Gus Russo - Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder

BROTHERS IN ARMS

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American Politicians and Officials

James Jesus Angleton (19171987) Long-serving chief of the CIAs counterintelligence (CI) staff (19541975). (CIA crypto: KU/MOTHER.*)

Richard Mervin Bissell, Jr. (19091994) CIA Deputy Director for Plans (19581961), directed the overthrows of foreign leaders Jacobo rbenz Guzmn (Guatemala), Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Lenidas Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Abd al-Karim Qasim (Iraq), Ngo Dinh Dim (Vietnam), Fidel Castro (Cuba), and others.

Joseph Anthony Califano Jr. (b. 1931) General Counsel for the U.S. Army during the Kennedy administration, aide on the Pentagons Cuban Coordinating Committee.

Allen Welsh Dulles (18931969) longest-serving CIA Director (19531961). Longtime Kennedy family friend who served on the Warren Commission.

Jack Edward Dunlap (19281963) Employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) and liaison to CIAs interagency Staff D, which controlled the Castro assassination plots. Sold Staff D files to KGB.

Desmond FitzGerald (19101967) (pseudo James Clark) Headed CIAs Far East Division in the 1950s, later the Cuba Desk, then named Chief of the Western Hemisphere (1964) before becoming Deputy Director for Plans (19651967).

*Other relevant CIA cryptos include: KUBARK (CIA Headquarters), ODENVY (FBI), ODYOKE (U.S. Government), PBRUMEN (Cuba), PBPRIME (United States), LCFLUTTER (Polygraph), LIENVOY (Wiretap).

General Alexander Haig Jr. (b. 1924) During the Kennedy years, Haig served in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (DCSOPS) at the Pentagon (19621964) and the Cuban Coordinating Committee. He later served as Military Assistant to the Presidential Assistant for National Security Affairs, Henry Kissinger. In 1970, President Richard Nixon promoted Haig to Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He served as White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Nixon and Gerald Ford. From 1974 to 1979, Haig served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

Samuel Halpern (19232005) After serving in the OSS, became a career CIA officer (19481974); became Deputy Chief for Operations and Executive Officer at the CIAs Tokyo Station, then Des FitzGeralds Executive Assistant on the Cuba Desk. In the early 1970s he was Deputy Chief of the CIAs Division of Domestic Collections. He retired in 1974 after receiving the Intelligence Medal of Merit.

Richard McGarrah Helms (19132002) CIA Director of Plans (19621964), became CIA Director (19661973).

James Hosty (b. 1927) FBI Special Agent in Dallas who monitored Oswald in 1963.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) Thirty-fifth President of the United States (19611963). (GP/IDEAL.)

Robert Francis Kennedy (19251968) Attorney General of the United States (19611964), Senator from New York (19651968). (GP/FOCUS.)

Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973) Thirty-sixth President of the United States (19631969).

Laurence Keenan (b. 1925) FBI Special Agent sent by J. Edgar Hoover to Mexico immediately after the assassination.

John Alexander McCone (19021991) CIA Director (19611965).

David Atlee Phillips (19221988) (Orville Horsfall) CIA Officer (19501975) involved in clandestine operations in Guatemala, Cuba, and Chile from the 1950s to the early 1970s. Head of Cuban Operations in 1963 while stationed in Mexico City. Became head of Covert Ops, and later Chief of Western Hemisphere.

Winston Mackinley Scott (19091971) (Willard C. Curtis) After working as FBI agent in Havana during World War II, became CIA Mexico City Station Chief (19561969).

Theodore Ted Shackley (19272002) CIA Station Chief in Miami (JM/WAVE) during Kennedy administration. He later oversaw Operation Phoenix in Vietnam, before being named to head all CIA worldwide covert ops in 1976.

Martin Underwood (19152003) Public relations man for Mayor Richard J. Daley in Chicago in the fifties; brought to Washington by Joseph Kennedy to assist in the 1960 presidential election. Later hired full-time by President Johnson as his top advance man for foreign trips.

Cubans (Including Exiles)

Luis Alberu Souto (b. 1915) Spanish-born Cuban artist working in the Cultural Attach Office of the Cuban embassy in Mexico City in the 1960s. The entire time, he was a paid informant (LI-RING-3) for Win Scott.

Sergio Vicente Arcacha Smith (19232000) Cuban Ambassador to India under Batistas predecessor, Cuban president Carlos Pro Socorras. He fled Cuba after Castros victory and became the New Orleans delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Council.

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar (19011973) Cuban President (19401944) and Military Leader (19541959).

Luisa Rodrguez Carrelero Caldern (b. 1940) Cuban DGI agent working in the Commercial Office of the Cuban embassy in Mexico City in 1963.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (b. 1926) Cubas Military Leader and twenty-second President (19592008). (CIA crypto: AM/THUG.)

Ral Modesto Castro Ruz (b. 1931) Cubas twenty-third President (2008), previously Second Secretary of Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, First Vice President of the Cuban Council of State, and Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces from 1959 until 2008.

Dr. Rolando Cubela Secades (AM/LASH) (b. 1933) High-ranking Cuban revolutionary and physician enlisted by the Kennedy administration to murder Fidel after Cubela became disillusioned with Castro and his brand of Communism.