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by David Talbot


  582Mary relayed a news report: MB letter to AWD, April 7, 1964, Mudd Library.

  582was set to “unequivocally reject”: New York Times, June 1, 1964.

  583a dinner table conversation: Leon Hubert Jr. and Burt Griffin memo to Howard Willens, Feb. 28, 1964, Mudd Library.

  583Dillon was treated to a kid-gloves: C. Douglas Dillon testimony, Warren Commission, Sept. 2, 1964, www.maryferrell.org.

  583Willens believed that “the Secret Service”: Willens, History Will Prove Us Right, 114.

  584“Dillon was a very shrewd guy”: Author interview with Howard Willens.

  585“Without exception”: John Jay Iselin letter to AWD, Sept. 28, 1964, Mudd Library.

  585“I think he accepted the Warren Report”: Author interview with Carol Bundy.

  Chapter 21: “I Can’t Look and Won’t Look”

  587“a princely sum”: David Lifton, Best Evidence (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988), 33.

  588“For similar reasons”: Ibid., 4.

  588warned Lifton not to “badger”: Lifton’s notes on his debate with Dulles, Dec. 7, 1965, courtesy of Vincent Salandria.

  591in the presence of “evil”: Author interview with David Lifton.

  592“happy to note”: AWD letter to Gerald Ford, Feb. 1, 1965, Mudd Library.

  592how to convince: Clover Dulles letter to MB, Feb. 11, 1966, Schlesinger Library.

  594“an old and close friend of mine”: AWD letter to J. Lee Rankin, Sept. 9, 1966, Mudd Library.

  594“a matter of concern to the U.S. government”: “More Material on the Assassination of President Kennedy,” Propaganda Notes, CIA bulletin, May 15, 1967.

  594a particularly “terrible nuisance”: AWD letter to MB, July 22, 1964, Mudd Library.

  595“I have been told that his wife”: Letter from unidentified source to AWD, Jan. 7, 1964, Mudd Library.

  595the CIA went beyond spreading ugly gossip: Author interview with Mark Lane.

  596“After listening to him”: MB letter to AWD, July 25, 1964, Schlesinger Library.

  596agree to disagree: AWD letter to MB, Nov. 9, 1966, Mudd Library.

  596“At the beginning of the investigation”: Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), 175.

  597Gordon Novel—phoned the spymaster: AWD calendars, 1968.

  597“This is what happens to you”: Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, 283.

  597“I hope you had a chance”: William Small letter to AWD, July 5, 1967, Mudd Library.

  598“a single communication from the [new] president”: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Journals: 1952–2000 (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), 218.

  598“absence of intellectual curiosity”: Ibid., 224.

  599a harrowing account of “that ghastly afternoon”: Ibid., 227.

  599“we did not control the Joint Chiefs”: Author interview with AS.

  600a raucous Norman Mailer party: Earl Wilson column, New York Post, Feb. 1, 1967.

  600“I can’t look and won’t look”: David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (New York: Free Press, 2007), 287.

  600“disgraceful piece”: AS letter to AWD, Dec. 29, 1964, NYPL archives.

  601“I was so irritated”: Andrew and Stephen Schlesinger, eds., The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger (New York: Random House, 2013), 323.

  602“Turner obviously regards Angleton”: AS journals, 1978, NYPL archives.

  602a “rather wary friendship”: Ibid., 1991.

  602“feeling kind of weird”: Author interview with AS.

  602“a terrible story of CIA recklessness”: AS journals, 1991, NYPL archives.

  603“a charming, earnest man”: Ibid.

  604“he wished he’d written a book”: Author interview with AS.

  Chapter 22: End Game

  605“He was sad most of the time”: Karen Croft interview with Angelina Cabrera.

  605“The senator dearly loved”: Peter Edelman OH, JFK Library.

  606“As I walked in”: Karen Croft interview with Angelina Cabrera.

  607For RFK’s awkward balancing act on the Warren Report, see David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (New York: Free Press, 2007).

  608“One of the things you learned”: Author interview with Adam Walinsky.

  609“Something bad is going to come of this”: John Ehrlichman, Witness to Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), 24.

  609“Do you know what I think will happen”: Arthur Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, 857.

  609“if you believe that Johnson’s reelection”: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Journals: 1952–2000 (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), 274.

  609“Living every day is like Russian roulette”: Jack Newfield, RFK: A Memoir (New York: Nation Books, 2009), 31.

  610“You have been much in my thoughts”: AWD letter to RFK, Mudd Library.

  611including one of the men who subdued Sirhan: Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, 373.

  611“Thus I have never said”: Thomas Noguchi, Coroner (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 108.

  611He struck many observers . . . as a “Manchurian candidate”: See Shane O’Sullivan, Who Killed Bobby? (New York: Union Square Press, 2008); William Turner, The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (New York: Thunders Mouth Press, 1993); Robert Blair Kaiser, RFK Must Die! (New York: Grove Press, 1970).

  611“Gene Cesar is an innocent man”: E-mail communication from Dan Moldea.

  612Meir claims he was introduced to Cesar: Author interview with John Meier.

  612“Everything about [Meier] was a lie”: Author interview with Robert Maheu.

  612“just more garbage”: E-mail from Dan Moldea.

  612“a no-good, dishonest son of a bitch”: Michael Drosnin, Citizen Hughes (New York: Broadway Books, 2004), 424.

  612Maheu had made sweetheart deals with mobsters and allowed the CIA: See ibid.; see also Larry DuBois and Laurence Gonazales, “Hughes, Nixon and the CIA,” Playboy, September 1976; and Gerald Bellett, Age of Secrets (Maitland, Ontario: Voyageur North America, 1995), 28.

  612“As far as I’m concerned”: Robert Maheu testimony to Church Committee, Sept. 23, 1975.

  613“Lest you worry”: AWD letter to Clover Dulles, June 25, 1968, Mudd Library.

  614“Dear Ted”: Correspondence between AWD and Edward Kennedy, Mudd Library.

  615“Uncle Allen would go off”: James Srodes, Allen Dulles: Master of Spies (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1999), 560.

  616“the spy was generally thought of”: Allen W. Dulles, Great Spy Stories (Secaucus, NJ: Castle, 1969), xi.

  616“This is a special occasion”: David Atlee Phillips, Secret Wars Diary: My Adventures in Combat, Espionage Operations and Covert Action (Bethesda, MD: Stone Tail Press, 1988), 172.

  Epilogue

  620“the founding fathers of U.S. intelligence were liars”: Joseph Trento, The Secret History of the CIA (Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, 2001), 478.

  Index

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  AWD - Allen Welsh Dulles

  JFD - John Foster Dulles

  Abboud, Robert, 302

  Abrahamian, Ervand, 233

  Abramson, Dr. Harold, 295

  Abshire, David, 450

  Abwehr, 134, 522

  Acheson, Dean, 231

  Adams, Sherman, 202

  Adenauer, Konrad, 278–81, 283–85

  Adler, Julius Ochs, 487

  Africa, 351, 363–64, 376, 386–89

  Africa-America Institute, 377–78

  African Americans, 43, 343, 345, 351

  Afshartous, Mahmoud, 234

  Agee, Philip, 546

  Age of Jackson, The (Schlesinger), 432

  Agnew, Spiro, 615

  Agriculture Department, 224

  Air Force, 453

  Alexander the Great, 438 />
  Alexander, William, 561

  Algeria, 3, 362–64, 412–15, 417–18, 420, 422–23, 481, 552

  Allan Memorial Institute, McGill University, 307–9, 380, 511

  Allende, Salvador, 461

  Alliance for Progress, 557

  Allies, 29–30, 47, 50–57, 61–63, 90, 109

  Almeida, Juan, 343

  Alperovitz, Gar, 601

  Alpha 66, 541

  Alphand, Hervé, 418–419

  Alsop, Joseph, 211, 222, 433, 446, 490, 574

  Alsop, Stewart, 211, 246

  Alsop, Susan Mary, 490

  Ambler, Eric, 615

  “America, America” (Macdonald), 332

  America First, 19

  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 543

  American Legion, 51

  American Metal Company (later AMAX), 377

  American Neurology Association, 304

  American Spy (Hunt), 499

  Amory, Robert, Jr., 219, 397, 401, 403

  Anaconda Copper, 53

  Andrews, Henry, 593

  Angleton, Carmen (daughter of Hugh), 107

  Angleton, Carmen (wife of Hugh), 108

  Angleton, Cicely, 96, 112, 335, 336

  Angleton, James Hugh, 97, 108

  Angleton, James Jesus, 22, 219, 325, 428, 442, 449, 450, 469, 504–6, 593, 617

  assassinations and, 619

  AWD and, 97, 545, 613, 615–16, 619

  background of, 105, 108, 335–36

  counterintelligence and, 96–97, 333–38, 450

  Cuba and, 337–38, 472

  culture wars and, 332–33, 337

  death of, 337, 619–20

  Dollmann and, 96–98, 105, 108–9, 115

  FBI and, 337

  Harvey and, 469, 472, 473

  Hofmann and, 383–84

  Italy and, 107–9, 111–12, 147, 465, 473

  JFK and, 428, 542, 559–60, 577–79, 619

  Mafia and, 337

  Nazi ratlines and, 96–98, 105–6, 109, 337

  Oswald and, 515, 542–43

  Philby and, 334–35, 469

  revelations about, 602

  RFK and, 619

  Siragusa and, 114–15

  Warren Commission and, 578–79, 581, 594

  Angleton, Siri Hari (formerly Lucy), 334–36

  Anglo-Iranian Oil company (later British Petroleum), 229–30, 232, 260

  anthrax, 294

  anti-Castro network, 454–62, 500–504, 512–13, 540–42, 606, 612

  anti-Communism, 148, 162, 165–86, 201–2, 205–9, 212–18, 340, 365, 521, 553

  anti-Franco resistance, 327

  anti-JFK network, 456–62, 524, 539–40, 554–61

  anti-Semitism, 20, 32–33, 40–46, 59, 66, 81, 99, 110, 188

  antitrust, 29, 230

  appeasement, 21

  Arbenz, Arabella, 253, 255–56

  Arbenz, Dr. Erick, 252–53, 255–56, 265–66

  Arbenz, Jacobo, 251–66, 338

  Arbenz, Maria Leonora, 266

  Arbenz, Maria Vilanova, 251, 254–59, 265

  Ardeatine Caves massacre, 103, 105, 116

  Arendt, Hannah, 34

  Argentina, 18, 105, 190

  Aristotle, 438

  Armstrong, Hamilton, 593

  Armstrong, Louis, 342

  Arnoni, Menachem “M.S.,” 588, 606–7

  Arrow Cross Party (Hungary), 110

  Arthur, Chester A., 372

  Arthur, William, 571–72

  Artichoke, Operation, 291, 292

  “Art of Persuasion, The” (Dulles), 456

  Ascona POW camp, 94–95

  assassination, 22–23, 91, 248, 252, 256–57, 263–264, 290, 317, 337, 422, 485, 546. See also specific individuals

  Assassins, The (Donovan), 576

  Associated Press, 241, 412

  Astor, Lady, 32

  Astor, Lord, 32

  Athens, ancient, 9–10

  Atsugi naval air base, 513

  Auchincloss, Hugh, 528–29

  Auchincloss, Janet Bouvier, 528–31

  Auschwitz, 47–50, 54–56, 103, 107

  Austria, 61, 76, 136–38

  Austrian Foreign ministry, 138

  Austrian Information Service, 138

  Axis, 81, 101. See also Hitler, Adolf; Nazi Germany and Nazis; World War II

  Axis Sally, 108, 291

  Bacall, Lauren, 228

  Baker, Bobby, 489–90, 492

  Baker, Josephine, 342

  Baker, Nicholson, 57

  Baldrige, Letitia, 374

  Baldwin, Hanson, 222, 262

  Baldwin, James, 345

  Balkans, 111

  Bancroft, Mary

  AWD’s relationship with, 119–20, 130–36, 139–40, 581–82, 613

  Clover and, 119–20, 128–31, 310–12, 358–59, 447, 592, 596

  Hoover and, 219

  JFK and, 368, 595–96

  Jung and, 119–21, 133–34, 139

  Luce and, 236

  marriages of, 131

  Paine and, 537–39

  Banister, Guy, 541, 597

  Bank for International Settlements (BIS), 25–28, 32, 163, 178–79

  banking and finance, 23–27, 64, 68, 82–83, 162–64, 178, 197–99, 204, 215, 353, 549, 555–56, 573

  Bank of England, 178

  Barbie, Klaus, 416

  Barnes, Tracy, 144, 261, 593

  Barron, Clarence W., 131

  Basques, 320

  Batchelor, Harold, 294

  Batista, Fulgencio, 7, 339–40, 344, 349–50, 459

  Baudouin, King of Belgium, 376

  Bay of Pigs invasion, 1–2, 5–7, 204, 255, 262, 341–42, 369, 393–412, 415, 418, 424–28, 435–36, 438, 448–50, 496, 501, 504, 512, 571, 596, 601, 612

  BBC, 56

  Beat poets, 332–33

  Beauvoir, Simone de, 345

  Beecher, Henry Knowles, 292

  Belafonte, Harry, 429–30

  Belarus, Jews murdered in, 275

  Belgium, 375–79, 382, 385–86, 414

  Bell, Daniel, 331

  Bell, Jack, 412

  Bellevue Sanatorium, 313–15

  Bénouville, Pierre de, 415

  Benson, Ezra Taft, 224

  Bentley, Elizabeth, 179–80

  benzedrine, 291

  Berle, Adolf, 195, 558

  Berlin, 72–73, 424, 470

  crisis of 1948, 244

  Wall, 458–59, 464

  Berlin, Isaiah, 331

  Bern, 16–18, 25–26, 28, 30–34, 46, 50–55, 76, 160, 297–98

  Bernabé Linares, José, 264–65

  Bernstein, Carl, 415

  Bernstein, Leonard, 432

  Bethlehem Children’s Home, 510

  Bethlehem Steel, 445

  Beyond Victory (Voorhis), 164

  BfV (West German internal security), 279–80

  Bidault, Georges, 245

  biological weapons, 289, 290, 293–94

  Bissell, Richard M., Jr., 261, 372–73, 383, 394, 397–401, 403, 407–8, 410, 414, 425, 427, 433

  blacklist, 432

  Black Muslims, 342, 346

  Black Ravens, 103

  black sites, 290, 293, 310, 546

  Blakey, Bob, 562

  Blanco, Enrique, 317

  Blind Ambition (Dean), 173

  Blome, Kurt, 294

  Blondheim, David, 41–42

  Blood and Roses (film), 430

  Blough, Roger, 444–45

  Blouin, Andrée, 382

  BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, West German intelligence), 280–81

  Bogart, Humphrey, 228

  Boggs, Hale, 576

  Bohlen, Charles “Chip,” 216–17, 440

  Bohrman, Stan, 600

  Bolivar, 349

  Bolivia, 557

  Bond, James (fictional character), 22, 368

  Bond of Secrecy (Hunt), 499

  Bonn, Germany, U.S. embassy, 93

  Bonnell, John Sutherland, 311

  B
onus March, 151

  Booth, John Wilkes, 577

  Bormann, Martin, 269, 271

  Bourne, Randolph, 247

  Bouvier, “Black Jack,” 528

  Bouvier family, 522

  Braden, Tom, 369, 547, 553

  Bradley, Omar, 409

  brainwashing, 289–90, 293, 308

  Braun, Eva, 101

  Braun, Werner von, 470

  Brazil, 388

  Breakfast at Tiffany’s (film), 430–31

  Bremer, L. Paul, III, 406

  Bretton Woods, 178

  Bridges, Harry, 218

  Britain, 19, 67, 95, 229, 231–34, 293

  British intelligence, 16–17, 21–23, 83, 105, 115, 153, 234, 275, 279, 334. See also MI6

  British Petroleum (formerly Anglo-Iranian Oil), 229

  British Royal Air Force, 58

  British Security Coordination, 21

  Brogan, Denis, 601

  Brookings Institution, 546

  Browder, Earl, 152

  Brown, George, 540

  Brown, Herman, 540

  Brown & Root, 540

  Brownell, Herbert, Jr., 185, 199, 204, 328–29

  Bruce, David, 32, 250–51

  Bruce-Lovett report, 250–51

  Buchanan, Thomas G., 582

  Buckley, William F., Jr., 173, 524

  Buffalo Evening News, 222

  Bulgari, Giorgio, 98

  Bundy, Carol, 586

  Bundy, Harvey, 218

  Bundy, McGeorge, 218–19, 373, 382, 407–8

  Bundy, William, 218–19, 221, 373, 399, 585–86, 593

  Burchinal, David, 453

  Burden, Wendy, 378

  Burden, William, 377–78

  Bureau of Special Services (BOSS, NYPD), 323–24, 326

  Buresch, Eugen “Gino,” 138–39

  Burgess, Guy, 334, 469

  Burke, Arleigh, 401–2, 406, 408–9, 411, 428, 450

  Bush, Dorothy, 425

  Bush, George H.W., 532–33

  Bush, George W., 406, 617

  Bush, Prescott, 249, 425–26

  Bush family, 522

  Butler, Smedley, 25

  Byrd, David Harold, 512, 524, 539–40

  Byrd, Harry, 539

  Cabell, Charles, 406, 410, 427, 449, 488, 524

  Cabell, Earle, 488, 524

  Cabot, John Moors, 259–60

  Cabrera, Angelina, 605–6

  Caesar, Julius, 447, 463

  Calvi, Fabrizio, 477

  Cameron, Dr. Donald Ewen, 307–10, 312–13, 380, 511

  Campbell, W. Glenn, 457, 486

  Camp Detrick biological weapons lab, 290, 293

  Camp King CIA interrogation center, 290–92

  Camp Peary (“the Farm”), 8, 546–47, 564

  Canfield, Cass, 484, 486

  Cannon, Clarence, 250

  Capote, Truman, 345

  Carbajal, Ruben, 500

 

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