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June 10, 2015
The Hidden Castro Assassination Plots
By Bill Simpich
What I offer here is new research on two key operations designed to kill Castro - Patty and Liborio - based in military intelligence and in specialized "nets" within Cuba. The officers running these other operations may have met up with Bill Harvey's get-Castro team in 1962. I believe these "hidden plots" were not revealed during the "limited hangout" the Agency was forced to endure during the 1970s.
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The Hidden Castro Plots: Not A Surprise, But Revealing
The most famous attempts to kill Castro in the early 1960s were the plots revealed by the Church Committee hearings of the 1970s. Exposed were a few of the schemes dreamed up by renowned CIA spymasters Bill Harvey, David Morales and other CIA officers. What was learned by the public was only the outer surface of a much bigger story.
The author has conducted new research on two other operations designed to kill Castro. Operation Patty and Operation Liborio were based in military intelligence and in specialized "nets" within Cuba. At least one of the officers running these other operations met up with David Morales in 1962, where they had an opportunity to "talk shop".
Operations Patty and Liborio, both staged during 1961, were not revealed during the "limited hangout" conducted by the Agency during the 1970s. After Cuban intelligence chief Fabian Escalante wrote about these programs, the author took a look at how much supporting documentation existed in US intelligence files. The result of that research is that Patty and Liborio are important windows into the history of US covert operations in Cuba and the milieu that conceived the JFK assassination.
The Cuban government holds additional information about these operations. As diplomatic relations normalize between our two countries, the Cubans should be encouraged to consider releasing documents that will shed further light about this troubled history.
How extensive were these operations? Statistics do exist. The Kennedy brothers conducted one hundred and sixty-three major covert operations in less than three years, with RFK as the unofficial chief of covert ops. By comparison, Eisenhower conducted one hundred and seventy major covert operations in eight years.[i]
The Kennedys denied any knowledge of any of the Castro plots, except to order them stopped when they got wind of them. It is well-documented that Eisenhower approved efforts to kill Congo leader Patrice Lumumba, and perhaps others as well.
Operation Patty
In 1961, the plans of anti-Castro leaders to assassinate Fidel and Raul Castro coalesced with Navy intelligence during "Operation Patty".
Initially, the spotlight is properly focused on Luis Balbuena, who was with Cuban army intelligence until 1960. He defected after Castro seized his family's dairy farm. After Cuba division officer Joe Piccolo decided that the CIA had no operational interest in Luis Balbuena in late 1960, the Navy scooped up Balbuena a few days later.[ii]
Balbuena was a member of the first anti-Castro group inside Cuba, known as the MRR (Movimento de Recuperacion Revolucionaria). MRR was headed by Manuel Artime. Artime had defected to the US in 1959, only to be captured by the Cubans during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Balbuena was also part of an anti-Castro organization secretly active inside Guantanamo Naval Base. Balbuena was in direct contact with base commander Hal Feeney.
A document describes Balbuena as active in what is described as "Operation Betty".[iii] Operation Patty was its real name -- it was also known as "Patty-Candela", because the planners were hoping that the operation would catch on fire.[iv]
Operation Patty was set for the new Cuban holiday of July 26, 1961, when Fidel Castro's failed assault on the Moncada barracks signaled the beginning of armed resistance against the Batista regime. On that day, Raul Castro would be shot with a machine gun at a stadium in Santiago. Simultaneously, Fidel Castro would be attacked with a mortar in Havana. Immediately after these attacks, there would be an attack on the Guantanamo Base itself, designed to look like a retaliatory strike by the Cuban military. After Operation Patty was broken up, Che Guevara charged that this provocation was designed to serve as an excuse for a US invasion of Cuba.[v]
A FAKE STAGED ATTACK ON GUANTANAMO WAS A COMMON NOTION
A brief digression is important here, as the notion of a staged attack on Guantanamo had been around for some time.
Authors Warren Hinckle and Bill Turner describe how during the Bay of Pigs, Higinio (Nino) Diaz and almost two hundred Cuban exiles headed out to sea from the naval base near New Orleans, put on Cuban military uniforms and prepared to stage a fake attack on Guantanamo. This provocation was "aborted primarily because of bad leadership" and suicidal conditions. Hinckle and Turner suggest that "the CIA had lost its planned excuse to send in the Marines, who were aboard ship nearby."[vi]
It is also important to note that in the months after Patty and Liborio, the Joint Chiefs of Staff would advocate a "Guantanamo pretext" in the infamous Operations Northwoods memo of February 1962, drafted by the military covert action chief General William H. Craig. Craig lobbied for a variety of pretexts that would provide the basis for a large-scale invasion of Cuba. In May 1962, Craig went on to become head of the Army Security Agency, the military wing of the NSA, and served in that capacity until 1965.
Bill Harvey was Craig's opposite number in the CIA, and they met together throughout the first months of 1962 to plan the MONGOOSE program to destabilize Cuba.
Although President Kennedy and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara refused to consider Operation Northwoods, military chiefs and even Robert Kennedy lobbied for a "Remember the Maine"-type incident, where the US allegedly sank its own ship in Cuba as a pretext to start the Spanish-American War.[vii] Robert Kennedy suggested at an early point of the Cuban missile crisis:
"We should also think of whether there is some other way we can get involved in this, through Guantanamo Bay or something. Or whether there's some ship that...you know, sink the Maine or something."[viii]
PATTY'S LEADERSHIP, AND HOW THE OPERATION FELL APART
Cuban intelligence chief Fabian Escalante describes Alfredo Izaguirre de la Riva as the leader of Operation Patty.[ix] Izaguirre was AMPUG-1.[x] The CIA referred to the "AMPUG net".[xi]
Jim Pekich was the man who organized nets inside Cuba to facilitate underground activity. There were at least three kinds of nets - the "singleton net", the "collection net", and the "black net operation". The AMPUG net in 1961 was a black net.
The CIA referred to AMPUG-1 as "of JKLANCE interest" -- a reference to the CIA itself. (After the CIA was implicated in possible involvement in the Kennedy murder, they adopted the cryptonym of JKLANCE as a codeword for "CIA". "Lancer" was the Secret Service's codeword for JFK.)[xii]
It is apparent that Alfredo Izaguirre was taking direction not from the CIA, but rather a Navy lieutenant commander.[xiii] This lieutenant commander was undoubtedly Hal Feeney. Base commander Feeney was working with Lieutenant Jack Modesett. Both men were working closely with the Castro rebels during this time period.[xiv] CIA documents show that Izaguirre was arrested on July 22, four days before the planned attack.[xv]
The plan was for the shooters to be Luis Balbuena and Alonzo Gonzelez. Balbuena told the Miami police that he "was involved in an attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro", and that he had to take sanctuary in Guantanamo when Operation Patty was busted by Cuban intelligence.[xvi]
A CIA memo shows that Balbuena's CIA liaison was Higinio Diaz, also known as "Nino".[xvii] Diaz had been chosen by Tony Veciana's lieutenant Juan Pujols to go to the US after the Bay of Pigs.[xviii] At that time, Veciana was the chief of sabotage for the anti-Castro MRP inside Cuba. Pujols was described by Reynol Gonzalez at his CIA debriefing as "an agent trained by the Agency in the U.S., who worked with the MRP and the small UR group".[xix]
There is another intriguing anecdote about Operation Patty. During the late spring of 1961, field commander Jack Gordon was working at Guantanamo with Alonzo Gonzalez (no known relation to Reynol Gonzalez), who was talking about killing Castro. Gordon had come to the conclusion that Gonzalez was a double agent. He then heard there was dynamite on the base. Gordon called base commander Hal Feeney and told him that he thought Gonzelez should be arrested.
Within an hour, Gordon was in the psych unit, and held for several months until October 1961. Gordon says he was set up. His professional credentials later enabled him to become a history professor in Massachusetts and work with famed historian Samuel Eliot Morrison. Gordon ultimately provided his story to the Rockefeller Commission.[xx]
Andy Postal of the Church Committee got a good look at Guantanamo's ONI files. An ONI report written by Clyde Roach states that Lt. Modesett admitted knowledge of the assassination plan, passing on a sniper rifle to Gonzalez, and test firing it with him.
The report also states that the assassination planning between May-July 1961 was not authorized by ONI, that Gordon was not involved but "apparently he did learn of some of the plans", and that the plan failed for lack of a silencer and telescopic sight.[xxi] Modesett told an interviewer in 1994 that "there was something regarding Raul that I don't think I can talk about."[xxii]
Besides Izaguirre (Tito), other main planners were Veciana's aide Jose Pujols Mederos (Ernesto), Emilio Adolfo Rivero Caro (Brand), Adolfo Mendoza (Raul), and Jorge Garcia Rubio (Tony). These men were named in Castro's Black Book, and again more recently in the Cuban press.[xxiii] The CIA has released a redacted document that hides the names of these men and their role in these operations, while admitting that several of them had some involvement in "sabotage" and similar activities.[xxiv]
Castro believed that the main political exile forces involved were Tony Varona of the FRD, Manuel Ray of the MRP, Aureliano Sanchez Arango of AAA, and "Admiral (Arleigh) Burke and CIA agents at Guantanamo Naval Base".[xxv] The MRP must have been getting its funds from military intelligence at this point, because their relations with the CIA were not good.
MRP chief Ignacio Mendoza told his compatriot Manuel Ray in mid-July that he had been approached by CIA officers. The word was that MRP would get CIA funding if Ray was "eliminated or dismissed". Ray quit his post and then publicly denounced the CIA for "meddling" in the July 17, 1961 Miami News. The story made the New York Times days later.[xxvi] Ray's willingness to use guns and explosives may explain how he became AMBANG-1.[xxvii]
OPERATION LIBORIO
New plans were brought into play after the collapse of Operation Patty. One network that tried to move assassination plans forward was AMBLOOD, run by former Cuban government official Luis Toroella. Ecuador military intelligence chief Lt. Col. Roger Paredes helped network this operation, which was run from JMWAVE in Miami. The exiles were trained by the CIA inside Guatanamo naval base itself. The network was rounded up on or before September 24, 1961.[xxviii]
AMBLOOD's work seems to be tied to Operation Liborio, also run from Miami. CIA records show that the day after Izaguirre's capture, Veciana had a meeting with Harry Real at the CIA's New York field office and asked to speak to a senior CIA officer to discuss plans to assassinate Castro and his request for CIA assistance. According to Veciana, he received a call from "Maurice Bishop" months after the Bay of Pigs - during the past two years, Veciana has revealed that this man was actually CIA covert action officer David Atlee Phillips. Phillips told Veciana that he had "decided that the only thing left to be done was to have an attempt on Castro's life". The plan was to kill Fidel with a bazooka from an apartment overlooking a public plaza on the 4th of October 1961.[xxix] Veciana recruited the men and put the operation together.[xxx]
Veciana's aide Pujols/AMCOAX-1 became the new field general, taking over from Izaguirre. Pujols' aides Octavio Barreros and Rafael Quintero went to meet with CIA paramilitary chief "Dominick Pantleone", a pseudonym for Rocky Farnsworth, David Morales' predecessor as Chief of Base of JMWAVE. JMWAVE's mission was to focus on Cuba from its Miami outpost. It was the largest CIA base in the world. Farnsworth urged them to leave Pujols' MRR and work directly with the Agency, suggesting that "Reinol Gonzalez' MRP group in Cuba is the best organized group on the island, and the only one that is national in scope.[xxxi]
Things started going south for Operation Liborio on September 29, 1961, when MRP member Dalia Jorge Diaz was arrested while leaving a suitcase of explosives inside a Sears department store in Havana.[xxxii] Those known to her were immediately arrested; those not known to her were not. She was almost immediately released.[xxxiii] She was probably a pro-Castro spy.
On October 1, 1961, Reynol Gonzalez/AMCALL-1 wrote a letter to US MRP members saying that Operation Liborio had to be abandoned because of the arrest of Dalia. After Dalia's arrest, planted bombs and explosives were discovered in fifteen stores.[xxxiv]
On October 3, 1961, Antonio Veciana and his mother-in-law were forced to flee from Cuba, after weapons were found in an apartment rented by his mother near the Presidential palace.[xxxv] Upon his arrival to the US, Veciana said that he had lined up Luis Balbuena to be the primary sniper and he didn't know what had gone wrong.[xxxvi]
In a debriefing with a CIA officer in the late 70s, Reynol Gonzalez told him that the attack on Castro failed because Veciana got "cold feet" and left, Raul Venta del Mozo was there but did not fire the weapon, and for some reason another unnamed man didn't either.[xxxvii] A CIA memo said that the "attempt aborted when the bazooka failed to fire".[xxxviii] Yet another story was that the bazooka was so dangerous that the participants concluded that there was no way to ensure that the shooter wouldn't be killed by its backfire. Whatever the truth is, Operation Liborio was a failure.
On October 12, 1961, Reynol Gonzalez was arrested while on the "Cesar Odio Farm", the property of millionaire Amador Odio. JMWAVE learned of his arrest by October 15th and did what it could to aid Gonzalez's group.[xxxix] Gonzalez was paid for his services as a CIA agent after his release from prison in 1977.[xl] Gonzalez claimed that Pujols and Barroso (Barreros) were arrested on or about the same time.[xli] Gonzalez identified Pujols as a "CIA agent" also known as "Ernesto".[xlii]
On October 26, 1961, Amador Odio and his wife were arrested and held for eight years. Their political allies were Manuel Ray, Aureliano Sanchez and their allies.[xliii] The Odios were the parents of a woman who was later to play a prominent role in the JFK assassination story...Sylvia Odio. Ms. Odio was to meet a man who looked like Lee Harvey Oswald and who talked about killing Kennedy a few weeks before the November 22, 1963 assassination.[xliv]
On November 6, 1963, Reynol Gonzalez was interviewed on television. Gonzalez was a asked about Operation Patty, Liobrio and the firebombing of the El Encanto department store in Havana during the days before the Bay of Pigs invasion - the subject of a narrative we will save for another day. His colleagues told the media he was brainwashed. After his release, Gonzalez did not say that he was tortured, although he was stripped naked and repeatedly interrogated under bright lights. Gonzalez said that he and his team had made an agreement that if captured no one would talk for seventy-two hours, in order to give others a fighting chance to get away.
When he was told by his interrogators to talk or they would kill other members of his team, he was willing to make the deal.[xlv] "They are using us in order to maintain the state of internal agitation and anguish, through their sabotages, so that they can make their plans"" He admitted participation in all of the above-described operations.[xlvi]
Months later, prisoner Juan Falcon "Esteban" of the MRR made a similar TV confession about his role in the foiled assassination attempts of Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and newspaper editor Carlos Rafael Rodriguez within Operation Patty and Operation Liberio.[xlvii]
IN THE AFTERMATH OF THESE FAILED OPERATIONS, DAVID MORALES MET LT. JACK MODESETT
By the end of 1961, Veciana went into voluntary exile in the US, worked as a sabotage man known as "Victor" for Manolo Ray's MRP, and was sought out by case officer Calvin Hicks as AMSHALE-1.[xlviii] After Hicks cut him loose in late 1962, Veciana was on the books as a military intelligence agent from 1962 to 1966.[xlix]
Luis Balbuena was now hiding out under the shelter of the US Navy. On February 19, 1962, using a New York naval address, he ordered sniper rifles, machine guns and more to be delivered to Lt. Jack Modesett, an officer at Guantanamo Naval Base.[l]
A subsequent memo explains that "Modesett and Commander Hal Feeney of ONI at Guantanamo have in the past loaned considerable assistance to counter-revolutionary groups operating on the base and in the general area surrounding the base".[li] William Kent and Rocky Farnsworth - high-ranking MWAVE officers - were coordinating this weapons deal.[lii]
On May 13, 1962, Morales and Feeney's pal Modesett met at Guantanamo and really hit it off. The men spent some serious time discussing ways to work together, including ways to use Balbuena. They also discussed how they might use a "unilateral asset" called AMCRAIG-1. Was he named after the military covert action chief that dreamed up NORTHWOODS?[liii]
[i] Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, p. 180
[ii] Reel 2, Folder L -- CIA Files on Luis Balbuena, 1960-1961.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=56271&relPageId=19 (Balbuena's background - Balbuena becomes Navy source "ISRM 2508", 1/10/61)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=56271&relPageId=23 (Balbuena was of no operational interest to the CIA according to Joe Piccolo, 12/27/60)
[iv] Agustin Perez Perez, "The Failure of Patty Candela", 8/11/10, Solvision.
[v] "Castro's Black Book",
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=99795&relPageId=18
[vi] Warren Hinckle and Bill Turner, Deadly Secrets, pp. 84-85. 89. 93-94.
Also see notes and statement of CIA officer James Wilcott to the HSCA, p. 15, 3/22/78, HSCA Security Classified Testimony. click here
[vii] See memo from covert action chief Gen. William H. Craig, Caribbean Survey Group, pp. 1-3, 6-7, 3/13/62, in response to request from Chief of Operations, March 5, 1962, subject, "Operation Mongoose" which requested "a brief but precise descriptions of "pretexts which the Joint Chiefs of Staff consider would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba".
click here
click here
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=236&relPageId=72
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=236&relPageId=75
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=236&relPageId=76
Also see James Bamford, Body of Secrets.
For other pretexts: See "Cover and Deception plans for Caribbean Survey Group", February 1962, for Craig's suggestions on how to "lure or provoke Castro, or an uncontrollable subordinate, into an overt hostile reaction against the United States, a reaction which would in turn create the justification for the US to not only retaliate but destroy Castro with speed, force and determination."
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=112494&relPageId=12
On RFK's advocacy of a "Remember the Maine" pretext: See McCone memo, August 21, 1962, in "CIA Documents on the Cuban missile crisis", CIA/CSI, 1992; RFK "questioning the feasibility of provoking an action against Guantanamo which would permit us to retaliate", FRUS, Vol. X, document 383. Also see Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, pp. 192-193.
[viii] Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life, p. 213. JFK presidential audiotape #28A. click here"robert+kennedy"+guantanamo+pretext&source=bl&ots=y1SgE7o28E&sig=DSLJAU7Ytz_HkodjMq8-hg5jiF4&hl=en&ei=5pk4TurJPKfkiAKrvJHeDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q="robert kennedy" guantanamo pretext&f=false
[ix] Fabian Escalante states that Alfredo Izaguirre de la Riva was the leader of Operation Patty: Fabian Escalante, The Secret War, pp. 89-93; Claudia Furiati, ZRRIFLE, pp. 35-36.
[x] Formerly found with help of the internet Wayback Machine: http://hum.uchicago.edu/~jagoldsm/Papers/JFK/5_Cuba.pdf
Izaguirre is 201-273550: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=617199 (paid off for his services in 1980, after his prison release)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=517126
Izaguirre's pseudonym was AMPUG-1: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=517191
[xi] Memo from JMWAVE to Director, 10/20/61, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 27: JURE - MRP)/NARA Record Number: 104-10192-10285. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=108404&relPageId=2
[xii] Curiously, the CIA refers to AMPUG-1 as "of JKLANCE interest" -- is that a reference to "John Kennedy -- Lancer", or Kennedy administration officials? http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48280&relPageId=2
The same memo says "AMPANIC-7 mother would surely advise direct contact with JKLANCE officials, which should be avoided." The aforementioned Jim Pekich was the case officer for AMPANIC-7
[xiii] Izaguirre was working under the control of a Navy lieutenant commander: Warren Hinckle and Bill Turner, Deadly Secrets, 1992, p. 114.
[xiv] The government admits that Lieutenant Jack Modesett and base commander Hal Feeney were working closely with the Castro rebels during this time period: Memo, 4/3/62, JMWAVE to Task Force W, Reel 2, Folder L -- CIA Files on Luis Balbuena, NARA Record Number: 1994.03.08.09:29:40:280007. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=661564
[xv] http://hum.uchicago.edu/~jagoldsm/Papers/JFK/5_Cuba.pdf
Izaguirre is 201-273550: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=617199 (paid off for his services in 1980, after his prison release)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=517126
Izaguirre's pseudonym was AMPUG-1: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=517191
[xvi] Balbuena told the Miami police in April 1963 that he "was involved in an attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro" and had to take sanctuary in Guantanamo when Operation Patty was busted by Cuban intelligence: Warren Hinckle and Bill Turner, Deadly Secrets, pp. 114-115.
[xvii] A CIA memo shows that Balbuena's CIA liaison was Higinio Diaz, also known as "Nino": HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 2: Artime - Barker)/
NARA Record Number: 1994.03.08.09:29:40:280007. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=56271&relPageId=26
WAVE traces show Diaz closely tied to Balbuena. click here
Higinio Diaz aka Eugenio Diaz, aka Nino Diaz, was the military leader of MRR. He left to join the US Army in March 1963, replaced by Guajiro Mulet, aka "(Mulet) Jose Antonio (Mulet) Gonzalez". Memo from JMWAVE to Rio de Janeiro, 5/3/63, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (staff notes)/NARA Record Number: 180-10141-10365. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=34407&relPageId=2
Diaz was on MRR's special ops team and naval affairs team: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=34407&relPageId=2
He was involved in training camps in New Orleans and may have known of Lee Oswald's reported contact. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/marysdb/showRec.do?mode=searchResult&id=3309
[xviii] Diaz had been chosen by Veciana's lieutenant Juan Pujols to go to the US after the Bay of Pigs: Memo of debriefing of Gonzalez by Carl Jenkins, 5/28/79, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 52: De Mohrenschildt - Hall)/
NARA Record Number: 104-10217-10336. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=517136
[xix] Pujols is described by Reynol Gonzalez at his CIA debriefing as "an agent trained by the Agency in the U.S., who worked with the MRP and the small UR group": Debriefing of Reinol Gonzalez by Carl Jenkins, May 28, 1979 p. 2, Reel 52, Folder J, NARA Record Number: 1994.04.26.09:46:28:100005. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=16
[xx] At the base, field commander Jack Gordon was working with Alonzo Gonzalez, who was talking about killing Castro: Memorandum for Record by Mason Cargill re John Gordon, 5/29/75, pp. 1-2, Rockefeller Commission Files/NARA Record Number: 178-10002-10320. click here
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=31963&relPageId=3
Adolpho Gonzalez Mendoza disappeared in 1962 after this incident: click here
[xxi] Andy Postal of the Church Committee got a good look at Guantanamo's ONI files": Memorandum for the Record from Andy Postal for the Church Committee, 1/15/76, recounted in Russo, Live by the Sword, p. 436.
[xxii] Modesett told an interviewer that "there was something regarding Raul that I don't think I can talk about.": Interview by Gus Russo with Jack Modesett, 4/10/94, recounted in Live by the Sword, pp. 59, 524.
[xxiii] These men were named in Castro's Black Book, and again more recently in the Cuban press: Castro's "Black Book" to Sen. George McGovern, pp. 17-18, HSCA Numbered Files/NARA Record Number: 180-10090-10232. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=99795&relPageId=17
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=99795&relPageId=18
Memo re "Transmittal of Traces", from Raymond A. Warren, Chief, Latin America Division to Scott Breckenridge, Deputy Attorney General, 2/3/78, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 35/NARA Record Number: 1993.08.11.19:16:31:090058.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=100276&relPageId=15 (Emilio Adolfo Rivero Caro/AMPANIC-7/BRAND)
click here (Jorge Garcia Rubio)
Also see this remembrance written in Spanish after Izaguirre's death in 2014.
[xxiv] The CIA has released a redacted document that hides the names of these men and their role in these operations, while admitting that several of them had some involvement in "sabotage" and similar activities: Documentation of Castro Assassination Plots, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 36/NARA Record Number: 104-10103-10183. click here
After many reviews, the names on this page are the only redactions remaining. Nonetheless, the record contains enough information to deduce who these men are.
[xxv] Castro believed that the main political exile forces involved were Tony Varona of the FRD, Manuel Ray of the MRP, Aureliano Sanchez Arango of AAA, and "Admiral (Arleigh) Burke and CIA agents at Guantanamo Naval Base": Castro's "Black Book" to Sen. George McGovern, p. 20, HSCA Numbered Files/
NARA Record Number: 180-10090-10232. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=99795&relPageId=20
Aureliano Sanchez Arango was with the AAA: click here
[xxvi] The MRP may have been getting its funds from military intelligence at this point, because their relations with the CIA were not good": Memo from JMWAVE to Director, 7/19/61, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 15: Manuel Ray)/NARA Record Number: 104-10274-10131. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=67430&relPageId=2
For the redacted version in the MRP file see: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55256&relPageId=65
Miami News, 7/17/61: Reel 15, Folder F -- Manuel Ray. NARA Record Number: 1994.03.16.15:21:54:440005 click here
New York Times: 7/19/61: Id. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=54010&relPageId=18
Mendoza became the new MRP leader, while Ray went on to form JURE in 1962.
[xxvii] Ray's willingness to use guns and explosives is probably why he became AMBANG-1: Memorandum for the Record, JFK-LAD Task Force, November 1976, LA Division Work File/NARA Record Number: 104-10308-10135 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=396405
[xxviii] One network that tried to move assassination plans forward was AMBLOOD, run by former Cuban government official Luis Toroella: Philip Agee, CIA Diary (New York: Stonehill, 1975), pp. 122-123; pp. 195-196. Also see Hinckle and Turner, Deadly Secrets, pp. 116-117. Also http://hum.uchicago.edu/~jagoldsm/Papers/JFK/5_Cuba.pdf, Chapter 5.
[xxix] Debriefing of Reinol Gonzalez by REDACTED, circa May 1979 p. 3, Reel 52, Folder J, NARA Record Number: 1994.04.26.09:46:28:100005. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=12
[xxx] According to Veciana, "Bishop" called him a few months after the Bay of Pigs and "decided that the only thing left to be done was to have an attempt on Castro's life". Veciana recruited the men and put the operation together: HSCA Report. Volume 10, p. 39.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=1212&relPageId=43
[xxxi] Memo by Dominick Pantleone, C/PM at JMWAVE to Chief, 8/15/61, http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=38565&relPageId=3
Comments on AMBRONC-5 can be found in Comments on Book V, Released as sanitized 1999, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 48: Defectors, 201 Files, CI/SIG, IG Report, AMTRUNK, Ortiz, ...)/NARA Record Number: 104-10213-10079.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=51417&relPageId=3 (title page)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=51417&relPageId=80
Also see AMOT memo, 9/29/61, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 52: De Mohrenschildt - Hall)/NARA Record Number: 1994.04.26.09:46:28:100005 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=195 (MRP only anti-Castro group inside Cuba working on a national scale)
The aides were AMBRONC-5 (Octavio Barreros) and AMJAVA-4 (Rafael Quintero). This document says that AMBRONC-5 was arrested on 5/29/61 and executed on 8/30/62. The first date is probably in 1962, because the Pantleone memo above shows that he met with these two men on 8/15/61. click here
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=51417&relPageId=81
Octavio was the leader of Unidad, and was also known as "Cesar".
Memo from JMRIMM to BELL, 6/12/61, Reel 52, Folder J -- Reinol Gonzales, NARA Record Number: 1994.04.26.09:46:28:100005. click here
[xxxii] FBI report, New York field office, 12/7/61, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 52: De Mohrenschildt - Hall)/NARA Record Number: 104-10217-10247.
[xxxiii] http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=617204
[xxxiv] FBI letterhead memo, New York field office, re Cuban Rebel Activities, MRP, 12/7/61, p. 1, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 52: De Mohrenschildt - Hall)/NARA Record Number: 104-10217-10247. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48189&relPageId=2
Reynol is 201-275949, using the name "Antonio Justo".
See http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=196 (Antonio Justo)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=517126 (201-275949)
1979 FBI description of "political prisoner" Reynol: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48266&relPageId=4
Debriefing in 79" http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48268&relPageId=2
Here are questions the CIA planned to ask when they thought Gonzalez would be released in 1970: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=517105
This debriefing by Carl Jenkins explains why Gonzalez wasn't released in 1970: click here
Reynol Gonzalez is AMCALL-1: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=516916 (identified as "Antonio Gonzalez" after arrest -- he's also been instigating manifestations of the Virgin de Caridad)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=454289 (memo to his wife when he was almost ransomed out, note his number 201-275949)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=516898
(after his public confession, people said he was brainwashed by the Cubans)
Control of AMCALL-1 is through AMOURETTE-9 who has been his spiritual advisor for many years http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=17371&relPageId=3 (PRQ bio info)
This cross-reference card indicates he is closely allied with whoever has the number 201-061063. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=32782&relPageId=3
That person was AMECRU-1, the center of the ransom efforts of 1970. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48280&relPageId=2
That person is Guillermo Alonso Pujol, AMECRU-1, 201-061063. click here
[xxxv] Under duress, Gonzalez said on television after his capture in October that "inexplicably the principal organizer of the attack took a boat and went to the US so the attack failed""
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=132 Also see Deadly Secrets, p. 116-117.
[xxxvi] Upon his arrival to the US, Veciana said that he had lined up Luis Balbuena to be the primary sniper and didn't know what had gone wrong: Reel 52, Folder J -- Reinol Gonzales, NARA Record Number: 1994.04.26.09:46:28:100005. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=170
[xxxvii] In a debriefing with CIA officer in the late 70s, Gonzalez told him that the attack on Castro failed because Veciana got "cold feet" and left, Raul Venta del Mozo was there but did not fire the weapon, and for some reason another unnamed man didn't either: Memo from REDACTED to William Sturbitts, 5/28/79, Reel 52, Folder J, NARA Record Number: 1994.04.26.09:46:28:100005. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=12
After his arrival Veciana started the organization Alpha 66 in the US as a wry homage, ostensibly to "the Phillips 66 gas stations that were common in the early 1960s" but more likely to the man with the name. Interview of Antonio Veciana with Lamar Waldron, 6/2/93, Legacy of Secrecy, p. 87. Officer Ross Crozier told investigators that David Phillips was Maurice Bishop, while the Agency had no record of any such man. Until his admission in 2003, Veciana would only make broad hints in that direction. Id.
[xxxviii] Unsigned memo for "Walter Elder" of the "Review Staff", 8/14/76, DDP (Deputy Director for Plans) Files/NARA Record Number: 104-10310-10216. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=377357
[xxxix] On October 12, Reynol Gonzalez was arrested while on the "Cesar Odio Farm", the property of millionaire Amador Odio. JMWAVE learned of his arrest by 15th and did what it can to aid Gonzalez's group: Memo from JMWAVE to Director, 10/15/61, Reel 52, Folder J, NARA Record Number: 1994.04.26.09:46:28:100005. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=190
[xl] Gonzalez was paid for his services by the CIA after his release from prison in 1977:
click here (met with "Jim Smith" (real name Jim Brown) of the Agency in September 1960, a Miami case officer who arranged supply drops to MRR in Cuba)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=17371&relPageId=4 (paid $200 a month, ostensibly by JMCLIPPER)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=17371&relPageId=5 (more reliable than any other agent handled by FREAPANE in Cuba. He would be endangered if his JMCLIPPER affiliations were revealed.)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=617385 (plans to "exfiltrate" him "black" as a person of "KUBARK interest" before knowing of his arrest)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=516925 (after arrest, cancel plans stated above)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=184 (201-275949 was Gonzalez -- the going story, true or false, was that he was being held in refrigerator -- and to pay wife monthly subsistence for services of REDACTED)
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=562410 (unredacted version of above post -- AMCALL-1 was a "paid agent".
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=14 ("He probably is expected some money for his long time in prison, although this was never mentioned specifically")
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=617199 (as of 2/13/80, paid for his services)
At a meeting after his release, Fidel Castro told Gonzalez that he would have been released much earlier except that many GOC officials believed that he was one of those who burned the El Encanto. Gonzalez denied any role in that action. click here
[xli] Gonzalez claimed that Pujols and Barroso (Barreros) were arrested on or about the same time: Debriefing memo from REDACTED to William Sturbitts, circa May 1979, click here
[xlii] Gonzalez identified Pujols as a "CIA agent" also known as "Ernesto". http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=180
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=617322
Jose Pujol reported in 1959 that Diaz Verson was the leader of his anti-Castro movement and their goal was to put Portunado into office. click here
Pujols may have been the same man as Abelardo Pujol Barrera (aka Joe Sanco, Jose Sauco, Jose Alonzo Pujol Barera) was a 42-year old Cuban citizen and Miami resident who was co-defendant with Robert Ray McKeown in a 1958 gun-running case. McKeown met a man who identified himself as Lee Oswald on at least one occasion in 1963: Warren Commission Hearings, Volume 26, p. 651; Exhibit 3066, p. 3. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=1142&relPageId=687
Pujols had an aunt active in Operation Liberio, Dr. Elena Mederos: click here
[xliii] A.J. Weberman and Michael Canfield, Coup D'Etat in America, p. 129.
[xliv] Also charged and imprisoned were the parents of a woman who plays a prominent role in this story -- Sylvia Odio: FBI letterhead memo, 8/9/68, p. 6, FBI - HSCA Subject File: Sylvia Odio/NARA Record Number: 124-10296-10031. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=82342&relPageId=9
[xlv] Two versions of debriefing of Gonzalez exist. One is Gonzalez's debriefing with (REDACTED), May 28, 1979, p. 3. click here http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=12
Also see less redacted version at: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=17376&relPageId=2
The other is by Carl Jenkins, "Debriefing of Reinol Gonzalez", re interviews of 5/17/78 and 5/24/78, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 52: De Mohrenschildt - Hall)/NARA Record Number: 104-10217-10336. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48268&relPageId=5
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48268&relPageId=16
Note November 7, Hal Hendrix wrote a story about Gonzalez' TV interview, entitled "Castro Arrests Hurt Resistance": click here
Before the month was out, the story about Veciana's failed effort to have Castro killed with a bazooka was in the 11/23/61 Miami Herald. Here's the article, then the comments"HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 17: Ruiz - Webster)/
NARA Record Number: 104-10276-10157. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=809100
Also see Veciana chronology: HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (staff notes)/
NARA Record Number: 180-10145-10331. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=49336&relPageId=3
"No centralized record of JMWAVE contract employees was kept until 1968":
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=377357
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=45912&relPageId=174
[xlvi] TV interview with Gonzalez, 11/6/61, Reel 52, Folder J -- Reinol Gonzales, 1994.04.26.09:46:28:100005. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=132
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=133 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55456&relPageId=134
[xlvii] On 7/17/62, the Cubans persuade another new prisoner, Juan Falcon "Esteban" of MRR, to confess on TV to the elaborate Operation Patty plan to kill Raul and Fidel and others: Memorandum for the Record by Chris Hopkins of the JFK-LAD Task Force, circa 1977, LA Division Work File/NARA Record Number: 104-10308-10156. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=396452
Also see memo from JMWAVE to Director, 7/18/62, LA Division Work File/NARA Record Number: 104-10308-10215. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=387906
Also see David Kaiser, The Road to Dallas, p. 109.
[xlviii] By the end of 1961, Veciana went into voluntary exile in the US, worked as a sabotage man known as "Victor" for Manono Ray's MRP, and was sought out by case officer Calvin Hicks as AMSHALE-1: Chronological notes on Antonio Veciana Blanch, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (staff notes)/ NARA Record Number: 180-10145-10331.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=18273&relPageId=7
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=18273&relPageId=11
Voluntary exile in the US and role as sabotage man: Memorandum for the Record, Chris Hopkins, May 1977, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 34/NARA Record Number: 104-10102-10176.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=30983&relPageId=2
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=30983&relPageId=3
As to who Veciana's handlers were in 60-61, one memo in Veciana's security file says that Bohemia magazine identified "Harold Bishop" as one of the handlers of Veciana's lieutenant Jose Pujols. From REDACTED to Priority Director, 11/23/76, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 46/NARA Record Number: 1993.08.05.15:03:32:960028.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=1165867
Other sources say that Veciana's handlers were "Maurice Bishop" and "(fnu) Melton". Fonzi, The Last Investigation, p. 129. For Veciana's identification of CIA officer David Atlee Phillips as "Maurice Bishop", see Bill Kelly's article on his blog Countercoup: click here
Veciana said that Maurice Bishop suggested to him in January 1961 that he contact "Smith", "Sam Kail", and a CIA officer. HSCA Report, Volume 10, p. 38.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=156042
The HSCA reported that Fonzi's interviews revealed that Bishop suggested that Veciana contact Sam Kail, Ewing Smith, or vice-consul Joe D'Acosta. HSCA investigation of anti-Castro exiles that could have participated in assassination, 12/8/77, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (staff notes)/NARA Record Number: 180-10141-10365
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=111947&relPageId=10
In response to the FBI's "oral questions", the CIA response to this request was that no "agency officer in contact with Veciana ever used aliases of Morris Bishop, Blair or Kail" and that no "agency officer in contact with Veciana was named Bishop, Blair or Kail". That may indicate that the CIA knew Veciana was in contact with "Harold Bishop". HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 34/NARA Record Number: 104-10102-10189.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=30986&relPageId=3
Sam Kail was not CIA, he was army attache at the American Embassy until it closed in 1961; he then helped run the base greeting refugees in Opa-locka. Kail did not deny meeting Veciana, but said he had no recollection. HSCA Report, Volume 10, p. 43.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=1212&relPageId=47
Ross Crozier, when asked for the name of any CIA officer who used the name "Bishop", responded after two days that David Phillips used the name "Maurice Bishop". Road to Dallas, p. 71, citing Memorandum, 2/4/78, Fonzi and Gonzalez to Gl. Robert Blakey, HSCA Numbered Files, Box 105/5063.
Sabotage man for the MRP, known as "Victor": "Pacts with Bloc Dominate Cabinet Session", 11/8/61, p. 2, Reel 52, Folder J -- Reinol Gonzales, NARA Record Number: 1994.04.26.09:46:28:100005. A note indicates that the source of this memo have been Paul Barthel, a right-wing activist. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=617363
Hicks got Veciana his POA (preliminary operational approval) on 1/29/62: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55062&relPageId=74
"Victor" Veciana was used in Havana during February 1962. "Five foot 11, 170 pounds": Chronological notes on Veciana, p. 8, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (staff notes)/NARA Record Number: 180-10145-10331. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=49336&relPageId=9
Despite this record, the CIA has taken the line that "there has been no agency relationship with Veciana. A POA, issued in Jan 62, expired in Nov 62, and was never used operational by (CIA)".
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=18263&relPageId=2
The POA granted in Jan 62: Memo from Howard Gossage, WH3/OPS/Support at CIA HQ, to JMWAVE, 1/31/62, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 17: Ruiz - Webster)/NARA Record Number: 104-10181-10206. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=391160
[xlix] Veciana's operational approval was cancelled in late 1962: The "J5" indicates that this was being communicated to military intelligence, which was apparently Veciana's base of operations. (Curiously, Gen. William Craig, the author of Operation Northwoods, was also with J5, and Feeney worked on maneuvers with Craig during the summer of 1963.) http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=809069
Veciana was military intelligence from 1962 to 1966: Memo from John H. Haller, Inspector General to Director, 5/10/77, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 36/NARA Record Number: 104-10103-10359. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=45912&relPageId=170
[l] Balbuena advised to contact Nino Diaz if there was any problem in obtaining the weapons. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=21443&relPageId=4
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=56271&relPageId=14
[li] Memo, 4/3/62, JMWAVE to Task Force W, http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=56271&relPageId=39
[lii] William Kent and Rocky Farnsworth at JMWAVE are coordinating this weapons deal: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=25401&relPageId=2 "Trouchard" was William Kent, an assistant to covert action specialist David Phillips. The identity of Pantleone was Glen "Rocky" Farnsworth, the Chief of Base at JMWAVE before David Morales took the helm. Another identity Farnsworth apparently used was "Eustace C. Keator".
[liii] Memorandum of Contact by Stanley Zamka/David Morales, Chief of Base, JMWAVE, 5/13/62, HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 2: Artime - Barker)/NARA Record Number: 104-10163-10206 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=21437&relPageId=3
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Bill Simpich is a civil rights attorney and an antiwar activist in the San Francisco Bay Area.