Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (No Series) (83 page)
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Authors: David Talbot
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“My opinion of the CIA has greatly diminished through the years”: Author interview with Richard Schweiker.
381
“I think what happened to me in 1987 was a pure setup”: Author interview with Hart.
383
“every capillary in my body went into electrified shock”: Author interview with Robert Tanenbaum.
385
A
New York Times
article clawed through Sprague’s past:
New York Times
, January 2, 1977.
385
“My daughter, when I was in Washington, was three years old”: Tanenbaum testimony, Assassination Archives Review Board, September 17, 1996.
386
“the committee ultimately obtained from the CIA every single document”: Quoted in Fonzi, 303.
386
“We were not popular in Langley”: Author interview with Dan Hardway.
388
“I think the mob did it”: Quoted in
New York Times
, June 3, 1979.
388
“I don’t know how many times since 1978 that Bob and I have had this conversation”: Blakeyseems willing to concede that someone “low-level” in the CIA like William Harvey might have been involved, or at least been aware, of the JFK plot. But, in his mind, this still does not implicate the agency itself. “If Harvey is involved in the conspiracy, you can’t really attribute that to the agency itself—it’s a rogue agent,” he told me. But, if by “rogue agent,” Blakey means someone in the lower rungs of the CIA who was operating on his own, this point is debatable. Bill Harvey was a CIA legend who had been entrusted with two of the agency’s most sensitive operations—the Berlin station, at the front lines of the Cold War, and Task Force W, the heavily funded anti-Castro project. Harvey reported directly to Helms and could count on his bureaucratic protection. In his testimony before the Church Committee, Harvey insisted—and there is reason to believe him—that he never did anything that was “unauthorized, freewheeling or in any way outside the [agency] framework.” It is more likely that Harvey was a convenient agency fall guy than an out-of-control agent. The “rogue agent” scenario where that assassination researchers like Blakey—who recoil at the idea that the plot came from within the government itself, but nonetheless must contend with compelling evidence it did—often find a safe refuge.
388
The
New Times
article, which was written by
Washington Post
reporter Jefferson Morley: Morley had originally pitched the story to his editors at the
Post
, but true to form, the newspaper turned it down. “They all agreed it was an interesting story—there was no lack of intellectual curiosity in it,” Morley wryly recalled. “There was just a lack of publishing interest.”
388
“Joannides’s behavior was criminal”: Quoted in
Salon
, December 17, 2003.
388
“Many have told me that the culture of the agency is one of prevarication”: Quoted on “Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?” PBS
Frontline
Web site.
389
“My private opinion is that JFK was done in by a conspiracy”: Quoted in Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
, 126.
389
“I was one of the two case officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald”: David Atlee Phillips’ novel outline for
The AMLASH Legacy
, courtesy James Lesar.
389
“Were you in Dallas on that day?”: E-mail from Shawn Phillips, reprinted at http:// www.jfkmurdersolved.com/phillips.htm.
390
the CIA alone had over four hundred American journalists secretly at its service:
Rolling Stone
, October 20, 1977.
390
some of these journalists did the CIA’s bidding: see, for instance, a January 25, 1968 CIA memo on Hugh Aynesworth, who covered the JFK assassination, first for the
Dallas Morning News
and then
Newsweek
. Aynesworth—who at one time, according to the memo, “expressed some interest…in possible employment with the Agency”—was considered by the CIA to be a solid “Warren Commission man on the assassination.” NARA record number 104-10170-10230.
391
[Bradlee’s] friendship with JFK “dominated my life”: Bradlee,
Conversations with Kennedy
, 9.
391
The
Washington Post’s
failure…was “especially puzzling”:
Rolling Stone
, April 24,1975.
391
“someone who wants to devote his life to [the case]”: The only
Washington Post
reporter who stuck doggedly with the assassination story over the years was George Lardner Jr.—among whose distinctions was apparently being the last person to speak with David Ferrie on the night of his death. Lardner is a controversial figure in assassination research circles for his image as conspiracy skeptic. He was the first reporter to target Oliver Stone, using a purloined copy of the controversial
JFK
script to attack the director—whom he accused of “assassinat[ing] the truth”—before the movie was even released. Despite his reputation, Lardner—now retired—told me that he came to believe in a JFK conspiracy after examining evidence unearthed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. “I think the evidence indicates there was Mafia involvement in the killing,” he said. But the
Post
never followed up on Lardner’s suspicions by investigating a possible organized crime involvement.
392
“Jesus…if I were Bobby, I would certainly have taken a look at that”: Author interview with Bradlee.
393
“We tried and tried and tried”: Author interview with Hewitt.
394
“You don’t want to know,” Nixon had replied: According to H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s White House chief of staff, Nixon apparently connected the Kennedy assassination to the CIA’s Cuba plots. In his 1978 memoir,
The Ends of Power
, Haldeman told an eye-opening story about the time Nixon ordered him to pressure CIA chief Dick Helms into helping the president head off the looming Watergate scandal. Following Nixon’s mysterious instructions, Haldeman sat down Helms in his office and warned him that Watergate “may be connected to the Bay of Pigs and if it opens up, the Bay of Pigs may be blown.” To Haldeman’s surprise, the normally self-contained Helms exploded at this, shouting, “The Bay of Pigs had nothing to do with this. I have no concern about the Bay of Pigs.” Nixon’s top aide later concluded that “Bay of Pigs” was Nixon’s code for the Kennedy assassination.
394
“Every American owes [Oliver Stone] a debt of gratitude”: Quoted in Associated Press syndicated article, October 21, 1992.
395
“because it challenged the work they had done in the 1960s”: Quoted in
Regardie’s
August 1992.
395
“History may be too important to leave to newsmen”:
New York Times
, December 20, 1991.
395
How could plush-salaried press sages…pooh-pooh the idea of a conspiracy: Stone speech to National Press Club, reprinted in
JFK: The Book of the Film
, 407.
395
They had decided years before to follow Bobby’s public vow to focus on the future: “For me to now get interested in [assassination research] would be going against a habit of forty years,” Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the daughter of Robert Kennedy and former lieutenant governor of Maryland, explained to me. The lesson that was drummed into her generation of Kennedys, she said, was “there is nothing you can do to bring somebody back. So the issue is what you can do with your life to go forward, to promote their ideals. And we were taught that’s a better way to live life. That was the message, and it was very strong.”
395
“I worked on the film’s behalf because I believed in it”: Author interview with Mankiewicz.
396
On the 1992 campaign trail. Clinton and…Gore [called for] relevant government documents [to be] released: Author interview with Palamara.
396
Clinton [asked] Webster Hubbell…to find out “who killed JFK”: Hubbell,
Friends in High Places: Our Journey from Little Rock to Washington, D.C.
396
The CIA’s deception of Congress “is not a performance that inspires public confidence”:
Newsweek
, November 24, 2003.
397
“My gut feeling”: BBC
Newsnight
transcript, November 20, 2006.
397
O’Sullivan suggested that the man caught on camera: Author interview with Shane O’Sullivan.
398
Morales was the agency’s “peon”: Author interview with Morales family member.
398
“Dave Morales did dirty work”: Author interview with Wayne Smith.
398
Morales…“was in the palace when Allende was killed”: Summers,
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon,
336.
399
“I was in Dallas when…we got that mother fucker”:
Newsnight
transcript.
400
“When some asshole needed to be killed”: Author interview with Ruben Carbajal.
401
…the CIA was involved in the assassination…“but I don’t know exactly who”: Author interview with Antonio Veciana.
402
Hunt suggested that several prominent CIA officials might have been involved: E. Howard Hunt,
American Spy,
134.
403
“I didn’t resent him”: Author interview with St. John Hunt.
405
he was invited by Frank Sturgis…to a clandestine meeting: Handwritten E. Howard Hunt notes, courtesy of St. John Hunt.
406
dismiss JFK as “a vulgar hoodlum”:
Atlantic
, September 2006.
408
“My guess is that the Warren Commission will carry the day”: Author interview with Blakey.
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