Larry Hancock

To follow on Bill's comments..

First, we could have an idea of the real source of the thoughts in the card and pamphlet if the FBI had

taken the trouble to actually interview and record some background on the card's writer...who he associated

with, what news he had heard, why did he belive what he wrote...as usual, they just documented the card

and left it at that.

Second, clearly certain CIA officers and assets were spreading rumors about JFK by the summer of 1963, I cover

that in some detail in SWHT (and one of the sources is even Escalante...grin). I'm afraid we often underestimate

people like Phillips and Morales a great deal. If they wanted to incite an action against JFK you would not find

Phillips writing a brochure....these guys were orders of magnitude more sophisticated and astute than most people

realise. Which of course why, if you are looking for people who could get away with killing a President, you just might look at career

professionals who dealt with eliminating political and military leaders and overthrowing governments. Not that they

always succeeded, eg Castro, but sometimes they did (Chile) and perhaps these things are easier when you are playing on your home field.

Perhaps we should pay more attention to their familiy members - who we could reasonably expect to have a clear view of their capabilities and nature.

It seems that some relatives of both Phillips and Morales are of the opinion that the men were very possibly involved

in the conspiracy which assassinated JFK.

-- Larry

Actually, a small group of us managed to corroborate this a couple of years ago. Debra Conway took the lead and actually located reports

on the investigation of this item. I don't know that I mentioned it in the second edition, probably not, and at the moment I can only report

what I recall of it rather than citing documents - I'll ask Deb if she can find the material.

Bottom line, a greeting card was sent by a Cuban exile in Dallas to another in Miami, the names are in the documents. This greeting was

actually a Christmas card but it contained the verbiage expressed in the flyer. In Miami, someone took it and turned it into a flyer,

using the verbiage and adding graphics of the Alamo. It apparently had a limited circulation in Miami but it was investigated, as I recall

by the FBI.

The incident did occur and the flyer and its precursor definitely did exist. I can't figure out why Manchester didn't cite his source, he was

normally very good about that. Whether the flyer really meant more than what it appears to seems doubtful....its pretty consistent

with the fact that numerous exiles felt in 1963 that their return to Cuba and the overthrow of Castro

depended on someone more hawkish taking control of the country. And Johnson, fully capable of posing as anything to anybody, was

projecting a more hawkish attitude...we even have documents of that period where he meets with representatives from the King Ranch and

tells them that JFK is way too soft on Cuba (he was playing similar games with backchanneld to Vietnam). The ultimate opportunist.

-- I'll come up with more detail as time permits but thought I should at least pass this on. Larry

Bill, I am confident I once discussed the pamphlet with Larry. I could be wrong. But you are saying you no longer have it? You disposed of evidence, for Gosh' sake!

I can only assume if you tossed it 'twas only because you knew it had nothing whatsoever to do with DP.

I try to stay on top of things. My computer is set to buzz and wake me whenever there is a new post to which I should respond--that is, any with the names Richard Helms, Desmond Fitzgerald, E. Howard Hunt, David Atlee Phillips, George Joannides, etc etc. The device is not yet on the market--it's a CIA thing.

Tim, I remember Larry asking me about this a few years ago, but I no longer have the original. It might be among the JFK boxes I took to DC and gave to John Judge for the COPA archvies a few years ago when I thought I was giving up on JFK The one I had was not made of paper, but hard cardboard and folded like a bouchour, very professionally done.

BK

John, I have seen no specific examples of Jews other than the so called Jewish Mafia

being interested in the Cubans...the people I do see were associated with the Lansky

networks extending from LA, Vegas and even Cleveland. Many of these individuals

had been very much into Cuban gun running both before and after the Castro revolution.

Sort of a spin off of the heavy Lansky investment in Havana.

Other business people who did invest in the Cuban exile cause were very

much WASP - mostly united by having been major corporate players in

Batista era Cuba. The same people and companies that Castro tried to

blackmail to help finance the revolution.

One of the reasons that the Echeverria comment seems to relate to the

so called "Jewish Mafia" is that it appears that there were multiple offers of funding

from those people to the Junta/JCGE and a lot of that money was moving

through the Chicago area. That is reflected in the fact that people up

there seemed to have ready cash while other groups such as DRE were having

real money problems - even if they could locate potential weapon suppliers

like Masen in Dallas. DRE was virtually begging CIA for cash to buy weapons

and finance naval incursions in the fall of 1963 and they were being turned down

because of their history of unsanctioned military operations.

- Larry

Bill, to add to your research list:

SA Heitman, FBI Division 5 counter intelligence in Dallas.

He carried the brief for working the Cubans in Dallas; his paperwork

shows up extensively after the assassination but there seems to

be a real hole before hand. We suspect that Heitman might have

been the key individual (not Hosty) that would have observed

Oswald in contact with exiles or other "subversives" before the

assassination.

His reports on Harlandale would be especially key.

-- Larry

James, its a stretch but I seem to recall JMARC showing up on a variety of accounting related documents

pertaining to payments to groups, individuals and others who were being funded though the

Cuba project....would not be a suprise at all to find Hunt or Barker or some of the other folks

associated with affairs prior to the Bay of Pigs.

-- Larry

James, the name certainly rings no bells with me but then its not a name I was

tracking either so I'm afraid I couldn't be sure....way too many documents over

too many years, sorry.

-- Larry

Thanks Tom, actually we hope to have a familiarization session on the rifle and perhaps even

an opportunity for some folks to handle it on a firing range. One of the Lancer forum members had

bee firing his Carcano's a lot recently...I will share this with him and ask him to make sure he\

covers that point.

-- Larry

Hi Tim, could you give a reference for the investigative work that Bugliosi did on RFK?

I'm familiar with his role as defense counsel in the KCOP case - where Owen suited the station

over libel for associating him with an RFK conspiracy, Turner and Christian also supported the

station in that case and that's where Turner came to know Bugliosi. In his book Turner mentions

that Bugliosi only entered that case at the very last moment though.

However I'm not aware of work that Bugliosi did beyond that case so I would be most

interested...as far as that case went he relied heavily on investigative work done by

Christian and Turner over a number of years. Just don't know how much primary work

he did himself?

-- thanks, Larry

Very good Myra!, had to look it up myself but its in the second edition crypt list on page 519

As far as I can tell from the documents it refers to the Cuba Project and more specifically

to matters involving the Brigade as part of the project.

-- Larry

Interesting point Pat...in his Manson book, Bubliosi goes on at some length to describe

a situation in which LAPD was really not being very aggressive in their investigation,

letting leads lie, not doing comprehensive background checks, etc.

He relates calling one of the teams and going though a whole list of things they should

have checked...and getting a response that they are only cops and they check what

they are told to.

His implication is that its the DA / prosecutor who is going to make it happen, in that

case he had the kids and wanted Manson so he kept pushing.

One has to ask what would have happened if the prosecutor had been satisfied with

just the kids....would Manson have gone free....and Bugliosi points out several of the

crowd was never charged and even went on to perform other murders, some never

seriously investigated.

So....if the Sirhan prosecutor was satisfied with just Sirhan and the Ray prosecutor with

just Ray....who's going to push to develop a conspiracy, given Bugliosi's assessment of

the Manson investigation...probably nobody.

-- I'm still not convinced our "justice" system can find a conspiracy unless a very unusual

DA is at the helm....hmmm....which would suggest Bugliosi should relate to Garrison rather

than trash him....yeah, right...

-- Larry

Yes, Patricia was correct about the debilitating effects of having to think about Ayton, Bugliosi and company! Take it easy, Stephen, your strength will return!

Well hopefully, I dont wish to spend the rest of my life like a Victorian Lady with a fit of the vapours.

This "conspiracy mindset" nonsence is, of course, a useful way to pidgeonhole any serious researchers. By implying that if you believe that JFK and his Brother were assassinated as part of a wider political conspiracy, you must also believe in faked moon landings, missiles hitting the pentagon and all things Illuminatti, we are being branded by association.

I do find it interesting that so many who look into the JFK case and decide there was no conspiracy feel the need to look at the MLK case and RFK cases as well, and most always decide there was no conspiracy behind these killings. Conversely, many here would agree that it's possible Sirhan or Ray acted alone, or as part of a small conspiracy. Which begs the question: are we as guilty of being "conspiracy-minded" as they are of being "anti-conspiracy minded?" I suspect their predisposition against conspiracy is stronger than our predisposition towards conspiracy.

There are, of course, a few exceptions to the general rule that someone favoring no conspiracy in JFK will see no conspiracy elsewhere.. Back in the 70's Bugliosi received a lot of attention for suspecting that Sirhan didn't act alone. (Has he ever disavowed these suspicions?) Far stranger, Gus Russo, who thinks Oswald killed Kennedy for Castro, and ignores Jack Ruby, proposed that Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was assassinated by the Chicago mob, and that his killer Zangara was a paid hit man only pretending to be a lone nut. Even more bizarre, Russo holds that the orchestrator of this charade was Dave Yaras, Jack Ruby's lifelong friend.

I checked in with Gaeton Fonzi about the possiblity of two Big Indians (El Indio) and Gaeton says

that he never ran across any reference or mention that there might be two people with

this nickname or being described in this manner...and when he asked Phillips about the reference

in his book there was no confusion that it might be multiple people, Phillips didn't try to point

him in multiple directions.

-- Larry

Folks, I'm going to weigh in with Charles on this one. For reference, I followed behind Bugliosi about a week ago on

an LA radio talk show. He had been on a week or so before and although the host thought he was sincere, he didn't buy

a word of his final solution. Which helps persuade me that the only folks who are going to be persuaded by Bugliosi are

those who already buy into the Oswald did it alone "legend", who are Bubliosi fans (you see a lot of them posting on

Amazon) or the establishment media (who only want a sound byte and don't want to deal with this anyway since its

sort of embarassing that they missed the real story - would be really embarassing for them to ever have to accept

that they failed the nation so badly). We have to accept that Bugliosi's line is comforting to a lot of people, not only

the media but those who just don't want to mentally cope with the thought that their could be conspiracies (and people)

who could get away with killing a President. At least that is true in the U.S.; it seems much less the case in the rest of

the world.

I think what would be much more important for our public visibility is the sort of thing David is doing which is taking a

historical story to mainstream media. One of the best things to broaden our reach since the JFK movie was the Vanity

Fair article by Summers which brought a lot of the newest 90's information into a broad circulation readership....things

Bubliosi still does not address (we have to keep harping on the fact that as far as data is concerned he is stuck in 1964

and is simply presenting the prosecution's case for the Warren Commission, not making use of any of new data, new

techniques etc - as John Newman once said, you need to keep pointing out that its not really a debate if your opponent

is either a) not in possession of all the facts and data or is in denial.

So...aside from the quest for a new legal initiative, more than debate, I think what would serve us best is popular articles

by David and others - and better yet a couple of new movies or documentaries. And in those Bugliosi deserves mention

for a fine job of presenting the WC lone nut case but that's it. It's still not justice if you only hear from the prosection.

And Bugliosi's book is not history, its not an investigation; it's the prosecution's case in print...lots of print. Those with any

media reach at all should help Talbot, Mark Lane and other known figures to get print time and air time, not to debate t

but to present "the rest of the story" (with credit to Paul Harvey for that line).

-- Larry

That would indeed be Hecksher....the same fellow began his intelligence career with the Army, then the

OSS and went on to help start the CIA's Berlin station. But after PBSUCCESS he went on to ground his

career by becoming COS in Laos, working the trans border routes in the golden triangle and from there to

COS Japan...

-- Larry

quote name='Gene Kelly' date='Jul 6 2007, 07:38 PM' post='109117']

Gene, that would be my conclusion as well:

"A conclusion drawn from this picture is that the real 'drivers' for the murder were not the hard-line exiles who carried out the plot... they were manipulated in the same fashion that they used LHO. maybe they were surrepticiously eliminated. There was never going to be an invasion... no matter how the plot evolved"

The guys pulling the strings really wanted a) JFK dead RFK neutralized on virtually all his tracks at Justice and c) no serious oversight/interference with their

covert political/power agendas. There may well have been some active double crossing going on as well. I have reason to think that some of

the tactical people including those in peripheral roles such as Martino eventually began to realize that all was not as they had been led to belive.

Indeed this may be the reason for some deaths (Roselli comes to mind) and people like Morales more concerned about the people he had worked

with than his old enemies (as he remarked to Reuben). If you go into some depth on Johnson's mental condition there is also a great deal of evidence

that he suffered from escalating paranoia and may have developed a serious guilt complex.

"Could the unofficial CIA players really control them that easily... drugs, money, other fronts? How did Phillips keep them happy and focused... did we continue to preach/promise that Castro would be removed?"

Not sure it was that clear cut, the clique driving the project did continue its own anti-Communist war from SE Asia to Latin America. And in may cases

they fed the line that they were simply establishing networks capable of supporting a new Cuban initiative. Or that one day a new President would

come along who would reinvigorate the Castro battle (Hunt lined up a considerable exile force with that line). And Veciana never really turned on

Phillips totally. The clique managed to give a lot of the radical exiles cover for a very long time...one can argue that that cover is still going on

today (Posada is an example). ...and nobody is ever going to show us that set of real sekeletons in the closet.

Also, there may be a couple of names left off your list....including the eventual COS in Chile...an old time partner with Morales, Phillips and Hunt and

significant player in the anti-Allende campaign.

-- Larry

Larry: Would that be Hecksher?

Given the thread title and Cliff's remarks (thanks Cliff, yes I know what you mean, and I think the imge of

a snake is a lot better than an elephant for this one) I think its interesting that the Amazon war of reviews is

beginning to wash over even to Someone Would Have Talked. The following is an Amazon review from yesterday

and may be driven by the fact that Brothers and SWHT show up when you take a look at Reclaiming History.

.....Amazon review of SWHT....

"This book is a reasonable contribution to the ongoing and probably never ending debate. I say reasonable in that it is at least well written and organized - unlike so many on the subject. But does it make sense - no, not in a million years.

I am therefore at odds with most of the other reviewers here. The degree of knowledge shared within the "JFK assassination community" is extremely high and is evident on Amazon and other web based forums. However it never ceases to amaze me how often books like this receive such good reviews by people who clearly have such a high degree of knowledge on the subject. How on earth can you believe Larry Hancock's conclusions. You cannot.

Most of the authors presentation of "what actually happened" is pure conjecture and this book joins that long list of pro conspiracy none sense that I like many others no doubt have hidden away or on shelves - depending perhaps on your view point. Forget the grassy knoll and the man with the seizure and all those other HUGE red herrings. All the shots were fired from above and behind and yet - and yet - this author like so many just ignores the overwhelming evidence against Oswald. Take for example the quantum leap of a theory that the gun barrel that was seen pointing out of the TSBD sixth floor window was merely a device for framing Oswald and that other shooters were positioned around Dealey Plaza. Why oh why would you shoot from the front and have your patsy to the rear. And why did Oswald shoot Tippet if he were not at all involved ? The list of questions goes on and on. The books conclusions are utter non sense and I suspect the author knows it deep down.

Vincent Bugliosi has written a far more believable book. By both and make up your own mind."

....and just in case anyone was curious, what I know deep down is that these folks need to 1) Read Gerald McKnights book Breach of Trust first, to fully understand the house of cards that underlies the evidence they cite and which Vince B. uses 2) Get to know Doug Horne and Gaeton Fonzi to evaluate the sort of judgements that Vince B. uses in evaluating serious researchers -- and then take the reviewers advice, read SWHT and Reclaiming History and make an informed judgement on what to belive.

-- Larry

Gene, that would be my conclusion as well:

"A conclusion drawn from this picture is that the real 'drivers' for the murder were not the hard-line exiles who carried out the plot... they were manipulated in the same fashion that they used LHO. maybe they were surrepticiously eliminated. There was never going to be an invasion... no matter how the plot evolved"

The guys pulling the strings really wanted a) JFK dead RFK neutralized on virtually all his tracks at Justice and c) no serious oversight/interference with their

covert political/power agendas. There may well have been some active double crossing going on as well. I have reason to think that some of

the tactical people including those in peripheral roles such as Martino eventually began to realize that all was not as they had been led to belive.

Indeed this may be the reason for some deaths (Roselli comes to mind) and people like Morales more concerned about the people he had worked

with than his old enemies (as he remarked to Reuben). If you go into some depth on Johnson's mental condition there is also a great deal of evidence

that he suffered from escalating paranoia and may have developed a serious guilt complex.

"Could the unofficial CIA players really control them that easily... drugs, money, other fronts? How did Phillips keep them happy and focused... did we continue to preach/promise that Castro would be removed?"

Not sure it was that clear cut, the clique driving the project did continue its own anti-Communist war from SE Asia to Latin America. And in may cases

they fed the line that they were simply establishing networks capable of supporting a new Cuban initiative. Or that one day a new President would

come along who would reinvigorate the Castro battle (Hunt lined up a considerable exile force with that line). And Veciana never really turned on

Phillips totally. The clique managed to give a lot of the radical exiles cover for a very long time...one can argue that that cover is still going on

today (Posada is an example). ...and nobody is ever going to show us that set of real sekeletons in the closet.

Also, there may be a couple of names left off your list....including the eventual COS in Chile...an old time partner with Morales, Phillips and Hunt and

significant player in the anti-Allende campaign.

-- Larry

Thanks Gene, I certainly appreciate the kind words on Someone Would Have Talked.

A couple of more observations on your points:

"But what's missing for me is how the virulent anti-C exiles passions became dissipated...and why they didn't go after LBJ for similar reasons. Puzzling.

That's where I think the larger conspirators and participants come into play/focus... somebody got what they wanted, and everyone apparently then backed off. Now the exiles fade out of the picture, the kill Castro plots fizzle - as the poet says, not with a bang but a wimper."

..... Larry...

I think there were a number of things at work here. First off, Johnson did personally intervene and shut off certain exile officers who had been expecting

to deploy shortly to Cuba, that is a matter of record. He forced RFK to call some things off and that is on record too. However, beyond those personal

contacts the folks who had been working with Artime and even the AMWORLD project were allowed to go their own way for a couple of years...much

of the action was transferred to Spain (where Hunt transferred for a time). Reading the Miami papers you might have gotten the impression there was

still a lot of active anti-Castro action. But in a couple of years, after the Gulf of Tonkin nonsense, we had gotten ourselves so stuck in SE Asia that

it appeared that was the front line against more countries falling and a lot of the exiles went along with the JMWAVE folks that transferred over there.

Johnson might have backed off Cuba but he still looked like a first class anti-Communist hawk - he didn't even suggest compromise or rationality as

JFK had so his credentials stayed good....no backing down to the Commies for him. Look out the US military engagement in the DR.

But....by the late 60's and 70's the hard core exiles really had not faded out of the picture, they were simply operating off shore...in Latin America

with cover by people like Phillips....that's where you find Veciana....and of course Hecksher and eventually Morales etc. And you have a whole second

generation set of bombings, assassination attempts on Castro and the creation of Condor and the death squads. It's not that the hard core gave up at all,

they just moved, used their old CIA covers and networks and began financing operations through selling their military skills and supporting the guys who

took over the new and exploding drug trade moving though the south. Guess who took over the drug trade through Mexico after Corsicans got busted up -

the lead guy was an exile who had trained at Fort Jackson.

So...don't think they gave up....they had a lot more initiative than that. They just got smarter and saw the flaw in trying to work directly

with the official side of the agency....although they kept networked to the few folks they did trust...like Morales.

-- Larry

I'm certainly not going to argue that the "instigators/plotters" had their own motives and agenda - since I think they

did.

But just in terms of the comparison between JFK and LBJ in regard to Cuba, the big difference for the exiles

who were being manipulated by the plotters was that they were told (and we know it to be true) that JFK

was conducting back channel negotiations with Castro and they an accomodation was going to happen which

would lead to the Russians being booted out and some sort of long term recognition of Fidel's position. We know

talks were beginning and it was probably easy to sell that story to people who already felt JFK had betrayed them

twice already.

If nothing else Johnson was not about to immediately sell them out. And actually we know now that he did indeed

totally rebuff Castro even to the extent of ignoring an offer from Fidel that Castro would tolerate some sort of

action against Cuba which would have ensured Johnson's election. Johnson didn't even reply. Of course he did

not support the RFK initiatives againt Fidel either but then again Johnson would not touch anything RFK ever was

associated with - no big surprise there.

In any event, certainly there was a major difference between the two in the fall of 63; JFK could be presented as

an imminent threat to certain exiles not involved in RFK's projects while Johnson was seen as no threat and possibly

a supporter...after all he was a Texan and the exiles had a lot of Texas support.

-- Larry

Bill, as far as I can tell they are simply releasing documents on the old stuff that was surfaced long ago. In my second

edition I identify at least three different assassination plans that were operational to some extent, one even went as far

as photo recon and photo analysis of the target site. This was revealed due to internal CIA queries during the Church

committee hearings but apparently no info was forwarded to the committee nor were the documents part of this release...

they are cited in the book and I think samples are on my web site.

Bottom line is that there were operational plans being prepared at tactical levels that HQ (and certainly RFK) apparently

new nothing about...these and the people involved would be the real significant ones for us I think ...but then its much

cleaner to shove everything off on to Roselli and Harvey....keeps a lot of other people out of the picture...the people who

actually were running the ops...

-- Larry

I haven't seen anything new about the CIA plots to kill Castro. All old stuff that's been in print for decades.

As Larry Hancock notes in his book SWHT, Roselli testified three times, sang like a bird twice about early plots, the ones from 60-62, but not about his activities at JMWAVE or later plots, before being wacked on a boat off Florida.

They can talk all about the exploding cigars, spiked diving suit, pills that disolved in cream, AMLASH/Cubella and the Mahu/Sam Gold dinners at the Fountainblu all they want, when the only plots to kill Castro that matter are the ones launched during the maritime commando raids, one of which was redirected from Castro to JFK.

The Cuban's Executive Action - 634 Ways To Kill Fidel Castro - The Secret War by Fabian Escalante, sketches many of the plots, but also fails to detail the only ones that really matter.

BK

Myra, my answer is a bit less global in scope than the others but it would also be yes.

However it would be very specific and involves the names in the chapter of my last appendix on a

small clique in the CIA. I'm virtually certain that it was the broader drug/arms "network" which served as

the incubator and shield for the people who murdered JFK; without its power they might not

have had the means, even if they had the will.

Don't think just drugs though, think drugs and arms...the two go hand in hand with these folks.

The weapons buy the political influence the want and the drugs fund the power game.

-- Larry

Just curious, are there no legal implications at all for the individuals or agency in regard

to witholding this information from Congress and various Congressional inquiries.

Can they deny they have it, say so under oath and then a few years later say...oh yeah, we

just didn't happen to mention these documents when you asked for them....

A couple of comments for Herb and for Francesca,

Herb, I'm certainly not entirely discounting Hunt at this point....we are going to have speakers in Dallas in November who should

be able to add a good deal to the origin of Hunt's comments, prior to St. John's involvement, and that will be quite

important. I'm skeptical about a couple of the names such as Meyer, that almost strikes me as something from one of Hunt's

novels....jilted CIA husband kills wife's lover...who happens to be President.

However, the Corsican involvement is still open to further exploration. As I recall, French intelligence was the source for the alibi's

for a couple of the names tossed out on that and of course the SDECE is never going to admit assets they once used in any fashion

could even potentially be involved. It is important to recall that Hunt was well acquainted with Lucian Conein and if anybody was in

position to shop a hit to the Gurini family it would have been Conein or one of the other old CIA vets of the SE Asia golden triangle.

For those of you who have my book, I would recommend rereading the chapters on the Kirknewton intercept...which very well could

have involved some drug network gossip about a Gurini or Venturi contract... as well as the final chapter on a small clique in the CIA

which definitely suggests some names from SE Asia who had the right connections to bring in Corsicans.

It's early days yet...much to learn about all this. Larry

Mark, hopefully my reply to Myra will give you what you need as well.

If not or if either of you have more questions don't hesitate to post or email if you

prefer.

You might also want to check out Glen Sample's web site for The Men on the Sixth Floor,

a search will find it for you and you will find some key documents there.

-- Larry

Myra, I do mention it briefly in the book - but I cover it in depth in the two white papers on Estes/Carter/Wallace that are

in the white paper section of this forum.

There are at least two individuals on record as having heard Cliff Carter describe to Estes his participation in

a conspiracy, taking orders from Johnson and involving Malcolm Wallace. At one point Estes even offered

this to the Justice Department - before backing out.

Unfortunately, in his final self-published book, Estes does a lot to muddy the waters on all this, even denying one

of these sources. However there seems to be good reason to belive Carter did make the remarks - shortly

before his somewhat mysterious death.

In addition to the white papers I would refer you to Glen Sample's book The Men on the Sixth Floor. I'd also

refer you to a source book on the whole thing but it has not been distributed in the US and not in English.

-- hope that at least takes you in the right direction, Larry

I'd suggest that Jack P. may not be suspicious in and by himself...but recall that he was reporting to Cliff Carter daily

and that Cliff did go to Dallas in advance as well. Given that Carter was LBJ's advance man of choice, ask why they

picked Jack to advance Dallas (having no experience in Texas politics at all) and not Cliff himself (Johnson's lead aide

in Texas politics). One answer would be that he functioned as a nice cut-out, being privy

to all the motorcade and security planning without being involved as a matter of record - Jack gets called

to provide testimony, Cliff stays in the background.

Interesting to recall that Carter is also supposedly on tape admitting to a conspiracy...

-- Larry

James, Bolden heard Gonzalez mentioned as one of the suspects, apparently one of the two that got away.

He briefly saw the one individual taken into custody and described him as "swarthy and stocky", five foot nine or so, dark hair

in a crew cut.

-- Larry