Francesca Akhtar Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 Has anyone heard of this character or seen this document? A ploy to blame it all on Castro perhaps? http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Hancock Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 Yep, I cover that one at some great length in my book...the FBI actually spent an immense amount of time investigating the letter and purported plot, including the names that turned up in the thing. Lots and lots of reports on this. It turned out to be totally nebulous and its interesting to speculate who might have had the appropriate addresses and names for free Cuba radio staions (one name leaps to mind) and who may have been involved in ongoing anti-Cuba/Castro propaganda efforts. -- Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesca Akhtar Posted July 5, 2006 Author Share Posted July 5, 2006 Yep, I cover that one at some great length in my book...the FBI actually spent an immenseamount of time investigating the letter and purported plot, including the names that turned up in the thing. Lots and lots of reports on this. It turned out to be totally nebulous and its interesting to speculate who might have had the appropriate addresses and names for free Cuba radio staions (one name leaps to mind) and who may have been involved in ongoing anti-Cuba/Castro propaganda efforts. -- Larry aha, well I look forward to reading about it in your book. It just seemed to me to be a very convieniant made up story to put the blame on Castro. Interesting though that it is almost a year before the assassination, plans were obviously laid well before. I don't suppose Bernardo Morales was in any way related to David Morales? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Richards Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 Hi Larry, Do you know if it was ever established that Bernardo Morales was an actual person and were there any further details on P.O. Box 1624? If the name was false, Bernardo Morales is certainly an interesting combination of monikers. I take it that David Phillips might have been behind this? Cheers, James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Hancock Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 James, they certainly never came up with a Bernardo Morales who was known to the folks at the radio station, either their office in Miami or the actual off shore station. You will find some documents on this in the exhibits for Chapter 7 - an HSCA memo and a Secret Service memo. They did eventually develop some names for investigation but none of them went anywhere at all....but it was taken very seriously and the Secret Service spent seven or eight months on it. However, this was not the only element of the threat - an informant in (amazingly) Guatemala first surfaced a rumor that Castro was sponsoring an effort to kill JFK - the informant reported a detailed dialog between Castro agents. Of course this one went nowhere to. But when you combine Guatemala with radio stations somehow the name David Phillips does come to mine....especially when you add in anti-Castro propaganda. But would old David go so far as to hoax American agencies? -- tongue forcefully in cheek... Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Richards Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Thanks, Larry. BTW, I am absolutely shocked that anyone connected to the Intelligence services would be involved with something underhanded. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Hancock Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Now James, let's not think of it as "underhanded", let's think of it as "plausably deniable". And anyway, its just a matter of getting a jump on the bad guys....its not like they would not do it eventually, its just "forward leaning" to do it first and then blame them in advance. Much more efficient, saves everyone time. -- Larry Thanks, Larry.BTW, I am absolutely shocked that anyone connected to the Intelligence services would be involved with something underhanded. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Why was the letter written in English? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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