Legacy of Secrecy (159 page)

and mail surveillance, operations that continued into the fall of 1963. According to Dr. John Newman,

the CIA “blocked an attempt by the [Senate] Church Committee in 1975 to find out . . . to whom such

information had been circulated,” so it’s not clear how much Phillips was involved with the 1963 FPCC

efforts.
40.
HSCA 180-10142-10307.
41.
John Simkin, David Morales biography at the British educational website www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.
42.
Ibid; Joseph J. Trento,
Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA, and
the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence Network
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005), p. 47.
43.
John Simkin, David Morales biography at the British educational website www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk; see also

Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), many passages.
44.
Ibid Simkin and Hancock.
45.
Cuban Officials and JFK Historians Conference, 12-7-95.
46.
Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), pp. 128, 129.
47.
Harry Williams interviews 4-92, 7-24-93, and others.
48.
Anthony and Robbyn Summers, “The Ghosts of November,”
Vanity Fair
,
792

LEGACY OF SECRECY

12-94; Warren Hinckle and William Turner,
The Fish Is Red: The Story of the Secret War Against Castro
(New York: Harper & Row, 1981) pp. 153, 299, 303, 304.
49.
Tad Szulc,
Compulsive Spy: The Strange Career of E.

Howard Hunt
(New York: Viking, 1974), pp. 77, 78.
50.
L. Gonzales-Mata,
Cygne
(Grasset, 1976).
51.
Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA
(New York: Knopf, 1979), p. 62.
52.
Interview with Harry Williams, 2-24-92.
53.
CIA 104-10163-10258.
54.
WPLG-TV (Miami) Wright and Rinker interview Bernard Barker and Eugenio Martinez, 5-22-76.

CHAPTER THREE

1.
US House of Representatives,
The Final Assassinations Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations
(New York: Bantam Books, 1979), pp. 208, 213.
2.
Interviews with confidential Kennedy aide source, 3-17-92.
3.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), pp. 148-51; Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer,
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
(Garden City: Doubleday, 1982), pp. 234-36; Richard H. Immerman,
The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of

Intervention
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982), p. 200.
4.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Hoffa Wars: Teamsters,
Rebels, Politicians, and the Mob
(New York, SPI, 1993), pp. 153, 154. This wasn’t the first time that particular Ruby associate was linked to the assassination of a government official. Moldea writes on p. 153 that “In

1947 . . . the [Chicago] police captain who instigated [an] indictment” of this Ruby associate for another

murder “was found dead in his garage, his jaw torn off by a .45 caliber bullet.” The original murder

indictment “was dropped” after “two witnesses against” the Ruby associate “were murdered” and “two

others refused to testify.”
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid, p. 108.
7.
House Select Committee on Assassinations Report, pp.

176, 177.
8.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), pp. 237, 238; HSCA vol. IX p. 77-86.
9.
Dan Christensen “Court Secrecy Practices at Center of Drug Boss’s 11th

Circuit Appeal,
Daily Business Review
, 11-22-04.
10.
FBI contact investigation 3-7-86, report dictated 3-6-86, FD-302 declassified 6-98 and on file at the National Archives.
11.
Letter from informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Ibid.
14.
Ibid.
15.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello
and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), p. 522.
16.
Anthony and Robbyn Summers, “The Ghosts of November,”
Vanity Fair
, 12-94.
17.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), pp. 120, 121.
18.
Letter from informant to Carl Podsiadly, FBI, San Francisco office, 6-88.
19.
Richard D. Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers
(New York: Arcade, 1999), p. 229.
20.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John
F. Kennedy
(New York: Signet, 1989), pp. 158-59; David E. Scheim,
Contract on America: The Mafia Murder
of President John F. Kennedy
(New York: Zebra, 1989), p. 123.
21.
John H. Davis,
The Kennedy Contract
(New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1993), p. 253.
22.
Seth Kantor,
The Ruby Cover-Up
(New York: Zebra Books, 1992), p. 108.
23.
Warren Commission Exhibit #1697, Warren Commission Hearings vol. XXIII, p. 335, Warren

Commission Documents vol. IV p. 529, all cited in David E. Scheim,
Contract on America: The Mafia Murder

of President John F. Kennedy
(New York: Zebra, 1989), pp. 141-42.
24.
Warren Commission vol. XIV, p. 150; HSCA vol. IV, p. 198, 498 & vol. IX, p. 69, all cited by A. J. Weberman, ajweberman.com.
25.
HSCA vol. IX, p. 191.
26.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), pp. 237, 238; HSCA vol. IX, pp. 77-86.
27.
Interviews with John Knight, Sr., 1-10-06 and 6-13-06. While a bystander told Knight the mobster from Los Angeles visiting Marcello was the well-known Mickey Cohen, it had

to be Johnny Rosselli or another Los Angeles mob associate of Marcello, since Cohen was in prison at the

time.
28.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), many passages.
29.
CIA 104-10315-10004, 6-28-63 AMWORLD memo, declassified

1-27-99; Bradley Ayers,
The War that Never Was
(Canoga Park, Calif.: Major Books, 1979), pp. 58, 59.
30.

FBI 62-109060-251; FBI 62-109060-7077 2.26.73; FBI 62-109060-5815 10.13.67 cited by A. J. Weberman at

ajweberman.com.
31.
Warren Commission Exhibit #2818. (In mid-December 1963, after JFK’s death and

LBJ put C-Day on hold, Ruby placed the date for the invasion in May 1964.)
32.
Independent American,
8-12-63.
33.
John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), many passages; Banister files at the Assassination Archives and Research Center, Washington, D.C.; Miriam Ottenberg,
The Federal

Investigators
(Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1962), p. 93.
34.
Anthony Summers,
Not In Your Lifetime
(New York: Marlowe & Co., 1998), p. 233;
People and The Pursuit of Truth
, vol. 1, No. 1, 5-75.
35.
Ibid Summers, p. 236.
36.
CIA file card, “Oswald, Lee Harvey” R 6R05270089 from Oswald’s CIA file 201-289248.

37.
Phone interview with confidential high Florida law-enforcement source 12-10-96.

CHAPTER FOUR

1.
Carl Sifakis,
The Mafia Encyclopedia
(New York: Facts On File, 1987), pp. 325, 326; Douglas Valentine,
The
Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs
(London, New York: Verso, 2004), p. 471; U.S. Senate, McClellan Committee Hearings (officially Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor

or Management Field, Senate Select Committee Hearings), 6-30-59.
2.
Allen Friedman and Ted Schwarz,

Notes

793

Power and Greed: Inside the Teamsters Empire of Corruption
(New York: F. Watts, 1989), pp. 132, 154; Joseph Franco with Richard Hammer,
Hoffa’s Man: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Hoffa as Witnessed by His Strongest

Arm
(New York: Prentice Hall, 1987), pp. 197, 198.
3.
Staff and editors of
Newsday, The Heroin Trail
(New York: New American Library, 1974), pp. 109-18; Project Pilot cited by Douglas Valentine,
The Strength of the
Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs
(London, New York: Verso, 2004), pp. 315-18, 331, 332, 366, 367, 370, 371.
4.
Jack Newfield, “I want Kennedy killed,”
Penthouse
5-92.
5.
Harry Williams interview, 7-24-93.
6.
Senate Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations:

Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Sept./Oct. 1963.
7.
Douglas Valentine,
The Strength of the
Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs
(London, New York: Verso, 2004), p. 298.
8.
Senate Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Organized Crime and

Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, 10-15-63.
9.
Phone interview with confidential high Florida law-enforcement source, 12-10-96.
10.
Senate Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, 10-15-63.
11.
Phone interview with confidential high Florida law-enforcement source, 12-10-96.
12.
Fabian Escalante at Nassau Conference, also cited in
AARC Quarterly
, Fall 95/Winter 1996 issue.
13.
Dick Russell,
The Man Who Knew Too Much
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), pp. 459, 460.
14.
CIA 104-10215-10321, cable to CIA Director, 9-17-63.
15.
Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), p. 337.
16.
CIA 104-10215-190316.
17.
Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), p. 337.
18.
CIA 104-10169-10006, memo to CIA Director, 8-6-73.
19.
Dick Russell,
The Man Who Knew Too Much
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), pp. 459, 460.
20.
Harry Williams interview 7-24-93; other references withheld to protect source’s family.
21.
Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), p. 49.
22.
Ibid, pp. 481-94.
23.
1967 Inspector General’s Report on the CIA-Mafia plots; William Scott Malone, “The

Secret Life of Jack Ruby,”
New Times
1-23-78; Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), many passages.
24.
Ibid Rappleye and Becker, pp. 120, 121.
25.
Ibid, pp. 248, 249.

26.
Bradley Ayers,
The War that Never Was
(Canoga Park, Calif.: Major Books, 1979), pp. 58, 59; Sylvia Meagher,
Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report
(New York: Vintage, 1992), p. 107.
27.
Ibid, Ayers.
28.
Interview of Robert Plumlee 6-4-92, apparently by Robert G.

Vernon. We tend to focus on those parts of Plumlee’s story that have remained most consistent over the

years and those parts for which there is some independent corroboration.
29.
Larry Hancock,
Someone
Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), many passages.
30.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), pp. 209-15.
31.
Warren Commission Document #657
32.
Richard D. Mahoney,
Sons & Brothers: The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
(New York: Arcade, 1999), pp. 271-73.
33.
Larry Hancock,
Someone Would Have Talked
(Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer, 2006), many passages.
34.
Michael L. Kurtz,
The JFK Assassination Debate
s (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), pp. 209, 210.
35.
CIA 1993.08.05.12:35:37:460006.
36.
Staff and editors of
Newsday,
The Heroin Trail
(New York: New American library, 1974), pp. 109-18; Project Pilot cited by Douglas Valentine,
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs
(London, New York: Verso, 2004), pp. 315-18, 331, 332, 366, 367, 370, 371.
37.
Hilaire du Berrier, Fensterwald files at the AARC.

38.
Fensterwald affidavit for the Justice Department, 7-7-82.
39.
Gary Shaw phone interviews with Robert Greene of
Newsday
, 5-11-79 and 5-17-79.
40.
Senate Committee on Government Operations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, 9-63, 10-63.
41.
Fensterwald files, James P. Kelly interview 12-11-79; manuscript reference to K. Walsh.
42.
BBC News.com

article 10-10-01.
43.
The parallels between Michel Victor Mertz and QJWIN are listed at legacyofsecrecy.

com.
44.
CIA 1994.03.11.16:07:16:500005, CIA: 1994.03.11.16:05:55:410005.
45.
Background report on the travels of Mertz, with dates and places of entry and exit from the US, Bud Fensterwald Mertz files at the

Assassination Archives and Research Center.
46.
Fensterwald affidavit for the Justice Department, 7-7-

82.
47.
US Treasury Dept. letter to US Secret Service by Senior Customs Representative Aurelien Chasse, 11-29-63.
48.
CIA 104-10419-10342.

CHAPTER FIVE

1.
Chicago Daily News
interviews 5-28 and 5-29-68, from the files of Bud Fensterwald at the Assassination Archives and Research Center in Washington, D.C.
2.
CIA 104-10309-10008; Vincent Michael Palamara,