Legacy of Secrecy (175 page)

the Dreamer
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), many passages.
17.
Noel Twyman,
Bloody Treason
(Rancho Sante Fe, CA: Laurel Publishing, 1997), p. 471.
18.
CIA 104-10308-10274, 2003 CIA release; the spelling of “Montecantini” is also used.
19.
CIA 10308-10272, 2003 CIA release; CIA 104-10308-10283; 104-10308-10274.
20.
Ibid.
21.
Ibid.
22.
William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), pp. xxvi, xxvii, 275, citing
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
1-12-76.
23.
Ibid, pp. 46,

Notes

825

64.
24.
Ibid, pp. 65-67.
25.
Ibid, pp. 66-67.
26.
Lisa Pease, “Sirhan and the RFK Assassination,”
Probe
Magazine
, March-April and May-June, 1998.
27.
LAPD response to 5-31-78 letter from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel HSCA, requesting files on Rosselli and other figures of interest. Rosselli is name number

#155 on the list of LAPD responses, and beside his name is a large, handwritten “No” meaning they

have no files; in contrast, the LAPD says on the same sheet “Yes” they do have three files on East Coast

mob figure Tony Provenzano.
28.
SUS, p. 1019; also, the way the Mafia aspect of the Roy Donald Murray story was diminished in later LAPD summaries.
29.
John H. Davis,
The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster
(New York: S.P.I. Books, 1992), p. 671.
30.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 100, 101.
31.
Church Committee volumes on “Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans”; Sy Hersh,
The
New York Times
, 1-7-79, cited in Henrik Krƒger,
The Great
Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism
(Boston: South End Press, 1980), p. 74; William W.

Turner,
The Police Establishment
(New York: Tower, 1968), pp. 60-90.
32.
CIA card 100-300-017, 4-9-68, for Oswald 201-289248.
33.
Robert Blair Kaiser,
RFK Must Die
(New York: Overlook Press, 2008) pp. 182, 380.

34.
Ibid, p. 380.
35.
Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 301.
36.
UPI story from 1-10-69
Columbia Missourian
.
37.
Los Angeles Times,
8-7-69, 8-26-69, 9-24-69.

38.
Los Angeles Times,
7-2-71.
39.
Lisa Pease, “Sirhan and the RFK Assassination,”
Probe Magazine
, March-April and May-June, 1998; also many passages in Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New

York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995) and William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert
F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006) and Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991).
40.
Ibid Moldea, p. 143, 176, 177.
41.
William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), pp. 157, 158.
42.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), pp. 291, 292.
43.
Dan E. Moldea,
The
Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 120.
44.
Ibid, pp. 120, 121.

45.
Ibid, p. 123.
46.
William Turner and Jonn Christian,
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), p. 178; Philip H. Melanson,
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
(New York: Shapolsky, 1991), p. 45.
47.
Ibid Melanson, p. 20; Dan E. Moldea,
The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), pp. 36-37; Larry Hancock,
Incomplete Justice
, article series on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website, maryferrell.org.
48.
Ibid Melanson, pp. 103-105.

CHAPTER SIXTY

1.
Mel Ayton, A Racial Crime (Las Vegas: ArcheBooks, 2005), pp. 207, 208.
2.
HSCA Report p. 451; Ibid, p. 210; Gerald Posner, Killing the Dream (New York: Random House, 1998), p. 49.
3.
As noted earlier,

Arthur Hanes, Sr., was assisted in the case by his son, Arthur Hanes, Jr. However, in our discussion of

Ray’s defense, we refer only to the actions of Arthur Hanes, Sr., and nothing he did or that we write about

should reflect in any way on Arthur Hanes, Jr.
4.
Jeff Cohen, “The Assassination of Martin Luther King”

in Sid Blumenthal and Harvey Yazijian, Government by Gunplay (New York: Signet, 1976); Memphis

Commercial Appeal, 7-28-68 and Martin Waldron article in The New York Times 1973, both cited by

A. J. Weberman; Mel Ayton, A Racial Crime (Las Vegas: ArcheBooks, 2005), p. 210.
5.
Ibid Cohen; Gerald Posner, Killing the Dream (New York: Random House, 1998), p. 49.
6.
Ibid Posner, p. 50.
7.
Ibid, pp. 49-55.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Mel Ayton, A Racial Crime (Las Vegas: ArcheBooks, 2005), pp. 211, 212.
10.
Ibid; Gerald Posner, Killing the Dream (New York: Random House, 1998), pp. 50, 51.
11.
William F. Pepper, Orders to Kill (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), p. 486.
12.
Gerald Posner, Killing the Dream (New York: Random House, 1998), p. 61.
13.
Mel Ayton, A Racial Crime (Las Vegas: ArcheBooks, 2005), pp 211, 212; FBI Murkin memo, 9-23-68; Ibid, p. 62.
14.
John H. Davis, Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), p. 381.
15.
HSCA Report. p. 453.
16.
Justice Department memo 9-17-68, cited in 11-5-68 Memphis FBI memo, pp. 64, 68.
17.
Justice Department to Hoover

memo, 9-22-68.
18.
HSCA Report, p. 388.
19.
Ibid.
20.
William F. Pepper, Orders to Kill (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 206, 240; John H. Davis, Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), p. 140.
21.
In addition to not investigating Marcello, Rosselli, and Milteer for the King assassination, one of the most obvious leads not perused by the FBI is

the group, which supposedly used the Mafia to broker the King contract: the wealthy group of racists

in the Southeast known as “Forever White.” Based on the FBI files released so far, the Bureau appears to

have not investigated any of these four leads, or tried to see if any of them were connected (for example,

Milteer and “Forever White”). There could well be information in FBI files that could shed light on these

matters, even forty years later.
22.
William F. Pepper, Orders to Kill (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp.

128, 287.
23.
William F. Pepper, Act of State (New York: Verso, 2003), p. 276.
24.
HSCA Report pp. 307, 308.

25.
Gerald Posner, Killing the Dream (New York: Random House, 1998), pp. 58-61, 253.
26.
Ibid, p. 62.

27.
HSCA Report, pp. 318, 319.
28.
William Bradford Huie, He Slew the Dreamer (New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), p. 51.
29.
Gerald Posner, Killing the Dream (New York: Random House, 1998), p. 253; New
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York Daily News 6-14-77, cited by A. J. Weberman.
30.
HSCA Report, p. 319; Ibid Posner, p. 64.
31.
Ibid Posner, pp. 65, 66.
32.
Ibid.
33.
Ibid, pp. 69, 71.
34.
Ibid.
35.
HSCA King vol. VII, pp. 347-76; Ibid, pp. 71, 72.
36.
Ibid Posner.
37.
Martin Luther King Justice Department Task Force Report, 1977, p. 88.
38.
Gerald Posner, Killing the Dream (New York: Random House, 1998), p. 255.
39.
John H. Davis, Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), p. 322.

40.
FBI transcript of Dan Rather interview with James Earl Ray, p. 349.

CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE

1.
The
Sun Herald
(Mississippi) and the Baton Rouge
Advocate
(12-3-89, 12-7-89) reported that in just the first two months of 1970, Marcello’s hits included the murders of Jack Howard Joy and Donald Lester

“Jimmy” James—and as usual for Marcello, “no one [was ever ] convicted of [either] murder.”
2.
Michael Dorman,
Pay-Off
(New York: Berkley Medallion, 1973), p. 114; John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), pp. 398, 399.
3.
Peter Noyes,
Legacy of Doubt
(New York: Pinnacle Books, 1973), pp. 141-43.

4.
Ibid, pp. 15-18.
5.
Congressional investigators later documented that Termine was long-time friends with Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother and uncle, Marcello bookie “Dutz” Murret—HSCA vol. IX, pp. 115-17;

John H. Davis,
Mafia Kingfish
(New York: Signet, 1989), pp. 140, 448; William F. Pepper,
Orders to Kill
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 239, 249, 487.
6.
Ed Reid,
The Grim Reapers
(New York: Bantam, 1970), p. 300.
7.
Joseph J. Trento,
Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA, and the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence
Network
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005), p. 45.
8.
Ibid, pp. 45-47.
9.
Henrik Krƒger,
The Great Heroin
Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism
(Boston: South End Press, 1980), pp. 122, 123, many others.

10.
Ibid, p. 161.
11.
Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan,
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of
Richard Nixon
(New York: Viking, 2000), many passages, especially the criminal ties of many of Nixon’s associates, including his best friend, Bebe Rebozo; Joseph J. Trento,
Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA, and
the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence Network
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005), p. 45.
12.
Ed Reid,
The Grim Reapers
(New York: Bantam, 1970), p. 115; Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan,
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon
(New York: Viking, 2000), many passages.
13.
Staff and editors of
Newsday, The Heroin Trail
(New York: New American Library, 1974), p. 115: The Pulitzer Prize winning-series in
Newsday
noted that “at the time of his arrest” Mertz owned a “farm-hunting lodge of 1,445 acres equipped with…a private plane landing strip,” a “luxury apartment on Boulevard Suchet in

Paris,” and various other property in France and Corsica, as well as his own private plane.
14.
Ibid, pp. vii, viii, 111-15.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Ibid, p. 169.
17.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), pp. 294, 295.
18.
CIA memo 8-9-76, subject: Johnny Rosselli.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Charles Rappleye and Ed Becker,
All American Mafioso
(New York: Barricade, 1995), pp. 294-96; Peter Dale Scott,
Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection
(Santa Barbara, CA: Open

Archive Press, 1993), pp. 26, 27; Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics II
(Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2003), p. 68; Peter Dale Scott, Paul L. Hoch, and Russell Stetler, eds.,
The Assassinations: Dallas and
Beyond: A Guide to Cover-Ups and Investigations
(New York: Vintage, 1976), pp. 375-80.
21.
Ibid.
22.
Ibid Rappleye, pp. 300, 301.
23.
Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan,
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World
of Richard Nixon
(New York: Viking, 2000), p. 197.
24.
Peter Dale Scott,
Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the
Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection
(Santa Barbara, CA: Open Archive Press, 1993), p. 26.
25.
CIA document, JMWAVE to Director, 12-5-63, released in 1994 by the CIA Historical Review Program; from

“Carlos Prio Socarras [soft file]”
26.
H. R. Haldeman with Joseph DiMona,
The Ends of Power
(New York: Dell, 1978), pp. 67-70.
27.
Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan,
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret

World of Richard Nixon
(New York: Viking, 2000), pp. 279-82.
28.
See Senate Watergate Hearings, Book 8, pp. 3369-71.
29.
Thomas Powers,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA
(New York: Knopf, 1979), many passages.
30.
Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan,
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World
of Richard Nixon
(New York: Viking, 2000), many passages.
31.
Generally, see Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan,
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon
(New York: Viking, 2000); Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); and Peter Dale Scott,
Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection
(Santa Barbara, CA: Open Archive Press, 1993).
32.
H. R. Haldeman with Joseph DiMona,
The Ends of Power
(New York: Dell, 1978), pp. 53, 54.
33.
Ibid.
34.
Ibid, 54.
35.
Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan,
The Arrogance of Power:
The Secret World of Richard Nixon
(New York: Viking, 2000), p. 480 and others.
36.
CIA 104-10119-10163.

37.
CIA 104-10119-10320; CIA 104-10119-10317.
38.
See Peter Dale Scott’s new introduction to
Deep Politics
and the Death of JFK
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).
39.
CIA 104-10103-10042; in 1970, Hunt apparently observed a few more formalities, like interviewing with a couple of other firms before