34: The Warren

The November 22, 1963, 12:30 pm (CST) JFK assassination was quickly painted as the act of a disgruntled loner with a communist taint who expertly picked off his target as President Kennedy traversed past Dealey Plaza moving away on a downward curving road from the sniper's nest on the 6th Floor of the Texas School Book Depository. 

Within 48 hours of the shooting, the alleged shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot by Jack Ruby who owned The Carousel nightclub, a strip-tease joint strategically located across from the popular Dallas hotel, The Adolphus. Ruby's club not only was frequented by tourists as well as local politicians and businessmen but also by members of the Dallas Police Department. The policemen not only came to imbibe in drinks and titillation but often were employed by Ruby as security guards. This fact created the possibility of a complex conspiracy. 

Did Ruby know Oswald? Did a Dallas cop tipoff Ruby or expedite Ruby's ability to enter the Dallas Police Department basement on November 24th at 12:20 pm, precisely when Oswald was in the process of being transferred to the county jail? Was Ruby connected to any mob boss—Joseph Civello in Dallas, Sam Giancana in Chicago or Carlos Marcello in New Orleans—who had put out a hit on Oswald?   

Oswald’s death triggered U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to write a memo to President Johnson's aide Bill Moyers, stating: "The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin that he did not have confederates who are still at large and that evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial." 

Katzenbach emphatically insisted on a coverup: "Speculation about Oswald’s motivation ought to be cut off and we should have some basis for rebutting thought that this was a Communist conspiracy or (as the Iron Curtain press is saying) a right-wing conspiracy to blame it on the Communists. Unfortunately the facts on Oswald seem about too pat—too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.). The Dallas police have put out statements on the Communist conspiracy theory and it was they who were in charge when he was shot and thus silenced." Katzenbach wanted the Assistant FBI Director Cartha DeLoach to declare Oswald acted alone and suggested that it may become necessary for President Johnson to appoint a blue ribbon panel to prevent Congressional hearings that may arrive at a different conclusion.  

But even FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a problem. He told President Johnson that there was a very confusing angle about Oswald's visits to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City between September 27 and October 2, 1963. 

"We have up here the tape and the photograph of the man who was at the Soviet Embassy using Oswald’s name. That picture and the tape do not correspond to this man’s voice nor to his appearance."  

In response to the FBI's inquiry to the CIA about the Agency's knowledge about Oswald, Birch O’Neal of the Counterintelligence Staff  replied “there was nothing on him in CIA file other than material filed furnished to CIA by FBI and Department of State.” In fact, however, the CIA's Special Investigations Group had been monitoring Oswald since November 1959 and within its dozen Oswald documents was a report that Oswald was in contact with the diplomatic offices of the Soviet Union and Cuba. Hoover wanted the FBI's legal attaché in Mexico City to look into the possibilities of a fake Oswald and Russian involvement.

For those who began decades of exploring Oswald-Ruby connections, it was a journey that entered a labyrinth that went around the world to Japan and Russia and back to the U.S. and Mexico; what emerged from the warren left many questioning why LBJ's "unimpeachable" Warren Commission left out of its investigation so many unusual connections. 

In the decades that followed, the Rockefeller Commission, House Select Committee on Assassinations and Church Committee would look into the connections and classify much of what they found. Sixty years later, thousands of declassified CIA, FBI, State, Army and other documents were still trickling out, and some documents such as those about the DRE’s CIA case officer, George Joannides, whose name did not surface until a half-century after the Bay of Pigs invasion, were still being withheld.

A lawsuit by reporter Jefferson Morley led to a court decision in December 2007 regarding declassification of documents relating to Joannides involvement with the DRE, the group that interacted with Oswald. Jefferson Morley wrote in The Washington Independent, that a circuit court had “ordered the CIA to search its operational files for more material on Joannides” and “explain why 17 reports on Joannides’ secret operations in 1962, 1963 and 1964, are missing from CIA archives. In legal briefs, agency officials have claimed that more than 30 documents about Joannides’s actions in the 1960s and 1970s cannot be made public in any form—for reasons of ‘national security.’”

The suit had been filed after it was learned that Joannides in the 1970s had become the CIA liaison carrying requested documents pertaining to Oswald’s possible co-conspirators from the Agency to the House Select Committee on Assassination (HSCA).

A CIA Fitness Report on Joannides details his activities for the HSCA and is accompanied by a report which states that from April 1, 1963 to March 31, 1964 Joannides oversaw the CIA JMWAVE “station’s covert action branch” staff officers and contract employees. Joannides was involved in “production of radio programs” like Penabaz’s as well as print propaganda “and the development of political action programs.” In support of covert programs, Joannides liaised with the branch chiefs involved in Foreign Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and Paramilitary operations.

It was further noted in the Fitness Report of May 15, 1964 signed by Chief of Station JMWAVE, Andrew K. Reuteman, that Joannides managed a $2.4 million budget “spent on printed propaganda, white and black radio program, and on political action operations which were implemented via labor, student and professional groups.”1

On May 1, 2008 the Mary Ferrell Foundation reported that the CIA had defied court instructions “to search its operational files for the records of former officer George Joannides, and to explain why 17 monthly reports on the DRE Cuban exile group are missing.” The agency “declined to offer documents or explanations. Jefferson Morley noted that the former Assassination Records Review Board chairman Judge Tunheim stated that if board had “’known the truth about George Joannides everything bearing his name would have been made public.’” Fully knowing Joannides’s role in anti-Castro plots involving the DRE which interacted with Oswald takes on greater significance due to Joannides serving in 1978 as “liaison to the House Select Committee on Assassinations” when the committee was requesting classified CIA documents relating to Oswald’s activities before November 22nd.

The Warren Commission members could not possibly have grasped the importance of Joannides relationship with the DRE because it was not until the next decade that Joannides played a surprising role as liaison between the CIA and the House Select Committee on Assassination. 

Perhaps, too, they were unaware that Reuben Efron, who had worked for the Defense Department before joining the CIA in 1955 and becoming deputy director of the Agency's mail intercept program, had been reading Oswald's mail in the years before the Kennedy assassination--a fact revealed in a 2023 declassified document release--which Morley wrote about in his JFK Facts substack and can be found at the Mary Ferrell Foundation website. As deputy director of the mail intercept program, Efron was in contact with counterintelligence head James Angleton and Ann Egerter in his counterintelligence special investigations group (CI/SIG).2 

Compounding the complexity of arriving at the truth about the assassination were the unsavory relationships that developed in the name of ousting Castro. As the summer of 1963 was coming to an end, CIA WHD Staff Officer Horace Speed and the Chief of the Chicago DCD Office met with ex-Chicago cop Richard Cain at the Lake Shore Drive Athletic Club and the Adolphs Club in Chicago, Illinois. They were hoping to see if Cain would be able to provide the Agency information about the anti-Castro JGCE’s “Paulino Sierra and his contacts” who were trying to launch another invasion with the financial backing of Trafficante and the Lansky brothers and the manpower of the DRE. Santo Trafficante and the Lanskys had enjoyed a steady cash flow from casinos that they controlled in Havana before Castro took control of Cuba from Batista who had received a major cut from gambling at Trafficante’s San Souci Cabaret and Lansky’s Habana Riviera, Hotel Nacional and other casinos. In the U.S., Trafficante had operations in Tampa and Miami, home to many DRE members. Lansky lived nearby in Broward County in the 1960s. When the CIA was plotting to assassinate Castro in the Fall of 1960, Robert Maheu met with Johnny Roselli who referred him to Trafficante and Chicago Outfit (Mafia) boss Sam Giancana for whom Richard Cain worked. (Castro outlived Roselli, Giancana and Cain--all were assassinated in the 1970s.)

On September 11, 1963, “Horace Speed requested a PCSA/CSA [Covert Security Approval] on Cain,” who the next day reported on persons purchasing “arms for the DRE.” But Speed was told by CIA headquarters in Washington to convey “to Cain to ‘get out of the picture’ as soon as possible and to make no commitments.”3 In 1967, “the FBI recommended that CIA terminate its association with Cain” because of his alleged Mafia ties.4

Another problem confronting truth seekers was that numerous grifters within the Cuban exile community were often mixing truth and fiction to enhance their wealth or the possibility that Castro would be overthrown. One example was when the anti-Castro FRD held a press conference in Mexico City to promote their tour to condemn “the Soviet/Satellite subversion of” Cuba. The event left some skeptical as to the actual motive of the exiles, and the CIA pondered the role of Charles Keeler who claimed to be “a former state senator from Kansas” and “crop duster” who “flies charter services in Emporia” and “inadvertently found himself involved in the meeting.” A handwritten note indicated Keeler was in fact a mechanic not a pilot. Two years later he was described as “a chronic liar and con man.” The anti-Castro movement had created a milieu in which all claims, actions and intentions were suspect, and the assassination of the President was immediately enveloped in the morass.5

After shots rang out at Dealey Plaza in Dallas killing President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as President, and the U.S. government’s anti-Castro plans were temporarily disrupted—the “Special Group meeting postponed until December 6. As interim measure have received approval for COBRA ELEVEN, CLEOPATRA and AMSAKI.”6 These were part of a variety of short-term vessel operations from the Florida Keys to Cuban area waters for paramilitary infiltration/exfiltration and supply runs in support of sabotaging the Castro regime, according to the Mary Ferrell Foundation.

To determine if there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK, President Johnson appointed a blue-ribbon group on November 29th that became known as the Warren Commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren. In doing so, Johnson successfully blocked Eastland and Sourwine from controlling the investigation. Eastland, who had played a role in Pawley’s TILT, expressed a complete lack of objectivity when talking to President Johnson about his impending investigation. Just paint Oswald as the assassin.

Lyndon B. Johnson: Jim, on this investigation—this Dallas situation—what does your committee plan to do on it? ...
James Eastland: We plan to hold hearings and just make a record of what the proof is. That's all. Show that this man was the assassin ...
Lyndon B. Johnson: Now my thought would be this, if we could do it—we might get two members from each body. You see, we're going to have three inquiries running as it is.
James Eastland: Well, I wouldn't want that. That wouldn't do.
Lyndon B. Johnson: And if we could have two Congressmen and two Senators and maybe a Justice of the Supreme Court take the FBI report and review it ... I think it would—this is a very explosive thing and it could be a very dangerous thing for the country. And a little publicity could just fan the flames. What would you think about if we could work it out of getting somebody from the Court and somebody from the House and somebody from the Senate and have a real high-level judicial study of all the facts?7

The Warren Commission determined that Lee Harvey Oswald, a one-time “defector” to the Soviet Union who spoke Russian, acted alone when he fired shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, where he was employed. His assassin, Jack Ruby, came out of the Chicago Outfit environs, ran a strip club in Dallas, shot LHO out of sympathy for Jackie Kennedy, and was found sane enough to be guilty of murder. A month later, Ruby was psychiatrically examined in prison by Dr. Louis Jolyon West, a psychiatrist who happened to have been a subcontractor for the CIA's Technical Service Division on its MKULTRA mind-control experiments that used hypnosis and drugs. West declared him completely insane, thus discrediting anything Ruby might eventually reveal to reporters or others.  

Warren’s team appears to never have explored the DRE‘s recent involvement with William Douglas Pawley in his attempt to discredit JFK nor Pawley's war in the news media against the President’s Cuban policy nor Pawley's expulsion from the White House after calling for a bombing of Cuba nor Pawley’s brag that he had “hitmen” who could kill Castro nor Pawley's spreading the DRE assertion that Oswald was a pawn of Castro. Pawley had two friends on the Warren Commission, former CIA Director Allen Dulles and attorney John J. McCloy who over dinner at CIA Director John McCone's residence on May 19, 1964 discussed Oswald. The notes of that meeting were destroyed on January 8, 1972 along with notes of other meetings McCone had around that time. 

Allen’s brother, Secretary State John Foster Dulles, had recommended Pawley to President Eisenhower for a key role in the overthrow of Arbenz. Pawley wrote “Walter [Donnelly] and I were given offices in the State Department next to those of Henry Holland and held daily sessions, most of them attended either by Allen Dulles or by Frank Wisner of the CIA. All of the CIA’s facilities were placed at our disposal.”8

Following the Arbenz coup, CIA Director Allen Dulles benefited from Pawley’s involvement on the Doolittle Committee when the members had some criticism of him but also recommended that the CIA become more ruthless than the enemy which empowered the Agency under Dulles to continue some covert programs and start new ones that decades later seemed abhorrent to many Americans as well as those living in foreign countries affected by the CIA’s coups, assassinations, and funding of political candidates.

Declassified CIA and FBI documents refer to Pawley as being a friend of the CIA Director. Dulles met with Pawley in Washington, DC and visited Pawley’s home in Miami during the early organization of Cuban exiles and the planning for the Bay of Pigs invasion as well as had multiple meetings at other locations.

During the Warren Committee’s investigation, Dulles had to limit the exploration of Oswald’s New Orleans’s debate with Bringuier and Butler so it didn’t penetrate the CIA’s involvement with the DRE. He also had to safeguard the CIA’s spying operations in Russia and Mexico, domestic operations at JMWAVE in Miami, and protect other activities that had gained greater impetus from the recommendation by Pawley, Franke, Hadley, and Doolittle who was in Africa with the owner of the Texas School Book Depository on November 22nd. Dulles was at the CIA's training "Farm" in Virginia on November 22nd, despite having been fired from the CIA by JFK.9

Lest one believe that Allen Dulles (far left in photo) was above obfuscating CIA covert activities, consider the fact that one month after the assassination, former President Harry Truman in the Washington Post called for limiting CIA to intelligence gathering only. Dulles called for a retraction and when rebuffed by Truman, the former CIA Director fabricated one, claiming Truman “told him the Post article was ‘all wrong,’ and that Truman ‘seemed quite astounded at it.’” Six months later Truman wrote to Look magazine denouncing the Dulles lie and saying that his own approval of the creation of the Agency did not include it being involved in “‘strange activities.’”10

John J. McCloy (4th from left next to David Belin, 5th) was a law partner in Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy with Pawley’s Doolittle Committee panel co-member Morris Hadley. After the defeat of Hitler, McCloy was named High Commissioner to Germany dealing with issues of denazification of the country and Operation Paperclip which brought some 1,600 Nazi scientists, technicians, and engineers such as rocket scientists Werner von Braun, Konrad Dannenberg and Major General Walter Dornberger to the U.S. to advance America’s technology leadership.. McCloy oversaw the Rockefeller family's Chase bank and often traveled on the family's behalf to the Middle East for meetings with the Shah of Iran (who came to power in a CIA-inspired coup headed by Kermit Roosevelt against Mossadeq) and the King of Jordan to safeguard the Rockefeller interests in Esso, Socal and Mobil oil. When President Eisenhower had tried to coax him into the State Department, McCloy turned it down because he was broke and wanted to make money.11 

Pawley had known McCloy since Pawley’s days as an Ambassador in South America in the late 1940s when the U.S. was trying to determine which Nazis had fled to South America. As noted earlier, McCloy and Pawley had attended Truman White House meetings together such as one on February 18, 1948, at 10:45 a.m. Pawley in his manuscript implies that it was more than a passing relationship by then. “My logical next step was to touch base with my old friend John McCloy, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, one of the two major new lending agencies that had evolved from the Bretton Woods Agreement.”12

During a 1960 Subcommittee hearing headed by Senator Eastland, Pawley testified about a press conference at which he spoke of the importance of creating the bank to serve Latin America in 1948. He stated with demonstrably friendly familiarity of McCloy that initially “‘Jack’ McCloy wanted to resign as World Bank President because he felt strongly there was no need for such a bank. Bill Martin was quite provoked and said I was upsetting the banking arrangements that already existed. Fortunately, the Congress in the last year or so has created” one and “out of that, much good came.” Pawley also noted that “McCloy agreed to process one or more loans to one of the Latin American countries and Bill Martin agreed to go to Congress for us.”13

In addition to the pressures of keeping covert operations secret during the Warren Commission investigation there was pressure from those who wanted to blame Castro. Dr. “Lasaga, Chief Clinical Psychologist of the Catholic Welfare Service of Miami” sent President Johnson a paper “on ‘Possible Psychological Motivations in the Assassination of President Kennedy’” in which he asserted that the shooting “was the influence of Fidel Castro or a Castro agent” while Oswald was in Mexico meeting with the Cuban Ambassador.14 A year earlier Dr. Lasaga as a member of the Revolutionary Council in Miami had expressed concern about U.S.- Cuba policy and wanted “to know that the U.S. plan is not one of coexistence.”15 Lasaga did not mention in his paper the influence that the anti-Kennedy drumbeat from himself, Pawley, the and CCFC may have had on members of the Cuban exile community.

On June 12, 1964, Henry and Clare Boothe Luce luncheoned with CIA Director McCone to discuss an article about Cuba in Time.16A decade and three directors later, Clare Boothe Luce called her friend CIA Director William Colby to try to explain how she was able to identify Oswald as being pro-Castro immediately after the assassination of President Kennedy. She explained that she and William Pawley were involved with the DRE and heard it from some of its members.

Eleven days after the JFK assassination, on December 2, 1963, the head of the CIA Special Affairs Staff and the Chief of Station of JMWAVE tried to determine the covert clearance status of William Douglas Pawley. The documents do not reveal why.17 The clearance status of Pawley (QDDALE) remained a topic within the Agency throughout January 1964. Finally on February 20th some action was taken when Desmond FitzGerald, Chief, Special Affairs Staff (SAS), contacted ID/1 Mr. Coleman Deputy Director of Security (Investigations & Operational Support) requesting that Pawley “be granted Covert Security Approval by JMWAVE on a continuing basis.” The memo noted that he “has been in contact with the Agency for a number of years and that the Western Hemisphere Division was granted a CSA in October 1959 to enable their contact with him.”18

Two months later, an FYI memo from R. L. Bannerman, Director of Security, was sent to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence informing him that “Office of Security recently issued a Covert Security Approval to permit the utilization of Mr. William Douglas Pawley by the Western Hemisphere Division/Special Activities. He will be special contact for the Station in Miami, Florida. Mr. Pawley is a prominent Florida business executive who formerly served as Ambassador to Peru and Brazil, was an assistant secretary of State in 1948 and 1951, and an assistant to the Secretary of Defense in 1951. In more recent years he was engaged in petroleum and mining activities in the Dominican Republic and served as a consultant to the Dominican Government.”19

A February 12th dispatch regarding QDDALE noted “JMWAVE has maintained an operational contact with QDDALE since 28 August 1962. As a result of this contact, JMWAVE has established that QDDALE is a well-informed businessman with excellent connections throughout the Miami business community. As a result, QDDALE has been used as a special contact for the development of certain background data, operational intelligence and/or the conduct of selected operational support tasks. QDDALE is a special contact and not an agent, QDDALE’s role as a special contact is helpful to the overall mission as QDDALE is a useful reference point within the Miami business community who can be harnessed on certain occasions to carry out tasks which are of interest to JMWAVE. The JMWAVE contact with QDDALE does not preclude his being contacted by KUJUMP or WHD.”20 KUJUMP was the CIA’s Domestic Contact Division (aka Domestic Contact Service; Office of Operations and “OO”) in the 1960s which solicited foreign intelligence insights from U.S. travelers and those with international contacts.21

Despite years of gathering information on Pawley, a February 24, 1964 background memo on Pawley misspelled his wife’s maiden name as Hare instead of Hahr when detailing their July 25, 1919 wedding, their divorce and his October 1943 marriage in India to Edna Earle Cadenhead.22

A February 27, 1964 case analysis on William Pawley stated that he is “brother of Edward Pawley (C-248081) whom was investigated in 1961 for use as an unpaid informant. Edward was also granted CSA [Covert Security Approval] in 1963. No [REDACTED].” One entire page was not declassified; a blank page marked “Not released—Not germane.”23

In 2022, a National Security Agency document was declassified which revealed that in January 1964, John J. McCloy had told the NSA that “he will not permit any distortion or concealment of the facts; however, from materials at his disposal, he is more and more convinced that Oswald committed the crime by himself.” The NSA memo writer asserted that “McCloy’s statements confirm the opinion circulating here that the commission is mainly interested in proving that the assassination was not linked with any foreign centers.” Friends of the NSA consider Mark Lane, hired by Oswald’s mother to defend her son before the commission to be “an unscrupulous politician interested only in his career. He is financed by groups which lean toward the Chinese viewpoint.”24 Undoubtedly, communist China’s viewpoint, not Chiang Kai-shek’s.

FOOTNOTES:

1 Jefferson Morley, “CIA Lawyers to Face JFK Questions,” The Washington Independent, February 26, 2008.

Circuit Judge Judith Rogers and two colleagues ordered the CIA to search its operational files for more material on Joannides. They also ordered the agency to explain why 17 reports on Joannides’ secret operations in 1962, 1963 and 1964, are missing from CIA archives. In legal briefs, agency officials have claimed that more than 30 documents about Joannides’s actions in the 1960s and 1970s cannot be made public in any form—for reasons of "national security."

>> Joannides's activities included managing an undisclosed number of CIA staff officers and contract employees; serving as the case officer for the DRE's "distribution of printed propaganda, production of radio programs, and the development of political action programs;" insuring that the CIA's Miami-based covert efforts were supporting the Agency's "FI, CI and PM" missions; and reviewed the effectiveness of JMWAVE's "covert action programs." (Not surprisingly--based on their "production of radio programs"--the DRE had a debate on radio in New Orleans with Lee Harvey Oswald.)

"The Oswald Transfer: Who Was Responsible?" By Jan R. Steven. The Fourth Decade Volume 1, Issue 3, March 1994.

"Dead Men Tell No Tales: After Oswald is murdered in police custody Johnson moves quickly to control the official narrative. By Chad Nagle and Jefferson Morley. JFK Facts substack, November 24, 2023. 

November 25 1963: "As JFK Is Laid to Rest LBJ Tries to Close the Case: The president scrambles to quash CIA reports about Oswald in Mexico City." By Chad Nagle. JFK Facts substack. November 25, 1963. 

NARA 104-10304-10000 ~ “Five (5) Fitness Reports on Joannides, George, 1963, 1964 and 1979.” Page 4 of 12. 

2 News May 1, 2008.The Mary Ferrell Foundation website: www.MaryFerrell.org

3 House Select Committee on Assassinations Final Report, Section 3. Pages 163 & 164 of 716.

NARA 104-10418-1032 ~ 6/22/1962 "Memo: Correspondence of a U.S. Defector Who Recently Left the USSR Homebound." To: Deputy Chief, CI. From: Deputy Chief, CI Project. Re: HTLINGUAL - 61G10AK. Signed by Reuben Efron. 

>> "... This item will be of interest to Mrs. Ann Egerter, CI/SIG."

4 NARA 104-10133-10404 ~ 1/10/1974 CIA Memorandum For: Chief, Western Hemisphere Division. “Salvatore Giancana and Richard Cain.” Reference: Chicago Tribune Articles of 28 and 31 December 1973. Signed: Orville Bathe, C/WH/COG.

>> According to Orville Bathe, Chief, Western Hemisphere Cuban Operations Group, in a document declassified in 2022 “an Eastern Airlines pilot identified Cain as the skyjacker who forced him to fly to Honduras on 5 May 1972.” Cain was involved in skimming money from casinos in Central America for Giancana.

5 NARA 104-10171-10113 ~ 11/25/1960. “Routing Sheet and Dispatch: JMNET/Touring FRD Team.” To: Chief, WH Division. From: Cheef (sic) of Base, Monterrey. Pages 4 & 5 of 61.

>> Philip C. Kentland, CIA’s Chief of Base in Monterrey, Mexico.

FRD representatives at the Mexico City press conference were: Roberto de Varona y Loredo (leader Tony Varona’s brother); surgeon Dr. Amaro Alvarez Tormo; economist Dr. Alberto G. Menocal; economist Dr. Manuel Garcia del Busto; and director of exile publication Avance Juan Morenza Abreu.

NARA 124-10291-10267 ~ 3//27/1964 FBI Compilation “No Title.” From: FBI Director. Subjects: Correlation Summary See References, AKA, BKG, EMP, Assoc, Affil, Cuban Exile Groups, ACA, Tesur. Page 45 of 69.

>> Chronic liar 

NARA 124-10302-10106 ~ 7/30/1969 “No Title” [I. Irving Davidson, One Davidson*]. To: [File]. July 30, 1969. From: Director FBI. Subjects: IID, Correlation Summary, See References, AKA, Polit, Conspr, Revolutionary, Criminal Act, Sur, Tesur.” Pages: 4, 19, 20, 27 of 54.

Another Keeler—Charles C. Keeler, who claimed membership in the “Cuban Veterans Association” circa July 1961—is mentioned in files relating to Isadore Irving Davidson, a sugar lobbyist for Nicaragua, Israel and Ecuador, whom Keeler asserted was a member of the Cuban Flying Tigers. Davidson, who had 16 pseudonyms including one redacted, called Keeler “somewhat of a ‘crackpot.’” Davidson was an associate of Jimmy Hoffa, mob figures and sold Batista weapons. Davidson shared office space on K Street in Washington, DC with Jack Anderson, an employee of columnist Drew Pearson.

6 NARA 104-10077-10282 ~ 12/5/1963 CIA Cable “Special Group Meeting Postponed Until Late 6 December.” To: JMWAVE. From: Director. Subjects: Cobra.

7 Telephone conversation between Lyndon B. Johnson and James Eastland (3.21 pm, 28th November, 1963) LBJ Tapes.  http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/digitalarchive/presidentialrecordings/johnson/1963/11_1963?PHPS ESSID=7358cc58d986cb1ac8f8be292614eda5

8  "The MK-ULTRA Doctor Who Examined Jack Ruby: Evidence of CIA interference in the JFK assassination investigation." By Thomas Bunion. JFK Facts substack, Octover 3, 2023.  

>> Bunin cites Tom O’Neill, CHAOS: Charles Manson the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties and Emma Best's declassification efforts at Muck Rock.

RIF 104-10306-10011 ~ "DCI (McCone) Memo for the Record 06 April--08 July 1964." 19 May entry.   

William D. Pawley & Richard R. Tryon, Why the Communists are Winning as of 1976. Chapter 18.

9 “8F and Many More: Business and Civic Leadership in Modern Houston.” By Joseph Pratt. The Houston Review,Volume 1, no. 2. Page 32.

Dulles on the day of the assassination was at the Camp Peary the CIA training facility in Southern Virginian known as “The Farm.” David Talbot viewed the Diary of Allen Dulles according to Jefferson Morley at JFK Facts.

10 “After JFK Was Killed, Harry Truman Called for Abolition of the CIA: The cause and effect of an ex-president’s pronouncement about November 22.” By Jefferson Morley. Exclusive from JFK Facts. April 18, 2023.

>> Former President Truman began writing his Washington Post, December 22, 1963 article “nine days after Kennedy was killed, according to an excellent 2009 piece by former CIA officer Ray McGovern who says he was relying on JFK researcher Ray Marcus). Truman’s Look letter was dated June 10, 1964.

11 Annie Jacobsen, Operation Paperclip The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hachette Audio, 2014).

>> In the U.S., Major General Dornberger worked at Bell Aircraft as did Michael Paine, husband of Ruth, who got Lee Harvey Oswald his interview to work at the Texas Schoolbook Depository.

Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men; Six Friends and the World They Made; Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy (Simon & Shuster, 1986). Pages 272 & 273.

12 William D. Pawley & Richard R. Tryon, Why the Communists are Winning as of 1976. Chapter 9.

13 “Communist Threat to the United States Through the Caribbean. September 2 & 8, 1960 Testimony of William D. Pawley.” Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eight-Sixth Congress. Part 10. Pages 724-726.

14 1/23/1964 FBI Report “Miami, Fla., interviews with Cuban exiles.” CD 378. Warren Commission Hearings, Volume XXVI Section: CE 2947. Pages 1-11.

15 NARA 104-10271-10197 ~ 4/17/1962 CIA “Information Report: Subject – Peaceful coexistence and proposed restructuring of the Consejo Revolucionaria Cubano.” To: Director. From: JMWAVE.

16 NARA 104-10306-10011 ~ Memorandum for the Record “Log of DCI Meetings 1964.” Page 12, line 68.

17 12/3/1963 Dispatch “Status of Clearance Mr. William B. [sic] Pawley.” To: [None]. From: [None]. Subjects: Pawley, William.

12/3/1963 Dispatch “Status of Clearance—Mr. William B. Pawley.” To: C/Special Affairs Staff. From: COS, JMWAVE. Subjects: Pawley, William; Status.

12/3/1963 “William B. Pawley.” To: C/Special Affairs Staff. From: COS, JMWAVE. Subjects: Clearance Status; Pawley, William.

12/3/1963 “Status of Clearance on William Pawley.” To: Chief, Special Affairs Staff. From: COS, JMWAVE. Subjects: Pawley, William

12/3/1963 Operational Dispatch “Clearance—Mr. William Douglas Pawley.” Subjects: Pawley, William; Clearance.

12/3/1963 Operational Dispatch “Status of Clearance—William Douglas Pawley.” To: C/Special Affairs Staff. From: Chief of Station, JMWAVE. Subjects: Covert Security; Pawley, William.

18 NARA 104-10139-10045 ~ 1/211964 Dispatch “Status of Clearance (Pawley).” To: [CIA] COS/JMWAVE. From: C/Special Affairs Staff. Subjects: Pawley.

NARA 104-10138-10383 2/12/1964 “Status of Clearance for William Pawley.” To: Chief, Special Affairs Staff. From: COS, JMWAVE. Subjects: Pawley, William.

NARA 104-10049-10182 ~ [Undated] 1964 “Status of Pawley Clearance.” To: COS, JMWAVE. From: Chief, Special Affairs Staff. Subjects: LA Contacts.

NARA 104-10139-10046 ~ 2/12/1964 Dispatch “Status of QDDALE Clearance.” To: C/SAS. Subjects: Pawley. From: [CIA] COS/JMWAVE.

NARA 104-10049-10187 ~ 2/20/1964 “Request for Covert Security Approval for William Pawley.” To: DD/Security (Invest. & Ops Sup.). From: Chief, SAS. Subjects: Pawley, William.

NARA 104-10160-10068 ~ 2/20/1964 “Request for Covert Security Approval on William Pawley.” To: DD/Sec (I&OS). From: C/SAS. Subjects: Pawley, William.

NARA 104-10049-10387 ~ 2/20/1964 Memorandum “re William D. Pawley.” Subjects: Security Approv; Pawley, William.

NARA 104-10139-10047 ~ 2/20/1964 “William D. Pawley (Request for CSA).” To: DD of Security (I&OS). From: Chief, SAS. Subjects: Pawley, William.

NARA 104-10134-10043 ~ 2/20/1964 CIA Memorandum “William D. Pawley and Three Dispatches from JMWAVE.” To: ID/1 Mr. Coleman, Deputy Director of Security (Investigations & Operational Support). From: Desmond FitzGerald, Chief, SAS. Subject: William D. Pawley.

It is requested that Subject be granted a Covert Security Approval for use by JMWAVE on a continuing basis. The references [ALL 3 REDACTED] reflect that Subject has been in contact with the Agency for a number of years and that the Western Hemisphere Division was granted a CSA in October 1959 to enable their contact with him.

1. Refer any questions to M. K. Holbik, SAS/Security, ext. 5909

>> One of the attached dispatches references Status of QDDALE Clearance. One says “WAVE KUSODA has no record of Mr. William B. [sic] Pawley. And a third from January 21, 1964 reads “KUSODA files reflect the Subject of references has been utilized off and on for several years. He is appropriately cleared for contact by KUJUMP. A CSA was granted on 14 October 1959 to WH/Division to contact him in view of his extensive Latin American contacts.

19 NARA 104-10134-10062 ~ 4/30/1964 Memorandum For: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. “Subject: Pawley, William Douglas #778 435.” From: R.L. Bannerman.

1. This memorandum is for information only.

2. The Office of Security recently issued a Covert Security Approval to permit the utilization of Mr. William Douglas Pawley by the Western Hemisphere Division/Special Activities. He will be special contact for the Station in Miami, Florida.

3. Mr. Pawley is a prominent Florida business executive who formerly served as Ambassador to Peru and Brazil, was an assistant secretary of State in 1948 and 1951, and an assistant to the Secretary of Defense in 1951. In more recent years he was engaged in petroleum and mining activities in the Dominican Republic and served as a consultant to the Dominican Government.

   SIGNED
   R. L. Bannerman, Director of Security

20 NARA 104-10139-10046 ~ 2/12/1964 Dispatch “Status of QDDALE Clearance.” To: C/SAS. From COS/JMWAVE.

... it is requested that a CSA be granted for JMWAVE to maintain a continuing contact with QDDALE. JMWAVE has maintained an operational contact with QDDALE since 28 August 1962. As a result of this contact, JMWAVE has established that QDDALE is a well-informed businessman with excellent connections throughout the Miami business community. As a result, QDDALE has been used as a special contact for the development of certain background data, operational intelligence and/or the conduct of selected operational support tasks. QDDALE is a special contact and not an agent, QDDALE’s role as a special contact is helpful to the overall mission as QDDALE is a useful reference point within the Miami business community who can be harnessed on certain occasions to carry out tasks which are of interest to JMWAVE. The JMWAVE contact with QDDALE does not preclude his being contacted by KUJUMP or WHD.

21 Mary Ferrell Foundation Cryptonyms

22 NARA 104-10133-10165 ~ 2/24/1964 “Biographical Data Pawley William Douglas.” 

23 NARA 104-10134-10042 ~ “Case Analysis on William Pawley.”

24 NARA 144-10001-10119 ~ 1/29/1964 NSA Report “McCloy Discussed Work on Warren’s Commission [Redacted]. From: NSA. To: [Redacted]. Released August 12, 2022.