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Harlot's Ghost

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by Norman Mailer


  Ingrid dollar-a-dance girl at Die Hintertür

  *U. Alexis Johnson Deputy Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, member of Special Group, Augmented

  *JM/WAVE CIA base in Miami during Mongoose

  Barry Kearns Communications Officer in Montevideo

  *J. C. King chief of Western Hemisphere Division

  *David Knight cover name for David Phillips

  *Mario García Kohly pro-Batista Cuban exile leader

  KU/CLOAKROOM cryptonym for Harry Hubbard during his assignment to the Snake Pit

  KU/ROPES onetime cryptonym for Harry Hubbard

  Libertad La Lengua courtesan in Havana and Montevideo

  *Gen. Edward Lansdale director of Mongoose

  *Meyer Lansky leading criminal, based in Miami

  *Julius LaRosa entertainer on Arthur Godfrey’s TV show

  *Carlos Lechuga Cuban Ambassador to the UN

  *Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer member of Special Group, Augmented

  William Madden Libby alias on Harry Hubbard’s passport in 1984

  Mr. and Mrs. Lowenthal Harry Hubbard’s landlords in the Bronx

  LYME cryptonym for Rolando Cubela’s case officer in São Paulo

  *Sir Donald Maclean British intelligence agent stationed in the U.S.A., working for the Soviets

  *Antonio Maceo member of Cuban Revolutionary Council

  *Robert Maheu ex-FBI, private detective for Howard Hughes, occasional contract agent for CIA

  Minot Mayhew COS, Montevideo, before arrival of Howard Hunt

  Maria bartender at Die Hintertür

  *José Martí revolutionary and poet during Cuba’s struggle for independence from Spain

  *†Eugenio Martínez Cuban exile boat captain

  *Rolando Masferrer pro-Batista Cuban exile

  Boris Masarov Undersecretary of Soviet Embassy in Montevideo

  Zenia Masarov wife of Boris Masarov

  Freddie McCann CIA Junior Officer in Berlin

  Martita Bailey (Bunny) McCann wife of Freddie McCann

  *John McCone DCI replacing Allen Dulles

  *Dorothy McGuire one of the McGuire Sisters, a singing group

  *Phyllis McGuire Dorothy McGuire’s sister; Sam Giancana’s girlfriend

  *Reggie Minnie boxing instructor at the Farm

  *MI5 British domestic intelligence service, comparable to FBI

  *MI6 British foreign intelligence service, comparable to CIA

  MK/ULTRA-17 a cryptonym for Kittredge Montague at TSS

  *Mongoose operation subsequent to Bay of Pigs to destabilize Cuba by a variety of covert means

  Hugh Tremont Montague high-level CIA officer, a.k.a. Harlot

  Christopher Montague son of Hugh and Kittredge Montague

  Gordon (Gordy) Morewood CIA contract agent in Montevideo

  *Mossad Israeli intelligence service

  *MRO ultra-left, sometimes violent Uruguayan political group

  Modene (Mo) Murphy Eastern Airlines stewardess and mistress to John Kennedy, Sam Giancana, Frank Sinatra, and Harry Hubbard

  *Benito Nardone Uruguayan politican elected head of government

  Regina Nelson Howard Hunt’s neighbor in Miami

  *NKVD Soviet secret police, a precursor of the KGB

  *Archie Norcross COS replacing Hunt in Montevideo

  *NSC National Security Council

  O’Brien code name for William Harvey in dealings with Johnny Roselli

  *Tony Oliva Brigade leader

  *Dr. Frank Olson victim of CIA experiment with LSD

  Hjalmar Omaley Soviet Russia Division operative

  *OSS Office of Special Services, U.S. intelligence service organized during WW II, precursor of the CIA

  Otis cover name for a CIA agent stationed in London

  Gen. Packer representative of Joint Chiefs visiting Berlin

  *Joe Pecora alias of Santos Trafficante

  Pedro Peones Deputy Chief of Police in Montevideo

  *Kim Philby British intelligence officer working for the Soviets

  *David Phillips chief propaganda officer at Quarters Eye

  Susan Blaylock Pierce American consulate employee in Berlin

  Sally Porringer wife of Sherman Porringer

  Sherman Porringer CIA officer in Montevideo

  Margaret Pugh secretary to Hugh Montague

  *Johnny Ralston alias of Johnny Roselli

  RAPUNZEL cryptonym for Sam Giancana

  *José Ignacio Rasco Frente leader

  RASPUTIN code name for Fidel Castro

  *Wilma (Willie) Raye Modene Murphy’s friend

  RETREAD cryptonym for Toto Barbaro

  *Blanco Rico military intelligence officer in Batista government of Cuba

  *Raul Roa Cuban Ambassador to the UN

  *Rolando cover name for Eugenio Martínez

  *Johnny Roselli California-based Mafia member

  Reed Arnold (Arnie) Rosen classmate of Harry Hubbard at the Farm; later Kittredge Montague’s assistant at TSS

  *Dan Rowan entertainer

  *Jack Ruby killer of Lee Harvey Oswald

  *Enrique Ruiz-Williams Brigade fighter released from Cuban prison

  *Pepe San Román Brigade leader

  *Charles Sapp Chief of Police Intelligence in Miami

  Peter Sawyer cover name used by Harry Hubbard in the Bronx

  Dr. Schneider an alias for Reinhard Gehlen

  *SGA (Special Group, Augmented) a committee of high-ranking military, Cabinet, and other government personnel overseeing Mongoose

  Charley Sloate cover name for Harry Hubbard in Berlin

  Polly Galen Smith classmate of Kittredge Montague at Radcliffe

  SM/ONION cryptonym for Harry Hubbard in Snake Pit paper trail

  Augustus (Gus) Sonderstrom Deputy COS in Montevideo

  *SSD East German intelligence service

  STONEHENGE cryptonym for Frank Sinatra

  Dr. Taylor cover name for Hugh Montague in Berlin

  *Gen. Maxwell Taylor member of SGA

  *Clyde Tolson J. Edgar Hoover’s assistant and companion

  *Santos Trafficante head of Mafia in Cuba operations during Batista regime and afterward in Southern Florida

  *TRAX Brigade training camp in Guatemala, donated by Roberto Alejos

  *TSS (Technical Services Staff ) a division of the CIA specializing in psychoactive drugs, poisons, special weapons, and other exotica

  Roger Turner one of Harry Hubbard’s Berlin roommates

  Vassily Vakhtanov Soviet defector

  *Dr. René Vallejo Castro’s friend and physician

  Georgi Varkhov KGB chief in Montevideo

  VQ/BOZO Bill Harvey’s office in Berlin

  VQ/COLT paved parking area behind Harvey’s Berlin home

  VQ/GIBLETS-1 Bill Harvey’s private office in his Berlin home

  VQ/STARTER cryptonym for Harry Hubbard in Berlin

  Nancy Waterston Administrative Officer in Montevideo; later worked in Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s office

  WILDBOAR cryptonym for Wolfgang

  *Frank Wisner CIA officer

  Wolfgang German agent for CIA

  *Robert Woodward U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay

  *Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes President of Guatemala

  *Yevgeny Yevtushenko Soviet poet

  Eliot Zeeler one of Harry Hubbard’s Berlin roommates

  *ZR/RIFLE “executive action” (i.e., assassination) operation

  PLACES

  Avenue of the 18th of July main boulevard of Montevideo

  Bangor city in Maine

  Bartlett’s Island small island off western shore of Mt. Desert Island

  Blue Hill Bay large bay to west of Mt. Desert Island

  Boiler Room nickname for CIA file chamber prior to computerization

  Calle Ocho SW 8th Street, main street of the Cuban exiles in Miami

  Camp Peary field training center for CIA officers-in-training, also known as the Farm

  Carrasco a wealthy suburb of Mon
tevideo

  Casa de Tres Árboles (House of the Three Trees) a Montevideo brothel

  Cathedral a trail on Mt. Katahdin

  El Cervantes the cheap hotel where Harry Hubbard lives in Montevideo

  Charlevoix Lake Michigan resort town

  Cockroach Alley another name for the I-J-K-L Complex

  Colony a Manhattan restaurant

  Department Store CIA slang for the largest brothel in Saigon

  Doane small island off Mt. Desert Island owned first by the Hubbard family, later sold to the Gardiners

  Document Room CIA repository of newspapers, journals, and reports awaiting filing

  The Farm another name for Camp Peary

  Frenchman’s Bay body of water to the east of Mt. Desert Island

  Georgetown a residential district in Washington, D.C.

  Girón main landing site at the Bay of Pigs

  Grand Concourse major avenue in the Bronx

  Green Beach a landing site for the Brigade at the Bay of Pigs

  Guantánamo U.S. Marine base in Cuba

  Happy Valley another name for the Brigade airfield in Guatemala

  Harvey’s a Washington, D.C., restaurant

  Hickory Hill Robert Kennedy’s estate near Washington

  Die Hintertür Berlin nightclub

  I-J-K-L Complex four long office sheds around the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., containing the greater part of CIA offices prior to the completion of Langley headquarters in 1961

  Katahdin highest mountain in Maine

  The Keep Hubbard summer home on Doane Island, Maine, later sold to the Gardiners

  Kinshasa formerly Léopoldville, capital of the Congo, now Zaire

  Ku-damm short for Kurfürstendamm

  Kufu short for Kurfürstendamm

  Kurfürstendamm major hotel and shopping avenue in West Berlin

  La Villa Nevisca (House of the Light Snowfall) a well-appointed safe house in Miami

  Long Doane main trail on Doane Island

  Malecón boulevard in Havana that runs along the sea

  McLean Virginia town near Langley

  Midway Airport domestic airport in Chicago

  Mory’s student bar at Yale

  Mt. Desert Island an island off the coast of Maine, forty miles south of Bangor

  Northeast Harbor town on Mt. Desert Island

  Oak Park suburb of Chicago

  Oneonta town in upstate New York

  Palm Springs desert resort in California

  Penobscot River river in eastern Maine

  Playa de Los Pocitos beach in Montevideo

  Playa Larga (Red Beach) Bay of Pigs battleground

  Puerto de Cabezas seaport where the Brigade’s supply ships were loaded with troops and their equipment

  Pullach BND headquarters near Munich

  Punta del Este resort town in Uruguay

  Quarters Eye CIA headquarters in Washington for Bay of Pigs operation

  Rambla boulevard fronting the beach in Montevideo

  Retalhuleu Guatemalan airport used by Brigade

  Royal Palms run-down motel in Miami

  San Blas village near Girón

  Sans Souci a Washington, D.C., restaurant

  Schönefeld airport outside of Berlin

  Sheremetyevo international airport in Moscow

  6312 Riviera Drive house in Miami with private dock for clandestine naval raids on Cuba

  Snake Pit nickname for CIA file chamber prior to computerization

  The Stable Kittredge and Hugh Montague’s house in Georgetown

  Swan Island site of clandestine radio transmitter sending coded messages to Cuba during the Bay of Pigs

  Swivet CIA office at Tempelhof, West Berlin

  La Teja poor neighborhood in Montevideo

  Tempelhof airport in West Berlin

  Thyme Hill Dix Butler’s horse farm in Virginia

  Twenty-One a restaurant in midtown Manhattan

  Victoria Plaza Hotel hotel in Montevideo

  Waldorf Towers apartment-hotel attached to the Waldorf Astoria

  Zenith CIA headquarters site in Miami

  FOREIGN PHRASES

  abrazo embrace

  accomblé inoperative, overwhelmed

  ambiente ambiance

  añejo a dry rum

  Ay, caramba! Can you believe it!

  Ayúdame, compadre. Help me, my friend.

  barbudos lit., “bearded ones”; nickname for Castro’s soldiers

  beaucoup much

  Besitos, estúpido Kisses, stupid

  caballero gentleman

  caballero espléndido distinguished gentleman

  café con leche coffee with milk

  casa del Coloso house of the Colossus (i.e., the United States)

  casa ella in her house, referring to her

  cerveza beer

  chez les Russes among the Russians

  chico kiddo

  ciao good-bye

  claro of course; agreed

  cojones testicles

  cómico comical

  comandante commander

  Cómo no? Isn’t that so? Right?

  como dos melones gigantescos like two giant melons

  con más distinguidos sentimientos with my most distinguished sentiments

  coño sur lit., “cone of the south”; i.e., South America from the southern border of Brazil to the Straits of Magellan

  desnudar to denude, divest

  división de opiniones controversy

  droit de seigneur feudal right of the first night

  Du liebst mich? Do you love me?

  Du liebst mich ein Bisschen. You love me a little.

  duros tough guys, thugs

  eiskaltblütig ice-cold-blooded, cold-blooded

  el Mar Caribe the Caribbean

  el caudillo the leader

  el mundo sintético de Miami the synthetic world of Miami

  el patrón the owner

  embajaderos ambassadors

  Embajada de Gran Bretaña Embassy of Great Britain

  emisiones lo más elegantes most distinguished emissions

  Encore je blague Again, I joke

  en el fondo at bottom

  en famille in the family

  espontáneo an amateur who jumps over the railing into a bullfight

  estancia ranch

  fenomenal phenomenal

  Fidelistas followers of Castro

  Figure-toi! Conceive of it!

  flics police

  fundador brandy

  gangsterismo gangster style, or way of life

  golpe a shot of liquor; a blow, a punch

  granja de pueblo village farm

  Habanero native of Havana

  hacendado rancher, land-owner

  hermano brother

  Hola! Hey! Hello!

  hombre man

  Il n’y a rien de mieux? Nothing better?

  inter alia among other things

  ja yes

  joven young man

  Joven, este botella es sin vergüenza. Por favor, trae un otro con un corcho correcto. Young man, this bottle is shameless. Please bring another with a cork that is not rotten.

  kishkes guts

  la partouse orgy

  le mot juste the perfect word

  l’homme moyen sensuel an average man

  madre del diablo mother of the devil

  malgré lui despite him

  mañana tomorrow

  Marxismo es mierda. Marxism is shit.

  Marxismo es odioso. Marxism is disgusting.

  mais oui of course

  mayombero practitioner of palo mayombe, or black magic

  mein Schatz, liebster Schatz my sweetheart, my beloved

  mille baisers a thousand kisses

  Monsieur, il y a des mauvaises nouvelles. Des nouvelles étonnants. Votre President Kennedy a été frappé par un assassin à Dallas, Texas. Sir, there is very bad news. Shocking news. Your President Kennedy has been shot by an assassin in Dallas, Texa
s.

  muy jocoso very funny

  nichts nothing

  novio fiancé

  Oberhofmeister top boss

  On ne sait de plus, monsieur, sauf qu’il y avait un grand bouleversement. One doesn’t know any more, sir, than that there’s been a terrible disruption.

  perdiz partridge

  pistolero a man who carries a handgun

  poco a little

  por fortuna by chance

  pourboire tip, gratuity

  precioso rare, wonderful

  prestidigitación sleight of hand

  privar to deprive

  pronto immediately

  pundonor masculine honor, noblesse oblige

  punkt exactly, precisely

  residentura leading KGB man in a Russian embassy

  Salud! Health!

  Santería Afro-Cuban magical religion that combines Yoruba gods with Catholic saints

  sans façons without artifice, straight

  shvartzer black man

  shtup fuck, i.e., a stuffing

  siestero one who takes a midday nap

  Suerte. Good luck.

  sub cauda under the tail

  sui generis unique

  tapas appetizers

  todas las noches every night

  un hermafrodito hermaphrodite

  un juego de manos a trick of the hands

  un tour de drôle a farce

  una enormidad an enormity, a catastrophe

  una mujer sin alma a woman without scruples

  Uno, dos, tres, quatro, viva Fidel Castro Ruz! One, two, three, four, long live Fidel Castro Ruz!

  und so weiter and so forth

  vaquero cowboy

  verboten forbidden

  Verdad? True? Is that so?

  verwundbar vulnerable, sore, tender

  Vous-êtes américain? Are you American?

  Yanqui, fuera. Yankee, go home.

  NORMAN MAILER was born in 1923 and published his first book, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948. The Armies of the Night won the National Book Award and the Pulizer Prize in 1969; Mailer received another Pulitzer in 1980 for The Executioner’s Song. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

 

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