DATABITZ 1
by Martin Shackelford
January 17, 1996


NIXON SCREENPLAY : Oliver Stone
>From the essay The CIA, Assassination and Nixon by Steve Rivele p. 28

QJ/WIN
Jose Mankel, a Luxembourg-based smuggler, primary asset of the CIA's
ZR/RIFLE assassination program. Job: to spot and recruit criminals. 
WI/ROGUE
David Dzitzichvili aka Tzitzichvili alias David Dato, a Soviet-born Paris
bank robber. 


CORRUPTION OF BLOOD by Robert Tannenbaum (NOVEL)

pp. 81-82
Document A: internal CIA report, Winter 1962, composition and
	capabilities of a Cuban emigre group, Brigada 61, its involvement in
	Operation Mongoose; with the help of elements of the CIA, Brigada 61
	ignored JFK's order to halt attacks on Cuba. Includes list of CIA
	contract agents, including "Lee Henry Oswald." Also mentioned is 
	Maurice Bishop and Antonio Veroa, the leader of Brigada 61. 
	[Read Alpha 66, Antonio Veciana]
Document B: After-action report to Bishop, Veroa and Guido Mosca describe
	an assassination attempt against Castro in 1961; plan involved shooting
	from an apartment with various weapons at a Plaza below where 
        Castro was to give a speech; called off; returned to U.S. via 
        Mexico. Mosca worked for Carlos Marcello as an enforcer; nickname: 
        Jerry Legs. 
Document C: 2-page memo, Nov. 30, 1963, from Richard Helms to CIA senior
	staff, directing them to stonewall the Warren Commission about any
	connection between Oswald and the Cubans working for the CIA, and about
	any name that turns up and Mongoose or other CIA operations 
        against Cuba.

Document D: 2-page memo, June 12, 1968; from Clyde Peterson, special
	assistant in the office of CIA director, to senior CIA personnel;
	directing them to harass certain witnesses being called by Jim Garrison
	for the Clay Shaw trial. 
Document E: Interview transcript of Milton Thornby, one of Earl Warren's
	law clerks; Allen Dulles told Warren that Oswald was a Soviet agent, if
	it got out there would be nuclear war. Also, a colloquy between Warren
	and senior Commission staff; Warren cut off investigation into CIA's
	assurance that Oswald had no intelligence connections:"Our purpose is to
	assure the American people that the president was killed by a single man
	acting alone."

pp. 112-113
"the Associated Press had a program of checking the estates of reporters
who had kicked off and seeing whether they hadn't saved stuff of
historical significance--original notes and so on. The AP also has a JFK
archive at Georgetown, full of the same sort of original material."

p. 142
"several spools of 8mm film" belonging to David Ferrie, acquired by a
reporter. 

pp. 180-185
HSCA group watches archival films of people being shot (from Aberdeen).
Among those present: 

Jim Phelps, the photo expert, appeared grim and suspicious, as he did
when viewing any film that he had not personally examined with a hand
lens. He tapped nervously on a pile of manila envelopes he had brought
with him, as if anxious for his part of the session to begin. 

Dr. Casper Wendt, the coroner of a large midwestern city, a vociferous
member of the forensic pathology panel; one of the great students of all
the Kennedy assassination amateur films. Wendt was thin and tall with
glabrous blue eyes and a prim, reserved expression. Pale and distracted
now, he absently polished his glasses on his tie. He always talked as if
he were reading from a double-columned, small-print forensic pathology
text. 
"...if one believes the single bullet theory, went through the
president's back, emerged through his neck, went through Governor
Connally's body, shattering a rib, exited his body, went through his
wrist, producing a comminuted fracture of the radius, and penetrated his
thigh." ..."he had devoted years to criticizing the magic bullet's
anomalously pristine appearance." 

"The photos are faked," said Phelps, loudly and confidently. "So are the
skull X-rays." ...
Back of the head: "This is an obvious composite forgery. You can see the
matte lines where it was pieced together. That was done, of course, to
hide the huge exit wound in the back of the skull." ...
"This is a picture of the top of the head. See this line? It's
surgery...between Parkland and Bethesda, someone worked on the body..."

Wendt:"There is absolutely no evidence for such inference. None."

Phelps:"...on faked evidence? What's the goddam point of that!. This is
big, damn it. This isd evidence of conscious treason by a huge conspiracy
involving people close to the top of the government. How else could they
have--".... Phelps, still bristling and muttering, shoved his photographs
back into their envelopes. 

Wendt on panel chair Murray Karp:"...there seems to be a
certain..reluctance to stray too far from the Warren findings."