The Death and Times of a Gangster

The Death and Times of a Gangster

Many criminals associated with various organized crime families have been the enemies of American law enforcement since the early twentieth century. However, the Central Intelligence Agency contacted a small but notable minority of Mafia leaders and members for use in political assassinations. The target was Fidel Castro, the reasoning questionable, and the unintended flaws numerous. Some of the Castro Plots had multiple phases, each with different leaders and focus on vastly different methods. The only Mafia personality that was verifiably part of multiple plot phases was Filippo Sacco, better known as Johnny Roselli…

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JFK Lancer NID 2016 Conference Presentation Evidence

Author Carmine Savastano's evidence regarding the subjects he discussed at the JFK Lancer 2016 Conference. For all those who could not attend the conference we invite you to review the newly added Oswald Timeline Myth.   

Myths and Legends in the JFK Case:
Myth 1: The Castro Tapes
Legend 1: Guy Banister had no connection to the CIA
Myth 2: The Walker Allegations
Legend 2: The Rafael Cruz Story
Myth 3: The Oswald Timeline Myth 

RION: John Edgar Hoover

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The legal statement of Former Assistant Director of the FBI William Sullivan regards the internal actions and vendettas of J. Edgar Hoover against the CIA and Warren Commission.  They include leaking secret or embarrassing CIA information and then promoting disinformation to blame other officials, and seeking to prevent the Warren Commission's investigation from deviating from his prejudgment of Oswald's guilt.

CIA Biographic Profiles update

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Three new CIA Biographic Profiles to review, the first was a CIA Operations Officer in Saigon supporting the overthrow of its government, Lucien Emile Conein. Additionally, the files of Howard M. Orr, an Intelligence and Operations Officer, and the file of CIA Intelligence Analyst and Operations Officer James Sauvie Woods that served for two years at Atsugi Airbase in Japan. Each is offered for your inspection. Agency Biographic Profiles have been added with hundreds of other documents to the Consolidated CIA Files section and you can access them within its collected evidence.

RION: Clay L. Shaw

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Two documents for your review, the first a report on the various CIA business contacts with Clay Shaw. The second FBI document while not supporting the evolving stories attached to the Clay Bertrand pseudonym, does offer that two unnamed and likely unreported FBI informants claimed Clay Bertrand was Clay Shaw.

RION: George de Mohrenschildt

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A document verifying the Central Intelligence Agency utilized George de Mohrenschildt's second wife and brother. Officials note in the document that the de Mohrenschildts claim to be the only couple who associated with both the Oswalds and the Kennedys.

CIA Projects update

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Four newly documented CIA projects for your review. Projects Butane, Cellotex-1, and Cellotex-2, each of these projects targeted members of the media for revealing classified information. Additionally, the CIA's Office of Security targeted dissident groups considered a threat to Agency employees and operations codenamed Project Merrimac. Each in the Agency's own words are "probable violations of the Agency's charter."

The Imprisoned Defector

The Imprisoned Defector

Hearty alpine thistles were in bloom in the rural lanes outside Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1962. Just beyond this scenic atmosphere "KGB officer Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko contacted the CIA...Over the course of five meetings he provided sufficient information to enable the two officers from CIA's Soviet Russia Division...to establish that he was a bona fide source. The major information furnished by him at that time was the identification of a US code technician who had been recruited by the KGB, and the identification of the location of KGB microphones in the US Embassy in Moscow, 52 of which were later found." Nosenko's eventual defection and the drastic shift in his treatment would lead to years of solitary imprisonment...

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Pseudonyms update

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Three new pseudonyms for your review, the first Bronson Tweedy the first CIA Africa division leader questioned about discussing the possible assassination of Congolese leader Patrice LaMumba. The second is the false name of a former DGI (Cuban Intelligence) Chief of Uraguay, and the final name is a Chinese ally of the anti-Communist Cuban group the Unidad Revolucionaria.

CIA Security Files update

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Three new CIA Security Files are offered for your inspection. The file of Richard Snyder, American consul and CIA operative, he spoke with Lee Harvey Oswald at the American Embassy during his Russian defection. Additionally, the files of two men among the handful with direct knowledge of the CIA Castro plots Edward Morgan and James O'Connell. ‪All these documents have been added to the Consolidated CIA Files.

CIA Fitness Reports update

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A collection of CIA Fitness Reports with most regarding the years 1963-1964, each reveals some personal information and employee assignments. Among those featured are David Atlee Phillips, George Joannides, E. Howard Hunt, Anne Goodpasture, Boris Tarasoff, and Thomas Keenan. Agency Fitness Reports have been absorbed with hundreds of similar documents into the Consolidated CIA Files section and you can now access them within its resources.

Cuban Relations

Cuban Relations

In the Central Intelligence Agency files regarding Cuba under the Batista regime, Fidel Castro "manages to get himself involved in many things that do not concern him." "Beginning in 1948, the activities of Fidel Castro came to be of increasing concern to the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States Government (USG)." Despite the allegations of some officials, no direct link to Communism was established in Castro's history until after hostilities with the United States. "In fact, Agency support for the peaceful transfer of power from Batista to a democratically elected successor and amnesty for Castro and his followers...was proposed in a memorandum from the Inspector General in November 1957...

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CIA Policy and Resource update

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Three new documents, the first is an internal paper on the dangers and benefits of counterintelligence by CIA officer Woodbury Carter. The second is a policy document regarding Covert Security Approvals, such as those used in Agency Project QKENCHANT. The third is the Cuban Mug Book and Key Book Volume One, it contains hundreds of pictures and identities of Cuban nationals observed by the Agency for possible operational and security reasons. Each is offered for your inspection.