5. Mongoose

1. Hurwitch, unpublished memoirs, 130.

2. Response to question asked Schlesinger by author, who attended conference as invited observer.

3. Richard Helms with William Wood, A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency, (New York: Random House, 2003), 205, 209-210.

4. Blight and Kornbluh, eds., Politics of Illusion, 117.

5. Sam Halpern, interviews with author, August 19, 1996, and July 13, 2001.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. FRUS, X, Doc no. 283; 696-699.

9. Ted Shackley, interviews with author, April 9, 1998, and September 18,

2002.

10. Bissell, Reflections, 203.

11. Parrott interview.

12. Halpern interview.

13. Bissell, Reflections, 201.

14. Halpern interview.

15. Parrott interview.

16. Alexander Haig Jr., interview with author, April 29, 2002.

17. FRUS, X, Doc no. 281; 691-695.

18. Halpern interview.

19. FRUS, X, Doc no. 286; 701-702.

20. Ibid., Doc no. 288; 704-705.

21. Ibid., Doc no. 291; 710-718.

22. Ibid., Doc no. 292; 719-720.

23. Halpern interview.

24. FRUS, X, Doc no. 309; 765.

25. Ibid., Doc no. 304; 745-747.

26. From Documents Briefing Book prepared by The National Security Archive, Washington, D. C., for Bay of Pigs/Mongoose Conference, St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, May 31-June 2, 1996.

27. Halpern interview.

28. FRUS, X, Doc no. 305; 747-748.

29. Bissell, Reflections, 201.

30. Alleged Assassination Plots, 334.