47: Timeline

1896/9/7 ~ William Douglas Pawley born in Florence, South Carolina.

1899 ~ After the Spanish American War when Teddy Roosevelts “Rough Riders” helped liberate Cuba from Spain, Pawley spends his early childhood at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station where his father had a store, earning him the nickname “Cuba” from classmates at Gordon Military Academy in Georgia.

1925/5/20 ~ Gerardo Machado becomes the 5th President of Cuba. He is overthrown in 1933.

1928 ~ William Douglas Pawley creates Cubana National Airlines which is sold to Pan American Airlines in 1932.

1929 ~ China Airways financed by Curtiss-Wright and controlled by Clement M. Keys begins flying mail from Shanghai to Hankow, Peiping and Canton. With pressure from the government, it evolves into China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC).

1932 ~ Pawley establishes Intercontinent Corporation run by him and his brothers Edward and Eugene.

1933 ~ Pawley becomes President of China National Aviation Corporation.

1940/12/23 ~ Pawley partners with India in establishing Hindustan Aircraft Limited near Calcutta (Bangalore).

1941 ~ Pawley begins China Aircraft Manufacturing Company CAMCO to manufacture planes for the American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers headed by General Clair Chennault) to defend Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists against Japanese planes. CAMCO airplane assembly plants moved from Hangzhou to Wuhan to Lowing (on the China-Burma border) to India.

1941/9 ~ David Harold Byrd, wealthy oil man and owner of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, co-founds the Civil Air Patrol to watch for enemy submarines and border crossings as well as enemy aircraft over the U.S. and provide other civilian support for the U.S. Army Air Force. Byrd is a cousin of Antarctic explorer Richard Byrd and West Virginia politician Harry F. Byrd. 

1942 ~ CNAC based in Calcutta until 1945.

1945/7/20 ~ Pawley named U.S. Ambassador to Peru.

1945/10/13 ~ Carlos Prio Socrarrás becomes 5th Prime Minister of Cuba. 

1946/6/13 ~ Pawley named U.S. Ambassador to Brazil.

1947 ~ Antonio de Varona appointed leader of the parliamentary committee of his party under Prio. Previously, de Varona was involved in the overthrow of Gerardo Machado and was elected to the Cuban congress and the senate.

1948/10/10 ~ Carlos Prio becomes President of Cuba, succeeding Ramon Grau.

1949/9 ~ Negotiated taking over the Havana trolly system.

1950/1 ~ Pawley runs Havana Autobuses Modernos, removing trolley car tracks.

1951/2/4 ~ Daughter Annie Hahr's wedding.

1951/2/19 ~ Pawley enters State Department as special assistant to Dean Acheson.

1951/6 ~ In India re wheat and monazite

1951/9 ~ Son Clifton Pawley died, left Washington for Mexico and Miami. 

1951/11/20 ~ Resigned from State Department effective the 30th. 

1951/12/3 ~ Pawley enters Defense Department as special assistant to Lovett.

1952/1/17 ~ Sailed with Edna and Anita Pawley and his assistant Ed Harris to Europe; stayed until May, but returned to Washington to settle a strike in Miami then flew to Lisbon Conference with Lovett. Took a two week trip for consultation with Defense Department

1952/5 ~ Resigned as assistant to Lovett.

1952/6 ~ At Belvoir House farm in Virginia.

1952/9 ~ In Europe and Middle East with Edna.   

1952/3/10 ~ Fulgencio Batista overthrows Prio; de Varona begins fight against Batista.

1953 ~ In Miami. Owner president and general manager of the Miami Beach Railway Co. since 1941 and of Miami Transit Co. since 1948. Also owner of South Miami Coach Line and Tropical Coach Line Inc. and Grayline Sightseeing Co. of Miami.

1953/4/4 ~ CIA coup against Mossadegh in Iran (Operation AJAX) is hatched by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, CIA Director Allen Dulles, Franks Wisner and Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.  Mossadegh is replaced by the Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, coincidentally a former classmate of future CIA Director Richard Helms.

1954/6 ~ Pawley works with the CIA on PBSUCCESS, the overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala.

1954/6 ~ William Pawley, William Franke, Morris Hadley and General Jimmy Doolittle appointed by President Eisenhower to review the Central Intelligence Agency and recommend that it become “more ruthless than the enemy.”

1955/7/27 ~ Lee Harvey Oswald joins the Civil Air Patrol in New Orleans which also includes Captain David Ferrie

1956/10/24 ~ Oswald drops out of high school in Texas and joins the U.S. Marine Corps where he is trained as a sharpshooter.

1958/10/5 ~ Oswald is stationed at the Air Force base in in Atsugi, Japan where the U.S. dispatches U-2 planes to spy on Russia and Oswald learns Russian.

1959/Spring ~ Oswald, back in the U.S., becomes friend of Kerry Thornley 

1959/9/4 ~ Oswald applies for a passport a week before he is discharged from active duty in the Marine Corps.

1959/9/20 ~ Oswald departs the U.S. 

1959/10/2 ~ Pawley given the CIA cryptonym QDDALE.

1959/10/15 ~ Pawley installs a tape recorder to tape discussions with Cuban exiles.

1959/10/31 ~ Oswald defects to the Soviet Union offers U-2 secrets.

1959/11/16 ~ Oswald interviewed by Priscilla Johnson.   

1959/12 ~ Pawley tries to convince Batista to step aside so an interim government could be put in place as a buffer against Castro.

1959/12/31 ~ Batista goes into exile in Portugal.

1960/1/8 ~ Fidel Castro enters Havana and takes over leadership of Cuba; de Varona flees into exile in Florida.

1960/2 ~ “William Pawley had asked him why he, Rouse, had not sent gunmen to kill Castro; and that Pawley told him if that didn’t work ‘he would send his own gunmen’ to do the job. On arrival in Port-au-Prince, the Embassy Administration Officer, unaware of the Rouse conversation, coincidentally said he had been seated next to William Pawley on a flight from New York to Port-au-Prince during which Pawley had made the identical remark to him.” Pedro Moreles given $5,000 to bump off Castro by Espaillat acting on behalf of Trujillo in plot known by Pawley according to Rouse.

1960 ~ CIA Director Allen Dulles and others meet at William Pawley’s house to discuss organizing Cuban exiles against Castro.

1960/8 ~ Allen Dulles's CIA Deputy Director of Plans Richard Bissell and CIA Director of the Office of Security Sheffield Edwards have discussion concerning use of underworld figures to aid in assassination of Castro. Bissell previously asked Chief of the CIA Africa Division Bronson Tweedy to explore ways to assassinate Patrice Lumumba of the Republic of the Congo. CIA scientist Joseph Scheider procured toxic biological weapons from the Army Chemical Corps in Fort Detrick, Maryland, according to the Church Committee Interim Report on Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders.  

1960/08/25 ~ Reports of de Varona's recent visit to U.S. indicate he allegedly solicited funds from Las Vegas gamblers.

1960/09 ~ Sheffield Edwards designates the task of putting the plan to kill Castro into operation to the CIA Support Chief, James O' Connell who initiates contact with Robert Maheu. Maheu brings in John Roselli, who quickly brings in Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante.

1960/09/14 ~ Antonio de Varona arrives in New York City from Mexico City. 

1960/9/27 ~ De Varona appointed coordinator of the FRD.

1960/10/8 ~ De Varona reportedly interested in mounting operations as political. favor for contacts with non-FRD supporters.

1960/10/18 ~ Memo from J. Edgar Hoover to intelligence agencies detailing Giancana's statements about an imminent Castro assassination plot. 

1961 ~ A CIA official met with a highly placed Cuban official to determine if the Cuban would cooperate in efforts against the Castro regime (I.G. Report, p. 78) The Cuban was referred to by the cryptonym AMLASH.

1961/1 ~ William Harvey sets up ZRRIFLE to perform Executive Actions (assassinations under the Bissell plan). CIA's Technical Services Division devises a poison pill. 

1961/1/17 ~ Lumumba executed.

1961/1/18 ~ FBI memorandum indicates that a Cuban was associated with anti-Castro activities financed by U.S. racketeers including Santo Trafficante. This. same Cuban was subsequently used by Roselli in the second passage of pills. to Cuba in April: 1962.

1961/1/20 ~ John F. Kennedy inaugurated as President.

1961/1/23 ~ FBI reports indicate "Gambling elements in the U.S. have offered to contribute as high as 2 million dollars to finance the anti-Castro operations of de Varona and the organization which he represents, apparently in the hope of getting in on the ground floor should Castro be overthrown." The Cellini family reportedly in contact with de Varona through public relations man Edward K. Moss of Washington D.C. "It was through this channel that the offer of financial assistance was made.”

1961/2 ~ James O'Connell received the poison pills from the Technical Services Division, and then gave them to Roselli.

1961/2/13 ~ Lee Harvey Oswald informs U.S. Embassy he wishes to return to U.S.

1961/3/13 ~ FBI report indicates information received that the CIA paying de Varona $300,000 per month for the FRD.

1961/3 ~ Roselli told O'Connell that Trafficante knew of a man higher up in the Cuban exile movement who might do the job. He was identified as de Varona, leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Front. De Varona was believed to have assets inside Cuba.

1961/3/3 ~ FBI notes that Edwards says Allen Dulles knows the CIA is utilizing Chicago Outfit mob boss Sam Giancana.

1961/3/12 ~ Robert Maheu, Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli and his friend, Joseph Shimon, attend the Ingemar Johansson-Floyd Patterson Fight at the Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami. Poison capsules and money are provided to a potential Cuban assassin.

1961/3/31 ~ President Kennedy tells Senator Smathers he opposes assassinations six days after a meeting with CIA Director Dulles.  

1961/4/15 ~ The Bay of Pigs invasion begins and fails by the 17th.

1961/4/18 ~ Maheu tells the FBI of CIA involvement in Las Vegas wiretap.

1961/4/19 ~ President Kennedy meets Cuban exiles who escaped from the Bay of Pigs. One of the exiles, probably de Varona, had been involved in smuggling the poison pills for the CIA/Mafia plot into Cuba, which failed.

1961/4/30 ~ Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusokova whom he had met at a dance in March.  

1961/5/6 ~  Two weeks after requesting a meeting with President Kennedy--which was expedited by former President Eisenhower--Pawley visits the White House and urges JFK to send 10,000 U.S. Marines into Havana, Cuba to "take the Palace, release the Bay of Pigs prisoners and the other political prisoners, and we should establish a provisional government" with Pawley's list of "outstanding Cubans" to oversee elections 18 months later.  President Kennedy replies, "'Pawley ... I do not intend to spill one drop of American blood in connection with this matter.'" JFK then coldly shows Pawley out of the Oval Office, according to Pawley's memoir. Pawley starts organizing Cuban exiles for his own purposes.

1961/5/18 ~ The General Taylor/Kennedy Board interviewed several Cuban exile leaders who had been involved in the Bay of Pigs, including the leaders who had cooperated in the assassination plot. The subject of the inquiry was the Bay of Pigs operation.

1961/5/22 ~ FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover memo to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy notes CIA used Giancana in "clandestine efforts" against Castro. Special Group memo outlines the basic objective regarding Cuba is to develop opposition to Castro and to "bring about a regime acceptable to the United States.”

1961/5/30 ~ Trujillo assassinated. 

1961/6/3 ~ U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy deports Louisiana Mafia boss Carlos Marcello who later sneaks back in but is detained. 

1961/9/15 ~ CRC and FRD merge, with Jose Miro Cardona as head, de Varona as second in command.

1961/9/19 ~ JFK asks John McCone to become Director of Central Intelligence after conferring with him about nuclear issues earlier in September.

1961/11 ~ William Harvey instructed to take over the contact with John Roselli as part of Project ZRRIFLE; Harvey takes over Mafia plots. He counts Maheu out and deals directly with Roselli.

1961/11/28 ~ JFK fires CIA Director Allen Dulles, replaces him with John McCone.

1961/12/27 ~ Deputy Director of the CIA General Cabell retires.

1961/12/29 ~ CIA objects to prosecution of Maheu for Las Vegas wiretap.

1961/12/27 ~ CIA Deputy Director for Plans Richard Bissell resigns; Richard Helms takes over.

1962/1/26 ~ Lee Harvey Oswald requests money from Leo Cherne's International Rescue Committee. 

1962/3/13 ~ General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, releases a "Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense" (Robert MacNamara) enclosing a "Memo for the Chief of Operations,  Cuba Project" outlining Operation Northwoods, a strategy to create a deadly "false flag" incident that could be blamed on Cuba thus justifying U.S. military intervention and the overthrow of Castro. President Kennedy rejected the plan.   

1962-1966 ~ E. Howard Hunt serves as "the first chief of covert action for the Central Intelligence Agency's Domestic Operations Division. During the next four years he manipulated the press and Praeger Publishing Company published more than a dozen books on behalf of the agency. Hunt at some point becomes a Goldwater supporter like Pawley.

1962/4/8 ~ Harvey, O'Connell, and Roselli meet for a second time in New York on April 8- 9 to set up the next attempt on Castro.

1962/4/18 ~ The Technical Services Division of the CIA delivers the second batch of poison pills to O'Connell.

1962/4/21 ~ Harvey passes the poison pills to Roselli in Miami.

1962/5/3 ~ Progress report to the Special Group augmented on "agent teams" and the general field of intelligences. 

1962/5/3 ~ Harvey reported that three agent teams had been infiltrated.

1962/5 Johnny Roselli passes the poison pills to Cubans for transport to Cuba.

1962/6 De Varona reportedly in Washington D.C. to speak to Republican senators regarding the CRC and Cuban exiles. De Varona was asked why he was doing this as it would put the CRC in a bad position with the Kennedy administration. De Varona said it would be justified if it caused the administration to do something drastic. Cardona reportedly “was "furious."

1962/6 ~ CIA Director John McCone and U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy work closely on MONGOOSE.

1962/6/13 ~ The Oswalds arrive in Hoboken, NJ.

1962/6/21 ~ Roselli tells Harvey that a six-man team has been dispatched to Cuba.

1962/6/26 ~ The FBI interviews Oswald who is living in Ft. Worth, Texas. 

1962/8/22 ~ McCone advises JFK that Soviet Union may have missiles in Cuba capable of striking U.S. cities SAMS photographed there a week later

1962/9/7 ~ Harvey meets Roselli in Miami. The Cuban was reported to be preparing to send in another three-man team to penetrate Castro's bodyguard. Harvey was told that. the pills were still “safe” in Cuba.

1962/9 ~ Oswalds meet international geologist George DeMohrenschildt and his wife.

1962/10/12 ~  Strategic Air Command takes control of U-2 flights over Cuba. Oswald hired by Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall in Dallas.

1962/10/22 ~ Cuban Missile Crisis. Harvey orders agent teams into Cuba to support any United States military action that might occur. Blockade begins on 23rd. Crisis ends on the 28th with agreement to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba and U.S. missiles from Turkey. Pawley wants Kennedy to attack Cuba and is thrown out of the White House.

1962/11/20 ~ Blockade lifted despite refugee report on the 2nd of missiles in caves in Cuba.

1962/12 ~ Harvey and Roselli confer in Miami regarding the status of the plots.

1962/12/12 ~ In a meeting with the Honduran President and other Cuban: exile leader de Varona makes the statement that the CIA is responsible for the current lack of exile activity and is working behind the back of Kennedy

1962/12/17 ~ JFK approves covert support for Congo government.

1962/12/24 Brigade 2506 survivors return to the United States. Pawley personally ransoms Nestor Fitzgerald Williams. President Kennedy addresses the Cuban exiles in the Miami football stadium. 

1963/1/10 McGeorge Bundy and JFK discuss Department of Defense and CIA friction and China’s nuclear capability potential.

1963/2/22 ~ Oswalds meet Ruth Paine at a dinner party at the home of Everett Glover.

1963/3 ~ Johnny Roselli reported to O'Connell that the pills had been delivered to an official close to Castro who may have received kickbacks from the gambling interests. The official returned the pills after two weeks, perhaps because he had lost his position in the Cuban government.

1963/2 The Mafia plot is ended, according to Harvey. 

1963/2 Reports there are Soviet technicians in Cuba begin which eventually lead to the Bayo-Pawley-CIA Operation TILT (aka Red Cross) which Pawley hopes will destroy JFK’s re-election campaign or justify attacking Cuba.

1962/2/22 ~ Ruth Paine meets Oswalds at a party at Everett Glover's house.

1963/3 ~ Johnny Roselli claims the Castro assassination Mafia plots ended.

1963/3/12 ~ Oswald orders a rifle sent to his P.O. Box.

1963/3/31 ~ Oswald poses in backyard holding rifle.

1963/4/1 ~ Oswald fired by Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall.

1963/4/10 ~ A shot is fired at right-wing General Edwin Walker in his home, eight days after he is mentioned at a Ruth & Michael Paine party. Marina states Lee fired the shot two weeks after he is killed by Jack Ruby.

1963/4/22 ~ Meetings held regarding dissolution of the CRC. De Varona advocated an "open door" policy for the CRC, which would admit Cuban individuals rather than organizations into the CRC as a method for promoting unity. De Varona said it had been decided not to dissolve the CRC and replace it with a new organization because the CRC is an established organization well known in this hemisphere.

1963/4/23 ~ Meeting held to advise de Varona of the liquidation of the CRC.

1963/4/29 ~ FBI report indicates de Varona rejected an offer to continue to receive a monthly salary after liquidation of the CRC. De Varona also reportedly would not agree to disband the CRC. 

1963/5/10 ~ Oswald starts working at Reily Coffee Co. and moves to 4905 Magazine St. in New Orleans.

1963/5/29 ~ Oswald prints 1,000 Fair Play for Cuba pamphlets three days after requesting a local charter from the national organization.

1963/6 ~ Bayo-Pawley Operation TILT (aka Operation Red Cross) which Pawley hopes will destroy JFK’s re-election campaign and provide justification to attack Cuba is launched with support by the CIA. Pawley believes Senator Goldwater should be President.

1963/6/5 ~ JFK in El Paso with John Connally agrees to a second trip to Texas in the Fall. 

1963/6 ~ Harvey and Roselli meet. Harvey said this meeting was a going-away dinner since he had been transferred overseas and would not be seeing much of Roselli anymore.

1963/6/16 ~ Oswald hands out Fair Play for Cuba leaflets in New Orleans.

1963/6/24 ~ Oswald applies for new passport.

1963/6/22 Antonio Maceo resigns as head of CRC after protesting CRC announcement concerning landing of infiltration groups in Cuba FBI files indicate Maceo was reportedly told the episode was a propaganda gimmick to put the CRC in a favorable light. Maceo did not want to be the "fall guy" when the affair goes sour.

1963 ~ De Varona continuing CRC despite pullout of CIA interest and resignations of Jose Miro Cardona and Antonio Maceo. CRC reiterates and confirms public statement announcing landing and infiltration into Cuba of some commando units. CIA reports indicate "Bayo-Pawley" raid may have been CRC plan.

1963/8 ~ Oswald passes out Fair Play for Cuba pamphlets stamped 544 Camp Street (an antiCastro address) and publicly engages the DRE.

1963/9/7 ~ CIA case officers have their first meeting with Cubela (AMLASH)since the Bay of Pgs. Cubela says he is interested in doing an “inside job” and awaits a plan.

1963/4/1 ~ Oswald fired by Reily Coffee.

1963 ~ Fitzgerald meets AM/LASH and promises him that the U.S. would support a coup against Castro.

1963/8/5 ~ Oswald offers to help anti-Castro DRE member Carlos Briniguier help.

1963/8/9 ~ Oswald and Bringuier have a public confrintation on Canal Street. Oswald's literature is stamped with 544 Camp Street, New Orleans, the address used by Guy Banister a former FBI agent and anti-Castroite. Oswald talks to FBI the next day at his own request.

1963/8/21 ~ Oswald and Bringuier debate on New Orleans radio WDSU.

1963/9/23 ~ Ruth Paine drives Marina Oswald from New Orleans back to Texas. Then Lee Harvey Oswald leaves for Mexico, visits the Cuban and Russian Embassies in the coming days, although CIA photos and voice recordings do not seem to be of him.

1963/10/3 ~  Oswald returns via bus to Texas. The next day applies for job at Padgett Printing but is not hired because his previous employer, Robert Stovall, gave him a poor review. 

1963/10/14 ~ Ruth Paine tells Oswald of a job at Texas School Book Depository which he lands. 

1963/10/16 ~ Oswald starts working at the Texas School Book Depository filling book orders for $1.25 an hour after being interviewed by building superintendant Roy Truly. 

1963/10/24 ~ JFK trip to Dallas with Connally and Lyndon Johnson planned.

1963/11/1 ~ Diem government overthrown in South Vietnam.

1963/11/5 ~ Secret Service Special Agent in Charge of Dallas Forest Sorrels surveys Dallas campaign fundraising luncheon destinations.

1963/11/12 ~ CIA Director McCone and Richard Helms meet with JFK to discuss Cuba spreading communism to Venezuela.                                                                                             

1963/11/12 ~ Oswald leaves note at FBI office telling Agent Hosty to stop interviewing Marina.as he had done on November 1st and 5th.

1963/11/14 ~ JFK parade route in Dallas finalized.

 

1963/11/14 ~ De Varona arrived in New Orleans and stayed at the home of Augustin Guitart assistant delegate of the New Orleans CRC. Guitart is also the Rescate delegate in New Orleans according to Frank Bartes CRC delegate. De Varona was reportedly invited to bolster the morale of the New Orleans Cuban exiles.De Varona supposed to proceed to Houston Texas where reportedly his son resides.

1963/11/19 ~ JFK's route through Dallas announced. 

1963/11/19 ~ De Varona to proceed to his son's house in Houston.

1963/11/19 ~ The lost briefcase belonging to Frank Sturgis is returned to the CIA according to a note from CIA Deputy Director of Plans Richard Helms to FBI liaison Sam Papich. Inside were his address book, maps, documents, and a list of weapons from Minuteman activist Rich Lauchli and his company LOXCO, as well as Lauchli's business card. Sturgis listed his code names as ‘Federini, Barbarosa, Samson’ as well as a number of his aliases - curiously he does not mention Frank Attila or Fred Attila.2 

1963/11/22 ~ Desmond FitzGerald and the case officer meet with Cubela and offer him the poison pen. 

1963/11/22 ~ JFK assassinated. Lee Harvey Oswald arrested after leaving Texas School Book Depository and shooting Officer Tippit. Oswald alleged to be the assassin who shot from 6th floor of Texas School Book Depository whose owner, Harold Byrd, is on safari in Africa with Pawley's friend General Jimmy Doolittle. DRE members who debated Oswald announce that Oswald was pro-Castro. The DRE members involved in Pawley's Operation TILT still missing.

1963/11/24 ~  Oswald killed by Jack Ruby as he was escorted by Dallas police.

1964/6/10 ~ Helms memo to McCone states that Agency officials had learned of several plots by Cuban exiles to assassinate Castro and other Cuban leaders.

1965/4 ~ De Varona reportedly continues as head of Rescate "but not very active and encountering financial difficulties."

1965/6 ~ Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC) disbanded officially.

1965 ~ CIA cable states that B-1 had given Cubela a silencer and that Cubela had small highly concentrated explosives.

1965/6 ~ CIA terminates all contact with AMLASH and his associates for reasons related to security.

1967/3/1 ~ New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrests Clay Shaw as participant in JFK assassination setting off a discrediting campaign by the CIA.

1967 ~ Alberto Fowler, who used Pawley as a reference when joining Brigade 2506, becomes translator for District Attorney Jim Garrison and feeds DRE member Bringuier information about the case.

1971 Pawley is President of the CNAC Association.

1973/8/6 Batista dies of a heart attack in Spain.

1974/9/30 Pawley Letter to The Editor of the Miami Herald. Re: Cuba threat to security of the U.S. “Castro is a sadistic assassin ... and proclaimed himself to be our bitter enemy.”

1975/3/6 Zapruder film enhanced by Robert Groden was shown by Geraldo Rivera on ABC-TV.

1975/3 ~ DRE involvement in Bayo-Pawley Affair (Operation Red Cross/TILT) detailed in Soldier of Fortune magazine.

1975/6/11 ~ Formed in  January, the Rockefeller Commission released its Report on CIA Activities touched on Project MKULTRA mind-control experiments and Operation Mongoose attempts to eliminate Castro but fails to mention Operation Northwoods proposed by General Lyman Lemnitzer who is on the commission. Finds no involvement by Hunt and Sturgis in the JFK assassination, rejects concept of a shooter on the grassy knoll thus continuing to support the idea that Oswald was a lone-nut assassin. David Belin of the Warren Commission also served on the Rockefeller Commission. The Commission was formed by President Gerald Ford who also served on the Warren Commission and 86 pages were excised by his deputy assistant Dick Cheney who years later would become Vice President. 

1975/7/31 ~ David Morales retires from CIA.

1975/10/25 ~ Clare Boothe Luce calls CIA Director William Colby about her relationship with Pawley and DRE and Kennedy.

1975/12/14 ~ Miami Herald reports Pawley has been ducking phone calls from a subcommittee of Sen. Frank Church’s Intelligence Committee. 

1975/12/31 ~ The New York Times reports that Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt "served as the first chief of covert action for the Central Intelligence Agency's Domestic Operations Division" in 1962. He "dealt largely with the subsidizing and manipulation of the news and publishing organizations" including Praeger Publishing and Fodor's Travel Guide. "[N]ewly retired C.I.A. men—Raymond Rocca, Mr. Angleton' chief deputy; William J. Hood, executive officer of the counterintelligence division, and Newton S. Miller, chief of operations—are reliably known to believe that much more spying and other illegal activities were conducted by the Domestic Operations Division than by counterintelligence agents."  

1975/12/31 ~ Former CIA Director Vernon Walters sends Pawley an article by David Eisenhower. “Will be in Florida January 9th for a week. Thanks for fruit. With every good wish to Mrs. Pawley and Anita and yourself for the new year. As ever, Vernon A. Walters.”

1976/4/27 ~ Former CIA Director William Colby drowns while canoeing at age 76. 

1976/8/6 ~ Senate Select Committee on Intelligence receives the Doolittle Report.

1976/9 ~ United States House of Representatives approves forming a Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate the murders of President John F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. George Joannides, a JMWAVE case officer and psychological warfare expert, who was in charge of the DRE when the student group interacted with Oswald in New Orleans, becomes the liaison between the CIA and the Committee without mentioning his CIA activities

1977/1/7 ~ Pawley dies at age 80 in Miami Beach after self-inflicted gunshot to alleviate shingles pain.

1977/1/7 ~ Carlos Prio dies in Miami Beach after self-inflicted gunshot at age 74.

1978/5/8 ~ David Morales dies at age 52.

1979/3/29 ~ United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations orders printing of its Final Report.

2002/10/23 ~ Richard Helms dies.

2016/11/25 ~ Fidel Castro dies at nearly 90 years of age. 

2018/3/30 ~ Anna Chennault dies.

2021/10/29 ~ Son claims Ricardo "Monkey" Morales trained Oswald to shoot while at a Cuban exile training camp. 

2022/12/15 ~ President Joe Biden releases 13,000 more of the assassination files including a baker’s dozen on Pawley and QDDALE but withholds 25% of the remaining files including 43 on George Joannides and one fully blacked out one on Castillo, brother-in-law of Eddie Bayo of the Bayo-Pawley Operation TILT. Castillo under truth serum in the Philippines claimed to have been in Dallas on November 22nd.

2023/6/30 ~ Similar to President Trump, President Biden refuses to release the remaining 4,000 JFK assassination documents. 

2023/7 ~ President Biden makes CIA Director a cabinet position.