Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, & the Garrison Case

by DiEugenio, James

  16 Blight, p. 321.

  17 Newsweek, February 10, 1975.

  18 Doris Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, (New York: Harper and Row, 1976), p. 264.

  19 Goldstein, p. 105

  20 Ibid., pps. 106–07.

  21 Newman, op. cit., pps. 425, 441.

  22 Goldstein, p. 108.

  23 Moise, p. 26.

  24 Ibid., pps. 26–27.

  25 Ibid., p. 44.

  26 Newman, op. cit., p. 440.

  27 Moise, p. 87.

  28 Ibid, p. 251.

  29 Ibid, p. 244.

  30 Transcript of Johnson-McNamara phone call of February 20, 1964.

  31 Transcript of Johnson-McNamara phone call of March 2, 1964.

  32 Probe, Volume 6 No. 2, p. 24.

  33 Ibid.

  34 Ibid.

  35 Ibid., p. 25.

  36 Ibid.

  37 Probe, Vol. 3 No. 4, p. 21.

  38 Ibid., p. 20.

  39 Ibid., p. 21.

  40 Ibid., p. 22.

  41 Ibid., p. 22; Vol. 4 No. 1 p. 16.

  42 Ibid., p. 22.

  43 Ibid., pps. 24, 26.

  44 Ibid., p. 24.

  45 Ibid., p. 23.

  46 W. F. Wertheim,“Suharto and the Untung Coup-the Missing Link”, Journal of Contemporary Asia 1 No. 1, pps. 50–57

  47 Freeport Sulphur later became a multi-billion dollar company, largely off its Indonesian mines. It later switched names to Freeport McMoran and was intricately entwined with Suharto’s dictatorship. The company has been accused of committing various crimes in that country.

  48 Probe op. cit. Vol. 3 No. 4, p. 24.

  49 Douglass, p. 118.

  50 Blum, The CIA: A Forgotten History, p. 160.

  51 Ibid.

  52 Ibid.

  53 Ibid.

  54 Ibid.

  55 Ibid., p. 161.

  56 New York Times, July 21, 1972.

  57 Blum, op. cit., p. 161.

  58 Ibid.

  59 Lyon Garrison allowed the author to look over some of what was left of his father’s collection in 1994.

  60 This long essay was in the collection of papers Lyon Garrison allowed the author to look at and copy in 1994.

  61 Blum, op. cit., p. 244. For a discussion of the Dominican Republic see Gibson, pps. 78–79. For Iran, see James Bill’s The Eagle and the Lion, pages 131–182. The Kennedy State Department actually did a cost-benefit analysis of bringing back Mossadegh. For Brazil see Gibson pps. 79–80, Bird, pps. 550–53, and also A. J. Langguth’s Hidden Terrors (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978) pps. 103–04. As Kai Bird notes, the man who David Rockefeller and the CIA sent in to first, negotiate with the government, and then begin the coup was John McCloy.

  62 See Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant Vol. 2 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) pps. 544–45. By 1968, LBJ and Nelson Rockefeller were quite close. Johnson wanted Rockefeller to run for the GOP nomination since he thought he could beat Bobby Kennedy. Rockefeller took his advice and announced he was running in April of 1968. Another book that details the close relationship between the Rockefellers and Johnson is Thy Will Be Done by Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett (New York: Harpercollins, 1996). See pages 588, 711. As Donald Gibson notes, pps. 73–74, the Kennedys were not close to the Rockefellers. This Johnson/Rockefeller nexus was influential in what later happened in Indonesia and Brazil.

  63 Douglass, pps. 380–81.

  Chapter 18

  1 For an example of this, one can listen to the Black Op Radio broadcast of August 14, 2009, Show No. 436 for a talk Shaw did at Moorpark College on October 17, 1970.

  2 This information was relayed to the author by Lisa Pease who had a conversation with Lifton about this in 1998..

  3 Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1997.

  4 Probe, Vol. 4 No. 1, p. 17.

  5 Gibson, Donald. “Kennedy vs. the Early Globalists.” Probe, Vol. 5 No. 2, p. 12.

  6 Probe, Vol. 4 No. 1, p. 17.

  7 Ibid., p. 16. Few giant corporations represent the bad side effects of globalism more than Freeport McMoran does today. For a good overview of how Suharto and Freeport benefited from each other, see Denise Leith’s The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suharto’s Indonesia (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002).

  8 It is silly for Patricia Lambert to deny this fact today. Shaw’s lawyers knew about it through an inquiry by Wackenhut. See Probe Vol. 4 No. 4, p. 8.

  9 Author’s 1992 interview with New Orleans historian Arthur Carpenter.

  10 Davy, p. 200.

  11 Ibid., p. 198.

  12 CIA Memorandum of March 1967, review of Marguerite D. Stevens’s summary of Shaw’s work.

  13 William Davy interview with Victor Marchetti, April 26, 1995.

  14 Ibid.

  15 CIA Memorandum of October 27, 1970.

  16 State Department Memorandum of October 8, 1957.

  17 Grose, pps. 102, 111, 265.

  18 Hinckle and Turner, p. 83.

  19 Ibid.

  20 Davy, p.97.

  21 In this interview by Phelan, entitled “Clay Shaw: An Exclusive Penthouse Interview,” Shaw also said he was never associated with the CIA. So much for his credibility.

  22 Garrison, pps. 87–88; Flammonde, pps. 216–18.

  23 Flammonde, pps. 216, 220.

  24 Davy, p. 99.

  25 Flammonde, p. 221.

  26 NODA Memorandum of April 1, 1967.

  27 This account is from William Turner’s Rearview Mirror (Granite Bay, California: Penmarin Books, 2001), pps. 178–79. At his trial, Shaw lied about this by saying that Sullivan approached him about speaking in San Francisco. Transcript of February 27, 1969.

  28 FBI Memorandum of March 6, 1967.

  29 NODA Memorandum of September 23, 1967. Since Shaw never used that last name, Breitner likely recalled Bertrand wrongly.

  30 NODA report of interview of March 22, 1967. This man’s last name is likely Formydahl, and he is named in Shaw’s will.

  31 NODA Memorandum of February 14, 1968.

  32 NODA Memorandum of November 29, 1967. Davy later repeated this story to the HSCA. He also told them that Garrison had him polygraphed and he passed. See HSCA report of December 16, 1977. Davis clearly knew who Bertrand was, but he would not talk. One reason may be fear. Another reason may be that he appears to have been Shaw’s pimp.

  33 Affidavit of Jessie Parker dated September 12, 1967.

  34 William Davy’s 1995 interview with Delsa.

  35 FBI Airtel of March 2, 1967.

  36 FBI Teletype of March 23, 1967.

  37 The unpublished book is Mailer’s Tale. See Chapter 5, page 11 for the information. It is available at the invaluable Weisberg Archives at Hood College online. In light of this accumulation of evidence, for Shaw to deny he ever used the alias, as he did at his trial, is simply not credible.

  38 FBI Memorandum of March 2, 1967 from DeLoach to Tolson.

  39 Letter from Edward Wegmann to Allen Dulles dated March 11, 1968.

  40 Probe, Volume 4 No. 4, p. 8.

  41 Ibid.

  42 Ibid.

  43 Probe, Vol. 6 No.4, p. 3

  44 Mellen, A Farewell to Justice, p. 293.

  45 Author’s interview with Dymond in New Orleans in 1994.

  46 New Orleans Times Picayune, July 7, 2011.

  47 Ibid.

  48 Letter from Banister to Johnson dated January 5, 1959; See March 1967 Ramparts for an article by Sol Stern for the background on this CIA project.

  49 Probe, Vol. 4 No. 4, p. 16.

  50 Ibid.

  51 Ibid., p. 14.

  52 Probe, Vol. 4 No. 5, p. 20.

  53 The Harris article, called “The Connally Bullet,” is at the web site ctka.net.

  54 Hosty, p. 62.

  55 Armstrong, pps. 856–57; Confidential source who knows Jez and says he does not want to be formally interviewed on the subject. But he told her, “You can bet your life that was Oswald’s wallet.”

  56 Dallas Municipal Archiv
es Box 9, Folder 1, Item 17.

  57 WC Vol. 7, p. 58; CE 2003, p. 78.

  58 WR, p. 15.

  59 Barry Ernest, The Girl on the Stairs, e-book version, pps. 58–59.

  60 For instance, at a critics’ conference in Washington in 1995, William Turner said that Oswald shot Tippit.

  61 This material is taken from Dick Russell’s article “JFK and the Cuban Connection” at his site dickrussell.org. It was originally published in High Times in March of 1996.

  62 Douglass, p. 61.

  63 Richard Helms with William Hood, A Look Over My Shoulder, (New York: Random House, 2003) pps. 226–27.

  64 The timing of this incident makes pablum out of the thesis of the Lamar Waldron–Thom Hartmann book Ultimate Sacrifice. This unwieldy and fantastic contraption of a book theorizes that somehow the back channel was just a mirage, the Kennedys were planning an invasion of Cuba on December 2. And that Helms knew about it. Helms did not know about it. If he had, he would not have been pressing Kennedy with this phony arms cache story. When I confronted Waldron with this compelling information at a meeting at Leonardo DiCaprio’s office in 2011, he gaseously escaped by making ad hominem attacks on Helms’ character. He never confronted the information itself. Unfortunately for us all, DiCaprio and his father Giorgio plan on making a film out of the (even worse) sequel to this horrendous book, Legacy of Secrecy.

  65 Joseph B. Smith, Portrait of a Cold Warrior (New York: Putnam, 1976), p. 383.

  66 Walt Brown, The Warren Omission (Wilmington, Delaware: Delmax, 1996), pps. 83–87.

  67 Probe, Vol. 3 No. 4, pps. 27–30.

  68 Transcript of Johnson-Russell call of September 18, 1964, declassified by LBJ Library.

  69 Mosley, p. 473.

  70 Johnson claimed this on a tape from August 19, 1969 released by the LBJ Library in 2001. Much ballyhooed biographer Robert Caro actually used this in his recent best seller The Passage of Power. Apparently, Caro did not do his homework on the Bay of Pigs.

  71 Author’s 1994 phone interview with Alcorn.

  72 Author’s interviews with Peter Vea and Dan Alcorn in Washington in 1995.

  73 Author’s 1993 phone interview with Patricia Orr.

  74 Probe, Vol. 7 No. 1 p. 25.

  75 Ibid., p. 26.

  76 Webb Hubbell, Friends in High Places (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997), p. 282. The other question Clinton wanted investigated was if there were really UFOs.

  77 Garrison, pps. 210–11.

  78 Author’s 1996 conversation with Mike Willman, who was friends with Sahl at the time.

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