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J.B.S. & Associates, Ltd irRobert D. Morrow . • , J.B.S. & Associates, Ltd. DR ONE HOUR TV SPECIAL No. 801 film is shown on screen) 3601 Greenway om)23&1963 Balurnare. MD. 2121/3 963, the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade. The speculations surrounding that assassina- tion have been rehashed again and again amidst a flurry of contro- versy over the last 20 years. On this, the 20th anniversary of that heinous event, we wish to present the following documentary. A documentary that is not a part of any previously told stories or theories. This is a documentary based on facts that are being re- vealed for the first time by a man who claims he was a sanctioned assassin for the Central Intelligence Agency. It is also a story of intrigue, conspiracy, and wholesale murder so incredible that if all the facts weren't authenticated, it would be unbelievable. Unlike the Warren Commission, convened by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963, the 1979 report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations determined that "On the basis of the evidence available to it, President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy." Although the House Select Committee would determine that a probable conspiracy was involved in President Kennedy's death, like its predecessor, it would fail in its mission. In effect, the 1977 committee imparted no more clarification as to the actual motive for the crime or its perpetrators. Former Rep. Thomas N. Downing of the First District of Virginia, who was the first chairman of the House Select Committee, would be one of the first people to express his disappointment over the committee's findings. CUT TO: Former Rep. Thomas N. Downing TEXT: Downing interview which deals with committee's short- comings and politics CUT BACK TO: NARRATOR What will be revealed during the balance of this program is FORMAT FOR ONE HOUR TV SPECIAL NARRATOR: (As Zapruter film is shown on screen) On November 22, 1963, the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade. The speculations surrounding that assassina- tion have been rehashed again and again amidst a flurry of contro- versy over the last 20 years. On this, the 20th anniversary of that heinous event, we wish to present the following documentary. A documentary that is not a part of any previously told stories or theories. This is a documentary based on facts that are being re- vealed for the first time by a man who claims he was a sanctioned assassin for the Central Intelligence Agency. It is also a story • of intrigue, conspiracy, and wholesale murder so incredible that if all the facts weren't authenticated, it would be unbelievable. Unlike the Warren Commission, convened by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963, the 1979 report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations determined that "On the basis of the evidence available to it, President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy." Although the House Select Committee would determine that a probable conspiracy was involved in President Kennedy's death, like its predecessor, it would fail in its mission. In effect, the 1977 committee imparted no more clarification as to the actual motive for the crime or its perpetrators. Former Rep. Thomas N. Downing of the First District of Virginia, who was the first chairman of the House Select Committee, would be one of the first people to express his disappointment over the committee's findings. CUT TO: Former Rep. Thomas N. Downing TEXT: Downing interview which deals with committee's short- comings and politics CUT BACK TO: NARRATOR What will be revealed during the balance of this program is -2- information that was not available to either the Warren Commission or the House Select Committee. It is information dealing with cer- tain militant anti-Castro exiles -- their ties to labor and organized crime, their attitudes about the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis, and their part in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. (Fade to file footage of McClellan Hearings showing scenes of Bobby Kennedy with James Hoffa and Carlos Marcello, with Narrator in background) To understand the complete story, we must go as far back as 1957 when Robert F. Kennedy was chief counsel to the McClellan Senate Select Committee on Improper Practices. It was while serving on this committee that Bobby Kennedy's vow to stop organized crime brought him into a head-to-head confrontation with James Riddle Hoffa, power- ful president of the Teamsters Union. The Teamsters were vital to organized crime. Under Jimmy Hoffa, the union provided the criminal syndicate with tens of millions of dollars in "loans", jobs and respectability. Through the Teamsters, organized crime, which was to become known as the Mafia in the late 1950's, had a handhold on the nation's jugular. Hoffa's closeness to the mob was such that his grievances automatically become their grie- vances, and his enemies, their enemies. In New York alone, federal investigators discovered forty union "officials" who were actually members of the Mafia families. Among them they had 77 convictions for crimes including theft, narcotics, forgery, possession of stolen mail, robbery, and accessory to murder. By 1960, the Teamsters' Central States Pension Fund was known by federal authorities to be "the lending agency for the syndicate", with hundreds of millions of dol- lars tied up in Las Vegas casinos and hotels operated by the mob. In Florida, Teamster millions financed Mafia controlled apartment build- ings, hospitals, condominiums, hotels, motels, and country clubs. In the following few years, organized crime and its hold on labor would become an obsession with both of the Kennedy brothers. An obsession which Carlos Marcello, one of the Mafia's most powerful dons, would swear to do something about. He vowed to kill the Presi- dent. Marcello's proclamation of death occurred shortly after John Kennedy became president and appointed his I -3- brother as attorney general. On April 4th, 1961, just two weeks before the CIA's ill-fated invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, the young Attorney General illegally ordered Marcello's deportation. CUT TO: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN TEXT: Description of Marcello's illegal kidnapping and deporta- tion CUT BACK TO: NARRATOR Although the young Attorney General didn't know it, Marcello's close relationship with another Mafia leader, Florida's Santos Trafficante, would give Marcello full access to CIA-trained Cuban assassination squads. Bernard Fensterwald, prominent Washington attorney, and founder of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations, remembers the combined CIA/Mafia attempts on Fidel Castro's life. CUT TO: BERNARD FENSTERWALD, JR. TEXT: Description of various CIA/Mafia related assassination at- tempts CUT BACK TO: NARRATOR Another infamous group of CIA-trained Cuban exile assassins was known as Operation Forty. The man who was the CIA coordinator for Operation Forty was an Army Intelligence Colonel known to the Cubans as Oscar del Valle Garcia or Oscar the Assassin. His real name is Col. C. William Bishop,..-U.S. Army Ret., who at the time of this broadcast is terminally ill and dying of cancer in Mexico. CUT TO: COL. C. WILLIAM BISHOP TEXT: Description of Operation Forty CUT BACK TO: NARRATOR It was Bishop who provided the most startling revelations a- V -4- bout a number of unsolved areas in the President's assassination, and it all started on a Monday evening in February of this year when Robert D. Morrow, author of Kennedy assassination book Betrayal received a telephone call. CUT TO: ROBERT D. MORROW TEXT: Description of how he met Bishop and background of call and future meeting with the CIA assassin. CUT BACK TO: NARRATOR Bishop's name is not new in intelligence circles and, in fact, has been the subject of tremendous controversy since 1975 when his name first surfaced as a possible CIA link between Lee Harvey Oswald and Antonio Veciana of the Cuban exile movement. CUT BACK TO: MORROW TEXT: Background description of Bishop and Veciana CUT BACK TO: BISHOP TEXT: Description of his association with Veciana, the Cuban exile group known as Alpha 66 and the CIA. This text proves CIA personnel and Cuban exile leader Veciana lied to the House Select Committee on Assassinations CUT BACK TO: NARRATOR After his visit to Dallas, Morrow would spend several months documenting and confirming Bishop's disclosures. The outcome would be that he would be convinced that recalcitrant Cuban exile groups, along with the Mafia and organized labor, set up a coalition to murder the President. Some of these revelations Bishop admitted to before he fled the country to Mexico. For example, Bishop claimed that from 1961-63 he was the CIA man selected to personally report to President Kennedy on all matters pertaining to Cuba. -5- CUT BACK TO: BISHOP TEXT: Confirming video tape CUT BACK TO: NARRATOR Bishop also claimed that he gave President Kennedy proof of IRBM missiles in Cuba as early as March 1962 and that they were never taken out after the Kennedy/Kruschev confrontation of October 1962. CUT BACK TO: BISHOP TEXT: Confirming video tape CUT BACK TO: NARRATOR Another disturbing revelation spelled out by Bishop is that under CIA orders he was the one that led the team that assassinated President Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic on May 30, 1961, and in fact it was Bishop's own M-3 submachine gun that killed Trujillo and his driver. CUT TO: Picture of BISHOP MaINftdmama TEXT: Audio tape of Bishop's description of assassination CUT BACK TO: NARRATOR It was after this assassination of a head of state just five weeks after the Bay of Pigs that Bishop claims organized crime chiefs Sam (Momo) Giancana, Santos Trafficante and Carlos Marcell() started to really pour money into the most militant of the exile organizations.
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