James Richards

Here's another one of Steve Wilson.

I have a couple of others but can't scan them at the moment.

James

James, I don't have any real feeling on that but it seems unlikely that the CIA would

be disclosing a real name in this context.

I can say however that we have the debriefing document on Che's capture

and execution and the name being used for CIA "contract employee" in the field with Che

is Benton H. Mizones.

Mizones worked along with another Cuban in Bolivia but their CIA case officer was

back in DC...

Afterwards Mizones and the other employee were flown out of Bolivia by C-130 to Panama and both

employees were documented as GS-16's so they could board an over booked

military flight back to Charlotte.

-- Larry

Thanks, Larry.

I'm not too sure who Mizones may have been but Gustavo Villoldo supposedly was the lead agent in the field in Bolivia and went under the alias of army Captain Eduardo Gonzalez. Another Cuban CIA employee on the ground was police advisor Julio Garcia who had a history with some Cuban exile training camps in the Florida Everglades during mid 1963.

If I am not mistaken, there were only 3 Cuban exile Agency employees engaged on the hunt for Guevara; Villoldo, Julio Garcia and Felix Rodriguez.

Cheers,

James

Thanks, Larry.

I know the Schneider family were not amused and brought a lawsuit against Kissinger for his alleged role in the death. The family claimed there was a CIA plot to kill the General.

That was a few years ago but I don't know what the outcome was.

As to Felix, is there a chance that was Felix Rodriguez?

James

Is Louisiana State Trooper FRANCIS FRUGE still alive? (Don Roberdeau)

Don,

I believe Fruge died in 1985.

James

Their careers crossed many times, the last probably being in Chile where

Morales may have done some final services for him; especially (according to

Reuben) the removal of a key Chilean general. (Larry Hancock)

Larry,

Would that Chilean General have been Rene Schneider?

James

James,

thats weird,

I thought he would confess that Johnson killed JFK!

No harm in trying, which I'm sure you have already done.

I thinl we're on tp a good lead here. If it doesn't lead us to JFK, it will still further our understanding of US interaction with mercenaries.

John

Hi John,

REJ's world was a very murky one and delving into it is like fumbling around in the dark bumping into the furniture. The more we can get on this guy however, I believe the closer we will get to some unanswered questions including at least one possible source of finance and assassin sponsoring for the murder of JFK.

In your research so far, have you any references to REJ during the 1970's being paid by the British military to locate IRA terrorists in Northern Ireland and in England itself?

Cheers,

James

Good stuff, Bill.

When researching the Catherwood Foundation, did you ever come across the name Reeves Wetherill who I think was the Foundation's vice-president during the mid 1950's? I ask as many years ago, I jotted down in my notes a connection to Michael Paine but due to my haphazard style at the time, didn't include the reference.

I have a photo of Ellen Cowen Catherwood and Reeves Wetherill somewhere. If you are interested, I will dig it up.

James

I have a bit more info on my computer at home (in a friends house at the moment) on Robert Emmett Johnson that I obtained from Gerry Hemming. I emailed the editor of Soldier of Fortune about Johnson and Saul Sague a while back, he is yet to get back to me after telling me he will ask around.

Perhaps Gerry could post some info.

It might be worth looking up any relatives that may still be alive.

John

John,

REJ's older brother is still alive. Understandably, he is very wary and guarded with what he says.

James

John,

Thanks for starting a new thread.

I think Johnson should be someone of enormous interest. While doing some research on him, not only is the possibility quite strong that he and Arturo Espaillat were in Dallas on the day of the assassination, but a French mercenary/assassin named Marc Krausse was there also at the behest of Johnson.

If anyone has any background on Krausse, it would be greatly appreciated.

James

As far as Jim Koethe goes, the man charged and then no billed of his murder was a petty crook from Mississippi named Larry Reno. Reno was nabbed a few days after the attack with several items from Koethe's apartment in his possession. Koethe and Reno had been seen drinking beer in a local bar and Reno admitted to a beer drinking session in Koethe's apartment a few days before Koethe's body was found.

Reno's lawyer Mike Barclay argued that Reno was of such a small frame that he didn't have the strength to overpower and kill Koethe. At the time, Koethe's death was reported as a strangulation rather than a blow to the throat.

Barclay suggested that Reno was responsible for the burglary but not the murder.

FWIW.

Koethe below.

James

Hi all,

I've managed to source some background on Robert Emmett Johnson. Parents Raymond and Mary Johnson, two brothers Jack and Bill.

Merchant Marines in 1944, 1948/49 he was with the Marines in Tsingtao China, USMC Press Attache on the FDR during the Korean War, and from here it gets really spooky. Gerry Hemming has spoken a bit about what Johnson and Arturo Espaillat were up to during the early 1960's and then Johnson's involvement in the MLK assassination.

As far as the Kennedy assassination goes, I'm starting to believe Robert Emmett Johnson was a player. To what extent, maybe time will tell.

Robert Emmett Johnson below circa 1944.

James

A bit more on Caddy. Sorry if this has been covered and I missed it.

In 1959, New Orleans man Richard Bell organized a group of students to attend the World Youth Conference in Vienna. This drew major opposition from the local American Legion. The Legion organized a Free Enterprize Seminar designed to highlight that the Bell conference was Communist backed. Two of the speakers for the Legion were Douglas Caddy and Guy Banister.

Caddy was also behind a push out of New Orleans to elect Joe McCarthy as President. The clipping below comes from June of 1955.

FWIW.

James

Thanks, Bill.

I find this a most curious aspect. Anything you can dig up will be viewed with great interest.

Cheers,

James

Sidebar on Fred Korth: He was Edwin Ekdahl's lawyer.

FWIW.

James

Hi Bill,

Do you know if there is any truth to the suggestion that Luis Angel Castillo was Eddie Perez aka Eddie Bayo's brother in law?

James

Speaking of bizarre -

George W. Bush: HE GREW BOGUS

Ouch!

James

I think Lee Forman has some explaining to do.

Lee Forman: FEAR ON ELM

James

Former "Chair", American Bar Association

_____________________________________

1937--1939: R. G. Storey

Dallas, TX

1939--1940: Charles E. Dunbar, Jr.

New Orlean, La

Yep! Same Mr. Dunbar as in representative of United Fruit/aka guatemala 1 million dollars.

Yep! Same Mr. Dunbar as in parterner with Louis B. Claverie, Uncle of Marguerite & LHO.

Yep! Same Mr. Dunbar as in direct descendent of the PGT Beauregard family.

Don't suppose that they actually knew one another merely by the positions which they filled?

Tom,

When Storey was the Chairman of the Council of Legal Education, Dunbar was one of the other officers. Also, both men were trustees of the Southwestern Legal Foundation.

FWIW.

James

Tom,

Yep, same guy.

President of the Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas, the Dallas Bar Association and the Inter American Bar Association.

During December of 1941, Storey was in England studying the British Home Guard system.

The image below shows Storey (left) being fingerprinted on his entrance to the U.S. Army Air Corps. He joined their ranks as a Major.

James

Hi Bill,

These ones of Rivera will be in the Spartacus photo archives section of this site shortly.

James

Ooops.

Deleted.

The information on R. G. Storey is of course quite limited, therefore, any of his associations, etc; would be of interest.

Tom

Tom,

Are you referring to Robert G. Storey, Intelligence asset and behind the Lakewood Bank and Trust Co.?

James

Both in 1948 at Ft. Detrick and 1961-63 Rivera worked on classified projects under Dr. Carl Lamanna, who isolated the crystaline form of the botulinum toxin (the most poisonous poison) at Ft. Detrick and did research on Anthrax in the 50s. Dr. Richard E. Shope (U. of Iowa) says that Lamanna was with the Scientific Defense Biological Warfare Program at Ft. Detrick ( later USAMRIID). (Bill Kelly)

Bill,

Carl Lamanna is a very interesting character. He was part of the Military Representatives to the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board in 1965.

The image below shows him in the front row. He is the man wearing the suit.

James

Hey Ron,

How about these ones?

Gerald Posner: Legend Orr Sap

Clay Shaw Trial: Why CIA All Star

Ed Lansdale: Need Dallas

and my personal favorite -

David Morales: Sad Mad Or Evil

James

Hemming told Russell in 1975 that Arturo Espaillat "died in an accident in Lisbon a few years ago." (Ron Ecker)

Ron,

Espaillat died September 26, 1967.

I dug up this article which I thought might be of interest. It comes from September of 1962. It is also interesting to note that Espaillat was a West Point graduate, Class of 1943.

FWIW.

James