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U.S. crackdown on, 161
White House and, 164
Williams/RFK relationship and, 165 See also Cuban Information Service
Cuban hit men in U.S., 228
Cuban Information Service (CIS), 172
Cuban Intelligence, 220, 224–25, 242
Cuban Military Intelligence, 226–27, 310, 340
Cuban Missile Crisis, 79–80, 80–83, 155, 156, 453, 528 n 124
Cuban Officer Training Program, 174, 182
Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC), 13, 138
Caroline Kennedy kidnapping threat and, 17
early knowledge of missiles in Cuba and, 543 n 78
Hunt and, 165
Lee writes against, 195
Louisiana para-military training camps and, 185
Martens and, 147–48
Miro Cardona and, 241
U.S. government and, 141
Cuban Secret Service, 188
Cuban Student Directorate, 195 See also Directorio Revolutionario Estudiantil
Cubana Airlines, 309–10, 311
Cubela Secades, Rolando
assurances from U.S. government and, 271
Castro intelligence infiltration of, 226
coordinating with U.S.-sponsored Cuban coup, 177
as double agent, 242–45
FitzGerald and, 83
Hernandez and, 184
JFK assassination and, 304
Kostikov and, 338
organized crime connections, 245
Phase Three assassination attempts and, 63, 175–76
post-JFK assassination investigation and, 340–41
Proenza and, 338
receives poison pen device to kill Castro, 240
RFK and, 164
tells Sanchez he’ll assassinate JFK, 239
unhappy with weapons choice, 290 See also AM-LASH (AM-LASH-1)
Cunningham, Elmo, 268–69, 332, 498, 501
Curry, Jesse, 291, 335
Curtis, Willard C. See Scott, Winston
Cushing, Richard Cardinal, 228, 406
Cushman, Robert E., Jr., 9, 10
D
Dallas
Alright Parking Garage, Oswald and, 266–67
concerns about JFK trip to, 273–75
Oswald returns to, 256–57
public hostility toward JFK, 280, 285–86, 291–92
Ruby’s enthusiasm for, 493–94, 498
shooting range, Oswald and, 261–63 See also Texas School Book Depository
Dallas Morning News
details of motorcade route and, 265, 268–69
on JFK insufficient opposition to communist aggression, 274
JFK Texas trip story, 254
on JFK trip, Yarbrough/Connally-Johnson split and, 287
on LBJ off ticket, 281
“Operation Midnight Ride” stories, 126
Oswald’s ride to shooting range story, 264
Dallas Police Department
audio tapes analysis, conspiracy and, 445
Curry on JFK visit, 291
dispatching Oswald description, 300
forensic evidence against Oswald, 332–33
Oswald interrogation, 330–32
Ruby affection for, 495
subdues Oswald in Texas Theatre, 316
Tippit murder and, 315–16
Tippit orders to remain in Oak Cliff, 314
Dalton, George, 322–23, 389
Dalzell, William, 137
Daniel, Jean, 11, 234–35
Daniels, Mark, 59
David, Irene, 28
David, Lester, 28, 379, 383
Davis, John, 273, 283, 382
Davis, Richard, 186
Davison, Jean, 451
De Guire, Michael J., 343
Dealey, E. M. “Ted,” 232
Dealey, Joe, 293
Dealey Plaza, 255–56, 293–94
Dean, John, 166
Death of a President, A (Manchester), 253, 398–99
DeBrueys, Warren, 138, 147, 149–50, 201
Decker, Bill, 387
Declassified Eisenhower, The (Cook), 7
Dejanovich, Owen, 98, 111, 127–28
DeLaBarre, Frank, 186, 187
DeLaBarre, Gus, 186, 187
Delgado, Nelson, 87, 96, 98–100, 308
DeLoach, Cartha, 72, 373, 397
Delsa, L.J., 441
Democratic National Committee, debt of, 253
DeMohrenschildt, George, 87, 105, 116, 121, 124
Denesleya, Donald, 122, 123
deniability
Artime’s operation and, 174
autonomous projects and, 161–63
Bissell on Cuba invasion and, 18
Kennedys’ ad hoc committees/hands-on policies and, 450
plausible, FitzGerald as envoy to Cubela and, 240
presidential, contingency plan for, 75
Dennison, Robert “Denny,” 77, 79, 177–78
Devlin, Lawrence, 365
Diaz, Nino, 13–14, 140–41, 142, 183
Diaz Isalgue, Miguel, 181
Diaz Ordaz, Gustavo, 378
Diaz Verson, Salvador, 222, 345–46
Dickerson, Willis “Dub,” 494
Diego, Victor Paneque, 186
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 42
Dillon, Douglas, 278
Directorate General of Intelligence (DGI), Cuban, 224–25, 346
Directorio Revolutionario Estudiantil (DRE), 148, 185, 198, 199
Dirksen, Everett, 160
Dobbs, Farrell, 117
Dolan, Ed, 149
Dolan, Joe, 415
Donahue, Howard, 476
Donaldson, Sam, 384
Doolittle Report, 8
Dorman, Mike, 283
Dorticos Armas, Osvaldo, 345–46
Doster, George R. “Reid,” 12
Dougherty, Jack, 288
Downey, Morton, Sr., 4
Downing, Thomas, 441
Doyle, Patrick, 489
Drain, Vincent, 387
Draznin, Julius, 386
DRE. See Directorio Revolutionario Estudiantil
Dulles, Allen, 31
appointment to Warren Commission, 362–63
approving Castro assassination plans, 50
Artime and, 169
awarded National Security Medal, 34
on Bay of Pigs operation, 22
on Bay of Pigs “other developments,” 49
CIA Cuba Project Team, 9
CIA investigation of JFK, 32–33
on CIA policy support, 433
Cuba Study Group and, 25
FitzGerald and, 82
Fleming’s James Bond books and, 45–46
Harvey and, 82
Hunt and, 165
JFK, RFK connections, 31–32
on JFK inexperience, 18
Lansdale and, 41–42
Operation Ajax and, 8
PBSUCCESS and, 8
permanent assassination capability and, 61
post-Bay of Pigs strategizing and, 58
resignation, 23–24
on Taylor Commission, 38, 71
Warren Commission and, 34, 365–66
World War II experience, 520–21 n 158
Dulles, Avery, 169
Dulles, John Foster, 8
Duncan, Jerry, 269
Dungan, Ralph, 181
Duran, Sylvia
car used by Oswald/Cuban Embassy officials and, 222
caught fleeing to Havana, 346
CIA, halting Mexican Police arrest and, 222
in Cuban Consular office, 213, 215
as double agent, 219–20
Lechuga and, 220, 236
Mexican Police arrest/interrogate, 343–44, 345
Oswald and, 218–19, 236–37
Proenza and, 221
as triple agent, 220–22
E
Earman, Jack, 404
Ebbitt Hotel, CIA and, 303
Edwards, India, 396
Edwards, Sheffield, 50, 71, 72–73, 365�
�66, 393–94
Ehrlichman, John, 422
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 5
Castro and, 6
CIA Cuban covert operation and, 7–10, 21–22
Dulles, Lumumba assassination plan and, 365
Lansdale and, 42
Presidential Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 32
signaling co-insurgents through coded speech, 276
Elder, Walt, 57, 76, 303–4
Elliott, Elcan, 307–8, 314
Ellsworth, Frank, 332, 473, 497, 501
“enhanced memory” phenomenon, 488–89
Epstein, Edward Jay, 194, 420–21
Escalante, Fabian, 17, 243, 245–46, 451
Esperdy, Peter, 228
Espinosa, Cristobal, 267
Esterline, Jake, 63
CIA Cuba Project Team, 9
Cuba invasion plan and, 18
Cuba invasion results and, 20
on Harvey/RFK run-ins, 81
on JFK/RFK drive against Castro, 63
on Mafia involvement, 50
Estes, Billie Sol, 281–82, 283, 290
Euins, Amos L., 295, 296, 298–99
Evans, John (pseudonym), 81–82
Executive Action project, 61
“Eyewitness Testimony, Memory, and Assassination Research” (Loftus/Doyle), 489
eyewitnesses, 487–89
gunfire source and, 298–300, 467
F
Fackler, Martin, 482
Fagen, Donald, 209
Failure Analysis Associates, 470, 478, 482
Fain, John, 114
Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC), 116
Cuban Embassy control of, 223
Lopez and, 311
mails Oswald pamphlets, 129
Oswald in New Orleans and, 195, 198
Oswald reveals alleged CIA plot for Castro assassination to, 223
Oswald sends news-clipping on confrontation with Bringuier, 200
terrorists in New York, 236
Fallaci, Oriana, 384–85
“Family Jewels,” CIA internal abuses report, 424, 425
FAR (Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces) plane, 309
Fay, Paul, 277
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
bugging Democratic National Convention, 1964, 398
CIA inter-agency rivalry and, 358
Cuba-Miami letters, Cuban JFK assassination plans, 188–89
Cuban exiles on Cuban Communist assassination team and, 312–13
DRE arms cache and, 185
Ferrie seeks help from, 402
Hoover on CIA investigation of JFK, 33
informed of Cuban agents in Texas, 230
interrogation of Oswald family and, 338
interviews Oswald after Bringuier confrontation, 200
interviews Price on Oswald at shooting range, 261
JFK assassination conspiracy theory and, 196
Katzenbach memo to limit investigation, 355, 356
Keenan investigative trip to Mexico City and, 357–59
learns of CIA/mob/Kennedy connections, 72
learns of Phase One Castro plots, 71
limited investigation of, 354–57
Mexico City headquarters, 211
monitoring Oswalds, 114–15, 201
Morrow and Sapp statements to, 267
Navarros on Oswald with Cuban Embassy officials and, 222
Oswald’s funeral/burial and, 349
raids McLaney Camp, 183–84
on RFK’s first coverup, 73
Rosselli surveillance, 71
Ruby and, 493
Walker investigation, 124 See also Hoover, J. Edgar
Feeney, Rick, 441
Feito, Fernandez, 346
Felaifel, Juan, 243–14, 247
Fenner, Nancy Lee, 259–60
Fernandez, Fernando, 187–88, 199, 338–39
Fernandez, Julio (pseudonym), 312
Ferrell, Mary, 269
Ferrer, Eduardo, 20
Ferrie, David W., 144
apartment weapons stash, 153
Banister and, 141, 144
Cuban exiles and, 144–46
Houma weapons transfer and, 152
Lake Ponchartrain para-military training camps and, 183
on missiles in Cuba, 149
Pena and, 205
possible link to RFK and, 542 n 62
questions about Oswald relationship, 330, 349
training Cubans at MDC camp, 187
Finck, Pierre, 325, 326, 327, 328
FitzGerald, Desmond, 31, 390
assures support of RFK to Cubela, 239–41, 244
bet with Forrestal on Castro collapse, 251
on coordinating CCC and Castro assassination, 177
on exile leaders rivalry, 15
JFK, and 82–83, 529–30 n 151
JFK assassination investigation and, 352
JFK Cuban coup coded speech and, 275
news of Cubela Mexico City contacts, 338–39
reaction to JFK assassination, 303
reaction to Oswald’s death, 339
sends Sanchez to meet Cubela, 238–39
Special Affairs Staff and, 82
Five Eyes, 406–7
531 Lafayette Street, 197
544 Camp Street
Aracha Smith and, 143–44
Cuban Revolutionary Council offices in, 147
Garrison interest in, 402, 408
Guy Banister and Associates and, 139–40, 196–97
Martens and, 146
Oswald and, 196–98
Schlumberger munitions stored at, 152–53
Secret Service visit after JFK assassination, 333 See also Newman Building
5412 Committee, 8
Flannery, Jim, 238, 438
“flashbulb memory” phenomenon, 488–89
Fleming, Ian
JFK and, 45–46 See also Bond, James (Fleming character)
Flynn, Charles, 493
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 203
FODC (Friends of Democratic Cuba), 137
Fonzi, Gaeton, 148, 209, 441, 442–43
Ford, Charles, 65
Ford, Dennis, 489
Ford, Gerald, 362, 371, 373–74, 424–25
Forrestal, Michael, 251
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast 11/22/63, 286–87
Fortas, Abe, 321, 360, 362–63
Frazier, Buell W., “B.W.”
gives Oswald ride, 270, 288, 289
meets Oliver Stone, 559 n 40
Oswald and, 264–65
on Oswald and children, 257
timing of Oswald retrieving rifle and, 268
Freeman, Orville, 284
Frente Revolutionario Democratico (FRD), 13, 141, 169
Friends of Democratic Cuba (FODC), 137
Fritz, Will, 317, 331, 464
Fugitive, The (television program), 93, 256
Fulbright, William J., 18, 273–74
funeral/burial, JFK, 334, 361, 389, 404–6
G
G-2 (Cuban Military Intelligence), 226–27, 310, 340
Garcia Bongo, Rafael, 246–47
Garner, Mrs. Jesse, 192
Garrison, Jim
character/reputation of, 401–2
on Feme and Oswald, 330
Ferrie investigation, 402–3
JFK (movie) and, 446
Kennedy investigations, 401–3, 406–13
RFK and, 406–8
Shaw investigation, 410–13
Garro De Paz, Elena and Elenita, 218–19, 344
Garwood, Darrell, 365
Gaudin, Louis D., 309
Gay, Donovan, 441
Gemberling, Robert, 260, 473
Genovese, Vito, 414
Germann, Ella, 106, 107
Geyer, Georgie Anne, 248
Giancana, Sam
Castro assassination plans and, 45, 52, 241, 523 n 19
emissary of, meets with McLaney and JFK, 70
Kennedy family and, 242
RFK’s coverup of, 72–73
Sinatra and, 435
wiretapping and, 71
Gil, G. Wray, 329
Gilpatrick, Roswell, 231–32
Giordano, Joseph, 389
Gleichauf, Justin, 143
Gobel, Merritt, 309
Goldwater, Barry, 231, 254, 439
Golovachev, Pavel, 103, 105, 111, 121, 205–6
Gonzalez, Alonzo, 59, 436
Goodpaster, Andrew, 9
Goodpasture, Ann, 353
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 397
Goodwin, Richard
on Castro assassination plan, 75
on Castro’s power in Cuba, 26
Cuba Project and, 43
Guevara and, 27, 63
on JFK’s anti-Castro campaign, 13, 22
on JFK’s reaction to Bay of Pigs, 27
on Kennedy family dynamic, 28
on Lansdale’s admissions, 428
RFK avoiding JFK assassination questions and, 385
writing JFK’s anti-Castro campaign speeches, 11–12
Gordon, Caroline, 58
Gordon, Heather, 58, 59, 437
Gordon, John, III, 436, 437
post-Bay of Pigs plots and, 57–60
Gottlieb, Sidney, assassination poisons and, 61
government, U.S.
CIA role in, 431
continued Cold War with Cuba and, 453–54
Cuban Revolutionary Council and, 141
Oswald’s inconsequence to, 455–56
public distrust of, JFK assassination and, 451, 458
Ruby’s patriotism and, 495–96
GPFOCUS. See Kennedy, Robert F.
GPIDEAL
11/22/63, Cuban journalist reports killing of, 285 See also Kennedy, John F.
Granello, Sal, 51
Grant, Eva, 493, 495, 496, 499
grassy knoll gunman, 471–75
agents on knoll and, 472–73
crowd on knoll and, 472
sight lines problem, 473–75
smoke problem, 471–72
Graves, L. C., 335
Great Lakes Carbon, 4, 31
Greer, Bill, 298
Gregory, Peter, 116
Griffin, Burt, 362, 363, 371, 374
Griffith, Clark, 4
Groden, Robert, 477
Gromyko, Andrei, 176–77
Grose, Peter, 34, 82, 366
Guantanamo, 58–60, 162, 436
Guatemala, PBSUCCESS and, 8
Guatemalan Lumber Company, 186
Guevara, Che, 27, 51, 63
Guin Diaz, Ramon Tomas, 247
Guinn, Vincent, 482
gunfire source, 467–75
witnesses and, 298–300, 467
wounds and, 468
Gurvich, William, 407–8
Guthman, Edwin, 302, 381, 390
Gutierrez, Pedro, 222, 345
Guy Banister and Associates, 139, 140, 142–43, 152–53 See also banister, Guy
H
Hackett, Dave, 382
Haig, Alexander, Jr., 171