Sheffield Edwards person
· died in Cuba
also: Chef Edwards, Col Edwards, Colonel, Colonel Edwards, Colonel Sheffield Edwards, Col Sheffield Edwards, Edwards, Howard J. Osborn Edwards, Mr Edwards, Shef Edwards, SheffieldEdwards
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Claims (35)
Sheffield Edwards recruited
Robert A. Maheu documented
document
“Edwards and the Support Chief decided to rely on Robert A Maheu to recruit someone 'tough enough to handle the job'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.88
Sheffield Edwards met_with
Charles Cabell reported
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“Bissell recalled that "in the latter part of September there was "a meeting in which Col Edwards and I briefed Mr Dulles and General Cabell about the plan to assassinate Castro…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.108
Sheffield Edwards proposed
Allen Dulles reported
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“Bissell testified that "Colonel Edwards outlined in somewhat circumlocutious terms the plan that he had discussed with syndicate representatives.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.108
Sheffield Edwards worked_for
CIA documented
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“The CIA's 1967 Inspector General's Report based on interviews with Edwards and Bissell said Dulles and Cabell were briefed as follows…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.109
Sheffield Edwards met_with
Allen Dulles reported
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“I personally briefed Allen Dulles * * * and Cabell…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.110
Sheffield Edwards met_with
Charles Cabell reported
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“I personally briefed Allen Dulles * * * and Cabell…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.110
Sheffield Edwards died_in
Cuba documented
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“Sheffield Edwards was quite infirm when examined by the Committee and has since died.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.110
Sheffield Edwards worked_for
CIA documented
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“In June 1966 Howard J. Osborn Edwards successor as Director of Security wrote a memorandum for Helm…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.110
Sheffield Edwards covered_up
Castro assassination plots documented
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“Sheffield Edwards when asked whether he had informed McCone about the plot replied EDWARDS No I did not inform Mr McCone…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.115
Sheffield Edwards met_with
U.S. Department of Justice documented
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“The Attorney General was subsequently briefed by Houston and Sheffield Edwards…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.120
Sheffield Edwards met_with
Lawrence Houston documented
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“it had been written as a result of a briefing given by Colonel Edwards and Lawrence Houston to the Attorney General in May of last year…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.121
Sheffield Edwards reported
Richard M. Bissell Jr. reported
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“An attachment to that memorandum quoted Sheffield Edwards as saying that Bissell in his 'recent briefings of Taylor and Kennedy 'told the Attorney General that some of the associated planning included the use of Giancana and the underworld …”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.136
Sheffield Edwards worked_for
CIA documented
document
“Colonel Edwards advised that in connection with CIA's operation against Castro he personally contacted Robert Maheu…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.141
Sheffield Edwards worked_for
CIA documented
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“As Director of Security of the CIA Edwards appeared to have little direct contact with the White House…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.324
Sheffield Edwards reported
Allen Dulles documented
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“I personally briefed Allen Dulles * * * and Cabell…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.324
Sheffield Edwards reported
Charles Cabell documented
document
“I personally briefed Allen Dulles * * * and Cabell…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.324
Sheffield Edwards reported
Castro assassination plots documented
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“The plan was approved by Allen W Dulles and General Cabell…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.324
Sheffield Edwards met_with
Robert Maheu documented
document
“Colonel Edwards advised that in connection with CIA's operation against Castro he personally contacted Robert Maheu during the Fall of 1960 for the purpose of using Maheu as a 'cut-out' in contacts with Sam Giancana…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.344
Sheffield Edwards worked_for
CIA documented
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“I received reports quite infrequently from Shef Edwards I felt a high confidence in his competence to pursue this matter…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.353
Sheffield Edwards attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
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“plots to use the underworld to attempt to assassinate Castro are events which should stick in one's memory…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.353
Sheffield Edwards worked_for
CIA documented
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“Memorandum of SheffieldEdwards for the record 11/28/53 p 2…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.404
Sheffield Edwards headed
CIA Office of Security documented
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“Colonel Sheffield Edwards Director of the Office of Security.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.88
Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with
Sheffield Edwards documented
document
“The earliest concrete evidence of the operation is a conversation between DDP Bissell and Colonel Sheffield Edwards…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.88
Sheffield Edwards met_with
Allen Dulles reported
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“Bissell recalled that "in the latter part of September there was "a meeting in which Col Edwards and I briefed Mr Dulles and General Cabell about the plan to assassinate Castro…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.108
Sheffield Edwards recruited
James O'Connell documented
“And that, plus his high-ranking CIA position, were good reasons for him not to become directly involved. But he was in the meetings because it coincided with the operation he is actually running. Because if you are likely to kill the guy, i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 52:05
Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited
Sheffield Edwards documented
“Much more concrete was what occurred following Eisenhower's decision on August 18th. Deputy Director Richard Bissell called up Colonel Sheffield Edwards and asked him to drop by. Edwards, another of the ex-FBI folks at the agency, headed th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 47:56
Sheffield Edwards sent_word_to
Johnny Roselli documented
“In the spring of 1961, Edwards had word sent to Roselli that the project had gone on to the back burner. There would be no neutralizing Castro. The Cuban operation would have to succeed on its own. And we'll stop right there. Dang, that's g…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 1:03:29
Sheffield Edwards asked
James O'Connell documented
“And that, plus his high-ranking CIA position, were good reasons for him not to become directly involved. But he was in the meetings because it coincided with the operation he is actually running. Because if you are likely to kill the guy, i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 56:13
Richard M. Bissell Jr. claimed_no_memory_of
Sheffield Edwards documented
“who died in 94 is exceedingly sparse on the murder plots in his memoirs but claims he first learned of the mafia approaching completely independent of the cia from edwards sure the guy that's in charge heard it from a guy that's not in char…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 53:35
Sheffield Edwards requested_weapons_from
Cornelius Roosevelt documented
“but reject it, except they made it. Edwards next turned to the technical services brands for poison caplets, bacteria in liquid form. What he got would be solid white pills, but the support chief tested one. It lay inert at the bottom of th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 1:01:02
Sheffield Edwards requested_weapons_from
Cornelius Roosevelt documented
“colonel edwards went to the technical services division of his directorate the scientist who concocted exotic weapons and equipment for the agency where chief cornelius roosevelt cornelius roosevelt and yes he is related fielded his request…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 1:00:04
Sheffield Edwards handled
Robert Maheu documented
“You can't have respect for the diplomatic pouch and be in the intelligence business at the same time. The State Department should have to know how you got the information. It was his CIA handler, Sheffield Edwards, who ran the agency's secu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 27:22
Sheffield Edwards contacted
Mafia documented
“Much more concrete was what occurred following Eisenhower's decision on August 18th. Deputy Director Richard Bissell called up Colonel Sheffield Edwards and asked him to drop by. Edwards, another of the ex-FBI folks at the agency, headed th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 52:04
Sheffield Edwards briefed
Allen Dulles documented
“He then goes on to say the idea didn't originate with me. And that may be true. It may have originated with Ian Fleming. Who knows? It doesn't matter. You're the one that carried it out. It has been established that Colonel Edwards personal…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 55:13
Sheffield Edwards briefed
Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented
“He then goes on to say the idea didn't originate with me. And that may be true. It may have originated with Ian Fleming. Who knows? It doesn't matter. You're the one that carried it out. It has been established that Colonel Edwards personal…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 55:13
Mentions (20)
▶ 27:23
That was at least the golden rule. We know the CIA did whatever they wanted to. The decision makers inside the committee were Richard Bissell, Deputy Director of Plans of Covert Operations, J.C. King, Director of Western Hemisphere, and She…
▶ 47:56
Much more concrete was what occurred following Eisenhower's decision on August 18th. Deputy Director Richard Bissell called up Colonel Sheffield Edwards and asked him to drop by. Edwards, another of the ex-FBI folks at the agency, headed th…
▶ 48:26
whose gambling profits from Havana casinos had disappeared as Castro prohibited the practice. So we've got a motivated player here. Edwards undertook the task. This track of the Cuba operation remained entirely separate from the exile proje…
▶ 48:57
of any of the details. Its purpose was assassination. Later inquiries into the plot go to considerable lengths to determine whether Alan Dulles approved it. Dulles died in 1969 before the plots became known. Edwards passed away in 1975, nev…
▶ 49:59
who asked Edwards to get involved. Edwards' other figures in these events all recalled specific exchanges discussing it with Richard Bissell because he was in charge. But Bissell doesn't remember it that way. His generic stance with investi…
▶ 51:05
He then goes on to say the idea didn't originate with me. And that may be true. It may have originated with Ian Fleming. Who knows? It doesn't matter. You're the one that carried it out. It has been established that Colonel Edwards personal…
▶ 52:05
And that, plus his high-ranking CIA position, were good reasons for him not to become directly involved. But he was in the meetings because it coincided with the operation he is actually running. Because if you are likely to kill the guy, i…
▶ 53:16
before he became a contract CIA guy that was the liaison to Hittman. Mayhew had let go his CIA retainer a little before this operation, but he was happy to do any work for the CIA. And Chef Edwards had told Richard Bissell that he had a man…
▶ 55:27
no doubt to avoid any direct link between the CIA and the mafia. O'Connell, who headed the operational support branch of Sheffield's office, happened to be very senior for a case officer, another indication of the sensitivity. In fact, only…
▶ 56:24
that on August 16th, he was asked about a box of Cuban cigars impregnated with lethal chemicals. The cigars were ready by October, but not delivered until four months later. Jake Esterling recalled keeping a box of poison cigars in his safe…
▶ 56:55
except they made it. Edwards next turned to the technical services brands for poison caplets, bacteria in liquid form. What he got would be solid white pills, but the support chief tested one. It lay inert at the bottom of the glass. That w…
▶ 58:28
But Fidel fired him on January 26th after the CIA had no way to deliver the poison. Castro always seems to be one step ahead of these guys. Weird. Traficani briefly favored using a prominent exile identified as Tony Verona as the assassin. …
▶ 58:55
Though O'Connell and Edwards told the inspector general, money went to Verona for the job. He got paid for it. He just didn't do it. When Jake Esserling learned this, he went through the roof, properly insisting that the anti-Castro leaders…
▶ 38:13
acquired more poison capsules from the CIA technical services. Bill Harvey, let's see, was acquiring them for mafia Johnny Roselli in April 1962, two months after getting a handover from Sheffield Edwards. Harvey and Edwards' deputy went to…
▶ 40:12
Sheffield Edwards rejected Bobby's demand for a written report. That wasn't CIA's practice for sensitive operations. Yeah, we don't want to put that in writing because then maybe we would be held accountable at some point. Did the Kennedys …
▶ 31:32
the Soviet secret police agency got access to Kronthal's Gestapo files after penetrating the Galen organization. The Soviets set up a honey trap for him in Switzerland with Chinese boys as bait. He was secretly filmed and blackmailed. By th…
▶ 27:22
You can't have respect for the diplomatic pouch and be in the intelligence business at the same time. The State Department should have to know how you got the information. It was his CIA handler, Sheffield Edwards, who ran the agency's secu…
▶ 28:20
On Saturdays, Mayhew would invite Edwards, O'Connell, and other Washington security types like Scott McCloy, the zealous anti-communist watchdog who had been hired by John Foster Dulles to clean out the State Department during the McCarthy …
▶ 28:49
that would find themselves in cheerful conversations with a curious range of special guests, from senators to gangsters. They were all part of Mayhew's colorful world. Working with Sheffield Edwards' team and their contacts in the New York …
▶ 10:36
The CIA continued to provide a variety of services, large and small, for the former director. In addition to supplying him with ghostwriters and research material, Chef Edwards, the agency's internal security chief, even stepped in to help …