Oswald and the CIA: The Documented Truth About the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK (86 page)

44. WC Martello testimony, WC vol. X, pp. 53-56.

45. WC Martello testimony, WC vol. X, pp. 53-56.

46. WC Martello testimony, WC vol. X, pp. 53-56.

47. HSCA memorandum to files, from Dwyer and Greissing, January 12, 1976; see NARA, JFK files, RIF 157-10007-10121.

48. WC Martello testimony, WC vol. X, pp. 53-56.

49. CD 75, p. 517; Quigley interview with Vinson, November 27, 1963, file NO 80-69.

50. WC vol. XXII, CE 1414, p. 831; WC vol. XXVI, CE 3120, p. 783.

51. WC, Lieutenant Martello testimony to the Warren Commission, WC vol. X, p. 56.

52. WC, Lieutenant Martello testimony to the Warren Commission, WC vol. X, p. 56.

53. WC vol. XVII, CE 827, p. 770.

54. On that occasion, Quigley's work became an April 27, 1961, New Orleans report to Dallas. That was before the FBI had learned Oswald had married Marina. See SAC New Orleans to SAC Dallas, April 27, 1961; NARA, JFK files, RIF 124-10228-10036.

55. FBI memorandum from SA John L. Quigley to SAC, August 27, 1963; NARA JFK files, RIF 100-10228-10052.

56. FBI New Orleans, 100-16601-13, SA John Lester Quigley, 8/15/63 summary of his 8/10/63 interview with Oswald in jail. NARA, JFK files, RIF 124-10228-10047.

57. Testimony of John L. Quigley, WC vol. IV, p. 435.

58. FBI New Orleans, 100-16601-13, SA John Lester Quigley, 8/15/63 summary of his 8/10/63 interview with Oswald in jail. NARA, JFK files, RIF 124-10228-10047.

59. This a fact which was apparently from a July 17, 1963, New Orleans report that had as an enclosure a copy of Oswald's April 14 letter from Dallas to the FPCC in New York. See SAC New Orleans to SAC Dallas, July 17, 1963; NARA. JFK files, RIF 124-10228-10040.

60. WC vol. XXVI, CE 2726, p. 105. Marina suggested that Oswald picked this name because "Hidell" sounded like "Fidel." See also WC vol. V. p. 402; WC vol. XVII, CE 826, p. 759; WC vol. XXII, CE 1401, p. 753, and CE 1413, p. 822; WC vol. XXIII, CE 1942, p. 737; WC vol. XXIV, CE 1986, p. 17; WC vol. XXV, CE 2548, p. 773; and WC vol. XXVI, CE 2726, p. 105.

61. FBI New Orleans, 100-16601-13, SA John Lester Quigley, 8/15/63 summary of his 8/10/63 interview with Oswald in jail. NARA, JFK files, RIF 124-10228-10047.

62. FBI New Orleans, 100-16601-13, SA John Lester Quigley, 8/15/63 summary of his 8/10/63 interview with Oswald in jail. NARA, JFK files, RIF 124-10228-10047.

63. FBI report, New Orleans office, September 24, 1963; NARA, JFK files, CIA DDP 201 file box 1; see also RIF 124-10160-10408 and RIF 12410228-10062.

64. HSCA, vol. X, p. 62; from HSCA staff interview with Bartes.

65. FBI report, New Orleans office, September 24, 1963; NARA, JFK files, CIA DDP 201 file box 1; see also RIF 124-10160-10408 and RIF 12410228-10062.

66. "Pamphlet Case Sentence Given," New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 13, 1963, p. 3.

67. FBI report, New Orleans office, September 24, 1963; NARA, JFK files, CIA DDP 201 file box 1; see also RIF 124-10160-10408 and RIF 12410228-10062.

68. "Pamphlet Case Sentence Given," New Orleans, Times-Picayune, August 13, 1963, p. 3.

69. HSCA, vol. X, p. 62; from HSCA staff interview with Bartes.

70. HSCA, vol. X, p. 62; from HSCA staff interview with Bartes.

71. In this case, Bartes was being used as the source on Arcacha Smith being the previous CRC delegate (before Bartes), but it is crossed out and Bannister is used instead. The lined-out material however, makes it clear that Banes was someone "who has furnished reliable information in the past and whose identity must be protected." SAC New Orleans to director FBI, & SAC Dallas, 89-69-138, undated but presumably in the first days after the assassination. See NARA, JFK files, RIF 124-102248-10191.

72. HSCA, vol. X, p. 62; from HSCA staff interview with Bartes.

73. FBI report, New Orleans office September 24, 1963; see also NARA, JFK files, RIF 124-10228-10062.

74. The Times-Picayune carried an article on page three, section one, in their 8/13/63 edition captioned "Pamphlet Case Sentence Given," indicating that Lee Oswald, aged 23, of 4907 Magazine, was sentenced to pay a fine of $10 or serve ten days in jail on a charge of disturbing the peace by creating a scene. It was indicated that Oswald was arrested by First District police in the 700 block of Canal while distributing pamphlets asking for a "fair play for Cuba." Police reportedly were called to the scene when three Cubans reportedly sought to stop Oswald from distributing the above pamphlets.

75. Director FBI to SAC New Orleans, August 21, 1963; NARA JFK files, RIF 124-10228-10049.

76. WC vol. X, p. 61; WC vol. XXV, CE 2546, p. 771.

77. CD 165, p. 10.

78. WC vol. X, pp. 41, 68; WC vol. XVI, CE 93, p. 342; WC vol. XXII, CE 1153, p. 187; WC vol. XXIV, CE 2003, p. 283.

79. WC vol. XXV, CE 2545, p. 771, CE 2548, p. 773.

80. WC vol. X, p. 41.

81. WC vol. XXI, Stuckey exhibit 2, p. 626; New Orleans States Item, 11/23/ 63; CD 897, p. 547 says at 2:00 P.M.

82. WC vol. XIX, Burcham exhibit 1, p. 236; WC vol. XXIII, CE 1191, p. 711. However, in August 1963; according to Illinois Professor Revilo P. Oliver-a political conservative-Oswald applied for a job at the Independent American, a conservative New Orleans publication whose editor was Kent Courtney; see WC vol. XV, p. 720.

83. WC vol. X, p. 269.

84. WC vol. XXVI, CE 3119, p. 762; Secret Service report, New Orleans, La., CO-2-34,030, by A. G. Vial, Anthony E. Gerrets, Roger Counts, and John W. Rice, December 3, 1963.

85. WC vol. X, pp. 41, and 270; WC vol. XXVI, CE 3119, p. 771.

86. WC vol. XXVI, CE 3119, p. 762; Secret Service, New Orleans, La., CO- 2-34,030 A. G. Vial, Anthony E. Gerrets, Roger Counts, John W. Rice date December 3, 1963.

87. CIA memorandum, circa May 1967; Subject: "CIA Involvement with Cubans and Cuban Groups Now or Potentially Involved in the Garrison Investigation"; see NARA, JFK files, RIF 1993.06.28.15:07:58:030280. We know about this from another location, apparently, by a quirk. A single sheet of paper, misfiled in Frank Sturgis's papers, a portion of which were in the CIA 1994 (5 brown boxes) release. It is entitled simply "Carlos Quiroga (Paragraph 7(C) of reference memorandum," and is undated. It also notes the fact that Quiroga had been a candidate for the "Agency Student Recruitment Program" while at Louisiana State University. The next sentence, however, it still redacted.

88. Eugene Methvin, August 1, 1963 letter to Edward Lansdale, Lansdale Papers, Hoover Institution.

89. FBI New Orleans SAC to file (100-16601-14), August 21, 1963, Subject: Lee Harvey Oswald; NARA, JFK files, RIF 124-10228-10048.

90. FBI New Orleans, 100-16601-1132, record of property acquisition, re Stuckey interview with Oswald; NARA, JFK files, RIF 124-10228-10035.

91. Oswald letter to Arnold Johnson, August 28, 1963; WC vol. XX, Johnson exhibit 4, p. 263.

92. HSCA, vol. X, p. 85. According to the final report of the committee, Borja said his DRE responsibilities "involved only military operations and he suggested that Jose Antonio Lanusa, who handled press and public relations for the group, knew Clare Booth Luce and had been in contact with her."

93. WC vol. XXIV, CE 2119, p. 549, CE 2123, p. 685; and WC vol. XXV, CE 2193, p. 17, CE 2563, p. 811.

94. CD 598, p.a-7.

95. CD 1160, p. 4.

96. CD 205, p. 170.

97. NARA, JFK files, CIA document number 761-329A.

98. CD 75, p. 573.

99. CD 75, pp. 588 and 652.

100. HSCA Report, p. 218.

101. Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1983), p. 82.

102. HSCA Report, p. 219.

103. July 19, 1963 (Friday)-Oswald worked from 8:22 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. at Reily (WC vol. XXIII, CE 1896, p. 701) Oswald's maintenance book notes. (FBI exhibit D 66) This was Oswald's last day of employment at Reily. (WC vol. XVII, CE 826, p. 754) Emmett J. Barbe, general maintenance foreman for Reily testifies that he fired Oswald. (New Orleans Times Picayune,

104. CIA memo for chief, Security Analysis Group, Subject: Hall, 10 September, 1975; NARA, JFK files, RIF 1993.06.28.17:25:01:900360.

105. James Hosty, September 2, 1994, interview with John Newman.

106. James Hosty, September 2, 1994, interview with John Newman.

107. James Hosty, January 1983 interview with Larry Haapanen.

108. James Hosty, September 5, 1994, interview with John Newman.

109. Church Committee, vol. V, p. 65.

Chapter Eighteen

1. W R, pp. 299-301.

2. Lee Harvey Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City (hereafter referred to as the Lopez Report), p. 250.

3. Oleg Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination: The Never-Before-Told Story of Lee Harvey Oswald by the KGB Colonel Who Knew Him (Birch Lane Press, 1993) hereafter referred to as Passport to Assassination.

4., LBJ Library, LBJ tapes, November 23, 1963, President Johnson, telephone conversation with FBI director Hoover.

5. WC vol. XXV, CE 2195, pp. 37-39, CE 2464, p. 633, and CE 2566, p. 819.

6. WC vol XXIV, p. 598; Vol. XXV, p, 767; and CD 905-C:11.

7. Lopez Report, p. 248.

8. 9/27/63 10:30 AM Man calls Soviet Military Attache regarding a visa for Odessa." See Lopez Report, p. 117.

9. CIA transcript of September 27, 1963, 10:37 A.M., phone call; NARA, JFK files, CIA January 1994 (5 brown boxes release); box 15b, folder 56.

10. Lopez Report, p. 250.

11. Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 76.

12. Lopez Report, p. 118, referencing footnote 471 on p. 32 of the notes, which cites a "Memo to Clark Anderson from Winston Scott, 11/27/63, with seven attachments; LR p. 32 fn. 471.

13. Lopez Report, p. 118.

14. Valery for 10 to 15 minutes and then Oleg for 40 to 45 minutes; see Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 104.

15. Pavel and Valery for more than an hour and then Oleg escorts him away; see Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 104.

16. The man is later identified as Oswald and the woman is later identified as Duran; the alleged Oswald comes on the line speaking in very poor Russian.

17. Lopez Report, p. 192.

18. Lopez Report, p. 192.

19. Lopez Report, p. 117.

20. Third Call: 1:25 P.M. [LE3] At 1:25 an unidentified man called the Soviet Consulate and asked for the consul. The man was told that the consul was not in. The man outside asked, "When tomorrow?" The soviet official told him that on Mondays and Fridays the consul was in between four and five. This conversation was also in Spanish. See Lopez Report, p. 74; and also p. 117.

21. Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 66.

22. Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 70.

23. Mexico City CIA transcript, September 27, 1963, 4:05 P.M.; NARA JFK files, CIA documents, Oswald box 15b, folder 56. This material was also included in the CIA January 1994 (5 brown boxes) release.

24. Mexico City CIA transcript, September 27, 1963, 4:05 P.M., NARA JFK files, CIA documents, Oswald box 15b, folder 56. This material was also included in the CIA January 1994 (5 brown boxes) release.

25. NARA, Oswald box 15b, folder 56, CIA January 1994 (5 brown boxes) release. See also Lopez Report, p. 76.

26. The English "Attachment C" states: A telephone call to the Cuban Embassy made at 1626 hours on September 27 by an unidentified man in the Soviet Embassy asking for Silvia Duran. They discuss the visa application for the "American" who with his Russian wife wanted to go via Cuba to the USSR. The Soviet [Embassy man's voice] says he has only no reply from [the] Washington etc. See NARA, CIA document number 133 594 ("part of"), and see also box 6, folder 5 of the CIA January 1994 (5 brown boxes) release.

27. NARA, CIA transcript from Mexico City, September 28, 1963, 11:51 A.M., Oswald box 15b, folder 56, CIA January 1994 (5 brown boxes) release.

28. Lopez Report, pp. 193-194.

29. NARA, CIA document number 559-243, a CIA memo to Warren Commission lawyer Lee Rankin about Duran, dated February 21, 1964. This report has an incorrect spelling for Alberu; it gives his name as Luis Alveru. His full name was Luis Alberu Suoto (or Soto). Alberu's agent status is given in a July 27, 1962, request for operational approval under the number " 101331," a number cross-referenced to Alberu's Security Office number OS-279-089 in an August 20, 1962, security memo to CI/OA (Counterintelligence Operational Approval). OS-279-089 is itself cross-referenced to Alberu's CIA 201 number, 328609, in many files, such as an April 27, 1967, request for operational approval.

30. Winston Scott, The Foul Foe, unpublished manuscript, Chapter XXIV, p. 273. NARA, JFK files, HSCA records, Win Scott files. "Box 4" appears on the cover page.

31. Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 81; see also p. 103.

32. Winston Scott, The Foul Foe, unpublished manuscript, Chapter XXIV, p. 273. NARA, JFK files, HSCA records, Win Scott files. "Box 4" appears on the cover page.

33. Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 74.

34. Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 74.

35. Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 76.

36. Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 77.

37. Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 79.

38. The only exception is Azcue, who was confused and describes an event as taking place Saturday which clearly was the Friday afternoon blow-up.

39. Mexico City 5448, to CIA, Action: C/WH 5, July 20, 1963. NARA, JFK files, CIA, January 1994 (5 brown boxes) release; see box I. folder 2.

40. NARA, CIA transcript from Mexico City, September 28, 1963, 11:51 A.M., Oswald box 15b, folder 56, CIA January 1994 (5 brown boxes) release.

41. Lopez Report, p. 77.

42. NARA, CIA transcript from Mexico City, September 28, 1963, 11:51 A.M., Oswald box 15b, folder 56, CIA January 1994 (5 brown boxes) release.

43. Lopez Report, p. 79, p. 136, pp. 164-165 and p. 170.

44. Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 79.

45. There are two possibilities: Either the Soviet was genuine or he was an impostor. When added to our matrix, which is already complicated, this creates an even larger matrix of possibilities. However, we should make note of the fact that if the Soviet, too, was an impostor, then the entire call could have been fictitious, a possibility that seems pointless; for what reason would the CIA station deceive its own people or headquarters? It seems more logical to assume the Soviet was genuine, i.e., inside the Soviet Consulate, receiving the call.