1. “The Silent Service,” Time, February 24, 1967.
2. “The Silent Service.”
3. Drew Pearson, “JFK’s Death a Castro Counterplot?,” Bradenton Herald, March 3, 1967, p. 4.
4. Ron LaBrecque, “Could Rosselli Have Linked Castro Plot to JFK Death?,” Miami Herald, September 19, 1976, p. 1.
5. Pearson Diary, January 1967, LBJ Library.
6. A Look Over My Shoulder, 368. “The President was more concerned with the fundamental legality of passing official funds through various private channels than the effect the Ramparts fallout would have on the future of Agency projects,” Helms wrote.
7. Brothers, 22. RFK enlisted Harvard assistant professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan and others to make discreet inquiries about organized crime bosses, renegade CIA officers, and anti-Castro Cubans.
8. Memorandum for: Director of Central Intelligence, From: J. Kenneth McDonald, Chief CIA History Staff, Subject: Survey of CIA’s Records from House Select Committee on Assassinations Investigation, February 10, 1992. NARA/JFK RIF #104–10428–10104.
9. Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro, 67; Brothers, 348.
10. “Dispatch Countering Criticism of the Warren Report,” April 1, 1967, NARA/JFK RIF #104–10406–10110, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=9547.
11. To: Mr. Tolson, From: C.D. DeLoach, Subject: Assassination of President Kennedy, April 4, 1967, http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/J%20Disk/Johnson%20Lyndon%20Baines%20President/Item%2038.pdf.
12. The Man Who Kept the Secrets, 165.
13. Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro, 94.
14. Leo Janos: “The Last Days of the President,” The Atlantic, July 1973. “During coffee, the talk turned to President Kennedy, and Johnson expressed his belief that the assassination in Dallas had been part of a conspiracy. ‘I never believed that Oswald acted alone, although I can accept that he pulled the trigger.’” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1973/07/the-last-days-of-the-president/376281/.
15. The Man Who Kept the Secrets, 224.
16. President’s Daily Diary, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, http://www.lbjlibrary.net/collections/daily-diary.html.
17. Bright Shining Lie, pp. 732–33.
18. A Look Over My Shoulder, 280.
19. Shane O’Sullivan, Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA (New York: Hot Books, 2018), 142, citing “Recommendation for Honor or Merit award for James W. McCord, Jr.”; “Summary of Agency Employment of James W. McCord Jr.,” undated, NARA/JFK RIF #104–10123–10382; “James Walter McCord, Jr.”; “Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Operations, request,” Kane to Inspector General, May 20, 1975, NARA/JFK RIF #104–10123–10364; “Honor recommendation for James W McCord Jr.” for August 1966, NARA/JFK RIF #104–10123–10407.
20. Spymasters, 38.
21. Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File.
22. Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Nick Turse, Thomas J. Yager, Melanie M. Wall, Surviving Vietnam: Psychological Consequences for U.S. Veterans (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), 69.
23. Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (New York: Signet, 1968), 102.
24. Armies of the Night, 291.
25. “U.S. Marshals and the Pentagon Riot of October 21, 1967,” https://www.usmarshals.gov/history/civilian/1967b.htm.
26. Armies of the Night, 211.
27. Spymasters, 39.
28. A Look Over My Shoulder, 322.
29. Letter, Jack Valenti to Richard Helms, October 19, 1968, Richard Helms Papers (RHP), Georgetown University Library.
30. Undercover, 140.
31. Give Us This Day, 13.
32. Give Us This Day, 15.
33. Letter, EHH to WFB, April 13, 1968; Letter, WFB to HH, May 24, 1968, WFBP. See also Memorandum for: Chief, Security Research Staff, From: Chief, Liaison and External Operations Branch, Subject: Manuscript: Give Us This Day, Author: Edward J. Hamilton, February 6, 1970. Fourth Hunt Security File.
34. J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of Nixon Years (New York: Viking, 1976), 91.
35. Bill Peterson, “Hunt Claims Authorship of CIA Article,” Washington Post, September 13, 1978, p. A9. The Times declined to comment on Hunt’s statement.
36. Memorandum in Lieu of Fitness Report. Subject: Howard E. Hunt, GS15 Employee, 30 April 1969, CIA Op File on E. Howard Hunt, NARA/JFK RIF #104–10194–10023.
37. Letter, Jack Valenti to Richard Helms, October 19, 1968, RHP.
38. [No title], Handwritten notes, CIA Segregated Collection, Personnel file summary, Leslie Wizelman, March 7, 1978, NARA/JFK RIF #180–10142–10318.
39. Festival for Spies, 120.