People and the PURSUIT of Truth Vol. 3, No. 4 August, 1977 CONTENTS Title Author Page

The Central Intelligence Agency and the " Times" / by Samuel F. Thurston, 2 pen-name for Richard E. Sprague Why Was Santos Trafficante Called Before the House Assassination Committee? — Part 2 8 / by Jim Kostman

"Clandestine America" — New Publication of the Assassination Information Bureau 1 / by Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor -

"CLANDESTINE AMERICA" — NEW An article, "Loran Hall", describes the interaction of PUBLICATION OF THE ASSASSINATION a witness and the House Select Committee, which re- INFORMATION BUREAU sulted in yielding no information to the committee. by Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor A column, "Assassination Update", mentions recent news or recently acquired information about: Repr. The first issue, July-August 1977, of the Washington John B. Anderson, a new member of the HSCA;-Willem Newsletter of the Assassination Information Bureau, Oltmans, Dutch journalist; Sirhan Sirhan, convicted entitled "Clandestine America", has been published. It assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, for whom there is interesting and important, but very detailed. is extensive physical evidence that he could not pos- The office of the AIB has been permanently moved sibly have fired the killing shot; Federal Judge Sam from Cambridge, Mass., to: 1322 18th St. NW # 21, Perry, who dismissed a suit in Chicago against the Chi- Washington, DC 20036. The phone number is (202) cago police for killing Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, 857-0017. Black Panther leaders in 1969; Perry thus seeks to perpet- An article, "New Chief Counsel", describes briefly uate an FBI conspiracy against the Panthers; and some G. Robert Blakey, new chief counsel of the House Select other persons. Committee on Assassinations. Students of political assassinations in the United States "Ray's Escape" deals with James Earl Ray's short- will need this publication very much. The AIB has asked lived escape from prison on June 10, 1977 in Tennessee. for a stamped, self-addressed envelope in order to send Ray was sentenced as the assassin of Martin Luther King, out the next issue. Jr., but claims he is innocent. One thing distresses me greatly about the Newsletter: An article, "Secret War of CBS", describes and com- there are no names of authors attached to articles, and ments on events in 1961, 1962 and 1963 as reported no names of editors on any masthead; and this I believe in a "recent" (the date of it should have been given) is a great failure in responsible reporting. Let us hope two-hour documentary on CBS. According to the AIB that the next and all later issues will show who takes there was considerable deception in the broadcast, but the responsibility for saying what is said. also some new facts and information.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Something stinks about this whole affair. . . .The stench is there and clings to each one of us."

Samuel F. Thurston pen-name for Richard E. Sprague This article was referred to in the July 1977 issue Newton, Mass. Hartsdale, NY 10530 of PURSUIT. We decided to reprint it because of its continuing interest.

On December 1, 1970, "" pub- Something stinks about this whole affair. lished a review by John Leonard of two books. The "A Heritage of Stone" rehashes the smelliness; two books were: the recipe is as unappetizing as our doubts about the official version of what happened. AMERICAN GROTESQUE: An Account of the Clay- (Would then Attorney General Robert F. Kenne- Shaw-Jim-Garrison-Affair in the City of dy have endured his brother's murder in si- New Orleans, by James Kirkwood, 669 pages, lence? Was John Kennedy quite so liberated Simon and Schuster, $11.95 from cold war cliches as Mr. Garrison main- tains?) But the stench is there, and clings A HERITAGE OF STONE, by , 253 to each of us. Why were Kennedy's neck or- pages, Putnam, $6.95 gans not examined at Bethesda for evidence of a frontal shot? Why was his body whisked In the early edition of "The New York Times" the away to Washington before the legally required title of the review was: Texas inquest? Why?

Books of the Times: In the later edition, these 43 lines are replaced WHO KILLED JOHN KENNEDY? by the following 13 lines:

In the later edition the title of the review was: ... And he insists that the Warren Commission, the executive branch of the government, some Books of the Times: members of the Dallas Police Department, the THE SHAW-GARRISON AFFAIR pathologists at Bethesda who performed the second Kennedy autopsy, and many many others In the early edition, the last 43 lines of the must have known they were lying to the Ameri- review read as follows ("he" in the first line be- can public. low refers to Jim Garrison): ... And he insists that the Warren Commission, Frankly I prefer to believe that the Warren the executive branch of the government, some Commission did a poor job rather than a dis- members of the Dallas Police Department, the honest one. I like to think that Mr. Garri- pathologists at Bethesda who performed the son invents monsters to explain incompetence. second Kennedy autopsy, and many, many others must have known they were lying to the American And that is the end of the review. Even the sub- title "Mysteries Persist" has vanished. public. Of course, this left a hole in the later edition, Mysteries Persist and a hole needs to be filled. And the hole was Frankly, I prefer to believe that the filled, by a section of editorial matter entitled Warren Commission did a poor job, rather than "New Books", which mentions one new fiction book and a dishonest one. I like to think that Mr. nine general books. Garrison invents monsters to explain incompe- tence. But until somebody explains why two The evidence of these changes is shown in the accompanying photographic exhibits. autopsies came to two different conclusions about the President's wounds, why the limou- sine was washed out and rebuilt without What happened to John Leonard? investigation, why certain witnesses near the "grassy knoll" were never asked to testi- In January 1971, John Leonard became editor of fy before the Commission, why we were all so eager to buy Oswald's brilliant marksmanship "The New York Times Book Review", having previously been one of the paper's daily reviewers. If he had in split seconds, why no one inquired into had any qualms about accepting the surgical change Jack Ruby's relations with a staggering vari- that was made in his review, completely altering ety of strange people, why a "loner" like its character, presumably he felt it was reasonable Oswald always had friends and could always to accept the change. get a passport -- who can blame the Garrison guerrillas for fantasizing?

COMPUTERS and AUTOMATION for July, 1971 People and the PURSUIT of Truth for August, 1977 page 2 Why should a severe alteration in a review like Allied with the "paragovernment" (see April 16 this take place in "The New York Times"? issue) of the "New Team" were secret "cooperating and liaison" groups in the large foundations, banks The question can be answered. There is some in- and newspapers, the source added. In that issue, formation which sheds light on news handling by readers will recall, this newspaper reported that "The New York Times" in regard to the softpedaling the "coordinating role" at The New York Times was of questions about the assassination of President in the custody of Harding Bancroft. its Executive John F. Kennedy. (There are many examples besides Vice President. the present one.) New Team Ready One important part of this information may be found in "The Congressional Record", April 30, 1969. By August. 1963, the "New Team" was "ready" for in remarks entitled "Otto Otepka: Victim of the New action on a wide variety of fronts. These included Team by Honorable John R. Rarick of Louisiana, House international affairs, especially the War; of Representatives, published in the "Extension of domestic affairs. especially preparation for the Remarks" page E3527. These remarks follow: 1964 Presidential election; and the "final infil- tration" by "New Team enthusiasts" of the State (Beginning of Excerpt) Department, Agency for International Development, the United States Information Agency and the Pen- Mr. Rarick: Mr. Speaker, a long-suppressed report tagon, the source said. on the misuse of the CIA to establish an underground government within our Government has been exposed The basic purpose of the "New Team" was to today in the Government Employees Exchange. "reform" United States domestic and foreign rela- tions through the use of an "elite of committed. Reportedly the plan of the "new team" in control- humanistic pragmatists" who looked at the "spirit ling the CIA operation was to "reform" the U.S. of the future" instead of the status quo and the domestic and foreign relations through the use of "dead letter of formal and literal law," the source an "elite" who looked to the "spirit of the future" continued. instead of the status quo. "New Team" Targets Apparently anyone not on the "new team" who un- covered its sinister plans or interfered -- knowing- In the international field the main target for ly or unknowingly -- was considered a threat and a "reform" action was Ngo Dinh Nhu. the brother of target for compromise or elimination. President Diem, of South Vietnam. He had, the source said, the same relationship to President The casualty list from the intermeddlers of the Diem that Robert Kennedy had to President Kennedy. "new team" includes President Diem and his brother of South Vietnam, President Johnson, and Otto F. President Diem had insisted in his dealings with Otepka. the "New Team" that the war in Vietnam had to be "run by the Vietnamese. - Even though he used So that our colleagues may have the opportunity CIA resources, he would not allow the CIA to become to study this unprecedented exposure in power and a "paragovernment" in Vietnam. The Diem and Nhu to ponder the question, "Who is running our country?" alliance in Vietnam thus stood in the way of "amer- I include the Government Employees Exchange article icanizing" the war there and using the war's op- of April 30 and two articles from the April 16 portunity to transform South Vietnam along the lines issue: of the "New Team" program, the source said.

(From the Government Employees Exchange, Washington, Robert William Komer D.C., April 30, 1969) While relations between President Diem and the CIA's Vietnam Hit L.B.J., Otepka "New Team" were disintegrating, a final thrust for "americanizing" the Vietnam War was supplied by Ro- A highly secret and unknown American involvement bert William Komer, a career CIA intelligence offi- in Yemen was the prelude to major actions by the cer who, from 19-17 through 1960, had won the confi- Central Intelligence Agency's "New Team" in its dence of such top CIA officials as William Langer, November, 1963, offensive against President Ngo Sherman Kent, Robert Amory and William Bundy. Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, against Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and against Otto F. Otepka, the In February, 1961, Mr. Komer was "transformed" State Dapartment's former top Security Evaluator, a from an "Intelligence" into an "Operations Officer" former Ambassador with close ties to CIA Director when he joined the National Security Council Staff Richard Helms, revealed to this newspaper on April at the request of McGeorge Bundy, the brother of 25. William Bundy.

As readers know, the CIA "New Team" was set up Following the "Bay of Pigs," the United States by former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy fol- engaged in a series of "guerrilla wars" throughout lowing the Bay of Pigs "fiasco" by the CIA "Old the world, including Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. Most Team." Mr. Kennedy recruited into the "New Team" of them have secret CIA operations, especially of many officials not only from the CIA (such as Rich- the "counter-insurgency" type_ ard Helms) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (such as Cartha "Deke" De Loach) but also from the "Mr. Komer's War" Internal Revenue Service and the National Security Agency. These agencies and their top members were The most secret, however, of these CIA wars was "knowledgeable" in the exploitation of "wire taps" "Mr. Komer's war" in Yeen which was a testing and secret informers, the former Ambassador said. ground for the CIA in the use of "paramilitary and paradiplomatic techniques, - the former Ambassador revealed.

People and the PURSUIT of Truth for August, 1977 page 3 COMPUTERS and .e.'UTOMATICti for Juiy, 1971 THE NEW YORK TIMES, Till Books of The Times Dorian S Who Killed John F. Kennedy? By JOHN LEONARD Isn't conclusive, not even In a book re- AMERICAN GROTESQUE. An Account of the viewer's court. Mr. KIrkwnod's loyalty to Clay-Shaw-Jim Garrison Altair in the City of a friend Is admirable; his taped interviews New Orienne. By James Kirkwood 669 pages. with all the principals in the first Shaw Simon is Schluter. suss. trial are fascinating; his attention to trivia A HERITAGE Olt STONE. By Jim Garrison. is in the best 'oarajournallstic tradition— 253 pops. Putnam. 66.95. the littlo boy who cried Tom Wolfe. But le- Bad vibrations. gitimate questions about John Kennedy's New Orleans District Attorney Jim Gar- assassination aren't answered according to rison arrested New Orleans businearenen the buddy system. Clay Shaw, charging that Mr. Shaw con- Which brings us to Jim Garrison's "A spired to assassinate. President John F. Heritage of Stone." The District Attorney Kennedy. Mr. Shaw was acquitted by a pt Orleans Parish argues that Kennedy': Jury. Mr. Garrison then had Mr. Shaw re- assassination ran only be explained by a arrested on two charges of perjury. Mr. "model" that pins the murder on tine Cen- Shaw is suing Mr. Garrison, and a host ral Intelligence Agency. The C.t A. could of others. The judge at Mr. Shaw's trial have engineered Dallas in behalf of the 1-is's on Ike ugly,lasi,tiies hap since been arrested la a motel room military - intelligence - Industrial complex less, thus, or otherwise dia. that feared the President's disposition egr treble etsetecee on this where stag movies and loose women are net finally esoossid In Ina alleged to. have exhibited themselves. The toward a detente with the Russians. Mr. ook that "tips ma lid tea principal witness against Mr. Shaw has Garrison nowhero in his book mentions onaarvallon Mov since been arrested for burglary. Mr. Gar- Clay Shaw, or tho botch his office made of rison has since been accused of molesting Shaw's prosecution; ho Is, however, heavy THE Ef R a 13-year-old boy at the New Orleans on all the other characters, who have kse- Ti CTION Athletic Club, which is interesting because coma..familiar to us, via late-night talk n Answer tenewvattonlati Mr..Shaw Wilts with the New shows on television. And he Insists that by Mono tItar,Hort.Ph.D....‘ Orleans homosexual underground. tho Warren Commission. tie executive In otos ssocknhon Wan branch of the government. some members RIO Id Ciolls. Illus. 'titt No. this is not a fiction by . tr sieboopertoovrall- It Is a serialized novel on the froqt pages of the Dallas Police Department, the 445 at bookplate. of our daily newspapers. Maybe that ex- pathologists at Bethesda who performed PRESSpngss plains why novelist James KIrkviodd- 'the second Kennedy autopsy and many, "Good Times/Sad Times"—got obsessed. many others must have known they were with the subject.. Mr. Kirkwood that MC. lying to the American public. Shaw. and behaved his story:and ie wrote Mysteries Persist -a sympathetic aititle before the trial (pub- Frankly, I prefer to behove that the ?ran • lished by Esquire) ar.d..an Indignant Warren Commission Old a poor Job, rather after the trial (rejected by ) Ind A bytihrillor than a dishonest one. I like to think that this tome-stone of a book (troubling the •freh from Mr. Garrison invents monsters to explain reviewer): Did Clay Shaw know David Incompetence. But until somebody explains ho front pages! Ferris and Lee Harvey Oswald? Is Jim Gar. why two autopsies came to two different •rison paranoiac about the Federal govern, Conclusions about the President's wounds, The In ment? One wishes the whole business were Why the limousine was washed out and re- a fevered invention. built without Investigation, why certain y Thottdas B. 'Perjury' Atop 'Conspiracy' witnesses near the "grassy knoll" were r(gan It Isn't. Mr.. Kirkwood argueS in "Anted- never asked to testify before tho Commis- Autb of Bleed atone), can Grotesque". that 'Jim Garrison used Lion, why we were all so eager to buy • a small-town eon- Clay Shaw to try the Warren Commission Oswald's brilliant Marksmanship in misfit se with a - report; that Garrison scraped:the bottom seconds, why no one Inquired into Jack same far b ' of the barrel for variously sick and vari- Ruby's relations with a staggering variety ram add of k ously intimidated witnesses to smear Shaw; of strange people, why a "loner" like Os- robb= hest to • in' wald always had friends and could always perfect "Insi ' lob, that Garrison's guerrillas- sought a Jury of and you have a sub-per intelligence to bemuse with bloody . get a paesport—who can blame the Garri- ■ . get-up unt anew- fantasies; that, having empaneled such a son guerrillas for fantasizing? aloes ring wife ear. Something stinks about this whole af- ri on tha room. - Jury.- they were so upset by the acquittal that they added the Insult of "perjury" fair. "A Heritage of Stone" rehashes the charges to the injury of "conspiracy" ac- smelliness; the recipe Is as unappetizing as cusations. Unfortunately, Mr. Kirkwood is our doubts about the official version of so conscientious in his reportage that one what happened. (Would then-Attorney wonders why so many people claimed to General Robert Kennedy have endured have seen Mr. Shaw with Oswald and his brother's murder in silence? Was John Ferries. Were they all mistaken or lying? Kennedy quite so liberated from cold war cliches es Mr. Garrison maintains?) But the To he sure, conspiracy wasn't proved, stench is there, and clings to each of us. and the state embarrassed itself with sur- Why were Kenndy's neck organs not ex- real incompetence. But "conspiracy" is no amined at Bethesda for evidence of a fron- hanger the charge against Shaw; perjury tal shot? Why was his body whisked awe!. is. We have only Mr. Kirkland's emotional to Washington before the legally required word on Innocence to go by. Such a word Texas Inquest? Why?

Exhibit 1 — John Leonard's review in the early edition of The New York Times, December 1, 1970, showing part of the surrounding page.

People and the PURSUIT of Truth for August, 1977 page 4 COMPUTERS and AUTOMATION for July, 1971

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The Shaw-Garrison Affair By JOHN LEONARD AMERICAN GROTESQUE. As AseounI of the fantasies: that, having esiipaneted mach a Clay Shaw-Jim Garrison Affair in tea city of jury, they were so upset by the acquittal New Ortoons. By lams laiersal 615e • perm that they added the insult of "perjury' Sheen & St:Arvin. $17R& charges to the injury of "conspiracy" ac- ; A HERITAGE or STONE. By lint Garrison. cusations. Unfortunatedy, Mr. Kirkwood is 253 pages. Putman. te.ne. so conscientious in his reportage that one Bad vibrations. wonders why so many people claimed to New Orleans District Attorney Jim Gar- have seen Mr. Shaw with Oswald and rison arrested New Orleans businessman Ferrie. Were they all mistaken or tying? 6 Clay Shaw, charging that Mr. Shaw con- To be sure, conspiracy wasn't proved, t rn"1 477 nr• spired to assassinate President John F. and the state embarrassed Itself with sur- Kennedy. Mr. Shaw was acquitted by a, real Incompetence. But "conspiracy" is no • jury. Mr. Garrison than had Mr. Shaw re- longer the charge against Shaw; perjury arrested on two charges of perjury. Mr. is. We have only Mr. Kirkland's emotional Vz.Pric.s c.:-. Shaw is suing Mr. Garrison, and a host word on innocence to go by. Such a word of others. The judge at Mr. Shan't trial isn't conclusive, not even in a book re- has since been arrested in a mien room viewer's court. Mr. Kirkwood's loyalty to a friend is admirable: his taped interviews native town .2 r s 'where stag movies and loose women are Irr•-•:,..G r • alleged to have exhibited themselves. The with all the principals in the first Shaw C,Iot •R principal witness against Mr. Shaw haiii trial are fascinating; his attention to trivia since been arrested for burglary. Mr. Gar- Is in the best parajournalistic tradition-- he burled bera

r ,-- rison has since been accused of molesting the little boy-who cried Tom Wolfe- But le- a 13-year-old boy at the New Orleans gitimate question* about John Kennedy's git I .11`...1 Athletic Club, which is interesting because assassination aren't answered according to I -*SS Mr. Shaw allegedly had links with the New the buddy system. Which brings us to Jiro Garrison's "A And in .:+c-4.••••1;n: Orleans hamar:nal undargromid. that lestri...th-le:ta je.wish. kirs•-.1 No. this is not fiction by Gore Vidal. Heritage of Stone." The District Attorney of Orleans Parish argues that Kennedy's town. Elle Wtesel found more It is a serialized novel on the front pages assassination can only be explained by a t1, of our daily newspapers. -Maybe that ex- 11t the watch — svaLeits.ca and "model" that pins the murder on the Cen- plains why novelist James Kirkwood-- tral Intelligence Agency. The C.LA. could corroded. He unearthed a Pan- "Good Times/Bad Times"—got obsessed have engineered Dallas in behalf of the dora's box of memories — •----",..1..-'"D-'"'"Elt^=.-...... ___ — 7.! with the subject Mr. Kirkwood met Mr. military intelligence - industrial complex Shaw, and believed his story, and so wrote that feared the President's diary,idon as deeply latzled as the oace a sympathetic article before the trial (pub towards detente with the Russians. Mr. lished by Esquire) and an indignant article Garrison nowhere in his book mentions golden.gift—m=orisati-itferced 1 A taut ttri:73-2' A; after the trial (rejected by Playboy) and Clay Shen, or the botch his office made of }i'i-ra into a di:ect confzczWion —froitfrzn ,• this tome-stone of a book (troubling the Shaw's prosecution; he Ls, however, heavy with the past and "nn alt:: ths!mr.tpEse: reviewer). Did Clay Shaw know David on all the other characters who have be- to Ferris end Lee Harvey Oswald? Is Jim Gar- come familiar to us via late-night _talk br"zg Lie to words and weight to rison peratiolac about the Federal govern- 7.Zl3 IriSt3 - .. shows on television. And he lnalart that silence." ment? One wishes the whole business were the Warren Commission, the executive a fevered invention. branch of the government, some members One Generation Al'ter is the au- ... ', 13,7 Thei... S. of the Dallas 'Police Department the 1,, ... Perjury' Atop 'Conspiracy' thor's jc:2.m.ey th:ough trrie and 7- : Fier...gran 4 i pathologists at Bethesda -who performed - 7 ....,.._-_,4es.:.44:44...... , ,,- -i• It isn't. Mr. Kirkwood argues in "Ameri- the second Kennedy autopsy and -many. events. it begins r.vith the Second : Take a acs-w"': can Grotesque" that Jim Garrison used many others must have known they were Aey !". ', V.ro:Id War and ends with the lt...-:-.• 'e.k a n.:';••:-:=6 7: it Clay Shaw to try the Warren Commission lying to the American public. 1-, lei- T...-rs :et. tester 1Ila tr • report; that Garrison scraped the bottom Frankly, I prefer to believe that the Six-Day War. And throughout lee. ail • p- .i.:. Se: * I ; of the barrel for variously sick and vari- Warren Commission did a poor job, rather -: e.:•.•.^... kir.? ie;-..i.: -el'. r .i : this journey, he not only searches ously intimidated witnesses to smear Shaw; than a dishonest one. 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Exhibit 2 — John Leonard's review in the later editions of The New York Times, December 1. 1970,

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COMPUTERS and AUTOMATION for July, 1971 People and the PURSUIT of Truth for August, '1977 page 5 Why Was Santos Trafficante Called Before the House Assassin- It has been proposed that if Trafficante was in- ation Committee? - Part 2 volved in the Kennedy assassination, then a possible Jim Kostman, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 explanation is that he was working for Castro.

Many Americans provided material assistance to Yet this interpretation involves a complete mis- Castro before the revolution and maintained cordial reading of the available evidence of Castro's per- relationships with the new regime for a time after- ception of Kennedy at that time. (Jean Daniel. "New wards. This fact, however, is not widely recognized. Republic", Dec. 1963; Arthur Schlesinger, "A Thou- Perhaps this is in part because many of them (Frank sand Days"). Moreover, Trafficante's remark to Ale- Sturgis is a self-admittted case) were serving at the man, that Kennedy would be killed because of the time as informants for various U.S. intelligence Eoffa matter, indicates that Trafficante had other agencies. When the Castro regime overtly turned to motives for wanting Kennedy off his back. Carlos the left, all of these people left Cuba, and became Marcello also (Ed Reid, "The Grim Reapers") expressed zealots in the anti-Castro casse. a threat to Kennedy in late 1962 at a secret meeting (where he mentioned the possibility of using a "lone What about Trafficante? Lansky never returned to nut" as a patsy) in order to stop Robert Kennedy's Havana after New Year's Eve, 1959, but some of Traf- drive against organized crime. ❑ ficante's enterprises continued to operate. McWillie was in Cuba until 1961, when the last of the casinos Thurston — Continued from page 7 were closed by Castro. It has been suggested that Trafficante's contacts within the Cuban Government The reference to these "waivers" in the past by continued until 1963 aid later. (Crile, "Washington Mr. Rusk when he was currently issuing a different Post", 5/16/76). This contention is based largely kind of "waivers" for Federal employees including on the following: that Trafficante's attorney, and one for Mr. Bancroft, sealed the fate of Mr. Otepka Jose Aleman's cousin, Rafael Garcia Bango, lives in with the "New Team," the former Ambassador said. Cuba today, where his brother is the long-time Min- ister of Sport; and that during the mid-1960's The "paragovernment" of the New Team decided he Castro, according to Federal narcotics agents, was had to be removed "no matter what the means", the rigging the Cuban lottery as a. device to pay off his former Ambassador concluded. agents in Florida. The Castro agents were allegedly placing bets with Trafficante's numbers operators, (End of Excerpt) aad Trafficante's payoffs were pegged to the Cuban lottery drawings. The Cuban agents were connunicat- ing to Castro information about which numbers were Can the above information quoted by Representa- getting the heaviest play. tive John Rarick be verified?

It has been alternatively suggested that if Traf- It is obvious that such information cannot at ficante maintained contacts in Cuba after the revo- this time be verified. A person would be out of lution, it may not have been for Castro's sake. his mind if he would expect an organization like the Rather, the contacts may have been "with the remain- Central Intelligence Agency to answer truthfully ing French-Corsican Mafia casino operators in Havana, questions about this subject brought to it. whose political allegiance was too complex to be easily characterized." (Peter Dale Scott, "Crime and But it is astonishing how much light Representa- Cover-Up", Westworks). Several Corsicans who contin- tive John Rarick's extension of remarks sheds as a ued their involvement in Cuban gambling after the hypothesis. revolution were named in 1964 testimony to the Senate Permanent Investigations Committee as being involved It explains why the Bay of Pigs Operation was the in narcotics traffic. last CIA operation to be fully held up to the light by "The New York Times." This is interesting in the light of the indictment on July 3, 1959 of Norman Rothman for unlawfully It explains why "The New York Times" regularly pledging $8.5 million in bonds stolen in a Canadiaa goes out of its way to softpedal important questions bank robbery. The FBI called it "the biggest burg- about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy lary in the world". ("New York Times", 7/4/59). Two as in John Leonard's review: the CIA has its man of Rothman's co-defendants were Samuel Mannarino and at The Times. Giuseppe Cotroni. Mannarino was a part-owner of the Havana Sans Souci Hotel with his brother Gabriel and It explains why Robert F. Kennedy as Attorney Trafficante. (Rothman worked there in the early General never took any kind of action to reveal the 1950's and was involved with both Mannarino brothers plot which slew his brother: RFK was involved in and Vito Genovese's son Michael in running arms to other parts of the same operation. Castro in 1958). Cotroni, reportedly the head of the Mafia in Montreal, was identified in Senate It explains why the office of Senator Edward narcotics hearings as "head of the largest and most Kennedy invariably replies that the Senator has notorious narcotics syndicate on the North American "full confidence in the findings of official law continent." Cotroni was a supplier of major Mafia enforcement agencies." Senator Kennedy undoubtedly traffickers in the United States, with direct knows much more than he would like to know. In fact French-Corsica, sources of supply. it is quite possible he is being blackmailed by the CIA, as for example by the Chappaquiddick operation, Five days after the Rothman indictment, on July a most successful cloak and dagger caper. 8, 1959, the Cuban cabinet ordered the deportation from Cuba of three Americans, one of whom was Tra'S- And it supports the assertion of a coup d'etat in ficante. ("New York Times". 7/9/59). One of the the United States, put forward in Jim Garrison's others was "Lawrence Hall", who had served in book, "Heritage of Stone"; see the review of Garri- Castro's army and was later a member of the No Name son's book that appeared in "Computers and Automa- Key group of CIA agents and anti-Castro guerillas in tion" for March, 1971, on page 45, and read Garri- 1962-63 (about which Trafficante was asked by the son's book if you have not yet read it. 0 Assassinations Committee).

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