Sheffield Edwards person
also: Colonel Sheffield Edwards, Edwards, Chef Edwards
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Claims (3)
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 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
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
Mentions (19)
▶ 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …