1. Gary Mack, “The Man Who Named the Grassy Knoll.” Originally published on the JFK Assassination Home page, now found at https://groups.google.com/g/alt.assassination.jfk/c/gDjDo4YA61s/m/F_HFA-oYay8J?pli=1.
2. Asked if he was certain that the head wound was caused by a shot from the front, McClelland told an interviewer, “I’m not certain of anything but I am as close to certain as I can be.… Many years later I saw the Zapruder film. I saw the president’s limousine … going onto Elm Street. And as the limousine slowly proceeded down toward the Triple Underpass … Mrs. Kennedy … realized something had happened and she leaned over as if to ask him what was wrong … As she did that, all of sudden his head literally exploded and fell backwards and to the left, as if he had been hit by the second shot from the front” (starting at 14:00). “Robert McClelland-JFK’s Last Doctor (11–12–15),” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySO0pLcN5ww.
3. RN, 252.
4. RN, 252.
5. David Robarge, “DCI John McCone and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy,” Studies in Intelligence 51, no. 3 (September 2013): 1.
6. Brothers, 268. “If the American people knew the truth about Dallas,” RFK told an old family friend, “there would be blood in the streets.”
7. A Look Over My Shoulder, 229.
8. Jose Antonio Lanuza, interview with the author, March 11, 2020.
9. Luis Fernandez Rocha, interview with the author, January 24, 2007.
10. “The Pulitzer Prizes, Prize Winners by Year,” The Pulitzer Prizes, http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1963. Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media,” Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977.
11. Wilkinson’s husband, Robert, was a CIA officer. Robert Wilkinson Obituary, Washington Post, April 2, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/01/AR2006040101322.html.
12. John Dille, “Daring Mission That Bared Cuba’s Secrets,” Life, November 2, 1962, p. 42.
13. From: Chief, New Orleans Office, To: Director, Domestic Contact Service, Memo Concerning Activities of Edward Scannell Butler, May 5, 1967, NARA/JFK RIF #104–10069–10052, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=32336.
14. Testimony of Thomas Karamessines, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, April 16, 1976, 17, NARA/JFK RIF #157–10014–10002.
15. Joseph B. Smith, Portrait of a Cold Warrior: Second Thoughts of a Top CIA Spy (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976), 416.
16. A Look Over My Shoulder, 187.
17. 48 Hours, “Part IV—JFK: Several Theories on JFK Assassination Examined,” February 05, 1992, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nDUEgh05o.
18. In his 1964 job evaluation, Moore received “outstanding” ratings for “cultivation of contact to develop trust and confidence” and “exploitation of a source’s complete intelligence potential.” Fitness Report, J. Walton Moore, May 14, 1964, Personnel File of J. Walton Moore, NARA/JFK RIF #104–10194–10012.
19. Whitten HSCA testimony, 111. Whitten said, “I think it was the day after the assassination, Mr. Helms called a meeting of a lot of important people, including Angleton; the Chief of our Division, Mr. Karamessines, I think somebody from the Cuban show, and told them that I was in charge of the investigation and gave me broad powers.”
20. A Look Over My Shoulder, 228.
21. George Lardner, “People Appear Puzzled, Lost as They Wander in the Rain,” Washington Post, November 24, 1963, p. A.
22. Papers of Robert F. Kennedy, condolence mail, 1963–64, Box 131, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. RN, 253.
23. Helms-McDonald interview, September 29, 1982, 26.
24. Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 308.