David Morales and the Agency for International Development ( AID )

[Joseph Backes]

I found these documents this morning.

104-10121-10285

In it it clearly states Morales works for the CIA since 6 Dec 1954.  This doc is dated 22 March, 1965.

It clearly states there is an agreement between the two agencies. 

In 104-10121-10287 Morales is being integrated into AID.  

Joe

[Bob Ness]

1 hour ago, Joseph Backes said:

I found these documents this morning.

104-10121-10285

In it it clearly states Morales works for the CIA since 6 Dec 1954.  This doc is dated 22 March, 1965.

It clearly states there is an agreement between the two agencies. 

In 104-10121-10287 Morales is being integrated into AID.  

Joe

Because of course Morales was critical in distributing humanitarian aid, democratic values and disaster assistance to beleaguered countries throughout the world. I'm sure of it.

[Steve Thomas]

2 hours ago, Joseph Backes said:

I found these documents this morning.

104-10121-10285

In it it clearly states Morales works for the CIA since 6 Dec 1954.  This doc is dated 22 March, 1965.

It clearly states there is an agreement between the two agencies. 

In 104-10121-10287 Morales is being integrated into AID.  

Joe

Joseph,

I only offer this as a supplement to what you have written:

Creating the Oswald Legend – Part 5

Written by Vasilios Vazakas

in Kenndys and King

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/creating-the-oswald-legend-part-5

CIA POLICE TRAINING and THE CIS

“Coming back to Captain Westbrook, a most astonishing revelation was that after he retired from the Dallas Police Department in 1966, Westbrook became a Police advisor in South Vietnam. As researcher Greg Parker found out, Westbrook was employed as a security advisor in Saigon by the U.S.A.I.D. (United States Agency for International Development).[16]

The CIA was running a police program. Its purpose was to train friendly overseas police and to allow CIA to “plant men with local police in sensitive places around the world.” Also, to bring to the United States “prime candidates for enrollment as CIA employees.”[17]

John Gilligan, director of USAID under Jimmy Carter, said that “At one time, many USAID field offices were infiltrated from top to bottom with CIA people. The idea was to plant operatives in every kind of activity we had overseas, government, volunteer, religious, every kind.”[19] John Hannah, Nixon’s director of USAID admitted publicly that the USAID had funded CIA operations in Laos and that both organizations had co-operated in Ecuador, Uruguay, Thailand, and the Philippines.[20] “

Steve Thomas

[Larry Hancock]

State Department and AID covers were probably the most common for mid-level CIA officers while the lower level operations personnel and those from other sections generally used commercial covers.  Morales used State Dept covers earlier in his career as did Phillips. 

It was assumed CIA personnel would be placed under diplomatic cover at embassies and consulates, same for KGB.

[David Boylan]

This doc gives a detailed look at the proposed organizational structure of the CIA.

Here's the Domestic Division and cover groups- https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=235948#relPageId=22

The Office of Operations to be abolished and the Contacts Division transferred to the Domestic Division.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=235948#relPageId=30

This was new to me as are most things. 🙂 There was a Police Group under Angleton's Counterintelligence dept. CI/PG. They worked with AID.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=235948#relPageId=25

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=235948#relPageId=54

[David Boylan]

 

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Edited October 25, 2023 by David Boylan

[Larry Hancock]

David it sounds like if they executed this plan they moved Domestic Contacts and their officers from DDI to DDP and integrated it into a Domestic Operations unit which included activities such as commercial covers as well as bringing in Air Proprietaries/Operations which had been a stand alone unit (and which Bissell had refused to use for the Cuba Project).  Do I read that correctly? Of course Barnes would have been a perfect fit to run such a unit given his experience with proprietaries and covers for that if he had become head of a new, integrated Domestic Operations unit. 

If that is true Moore might indeed have been reporting up to a unit headed by Barnes but given what was going on in Laos and elsewhere overseas Barnes would have had a lot of really challenging missions on his plate in support of covers for covert operations.

[Ron Bulman]

Hmm. Larry, David, I know you want facts, documentation.  But I can't help but be suspicious.  Westbrooks activities on 11/22/63.  In Lisa Pease "A Lie Too Big To Fail" it points out that the commander of LAPD RFK murder investigation Special Unit Senator Manny Pena had resigned the LAPD to work for U.S.A.I.D. but was brought back to head the unit.  His top assistant Hank Hernandez had worked for U.S.A.I.D. in Latin America training police personnel.

The program traces back to Angleton for approval.

Sometimes coincidences sure can smell fishy.

[Gerry Down]

3 hours ago, David Boylan said:

This doc gives a detailed look at the proposed organizational structure of the CIA.

Here's the Domestic Division and cover groups- https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=235948#relPageId=22

The Office of Operations to be abolished and the Contacts Division transferred to the Domestic Division.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=235948#relPageId=30

This was new to me as are most things. 🙂 There was a Police Group under Angleton's Counterintelligence dept. CI/PG. They worked with AID.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=235948#relPageId=25

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=235948#relPageId=54

What does OO stand for?

I've heard it being called "Office of Operations" and recently heard it being called "Office of Origin" by Bill Simpich (in reference to the "Andy Anderson OO on Oswald" document). 

[Larry Hancock]

Ron, I'm very much aware of Pena and Hernandez having worked for AID and have my separate problems with both of them - wrote about them at length in my essay Incomplete Justice on the RFK assassination.  What we do know is that AID had as one of its sanctioned tasks the training of foreign police departments and they did use police as consultants so that finding police officers that worked for AID at times is not in itself especially anomalous. Despite several people looking at both of their backgrounds there is no sign that the two were actually CIA employees somehow put under AID cover and then sent into LAPD.  

We probably would never even know about them if it were not for the RFK assassination.

Interestingly they and SUS actively pursued a conspiracy in the RFK assassination for several weeks, months even.  It was only after they totally failed to crack it and the PDG became a major embarrassment that they appear to have caved to political pressure and turned back to destroy their own investigation by blatantly and knowingly destroying Serrano as a witness and then using that to destroy the credibility of a dozen different witnesses who supported her story.  I related that all in my essay and it is totally provable that they knew what they were doing and there is evidence in the LAPD files that demonstrates that - they even ignored letters from an assistant LA District  Attorney which totally repudiate their slandering of Serrano.

Yet up to that time SUS was playing it straight and seriously pursuing leads. While it all leads us to question Pena and Hernandez's ethics, it seems to me to point towards political pressure from the Mayor and the LA DA rather than anything covert - in fact it is so blatant and so obvious in the LAPD's own records its hard to think of it as covert.

 

 

[Ron Bulman]

38 minutes ago, Larry Hancock said:

Ron, I'm very much aware of Pena and Hernandez having worked for AID and have my separate problems with both of them - wrote about them at length in my essay Incomplete Justice on the RFK assassination.  What we do know is that AID had as one of its sanctioned tasks the training of foreign police departments and they did use police as consultants so that finding police officers that worked for AID at times is not in itself especially anomalous. Despite several people looking at both of their backgrounds there is no sign that the two were actually CIA employees somehow put under AID cover and then sent into LAPD.  

We probably would never even know about them if it were not for the RFK assassination.

Interestingly they and SUS actively pursued a conspiracy in the RFK assassination for several weeks, months even.  It was only after they totally failed to crack it and the PDG became a major embarrassment that they appear to have caved to political pressure and turned back to destroy their own investigation by blatantly and knowingly destroying Serrano as a witness and then using that to destroy the credibility of a dozen different witnesses who supported her story.  I related that all in my essay and it is totally provable that they knew what they were doing and there is evidence in the LAPD files that demonstrates that - they even ignored letters from an assistant LA District  Attorney which totally repudiate their slandering of Serrano.

Yet up to that time SUS was playing it straight and seriously pursuing leads. While it all leads us to question Pena and Hernandez's ethics, it seems to me to point towards political pressure from the Mayor and the LA DA rather than anything covert - in fact it is so blatant and so obvious in the LAPD's own records its hard to think of it as covert.

 

 

Larry, I don't think I've read your essay, which surprises me.  Is it available possibly online?  

[Larry Hancock]

Ron, it is - first put it up on Mary Ferrell in 2008 - hard to believe it was that long ago.  One of the major features is that Debra Conway's sister Sherry Fiester worked from LAPD maps and diagrams I provided her and did some awesome graphics to illustrate the Ambassador hotel and the movement of the suspects in and around it the night of the assassination - something LAPD never did but which greatly enhances the picture of other suspects in and around Sirhan - actually following him to the pantry to intercept RFK (where he had been reported days early at an RFK rally). 

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Essay_-_Incomplete_Justice_-_At_the_Ambassador_Hotel.html

I think it fully exposes the conspiracy and LAPD's failure and of course it should really be read in conjunction with John Hunt's masterful study of the crime  scene and related evidence - which deconstructs the premise of a single shooter:

https://www.amazon.com/Buried-Plain-Site-Search-Murder-ebook/dp/B0BR5WWY3Y

I think you will find Incomplete Justice (edited and with document links provided by Rex Bradford) an interesting read.   Larry

 

 

 

[Ron Bulman]

2 hours ago, Larry Hancock said:

Ron, it is - first put it up on Mary Ferrell in 2008 - hard to believe it was that long ago.  One of the major features is that Debra Conway's sister Sherry Fiester worked from LAPD maps and diagrams I provided her and did some awesome graphics to illustrate the Ambassador hotel and the movement of the suspects in and around it the night of the assassination - something LAPD never did but which greatly enhances the picture of other suspects in and around Sirhan - actually following him to the pantry to intercept RFK (where he had been reported days early at an RFK rally). 

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Essay_-_Incomplete_Justice_-_At_the_Ambassador_Hotel.html

I think it fully exposes the conspiracy and LAPD's failure and of course it should really be read in conjunction with John Hunt's masterful study of the crime  scene and related evidence - which deconstructs the premise of a single shooter:

https://www.amazon.com/Buried-Plain-Site-Search-Murder-ebook/dp/B0BR5WWY3Y

I think you will find Incomplete Justice (edited and with document links provided by Rex Bradford) an interesting read.   Larry

 

 

 

Thank you very much sir.  I have Ms. Fister's "Enemy Of The Truth", been a few years since I read it.  Time for a review.  Looking forward to reading Incomplete Justice tomorrow.

[David Boylan]

18 hours ago, Gerry Down said:

What does OO stand for?

I've heard it being called "Office of Operations" and recently heard it being called "Office of Origin" by Bill Simpich (in reference to the "Andy Anderson OO on Oswald" document). 

Gerry,

The report refers to Office of Operations so I assume that is the correct name.

[Gerry Down]

22 minutes ago, David Boylan said:

Gerry,

The report refers to Office of Operations so I assume that is the correct name.

Thanks.