiltration vessels could be hidden from plain view, thus shielding their extensive modifications and true nature from prying eyes.'' Eventually, the CIA's station in Miami, housed on the south campus of the University of Miami (and now Miami MetroZoo), grew to be the largest outside its headquarters in Langley, Va., Don Bohning wrote in his book, The Castro Obsession. About 400 agents oversaw ''thousands of Cuban exiles added to the payroll for everything from propaganda to sabotage,'' and created between 300 and 400 front companies to cover its tracks. With so many exiles and the Communist threat fueling patriotism, recruiting was not difficult, even among private citizens like Tom Maxey, who ran his own law practice along with a real estate investment firm. ''They would openly go up to someone, like at The Herald, (managing editor) George Beebe, and say we need your help. That was not uncommon. I'm sure there were dozens of legitimate companies in Miami that were cooperating. Here you have a major academic institution (UM) cooperating with them, so you can imagine,'' said Bohning, a former Herald reporter and editor. ``The atmosphere was completely different.'' And most would readily agree to help. ''So long as Cuba was a target for intelligence gathering, Miami was the natural starting point for those operations,'' said historian Timothy Naftali, author of One Hell of a Gamble and curator of the Nixon Library. ``Miami has played a key role in the secret history of the United States. In Cold War Miami, the CIA would not have had a hard time recruiting.'' Wirt Maxey does not know how the CIA contacted his father. However, his uncle, Jackson Maxey, worked for the agency in Washington, he said. Years later, Maxey's father told Wirt he informed his brother, Jackson, that he'd been leasing the house and island to Jackson's employer. And his brother never knew. That doesn't surprise Martinez. ''There is something they call compartmentation and they have a good cover,'' he said. ``I'm sure the people who bought the house at the time were well-connected with the government because they had to have national security clearance.'' Back to the house. Built in 1937, it was designed by the architectural firm of Paist and Steward, whose founding partner, Phineas Paist, was supervising architect for Coral Gables at its incorporation in 1925. Initially hired by George Merrick as a colorist, Paist gained fame for his monumental buildings, said historian Arva Moore Parks. His work includes the Colonnade Building, Coral Gables City Hall, the city's old police and fire station and its original Arts Center, now the sales office for the upscale Old Spanish Village project. The house was built for Roy Page, said Gables' Preservation Officer Kara Noelle Kautz. In 1945, owner Larry Hughy was given permission to add the dock, records show, and in 1952, Christiansen added the side wings that include, among other things, the guest house, game room and servant quarters. A year later, he added the pool and boathouses. In the 1950s, Fulgencio Batista, who had a home in Daytona Beach, visited when he was considering buying it as a retreat, said Davis, Christiansen's daughter. Having a house from the era largely intact and in such good shape is rare, Parks said. ``It's a gift.'' Despite its grand scale, Martinez said it worked remarkably well for the spies. ''You could go through the channel to the open seas and return and keep it very silent. No one would suspect that house was used in the operations against the Communist regime of Cuba,'' he said. ``It was a very good house. It was beautiful. And we behaved very according to the house.'' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2008 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved. http://www.miamiherald.com

Dale Myers blog, http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/, contains much commentary about the Joannides lawsuit. There are several good articles, listed below. Mr. Myers thoroughly scrutinizes Mr. Morley's research for perceived factual and logical errors. In the comments section, Mr. Morley issues a sharp rebuttal, and Mr. Myers responds with another in-depth blog. Informative and interesting reading. --- June 14, 2008 CIA Response On Joannides Delayed Again http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2008/06/cia-r...ayed-again.html --- June 2, 2008 The Last Word: Bringuier, Joannides and the DRE* http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2008/06/last-...es-and-dre.html *Mr. Myer's response to Jeff Morley's April 12 comment on Mr. Myers' blog entry of February 27. --- March 1, 2008 More JFK Secrets in Sixty Days? http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-...sixty-days.html --- February 27, 2008 The CIA vs. Jefferson Morley* http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2008/02/cia-v...son-morley.html *The comments section in this blog contains a response by Jeff Morley from April 12. --- October 22, 2007 'Denied in Full': Federal Judges Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2007/10/denie...-grill-cia.html

Those interested in the Morley v. CIA lawsuit may recall that the CIA was ordered by Judge Richard J. Leon on April 30 to explain in writing by June 11 its failure to release Agency files of George Joannides in contravention of a federal court order from December 2007. See Jeff Morley's article at http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/...till-stonewalls. On June 11, the CIA asked the Court for a further extension until July 2 by which to respond. Out of courtesy, Jeff Morley and his counsel Jim Lesar did not oppose the motion for extension, which was then granted by Judge Leon. The wait begins anew. Steve

There is a lot of good information about RFK on MSNBC; unfortunately the unresolved issues of the assassination are not discussed. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24934319/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24990389/

40 Years Later: RFK's Daughter Reflects - USA Today video - June 5, 2008 http://usatoday.feedroom.com/index.jsp?fr_story=FRdamp275980 Forty years later, Robert Kennedy’s assassination reverberates - Kansas City.com - June 5, 2008 http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/651993.html Memories Of Robert F. Kennedy - CBS News - June 5, 2008 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/05/...in4158341.shtml

Thanks for those, Peter. Robert F. Kennedy Remembered - Washington Post - June 5, 2008 http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2...remembered.html Remembering Our Father - New York Times - June 5, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/opinion/...amp;oref=slogin Robert F. Kennedy: What if He Had Lived? -- A Golden Age That Never Was - Huffington Post - June 5, 2008 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-fleetw...f_b_105370.html RFK for Twentysomethings - Huffington Post - June 5, 2008 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-maxwel...s_b_105435.html

Conspiracy Test: The RFK Assassination - airing June 06, 2008 at 4:00 pm on Investigation Discovery http://investigation.discovery.com/tv-sche....30536.33887.13 Also linked at: [Part 01 of 11] CONSPIRACY TEST: THE RFK ASSASSINATION San Francisco Chronicle - 40 years after RFK's death, questions linger - June 3, 2008 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...p;type=politics L.A. Times - 40 years later: The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - June 5, 2008 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ro...67119.htmlstory L.A. Daily News - Agent recalls the last hours of RFK - May 31, 2008 http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_9441739 Long Beach Press Telegram - Little left of Ambassador Hotel, site of RFK assassination - June 4, 2008 http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_9469889 Baltimore Sun - The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - June 5, 2008 http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/...78.photogallery Baltimore Sun - Epic Vision - May 27, 2008 http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/...0,2574700.story New York Sun - New Film Raises Questions About RFK's Assassination - June 4, 2008 http://www.nysun.com/arts/new-film-raises-...sination/79234/ am New York - RFK assassination 'like yesterday' for photographer Richard Drew - June 4, 2008 http://www.amny.com/news/local/am-drew0604,0,4187191.story UPI - Author: Questions remain on RFK's killing - June 3, 2008 http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008...s_killing/4629/ U.K. Times Online - Robert F Kennedy: photographer Harry Benson's final shots - June 1, 2008 http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...icle4022056.ece

Dale Myers' recent blog entry contains a clearer picture of Tippit's clipboard: http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2008/05/myste...-clipboard.html The clipboard photo is located at the Dallas Municipal Archives, linked at: http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/index.html Photographs are located in Boxes 11, 12, and 12A. The clipboard photo is located Box 12, Folder 45, Item 001, negative number 91-001/016, linked at: http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/41/4147-001.gif It seems that Dale Myers obtained his high-quality picture as a new print from the original negative. The original negative is located in Box 12A, Folder 15, Item 001, negative number 91-001/016. No scan. http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box12A.htm Steve

I was reading Abraham Bolden's book The Echo From Dealey Plaza recently, which mentions Vallee. Does anyone have information on Vallee, such as his age in 1963 or what happened to him later in life? The following 1970 article from Time magazine discusses Sherman H. Skolnick's lawsuit to obtain records related to the Chicago assassination plot, but I can't find anything further about the results of the suit. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...,944016,00.html The following article from May 14, 2008 claims Vallee's 1962 Ford Falcon was registered to Lee Harvey Oswald, as proven by a National Archives document (which is not named in the article). http://www.hvpress.net/news/138/ARTICLE/4293/2008-05-14.html Has anybody ever come across this claimed direct link between Vallee and Oswald before, other than from the Time article posted above? Steve

All, Shane's new book Who Killed Bobby? and movie RFK Must Die are essential research materials. In addition to being measured and thought-provoking, they are consistently engaging and entertaining as well. The wealth of material is worth your money. Shane, I hope to see your film screened in more U.S. locations soon. Kudos, Steve

Shane, Good to see you back here. Thank you for your tremendous efforts. You really are to be commended for pushing this case back into the public eye through your perceptive and penetrating film, in-depth book, and now the website. Excellent work. I hope you'll consider a Philadelphia or D.C. showing of RFK Must Die. I'm sure there are East Coast board members who will make the trek (Philly's up the road from me). I realize your travel opportunities might be limited coming from across the pond. Can you tell us any stories about Dave Morales relayed by Tom Clines? Did Clines confirm Ed Wilson's story of Morales blowing up a radio tower in the Dominican Republic circa 1965? In your book you said Clines dismissed Morales' confessional rant as bullxxxx, but there was little else from Clines. Any expansion in that area is appreciated. Congrats, Steve

James, I think you'll find Shane's book very informative. Several people seem to think Mr. Zamka was prone to braggadocio and maybe exaggeration. There is an interesting retelling of Morales' involvement in taking out a radio tower in the Dominican Republic by Ed Wilson. Wilson says Morales rowed ashore, dressed up as "Doctor Mendes", claimed he was there to see patients, and then ... bang and boom, no tower. Any anecdotes or stories that the brothers told you that you can relay here? Steve

James, Thanks for the additional information on Bulova and its military connections. And I know many of us look forward to your website to further advance our research. I just received Shane O'Sullivan's new book, Who Killed Bobby? The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy. It is a massive tome at 500 plus pages with notes. It is well-documented and a good read. Chapters 17 and 18, titled "The CIA at the Hotel" and "Chasing Shadows", detail Shane's original BBC story from 2006 and his search to clarify the identities of three men captured on video and photographed at the Ambassador Hotel that night, initially thought to possibly be CIA operatives Gordon Campbell, George E. Joannides, and David Sanchez Morales. If you have seen Shane's movie RFK Must Die, it will not be much of surprise for you to find that after a diligent and thoughtful search, which included photo comparisons and numerous interviews with former colleagues and family members of the above-named Agency hands, Shane has backed off his original tentative assertions. He now concludes that it was most likely not Campbell, Joannides, and Morales in the photos and video he presented in his reporting and film. The "Gordon Campbell" individual was a man named Michael D. Roman, and the "George Joannides" individual was Frank S. Owen, both Bulova watch salesman. Shane details the history of Bulova, and interviews family members of Roman before writing that Roman and Owen were in all probability misidentified as Campbell and Joannides. It should be noted: Bradley A. Ayers insists that Michael D. Roman was a dead ringer for the man he knew from JM/WAVE as "Gordon Campbell" (even though others said Campbell died in 1962, before Ayers arrived); Ed Lopez and Dan Hardaway both said Owen looked like Joannides; and Tom Polgar said that the photo of Owens was "not incompatible" with Joannides. The book contains new information on Dave Morales that will be of interest to you and other researchers. There are plenty of remembrances from friends and family, brushstrokes that help paint a fuller picture of El Indio and his infamous self-incrimination. Steve

Bill, I haven't seen the dvd since it first came out, but I believe you are right: The man thought to be "Gordon Campbell" was ID'd as a Bulova employee. I also recall James Richards posting in the JFK forum some notes about the history of Bulova and its contacts to the military community. The other problem with the "Gordon Campbell" and "David Morales" identifications in RFK Must Die are that the individuals thought to be those persons are hanging around for an extraordinary amount of time. The men ID'd as Morales and Campbell are trudging back and forth right near news cameras for what seem like minutes. One would think that if they were in fact CIA operatives they would be more circumspect (if they stayed around at all after a murder they knew was coming or were involved with in some way). While the "Morales Man" does seem to be nosing around the scene, I just don't think he looks much like the David Sanchez Morales that has been presented in photographs identified by family and colleagues through the efforts of researchers. I await the new Morales photo(s) that James Richards said he would present on his upcoming website for further comparison and study. That being said, Morales' comments to his attorney Robert Walton and friend Ruben Carabal about being in LA when in his words the "little bastard" [RFK] was killed remain chilling and worthy of investigation. I applaud Shane O'Sullivan for his efforts in pursuing the Morales avenue. Steve

Thank you Michael, your posts and updates are appreciated as well ... I didn't know that Shane O'Sullivan's book Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy was shipping. Looking forward to reading it and your thoughts on the same. Steve