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And We Are All Mortal AND WE ARE ALL MORTAL New Evidence and Analysis in the John F. Kennedy Assassination by George Michael Evica AND WE ARE ALL MORTAL is printed by the University of Hartford 200 Bloomfield A venue West Hartford, Conn., 06117 Single copies may be ordered prepaid from the University of Hartford for $7.95 plus $1.00 for postage and handling. copyright 1978 by George Michael Evica Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-89706 Typesetting input by the University of Hartford Edited and typeset by the MATEXT System, MATECH, INC., Hartford, Conn. All statements made in And We Are All Mortal are to be attributed to the author alone and to no other individual, group, or institution. Front cover design by George Michael Evica Cover design executed by Sherman Rowles Back cover photograph by Anthony Bacewicz, Hartford Courant PERMISSIONS Permission to reprint copyrighted material from the following sources is gratefully acknowledged: The New York Times, from three articles: January 11th 1964; February 25th, 1977; and July 8th, 1977 Life-Time, Inc., from Gerald Ford's article, "Piecing together the Evidence," Life, October 2nd, 1964 U.S. News and World Report, from an interview with Arlen Specter, October, 1966 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ....... iii Introduction ................................... vi PART ONE: A MAN WITH THE RIFLE Chapter 1 The Rifle (I): 6.5 . 1 Chapter 2 The Rifle (II): 7.65.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 15 Chapter 3 The Rifle (III): The Riva Modification . .. .. .. .. 27 Chapter 4 The Rifle (IV): 40.2 .................................... 37 Chapter 5 The Rifle (V): New Evidence : the Andreotti/S.I .F.A.R. Document . .. .. .. .. 47 Chapter 6 "Now We Do Not Have To Fear A Man With The Rifle". .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 63 Chapter 7 Z-313: Photographic Proof of Conspiracy.. .. .. 65 Chapter 8 The F.B.I. Spectrographic Documents (I) . .. .. .. .. .. .. 75 Chapter 9 The F.B.I. Spectrographic Documents (II)................. 85 PART TWO: SECRET AND VIOLENT MEN Chapter 10 The Alpha 66 Conspiracy: A Second "Oswald" Identified .. .. .. .. .. .. 97 Chapter 11 AM BLO OD, JMW A VE, and Alpha 66: "Oswald" in Mexico 115 Chapter 12 A GS -18 in Retirement ............ .................... 131 Chapter 13 "A Good Reputation": Jack "Leon" Ruby ..... ........... 147 Chapter 14 "Sally's Stash": The First C.I.A.- Syndicate Plot Against Fidel Castro .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 179 Chapter 15 The Intelligence- Syndicate Conspiracy Against Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Assassination (I).. .. .. 191 Chapter 16 The Intelligence-Syndicate Conspiracy Against Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Assassination (II) . .. .. .. .. 206 Chapter 17 The Hoffa Mediation . .. .. .. .. .. .. 219 Chapter 18 Robert Maheu and Associates.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 237 Chapter 19 And We Are All Mortal (I). .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 245 Chapter 20 And We Are All Mortal (11)... 255 Chapter 21 And We Are All Mortal (III) . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 267 End Notes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 331 Index........................................................... 449 PREFACE And We Are All Mortal consists of two parts: the first deals with the hard evidence of a conspiracy and cover-up in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy - a micro-analysis; the second half reviews the contexts of the assassination - a macro-analysis. For both ease of reading and economy, all supporting documentation and citations appear in the End Notes which are keyed to the text's page numbers (and then to each page's paragraphs). The Introduction reviews the events of November 22nd-24th, 1963, and the official "case" against Lee Harvey Oswald. Chapter 1 analyzes the story of the finding of a rifle in the Depository. Chapters 2 and 3 establish why the weapon was first called a "7.65 Mauser bolt action rifle." Chapters 3 and 4 prove that F.B.I. testimony on the alleged assassin's rifle was incorrect, if not deliberately misleading. Five missing rifle reports, all of them linked to the F.B.I., suggest that the rifle originally found could not be traced. The rifle examined by the F.B.I., however, was traced to Klein's, and from Klein's to Dallas. The contradiction strongly suggests a rifle substitution to implicate Oswald. New evidence is presented in Chapter 5 indicating the Italian Armed Forces Intelligence Service questioned the identity of the alleged assassin's rifle - and that the C.I.A. intercepted the secret report, and then suppressed the Italian analysis for thirteen years. Chapter 6 examines Oswald's evident innocence. Chapter 7 establishes through an analysis of the famous Zapruder film that no one could have assassinated the president with one Mannlicher-Carcano and three rounds fired from the Depository. Chapter 8 presents new F.B.I. lab evidence proving the so-called "magic bullet" is a fraud - evidence suppressed for twelve years. Chapter 9 establishes that Kennedy was hit by at least one soft-nosed, fragmenting bullet, and that he suffered wounds from weapon rounds fired from at least two directions. Chapter 10 reviews part of the history of Alpha 66, the anti-Castro/ Cuban-exile organization, its leaders, and their known association with a second "Oswald" - and the organization's possible complicity in the Kennedy assassination. Chapter 11 links Cuban-exile assassination attempts against Fidel Castro with the C.I.A. (and the Alpha 66 officer who worked with the C.I.A. to kill Castro) and a proposed plot to frame Oswald for the Kennedy killing. Chapter 12 reviews the career of a high American intelligence officer and his possible role in the framing of Oswald in what might have been a faked Mexico City visit to the Soviet and Cuban embassies. Chapter 13 presents new evidence on Jack Ruby's early role as a police and intelligence informant from 1938 through 1963, and reviews the evidence establishing Ruby as a Hoffa-Lansky gangster with a special interest in Cuban affairs. Chapter 14 reviews the first Syndicate-Intelligence assassination attempt against Castro, and presents evidence to suggest that the only surviving member of that operation may have helped reputed Syndicate chief Meyer Lansky gain control of organized crime by staging the Appalachin "Mafia" meeting. iii Chapters 15 through 21 link the Kennedy assassination with anti-Castro assassination attempts, Watergate, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, and seventeen deaths since 1970, thirteen of them violent. And We Are All Mortal reviews and analyzes these recently-released documents: 1. the November 28th, 1963, Italian Armed Forces Intelligence report on the alleged assassin's rifle, and the C.I.A. dispatch which proves that the C.I.A. intercepted the Italian report and then suppressed both; 2. the F.B.I. spectrographic lab reports, invalidating the so-called "single-bullet" theory, suppressed for eleven years; 3. the Treasury Department's CD 853 on a Cuban-exile terrorist group and its association with a second "Oswald"; 4. the F.B.I. "Criminal Informant" reports on Jack Ruby in 1959, suppressed for twelve years; 5. the Hoover memorandum to his aides and staff, November 28th, 1963, reviewing his briefing of President Johnson, strongly suggesting Hoover hinted to the president the Dallas police were involved in the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. I thank the University of Hartford library staff for its assistance; Professor Harald Sandstrom for his scholarship and insight (and the students of ISP 223 and 225 whom we both taught in the Kennedy assassination courses in 1976 and 1977); John Richters, III, for his help and humor; Patti Rakauskas for her hard work and patience; the staff of MATECH, INC., for its magic; Larry Montgomery for his support and sustenance of this book; English Department Chairperson Robert Logan, the University Sabbatical Committee, Charles Condon, and Provost David Komisar; and Arts and Sciences Dean Frank Chiarenza (who read the manuscript and helped untangle some of its unnecessary complications). I thank all those who worked with the Connecticut Citizens Commission of Inquiry in getting the word out, especially Susan Fowler and Kim Magid; the citizens of Connecticut for their interest and active support; the media people of Connecticut for their help in pursuing the truth, especially the staffs of Channel 3 and Pat Sheehan, Channel 8 and Bob Norman, and Channel 30; scores of radio stations, including WPLR, WTIC, WDRC, WRCH, WKND, and WPOP; Ivor Hugh for his confidence and friendship; Bob Baldwin and the West Hartford News; and the two-dozen newspapers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York which helped raise the New England area's consciousness. iv I thank The University of Hartford campus radio station, WWUH, for carrying my broadcast, Assassination Journal, and the University's student newspaper for its coverage and courage (it has existed under several names, including the Callboard, Liberated Press, and Informer). I thank former deputy sheriff, justice of the peace, and judge of the lower court of Coconino County, Flagstaff, Arizona, James F. Brierley, for his valuable commentary on CE 399. I thank my parents for their pride and loving interest. I thank broadcaster Brian Dow for his courage and love. I thank my daughter for her patience and understanding; and I especially thank my wife and best friend, who never lost faith. This book is, therefore, dedicated to Alycia Brierley Evica v INTRODUCTION ..· It was November 22nd, 1976. Frank Sturgis had just finished being interviewed in an hour of close questioning by a roomful of newspeople at the University of Hartford; earlier, in a private interview, John Richters and I had questioned Sturgis for over two hours. Now, as we moved toward the stage at the University of Hartford's Student Center, where Professor Harald Sandstrom, Richters, and I would question Sturgis for another two hours before an over-capacity audience, an observer remarked to Sturgis: "They sure asked you some hard questions." Sturgis paused for a moment. Turning to me, he fixed me with a dark-eyed, expressionless stare. A blunt, dangerous-looking index finger shot out and almost touched my chest: "No..
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