Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination

by Anthony Summers

  434 Cuesta: Miami News, March 16 & May 31, 1966, New York Times, December 4, 1992, HSCA X.100–.

  436 Escalante: “Transcript of Proceedings Between Cuban Officials and JFK Historians,” December 7–9, 1995, attended by author, http://cuban-exile.com/doc_026-050/doc0027-4.html, High Times, March 1996; Escalante, op. cit., p. 165–)

  Note 11: According to Escalante, Cuesta named not only Díaz but also an exile named Eladio del Valle—who had also been linked to Trafficante—as having been involved in the assassination. Rumors about del Valle’s supposed participation have circulated since publication of a National Enquirer story that followed his own violent death in 1967. The author has seen no good evidence, however, to support the story. Unlike Herminio Díaz, the author is unaware of him having had a track record as an assassin. (Trafficante: FBI document 105-95677, citing Diario Las Americas, February 25, 1967; Publication: National Enquirer, April 27, 1967, reprinting El Tiempo (New York), February 1967; & see Kaiser, op. cit., p. 400–)

  437 DRE: (“conceived”) NARA 104-10170-10127; ($51,000) CIA memo for Cottrell, State Department, April 1963, JFK Library, supplied to author by Jefferson Morley, Moley, op. cit., p. 324n; (bag) conv. Jefferson Morley, citing int. DRE’s Jose Lanusa; (problem) e.g. Kaiser, op. cit., p.149, Morley, op. cit., p. 129–; (new case officer) Fitness Report, George Joannides, July 31, 1963, supplied to author by Jefferson Morley, Kaiser, op. cit., p. 150; (blitz of calls) see Chapter 16, supra. & HSCA X.83–, Miami New Times, April 12, 2001, draft for New York Times Magazine, and Morley email, February 10, 2013—citing numerous newspapers that carried story.

  438Note 12: The DRE man who posed as a fellow supporter of Castro was Carlos Quiroga. See reference in Chapter 16.

  Note 13: Some of the DRE’s members gave testimony (Carlos Bringuier) or spoke with the FBI (Bringuier and Manuel Salvat) as witnesses with information on Oswald or Ruby. (X.32–, CD 441) “inability to find”: Fonzi, op. cit., p. 298. ints.

  Dan Hardway and Edwin Lopez.

  Joannides in contact/flew New Orleans: Jefferson Morley summary from record for author, January 16, 2013.

  “he could not”: Robert Blakey Declaration in Morley v. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Civil Action 03-2545, June 2006.

  Note 14: The case officer who dealt specifically with the DRE’s military leader, Manuel Salvat, was as of 1962 David Morales, the covert operations chief at the CIA’s secret base for anti-Castro activity in Florida. In retirement in 1973, during a drinking session in which President Kennedy was discussed, Morales said—according to his attorney, Robert Walton: “We took care of that sonofabitch, didn’t we?” Some have inferred that he may have been involved in the assassination. Morales, who was not interviewed by the Assassinations Committee, died in 1978. (Salvat/Morales: NARA 104-10171-10041, (ZAMKA was the code name for Morales and AMHINT-2 the code for Salvat), corr. Jefferson Morley; operations chief: David Corn, Blond Ghost, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, p. 85; remark: ints. Robert Dorff, & see Fonzi, op. cit., p. 366 & Noel Twyman, op. cit., p. 450–)

  Note 15: Joannides’s role as DRE case officer became known in late 1998, when—following questions posed by reporter Jefferson Morley—the Assassination Records Review Board obtained some of his personnel records. Morley broke the story in Miami New Times in April 2001.

  Outrage: (“criminal”/ “willful”) Salon, December 17, 2003; (“The Agency”) Washington Post, November 21, 2005; (“I no longer”) int. of Robert Blakey for “Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald,” Frontline, www.pbs.org; (“destroyed the integrity”) Nelson cited in Jim Lesar to U.S. Archivist David Ferreiro, January 20, 2012; (“The CIA wasn’t”) Miami New Times, April 12, 2001, and see New York Times, October 16, 2009.

  439 Fighting in courts: Morley articles, February 13, 18, & 26, 2013, www.jfkfacts.org, “JFK’s Murder Secrets Test CIA, Court Procedures,” www.justice-integrity.org.

  No monthly reports: Morley, op. cit., pp. 177, 324n.

  Phillips documents remain closed: Salon, November 22, 2011.

  Phillips background: see Chapters 16 & 19, supra., (& DRE) Morley, op. cit., pp. 128, 314n, & see Phillips, op. cit., pp. 64, 78, 93 & see also coverage of Phillips in the Paragon paperback edition of this book, published as Conspiracy, (1991) and Fonzi, op. cit.

  440 “retired officer” footnote: HSCA Report, pp. 136, 136n23; HSCA X.46.

  Note 16: In a book Hunt wrote about the Bay of Pigs, he referred to his “propaganda chief” colleague—evidently Phillips—as “Knight.” According to Phillips himself, in his published memoir, “Knight” had been a name used by another senior officer—evidently Richard Helms. (Crozier: referred to by HSCA as “Ron Cross,” HSCA X.46– & see HSCA Report, p. 136n23; “Knight”: Howard Hunt, Give Us This Day, cited in Phillips, op. cit., p. 88fn, Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets, New York: Pocket, 1979, p. 423)

  Phillips denied/Veciana “not him”: HSCA Report, pp. 136, 136n23; HSCA X.46.

  Note 17: A former Phillips assistant named William Kent (“Doug Gupton” in the Committee’s text) said he did not recall Phillips having used the name “Maurice Bishop,” and did not recall whether Hunt or Phillips used the name “Knight”. A former agent named Balmes Hidalgo (“B.H.” in the Committee’s text) said there was a “Maurice Bishop” at the CIA, but that he had been a person other than his “personal friend” Phillips. Former Director John McCone said he had known a man named “Maurice Bishop” at the Agency, only to say later that he must have been mistaken. For more extensive coverage of the Bishop/Phillips issue, see the earliest hard and paperback editions of this book, published as Conspiracy. (Kent/Hidalgo/McCone: HSCA X.48–; pseudonyms used: corr. Jefferson Morley, Jerry Shinley—for whose expertise the author is indebted; earliest editions: Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980 & ibid. in paperback, 1981.)

  441 Veciana’s secretary: at length in Anthony Summers’ Conspiracy, 1981 paperback edition, op. cit., p. 527–. Author was accompanied at Prewett int. by David Leigh of The Washington Post, later with The Observer [UK].

  “suspected”/“aroused”: HSCA Report, p. 136n2.

  442 “perjury”: Fonzi, op. cit., p. 410.

  “less than satisfied”: int. Blakey.

  Note 18: Carle is the author of The Interrogator, a book on his experiences during the War on Terror. The quote used here is from a February 5, 2013, letter from Carle to the author’s principal colleague Robbyn Swan, who had noted that—in a book review—Carle had written: “I knew “Maurice Bishop,” whose real name was David Atlee Phillips.” In his letter to Swan, Carle also wrote: “Another case officer colleague—a contemporary of Phillips, now long dead—in fact the man who introduced Phillips to his second wife, also spoke to me in a way that indicated that Phillips had been “Bishop.” (review: The Interrogator, New York: Nation Books, 2011; Carle review: The Daily Beast, June 10, 2012)

  David Phillips: Talbot, op. cit., pp. 389, 445n.

  novel: as read and noted by author’s attorney James Lesar. James Lesar, 1994.

  443 “My private”: quotation supplied to author by Kevin Walsh, May, 1979.

  “had all”: HSCA Report, p. 115.

  444 “I feel betrayed”: int. Griffin by Michael Cockerell and author for BBC “Panorama” program, January 1977.

  “Consider”: Griffin testimony, HSCA XI.264–.

  “come close”: Blakey: int. on DIR radio, New York, August 1979, transcript published by Clandestine America, III.3, January & February 1979; int. by Jeff Goldberg, Inquiry, January 7 & 21, 1980; & see Blakey Introduction, The Final Assassinations Report, paperback edition of HSCA Report, New York: Bantam, 1979.

  Justice Dept.: New York Times, January 6, 1980, Justice Dept. briefing, & Summers, Conspiracy hardback, op. cit., p. 519– & paperback edition, p. 525–.

  Blakey resigned: Talbot, op. cit., p. 408.

 
; 445 “Everybody”: Roger Craig testimony, XVI.270.

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