51: Resources

More Ruthless Than The Enemy content was gathered over four-and-a-half decades as classified documents about William Douglas Pawley’s activities were slowly released from the national archives as a result of. my Freedom of Information Act requests for documents including the Doolittle Committee Report in 1976; Congressional hearings; Presidential directives; and FOIAs by others. Even in June 2023—some six decades after the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis and President Kennedy’s assassination—thousands of documents are still withheld or are heavily redacted purportedly for national security reasons.

I originally posted key information at www.williampawley.blogspot.com which led a number of individuals to share knowledge about their parents’ activities during the 1950s and 60s.

A number of document repositories have been invaluable while preparing this manuscript:

• The National Archives ~ https://www.archives.gov
  The United States National Archives in Washington, DC and College Park, Maryland contain numerous government collections that are vital to researchers. President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection www.archives.gov/research/jfk

• The Mary Ferrell Foundation ~ https://www.maryferrell.org
  Over 1.5 million scanned JFK assassination related CIA, FBI and other government documents are available online. The website also has an invaluable Cryptonym guide and much more. Many Mary Ferrell references cite a page number/total pages which I format as, Page 12 of 97 for example.)

• The National Security Archive ~ https://nsarchive.gwu.edu
  Peter Kornbluh and his staff at George Washington University provide superb resources such as the CIA’s five-volume history of the Bay of Pigs.

• The Black Vault ~ https://www.theblackvault.com
  More than 3,000,000 pages of declassified U.S. Government documents.

• Assassination Archives and Research Center ~ www.aarclibrary.org Founded by Bernard “Bud” Fensterwald and James Lesar, AARC has the most extensive collection of records on the JFK assassination in private hands. The collection has been enhanced by the donation of personal files belonging to several researchers and officials including Richard Popkin, Anthony Summers, Earl Golz, Zachary Sklar, Jim Garrison, and others. AARC holdings include:

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