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Claims (58)
William Harvey member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“Nope. Okay. All right. Well, it's going to get fun. Mr. Harvey William Cushing, scroll and key class of 1891. He is known as the father of brain surgery. Born in 1869, Cleveland, Ohio. Father was a fourth generation physician descended from…”
▶ The Shadow State 52 Scroll & Key Pt. 2 @ 34:59
William Harvey succeeded
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“It's complicated. But one of the great things about Harvey, he kind of makes it complicated. Because on the one hand, Talbot is portraying him as having conflicts with, of all people, our good friend, you know, Mr. What am I thinking about?…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:26:04
Allen Dulles recruited
William Harvey documented
“Dulles had recruited them and promoted them throughout the agency. Meyer was particularly beholding to Dulles, who had saved his career in 1953 when Joe McCarthy wanted him purged. Howard Hunt might have been worried about joining the JFK p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:01:42
Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of
William Harvey book_quoted
“Thought he was paranoid. A pedestrian drunk and womanizer. In early 1960, Richard Bissell ordered Harvey to create an ultra-secret unit for executive action, i.e. assassination. It was to be called ZR Rifle. It had only one field agent, the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 33:00
William Harvey founded
ZR Rifle book_quoted
“Thought he was paranoid. A pedestrian drunk and womanizer. In early 1960, Richard Bissell ordered Harvey to create an ultra-secret unit for executive action, i.e. assassination. It was to be called ZR Rifle. It had only one field agent, the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 33:00
William Harvey spied_on
Kim Philby book_quoted
“In May of 1962, Harvey's man took up the position. He had local knowledge. Ted Shackley came from Palm Beach and became known as the blonde ghost while playing football in high school. The star of Lansdale's operation had made his mark in t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 30:57
William Harvey appointed
Operation Mongoose book_quoted
“reported back that he had told Tracy Barnes that an up-to-date report be furnished as soon as possible on what was going on and what was being planned. Parrott then added, I did not tell Mr. Barnes about the presidential interest. Coinciden…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 37:13
William Harvey supplied_arms_to
Johnny Roselli book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 38:13
Edward Lansdale recruited
William Harvey documented
“He persuaded Bill Harvey and the CIA to prepare a revised alternative course B and then went to discuss it with Bobby Kennedy. The latest plan aimed at strengthening the atmosphere of resistance in Cuba. Teams of three to five fighters woul…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 5:21
John McCone reassigned
William Harvey documented
“as there had been on October 4th of mining Cuban harbors. McCone soon packed Bill Harvey off to the Rome station, getting him out of the line of fire. And we all know what he did there. All this time, the exiled prisoners from the Bay of Pi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 26:50
Ted Shackley spied_on
William Harvey book_quoted
“Shackley had denigrated the legend of Bill Harvey, his mentor, to Robert Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Harvey's CIA career was destroyed. Now, according to Robert Crowley, Wells was getting the same treatment Shackley had given t…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 31:36
CIA recruited
William Harvey documented
“And they had no clue. Beria was an opportunity to seek peace. At the CIA's Berlin base, led by William Harvey, surprise intelligence officers scrambled for any information they could get and obtained information generally from word of mouth…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 49:27
William Harvey proposed
CIA documented
“not Hexer, sent a cable recommending a U.S. show of force, not arms to East Berliners. Alerting American forces in Germany might have put the Russians on warning. The cable reached CIA headquarters after Allen Dulles had left for the day. D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 50:51
William Harvey appointed
CIA book_quoted
“but their dreams were not fulfilled. Even before JFK's assassination on November 22nd, the diehard opponents of the unified government in the CIA and Italian intelligence services were actively conspiring to sabotage the Italian government.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 15:57
William Harvey member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Among those who transferred from the FBI to CIA in its first years, Harvey stood out as someone who could go up against the best Russian spies. He was a lawyer. But unlike the Ivy League at the top of the DO, his degree was from Indiana Uni…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 32:31
William Harvey member_of
CIA book_quoted
“During the key mongoose briefing were CIA officers Richard Helms and William Harvey. Lansdell had asked John McCone to let them in, but the CIA director nixed the idea. McCone had made Richard Helms his lieutenant for Cuba, and the new depu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 23:21
William Harvey member_of
CIA book_quoted
“when was Justin O'Donnell. There are, like we read in Major Gannis' book, he believed that it was Otto Skorzeny. So there's several opinions out there on who that is. Weird that we don't get that information from all of these declassified d…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 34:11
William Harvey headed
ZR Rifle book_quoted
“Among those he sought out were safecrackers and break-in specialists. Harvey would soon be dealing with men whose skills were very violent. November 1961, Harvey was put in charge of a top-secret CIA operation to kill Castro called ZR Rifle…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 23:15
William Harvey appointed
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“William Harvey's task force boss learned that a colleague from Berlin was back in town. Harvey summoned Theodore Shackley and sent him to Miami to report on the base and what it needed to become a full CIA station. Shackley spent a few week…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 29:27
William Harvey member_of
CIA book_quoted
“He had checked with the CIA, I mean, oh my God, including Bill Harvey, his CIA contact prior to his appearance, and they told him to tell whatever he knew because it was going to come out anyway. The agency, he said, would have no reason to…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:03:47
Reinhard Gehlen recruited
William Harvey caller_asserted
“Monty has shown that the guy William Harvey, who is an absolutely key figure in the JFK assassination, six ways from Sunday in the words of our, never mind, I don't want to mention him, was under Reinhard Galen. So in other words, Alan Dull…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 1:12:35
William Harvey recruited
Renzo Rocca host_asserted
“Gladio was set up to protect the industrial companies. Rocha received assistance for the latter endeavor from William King Harvey. And you guys will remember William Harvey because he's a CIA guy. At the time, Harvey was the CIA station chi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 54:20
Frank Wisner removed_from_power
William Harvey documented
“In this fast-moving situation, Washington had little possibility of acting in time. Wisner rejected Bill Harvey's suggestion. A paper prepared for the Psychological Strategy Board on June 17th noted that John Foster Dulles at State Departme…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 51:19
William Harvey headed
Tibetan Task Force host_asserted
“the chief of operations task force running Mongoose, with a CIA group under him called Task Force W and headed by William K. Harvey from the new CIA headquarters at Langley. Harvey supervised the activities of Ted Shackley's Miami station. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 35:37
William Harvey supervised
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“the chief of operations task force running Mongoose, with a CIA group under him called Task Force W and headed by William K. Harvey from the new CIA headquarters at Langley. Harvey supervised the activities of Ted Shackley's Miami station. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 35:37
William Harvey ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“in the hands of government. Years later, when James Jesus Angleton and William Harvey, two legends of the counterintelligence, were searching for assassins to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, they sought the advice of Peter Wright, another B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 25:50
William Harvey worked_with
Reinhard Gehlen book_quoted
“His reputation continued to grow as he constantly searched for new ways to make the battle to the Soviet enemy more real. While in Germany, Harvey worked closely with Reinhard Galen, and the Galen came to consider him a very reliable friend…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 20:22
William Harvey worked_with
Johnny Roselli book_quoted
“The prior cop, now CIA agent, and Roselli formed a tight bond. Harvey invited Roselli to dinner at his family's spacious Chevy Chase home, where little Sally took to calling him Uncle Johnny. The two men had secret rendezvous in Miami, wher…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 23:48
William Harvey supplied_arms_to
Johnny Roselli book_quoted
“and operated a network of paramilitary training bases as well as safe houses in posh Coral Gables and Key Biscayne neighborhoods. So Operation Gladio embedded in U.S. neighborhoods. Harvey provided Roselli with vials of poison, guns to pass…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 24:18
Richard Helms promoted
William Harvey book_quoted
“Just not for our team. In 1962, Helms, who along with Angleton, had replaced the retired Dulles as Harvey's main patrons at the agency, promoted agency tough guy, naming him to the head of the CIA's entire Cuban operation, Task Force W.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 25:42
Richard Helms reassigned
William Harvey book_quoted
“He was quoted as saying, you're dealing with people's lives, the younger Kennedy brother said. And then you're going to go off on a half-assed operation such as this. Harvey's protectors acted quickly before Bobby Kennedy could axe him. Hel…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 28:15
James Jesus Angleton suggested
William Harvey book_quoted
“And that was Angleton's idea. Angleton thought the CIA station there had gone soft and was not doing enough to scoop Soviet skullduggery in the Eternal City where there was none. Helms and Angleton did not tell McComb, the actual CIA direct…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 28:46
William Harvey member_of
CIA host_asserted
“I don't believe any of that. They just hated JFK. It's highly unlikely the president would have relied on a notoriously anti-Kennedy CIA officer to do any of that. They would have completely distrusted him. Nor had Harvey even taken command…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 32:18
William Harvey ordered_assassination_of
Mark Wyatt book_quoted
“One day, Wyatt was stunned to hear his boss propose recruiting mafia hitmen to kill Italian officials. When Wyatt objected to his extreme suggestion, Harvey flew into a rage. During one angry showdown between the two men, Harvey pulled a gu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 36:44
William Harvey member_of
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“Mark Wyatt was attending a meeting at the Gladio base in Sardinia with Bill Harvey when he heard President Kennedy had been shot. They were at a Gladio terrorist training camp, Harvey and Wyatt, during that operation. When the telex arrived…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 38:42
Mark Wyatt spied_on
William Harvey book_quoted
“following a late afternoon round of drinks. After Wyatt managed to rouse him, the CIA station chief blurted out some provocative remarks about the events in Dallas that deeply disturbed Wyatt for the rest of his life. According to his three…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 39:13
William Harvey member_of
CIA book_quoted
“His son, Wyatt's son, my dad would sometimes talk about Harvey in the context of Kennedy's assassination. He talked about the connection between Harvey and the mafia, not just his involvement with Johnny Roselli, but in the mafia in Italy, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 39:40
William Harvey member_of
CIA book_quoted
“We considered Harvey to be one of our prime suspects from the very start. He had all the key connections, organized crime, CIA station chief in Miami where the plots to kill Castro were run, other prime CIA suspects like David Phillips. We …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 42:03
William Harvey member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“sitting at one of their command centers in Sardinia on the day JFK is killed, who visited Dallas beforehand, which is what an Advan team would do, an advanced team that is sent in to case the area and plan the event. And the CIA wouldn't le…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 42:32
William Harvey spied_on
Reinhard Gehlen host_asserted
“part of the peeling back of this onion. And keeping track of these people and where they come from is very, very important. And William Harvey is definitely one of the CIA's assets that was basically put at the right hand of Galen to monito…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 1:16:26
William Harvey ordered_assassination_of
Renzo Rocca book_quoted
“a top CIFAR counter-espionage chief, to sabotage partnerships that had gained momentum after Kennedy's visit. Harvey pushed Rocha to take his action squads, Gladio cells, to carry out bombings of Christian Democrat Party offices and newspap…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 34:47
William Harvey appointed
Ted Shackley host_asserted
“It's all an airtight little package until you realize the CIA and particularly Ted Shackley's boss, William Harvey, was in charge of all the parts of the narrative. It's Harvey who picked Shackley to head the Miami station chief in charge o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 29:50
Allen Dulles covered_up
William Harvey caller_asserted
“There's all kinds of, you know, to put someone like William Harvey under a guy who's in the Western, head of the Western and BND. It kind of like it creates a whole nother group of people willing to cover to cover up the crime. You know, if…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 1:13:05
William Harvey covered_up
Operation Mongoose book_quoted
“There were commando strikes on Cuban railroads, oil, and sugar refineries and factories. Photographic intelligence expert Dino Bruganini recalls Harvey almost as an enemy, believing that the analysts spied on him. But Harvey lied about resu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 9:17
William Harvey headed
ZR Rifle guest_asserted
“And the name of this operation was ZR Rifle. Bill Harvey was one of the leaders of it.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 48:39
William Harvey carried_out_attack
Assassination plots against Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Harvey himself denied ever carrying guns to the White House. Harvey had a hand in the assassination plots against Castro. And I argue he had a role in the assassination plot against JFK. Had Zolk, the reporter, is not the only one with whom…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 35:47
William Harvey headed
CIA guest_asserted
“under normal circumstances. He did everything for the company. His family wasn't his life. The company was his life. At a secret Miami meeting, Morales told Hunt that he had been recruited for an off-the-board operation by Bill Harvey. You …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 49:31
William Harvey covered_up
James Jesus Angleton host_asserted
“single national foci are there to create deception. And so, and so Angleton's role in, in Italy with Harvey is, in other words, you can almost see Harvey as to some extent creating ambiguity about the Angleton role, whether, you know, Zioni…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:29:51
William Harvey exposed
Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“Sirhan never got anywhere near that close. He was always at least three feet away. Sirhan's gun was never matched to the bullets that killed Kennedy either. William Harper, who survived an assassination attempt on the eve of his scheduled t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Operation Gladio look into RFKs Murder @ 24:08
William Harvey covered_up
James Bo Gritz host_asserted
“Grits and Weakley returned to the U.S. by mid-December 1986 with videotapes of their talks about the opium. And Grits said he immediately turned them over to Colonel Harvey at the NSC. Grits said Harvey told him to erase and forget what he …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 53:42
William Harvey ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy guest_asserted
“it soon became clear, was to assassinate JFK. Morales and Sturgis referred to the president's planned demise as, quote, the big event, unquote. In his account of the meeting, Hunt presented Harvey and Morales as the key operational figures …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 50:05
William Harvey member_of
Operation Gladio guest_asserted
“under normal circumstances. He did everything for the company. His family wasn't his life. The company was his life. At a secret Miami meeting, Morales told Hunt that he had been recruited for an off-the-board operation by Bill Harvey. You …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 49:31
William Harvey recruited
David Morales guest_asserted
“under normal circumstances. He did everything for the company. His family wasn't his life. The company was his life. At a secret Miami meeting, Morales told Hunt that he had been recruited for an off-the-board operation by Bill Harvey. You …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 49:31
William Harvey recruited
Frank Sturgis guest_asserted
“it soon became clear, was to assassinate JFK. Morales and Sturgis referred to the president's planned demise as, quote, the big event, unquote. In his account of the meeting, Hunt presented Harvey and Morales as the key operational figures …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 50:05
William Harvey procured_for
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“in a compound near the Harvey's villa threw rats over the wall into their garden. Probably because they were nasty neighbors. According to CG, one of her husband's less savory tasks was procuring prostitutes for President Kennedy while he w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 31:47
William Harvey recruited
E. Howard Hunt guest_asserted
“that the media ignored, even after it was reported by one of their own, Gaten Fonzie, a Philadelphia investigative journalist who, after going to work for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, unearthed some of the most important in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 52:36
William Harvey implicated_in
JFK assassination guest_asserted
“His two sons revealed that their father had recorded several claims about the assassination. In 2007, once again, the Rolling Stone, St. John Hunt, son of E. Howard Hunt, detailed the individuals who were implicated by his father in the JFK…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:08:33
E. Howard Hunt spied_on
William Harvey book_quoted
“is is saying that you know i had nothing to do with you know this this whole conspiracy theory about the cia killing um kennedy and you know he does mention bill harvey in the book he speculates that it could have been him um i want to say …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:08:47
Mentions (120)
▶ 48:39
And this is not disputed. JM Wave was a station it ran out of in Miami. And the name of this operation was ZR Rifle. Bill Harvey was one of the leaders of it. There's a lot of folks involved in it, but Harvey is one of the main guys. And th…
▶ 1:12:35
Monty has shown that the guy William Harvey, who is an absolutely key figure in the JFK assassination, six ways from Sunday in the words of our, never mind, I don't want to mention him, was under Reinhard Galen. So in other words, Alan Dull…
▶ 1:16:26
part of the peeling back of this onion. And keeping track of these people and where they come from is very, very important. And William Harvey is definitely one of the CIA's assets that was basically put at the right hand of Galen to monito…
▶ 26:25
Agentress included a strategic center for subversive and intoxicating operations, along with an executive action organization called OACI that carried out assassinations, most likely the same pool of assassinations that William Harvey, CIA …
▶ 18:25
At first, a tiny part of Operation Mongoose, the CIA's codename for their anti-Castro operations. According to the late John Sherwood, a top William King Harvey deputy in Washington, quote, Bush was like hundreds of other businessmen who pr…
▶ 31:36
Shackley had denigrated the legend of Bill Harvey, his mentor, to Robert Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Harvey's CIA career was destroyed. Now, according to Robert Crowley, Wells was getting the same treatment Shackley had given t…
▶ 52:23
into the mountains of northern Burma to visit opium warlord named Khun Sa, who commanded a tribal army estimated at about 40,000 men. Gritz has said that their primary mission from Colonel Harvey at the NSC was to check out a tip Vice Presi…
▶ 53:42
Grits and Weakley returned to the U.S. by mid-December 1986 with videotapes of their talks about the opium. And Grits said he immediately turned them over to Colonel Harvey at the NSC. Grits said Harvey told him to erase and forget what he …
▶ 4:26
including Harvey, the same people Lawrence Freeman dealt with in laundering Jack DeVoe's drug money and who Mike Atkinson had dealt with in moving Texas savings and loan money to the Isle of Jersey that we already talked about. In fact, som…
▶ 4:53
Compendium and Sanson were set up in 77 and 78 after Ray Harvey and his associates moved to Jersey from the Bank of Nova Scotia in the Bahamas. Also in 78, Harvey and his Isle of Jersey partner, John Wadman, were involved in Denver land tra…
▶ 23:37
This conclusion rules out Sirhan, who had been identified by all witnesses as being in front. And so you see the picture here where the bullets are coming from, and Sirhan is over here. Noguchi, Wolfer, and Pasadena criminologist William Ha…
▶ 24:08
Sirhan never got anywhere near that close. He was always at least three feet away. Sirhan's gun was never matched to the bullets that killed Kennedy either. William Harper, who survived an assassination attempt on the eve of his scheduled t…
▶ 24:37
If all he's going to do is tell the truth. An attempted assassination on the witness. That's how you cover up everything. Evan Freed, a photographer who was standing near Kennedy when the shooting started, said that another man besides Sirh…
▶ 35:37
the chief of operations task force running Mongoose, with a CIA group under him called Task Force W and headed by William K. Harvey from the new CIA headquarters at Langley. Harvey supervised the activities of Ted Shackley's Miami station. …
▶ 39:07
more dynamic action, and to place 10 commando teams of six men each in Cuba. Bill Harvey thought the teams could guide the U.S. invasion force when they landed. Three teams had already left for points on the north coast of Cuba when one Cub…
▶ 40:05
And we took ours out from Turkey because that was the other reason that the Soviet unions was pithed is because we already had nuclear weapons in Turkey aimed at them. As for the covert forces in play, the CIA was ordered to reorganize agai…
▶ 49:27
And they had no clue. Beria was an opportunity to seek peace. At the CIA's Berlin base, led by William Harvey, surprise intelligence officers scrambled for any information they could get and obtained information generally from word of mouth…
▶ 50:23
David Murphy, a subordinate at the Berlin base, denies that the field submitted any request to approve CIA intervention, citing the recollection of Tom Polger and Gordon Seward, both senior officers in the overall German program. Murphy not…
▶ 50:51
not Hexer, sent a cable recommending a U.S. show of force, not arms to East Berliners. Alerting American forces in Germany might have put the Russians on warning. The cable reached CIA headquarters after Allen Dulles had left for the day. D…
▶ 51:19
In this fast-moving situation, Washington had little possibility of acting in time. Wisner rejected Bill Harvey's suggestion. A paper prepared for the Psychological Strategy Board on June 17th noted that John Foster Dulles at State Departme…
▶ 23:21
During the key mongoose briefing were CIA officers Richard Helms and William Harvey. Lansdell had asked John McCone to let them in, but the CIA director nixed the idea. McCone had made Richard Helms his lieutenant for Cuba, and the new depu…
▶ 29:27
William Harvey's task force boss learned that a colleague from Berlin was back in town. Harvey summoned Theodore Shackley and sent him to Miami to report on the base and what it needed to become a full CIA station. Shackley spent a few week…
▶ 29:59
Shackley insinuates that Al Cox somehow was not serious. He records the man as absent when he arrived and suggests the chief turned up only intermittently. When Harvey came to review an operational schedule and Cox didn't show up, Shackley …
▶ 30:25
had his heart in Mongoose, or that Cox thought this venture was ill-fated. Howard Hunt claims to have turned down an offer to lead the station, but there's no evidence of that. Hunt had been tarred by the Bay of Pigs fiasco and had no relat…
▶ 30:57
In May of 1962, Harvey's man took up the position. He had local knowledge. Ted Shackley came from Palm Beach and became known as the blonde ghost while playing football in high school. The star of Lansdale's operation had made his mark in t…
▶ 31:30
as a Soviet mole, even though he had bamboozled Jim Angleton. He had then run the agency's Berlin base for seven years. Shackley had been his protege doing Polish operations out of Berlin. And in case you guys don't get the correlation, the…
▶ 32:03
While not directly located in Berlin, it was like the hotbed of the operation. So Shackley's presence there with the stay-behind units is very interesting. During this time, Harvey had witnessed the East Berlin riots, supervised the Berlin …
▶ 32:31
Among those who transferred from the FBI to CIA in its first years, Harvey stood out as someone who could go up against the best Russian spies. He was a lawyer. But unlike the Ivy League at the top of the DO, his degree was from Indiana Uni…
▶ 33:00
Thought he was paranoid. A pedestrian drunk and womanizer. In early 1960, Richard Bissell ordered Harvey to create an ultra-secret unit for executive action, i.e. assassination. It was to be called ZR Rifle. It had only one field agent, the…
▶ 34:11
when was Justin O'Donnell. There are, like we read in Major Gannis' book, he believed that it was Otto Skorzeny. So there's several opinions out there on who that is. Weird that we don't get that information from all of these declassified d…
▶ 34:40
for which the CIA officer supposedly qualified as a result of the Berlin Tunnel affair. A sloppy dresser, Harvey's nevertheless inspired awe among those who saw him sporting pistols in his pockets, even inside the CIA. Harvey had had guns i…
▶ 35:10
But he always had a good reason for it and nobody said anything about it. At one of Lansdale's sessions with JFK, the president had marveled that he seemed to be an American James Bond. Lansdale said the real James Bond was at CIA and his n…
▶ 35:47
Harvey himself denied ever carrying guns to the White House. Harvey had a hand in the assassination plots against Castro. And I argue he had a role in the assassination plot against JFK. Had Zolk, the reporter, is not the only one with whom…
▶ 37:13
reported back that he had told Tracy Barnes that an up-to-date report be furnished as soon as possible on what was going on and what was being planned. Parrott then added, I did not tell Mr. Barnes about the presidential interest. Coinciden…
▶ 37:42
Since January, shortly thereafter, Harvey was also asked to head the CIA's in-house task force on Cuba. On the morning of January 18, 1962, a few hours before presenting Mongoose to the special group, Lansdale sent Bobby Kennedy a note, quo…
▶ 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…
▶ 38:43
And Harvey alone went to Miami a couple of weeks later to hand over the poison. Cuban exile leader Tony Verona, the actor in the plot, asked for high-powered rifles and money and would be given those as well. But Harvey didn't think much ab…
▶ 40:43
It was decided it lacked evidence to conclude that either Eisenhower or Kennedy had ordered an assassination. But scattered in its reports and depositions of the Rockefeller Commission and other documents, the evidence and chronology are hi…
▶ 48:23
Later, Bill Harvey wrote Director McCone siding with those objecting to the tight control. Yeah, they didn't like being told no. Typically, on March 21st, Bobby told the group that the president stood ready to do whatever necessary. But a c…
▶ 5:21
He persuaded Bill Harvey and the CIA to prepare a revised alternative course B and then went to discuss it with Bobby Kennedy. The latest plan aimed at strengthening the atmosphere of resistance in Cuba. Teams of three to five fighters woul…
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A strike force of about 50 commandos would conduct sabotage missions and a wide variety of psychological warfare propaganda and other means would be used to sharpen fears. Lansdell cut back Bill Harvey's prospectus, which had called for sev…
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Then why the hell are we doing it? In early September, the special group approved phase two raids against Cuba. Lansdale's list of tasks had grown to more than 50. But when Harvey recommended the commando strike at a power plant, the group …
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There were commando strikes on Cuban railroads, oil, and sugar refineries and factories. Photographic intelligence expert Dino Bruganini recalls Harvey almost as an enemy, believing that the analysts spied on him. But Harvey lied about resu…
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Confronted with pictures that showed no damage to buildings that had supposedly been bombed, Harvey said the photos did not show the inside structure, and he demanded that the photo interpreters be sent to Miami to brief. Bergie Brugiani, I…
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rears its ugly head again, the paper General Lansdale sent to his agency managers after the August 10th meeting assigned Bill Harvey to write a paper on the CIA's role, listing under the rubric of political, the aspect of splitting the regi…
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called Lansdale and he wasn't there. So Harvey screamed at a guy by the name of Frank Hand. Lansdale's deputy, I need to look that guy up and see if he's related to our Nugent Hand guy, denouncing the stupidity of putting that in a document…
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had himself brought up the question of assassination in Russ' office on August 10th. Staff took the Lansdale memo and whited out the offending phrase, but it survived in Harvey's notes to help. In Lansdale's deposition to the Rockefeller Co…
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discussing it with Cuban leader Roberto San Roman, brother of one of the Brigade 2506 commanders, and Rafael Quintero, a CIA commando. Task Force W still pursued the Mongoose directive for action and moved to put commando teams in Cuba. Fin…
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Bill Harvey took the Shockley Cable and forwarded it to Ed Lansdale. General Lansdale circulated it in the Pentagon and forwarded it to the Special Group. Three of the teams had already left in submarines for the north coast of Cuba. Six mo…
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Facing the horrifying prospect of nuclear war, suddenly ceased being gung-ho for covert action. Bobby Kennedy later recorded an oral history in which he recounts looking into this matter to find that top CIA officials were unaware of many o…
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The EXCOMM discussed the operation and McComb personally briefed the landings. President Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy both spoke of reorienting Mongoose. Bobby went to Langley and denounced everyone except Bill Harvey. On October 30th, the Wh…
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Gladio was set up to protect the industrial companies. Rocha received assistance for the latter endeavor from William King Harvey. And you guys will remember William Harvey because he's a CIA guy. At the time, Harvey was the CIA station chi…
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including Chef Edwards' security cops who helped install Angleton's bugs and Bill Harvey, a hard-drinking gun nut who figured prominently in the assassinations. It was all of a piece, intricately wired mind of Jim Angleton, countering dange…
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in the hands of government. Years later, when James Jesus Angleton and William Harvey, two legends of the counterintelligence, were searching for assassins to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, they sought the advice of Peter Wright, another B…
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but their dreams were not fulfilled. Even before JFK's assassination on November 22nd, the diehard opponents of the unified government in the CIA and Italian intelligence services were actively conspiring to sabotage the Italian government.…
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Bill Harvey was an odd choice for a Rome station chief on paper. He was the perfect choice for what was ahead. He had no knowledge of Italy at all. He spoke no Italian. He had no affinity for the Italian people at all. He didn't like them. …
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Indiana town. Why is all these weirdos from Indiana? That's freaky. And had none of the cosmopolitan polish of his Ivy League bred CIA colleagues because he was a down in the dirt assassin, coup monger. Harvey had begun his intelligence car…
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J. Edgar Hoover. So we'll just ship him over to the CIA, you know, where all the alcoholics are. He was a pistol packing, blunt spoken, and not really a good fit for the proper CIA. But the agency could definitely find ways to use him. Dull…
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Harvey, in turn, dismissed the upper echelons as Fifth Avenue cowboys, and this is a quote, fucking namby-pambys. He was no hayseed. He felt obliged to remind his colleagues he had been raised by a single mother who became a full professor …
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by pulling out one of the many guns he owned, spinning its cylinder and checking the load. From his days as an FBI red hunter, when he was tracking down communists and fellow travelers in Washington, Harvey became convinced that high societ…
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to sniff out Kim Philby, the Cambridge-educated double agent that was stationed in Washington. At one of Philby's parties, Guy Burgess, the most flamboyant member of the Cambridge spy ring, drew a lewd, crotch-bearing caricature of Harvey's…
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She had never fit in the CIA either. A drunken Harvey threw himself at Burgess and had to be pulled off of him by Angleton. Now that's probably something that I can share in common with the Indiana guy, being from Indiana myself. It was the…
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a poet, and a cop. They alternately clashed and connived together throughout their entire career. Harvey Starr rose in the agency after he exposed Philby, and he was dispatched to the Cold War front lines in Germany, where he ran the CIA's …
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His reputation continued to grow as he constantly searched for new ways to make the battle to the Soviet enemy more real. While in Germany, Harvey worked closely with Reinhard Galen, and the Galen came to consider him a very reliable friend…
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Permitting the CIA to eavesdrop on enemy communication was Harvey's most dramatic coup. Dulles, who had always had a soft spot for espionage theatrics, called Harvey's tunnel one of the most daring and valuable operations ever. But, as we k…
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helped turn him into a CIA legend, giving him medal after medal. Dulles brought Harvey back to Washington in 59, but then he had a second wife, Clara Grace Harvey, a vivacious woman who enjoyed her own successful career in the US military a…
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Nazi rocket scientists like Warner Van Braun and their families on flights to the U.S., where they were put to work on U.S. missiles and space projects. When Bill and CG, whom he called Mommy, that's sick, returned home, they brought with t…
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high ambitions. He wanted to run the agency's Soviet division, a top post that he thought he had earned. But the CIA elite, who continued to think of him as a cop, gave him tougher assignments. Dulles named Harvey, chief of the agency's Div…
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which the CIA shared with the NSA. Crypto AG. They don't say it, but that's what it is. But Division D also seemed to have more mysterious functions. In October 1960, according to one agency document, Harvey made a trip to Europe that was l…
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Among those he sought out were safecrackers and break-in specialists. Harvey would soon be dealing with men whose skills were very violent. November 1961, Harvey was put in charge of a top-secret CIA operation to kill Castro called ZR Rifle…
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The prior cop, now CIA agent, and Roselli formed a tight bond. Harvey invited Roselli to dinner at his family's spacious Chevy Chase home, where little Sally took to calling him Uncle Johnny. The two men had secret rendezvous in Miami, wher…
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and operated a network of paramilitary training bases as well as safe houses in posh Coral Gables and Key Biscayne neighborhoods. So Operation Gladio embedded in U.S. neighborhoods. Harvey provided Roselli with vials of poison, guns to pass…
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Nothing ever came of the two men's Cuba schemes and Castro continued to thrive. But Harvey never lost faith in his mafia partner. Regardless of his criminal background, Roselli was a man of integrity as far as I was concerned, Harvey would …
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When his wife, sorry, C.G. Harvey was interviewed in her Indianapolis retirement home in 1999. It was the year before she would die. My husband always used to say that if I had to ride shotgun, that's the guy I'd take with me. As he definit…
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Just not for our team. In 1962, Helms, who along with Angleton, had replaced the retired Dulles as Harvey's main patrons at the agency, promoted agency tough guy, naming him to the head of the CIA's entire Cuban operation, Task Force W.…
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Helms and Harvey kept much of the operation, including their assassination efforts against Castro, a secret from President Kennedy, as well as CIA Director McComb. Harvey grew contemptuous of the Kennedy brothers, whom he regarded as rich b…
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Harvey thought so little of JFK, of the man JFK had put in charge of Mongoose, Air Force officer Edwin Lansdale, that he would lift his ass in the middle of their meetings and let out a fart or pull out a knife and begin trimming his nails.…
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RFK browbeat Harvey so severely one day at a White House meeting on Cuba that Max Taylor later told the Attorney General, you can sack a town and enjoy it. Harvey took to calling RFK the fucker and began suggesting that some of the Attorney…
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The tension between the two men finally exploded in October of 62 when Harvey schemed with the Pentagon to send a series of raiding parties into Cuba at the height of the missile crisis to pave a way for U.S. military invasion that the Pres…
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I don't believe any of that. They just hated JFK. It's highly unlikely the president would have relied on a notoriously anti-Kennedy CIA officer to do any of that. They would have completely distrusted him. Nor had Harvey even taken command…
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That's all made up bullshit. While stationed in Rome, the Harveys were quartered in a lovely villa. I've been to some of the State Department people's houses in Rome. They're amazing. They spent a lot of time and money redecorating the hous…
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Mastiani at a restaurant and brought home his autograph. Mark Wyatt, who enjoyed good relations with local officials, was supposed to act as a buffer between Harvey and his CIA counterparts. But Harvey soon bullied his way into a China shop…
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providing the Americans with the results of their spying on political figures and partnering with the U.S. on Operation Gladio, the secret stay-behind-Army program to resist quote-unquote left-wing advances in Europe. So this book even ment…
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a top CIFAR counter-espionage chief, to sabotage partnerships that had gained momentum after Kennedy's visit. Harvey pushed Rocha to take his action squads, Gladio cells, to carry out bombings of Christian Democrat Party offices and newspap…
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Wyatt had grown up on farm country in Sacramento, picking fruit after school. During the war, he had served as a young Navy officer in the South Pacific. His ship was attacked by a Japanese submarine and kamikaze planes. He had seen people …
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One day, Wyatt was stunned to hear his boss propose recruiting mafia hitmen to kill Italian officials. When Wyatt objected to his extreme suggestion, Harvey flew into a rage. During one angry showdown between the two men, Harvey pulled a gu…
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who had suffered exile and imprisonment under Mussolini's reign, harbored deep anxieties about this fascist revival in Italy, and he quickly gave in to General Di Lorenzo's demand. Wyatt later insisted that he had no involvement in the coup…
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Mark Wyatt was attending a meeting at the Gladio base in Sardinia with Bill Harvey when he heard President Kennedy had been shot. They were at a Gladio terrorist training camp, Harvey and Wyatt, during that operation. When the telex arrived…
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following a late afternoon round of drinks. After Wyatt managed to rouse him, the CIA station chief blurted out some provocative remarks about the events in Dallas that deeply disturbed Wyatt for the rest of his life. According to his three…
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His son, Wyatt's son, my dad would sometimes talk about Harvey in the context of Kennedy's assassination. He talked about the connection between Harvey and the mafia, not just his involvement with Johnny Roselli, but in the mafia in Italy, …
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Wyatt's suspicion about his Rome boss was so strong that his daughter Susan encouraged him to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 78, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. My father really believed in the CIA. H…
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In 1989, when a French investigative journalist named Faboiso Calvi came to interview Wyatt about Operation Gladio at his retirement home in California's Lake Tahoe, the former CIA official felt compelled to raise the subject out of the blu…
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I've always wondered what Bill Harvey was doing in Dallas in November of 1963. Calvey said, excuse me? And the stunned French journalist who realized that Harvey's presence in Dallas that month was extremely noteworthy. Wyatt exclaimed that…
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I'm here to see what's happening. When Calvey tried to pursue the conversation, Wyatt cut it off abruptly as he had started it and said goodbye. Calvey himself had forgot about it until years later. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Har…
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We considered Harvey to be one of our prime suspects from the very start. He had all the key connections, organized crime, CIA station chief in Miami where the plots to kill Castro were run, other prime CIA suspects like David Phillips. We …
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sitting at one of their command centers in Sardinia on the day JFK is killed, who visited Dallas beforehand, which is what an Advan team would do, an advanced team that is sent in to case the area and plan the event. And the CIA wouldn't le…
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But we did come across a lot of memos that suggested he was traveling a lot in the months leading up to the assassination. More recent legal efforts by the author to obtain Harvey's travel records also proved fruitless. Decades and decades …
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But that's not how Harvey himself or his deputy regarded his Rome interlude. Harvey saw himself at the center of action, crawling through the criminal underworld, stockpiling weapons, conspiring with Italian security officials. In short, do…
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who he would always suspect as playing a deeply sinister role in American history. If Rome was filled with the greatest amount of political intrigue during JFK's final tour of Europe, then his four-day stopover in Ireland in late June of 19…
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Bill Harvey was involved in it. Vernon Walters was involved in it. Yeah, so absolutely. It isn't mentioned in Vernon Walters' autobiography either. He talks about Italy. He doesn't talk about this. Yeah, he was dead smack in the middle of i…
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under normal circumstances. He did everything for the company. His family wasn't his life. The company was his life. At a secret Miami meeting, Morales told Hunt that he had been recruited for an off-the-board operation by Bill Harvey. You …
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it soon became clear, was to assassinate JFK. Morales and Sturgis referred to the president's planned demise as, quote, the big event, unquote. In his account of the meeting, Hunt presented Harvey and Morales as the key operational figures …
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that day. And Harvey is in Rome and the island of Sardinia, which is right off the coast of France and Italy. Okay, as Harvey once indicated, when it came to high delicate assignments, working with Corsican gangsters was preferable because …
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Hunt found Harvey and Morales to be disturbing characters. The two men could have been manufactured from the same cloth, Hunt wrote in his memoir. Both were hard-drinking, tough guys, possibly completely amoral. Possibly? They were killers.…
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You're somebody we all look up to. We know how you feel about the man, meaning Kennedy. Are you with us? Hunt told the group his main reservation about joining them was a tactical concern, not a moral one. Look, he told Sturgis, if Bill Har…
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As Hunt related a story to his son, he remained fuzzy about his own involvement. In the end, he said, he played only a peripheral, benchwarmer role in the killing of Kennedy. It was Bill Harvey who was the quarterback, according to Hunt. De…
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Harvey had reached out to a variety of underworld professionals, including, with Dick Helms' permission, the infamous European assassin codename Q.J. Nguyen, whom the CIA had recruited to kill Patrice Lumumba. Now, if you recall, Q.J. Nguye…
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And Harvey was well positioned as Rome's station chief to once again plumb the European underworld for a Dallas killing team. And Otto Skorzeny is the one that trained the OAS in France to go down to Algeria during that civil war. He's part…
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anti-Castro operation as the nest, and Bill Harvey soon emerged as a prime suspect. We tried to get Harvey's travel vouchers and security file from the CIA, but they wouldn't allow us to have them, according to Dan Hardway. Hardway was a Co…
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So you're from Congress. What the hell is that to us? You'll be packed up and gone in a couple of years and we'll still be here. But we did come across documents that suggest Harvey was traveling a lot in the weeks leading up to the assassi…
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on yellow security paper with a purple bond marked top secret. The memo disappeared. While the Miami co-conspirators made it clear that Bill Harvey was playing a central role in the big event, they assured Hunt that the chain of command wen…
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As he observed in his memoirs, LBJ was an opportunist who would not hesitate to get rid of any obstacle in his way. Hunt was mindful of Washington's strict caste system, but he was convinced that Harvey's rank and position was such that the…
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But in his communication with St. John, Hunt was more emphatic about the plotters. In addition to Harvey and Morales, the name David Atlas Phillips and Cord Meyer was Hunt's speculations. Phillips was the CIA counterintelligence specialist …
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is is saying that you know i had nothing to do with you know this this whole conspiracy theory about the cia killing um kennedy and you know he does mention bill harvey in the book he speculates that it could have been him um i want to say …
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on the OAS being in, there is another source of Harvey, his deputy, placing him in Sardinia and the fact that he traveled during that entire time way more than a normal Rome station chief would. I think what you have to do in all of this is…
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And also it's, you know, built in to the plot in terms of like kind of scrambling narratives that, you know, like who, what were the Cubans that were really trying to kill Castro and who was just pretending to kill Castro as we see in the R…
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ZR Rifle is the actual name of the stuff we were just talking about yesterday or the day before. So you have heard about it. It's the William Harvey, when we were talking about him and Sam G. O'Connor and Santo Trapacondi and Roseli. That i…
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Fidel Castro was being ran. From his book, quote, on April 21st, 1962, Bill Harvey, the gruff gun-toting CIA man, was in Miami. He had not come to Florida to relax. The agency's not-too-covert war against communism had shifted to a new loca…
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had been entrusted with perhaps the most sensitive assignment in the agency. He was to arrange the assassination of Fidel Castro, the Marxist leader of Cuba, whose demise was an obsession, supposedly of the Kennedy administration, but that'…
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That was part and parcel of why he was assassinated. Back to the quote. Harvey arrived in Florida carrying four poison pills concocted by chemists of the CIA. As part of the scheme, Harvey was to provide $5,000 worth of explosive, detonator…