JFK & the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters (32 page)

[
42
]. Summers,
Not in Your Lifetime
, p. 229.

[
43
]. Ibid.

[
44
]. Ibid.

[
45
]. Ibid. Banister made a similar remark to George Higginbotham, another one of his infiltrators into suspect groups. When Higginbotham alerted his boss to Oswald’s leafleting, Banister responded, “Cool it. One of them is one of mine.” New Orleans District Attorney interviews with George Higginbotham, April 12, 16, 17, 1968; cited by Davy,
Let Justice Be Done,
pp. 41 and 288.

[
46
].
Warren Commission Hearings
(
WCH
), vol. 20, p. 515.

[
47
]. John Newman,
Oswald and the CIA
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995), pp. 312-13.

[
48
]. CIA memo, CI/R&A, Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination, June 1, 1967; cited by Newman,
Oswald and
the CIA
, p. 325.

[
49
].
Appendix to Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives
(HSCA), vol. 10, Anti-Castro Activities and Organizations, Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979), p. 82.

[
50
]. Summers,
Not in Your Lifetime
, p. 216; citing HSCA testimony of Howard Hunt, Pt. II, November 3, 1978, p. 29, released under JFK Records Act.

[
51
].
WCH,
vol. 10, p. 36.

[
52
]. Ibid., p. 37.

[
53
]. Ibid., pp. 37-38.

[
54
].
WCH
,
Exhibits,
vol. 20, p. 527.

[
55
].
WCH
, vol. 4, p. 435.

[
56
].
President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy: Report of Proceedings Held at Washington
,
D.C., Monday, January 27, 1964
; published by Harold Weisberg as
Whitewash IV: Top Secret JFK Assassination Transcript
(Frederick, Md.: 1974), p. 38; p. 129 of original transcript.

[
57
]. Ibid.

[
58
]. Ibid., p. 48; p. 139 of transcript.

[
59
].
The Warren Commission Report
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992, from U.S. Government printing in 1964), p. 327.

[
60
]. Weisberg,
Whitewash IV
, p. 62; p. 153 of transcript.

[
61
]. Ibid., p. 52; p. 143 of transcript.

[
62
]. CIA memo dated May 23, 1968, part of the JFK collection at the National Archives; cited by Davy,
Let Justice Be Done,
p. 81.

[
63
].
WCH
, vol. 11, pp. 167-68.

[
64
]. Ibid., p. 168.

[
65
].
WCH
,
Exhibits
, vol. 21, p. 634.

[
66
]. Ibid., pp. 634-41.

[
67
]. Barbara Tomlinson, an early sixties organizer of the Seattle Fair Play for Cuba Committee, has described the means used to destroy her own FPCC chapter long before Oswald carried out his New Orleans charade. Over a year before JFK’s assassination, Tomlinson received a mailing from the FPCC’s New York headquarters promoting the speaking tour of a professor of anthropology and musicology who had visited Cuba, defying the U.S. embargo. The FPCC-sponsored professor would lecture and show slides on Afro-Cuban dance. When Tomlinson organized a Seattle meeting for the speaker, he began his presentation by insulting her. He then showed tourist slides from Brazil at a frantic pace, while garbling an unintelligible script that had no connection to Cuba. The impostor’s presentation and behavior so disrupted Tomlinson’s fragile coalition of Old Left activists and a few liberal Democrats that they managed only one more meeting before breaking up permanently. Tomlinson feels the FPCC national office must have been taken over by government agents even at that early stage for it to have been promoting a nationwide speaking tour by a provocateur. If so, the CIA would have known that it had no real FPCC to target in the summer and fall of 1963. Tomlinson’s Seattle perspective supports the view that whatever Guy Banister told Oswald, the underlying purpose for Oswald’s New Orleans theater would have had to lie beyond discrediting a sham organization. From Barbara Tomlinson’s June 7 and 14, 2001, statements in Seattle to James Douglass.

[
68
].
FRUS, 1961-1963,
Volume XI,
Cuban Missile Crisis & Aftermath October 1962–December 1963,
pp. 828-34, 837-38; also Mark J. White,
The Kennedys and Cuba: The Declassified Documentary History
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999), pp. 324-31.

[
69
]. Carlos Lechuga,
In the Eye of the Storm
(Melbourne: Ocean Press, 1995), p. 104.

[
70
]. Sergei Khrushchev,
Nikita Khrushchev and the Making of a Superpower
(University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), p. 642.

[
71
]. Fidel Castro, Address to the Tripartite Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis, January 11, 1992; Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh, editors,
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
(New York: New Press, 1992), p. 343.

[
72
]. Nikita Khrushchev’s January 31, 1963, Letter to Fidel Castro; Chang and Kornbluh,
Cuban Missile Crisis,
p. 319.

[
73
]. Ibid.

[
74
]. Ibid.

[
75
]. Ibid., p. 327.

[
76
]. S. Krushchev,
Nikita Khrushchev and the Making of a Superpower
, p. 659.

[
77
]. Castro’s January 11, 1992, Address, Chang and Kornbluh,
Cuban Missile Crisis,
p. 344.

[
78
]. S. Krushchev,
Nikita Khrushchev and the Making of a Superpower
, p. 659.

[
79
]. Chang and Kornbluh,
Cuban Missile Crisis
, p. 344
.

[
80
]. Richard Helms, Memorandum for the Director of Central Intelligence on “Reported Desire of the Cuban Government for Rapprochement with the United States,” June 5, 1963; Peter Kornbluh, “Electronic Briefing Book.”

[
81
]. United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee),
The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies: Final Report
(Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976), p. 14.

[
82
]. Ibid. “Fidel Says Cuba Will Fight Back,”
Miami Herald
(September 9, 1963), p. 1A.

[
83
]. “Interview of Fidel Castro Ruz,”
Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Hearings
before the HSCA
(Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978-79), vol. 3, p. 216.

[
84
]. Lisa Howard, “Castro’s Overture,”
War/Peace Report
(September 1963), pp. 3-5; cited by Kornbluh, “JFK & Castro,” p. 90.

[
85
]. Ibid.

[
86
]. United States Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Executive Session, July 10, 1975, Testimony of William Attwood.

[
87
]. “Memorandum by William Attwood,” Washington, September 18, 1963,
FRUS
,
1961-1963,
vol. XI, p. 870.

[
88
]. Ibid.

[
89
]. William Attwood noted President Kennedy’s September 20 approval for him to make the initial “discreet contact” with Cuba’s UN ambassador Carlos Lechuga in his November 8, 1963, memorandum to Gordon Chase of the National Security Council staff,
FRUS
,
1961-1963,
vol. XI, p. 880.