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NEW: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy

President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14176, Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on January 23, 2025. Records relating to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy that have been released will be available on this webpage and will be added on a rolling basis.

The National Archives’ Role in Fulfilling Executive Order 14176

In accordance with United States law, it is the responsibility of the National Archives to serve as the final repository of the records of the United States federal government, and make those records available to the American people. Many of the records related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy were previously transferred to the National Archives from federal agencies but were not available to the public. The National Archives is working closely with other federal agencies across the Executive Branch to ensure that any remaining records are identified and transferred to the National Archives as soon as possible.

2025 Release

The table below (follow link) displays the file names and links to all of the documents released related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

For records released on April 18, 2025, researchers may encounter a combination of black and white and colored scans. Here’s why: black and white scans were used in order to more efficiently facilitate the prioritized interagency review process. However, some pages were not legible in black and white. When the National Archives encountered unreadable pages, they were replaced with legible color scans.

April 18, 2025 – 7:30 AM EDT Release: 10,185 pages (229 PDF files)
May 7, 2025 – 7:00 PM EDT Release: 64,686 pages (1,499 PDF files and 17 MP3 audio files)

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More than 10,000 pages of previously classified documents related to the assassinated of Robert F. Kennedy have been released.

The trove of files about the 1968 assassination, published at President Trump’s directive, were previously sitting in storage at the National Archives, according to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

“Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government,” said the late senator’s son, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“I commend President Trump for his courage and his commitment to transparency. I’m grateful also to Tulsi Gabbard for her dogged efforts to root out and declassify these documents.”

The files, unlike the assassination files of RFK’s brother President John F. Kennedy, had not been previously digitized and had “sat collecting dust” in government offices for decades, according to the DNI’s office. Another 50,000 pages of files related to RFK’s assassination have also been uncovered, which will soon be made available.

The mass of files was published in accordance with President Trump’s executive order, which called for the federal files related to the assassinations of RFK, JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr. be released to the public.

“Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government’s investigation,” Gabbard said.

The New York senator was shot dead by Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after he claimed victory in California’s pivotal Democratic presidential primary in 1968.

Five others were wounded in the shooting, which sparked decades of conspiracy theories.

Sirhan originally was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life when the California Supreme Court briefly outlawed capital punishment in 1972. California Gov. Gavin Newsom denied his parole in 2022 despite RFK Jr. submitting a letter on Sirhan’s behalf for his release, saying he believed his father would’ve shown Sirhan mercy.

AARC President Dan Alcorn: JFK’s PFIAB (President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board) and the CIA

PFIAB Summary 1961-1963 RIF# 206-10001-10002; 68 pages DOWNLOAD HERE

17 April, 2025

Perhaps the most significant new information from the recent releases of JFK assassination records are Top Secret memos concerning the activities of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) during Kennedy’s Presidency. Review of these records leads one to conclude that JFK used his PFIAB to pursue reorganization of the CIA following the failed Bay of Pigs operation.

JFK assassination researchers have long suspected that failure of the Bay of Pigs operation led to Kennedy’s decision to dramatically reorganize an overgrown CIA. What has not been known until now is that Kennedy pursued this objective through his PFIAB. Kennedy’s effort to reorganize CIA ended with his assassination in November 1963.

Although the broad outlines of Kennedy’s plan have been known, the newly released documents contain proposals previously unknown. For example, PFIAB recommended that the Director of Central Intelligence (Allen Dulles) be shifted into the Executive Office of the President, not just on paper, but that his workplace be moved as well. An idea was floated to change the name of the CIA. Another recommendation was that consideration be given to not moving key CIA components into its new headquarters building at Langley, Virginia and that offices be scattered. Or at a minimum that covert functions not be housed at the new headquarters and moved to another city. None of these changes were implemented, revealing that CIA won the bureaucratic war.

Upon taking office JFK kept Eisenhower’s PFIAB in place. JFK’s father had served on the PFIAB in 1956, so there was some family knowledge of the body. Vice-President Johnson may not have known of the actions of the PFIAB. Among the PFIAB members JFK inherited was General Jimmy Doolittle, World War II Medal of Honor winner and intelligence adviser to Eisenhower. Doolittle served on PFIAB during the entire Kennedy Presidency, with expertise in the U-2 and A-12 spy plane programs as well as the TAGBOARD drone.

TSBD building owner David Harold Byrd and General Jimmy Doolittle

AARC’s research had uncovered that Doolittle was a “substantial friend” and “hunting buddy” of Texas School Book Depository building owner David Harold Byrd. Byrd was a successful oil wildcatter who invested his new wealth in defense industries involving aviation and intelligence, focused on aerial reconnaissance, a priority concern of JFK’s PFIAB. Byrd and Doolittle hunted together in South Africa, according to a photograph in Byrd’s autobiography.

It is likely that Doolittle through his PFIAB membership had access to the secrets of the Kennedy administration related to forced reorganization of the CIA and all other intelligence matters. Bill Simpich found an excerpt from a PFIAB meeting in June 1963 in which Doolittle is described as head of PFIAB’s CIA Panel and Doolittle is asked to brief the board on the status of JFK’s requests for changes at CIA that were not being carried out by CIA. RIF # 206-1001-10017

It is reasonable to wonder if Doolittle discussed these issues with his substantial friend and “hunting buddy” Byrd. The author is reminded of the oft repeated refrain of criminal investigators, ‘I don’t believe in coincidences.’

Dan Alcorn

President, Assassination Archives and Research Center

Malcolm Blunt: Project Files, Notional Companies, and Special Crypts

The CIA’s Historical Review Group (HRG) during the tenure of the ARRB responded to Review Board requests and communicated internally with various CIA components. These internal administrative files were released by CIA in a somewhat redacted form following pressure from the ARRB. They were called the “Project Files” by the HRG and are an interesting set of records. In one internal memo the term “notional companies” appears in which CIA HRG describe “notional companies” as companies which have never surfaced, thus differentiating them from “proprietary companies” many of which HAVE surfaced over the years. It is clear that “notional companies” are an internal CIA substructure and for the first time an example is laid bare for all to see.

Mr. (Lawrence) Houston’s MH/MUTUAL surfaces as a super-secret covert funding vehicle with the power to spawn connected entities in order to fund sensitive CIA operations. This is pure genius, really. What better outfit than the Office of General Counsel to manage such a task? When a problem surfaces or when an operation is blown, then you have the legal arm of the Agency clamping down immediately before a situation gets out of control; and with the master of deception, Mr. Houston at the helm, any political concerns can be smoothed over for additional document support on the status of “notional companies.” (See William Broe’s letter to Lawrence Houston dated 4th May 1971, CIA 104-10104-10029.)

In the midst of my struggles to unravel this conundrum I had a lucky break; sometimes serendipity can unexpectedly fall upon us. Recently, my friend, Bart Kamp, sent me an SSCI (Church Committee) document which I recognized from many years ago and in which I had a long time interest. Disaffected former CIA officer Victor Marchetti met with Senator Richard Schweiker and Elliot Maxwell on June 6th 1975 for an hour and a half. A few notes were taken and, following the ARCA legislation, a little over a single page write-up was released with some deletions. The document I received from Bart differed from the document I had long pondered in one very significant way: a redaction on my document was not present on the one sent to me by Bart! Victor Marchetti discusses MH/MUTUAL and he mentions CIA funding in that context: He asks, “Where did the money come from….the retirement fund, the loan fund, credit union or escrow funds?” “On what basis were decisions made to invest it?” Please note the euphemistic use of the word “invest.” This is a crucial document in my opinion because it presents a snapshot of internal CIA systems and methodology, but what does all this mean?

Marchetti, in an extraordinary admission, names John Clark as sitting on the board and Larry Houston as “Chairman of the Board.” In the context of his previous statement within the document, the “Board” discussed must apply to the entity MH/MUTUAL which ties other documents to the Office of General Counsel. We have therefore confirmation of a “notional company” under the stewardship of Lawrence Houston.

To recap: JM/SPUR is the Office of General Counsel which controls the “notional company” together with an entity, MH/MUTUAL, which manages large amounts of CIA money. The “PL” digraph (Proscribed and Limited, much used by OGC and others to emphasize very close control of subject content and dissemination) used in conjunction with “VW/CADET” seems to be funding linked to Cubans as suggested by my friend, Peter Dale Scott (See PDS on Watergate and the use of Cuban exiles in money laundering activities in Mexico and elsewhere such as the Bahamas). Further corroboration of the Office of General Counsel as a covert funding vehicle may be found in CIA 104-10119-10404 from the Deputy Chief of the Security Analysis Group in August 1976. He discusses the usage of serial fraudster Wallace Groves by CIA as follows: “From April 1966 to April 1972 Groves was an advisor or possible officer of one of Project WU/MUTUAL (later MH/MUTUAL) entities. Additional information in this file suggest that Groves was connected to Meyer Lansky.” So, Lawrence Houston’s “notional company,” MH/MUTUAL, spawns entities connected to organized crime figures like Lansky via Wallace Groves.

On page 164 of Jonathon Kwitny’s book “Crime of the Patriots,” he writes that, “one client entity of the Castle Bank was tied to money laundering of $5 million between 1970 and 1976. That company was run by Wallace Groves who had served two years in prison for one of the biggest stock frauds of the era and had then gone into Caribbean Casino operations with Meyer Lansky.” The CIA knew all this when it hired Groves as an advisor (or possible officer) when it hired Groves for one of it’s MH/MUTUAL entities, so the Houston “notional board” sanctioned the use of Groves to manage a Castle Bank “client entity” spawned by the Houston notional company (as per Kwitny). The Groves Counsel in the operation was a Paul Helliwell law partner.

When the IRS and the Department of Justice started to investigate Castle Bank, alarm bells rang at CIA and Houston’s right hand man, John Greaney at the Office of General Counsel, got the investigation closed down on the grounds that further investigation would compromise sensitive and significant CIA operations. Recent document releases mention a project, MH/FLUFF, in which Meyer Lansky is mentioned briefly. The document appears to have emanated from the NSA. The MH/FLUFF crypt reappears on some documents which mention Cubans in Mexico City. Interestingly, this information is on Restricted Handling Forms which we hardly ever see released. It may be useful to do some additional research on MH/FLUFF, MH/CURB, and MH/SPAWN.

In closing, I invite readers of this article to look at the PL/VWCADET crypt and see whether or not they can make progress in cracking it. Also notable: Philip Agee’s disclosures and the massive CIA crypt change in 1972 when the Agency had purloined Agee’s manuscript of Inside the Company: CIA Diary, and Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1975). Marchetti is especially important, his significance being reflected by the fact that of 86 pages of testimony to SSCI (Church Committee) I can find only seven pages.

RELATED: SHELL GAMES by Malcolm Blunt

[Tags: Documents; Bart Kamp discovery of Marchetti document; Blunt discovered version of the same document; Broe letter, and an untitled CIA memo]

Gabbard: ‘100 people’ working ‘around the clock’ on RFK, MLK assassination files

Story by Elizabeth Crisp|April 11, 2025

Gabbard: ‘100 people’ working ‘around the clock’ on RFK, MLK assassination files

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Thursday she has a large team working overtime to archive government documents related to the 1968 assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. ahead of their release to the public.

“I’ve had over 100 people working around the clock to scan the paper,” Gabbard told President Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House. “These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades — they have never been scanned or seen before.”

“We’ll have those ready to release here within the next few days,” she added.

Kennedy, who was the brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy and also served as his attorney general, was running for the Democratic presidential nomination when he was shot after a campaign event in California.

King, who was one of the most prominent leaders of the Civil Rights Movement at the time of his death, was shot at a hotel in Memphis, Tenn.

Their assassins were convicted in both murders, but conspiracy theories have continued to thrive about the circumstances of their deaths decades later.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late senator, was in the Cabinet meeting when Gabbard provided the update on the status of the document review.

He said it was “very gratifying” to hear the news, as Trump acknowledged his presence at the meeting.

Upon taking office in January, Trump signed an executive order directing his administration to release troves of previously undisclosed records related to the assassinations, as well as other high-profile cases that the government has overseen, including documents related to President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 and records about disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while in federal custody awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

The National Archives released more than 2,000 pages of documents last month on President Kennedy’s assassination, though experts said many of the pages were already public.

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JOHN SIMKIN: The AM/WORLD Project

The AARC presents a new series of lectures commemorating and honoring the legacy of President Kennedy, the inspirational meaning of his term of office, and the consequences of his assassination sixty-two years ago.

In the words of the distinguished British scholar Malcolm Blunt, “Jesus Christ, what we lost when we lost that man.”

17 April, 2025 | By John Simkin

The declassification of the CIA memorandum discussing the activities of Gary Underhill and Samuel Cummings dated 19th July 1967 has allowed researchers to place both men within the highly secret AM/WORLD project in 1963. (1)

The first AM/WORLD document released (27th January 1999) was a five-page memo prepared on 28th June 1963. It was sent by Joseph Caldwell King, Chief of the CIA’s Western Hemisphere Division. “This will serve to alert you to the inception of AM/WORLD, a new CIA program targeted against Cuba. Some manifestations of activity resulting from this program may come to your notice before long… The Kennedy Administration, it should be emphasized, is willing to accept the risks involved in utilizing autonomous Cuban exile groups and individuals who are not necessarily responsive to CIA guidance and to face up to the consequences which are unavoidable in lowering professional standards adhered to by autonomous groups (as compared with fully controlled and disciplined agent assets) is bound to entail.” (2)

In his autobiography, Spymaster: My Life in the CIA (2005), Ted Shackley explained that Manuel Ray had been used in several unsuccessful operations against Fidel Castro. He had him checked out by David Sanchez Morales and Thomas Clines. After he read their reports, he “concluded by describing Ray as a far-left ideologue and as much a political and economic threat to American interests in the Caribbean as was Castro.” Instead, he chose Manuel Artime to run AM/WORLD. “Artime was different. He had solid anti-Batista credentials stemming from his early days as a captain in the Rebel Army. He was an early participant in the Movement for Revolutionary Recovery (MRR) and had helped to build the party, although his ambition had then made him a divisive force in the movement.” (3)

The document goes on to point out that the “CIA will confine itself to supporting the efforts” of Manuel Artime and his exile group. “Artime will be in touch with a senior CIA officer, operating under a fully documented alias, who is to serve as his adviser and hopefully as his sole direct link with the Kennedy Administration.” In fact, it was not Artime but Enrique (Harry) Ruiz-Williams who would be in direct contact with Robert F. Kennedy about AM/WORLD. Lamar Waldron has pointed out that the CIA was being somewhat disingenuous as Artime had been working with the CIA since 1959, when he attempted his first CIA-backed coup against Castro. “But what was different about AM/WORLD was that Artime – and the others – were now taking orders not from the CIA, but from Bobby Kennedy”. (4)

The decision to appoint Manuel Artime was confirmed in a memorandum sent by M. K. Holbik to Howard J. Osborn, Director of Security on 16th October 1964: “AM/WORLD was an autonomous operation. In theory, as I understand it, the Agency would furnish funds and materials, but the actual handling, direction, or control of the Project would be by the Project head, Manuel Artime; cryptonym, AMBIDDY-1. AMBIDDY-1 need no longer accommodate divergent political philosophies and will be able to dictate his own terms. This we realise, is an authoritarian doctrine, but we are firmly convinced that any movement which wants to challenge Fidel Castro need to be run along authoritarian lines, insists on a modicum of homogeneity in outlook and enforce strict discipline. Until AMBIDDY-1 provides unmistakeable evidence that he is not the man for the job, we intend to give him our unstinting support, in full awareness of the fact that his judgment is not infallible and that in the choice of his co-workers he may occasionally commit a blunder. As long as his batting average holds up, we won’t worry. (5)

The AM/WORLD memo (104-10315-10004) was declassified on 27th January 1999, and discovered by Stuart Wexler in 2004 who showed it to Larry Hancock. With the help of researchers such as Malcolm Blunt, Hancock obtained the names of other CIA officers involved in AM/WORLD. Hancock points out that AM/WORLD had its own separate operations staff based in Miami and Mexico City. The head of AM/WORLD and Artime’s case officer was Henry Hecksher. The ranking exile under Artime was Rafael ‘Chi Chi’ Quintero who worked closely with CIA paramilitary officer, Carl E. Jenkins, the was military advisor to the AM/WORLD project. David Atlee Phillips was designated to organize safe houses and related activities for AM/WORLD. Other CIA officers who attended AM/WORLD and AM/TRUCK (an effort to produce an internal revolution against Castro in Cuba) meetings, included Ted Shackley and David Sanchez Morales. (6)

In another memorandum dated 14th November 1963, Desmond FitzGerald explained to Ted Shackley why he had chosen Manuel Artime (AMBIDDY-1) to head the AM/WORLD project: “AMBIDDY-1 need no longer accommodate divergent political philosophies and will be able to dictate his own terms. This we realise, is an authoritarian doctrine, but we are firmly convinced that any movement which wants to challenge Fidel Castro need to be run along authoritarian lines, insists on a modicum of homogeneity in outlook and enforce strict discipline. Until AMBIDDY-1 provides unmistakeable evidence that he is not the man for the job, we intend to give him our unstinting support, in full awareness of the fact that his judgment is not infallible and that in the choice of his co-workers he may occasionally commit a blunder. As long as his batting average holds up, we won’t worry.” (7)

David Sanchez Morales with his key role heading CIA Operations in Miami, had a hand in all the CIA actions against Fidel Castro in 1963. Bradley Ayers, a US Army Ranger (Special Forces) Captain who was assigned to the CIA JMWAVE station to train Cuban commandos and who worked for the Special Group Augmented (SGA), later claimed that “Morales held sway with Ted Shackley and dominated the entire operational agenda at the CIA Station…. Morales was often demonstrably irritated with changes to planned covert/paramilitary operations that were handed down by CIA headquarters at Langley or by orders from Bobby Kennedy’s Special Group that seemed to be micro-managing the secret war against Castro.” (8)

Larry Hancock has argued that “This CIA autonomous group project was part of a larger Kennedy administration multi-agency effort to produce a coup within Cuba which would internally remove Fidel and Raul Castro, allowing their replacement with a new provisional government in which exile leaders would play a key role. The CIA was not in charge of this effort but was limited to supporting Artime’s military build-up off shore and other related political actions including helping him establish contacts and infrastructure in a number of Latin America countries.” (9)

However, it is not clear that the Kennedy administration was aware of the AM/WORLD project. Arthur Schlesinger explained to Anthony Summers in 1978 why the CIA did not want President Kennedy to negotiate with Fidel Castro during the summer of 1963. He pointed out that the head of the CIA’s Cuba unit, Desmond FitzGerald, masquerading as an American Senator, had told Rolando Cubela that a coup against Castro would have the full backing of the United States Government: “The CIA was reviving the assassination plots at the very time President Kennedy was considering the possibility of normalization of relations with Cuba – an extraordinary action. If it was not total incompetence – which in the case of the CIA cannot be excluded – it was a studied attempt to subvert national policy.” (10)

In 1963 Gary Underhill and Samuel Cummings, became involved in the AM/WORLD project. (11) By the late 1950s Cummings, a former CIA officer, had become the owner of Interarmco, one of the world’s largest military and civilian arms trading companies. He travelled the world buying foreign weapons with which to supply resistance groups behind the Iron Curtain. (12)

Larry Hancock and Stuart Wexler pointed out in Shadow Warfare: The History of America’s Undeclared Wars (2014) that over $326,000 from the AM/WORLD project was spent with Cummings’ company Interarmco. “That was for everything from rifles to cannons. AM/WORLD personnel actually travelled to Europe to facilitate issues and make changes in orders for weapons not in stock with Interarmco. Cut out firms were established in Panama and Costa Rica. In Costa Rica the project used an airfield which was already being used for smuggling.” (13)

The day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Gary Underhill left Washington in a hurry. Late in the evening he showed up at the homes of friends in New Jersey, Robert and Charlene Fitzsimmons. He told Charlene: “I couldn’t believe they’d got away with it, but they did. They tried it in Cuba, but they couldn’t get away with it. After the Bay of Pigs. But Kennedy wouldn’t let them get away with it. He was about to blow the whistle on them…The country is too dangerous for me now. They’ve gone mad. They’re drug runners and gun runners. They get the intelligence and come back and tell the government how to run the country. And they’re lying. And those idiots are listening to it. Kennedy gave them some time after the Bay of Pigs. ‘We’ll give them a chance to save face,’ he said. The CIA is under enough pressure already.” (14)

Gary Underhill told his friends that he had become aware of this “clique” was involved in selling weapons: “This country is too dangerous for me. I’ve got to get on a boat. Oswald is a patsy. They set him up. It’s too much. The bastards have done something outrageous. They’ve killed the president! I’ve been listening and hearing things. I couldn’t believe they’d get away with it, but they did. They’ve gone mad! They’re a bunch of drug runners and gun runners – a real violence group. I know who they are. That’s the problem. They know I know. That’s why I’m here.” (15)

The journalist, Asher Brynes visited Gary Underhill on 8th May 1964. His apartment door was unlocked, he was found in bed dead from a single shot behind his left ear. The weapon used was one of his own pistols. (16) In addition to the wound behind the left-ear, the pistol was found under the left side of his body. Brynes felt this to be suspicious as Underhill was right-handed. The police investigation was minimal, and the coroner reported the death as a suicide. (17)

If Underhill was working on the AM/WORLD project was he right when he claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy and that he was murdered by members of the CIA. If so, he was suggesting that people like Henry Hecksher, Rafael ‘Chi Chi’ Quintero, Carl E. Jenkins, David Atlee Phillips Ted Shackley and David Sanchez Morales were involved in the assassination. (18)

Robert F. Kennedy also suspected that members of the AM/WORLD project might be involved in the killing of his brother. On the evening of the assassination, Kennedy spoke to Enrique (Harry) Ruiz-Williams, a Bay of Pigs veteran who was his closest associate in the Cuban exile community. Kennedy shocked his friend by telling him, “One of your guys did it.” The journalist, Haynes Johnson, was with Ruiz-Williams at the time later recalled: “Harry stood there with the phone in his hand and then he told me what Bobby said… It was a shocking thing. I’ll never forget, Harry got this look on his face. After he hung up, Harry told me what Bobby had said.” (19)

As David Talbot pointed out: “When Bobby Kennedy told his comrade-in-arms Harry Ruiz-Williams, ‘One of your guys did it,’ he might as well have been saying, ‘One of our guys did it’ or even ‘One of my guys did it’. Bobby was saying that his brother had been killed by someone in his own anti-Castro operation… He was supposed to know where the darkness fell, and how to keep his brother safe from it. His brother’s death was his fault – this is certainly another wound that his brother’s killers aimed to inflict. For they knew it would not be enough to assassinate the president – they would have to find a way to stop his avenging brother from coming after them as well, to hobble him with guilt and doubt.” (20)

Gene Wheaton gave an interview in 2005 about the AM/WORLD project. The interview was eventually posted on YouTube on 15th June 2017. Wheaton provided very important information on two important members of the AM/WORLD project, Carl E. Jenkins and Chi Chi Rafael Quintero. “I first met Carl Jenkins in Iran in 1976… In 1985 he became my Washington representative when I became Vice President of the cargo airlines National Air, this was during the Iran-Contra thing and they wanted my airplanes for the Contras… We became like brothers… Chi Chi Quintero would come up to Carl’s place in Fairfax, Virginia… from his home in Miami… We were just like a family, they would talk directly to me and to each other in my presence, as if I was one of the spook crowd, the covert crowd.”

“There was a CIA funded program to assassinate Castro and Carl was in charge of training the Cubans in Miami to assassinate Castro. They would go to Texas and Mexico and take old convertibles, stick old watermelons on the back seat, in something they called triangulation shooting teams… According to them, they were the ones that diverted the Castro funds and training for their own agenda to snuff Kennedy… They were CIA people who were training people to assassinate Castro, but if you are training people to assassinate one man, you can use that training to assassinate anybody… They were furious with JFK because he backed off at the last moment at the Bay of Pigs… There was another clique above them who were worried about Kennedy not increasing the program to escalate hostilities in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Carl was training Chi Chi and several other shooters, about five of them.”

Wheaton also spoke about the connection between Carl E. Jenkins, Lee Harvey Oswald and Carlos Marcello: “Carl Jenkins formed the first Marine Corps Reserve Unit in New Orleans in Louisiana and was the CIA liaison officer between CIA headquarters and Carlos Marcello and organized crime in the area. Carl helped recruit Lee Harvey Oswald into the CIA while he was a marine… Lee was just a stooge they set up as part of a Operation Security Plan for deniability when they put a real dirty operation into place.” (21)

References

(1) CIA Memorandum (19th July 1967)

(2) Joseph Caldwell King, memorandum (28th June 1963)

(3) Ted Shackley, Spymaster: My Life in the CIA (2005) page 71

(4) Lamar Waldron, Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK (2005) pages 56-57

(5) M. K. Holbik, memorandum to Howard J. Osborn, Director of Security (16th October 1964)

(6) Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked (2006) pages 110-111

(7) Desmond FitzGerald, memorandum to Ted Shackley (14th November 1963)

(8) Bradley Ayers, sworn statement (3rd November 1989)

(9) Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked (2006) page 507

(10) Anthony Summers, The Kennedy Conspiracy: The Truth? (1992) pages 400-401

(11) Larry Hancock, Underhill and a Clique within the CIA (22nd March 2025)

(12) New York Times (July 21, 1967)

(13) Larry Hancock & Stuart Wexler, Shadow Warfare: The History of America’s Undeclared Wars (2014) pages 212-213

(14) Robert Fitzsimmons, letter sent to Jim Garrison on the comments Garry Underhill made to Charlene Fitzsimmons (3rd May 1967)

(15) Paul Golais, The Citizen’s Voice (8th April 2001)

(16) Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked (2006) page 495

(17) Jim Garrison, interview in Playboy Magazine (October 1967) page 67

(18) Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked (2006) pages 110-111

(19) Haynes Johnson, Washington Post (17th April, 1981)

(20) David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (2007) page 12

(21) Gene Wheaton, interviewed by William Matson Law and Mark Sobel and posted on YouTube on 15th June 2017.

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While studying at the Open University John Simkin became convinced by the ideas of Jerome Bruner on active learning. Since he began teaching history in 1978 he has attempted to produce materials that enable active learning to take place. This has included educational computer programs such as Attack on the Somme, Wall Street and The Russian Revolution. The internet provides the best opportunity so far to make active learning a reality.

Over the last twenty years he has written several history books including Gandhi (1987), The Vietnam War (1988), Race Relations in the United States (1988), Slavery: An Illustrated History of Black Resistance (1988), Hitler (1988), Stalin (1987), The Roman Empire (1991), Making of the United Kingdom (1992), Expansion, Trade and Industry (1992), The Medieval Village (1996), The Norman Invasion (1996), etc.

In September, 1997, along with Judith Harris Simkin, Mr. Simkin established the Spartacus Educational website and over the next six years produced online material for the Daily Telegraph, the European Virtual School and The Guardian and its educational website, Learn. He was also a member of the European History E-Learning Project (E-Help), a project to encourage and improve use of ICT and the internet in classrooms across the continent. He currently teaches several courses at the University of the Third Age, including Understanding the Modern World: The Romans to the Information Society and History of Ideas.

Mr. Simkin has published ten e-books, Charles Dickens: A Biography (October, 2012), First World War Encyclopedia (October, 2012), Assassination of John F. Kennedy Encyclopedia (November, 2012), Gandhi: A Biography (December, 2012), The Spanish Civil War (December, 2012), The American Civil War (December, 2012), Henry VII (September, 2015), Henry VIII (September, 2015), Anne Boleyn (September, 2015) and Mary Tudor (September, 2015). He is the author of, Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Learning in History (December, 2012), and in September 2015 was one of the historians interviewed for the BBC documentary, The Hollywood Spy.

As of October, 2019, the Spartacus Educational website contained 21,036,905 words and 33,196 sources. Spartacus Educational is committed to producing free content, especially to those countries that find it difficult to purchase books.

You can find a more detailed autobiography here: John Simkin

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