In April, President Johnson: Pearson Diaries, April 1967, Pearson papers, LBJ Library.
“We had been operating”: New York Times, June 17, 1973.
He regretted he had been: Testimony of J. Lee Rankin, September 21, 1978, HSCA. Also see Executive Session Deposition of J. Lee Rankin, August 17, 1978, HSCA.
John Whitten, the veteran CIA: Whitten House Testimony, May 16, 1978. Also see Whitten Senate Testimony, May 7, 1976.
“It never occurred to me”: Helms House Testimony, September 22, 1978.
By January 1967: Aynesworth interviews.
“I keep running into your name”: Aynesworth, JFK: Breaking, p. 232.
The CIA figured: Phelan, Scandals, Scamps, and Scoundrels, pp. 150–51.
“You’re lucky you’re in town”: Aynesworth, JFK: Breaking, p. 234.
Garrison’s other prosecution: Ibid., p. 235.
Hounded by the district attorney’s offices: New York Times, February 23, 1967.
“I hope Newsweek”: Aynesworth, JFK: Breaking, p. 244.
On March 1, 1969: New York Times, March 2, 1967.
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This time, it would be much harder: Cable from Scott to Chief, Western Hemisphere Division, CIA, “The LIRING/3 Operation,” June 13, 1978, CIA, RIF: 104–10437–10102.
The Garrison investigation of the Kennedy: Letter from Thomas W. Lund, CIA, to Scott, “LETTER: AS YOU ARE AWARE, THE GARRISON INVESTIGATION OF THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION HAS PROMPTED A RASH OF SPECTACULAR ALLEGATIONS AND CHARGES,” June 14, 1967, CIA, RIF: 104–10247–10418, NARA.
The fact that Silvia DURAN: Cable from Scott to Chief, Western Hemisphere Division, CIA, “The LIRING/3 Operation,” June 13, 1978, CIA, RIF: 104–10437–10102.
In May 1967, an American diplomat: Letter from Benjamin Ruyle, U.S. Consulate, Tampico, to Wesley Boles, Department of State, May 11, 1967, CIA, RIF: 104–10433–10011.
He told the editor: Letter from Scott to John Barron, Reader’s Digest, November 25, 1970, found in “INFORMATION FOR HSCA FROM WIN SCOTT’S PERSONAL FILE,” HSCA, RIF: 1993.08.12.15:08:41:650024.
Scott’s initial title: “Ye looked for much and lo, it came to little,” Haggai 1:9.
He eventually settled on a different title: Morley, Our Man, p. 276.
“If I became president, I would not”: Los Angeles Times, March 25, 1968. Also see United Press International, March 25, 1968.
The assassination had immediate ramifications: Newton, Justice for All, p. 490.
He granted an extended, tape-recorded: Warren interview with Alfred Goldberg, March 26, 1974, found in Warren Commission files, Warren papers, LOC.
On July 9, at the age: New York Times, July 10, 1974.
After a fierce, internal battle: New York Times, April 29, 1970; Washington Post, April 28, 1970.
Joseph Califano, his domestic policy aide: Califano interview. See also Califano, Inside: A Public and Private Life, pp. 124–27.
Cynthia Thomas was more shocked: Thomas interviews.
“A careful investigation”: Copies of Thomas’s memos were made available by his widow, Cynthia. Copies are also found in the archives of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, NARA.
A month later, on August 28: Letter from Bert M. Benningham, State Department, to Deputy Director Plans, CIA, August 28, 1969, as found in “CHARLES THOMAS,” undated, CIA, RIF: 1993.06.22.19:24:22:430330.
SUBJECT; Charles William Thomas: Memo from Angleton to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, “SUBJECT; Charles William Thomas,” September 16, 1969, CIA, RIF: 1993.08.11.19:02:46:030031.
Angleton’s name meant: Thomas interviews.
He tried, but failed: A handful of conspiracy theorists have tried to suggest that Charles Thomas himself worked for the CIA, operating undercover in the guise of a State Department employee. Thomas’s personnel records, however, make clear that he was a Foreign Service officer. The allegation that he worked for the spy agency is undermined by long-classified testimony of others who worked in the Mexico City embassy, notably Anne Goodpasture, Win Scott’s deputy, who readily identified her CIA colleagues in the embassy by name, making clear that Thomas was not among them. The reports of CIA efforts to harm Thomas’s reputation in Mexico would also strongly argue against any idea that he worked for the agency.
Even though the State Department: Thomas’s handwritten notes, as found in the “KENNEDY” file in his briefcase. Cynthia Thomas granted the author access to the file and other material.
On April 12, 1971: Death certificate, District of Columbia Department of Health.
Cynthia Thomas’ campaign: Washington Post, December 12, 1973.
In January 1975, Congress provided: “Private Bill for the Relief of Charles William Thomas,” January 2, 1975, 93.18-JAN. 2 1975.
“There are no words”: Letter from Ford to Cynthia Thomas, January 2, 1975. Cynthia Thomas provided a copy of Ford’s letter to the author.
Two weeks after Thomas’s suicide: Morley, Our Man, pp. 256–57.
Within hours, she said: Testimony of Ann [sic] Goodpasture, November 20, 1978, HSCA, RIF: 180–10110–10028.
“I was appointed as an official”: Testimony of James Angleton, October 5, 1978, HSCA, RIF: 180–10110–10006.
Scott had assured the commission: “CHAPTER XXIV FROM DRAFT MANUSCRIPT OF ‘THE FOUL FOE,’” CIA, RIF: 1993.08.12.15:27:41:250024, NARA.
Over the next two years: Lopez Report, pp. 90–100.
On the list of Scott’s informants: “CALVILLO, MANUEL (LICHANT-1),” undated, CIA, RIF: 104–10174–10067.
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In February 1975: Slawson interviews.
Whitten testified to congressional investigators: Whitten House Testimony.
Slawson ended his silence: New York Times, February 23, 1975; Slawson interviews.
In Washington that summer: See New York Times obituary of Kelley, August 6, 1997.
“We are truly sorry”: Washington Post, May 9, 1976.
That July, Tom Johnson: Johnson interviews.
It took little time: Kelley and Davis, Kelley: The Story of an FBI Director, pp. 249–97.
In memoirs published in 1979: Sullivan, William, and Bill Brown, The Bureau: My Thirty Years in Hoover’s FBI, p. 51.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Then in retirement: Interview of Thomas C. Mann, November 29, 1977, HSCA, RIF: 180–10142–10357, NARA.
“He was so firmly committed”: Deposition of Raymond C. Rocca, July 17, 1978, HSCA.
Since his death, he has become: The Good Shepherd (2006), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343737/.
Here is speculation: Letter from Hoover to Rankin, June 17, 1964, FBI, RIF: 104–10095–10412, NARA.
There is another eye-popping: “Mexico City Chronology,” undated, CIA, RIF: 104–10086–10001, NARA.
In November 1959, a month: “MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES—HTLINGUAL INDEX CARDS,” December 26, 1976, HSCA, RIF: 180–10142–10334, NARA. For the definitive account of Oswald’s surveillance by HT-LINGUAL program, see Newman, Oswald and the CIA, pp. 52–57. Also see Martin, Wilderness, pp. 68–72.
If anyone doubted: Dallas Morning News, January 13, 2013; Washington Post, January 13, 2013.
Through a cousin who serves: Ruben Garro interviews.
She denied, as she had: Silvia Duran interview.
Lidia is eighty-five: Lidia Duran Navarro interviews.
The first, Oscar Contreras: Contreras interviews.
Guerrero, now seventy-three: Guerrero interviews.
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