7. Mongoose Redux

1. Halpern interview.

2. FRUS, X, Doc no. 314; 771-772.

3. Documents Briefing Book prepared by The National Security Archive for international conference on Bay of Pigs, Havana, Cuba, March 2001.

4. Ibid.

5. Church Committee testimony of Sam Halpern, June 18, 1975. Declassified, 1994. Copy provided by The National Security Archive.

6. Shackley interview.

7. Parrott interview.

8. Halpern interview.

9. FRUS, X, Doc no. 325; 791-792.

10. Ibid., Doc no. 331; 800-801.

11. Carlos Lechuga, Cuba and the Missile Crisis, (Melbourne, Australia: Ocean Press, 2000), 24-26.

12. Jean Daniel, “UNOFFICIAL ENVOY: An Historic Report from Two Capitals,” The New Republic, December 14, 1963, 15-20.

13. Memo, Hughes to Acting Secretary, 12/13/63, #64, National Security/ Country file. Box 17, LBJ Library.

14. Fursenko and Naftali, “ One Hell of a Gamble,” 150.

15. General Anatoli I. Gribkov and General William Y. Smith, Operation Anadyr. U.S. and Russian Generals Recount the Cuban Missile Crisis, (Chicago: edition q, inc., 1994), 91.

16. Fursenko and Naftali, “ One Hell of a Gamble,’ 179-180.

17. Lechuga, Cuba and the Missile Crisis, 25.

18. FRUS, X, Doc no. 340; 822-823.

19. Ibid., Doc no. 343; 826-827.

20. Miami Herald, “Castro Tells of Regret in ’62 Crisis,” October 20, 2002.

21. FRUS, X, Doc no. 344; 827.

22. Ibid., Doc no. 353; 846-850.

23. Ibid., Doc no. 353; 846-850.

24. Ibid., Doc no. 354; 850-851.

25. Ibid., Doc no. 360; 878-884.

26. Ibid., Doc no. 361; 885.

27. Ibid., Doc no. 367; 899-917.

28. Ibid., Doc no. 367; 907.

29. Alleged Assassination Plots, 147.

30. FRUS, X, Doc no. 377; 939-940.

31. Ibid., Doc no. 380; 944-946.

32. Ibid., Doc no. 380; 944-946.

33. Ibid., Doc no. 378; 940-941.

34. Gribkov and Smith, Operation Anadyr, 108-109.

35. FRUS, X, Doc no. 382; 947-949.

36. Shackley interview.

37. Ibid.

38. FRUS, X, Doc no. 398; footnote #2, 973.

39. Shackley interview.

40. Bay of Pigs 40 Years After. Documents Briefing Book prepared by The National Security Archive for Bay of Pigs conference, Havana, Cuba, March 2224, 2001.

41. Blight and Kornbluh, Politics of Illusion, 130.

42. FRUS, X, Doc no. 386; 957-958.

43. Ibid., Doc no. 390; 963-966.

44. Ibid., Doc no. 413; 1043-1044.

45. Ibid., Doc no. 420; 1052.

46. Ibid., Doc no. 431; 1067-1068.

47. Halpern interview.

48. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 8; 11-13.

49. Chang and Kornbluh, eds., The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, 1992 edition, 52.

50. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 19; 45-47.

51. Ibid., Doc no. 21; 72.

52. Rafael Quintero interview, April 15, 2003.

53. Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 234.

54. Chang and Kornbluh, eds., The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, 1992 edition, 224.

55. Hurwitch, unpublished memoirs, 139.

56. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 79; 221-226.

57. Ibid., Doc no. 82; 229-231.

58. Alleged Assassination Plots, 148n.

59. Parrott interview.

60. Alleged Assassination Plots. 147-148.

61. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 217; 543-545.

62. Ibid., Doc no. 261; 648-651.

63. Hurwitch, unpublished memoirs, 166.

8. Miami: Perpetual Intrigue

1. Shackley interview.

2. Look magazine, June 16, 1964.

3. Miami Herald, June 2, 1964.

4. Shackley interview.

5. Bradley Ayers, The War That Never Was, (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976), 26.

6. Shackley interview.

7. Justin Gleichauf, Studies of Intelligence, (Unclassified Edition. WinterSpring 2001, No. 10), 49-53.

8. Letter sent to White House dated February 12, 1963, declassified under JFK Assassination Records Review Act.

9. Gleichauf, telephone interview, May 29, 2002.

10. John Dorschner, “Casablanca of the Caribbean,” Miami Herald/TROPIC, April 4, 1976.

11. Documents Briefing Book prepared by The National Security Archive for Bay of Pigs conference, Havana, Cuba, March 22-24, 2001

12. Parrott interview.

13. Ibid.

14. Gleichauf, telephone interview.

15. George Volsky, interview, February 7, 2002.

16. David Corn, Blond Ghost, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 102-103.

17. Carlos Obregon, interview October 17, 1996, and essay written for author November 1996.

18. CIA document Appendix J entitled The Miami Station; declassified November 6, 1995, under JFK Assassination Records Act, provided by The National Security Archive (document to which it was appended is not identified).

19. Robert Reynolds, interview, July 12, 2001.

20. Gleichauf, telephone interview.

21. Miami Station document—note #18 above—says 300 persons were assigned. Most published accounts say JMWAVE station had 400 people assigned to it at the peak, although that may have included about 100 assigned to Cuba, but not working in Miami.

22. Miami Station document—note #18 above—neither of the two exiles who offered views of Operation 40 wanted to be identified; operation remains a sensitive and controversial issue in the Cuban community.

23. Studies of Intelligence, cited above.

24. Shackley interviews.

25. Ibid.

9. A New Beginning

1. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 170; 432-437.

2. Ibid., Doc. 231; 586-590.

3. FRUS, X, Doc no. 406; 1025-1032.

4. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 14; 22-25.

5. Ibid., Doc no. 216; 541-542.

6. Ibid., Doc no. 261; 648-651.

7. Ibid., Doc no. 264; 656-657.

8. Parrott interview.

9. Halpern interview.

10. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 114; 303.

11. Halpern interview.

12. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 366; 867.

13. Blight and Kornbluh, Politics of Illusion, 130-131.

14. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 260; 646-648.

15. Ibid., Doc no. 274; 681-688.

16. John Crimmins, telephone interview, November 2003.

17. Haig, Inner Circles, 106.

18. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 271; 668-669.

19. JFK ARRB, Record no. 145-10001-104919.

20. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 313; 761-762.

21. Ibid., Doc no. 311; 757-758.

22. Ibid., Doc no. 318; 769-772.

23. Ibid., Doc no. 319; 772-773.

24. Ibid., Doc no. 322; 780-781.

25. Ibid., Doc no. 323; 782-784.

26. Ibid., Doc no. 325; 786-788.

27. Hurwitch, unpublished memoirs, 166.

28. JFK ARRB, Record no. 145-10001-10195; CIA paper 5/16/64, “Sabotage in Cuba.”

29. FRUS, XI, Doc no. 344; 821-823.

30. Ibid., Doc no. 346; 828-834.

31. Ibid., Doc no. 348; 837-838.

32. Alleged Assassination Plots, 173.

33. Shackley interview.

34. Ibid.

35. Hinckle and Turner, Deadly Secrets, end note #2, chapter 5, 430.

36. Miami Herald, August 21, 1963.

37. Corn, Blond Ghost, 81.

38. JFK ARRB, Record no. 145-10001-10126.

39. Documents Briefing Book prepared by The National Security Archive for Bay of Pigs conference, Havana, Cuba, March 2001.

40. Corn, Blond Ghost, 105.

41. Documents Briefing Book prepared by The National Security Archive, Bay

of Pigs conference, Havana, Cuba, March 2001 .

42. Shackley interview.

43. Corn, Blond Ghost, 112.