David Boylan

Hi Tony, This is the dollar bill I mentioned above. AMBIDDY-1 is Manuel Artime. Hecksher was Artime's case officer and the case officer for the AMWORLD project.

Coincidently we know that CIA/SAS/SO used the torn dollar bill for identification purposes. Henry Hecksher supplied Manuel Artime with such in July 1963.

Good doc on the recruitment of Viola June Cobb. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=35494#relPageId=2 June passing on some info - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=35481#relPageId=2

Great job by Johnny Cairns. He also had a top-notch presentation at Lancer.

As Larry stated above, bolt action rifles were used previously. We know quite a bit more about the training of early recruits for what later became the BOP. The early recruits were called the "cadre". They were to be highly trained in most paramilitary subjects that would enable them in turn, to train others in Cuba. Carl Jenkins was in charge of getting these guys trained. The "down range" (sniper) instructor went by the name of "Larry". His official pseudonym was Alton Pirnack. We don't know his real name at this point. Two of their trainees were Felix Rodriguez and Segundo Borges. They were to assassinate Castro at Varadero Beach with pre-sighted bolt action rifles (Operation Pathfinder). According to Rodriguez, he was sent in a total of three times but failed. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=99953#relPageId=2&tab=page

I thought I'd start a new thread on HDG. What source do we have that he was Santo Trafficante's bodyguard?

The car belonged to Charles Klihr. He was a buddy of Robert Surrey. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=96282#relPageId=18

See Greg Wagner's site - https://tangodown63.com/robertson-william-alexander-rip/

Rip Robertson? using AI Image Upscaler.

Ben, Did you read this? - https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Essay_-_The_Wheaton_Lead.html

And here is what one of the 2018 released documents looks like (Luis Angel Castillo) - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=148969 And this counts as a released document??? The only thing we know about this is his name.

David, the author of the letter, whomever you believe it was, was told of the Oct 4th recall date of Azcue and did not learn of the delay of his true return of Nov 18th. It is that simple. As far as breach of regulations, I have no idea what the author meant. Maybe he felt he wasn't being treated fairly by Azcue and believed Azcue should have given him his visa without having to visit and get approval from the Soviet Embassy. Whom do you believe the author was referring to "that has since been replaced"?

So, Oswald drops in during the end of the effort to recruit Azcue. Meets with Azcue and Duran and the CIA lies to the FBI about when they learned of Azcue transfer to Havana? Was this the CIA/Mexico City shenanigans that Hoover was referring to? Did certain members of JMWAVE piggyback on the existing op to recruit Azcue ensuring a coverup? What was the real reason for Tony Sforza (Azcue's case officer) meeting with David Phillips on 11/22 in Mexico City?

AMKNOB-1 also knew Azcue was being replaced as of August 12th. All of these dispatches went to HQs SAS. So you have JMWAVE, SAS, and Mexico City station all aware that Azcue was leaving. Great work by Bill Simpich pulling this all together. Known as "the Swiss" (201-335958), Piero Fedeli Medici. Had some close relationship with Guillermo Ruiz (201-335938 and 201-735296). Ruiz was a Cuban intelligence officer and married to the cousin of Antonio Veicana/AMSHALE-1. AMKNOB-1 was an asset of Win Scott in Mexico City during 1963. By 1966, the CIA called him a double agent. In an attempt to get consul Eusebio Azcue to defect, the "Swiss" passed on useful information to CIA informant LITAMIL-3 in September 1963. Ruiz fled to Cuba on 11/22/63. Two weeks later, AMKNOB-1 returned to the scene and communicated with Cuban consulate employees Silvia Duran and Raul Aparicio. 9/10/63 cable DIR 67341 (ref MEXI 6077) from C/SAS/CI/OPS to Mexico City JMWAVE: "P" on lower right may indicate review by C/OPS Will Potocki. C/SAS/CI/OPS Richard Tansing originated the memo. Tansing had used extension 6471 in the past - shown in 104-10506-10015. The message to Scott: "HQS wishes CASAS make ref pitch if he available for travel Mexi. Otherwise, LITAMIL-3 can make pitch. HQS objective is recruitment in place and not defection, request MEXI plan ops (in) this regard. HQS contacting CASAS and will advise MEXI availability soonest." CASAS appears to be Jose Antonio Casas. This post the next day shows the problem was that Casas' boss wouldn't let him off work: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=63961&relPageId=3 See 104-10163-10010: cable MEXI 6142 from Mexico City to Director: Win Scott advocates for "a compartmented one-two punch" by LITAMIL-3 and CASAS. Both these men and Azcue are described as having a "long time close personal relationship" "Tansing I" is written on the front of the document. See 104-10163-10260: On 9/19/63, LITMAIL-3 makes the defection pitch to Azcue. Azcue declines... See 104-10163-10256: On 9/21/63, AMKNOB-1 is apparently "debriefed" on Azcue, Sinobas, and other Cuban figures. Don't know who is the debriefer, LITAMIL-3? See 104-10181-10298: On 9/23/63, AMTIKI-1 gets a letter from his friend Nicolas Hernandez Perez saying that Ruiz is with the Cuban G-2 organization and on a mission to penetrate counterrevolutionary forces. Marginalia shows that Ruiz is 201-735296. Fabian Escalante, JFK: The Cuban Files, pp. 130-132 9/27/63: Guillermo Ruiz was the translator in the conversation between Azcue and Oswald. He told Fabian Escalante that although he was not an expert in physiognomy, it was his opinion that the Oswald he saw on Mexican television was the one he saw in the consulate that day. Antonio Garcia Lara saw Oswald as he was leaving, and he had the same impression as Ruiz. Both of them disagreed with Azcue. Also see 180-10147-10240, p 83: "At the time, there were newspaper reports Veciana said that 'Bishop' tried to persuade him to travel to Mexico to propose to his relative Guillermo Ruiz, a high-ranking officer in Castro's intelligence service stationed in Mexico City at the Cuban embassy, that "he would pay Ruiz a large amount of money to publicly say that it was him and his wife who had met with Oswald."" Veciana, however, was never successful in contacting Ruiz and when he mentioned it to Bishop a couple of months later, Bishop told him to forget it."

How did Oswald know about Azcue's pending transfer back to Havana? I'd speculate that is either #2 (CIA) or as my friend Larry Hancock suggests, Sylvia Duran. A good case can be made for #2. The CIA lied to the FBI about when they knew about Azcue's pending transfer. There was long time effort to recruit Azcue as an asset. How do you get close enough to Azcue to recruit him? The CIA opted to use a longtime friend of Azcue that just happened to be a CIA that was a member of the "Stay Behind" network in Cuba that was setup by David Morales and run Tony Sforza and Emilio Rodriguez. The friend was Jose Casas (AMOT-106). During Casas' August 9th meeting Azcue told Casas that he "would be departing for Cuba PCS with his wife and 2 daughters." Winston Scott, Mexico City COS, then pressured Casas' case officer Tony Sforza to try and get Casas back to Mexico City again in September to try one more shot at recruiting Azcue as either an asset in place in Havana or have him defect before his scheduled recall date of October 4, 1963. Casas also "witness and American male, with a small boy" at the consulate. The Mexican secretary (Sylvia Duran) "stated to (Casas) that the American was a stupid fool for wanting to take his son to the "Cuban hell." Casas also noted that Azcue and Duran were very familiar with each other. 🙂 Notice item D last sentence "that the main concern of the GOC (Government of Cuba) is the Project that is headed by Manuel ARTIME." I think it's amazing that the GOC knew of Project AMWORLD as early as August 1963.

John Newman goes into detail about James McCord. It seems McCord helped Oswald get his visa to the Soviet Union!

The Rex and Leda were used briefly in the end of 1963 for exfiltration and caching weapons including Rolando Cubela's (AMLASH-1) cache to be used for assassinating Castro. LBJ shutdown all JMWAVE maritime ops (See Brad Ayers) after 1/1/64. Only Autonomous Operations were allowed to run maritime ops (AMWORLD and JURE). The Joanne and The Donna (later named the Santa Maria?) ran ops for AMWORLD. Most of the Commandos Mambises (AMGLOSSY and AMBANTY) were rolled up into AMWORLD.

Very informative new essay. https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/State_of_JFK_Releases_2023.html

And it seems to be the only review that was not a verified purchase. Did LBP even read the book?

https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/yes-big-media-jfk-and-rfk-were-the

Here's Popich's obit. His age fits. - https://obits.nola.com/us/obituaries/nola/name/nicholas-popich-obituary?id=10203236

Greg, "Nick" could possibly be Nick Popich. He was close to Marcello (and Bill Dalzell). https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=68908#relPageId=51 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=127818#relPageId=44 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=60429#relPageId=5&search="nick_popich" He also ran guns - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=76770#relPageId=15&search="nick_popich"

As John Newman reminded us, the CIA usually hid a black op inside a legitimate op. I also tend to have a suspicious mind. The President of the US has just been assassinated some 6-7 hours previously by a suspected commie with links to Russia and Castro which might precipitate a world war (well, with what was known at that time) and Morales and Esterline are asking about a boat? They had nothing better to do? Why would Esterline ask Morales about this? He wasn't involved in the AMWORLD logistics. Henry Hecksher, Dick Beal, Raul and Bobbie Hernandez, Karl Roher and later Carl Jenkins were involved. They worked for SAS/SO (Special Affairs Staff/ Special Operations). Jake Esterline was sent to Panama City as Chief of Station after the BOP. He had nothing to do with AMWORLD. Now if I was to speculate, burying a "person of interest" with the legitimate AMWORLD recruits inside the Joanne might be the way to go. Other AMWORLD recruits would travel to Bluefields, Nicaragua and "Camp Guillot" in Costa Rica by shrimp boats from New Orleans and by charter plane in the coming months. Here's a list of Black-Exfiltrees that the CIA was trying to get back into the US in 1965 after AMWORLD shutdown. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=13079#relPageId=2

I find it interesting that the Olga Patricia(?)/Joanne/Adelaide was later named the Don Carlos. I wonder if this was a nod to Carl Jenkins, often called Carlos by his charges at AMWORLD. Jenkins was the PM expert for AMWORLD and was later assigned with selling off and reusing AMWORLD's assets. Some of the arms cache went to Miami, and some stayed at Monkey Point. I find it interesting that the Monkey Point cache was guarded by Silvano Pozo and Nestor "Tony" Izquierdo in 1965. Izquierdo was top notch CIA commando and raider. What reason was there for keeping on the bench? I suspect it was to keep him out of the US for a bit. Izquierdo had been named as the spotter in the Dal-Tex building. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Nestor_Izquierdo

I haven't done as much research on AMWORLD's ships as Gary Murr and Mervyn. My limited research shows that Artime/AMWORLD utilized two AKLs - The Joanne and The Donna. Was The Donna the sister ship of the Olga Patricia called the Olga Princess? I don't know. We know that the Joanne ended up at Bluefields in Nicaragua and the Donna ended up in the Dominican Republic where Artime had a small base to be used for anti-Castro ops. These were the only two named AKLs that I could find. There is an outstanding question. AMWORLD used a ship called the Adelaida. Was this The Joanne renamed to the Adelaida? Artime's girlfriend at the time was Adelaida Padron. Both the Joanne and the Adelaida suffered the exact same propeller damage at the same time and place! So, I going with yes. AMBIDDY-1 was Artime's CIA crypt. Henry was Henry Hecksher. Reference 1 - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=21334#relPageId=2&search=AKL Looking at the Olga Patricia as the ideal Mother Ship. Setting up the AMRUM(AMYUM) corporation. This would be BAM for Artime's MRR organization. Reference - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=42086#relPageId=3&search=AKL Adelaida in Nicaragua. References - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=42124#relPageId=2 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=155000#relPageId=202 The Adelaida suffering a propeller mishap. Fixed then going back to Baltimore. Reference - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=63870#relPageId=3 The Joanne suffering the same damage. Going back to Baltimore. Reference - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=21334#relPageId=3 Adelaida Padron. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=235826#relPageId=216