Cryptonym Update

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Presenting a notable expansion of the Primary Evidence Collections cryptonym list with over 70 new Central Intelligence Agency cryptonyms, more than 40 general cryptonyms including AMCOB 1 and 3-15, BGMURDER, BGWOEFUL, CAUTERY 1-6, HBTROUT, HTEXOTIC, KUCHAP, KUJAZZ, and dozens more that prior concealed assets, agents, nations, and operational information. Some of the additionally over 20 revealed project and operation cryptonyms are BECRIPPLE, BESMIRCH, BGFIEND, CATOMIC, HARVARD, OBSIDIOUS, OBTUSE, QKDEMON, and several more for your review. 

Cryptonyms and Pseudonyms update

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Eight cryptonyms (BGGYPSY, DTFROGS, JMBLUG, HTKEEPER, HTPLUME, KMFLUSH, KMPLEBE, and LCPANGS) revealing nations with CIA operational interest and one US Ambassador and the pseudonyms of CIA Officers Richard Bissell (Pickney E. Lynade) and Frank Wisner (Harold S. Whiting) are revealed for your inspection. #CIA #JFK #history #evidencematters

RION: John and Jo Beth Hill

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The statement of John Henry Hill’s wife that he was located blocks from Dealey Plaza around the time of President Kennedy's assassination. While her statement does not infer a definite nefarious connection, it does support unknown possibly armed men in the area could largely escape official notice.

Pseudonyms update

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The Assassination Archives and Research Center has accepted CIA pseudonym research from C.A.A. Savastano. It can be found at the AARC's "Select CIA Pseudonyms" listing. The featured pseudonyms can also be found with additional cryptonym and alias research here in the Primary Evidence Collections.
 

RION: Manuel Ray

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A notable document supports Cuban Exile leader Manuel Ray Rivero planned to betray the CIA. It reveals despite his abundant funding and support provided by CIA officials, he attributed his group's failures to the Agency.  This document and a brief statement of his background are offered for your review.

CIA Policy and Resources update

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Two new CIA Resource documents for your inspection, the first is a Finder's Aid that provides a volume-by-volume summary of some files in Lee Harvey Oswald's 201 File. The second is a collection of reference photographs contained in CIA's Cuban Mug Book Volume 4.

RION: Manuel Artime Buesa

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A document which proves Agency "golden boy" Manuel Artime Buesa and his Cuban exile operations were funded nearly five million dollars by the CIA to cover operations from June 1963 to June 1964. Officials would eventually realize that autonomous groups similar to the Artime's were threats and that not all of their operational expenses were traceable by accounting.

Pseudonym and Alias update

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Two new pseudonyms and one alias revealed for your inspection. The pseudonym Oliver Altman belongs to Justin O' Donnell a CIA employee sent to the Congo shortly before the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Cuban Intelligence officer and Cuban Consul Alfredo Mirabal Diaz used the second pseudonym Federico in some communications and CIA analyst Leo Cherne used the alias (his former legal name) Leopold Chernetsky.

Cryptonyms update

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For your review are four new cryptonyms C.A.A. Savastano assisted documenting at the Mary Ferrell Foundation (LNERGO, BKHERALD, LNAGON, QJWIN). They reveal code names used in the evidence to represent the FBI, CIA, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, and a foreign assassination operative Jose Marie Andre Mankel.

CIA Security Files update

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Three new CIA Security Files for your review, the first is the file of Cuban anti-Castro exile leader Manuel "Tony" de Varona Loredo, the second regards Mafia leader Meyer Lansky, and the final documents are related to the business group Guy Banister Associates, Inc. Agency Security Files have been added to the JFK Related Individuals of Note section and can be accessed within its resources.  

RION: Richard S. Cain

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Richard S. Cain was a Police Officer, Mafia associate, Sherriff's Investigator, CIA and FBI informant, and Cuban exile contact. One CIA document offers his claims that the Fair Play for Cuba Committee had a secret meeting to discuss the assassination of JFK. The question is what purpose Cain served in attempting to lay the blame at the feet of the FPCC.

CIA Policy and Resource section update

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Presenting additional Policy and Resource documents concerning the wide array of Cuban nationals investigated and cataloged by the Central Intelligence Agency. The Cuban Mug Books Vol. 2 and 3 are offered for your inspection.