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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