1. Testimony of Richard Helms, Ambassador to Iran, Senate Watergate Committee, Hearings Before the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities of the United States Senate, Ninety-Third Congress, First Session, Watergate and Related Activities, Phase One: Watergate Investigation, Washington, D.C., July 31, August 1, 2, 1973, Book 8 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973), 3283 (“Helms Watergate Testimony”).
2. CBS Evening News, ABC News, August 2, 1973, Vanderbilt Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University, https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/.
3. James Naughton, “Helms Says He Resisted Pressure by White House for CIA Cover-up Aid,” New York Times, August 3, 1973, p. 1.
4. Lou Cannon, “Helms Displays His Old Skills as a Diplomat,” Washington Post, August 3, 1973, p. A20.
5. CIA Memo, “FYI–Allegations and Answers,” June 1972, found in Security File on Frank Sturgis, provided to the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1978, https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=104140#relPageId=1&search=Security_File%20on%20Frank%20Sturgis.
6. See chapter 3 for notes on the relationship between Hunt and Karamessines.
7. “CIA Cryptonym Database,” Mary Ferrell Foundation, https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php?id=AMSNAP-3&search=AMSNAP.
8. Paul Meskil, “A Mission to Cuba: Tale of the Doomed Raiders,” New York Daily News, April 24, 1975. “Flying the Nicaraguan flag, the Rex operated out of West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It carried the latest radar and sonar equipment, five cannons, several .30 caliber machine guns and two 20-foot speed boats. Its skipper was reportedly Eugenio Rolando Martinez, a Miami real estate salesman and CIA agent who made more than 300 nocturnal runs to Cuba.”
9. “Biography on Bernard Barker,” August 21, 1973, CIA documents released on November 9, 2017. NARA/JFK RIF #104–10164–10186. CIA Cryptonym Database, Mary Ferrell Foundation, https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php?id=AMCLATTER-1&search=AMCLATTER. See also Jack Colhoun, Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba, and the Mafia 1933–1966 (New York: OR Books, 2013), 61.
10. Barker said, “Hunt always had the theory that the physical elimination of Fidel Castro was the proper way for the liberation of Cuba.” Transcript, NBC News, April 3, 1974, Watergate Report, found in Howard Baker Papers, box 21, folder 30. Fabián Escalante, The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba 1959–62 (Melbourne: Ocean Press, 1995), 72, 80–91.
11. In closed door testimony to the Rockefeller Commission in 1975, Sturgis testified that two FBI agents questioned him after the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963. Sturgis asked why they wanted to talk to him. “Well, Frank,” he recalled them saying, “we feel that you are one of several persons that is capable of doing this sort of thing.” Leave aside the question of whether Sturgis had anything to do with the death of JFK. Sturgis volunteered the story. Testifying in secret, he wanted it on the record that FBI agents considered him a plausible suspect in a presidential assassination. Memorandum of Deposition for the Record, Commission of CIA Activities in the United States (Rockefeller Commission), April 4, 1975, p. 18, NARA/JFK RIF #178–10002–10372 (Sturgis Deposition).
12. “Assassination Plans Against Castro,” Memorandum for the Record, March 21, 1975, from Mr. Cates, NPIC: May 8, 1975, and Memorandum for the Record, March 21, 1975, Mary Ferrell Foundation (https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=104139#relPageId=13&search=Cates).
13. Helms Watergate Testimony, 3245.
14. Helms Watergate Testimony, 3250.
15. Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019), 124.
16. Helms Watergate Testimony, 3250.
17. Helms Watergate Testimony, 3259.
18. Helms Watergate Testimony, 3272.
19. “Watergate Procedure Questioned,” San Mateo Times, December 31, 1973, p. 26, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31799234/the-times/.
20. H. R. Haldeman, The Ends of Power (New York: Times Books, 1980), 40.
21. Bob Woodward, “The Keeper of Secrets Earned His Reputation,” Washington Post, June 27, 2007, p. A1.