Larry Hancock

Actually John Martino did record personal comments on his experience in Cuban prison and it was published as a record. It's fascinating material and I have a copy of it on CD. At one point we had thought about bringing it out for sale to those interested but due to some copyright questions and a lack of any obvious demand that project has not really gone anywhere in the last year or so.

It is educational to hear Martino describe his experience and give his opinions in his own words.... strong stuff.

-- Larry

I'd go even further than that Tim, the essential problem is that none of the staff of the WC were experienced in criminal investigation. And certainly the same can be said of the "management" of the process. However, its important to recall that their charter was simply to accept the FBI report which should have been a criminal investigation. The WC members themselves frequently commented that they had few options and little resource to do anything except accept what was given to them by the FBI.

Of course the counter to that is that the FBI is such an investigative unit - when lead by experienced Justice Department prosecuting attorneys. Unfortunately that did not occur in this case and after 40 some years we have ample evidence that the FBI itself is subject to political pressure as well as the standard pressure to produce quick victories in national crimes - the Atlanta Olympic bombing and the Anthrax case are two rather obvious examples but there are much worse if you get into studides of the FBI and especially of its crime lab work. I won't even go to the OKC bombing.

The HSCA started out on a different track - but its experienced criminal leadership was neutered and removed pretty quickly. And there is no particular sign that the HSCA's staff attorney's in general did any better job with their interviews even if they did at least have a few aggressive field investigators. Fonzi's book contains an excellant example of his being called back from using real criminal investigation tactics.

-- Larry

Wade, the documents and mention of the film are brand new to me - the only link I can think of is that this would relate to a story which was circulated that the assassination was carried out as a revenge for the crew of the Thresher submarine. I think the JFCOTT stands for Justice For the Crew of the Thresher.

Just a guess, a google search on that subject should get you some further detail.

Its hard to belive such a film was ever shown anywhere, anytime without any rumor of it.... perhaps someone else can help on this.

Very good Pat, I'm glad you've seen Mortal Error, just one of those books I've had to purge from my library over time (and apparently my memory as well).

I did think it interesting that he seemed to have some pretty strong institutional support for his conclusions on the the fragment path and distribution. I would agree with Al that some of the CIA's choices in weapons are a bit far out but I can also see a lot of sense in the handbooks choice of .22's where some of their local assets may have been less than skilled or exceptionally well trained. And frankly I was just as interested in some of the points the manuel makes about picking and managing different types of patsies and the procedures for conducting"frames", particularly frames of in country "Communists".

Since most of their assassinations were being associated with political overthrows it gives them a different context and MO than simply taking out a target in military fashion. It wasn't enough for them just to get the kill since in most cases the actual sponsors/killers didn't just need to escape, they had to divert suspicion and blame to some other party. And I see that very relevant to November in Dallas.

Pat, your post should certainly give everyone a lot to think about and there's not much I can offer to go along with it - except two misc. "factoids"

1) One of the expert civilian markesmen who participated in the attempts to duplicate Oswald's supposed shooting performance eventually wrote a book in which he put forth the thory that one of the SS agents accidentally shot JFK when he picked up an AR-15 (as I understand it, a similar weapon to the M-16). He felt that Oswald had taken a shot but that the SS man actually killed JFK by accident in picking up the weapon and accidentally loosing a round. There are lots of things wrong with that, he got sued and lost etc. However one of the things that convinced him was the similiarty of the fragment pattern and X-Rays to that produced by AR-15 ammunition. You might pick up a copy of his book just for that as he goes into great detail and certainly had professional credentials in that area.

2) Interesting that you mention "That Castillo-Armas was in the process of throwing the gambling interests ouf of Guatemala when he was killed, and that he was killed in a manner that would implicate the communists, along the lines of a CIA plan to kill his predecessor". Roselli's biographers spend a chapter on his work in Guatamala at that particular time, probably connected to gambling interests but also apparently doing some "consulting" work for one of the Fruit companies (perhaps with an intro. from Marcello) which involved rebel raids and activities which ended up hurting the competing Fruit Company.

-- Larry

Tim, a number of Marcello's remarks in this context have been discussed for a very long time; I presented one of your examples in November Patriots several years ago. However, the one FBI report is indeed new. Of course there is also Thomas Beckham's detailed HSCA interview directly identifying Marcello as the sponsor - lots of resons to question that one but it was amazing Blakey didn't put it to any use.

If one were strictly looking for motive, Marcello would probably have to tower above everyone else. Not only because of his personal vendetta against RFK but because the Kennedy's in 1963 were threatening his financial empire in several ways, including initiatives against both his drug operations and against his much less well known but massive sports gambling revenues.

Its also possible to demonstrate that Marcello had been "in business" with John Roselli over a number of years and used him for some very successful projects.

Its even more fascinating when you dig into Marcello position in the Mafia that his particular family and he were very unique; in fact Marcello was probably the only senior mob figure that could have unilaterally acting against JFK with no permission nor risk from the Mafia itself.

John, I think if you read back through my chapter on this and on Gaeton's book you will find Veciana staunchly denied that Biship was CIA, indeed he and Alpha 66 wanted nothing to do with the CIA rather than taking supplies if they could get them (or steal them). They were much more interested in dealing with Army Intelligence and Veciana was an Army Intel informant.. the documents are on the CD.

If you can dig up any trace of evidence that Veciana was acquainted with Esterline it will be most interesting.

Also, you may also remember that Veciana said that Bishop contacted him one other time about Oswald, to see if Veciana's cousin who worked in the Cuban embassy could go on record that Oswald was in the Embassy....

On a side note, I have just received a document that places Phillips in Mexico City on November 22/23rd. It's a JMWAVE document and describes the fact that Phillips was supposed to receive a pouch from someone coming out of Cuba, the pouch contained key information for the exfiltration of a very highly placed HQ asset to be taken out of Cuba.

In any event, I'll await something further that connects Easterline to Veciana or to Oswald, in the meantime I'm staying with Phillips as the primary suspect for being in contact with Oswald in regard to his trip to Mexico City. Now if GPH had said Joinnedes (sp) rather than Esterline it might have been more of a teaser for me...

John, as I recall, Veciana volunteered the Dallas incident to Fonzi and did so well into their relationship. If Veciana were somehow close to Easterline and wanted to protect him I wonder why he would even volunteer such an incident at all - especially since its the only solid thing he really gave Fonzi relating to a possible conspiracy. Personally I'm not aware of any particular relationship between Veciana and Easterline but perhaps you will turn something up - Veciana's long time relationship to Bishop/Phillips is well documented.

I'd have to know how Gerry came to know such a thing to have any further opinion; it would suggest either a very close connection to Veciana that we've not heard about or of course some knowledge by Hemming of the actual meeting in Dallas - which would be interesting in itself.

James, Greer was definitely the lead driver for the White House detail in

1963 although not the only driver available. However his report and testimony make it clear that he was a primary driver. On a side note, he had been scheduled to drive on the abortive Chicago trip as well, he mentions that.

However its also clear that he had no special training and that his job was

literally driving....when asked about his knowledge of the route his reply

was basically that he was doing what he always did, following the car in front

of him. I don't recall if he had driven on the other cities involved in the Texas trip before Dallas but I suspect he had....perhaps someone will jump in and confirm that.

Also, if memory serves, he was not part of the late night club visit the evening

before.

Mark screened the film for us at the Lancer conference in Dallas last November

and its a wonderful work - and yes it is on the Warren Commission. Lots of

very skilled and wll known actors, I found it more compelling than the

Stone film although it is not "action" oriented and most likely would not do

as well with a large commercial audiance. What it does do is highlight the

internal conflicts and ironies of the WC is a point by point and captivating

manner. I can't imagine anyone watching it and not demanding a new

investigation.

I suspect that it will do very well at festivals but with no sex, explosions,

special effects etc its hard for me seeing it go into theatres. Perhaps onto

cable spots though. Its the sort of thing you used to see on Hallmark Theatre.

Not exactly sure what to make of it but in the days and weeks after the assassination the FBI received reports of Oswald associating with individuals in the vacinity of the Cuban embassy - talking with, walking with, taking money from. The FBI did show some interest in the reports although in the end it dismissed all of them. It was in regard to one of them that Phillips wrote a memo to the FBI stating that the CIA had evidence which would counter the report - because the CIA still had in its possession (as of Feb 1964) the full photo records for the entire months of September and October and could verify that the man had not entered the Cuban embassy - because they had photos of everyone who had.

Which of course leaves begging why they would not still have multiple Oswald photos from his multiple entries and exits. And why those photos had not been provided to the WC. Not that the FBI asked that question of course.

But it also makes me wonder if the CIA was becoming a bit sensitive to reports that Oswald was indeed in the company of others. And of course Jim Hosty still swears that he was told by his former FBI friends working in Mexico City that there was active survellance including photography surveillance on Oswald during his full stay in Mexico City.

As usual, I'll back James point about cutting to the chase on any real investigation. There are multiple witnesses out of both New Orleans and Dallas who reported observing Lee Oswald in association with mysterous latins (call them Mexicans, call them Cubans) who were not known to the observers. And the individuals in question were clearly not people well known in either exile community. The WC was only made aware of one of those incidents, the Odio incident, and took it seriously enough to demand an explanation from the FBI. The FBI cooked up a bogus explanation and fed that to the WC, at the same time its own internal documents now clearly show that the FBI kew their response to the WC to be false since both Sylvia and her sister were shown photos of the men whose names were given to the WC and stated they were not the visitors.

Its always reasonable to be skeptical about confessions but if you just literally make a stack of individuals reported (and reported prior to the issuance of the WC report itself) to be seen in association with with Oswald in the three months prior to the assaination it is going to paint a very clear picture of the direction a serious and open endedl criminal investigation should have gone.

-- Larr

Peter, do you have any plans to publish your research on Tosh? I'd love to see an article or perhaps one of John's seminars presenting your work.

I'd also enjoy seeing something from Dawn on her independent long term source on Tosh.

We've seen Tosh's presentation and I've seen the Denver magazine article on him - any additional research would be really helpful.

-- Larry

My last encounter with Plumlee was on the telephone last year, and it was non-productive to say the least.  The last time I met with him was in Miami Beach (1998) when Gus Russo and I were busy doing investigations for the Peter Jennings/ABC/Seymour Hersh/ "Dark Side Of Camelot" production.  I made a few thousand dollars on that job, and the only annoying experience was to have to listen to Plumlee (eagerly lapping-up acceptance & approval) spin his well-worn and obviously phony tales of his legendary (In-His-Own-Mind!!) "Terry & The Pirates" escapades!!

Just like your guy Files - TOTAL BULLxxxx!!  Just like Chauncy Holt -- TOTAL HORSExxxx!!

Absolutely nobody in "The Joint" - "The Pen" -- "The Chain Gang" -- "The Gaol" etc., etc., spill-the-beans on ANYBODY'S criminal acts, not even his own - without getting his canary-ass "Shanked" [stabbed with a knife]; because his fellow Cons would put out a 2 carton of cigarettes murder contract on him "toot-sweet"!! 

I have read "Plumlee's Interviews, PDFs on FBI, etc. "Files"; and they are totally worthless collection of fantasy-land scrivening.

Firstly, the CIA/DEA/Customs Service/FBI only hire contract pilots who are previously MILITARY PILOTS!!  Moreover, they only hire "Rated" pilots, preferably those with the highest category ATP (was ATR) "Airline Transport Pilot".  A "Rated" pilot is one who holds a certification to fly aircraft which weigh more than 12,500 Lbs; such as the DC-3, DC-4, etc.!

Plumlee started out as a "Private Pilot" (less than 200 hours flight experience) during the 1960s.  Now, some 40+ years later, he has a "Commercial" designation (only +200 hours flight time and passing a written exam and check ride is needed.)

So, what does he have now in the 21st Century?  "Commercial" with "A.S.E.L." -- "Airplane - Single Engine - Land".  Where is his "Multi-Engine Ticket"?  Where is his "Instrument Ticket"?  Check with Brad Ayers, he has all of the above since the early 1960s.  (During the 1960s, Brad ran a company styled as "AyerVentures" at the old "Tamiami Airport, Miami, Florida".

The majority of pilots I flew with (some were Air America, C.A.T., CIA, etc.) possess "A.S.M.-E.L &S." (Airplane-Single & Multi-Engine Land & Sea), together with a wallet full of separ-ate licenses exhibiting "Ratings" in Turbo and pure Jet, heavy aircraft of all types, includ-ing commercial airline models; and also hold foreign pilot licenses from a dozen different countries around the Globe.

One of my last flying partners held just about every category and rating existing, including Hot-Air Balloon (Instructor), Aircraft Mechanic (A & P, E & E, Hydraulic, etc.), Rotorary-Wing Instructor (Helicopters - even one that was + 12,500 Lbs.).

No way Delta Airlines would have given him "The-Time-Of-Day"!!  No way he would have manned the right-seat (Co-Pilot) in a DC-3 without a "Rating".

Lastly, the aviation outfits (including CIA proprietaries) carry insurance - and no way would Plumlee get insurance cover with his meager "Comm/Pilot - A.S.E.L." !!

More importantly, "Covert Ops" are always compartmentalized, so there is no way an individual operator can know even 2% of any given mission !!

"Velly Strange" that within a week of my informing Chris Cox as to my heavy doubts about Plumlee's veracity RE: his legendary and heroic tales -  that he informed the UK/Forum that he was "bowing out"; his last communication, and I guess that he then "Exited Stage-Left"??!!

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Mr. Hemmings, We have never met. I worked with and researched Tosh Plumlee's story for many years. Most of it was [as far as I could tell] truthful. Some items I can not prove and perhaps he [Plumlee] is not 100% truthful or has forgotten...but over 90% of his tale [perhaps 95%+] is truth. He [as you] worked in Black Ops. It is a shadowy world. I welcome your participation here. I would personally ask, however, that if you have personal vendettas with Tosh to settle you not do it here. Truth would be helpful. If you are [and I hope not!] working for some one or entity to spin dis-information about Tosh or others - or anythings he or they were involved with, I would hope you would not. All that having been said, please tell us what YOU know about the anti-Castro operations in the late '50s and through the '60s and how that crowd fed into the assassination of JFK. Who do you think killed JFK? [Fellow-black op Oswald?] Sincerely,

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And a bit more on this thread from something I just finished reading:

Io keeping in mind that Anderson was certainly associated with and likely influenced by Davidson, a couple of more comments on Davidson from Dan Moldea's book Interference, page 447.

"Davidson told me he had been first introduced to Marcello during the early 1950's....Davidson also admitted that he was a major gunrunner to dictator Fulgenciao Batista prior to the Cuban revolution..... about two months before Batista fell I delivered a big package to him....Earlier Davidson had arranged for Murchisons principal Corporation (Tecon) to construct several large military housing projects in Cuba."

And Moldea points out that RFK had just started a new Justice Department initiative in 1963 that targeted something near and dear to both Murchison's and Marcello's financial interests - Sports Gambling.

P.S. For those interested in the Baker connection, I think I recall that Tecon, most likely at Murchison's direction, made an offer on Bobby Baker's hotel/club. A rather strange investment for a construction outfit...

Good question Ron - although the problem of the rifle doesn't really have seem to raised any press reaction to the WC report and even the HSCA didn't make an issue of it. I'd say the photo of Oswald on the Life cover with the weapons and papers pretty much carried the day in terms of making Oswald look armed and dangerous.

But it is a good question, and it may have two answers. Really the Carcano was more important to the cover-up than the conspiracy. Important because of the need to tie Oswald to the weapon. Of course it Oswald were an unwilling or minor participant the conspirators may have had no choice but to use his weapon since they were unable to involve him more actively with one of better quaility. If I were really paranoid I might speculate that other, more believable weapons were found or should have been found by a really through CSI investigations but were either covered up or never actually located since the investigation narrowed down so quickly.

-- Larry

Chris, its a guessing game to a large extent. About all we can say for certain is there was something about them that made Sylvia think they were not Cubans, perhaps an American Spanish accent could have fooled her as easily as a Mexican Spanish accent? Clearly its hard to buy the fact that true Mexican nationals would have the war name and other information on her father that could only have come from deep inside the anti-Castro struggle. Her father advised her that nobody that could be legitimately calling on her would have it.

I'd certainly suspect Hall and Howard except for two things i) she and her sister were shown their photos to corroborate what the FBI told her was their admission it was them. An easy out for her with no risk but both of them independently siad it was not them and ii) it seems that Hall and Howard may actually have already been in California at the time....that one is open to interpretation though.

The wild card is that one of the folks I suspect may have come from an essentially Mexican family that had moved to Cuba so he might have had something of a different accent than she would expect....

In any event, you can order the book and the supplement through the Lancer.com site or the book through Amazon or from Andy W. If you go to Amazon do a book search for Larry Hancock. It will all be incorporated into a second edition sometime this year but that is some months away....uncertain how soon at this point.

well, Larry I have to get your book.  Email me details on ordering and I'll do that this week.  I have no decent excuse-ha. My shelves are brimming but I'm  I'm sure I'll be enlightened and can catch up on some things I've missed.  I'd like the most current version as you were last working on errata sheets.  Is this now complete?

My thoughts on this Mexican issue is your latter option: that if the description came from Odio she would be aware of mexican-ness because there was Spanish spoken that day. Cubans would know a non-Cuban.  The physical attributes clothes and such would be secondary, IMHO, but does add more clues to the person.  Language, dialect would be the big test.  Size and hairiness aside I tend to believe that when someone calls a key character Mexican they know this from speaking to them, and picking up on the nuances and mannerisms, or knowing firsthand the persons origins, without that info, largely from language.  My two cents of course.  I'm off subject, where the heck were we? (wink)

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Chris, I absolutely do and I tried to follow that line of reasoning in my book. I think it would probably consist of cultural elements including clothing especially soes and shirt, perhaps even haircuts, possibly gestures or slang and could extend to accent as well. Odio as a Cuban not long in the US would likely interpret any or all of these as suggesting a "non-Cuban". My suspicion is that this could mean a couple of things but suggests that the person being described had either spent time recently in Mexico....perhaps a Cuban going into exile from Cuba via Mexico City and spending a year or so there or perhaps the person's family was Cuban of Mexican extraction. The other option of course is that the person was actually an American of Mexican extraction and cultural background.

I tend to think the answer is one of the first options though and offer some possibilities in my "Up from Mexico" discussion.

-- Larry

Hi, Larry.  This is interesting to me--the identifying someone as "Mexican."  I called my son in law who is Mexican and asked him to explain to me how someone could be called Mexican, when we know that in Mexico there are many skin colors and backgrounds, as anyone who lives out west would agree.  Many Germans settled there and many parts of Latin America as in Cuba would have blonds with blue eyes.  Mestizo would be a Mexican Indian lineage, a dark Mexican, Mullato a black and white Mexican, etc. 

So, if someone identifies someone as a "big hairy Mexican" or whatnot, the assumption is that this person would have some notion of what a Mexican is.  Via their language and behaviors.  My Spanish teacher would admonish me, but from my experience, Latin Americans do consider Mexicans uniquely, esp in mannerisms and in language.  Someone who spoke Spanish labeled this man "Mexican" or someone who knew the distinction firsthand, or someone who knew this man was in fact Mexican.  Do you get the gist of my point?  Sorry to ramble.

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James, I can only give you one Odio visitor description:

"Very Mexican looking...very hairy...lots of hair on the chest...about

170 pounds...stocky."

Which compares to the man Orest Pena saw with Oswald in New Orleans -

where Odio's visitors said they had driven from e.g.

"A Mexican, about 28 years of age....5 foot eight inches in height...

weighing about 155 pounds with very hairy arms."

Richard Nagell and Col. William Bishop described the infamous 'Angel' as being 5 foot 10 inches, 160-165 pounds and of swarthy complexion.

Does anyone have handy the description that Sylvia Odio gave? I know Lawrence Howard has been suggested as a possible but he hardly fits this description.

Also, if anyone has Odio's description of 'Leopoldo', that would be appreciated as well.

Cheers,

James

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Tim, Glen Sample has them online at:

http://home.earthlink.net/~sixthfloor/estes.htm

William, thanks very much for the response!

Given that Estes offered Kyle Brown to the Justice department when he first named Wallace and that Justice seems to have totally ignored this corroboration, never even interviewing Brown, certainly we can't fault you for not doing their job...grin.

Do you have a feel whether Brown would be willing to talk to serious researchers who might try for an affidavit or is he fed up with this whole subject by now?

Obviously if there were an effort in Texas to take this to a Court of Inquiry something like his affidavit would be a key element.

-- thanks again, Larry

Hi William, a few questions about corroborating witnesses.

First, Kyle Brown was offered to the Justice Department in 1984 as a living witness who was present at Estes’ meeting with Cliff Carter and who would be willing to testify and corroborate Estes’ story. My understanding is that Brown still supports that and I was wondering if you obtained any sort of statement or affidavit from him on that? I'm also amazed that nobody else seems to have located him and that he has had zero visiblity as a first hand witness to Cliff Carters "confession". To me that would be almost as important as a fingerprint.

Second, its my understanding that Tom Bowden, who Estes has permitted to listen to one of the tapes. Bowden has not provided any detail on the tape other than to affirm it does contain what Estes has maintained and can be taken to implicate Lyndon Johnson as a murderer. Can you confirm that Bowden has listened to the tape and did you obtain a statement or affidavit from him as an actual witness to the existance of the tape and the conversation?

-- thank you, Larry

John, I'm aware of plenty of reports and plenty of warnings coming from congress people, businessmen in Dallas and even friends of JFK. However I know of no White House staff or close Kennedy aides who were in Dallas ahead of time and gave warnings? Puterbough (sp) was acting as DNC advance man and was even introduced as White House staff which he definitely was not - but then he certainly provided no warnings.

I'd suggest giving Manchester another read, if anybody interviewed an actual Kennedy staff member who would have acknowledged that it would be him.

-- Larry

Robert, that's a very interesting point. What bothers me though is why wouldn't Tannenbaum (not your bashful type) raise a stink. Even if it had been taken all he would have to do is give a legal deposition that he had viewed it and enter that in the record. Just think how much of an impetus that would have given to the Committee?

The other thing that's always bothered me is why he never discussed where he/they got it? Even if it were stolen the implications are so immense that its hard to see nothing happening with it - and if some powers that be had totally shut down discussion about it why would he have ever mentioned it?

....I'd sure like to see him interviewed about that one subject...

P.S. It reminds me of the other HACA wild card story about a staffer who talked about a plane found out in West Texas with Oswald's prints in it. Seems like that never made it into any memos either...

  And I don't think anybody has been able to get a straight answer from Tannenbaum on why he did nothing with such a smoking gun piece of evidence...if it really existed.

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Larry:

Though PURELY hypothetical, I wonder what we would find if we compared the time-frame of Tanenbaum's tenure with the HSCA with the date on which CIA's Regis Blahut was busted for rifling through [and pilfering from?] HSCA's evidence locker.

It always seemed to me that whatever Blahut was after must have been of the highest significance, in order to justify taking so great a risk. I've never been able to figure out what that might have been; certainly his claim of 'personal curiosity' [if memory serves] doesn't seem like much of a rationale.

It seems to me that CIA might wish to make disappear photographic evidence that the lone nut, about whom they evidenced so casual an indifference, was demonstrably connected with a camp under their nominal control. Since Blahut lied about having rifled through that evidence locker, and only admitted to this violation when it was proved his fingerprints were found on photographs therein, we know that he seemed particularly interested in photographic evidence.

If the time-frames match [i'll try to check on that], perhaps we can speculate our way to solving several minor mysteries.

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James, I admire them for being in Indonesia - I hope the book provides some

diversion.

I think Bishop was in the thick of the things that we are interested in alright

but I suspect he represents the off the books side of things. If there were any

records on him before the BOP I suspect its in some files we won't see. Just

as Victor Hernandez was officially booted out of the New Orleans area training

camp (as far as the records on him go) but according to his own testimony went on to go on several missions into Cuba. If Bishop/O'hare was really working with

Op 40 in its darkest political action/elimination side I don't expecteto find any

memos...

Larry,

The whole Bishop deal has me scratching my head a bit. I think we agree that Bishop was actually John Adrian O'Hare. We also have Hargraves saying that the photograph supposedly showing a uniformed Col. Bishop (Dick Russell's 'The Man Who Knew Too Much') was not actually him. 

That aside, we have the connection between Bishop and Rolando Masferrer which is about as interesting as things get. We also have Bishop claiming he was flown to Dallas via military aircraft and was present at Parkland Hospital when JFK's body was there. Talk about being in the thick of it.

Regarding the FBI reports, I'll have to have a hunt around on your CD as I don't have your book on hand at the moment. You'll be pleased to know it is being passed around amongst some Australian military personnel in Indonesia at the moment. I know you would be even happier if they all purchased a copy for themselves but they don't make that much money. 

James

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James, that's correct....but then he said a great deal about a bunch of stuff...the polygraphs were during a period when he was trying for some serious media coverage and possibly book deals...

Probably the safest core to what we can belive about him is from his notebook and the addresses and phone numbers in his possession. From that we can pretty clearly say that he did have intel connections going back to the OSS, he did have connections to certain exiles including those associated with Alpha 66 and its very likely he had connections to some of the Op 40 people and may have been used in that program even after the Bay of Pigs when it assumed a life of its own independent of any official Agency sanction. His notebook also confirms he knew and was in contact with both Vidal and Hargraves. And based on some of his activities in Florida post assassination its clear that he was tuned into the Florida National Guard and Reserve military structure and had some sort of undefined political clout in the Miami area.

On your other question, yes the FBI reports do give the source and also the informant by name. That should be in the documents on the book CD if memory serves; I think its also corroborated in Carlos Hernandez HSCA testimony but that may be incorrect. I don't know if I put the names in the book or not, might be in a footnote?