David Boylan

Not to distract from this great thread but it was indeed the Oct arrest. Quoting: "It was at Clint Wheat's house that Hall, Howard, and "Juarito" a.k.a. Celio Castro Alba, picked up a trailer of weapons and a large supply of medical supplies to bring to Miami for anti-Castro activities.[53] According to Howard the weapons consisted of a ". 30 caliber, there was a scope weapon, [54] and there was M-1s, standard M-1 Girands an M-14, modified, strictly semi..."[55] Some of these weapons were supplied by Urquiaga Arms Company owned by Juan Urquiaga, the former top arms ordinance man for Fidel Castro. The trailer carrying these weapons was left at Lester Logue's house in Dallas on October 10, 1963. Logue, an oil geologist, was a friend of Hall's. Hall admitted that it was in Logue's office that he was offered fifty thousand dollars to assassinate JFK but he declined. He added that Lester Logue had nothing to do with the offer and left the room after the offer was made.[56]" "Hall and William Seymour traveled from Miami the following week to retrieve the trailer of weapons and medical supplies. It was on this return trip that Hall and Seymour were arrested for drug possession — a bottle of Dexedrine. While in custody, Hall was questioned by an FBI agent whom he identified as "Hostel or something", a Military Intelligence agent, and a "CIA guy." The "CIA guy" was probably ATF Agent Frank Ellsworth who was working closely with FBI agent James Hosty and Military Intelligence agent Ed Coyle on a gun smuggling case. He claimed that the MI Agent attempted to recruit him. Hall remained in jail for two days before being released. Hall had called Dr. Robert Morris who in turn called Lester Logue.[58] Logue secured an attorney for Hall.[59]" Hall was going to have John Thomas Masen convert these M-1s to full auto.

I would add that William "Oswald was a useful idiot" Kent needs further research. He was George Joannides supervisor and just coincidentally happened to be in New Orleans during the latter half of 1963. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=53424&relPageId=2

A few of my takeaways: How close Martino and Robertson were. Martino could call up Robertson, a deep cover JMWAVE/PM officer? Robertson would call him John in his reports. How intertwined the Perez mission and CIA were. The CIA supplied the Leda to shadow them. This went as far up as Deputy Director Marshall Carter as you previously noted. The Flyer Tiger was tracked by the Coast Guard, buoy by buoy.

Rip Robertson noted that when he was training Perez's team, they were more interested in the infiltration procedures than in ex-filtration procedures. There was an 8/23/63 report from Victor Garcia (Guanantamo Naval Base) that Eddie Perez and his team had a fire fight with members of Castro's militia and had inflicted major casualties. Perez had lost two men in the fight - Thomas Vaquero and Rolando Rodriguez. Angel Luis Castillo, Bayo's brother-in-law, approached Martino about recruiting Rip Robertson to infiltrate Castillo and his men to help ex-filtrate Perez and his remaining men. Robertson turned down Martino's request. Angel Luis Castillo was an asset of ACSI (Army Intelligence). Perez (CIA crypt AMDENIM-11) had gone on previous missions with the CIA Paramilitary officers that went with him on Operation Tilt - Rudy Enders and Mickey Kappes. Kappes was closely associated with Alberto Fernandez (AMDENIM-1), Tony Cuesta (AMDENIM-14) and Larry Laborde (AMDENIM-4). Laborde was close friends with Gerry Hemming. Fernandez was the owner of the Tejana. The Tejana was used in many infiltration missions into Cuba, both proceeding and after the Bay of Pigs.

This is one of my favorite documents. Luis Angel Castillo - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=148969&search=castillo#relPageId=1&tab=page

Hi Paul, Col. Haig was indeed Alexander Haig. Col William Bishop is also the same guy as Clarence Ward Bishop. Bishop did work for Tabernilla. Tabernilla "promoted" him to Colonel. Bishop was running a training camp for Tabernilla and later Rolando Masferrer. Felipe and Ivan Vidal also trained there with Bishop.

Larry, I've only looked at the Miami DCD. This major branch was run by Justin Gleichauf. Two of his guys were USAF Lt. Col Manny Chavez and Luis Rodriguez. Chavez was Col. William Bishop's main contact. DCD was responsible for the Caribbean Admissions Center. They had first dibs on any possible assets. Col Sam Kail also worked there.

Ron, As far as a shooter arriving from SE Asia, I'd suggest looking at Evan Marshall's posts. He describes meeting him.

ACSI used DUP crypts. I believe that DUP was used for assets in Puerto Rico. Veciana was DUP-748 and Eloy Guiterrez-Memoyo was DUP-749. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=155085

Jim, Ruby must have been an informant. 🙂 Strange mix there. McKeown knew Ruby, Oswald, Prio, Hernandez, Davis and Castro.

Jim/Steve/Ron, et al. AMBIDDY/1 mentioned above was Manuel Artime. Henry Hecksher was his case office and was tasked with the AMWORLD project which was the "autonomous" anti-Castro initiative that was based in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. This was just getting started at this time. David Morales and Ted Shackley would later train Artime and Rafael Quintero on intelligence activities. Didn't John Martino say that LHO was to meet his contact at the Texas Theater, flown out of the country and killed?

Some fun reading on Mankel. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=189607&relPageId=2&search=mankel https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16598&search=mankel#relPageId=2&tab=page https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=22245&relPageId=2&search=mankel https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=22312&search=mankel#relPageId=2&tab=page https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=148666&search=mankel#relPageId=2&tab=page https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=148666&search=mankel#relPageId=2&tab=page

Bill and Gavin McDonald have been tireless in finding and expanding on new and old cryptonyms. You can explore the work that they (and Michael Clark!) have done here - https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php

Old and out of date but it exposes some of the people that were in Milteer's circle.

Well he did visit Dallas. Just not sure of the exact date. R.E. Davis was Roy Davis, head of the Dallas KKK. Davis was a friend of Lt. George Butler. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=120097&search=Milteer#relPageId=18&tab=page Oswald doesn't know anything. He was jubilant.

Agreed Larry. Alan is a first class researcher and author.

He was indeed Greg. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10304&search="agency_JCS"#relPageId=3&tab=page

Sorry, I should have been a little clearer. The guy from SE Asia.

Evan, Korean War vet?

Nosenko identified 9 Soviets, one was a major in the Pentagon. This doc is also a must read for Watergate, surveillance, etc https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1398&search="lee_pennington"#relPageId=19&tab=page

Interesting. Coyle did mention a Colonel Boyd with the 112th (another Colonel for Steve). 🙂

AARB working with Joan Higdon. I haven't found the actual interview yet. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=207896&relPageId=1&search=joan_higdon

Paul said: "Plan C" was to kill "Oswald" in the Texas Theater, and had not "Oswald" shouted at the top of his lungs "I am not resisting arrest, I am not resisting arrest" it seems certain he would have been shot right there. Paul, "Plan C" is interesting. John Martino stated that Oswald was to meet his contact in the Texas Theater and get flown out of the country where he would be eliminated. He kept changing seats to see if his contact provided some form of recognition. I'm speculating but I believe it was a torn-in half-dollar bill. John Armstrong noted that Oswald had in his possession when arrested 2 torn in half dollar bills. He also provided a doc showing that AMBIDDY-1, real name Manuel Artime, used this method also. Artime's case officer and AMWORLD contact officer was Henry Hecksher signer of this doc. Fonzi noted in The Last Investigation that Artime had "guilty knowledge" of the assassination. As noted from https://harveyandlee.net/Tippit/Tippit.html about 1/3 of the way down: After HARVEY Oswald was arrested, the police found halves of two different dollar bills in his wallet. This was a CIA method of clandestine contact (review CIA memorandum of 7/9/63 below). Wherever and whenever Oswald met his contact, this person would provide confirmation of his or her identity by showing the other half of these dollar bills. Curiously, neither of these half-dollar bills were listed on the police inventory of 11/23/63, the joint FBI/Dallas Police inventory of Oswald's possessions on 11/26/63, nor were these items photographed. At the National Archives, in Adelphi, MD, I inspected and handled each item of inventory listed on the joint FBI/Dallas Police inventory of 11/26/63. These items were not among the inventory nor were they ever mentioned by the Warren Commission. They are, however, described in detail on a Dallas Police inventory report. Artime's dollar - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=21222&relPageId=2&search=torn_dollar

Casasin mentions the "Harvey" story. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=189698&relPageId=8&search=AEOCEAN The AEOCEAN crypt - https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php?id=AEOCEAN-3&search=AEOCEAN

David this was Thomas B. Casasin aka Jacques Richardson. He was very interested in Oswald. Casasin – Jacques Richardson https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=18951&relPageId=2&search=Casasin https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=50600&relPageId=2&search=Casasin https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=31476&search=Casasin#relPageId=2&tab=page http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-Oct2017/NARA-Nov9-2017/104-10065-10082.pdf http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-Oct2017/NARA-Nov9-2017/104-10127-10035.pdf http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-Oct2017/NARA-Nov9-2017/104-10127-10007.pdf http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-Oct2017/NARA-Nov9-2017/104-10322-10154.pdf on LHO - http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-Oct2017/docid-32347922.pdf