> Judyth's story leaked on December 23, 1999:

> Judyth’s Story

> The Plot

> 1. In 1963, the unsuccessful CIA-Mafia plotting to kill Castro – top-secret
> until exposed by the Church Committee in 1975 --was directly linked with the
> JFK assassination conspiracy.

> If Plan A -- killing Castro by October 25, 1963 – failed, the same group of
> conspirators – Mafia, CIA rogue agents, Cuban exiles, backed by Texas
> money -- would go to Plan B: killing Kennedy.  This is the first time Oswald
> has been tied into the kill-Castro conspiracy. Ironically, CIA stonewalling
> of the Warren Commission was almost certainly conducted to prevent its
> relationship with the Mafia from being exposed.  The assassination cover-up
> was thus joined by high officials in the CIA who may not themselves have
> participated in the assassination.

> 2. Lee, a CIA operative (not an “agent”), was groomed to look like a
> disaffected American for eventual use in Cuba. His defection was faked for
> this reason alone. Upon his return from Russia, the CIA arranged for Lee to
> take a job in Dallas at a firm that made maps of the Cuban terrain. His
> assignment involved identifying the location of safe houses and collecting
> names of trusted contacts inside Cuba.

> 3. When Lee was ordered to move to New Orleans, he met Judyth by accident
> (or maybe not) at the central Post Office.  They clicked immediately –
> despite the fact that he was married and she was to be married in a matter
> of days.  Lee arranged for both of them to be hired on the same day by the
> Reily Coffee Company, owned by a staunch right-winger, who knew he was not
> hiring ordinary workers.  Lee would interview the Cuban women that cycled
> thru Reily’s as part of his fact-gathering mission. Judyth, who was
> assistant to the manager, covered for this activity and for his daily
> absences from work, making sure to punch him out at or around 5:30PM when he
> was no longer there, which was quite often.  He also arranged for them to
> have apartments within walking distance of each other, and for her to meet
> David Ferrie, also a “cancer researcher.”

> 4. Judyth had already achieved a reputation as a child prodigy in cancer
> research.  Her mentor, Dr. Alton Ochsner, of the famed Ochsner Cancer Clinic
> in New Orleans, had also set up the labs in Ferrie’s and Sherman’s homes.
> Ochsner, a rabid right-winger, had overseen Judyth’s work from the age of
> 16, with funding coming from government medical facilities, principally
> Walter Reed.  She even worked at Roswell Park under a National Science
> Foundation grant on research into “substances which cause… cancer to become
> most deadly” (as reported by The Bradenton Herald, Sept. 5, 1961). Now she
> was to use this training to develop ways of speeding tumor growth. Her job
> was to culture lung cancer cells in the Ferrie-Sherman labs for eventual
> transport to medical contacts in Cuba who could arrange for their injection
> into Castro.

> The lung cancer material she says she created would appear to kill him
> “naturally,” as a heavy cigar smoker might be expected to develop lung
> cancer.  The seeming naturalness of his death would avert a possible
> confrontation with Russia that could ignite World War III.  She really
> believed this was a duty, considering the horrifying alternative. This is a
> completely new account of the how those labs were used.

> Lee and Judyth actually liked the Kennedys -- and so opposed Plan B -- but
> they never thought events would progress that far.  In private, Ferrie told
> Lee and Judyth that he also opposed the assassination.  He was putting on an
> act for Shaw, who represented Texas money in N.O.

> 6. Lee’s trip to Mexico City in October 1963 involved transporting the cell
> cultures to a contact who would bring them into Cuba.  He was ordered to
> make the trip by his CIA-handler, Mr. B, who Lee came to believe was David
> Atlee Phillips, but who, through some impressive bit of research, Judyth now
> believes was Frank Bender, one alias of Gerry Droller who was posted to
> Mexico City at the same time as Phillips.

> The material had been tested on a human guinea pig -- the real reason for
> the trip to Clinton.  Lee and Judyth were heartsick over the decision to
> treat a prisoner/mental patient but were powerless to stop this trial and
> could not back out of the plot or their lives would be worth nothing.
> Anyway, there was still time to get to Castro.  Lee’s supposed attempt to
> taint CORE through association with a Communist is a ridiculous notion.
> There was a delay involved before things were set up in the hospital in
> nearby Jackson, so they waited. Lee was pro-civil rights and got on line to
> prove they would register him though he lived out of the district.  They
> didn’t and he quietly walked back to the car. He did nothing to attract
> attention to himself as a Communist.

> The serum in which the cancer cells were placed included a virus that knocks
> out the immune system, thus enhancing the strength of the cancer cells.
> This material – from the kidney’s of sick monkeys -- is now the subject of a
> new book on the origin of AIDS.  Judyth knew of its deadly potential and
> wrote letters to have its use stopped at the same time as she was working
> with it.

> 7. Lee was left holding the bag – i.e., no one was there to meet him in
> Mexico City to take the material off his hands.  He desperately tried to get
> into Cuba himself, where his knowledge of the language, the terrain, safe
> houses, and contacts could still be used – he hoped.  Indeed, initially, he
> expected to make the entire trip himself.  He was frantic because the
> material had a limited life span outside a lab, but the conspirators had
> already turned to Plan B without telling him.  Lee knew enough not to ask
> for an explanation and he was never offered one.

> 8. Lee staged his own arrest in New Orleans to establish his false identity
> as pro-Castro. This staged event was based on an incident he had read about
> in a local newspaper months earlier.  The story concerned a narcotics agent
> who provoked a street fight to build his resume as a bad guy.

> 9. Judyth saw Lee sign out guns from Guy Banister's weapons storeroom on the
> third floor of 544 Camp Street in New Orleans.  Lee also kept his own guns
> there and he was an excellent shot.  She never saw or heard of a
> Mannlicher-Carcano.  Lee and Ferrie did train Cubans at Lake Pontchartrain
> and there was film and she saw it, very likely the same film that Robert
> Tanenbaum of the HSCA saw but which is now missing.

> 10. She personally met other key plotters, including Banister, Shaw, and
> Marcello, though, as a girl of 19 or 20, she was often treated as if she
> were wallpaper.  Wallpaper with ears and the ability to do cutting edge
> cancer research.

> 11. Jack Ruby worked with Banister and Marcello’s organization in
> gun-running operations. While Judyth was in Lee’s company, she met Ruby
> twice, , in May and June of 1963, when he visited New Orleans, once at
> Ferrie's apartment.  She only knew him as “Sparky” Rubenstein. When Lee was
> killed, she did not know that Jack Ruby and Sparky Rubenstein were the same
> man. Anna Lewis will testify to having seen Ruby and Oswald together in New
> Orleans.  Jack Ruby was shown the lab and told about cancer cell injections.
> Before he died of cancer, he insisted he was injected, but no one took him
> seriously.  His mind was shot and they just assumed it was incoherent
> babbling.

> 12. Ruby and Ferrie both knew Lee when he was just 15 years old. Lee spurned
> Ferrie’s advances as well as Ruby’s attempts to recruit him into the Mob.
> Lee’s contacts with the Mob came via his uncle and his mother, and he was
> trusted by Mob figures, up to and including Marcello.  It was Marcello who
> told Ruby to look after the boy when they moved to Texas.

> 13. HL Hunt wanted those associated with the labs to be killed, or so they
> believed based on a message to Shaw.  Ferrie and Lee both found ways to make
> themselves appear useful. They both destroyed evidence that might lead the
> plotters to Judyth, who was living in Florida at the time of the
> assassination.  Ferrie arranged for about 14 back-channel phone calls to Lee
> in Dallas, the last on November 20.  Lee told Judyth that he made several
> unsuccessful attempts to stop the assassination, including calling death
> threats to the FBI.

> 14. They all understood that his grooming in Russia and activities in New
> Orleans made him the  perfect patsy as early as the third week of August.
> Oswald actively embraced the role to get closer to the inner circle of the
> conspiracy in Dallas . He played up his connections to Marcello, revealed
> his marksmanship, and exaggerated a grudge against Connally to get further
> in.  He figured he was a dead man if tried to break with the conspirators.
> He and Judyth even made plans for an escape and rendezvous in Mexico.
> Judyth tells of Ferrie sobbing uncontrollably during phone calls with him
> because it had all gone so wrong.

> 15.  Lee told Judyth, on November 20th, of his plan to fire a warning shot
> at the motorcade hoping to alert the Secret Service to the attempt on JFK’s
> life.  If he did fire a warning shot– and at least 5 witnesses reported a
> bullet hitting the pavement behind the President’s limo -- it went unheeded
> by the sleepy Secret Service agents.   The "street shot" bullet was
> presumably never found, unless that is what is being picked up by the
> "Mystery FBI Man" in  photos of  Dallas Deputy Sheriff Buddy Walthers and
> Officer J.W. Foster.

> The Love Story

> 1. Judyth portrays Oswald as a much more intelligent and charming man than
> we have seen in any previous accounts.  She knows he was a wife-beater, but
> says Lee never raised a hand to her.  In fact, she describes no fights of
> any kind.  Lee told her that Marina mercilessly denigrated him.  He admitted
> to a mother-wife problem, which they often discussed, and she believes the
> abuse stopped (it would be interesting to ask Marina if this was so).

> 2. Lee and Judyth, who were both married, became lovers in the summer.
> While in the company of Oswald, Judyth sometimes posed as Marina, which was
> possible because of their physical resemblance and Judyth’s ability to speak
> Russian.  Judyth’s husband was out of town most of their married life in New
> Orleans.

> 3. In testimony, Marina said Lee was always home at night, but she never
> said at what time.  In fact, as Anna Lewis attests, Lee and Judyth usually
> kept company, often with her and her husband, David, until 8 or 8:30 PM.
> Anna even took a call from Marina at the restaurant where she waitressed and
> they would hang out at after work.  Marina wanted to know if Lee was there
> with another woman.

> In a taped statement, Anna Lewis said:
> - David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald knew each other.
> - She knew Carlos Marcello.
> - Banister “had guns in his closet for Lee Harvey Oswald, and when they
> started talking about the assassination, Banister told Lee Harvey Oswald to
> remove his guns out of his closet.”
> - Her husband was told to “keep his mouth shut.”
> - Lee was going to fire a warning shot if he had the opportunity (Judyth
> explains that she asked Anna how she knew this, but that Anna became fearful
> and would not answer.)
> - Jack Ruby “knew them, all of them…was at the club I mentioned on Bourbon
> St. [The 500 Club].  That was the meeting place for all of ‘em, and that’s
> where Mr. Carlos Marcello’s office was…”
> - “Marina called one night at the restaurant to find out if Lee Oswald was
> there with another woman, and I told her…I don’t watch any of my customers
> that good.”
> - Presented with Marina’s claims that Lee was home at night, she replies
> that “He wasn’t home.  He was always out with us.”

> WHICH THEN CHANGED TO:

> Deadly Alliance

> By Judyth Vary Baker with Howard Platzman, Ph.D.

> OUTLINE OF THE CONSPIRACY
> nd Plan B:  The Plot to Kill Castro and the Assassination of FK
> In 1963, the unsuccessful CIA-Mafia alliance to kill Castro -- top-secret
> until exposed by the Church Committee in 1975 -- was directly linked to the
> JFK assassination conspiracy.  “Plan A” called for Castro to be killed
> through the use of a biological weapon that would make his death appear
> natural.  If he could not be killed by October 25, 1963, the same group of
> conspirators  would go to “Plan B”: killing Kennedy.
> This is the first account of the JFK assassination that links it directly
> (in an either-or fashion) to the plot to kill Castro, and the first time Lee
> Harvey Oswald has ever been tied to the plot to kill Castro.
> What this means is that the JFK assassination plot was an offshoot of a
> larger secret alliance that is already established fact.  It is, therefore,
> not necessary to believe in the existence of a separate conspiracy theory.
> Note: Judyth’s knowledge of events in New Orleans is often first-hand.  What
> she knows or believes about events in Dallas comes from conversations with
> Oswald or David Ferrie.
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Judyth is Recruited: To April 1963
> ? By the age of 15, Judyth achieved a reputation as a science whiz kid,
> having invented a new way to extract magnesium from seawater.
> ? Her real passion, though, was cancer research. Col. Philip Doyle set up a
> special lab for Judyth at her high school (Manatee High, in Florida), and
> introduced her to CIA asset and biological weapons expert, Dr. Canute
> Michaelson, who provided financial support for her initial work.
> ? Her appearance at an international science fair brought her to the
> attention of other medical figures with military or intelligence
> backgrounds, as well as top officials of the American Cancer Society:
> Dr.Harold Diehl and Dr. Alton Ochsner (of the famed Ochsner Cancer Clinic in
> New Orleans).  Ochsner was Judyth’s principal behind-the-scenes mentor
> through her late teen years.
> ? Judyth’s lab was expanded and she received research materials from doctors
> at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Eli Lilly, Oak Ridge, et al.
> Evidence:  A letter dated 9-2-60 from Dr. David Jacobus at Walter Reed,
> making specific reference to chemicals supplied her and promising more.
> ? She was REQUIRED to take a loyalty oath., and, while still in high school,
> was required to learn conversational Russian at a local junior college from
> a Dr. Concevitch.
> Evidence:  A yellowed mailing envelope with the addressee,  Concevitch.
> ? Her work came to the attention of Florida Senator George Smathers, a close
> friend of JFK’s, who encouraged her to write to the President and volunteer
> to put her talents to work in the service of her country.
> Evidence:  A reply from the White House. (While not very dramatic, she soon
> received fresh supplies, as Sen. Smathers told her she would.)
> ? She spent the summer after high school graduation working under a National
> Science Foundation grant at Roswell Park in Buffalo, NY, the world’s oldest
> cancer research center. Her studies centered on "substances which cause
> cancer to become most deadly."
> Source: The Bradenton Herald, 9-6-61.
> ? Of the 60-plus students working under a grant, she was the only member of
> the group chosen by Dr. George Moore, head of Roswell Park, to work directly
> with him -- and she was the only one forced to stay at the local YWCA.  She
> was, in essence, “kidnapped” from an off-site apartment she tried to rent
> and returned to the Y.
> Evidence:  BROCHURES, YWCA RECEIPT, AND FORMS. Copious newspaper clippings
> on her achievements.
> Corroborating testimony:  Judyth recently located DR.ROB STROM, who also
> exhibited at the science fair.  He REMEMBERED HER.  THOUGH HE ALSO RECEIVED
> ATTENTION FROM MANY FRONTS, HE TOLD HER HIS LEFT-WING VIEWS MADE HIM A POOR
> CANDIDATE FOR CIA RECRUITMENT.

> Who Was Dr. Alton Ochsner?
> Along with Judyth herself, Ochsner is the primary new figure to emerge in
> this account of Oswald’s stay in New Orleans.
> Notes
> ? Ocshner was friends with Clay Shaw, who was unsuccessfully prosecuted by
> New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison for conspiring to assassinate JFK.  Ochsner
> was director of International House at the same time Clay Shaw was a
> managing director (1961-1962).  At different times, he and Shaw headed this
> organization AND the International Trade Mart.  The two ORGANIZATIONS merged
> some years later.
> ? Ochsner’s biographers quote him as fearing that he would be indicted by
> Garrison (John Wilds and Ira Harkey, Surgeon of the South)
> ? Ochsner was also friends with “Wild Bill” Donovan, head of the OSS, the
> prescursor to the CIA.  Both were elected officials of the American Cancer
> Society in 1949.
> ? Ochsner founded the virulently anti-Communist Information Council of the
> Americas (INCA), which later figured heavily into the activities of both
> Judyth and Lee.
> ? Author Thomas Karnes (Tropical Enterprise) describes Ochsner as a
> consultant to the US Air Force “on the medical side of subversive matters.”

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Lee is Groomed: To April 1963
> ? Lee Oswald, a CIA operative, was groomed to look like a disaffected
> American for eventual use in Cuba. This was the primary reason for his fake
> defection to Russia.
> ? Lee told Judyth that he gave the Soviets information that he believed
> allowed them to shoot (REMOVE HYPHEN)down the secret U-2 spy plane (he had
> been stationed at the U-2 base in Atsugi, Japan).
> Lee said that the military wanted to derail an upcoming summit in which it
> was feared that President Eisenhower, declining mentally, might be bested by
> Krushchev.
> Note: Downed U-2 Pilot Gary Powers has stated his belief that Oswald had the
> information needed to bring him down.
> ? Upon his return from Russia, the CIA arranged for Lee to take a job at a
> Dallas graphic arts firm, Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall, that was involved in
> highly classified work for the government, including the creation of
> detailed maps of Cuba. His CIA assignment involved LEARNING THE TERRAIN AND
> identifying the location of safe houses.
> Lee was not yet part of the CIA-Mafia plot in a concrete way, but would be
> linked to it in the spring of 1963.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Judyth and Lee
> ? When Lee was ordered to move to New Orleans in April 1963, he met Judyth
> by accident (or maybe not) at the new post office. They hit it off
> immediately, despite the fact that he was married and she was to be married
> in a matter of days.
> ? Lee arranged for both of them to INTERVIEWED (MAY 9) AND TO be hired (MAY
> 10)  by the Reily Coffee Company.  He ALSO got them apartments within
> walking distance of each other.
> Evidence:  Judyth’s W-2 form and pay stubs verify her contemporaneous
> employment AT THE SAME ADDRESS with Oswald. (REILY’S OPERATED AT VARIOUS
> LOCATIONS).
> Evidence:  Want ads for both positions in the New Orleans Times-Picayune (to
> create a “cover” of normalcy).
> EVIDENCE: JUDYTH’S CANCELED CHECKS SHOWING RENT   PAYMENTS TO “SUSIE
>  HANOVER” BEGAN IN MAY 1963 AT 1032 MARENGO ST.   RENT  WAS PAID THROUGH
> FIRST WEEK OF MAY TO  “MRS. WEBBER” FOR PRIOR RESIDENCE AT A ST. CHARLES
> STREET. ADDRESS.
> Note:  Both William Reily and Judyth’s boss, William Monaghan, were active
> members of INCA.  Monaghan, though nominally the company’s VICE PRESIDENT
> AND credit manager, was actually ex-FBI and an expert in industrial
> security.
> ? At Reily’s, Lee interviewed Cuban women, refugees, that were cycled thru
> the factory.  Winning their trust, he would extract from them the names of
> safe contacts they had left behind in Cuba.
> ? Both Reily and Monaghan were aware of Lee’s mission and Judyth’s role as
> his “aide.”  But Lee’s immediate supervisors were not.
> ? Judyth covered for Lee’s activity, and for his daily absences from work,
> making sure to punch him out at 4:30PM or 5:30PM when he was no longer
> there, which was almost always.
> Evidence:  The Warren Report shows precise time-outs on the half-hour, an
> impossibility since there was a line to wait on and such precise time-outs
> could not occur accidentally. It didn’t occur to Judyth to vary the time-out
> stamp.
> Evidence:   She also wrote an obviously phony background report on Lee for
> Reily’s files. This report is also a Warren exhibit, although Judyth insists
> it has not been published in its entirety.  One missing piece refers to a
> bank account; the WC reported no evidence that Lee had such an account.
> ? Often Lee would go through The Crescent City Garage, next door to Reily’s,
> to get UNOBTRUSIVELY to the offices of ex-FBI man, now-CIA operative, Guy
> Banister, who was deeply involved in anti-Castro causes.  This necessitated
> his befriending garage owner Adrian Alba.
> Note:  Previous accounts have maintained that Lee whiled away time at the
> garage reading gun magazines.
> Note:  The garage was regularly used by FBI and CIA cars.  Alba has
> testified that he saw the driver of one such car pass a white envelope to
> Lee.
> ? Lee was fired after he stole a green glass Judyth was admiring but could
> not afford.
> These glasses were packed together with tea made by the company. According
> to the Warren Commission, he had been reprimanded by supervisors who often
> could not find him (as well he should have been, because he was often not
> there). The glass incident was the proximate cause of his dismissal, but his
> work at Reily’s was done anyway.
> Corroborating testimony:  She told her children in 1980 of this episode.
> Judyth still treasures the glass.
> ? Judyth was fired from Reily’s on August 9, after she was seen with Lee
> leafleting on Canal Street..
> Evidence:  Judyth is 90% certain that Warren Commission exhibit Pizzo 453-B,
> a photo of the scene, includes her standing near Lee.  The picture is
> blurry, but there is a resemblance between the girl in the photo and
> contemporaneous photos of Judyth. The dress pattern in the picture matches
> close-up photos of a dress Judyth wore in other photos in her possession.
> The original film from which the still was made was recently sent by TV
> station WDSU, on which it aired, for archiving at the University of New
> Orleans.  The last time we checked, it was still unarchived, in one of many
> unmarked boxes.
> Evidence:  Her last pay stub was cut that very day.
> Note: The site of the leafleting USUALLY DESCRIBED AS ON CANAL STREET  IN
> FRONT OF MAISON BLANCHE, was also NEXT DOOR TO  the site of INCA’s
> headquarters.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> The Noble Conspiracy

> This is a totally new account of what was going on in David Ferrie’s
> home-based lab.
> ? Lee arranged for Judyth to meet David Ferrie, who she would soon learn was
> an associate of New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello. FERRIE WAS a
> CIA-operative who flew missions into Castro’s Cuba, and an “amateur cancer
> researcher.”
> Note:  Ferrie had lost his job as an Eastern Airlines pilot because of his
> homosexuality. The 15-year-old Lee had spurned Ferrie’s homosexual advances
> when Ferrie captained Lee’s Civil Air Patrol Unit (CAP).
> Corroborating evidence:  After decades of denials that Oswald and Ferrie
> were acquainted, a photo emerged showing the two at a CAP picnic.  Judyth
> says there was an additional photo of the group, including Lee, hanging on
> the wall in Ferrie’s apartment.
> ? In early May, Judyth was told Ochsner had set up both Ferrie’s home-based
> cancer lab, as well as a smaller lab in the apartment of Dr. Mary Sherman, a
> luminary at Ochsner’s Clinic.  The labs were devoted to “the medical side of
> subversive matters,” i.e., a form of biological warfare.
> Corroborating evidence:  The existence of the “cancer labs” is documented in
> an obscure book by Ed Haslam, Mary, Ferrie and the Monkey Virus.
> ? Judyth put her extensive training in ways of speeding tumor growth in the
> service of her government.  Her job, which she accepted as a patriotic duty,
> was to culture the strongest possible strains of lung cancer for eventual
> transport to medical contacts in Cuba who could arrange for their injection
> into Castro through a seemingly “innocuous innoculation.”
> ? This lung cancer material would appear to kill Castro "naturally," as a
> heavy cigar smoker might be expected to develop lung cancer.  This
> “assassination by natural causes” would avert a possible confrontation with
> Russia that could ignite World War III.  Judyth really believed this was a
> duty, considering the horrifying alternative.
> ? The serum in which the cancer cells were placed included a virus that
> knocks out the immune system, thus enhancing the strength of the already
> powerful cancer cells. This material – scraped from the kidney’s of sick
> monkeys – was, in fact, the PRECURSOR OF THE AIDS virus.
> Note: This material, DERIVED FROM VIRAL CONTAMINANTS FOUND in the early
> polio vaccine and other applications, is now the subject of an important new
> book on the origin of AIDS, Edward Hooper’s The River.  Judyth knew of its
> deadly potential and wrote letters to have its use stopped at the same time
> as she was working with it.
> ..
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Associates
> Judyth personally met other plotters, including Banister, Shaw, and
> Marcello, though, as a girl of 19 or 20, she was often treated as if she
> were wallpaper.  Wallpaper with ears, a 160 IQ, and the ability to do
> cutting edge cancer research.
> Banister
> ? Banister used Lee to collect the names of Communist sympathizers at
> area{DELETE s ] colleges.
> Corroborating testimony:  Prof. Michael Kurtz, an historian specializing in
> Louisiana history, personally witnessed Lee, in Banister’s company, making
> anti-integrationist remarks at Tulane.  Banister was a racist.  Lee, Judyth
> says, was staunchly pro-civil rights.
> ? Lee sometimes used a work area on the second floor of the 544 Camp
> building that housed Banister’s offices.
> Note:  Critics of DA Jim Garrison insist there was no stairway  ALLOWING
> ACCESS between the two offices.
> According to Judyth, while there was no public stairway, there were stairs
> leading down from the second floor to a door inside Banister’s private
> office.
> Corroborating Testimony:  Anna Vincent, a new witness and ex-wife of
> Banister “detective” David Lewis, confirms the existence of the stairway (on
> audiotape).
> ? Judyth saw Lee sign out guns from Banister's weapons storeroom on the
> third floor of 544 Camp.  Lee also kept his own guns there and, contrary to
> the belief of most conspiracy theorists, she maintains that he was an
> excellent shot.  She never saw or heard of a Mannlicher-Carcano, the gun
> Oswald supposedly used to kill Kennedy.
> Ruby, Marcello
> ? While Judyth was in Lee’s company, she met Jack Ruby twice, in May and
> June of 1963, once at Ferrie's apartment and once at The 500 Club, a
> Marcello hang-out. Ruby worked with Banister and Marcello in running guns to
> Cuban exiles.
> Corroborating testimony:  Anna Vincent: “Ruby knew all of ’em,” including
> Oswald.  She also claims that David Lewis knew Lee before Judyth ever met
> him, she believes in 1962.  It has long been suspected that Ruby and
> Banister ran guns to the exiles.
> Corroborating testimony:  Prof. Kurtz and others claim that Ruby was in New
> Orleans on several occasions in 1963.
> Corroborating testimony:  Gerry Patrick Hemming, head of Interpen, a
> mercenary group linked by some to the assassination, says he saw Oswald at
> the New Orleans airport in “mid-1962.”  (Actually, Hemming claims other
> members of his group were involved, but that he turned down two contracts
> from Texas money, believing he was going to be made the patsy. Hemming is
> still very much alive and talking.)
> ? Judyth knew Ruby as "Sparky" Rubenstein. When Lee was killed, she did not
> know that Jack Ruby and Sparky Rubenstein were the same man! The shock of
> seeing Lee killed on TV, AND FEAR THAT SHE WOULD ACCIDENTALLY REVEAL HER OWN
> INVOLVEMENT IN THE MATTER, caused her to avoid all further coverage of the
> assassination, as well as the official investigations that followed.
> ? Lee told Judyth that he first met Sparky when he was just 15, and that he
> spurned Ruby’s attempts to recruit him into Mob business.  Even so, he ran
> errands for his uncle, Dutz Murrett, who ran a bookmaking operation for
> Marcello.  Judyth accompanied Lee on one such errand soon after she met him.
> ? Lee told Judyth that he was trusted by Mob figures, up to and including
> Marcello, for his ability to keep his mouth shut.  Marcello told Ruby to
> look after the boy when the family moved to Texas.
> Corroborating evidence:  Oswald’s ties to the Mafia came not just via his
> uncle, but from his mother, who dated a number Marcello employees, including
> Sam Termine. Oswald and his mother ONCE lived in a Mafia neighborhood on
> Exchange Alley.

> CIA Work
> ? Lee and Ferrie HELPED TEACH [taught] combat techniques to Cuban exiles at
> the CIA-established training camp NEAR [at] Lake Pontchartrain (other camps
> were in Florida), and portions of these training sessions were filmed.
> Judyth saw some of this film in Ferrie’s apartment.
> Corroborating testimony:  Robert Tanenbaum, Deputy Counsel of the House
> Select Committee on Assassinations, saw such a film before he quit the
> investigation in disgust.. He believed it was archived at the Georgetown
> Library, but it is no longer there. His attempts to relocate it have proved
> fruitless. Like so much other evidence (including the President’s brain and
> numerous autopsy photos!), it is missing.  Tanenbaum is today a very
> successful mystery writer, as well as the former mayor of Beverly Hills.
> Tanenbaum’s novel Corruption of Blood was a very thinly veiled account of
> his experience with the HSCA, and includes a description of the film.
> ? Judyth saw Lee use an expensive Minox camera, typically used in espionage
> work.
> Corroborating evidence:  The FBI tried to get the Dallas police to change
> its evidence inventory  from “small German camera” to "light meter" --  
> efforts fully documented by the officers they pressured.  An FBI document
> refers to Minox film retrieved from Oswald’s possessions after the
> assassination.
> Lead: Where is the film today?  Where is the camera or light meter?  In
> fact, a Minox camera sits in the National Archives today (owner unknown).
> It is glued shut so its serial number cannot be seen. In any case, how could
> Oswald, supposedly a virtual pauper, afford a $200 spy camera?
> Note: According to Judyth, Lee’s Minox was so sensitive that she never saw
> IT USED with a light meter.
> ? To establish his pro-Castro bona fides, Lee handed out leaflets bearing
> the name of the “Fair Play for Cuba Committee” three times in August.  He
> got the idea for leafleting from an episode of “I Led Three Lives,” an early
> 1950s TV show about Herbert Philbrick, an FBI man pretending to be a
> Communist.
> Evidence:  Lee’s brother, Robert, confirms his fascination with that show.
> Note:  Lee [AT SOME TIME] [later] met the real Herbert Philbrick, who was a
> consultant to Ochsner’s group, INCA.  He found his boyhood hero unimpressive
> in the flesh.

> ? Lee staged his own arrest at an August 16th leafleting. His “fight” with
> Cuban exile leader Carlos Bringuier was based on an incident he had read
> about in a local newspaper months earlier.  The story concerned a clean-cut
> narcotics agent who provoked a street fight to enhance his cover as a bad
> guy.
> Evidence:  Judyth has the May 4, 1963 article.
> Corroborating testimony:  Ex-CIA agent William Gaudet said he saw Oswald
> inside the International Trade Center several times.  Judyth says Lee stored
> some of his propaganda materials there.  Gaudet has said the street scuffle
> was “a sort of PR operation” and declared his belief that Kennedy was the
> victim of an anti-Communist conspiracy.  Gaudet was a friend of Ocshner’s.
> ? At a meeting arranged by Ochsner’s group, INCA, held to prepare for a
> radio interview of Lee, someone accidentally uttered the name [ACTUALLY,
> THEY SAID ‘DAVID PHILLIPS,’AND LEE RECOGNIZED THIS AS DAVID ATLEE PHILLIPS]
> “David Atlee Phillips.” Lee came to believe his CIA handler, “Mr. B.," was
> actually Phillips. Judyth waited in the car as the meeting took place at
> Reily’s.
> Lead: Phillips, propaganda specialist in Cuban affairs, denied ever knowing
> Oswald.  There are reports of a death-bed confession in which he admitted,
> at the very least, that he did meet Oswald.  Judyth’s source, a national
> book award winner, claimed this information came from Phillips’s nephew,
> [REMOVE a] Shawn Phillips, but THE WRITER now refuses to help us locate this
> man.
> ? Lee then participated in a radio debate with Bringuier, also organized by
> Ochsner’s group, INCA.
> ? Shaw and Ferrie knew each other well.  Once, Judyth accompanied Lee to an
> airfield where Ferrie took the other two men on a flight to Canada.
> Corroborating testimony:  Others have reported on Ferrie-Shaw flights to
> Canada.
> Corroborating testimony:  An ex-secretary of Ochsner’s, Aura Lee, worked at
> Shaw’s Trade Mart and claimed that Ferrie, a distinctive-looking gentleman,
> was a frequent visitor to Shaw.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Judyth’s Lee
> Judyth portrays Oswald as a much more intelligent and charming man than we
> have seen in most previous accounts.
> ? Although Lee confessed to her within days of their meeting that he beat
> Marina, Judyth says he never raised a hand to her.  In fact, she describes
> no fights of any kind.  Lee told her that Marina mercilessly denigrated him.
> Lee admitted to a mother-wife problem, which they often discussed, and she
> believes the abuse stopped (it would be interesting if Marina would confirm
> this).
> Corroborating testimony:  In his unpublished manuscript – I’m A Patsy, I’m A
> Patsy – the urbane George DeMohrenschildt[OMIT ,] described by some as Lee’s
> CIA  “babysitter” in Texas, described Marina’s DEMEANING treatment of Lee.
> ? Although primarily self-taught, the range of Lee’s knowledge impressed
> Judyth, as did his ability to teach himself Russian despite being dyslexic.
> Corroborating evidence:  Oswald’s library records show that he was an avid
> reader. They also show Judyth’s influence (anthropology and sci-fi), as well
> as books he took out for her to read (e.g., a primer on C[ O][u]mmunism).
> Judyth says he took out more books than are shown in the Warren Report, some
> using her or Ferrie’s library cards.
> Evidence:  Refer to the text of a speech Lee gave to a Jesuit-sponsored
> conference in Mobile…a transcript of his radio debate…a short sci-fi story –
> [‘HER WAY’][NOT “Her Story”] – A 17 PAGE SCIENCE FICTION STORY he wrote with
> Judyth.
> Corroborating testimony:  DeMohrenschildt praised Lee’s intelligence in his
> book (a different account of the man than the one he gave to the Warren
> Commission).
> Note: “The Baron” committed suicide just prior to meeting with House
> investigator Gaeton Fonzi (The Last Investigation) – before he could be
> asked to explain these inconsistencies.
> ? While in the company of Oswald, Judyth sometimes posed as Marina, which
> was possible because of their physical resemblance and her ability to speak
> Russian.  Judyth’s husband was out of town most of their married life in New
> Orleans.
> Evidence:  Judyth has photos of herself at the time, some of which show a
> striking resemblance to Marina. THEY WERE ALSO THE SAME HEIGHT AND BUILD.
> ? In testimony, Marina said Lee was always home at night, but she never said
> by what time.
> Corroborating testimony:  Anna Vincent asserts that she, her husband, Judyth
> and Lee were a foursome, meeting after work on a regular basis early that
> summer, usually at Thompson’s Restaurant, where Anna worked. Lee and Judyth
> would keep company with them until 8:00-8:30 PM.  Anna describes a call from
> Marina at Thompson’s.  Marina wanted to know if Lee was there with another
> woman.
> ? Although they fell in love almost immediately, Lee and Judyth resisted
> becoming lovers until the summer.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Clinton/Jackson: Mystery Solved

> This is a totally new account of the trip to Clinton
> ? Judyth’s work took longer than expected, and was, to her horror, tested on
> at least one human guinea pig -- the real reason for the mysterious trip to
> Clinton, probably on August 23, by Shaw, Ferrie, and Oswald.
> Note:  The House Select Committee on Assassinations found the Clinton
> witnesses – including John Birchers and CORE activists – credible, but no
> one has been able to come up with a coherent explanation for the trip.  All
> have been sidetracked by the fact that Oswald tried to register to vote
> while in Clinton though he didn’t live there.
> ? Lee mentioned picking up a man in white hospital garb who guided them to
> the mental hospital in Jackson, the next town over from Clinton, and to the
> PROPER BUILDING AND ENTRYWAY IN THE LARGE COMPLEX [experimental area] there.
> Note: Witnesses reported seeing a fourth man – a “man in white” -- emerge
> from the car with Lee in Clinton.
> ? The true reason for the long stop in Clinton was an unexpected delay:  the
> prisoner(s) had not yet arrived at the hospital.  Oswald got [IN][ on] line
> after betting Shaw that he could get registered just because he was white,
> EVEN THOUGH HE WAS FROM A DIFFERENT PARISH.
> ? Lee and Judyth were heartsick over the plan to treat a prisoner/mental
> patient, but were powerless to stop it.  Several days after the first trip,
> Lee took Judyth to the hospital to see the test subject.  Shaw OK’d the
> trip, as he wanted her professional assessment of the patient’s condition.
> ? Judyth checked on the bloodwork to see if the serum “took.”  If the
> bloodwork was not conclusive, an immediate blood sample could have been
> drawn and checked while she was still there. As it turned out, radical
> changes began quickly.  The only man she saw (more than one may have been
> treated) was Cuban, white, about Castro's age and physique.
> ? They made one stop going to Jackson and another on the way home. Judyth
> stayed in the car both times.
> Corroborating evidence:  Despite “slouching,,” she was seen by at least two
> witnesses:
> ? Edwin Lea McGehee:
> An "old...battered" car drove up to his barbershop and Lee Harvey Oswald
> came inside for a haircut. "There was a woman sitting on the front seat [of
> the car]...and in the back seat what I noticed was -- looked like a [baby]
> bassinet..." (Judyth says this was a car used by the Lewis’s and that the
> bassinet was for the ever-pregnant Anna. ANNA EVENTUALLY HAD TEN CHILDREN.).
> ? Mary Morgan, daughter of Reeves Morgan, State Representative (and a guard
> at the Jackson hospital!):
> When Oswald was in the house talking with her dad, she went onto the porch
> and “just casually noticed there was a dark colored car parked under a tree
> in the front of the house." She remembered "seeing a woman in the car.”
> Note:  The fact that there were two trips within days of each other explains
> why some accounts say this was a three-day trip.  It is unlikely that any of
> these men, and certainly not Shaw, would make a three-day trip together.
> ? The test was a success, as the subject died within weeks.
> ? Lee and Judyth began to realize that they were trapped. They could not
> back out of the plot for fear they would be killed.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Road to the Assassination
> ? Lee and Judyth actually liked the Kennedys; in their youthful
> overconfidence, they never thought they would be racing a deadline to keep
> JFK from becoming a target.
> ? In private, Ferrie told them that he opposed the assassination;  he was
> only putting on an act for Shaw, who represented Texas money in New Orleans.
> Note:  Excluding comments in Banister’s company, every mention in the
> historical record of Oswald talking about Kennedy is a positive one.  (We
> have a compilation of his statements.)
> ? Based on a message from AN H.L. Hunt EXECUTIVE conveyed to a Shaw
> associate, those involved with the labs had reason to fear for their lives
> once they had outlived their usefulness.
> ? Ferrie arranged for Judyth to take a job, beginning in September, at
> Peninsular Chem Research in Gaine[S]ville, Florida, which CUSTOM-made
> ORGANIC AND [REMOVE highly] toxic chemicals.  There she could continue to
> contribute to the project by making “custom” chemicals for Ferrie.
> Evidence:  Judyth has a read-out from a chemical analysis, marked F-1, done
> at PenChem on a rare carc[CI][en]ogenic substance.
> ? The three understood, as early as the third week of August, that Lee's
> grooming in Russia and his [PRO-CASTRO] activities in New Orleans made him
> the perfect patsy.
> ? Fearing he was a dead man if he tried to break with the conspirators at
> this point, he would pretend to embrace Plan B, walking with eyes wide open
> into the patsy role. He hoped to get close to the inner circle of the
> conspiracy in Dallas and stop the plot from the inside.  To get further
> inside, [LEE][he ] played up his connections to Marcello and revealed his
> marksmanship.
> ? At the end of August, Shaw paid for the last of several hotel trysts for
> Judyth and Lee.  According to Judyth, Shaw felt sorry for them.
> ? Judyth then left for Florida.  The supposedly impoverished Lee gave her
> $400 for “emergencies” – equal to about $2,800 in today’s dollars.  Judyth
> told her family that the money fell out of an ironing board she bought at a
> yard sale. “IT BECAME A FAMILY LEGEND,’ SHE SAYS.

> .._____________________________________________________________________
> Mexico City: Mystery Solved

> This is a totally new account of the mysterious trip to Mexico City.
> ? In August, Judyth trained Lee to handle the deadly material. LEE, IN TURN,
> WOULD TEACH A CONTACT IN MEXICO CITY HOW TO HANDLE THE MATERIALS, AND IN
> THIS MANNER, THE MATERIALS WOULD SURVIVE TRANSFER TO A CUBAN MEDICAL LAB..
> AFTER PLEDGES TO MEET ONCE THIS MISSION WAS OVER,  Judyth left for Florida
> at the end of the month.
> ? Lee couriered the materials to Mexico City at the end of September,
> expecting to meet a contact who would bring them into Cuba.  He was ordered
> to make the trip by “Mr. B.”
> New information: Mr. B may not have been Phillips. Another CIA figure, Frank
> Bender, one alias of Gerry Droller, was known inside the agency as Mr. B.
> He was posted to Mexico City at the same time as Phillips. The record says
> that Droller worked for the OSS during the war, but there are indications he
> had actually worked on biological weapons for the Nazis.
> ? Lee was left holding the bag -- i.e., no one was there to meet him in
> Mexico City to take the materials off his hands.  So he desperately tried to
> get into Cuba himself, where his knowledge of HOW TO HANDLE THE MATERIALS,
> the language, the terrain, safe houses, and contacts might still be used.
> Indeed, initially, he expected to make the entire trip himself.
> ? He was frantic because the materials had a limited life span outside a
> lab – hence, the official  reports of his erratic behavior.  He was also
> frantic because he knew what failure meant.  In fact, the conspirators had
> already turned to Plan B without telling him.
> ? They were later told that Hurricane Flora had created so much destruction
> that information about safe houses, and about Castro’s routine, was no
> longer to be trusted, so Plan A had to be called off.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Endgame
> ? With Lee in Texas and Judyth in Florida, Ferrie arranged for about 14
> back-channel phone calls through a cooperative (and well-paid-off) operator
> in Covington.
> Corroborating evidence: Only one call placed to Oswald at the Book
> Depository is on record.  This call came from “a lady with no accent” The
> Warren Commission tried to track the origin of the call, but couldn’t get
> past Covington.  According to Judyth, the record would not even show this
> call except for the fact that the operator putting this call through was not
> their usual operator.
> Note:  Interpen had a presence in Covington.
> ? Lee told Judyth that he made several unsuccessful attempts to stop the
> assassination, including calling death threats to the FBI.
> Corroborating evidence:  A number of anonymous threats and warnings were
> called into FBI offices prior to the assassination.
> ? In their last conversation, on November 20th, they discussed the option of
> fleeing before the assassination.  Judyth recalls Lee’s words precisely:
> “if I stay, that will be one less bullet aimed at Kennedy.”
> ? Lee told Judyth of his last-ditch plan: to fire a premature shot, a
> warning shot, at the motorcade, hoping to alert JFK’s Secret Service
> protectors.
> Corroborating Testimony:  At least 5 Warren Commission witnesses reported a
> bullet hitting the pavement behind the President’s limo.  This would have
> been his closest and, presumably, easiest shot.
> Note:  The "street shot" bullet was presumably never found, unless that is
> what is being picked up by the "mystery FBI man" photographed with Dallas
> Deputy Sheriff Buddy Walthers and Officer J.W. Foster.  The photo has long
> been the subject of speculation.
> Corroborating Testimony:  Anna Vincent says it was open knowledge in the
> local Mafia that Lee fired a premature shot.
> ? If he did fire a warning shot, it went unheeded by the sleepy Secret
> Service agents.
> ? Lee and Judyth had made plans for an escape and rendezvous in Mexico.
> Judyth tells of Ferrie sobbing uncontrollably during phone calls with him
> because it had all gone so wrong.  His 400-mile car trip to Houston the day
> of the assassination was made in vain (he told Garrison, variously, that he
> and two friends went [ICE][roller]-skating or goose-hunting).

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Deaths After Dallas
> ? Guy Banister died of an apparent hear[T] attack at his home in early 1964.
> New Testimony:  According to Anna Vincent, her husband, David Lewis, and
> fellow Banister employee, Jack Martin, went  to the office immediately upon
> hearing the news, only to find the files carted off and yellow
> [TAPE][ribbon] surrounding the office as if it were a crime scene.  Lewis
> played a minor role in the Cuban operation and, according to Anna, was told
> to “keep his mouth shut.”
> Note:  Author Ed Haslam (see above) believes he saw remnants of Banister’s
> missing files at INCA’s offices.
> ? David Ferrie died of an apparent brain anyeurism (not cancer as he told
> those curious about his lab) in early 1964.
> Note:  An empty bottle of Proloid – which could kill a man suffering from
> hypertension -- and two typed “suicide notes” keep his death controversial.
> ? Mary Sherman was brutally murdered in her bed [IN JULY, 1964][just weeks
> later,] with reports of cancer cells stolen.
> Corroborating testimony:  Judyth has a letter from a former resident of New
> Orleans in which he recollects radio reports of stolen cancer cells.
> ? THE NON-SMOKING Jack Ruby died of “a galloping LUNG cancer” in  JAIL IN
> 1967.  When [RUBY][ he] visited Ferrie’s apartment in the summer of 1963,
> Judyth showed him the lab and told him about the cancer cell injections --  
> including where on the body the injections should be administered.
> Note:  In jail, Ruby insisted he was injected with cancer cells, but no one
> took him seriously.  His mind was shot and they just assumed he was babbling
> incoherently.
> Clay Shaw died suddenly of SUSPECTED LUNG cancer in 1972 after being treated
> for an undisclosed illness at Ochsner’s Hospital.
> Note:  Of the 8 persons Judyth knew who were connected to the New Orelans
> cancer project, 5 were dead by 1967. After 1972, only she and Ochsner
> remained -- and she was in hiding.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> The Participants
> Who was involved?  Mafia, CIA “rogues,” Cuban exiles, financed by Texas oil
> AND INDUSTRY  – or a smaller group culled from these.  When the CIA-Mafia
> alliance was established in 1959, an infrastructure was created that could
> be used by a subset of this group to put into motion the assassination of
> JFK.

> Their Motives
> The Mafia
> JFK's failure to regain Cuba meant the permanent loss of billions of dollars
> from their casinos, HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION, AND DRUG RINGS.  Also providing
> motive was Bobby Kennedy’s unprecedent assault on organized crime, including
> particularly aggressive treatment of New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello.
> Bobby had the proud Marecello kidnapped [WHEN MARCELLO REPORTED TO A PAROLE
> OFFICER][from his office], put on a plane, and dumped in Guatemala.  He made
> it back to the US, barely surviving the wilds of Honduras. The treatment was
> no way to repay a debt, i.e., the Mob’s help in rigging 1960 election
> results in Illinois and Texas.
> The CIA
> After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, JFK threatened to “split the CIA into a
> thousand pieces.”  He fired CIA Director Allen Dulles (who would later sit
> on the Warren Commission!) and General George Cabell (whose brother Earl was
> Mayor of Dallas in 1963).  JFK was seen as soft on Communism,
> [WEAKENING][weakening] his resolve in Vietnam, and extending an olive branch
> to Castro AND KHRUSHCHEV.
> Cuban Exiles
> Kennedy’s betrayals: the Bay of Pigs; the deal with the Soviets that ended
> the Cuban Missile Crisis, which included a non-invasion pledge; RFK’s
> dismantling of exile training camps the CIA set up for exiles; his
> suppression of raids on Cuba; WITHDRAWAL OF FUNDING OF ANTI-CASTRO EXILES,
> and, finally, JFK’s attempt late in 1963 at a rapproachmant with Castro.
> Texas Money
> This group – led by H.L. Hunt –OR POSSIBLY BY HIS LIEUTENANTS--- detested
> JFK’s Cuba policy, as well as his integrationist stance, but mostly they
> were threatened by his vow to repeal a major tax windfall, the oil depletion
> allowance.  They wanted a man in the White House they could control, i.e.,
> LBJ, and they needed to get him there fast, as the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol
> Estes scandals threatened his continuation as Vice President.

> If this cabal couldn’t get to Castro, paving the way for a rebellion, or at
> least more compliant leadership, they had decided to go after Kennedy.  With
> the blame pinned on Oswald, who was groomed to look like a Communist, and
> would soon be groomed to look pro-Castro, they hoped to spark a second
> invasion of Cuba.
> Ironically, CIA stonewalling of the Warren Commission was almost certainly
> conducted to prevent its relationship with the Mafia from being exposed, as
> well as its surveillance operation in Mexico City.  Thus, the assassination
> cover-up was thus joined by high officials in the CIA, who may not
> themselves have participated in the assassination.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> On Proof and Evidence
> While there is no “smoking gun” proof -- no government document, for
> example -- for this particular plot, no such proof should be expected for a
> project kept so secret.  However, the account provided by Judyth Vary Baker
> is much more detailed than any previous account by a late-emerging witness,
> and it explains [MUCH OF WHAT WAS][a lot] previously subject to wild, and
> widely divergent,  speculation.

> ____________________________________________________________________
> Last Words

> “They did it too good.”
> Gerry Patrick Hemming, Interpen, on why the conspirators failed:
> "What backfired on the plotters was painting this picture that it was a
> Castro hit. It scared the shit out of some high-ranking people, and they
> covered it up….How could these people [the plotters]  possibly figure out
> that this scenario would scare the shit out of the people in Washington?
> Jesus Christ, the best laid plans of mice and men. They did it too good.
> They painted too clear of a picture that burned its way right back to Fidel
> Castro. It scared the fuck out of the powers that be. They wouldn't go to
> war. The American people never realized we had come so fucking close to
> nuclear holocaust."

> “…Who Struck John”
> James Jesus Angleton, CIA counterintelligence spymaster:
> "A mansion has many rooms and there were many things going on during the
> period of the bombings. I'm not privy to who struck John."  [The New York
> Times, March 1975]

> WHICH THEN CHANGED TO THIS:

> Deadly Alliance

> By Judyth Vary Baker with Howard Platzman, Ph.D.

> OUTLINE OF THE CONSPIRACY

> nd Plan B:  The Plot to Kill Castro and the Assassination of FK
> In 1963, the unsuccessful CIA-Mafia alliance to kill Castro -- top-secret
> until exposed by the Church Committee in 1975 -- was directly linked to the
> JFK assassination conspiracy.  APlan A@ called for Castro to be killed
> through the use of a biological weapon that would make his death appear
> natural.  If he could not be killed by October 25, 1963, the same group of
> conspirators  would go to APlan B@: killing Kennedy.
> This is the first account of the JFK assassination that links it directly
> (in an either-or fashion) to the plot to kill Castro, and the first time Lee
> Harvey Oswald has ever been tied to the plot to kill Castro.
> What this means is that the JFK assassination plot was an offshoot of a
> larger secret alliance that is already established fact.  It is, therefore,
> not necessary to believe in the existence of a separate conspiracy theory.
> Note: Judyth=s knowledge of events in New Orleans is often first-hand.  What
> she knows or believes about events in Dallas comes from conversations with
> Oswald or David Ferrie.
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Judyth is Recruited: To April 1963

> By the age of 15, Judyth achieved a reputation as a science whiz kid, having
> invented a new way to extract magnesium from seawater.
> Her real passion, though, was cancer research. Col. Philip Doyle set up a
> special lab for Judyth at her high school (Manatee High, in Florida), and
> introduced her to CIA asset and biological weapons expert, Dr. Canute
> Michaelson, who provided financial support for her initial work.
> Her appearance at an international science fair brought her to the attention
> of other medical figures with military or intelligence backgrounds, as well
> as top officials of the American Cancer Society: Dr.Harold Diehl and Dr.
> Alton Ochsner (of the famed Ochsner Cancer Clinic in New Orleans).  Ochsner
> was Judyth=s principal behind-the-scenes mentor through her late teen years.
> Judyth=s lab was expanded and she received research materials from doctors
> at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Eli Lilly, Oak Ridge, et al.
> Evidence:  A letter dated 9-2-60 from Dr. David Jacobus at Walter Reed,
> making specific reference to chemicals supplied her and promising more.
> She was REQUIRED to take a loyalty oath., and, while still in high school,
> was required to learn conversational Russian at a local junior college from
> a Dr. Concevitch.
> Evidence:  A yellowed mailing envelope with the addressee,  Concevitch.
> Her work came to the attention of Florida Senator George Smathers, a close
> friend of JFK=s, who encouraged her to write to the President and volunteer
> to put her talents to work in the service of her country.
> Evidence:  A reply from the White House. (While not very dramatic, she soon
> received fresh supplies, as Sen. Smathers told her she would.)
> She spent the summer after high school graduation working under a National
> Science Foundation grant at Roswell Park in Buffalo, NY, the world=s oldest
> cancer research center. Her studies centered on "substances which cause
> cancer to become most deadly."
> Source: The Bradenton Herald, 9-6-61.
> Of the 60-plus students working under a grant, she was the only member of
> the group chosen by Dr. George Moore, head of Roswell Park, to work directly
> with him -- and she was the only one forced to stay at the local YWCA.  She
> was, in essence, Akidnapped@ from an off-site apartment she tried to rent
> and returned to the Y.
> Evidence:  BROCHURES, YWCA RECEIPT, AND FORMS. Copious newspaper clippings
> on her achievements.
> Corroborating testimony:  Judyth recently located DR.ROB STROM, who also
> exhibited at the science fair.  He REMEMBERED HER.  THOUGH HE ALSO RECEIVED
> ATTENTION FROM MANY FRONTS, HE TOLD HER HIS LEFT-WING VIEWS MADE HIM A POOR
> CANDIDATE FOR CIA RECRUITMENT.

> Who Was Dr. Alton Ochsner?
> Along with Judyth herself, Ochsner is the primary new figure to emerge in
> this account of Oswald=s stay in New Orleans.
> Notes
> Ocshner was friends with Clay Shaw, who was unsuccessfully prosecuted by New
> Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison for conspiring to assassinate JFK.  Ochsner was
> director of International House at the same time Clay Shaw was a managing
> director (1961-1962).  At different times, he and Shaw headed this
> organization AND the International Trade Mart.  The two ORGANIZATIONS merged
> some years later.
> Ochsner=s biographers quote him as fearing that he would be indicted by
> Garrison (John Wilds and Ira Harkey, Surgeon of the South)
> Ochsner was also friends with AWild Bill@ Donovan, head of the OSS, the
> prescursor to the CIA.  Both were elected officials of the American Cancer
> Society in 1949.
> Ochsner founded the virulently anti-Communist Information Council of the
> Americas (INCA), which later figured heavily into the activities of both
> Judyth and Lee.
> Author Thomas Karnes (Tropical Enterprise) describes Ochsner as a consultant
> to the US Air Force Aon the medical side of subversive matters.@

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Lee is Groomed: To April 1963
> Lee Oswald, a CIA operative, was groomed to look like a disaffected American
> for eventual use in Cuba. This was the primary reason for his fake defection
> to Russia.
> Lee told Judyth that he gave the Soviets information that he believed
> allowed them to shoot (REMOVE HYPHEN)down the secret U-2 spy plane (he had
> been stationed at the U-2 base in Atsugi, Japan).
> Lee said that the military wanted to derail an upcoming summit in which it
> was feared that President Eisenhower, declining mentally, might be bested by
> Krushchev.
> Note: Downed U-2 Pilot Gary Powers has stated his belief that Oswald had the
> information needed to bring him down.
> Upon his return from Russia, the CIA arranged for Lee to take a job at a
> Dallas graphic arts firm, Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall, that was involved in
> highly classified work for the government, including the creation of
> detailed maps of Cuba. His CIA assignment involved LEARNING THE TERRAIN AND
> identifying the location of safe houses.
> Lee was not yet part of the CIA-Mafia plot in a concrete way, but would be
> linked to it in the spring of 1963.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Judyth and Lee
> When Lee was ordered to move to New Orleans in April 1963, he met Judyth by
> accident (or maybe not) at the new post office. They hit it off immediately,
> despite the fact that he was married and she was to be married in a matter
> of days.
> Lee arranged for both of them to INTERVIEWED (MAY 9) AND TO be hired (MAY
> 10)  by the Reily Coffee Company.  He ALSO got them apartments within
> walking distance of each other.
> Evidence:  Judyth=s W-2 form and pay stubs verify her contemporaneous
> employment AT THE SAME ADDRESS with Oswald. (REILY=S OPERATED AT VARIOUS
> LOCATIONS).
> Evidence:  Want ads for both positions in the New Orleans Times-Picayune (to
> create a Acover@ of normalcy).
> EVIDENCE: JUDYTH=S CANCELED CHECKS SHOWING RENT   PAYMENTS TO ASUSIE
> HANOVER@ BEGAN IN MAY 1963 AT 1032 MARENGO ST.   RENT  WAS PAID THROUGH
> FIRST WEEK OF MAY TO  AMRS. WEBBER@ FOR PRIOR RESIDENCE AT A ST. CHARLES
> STREET. ADDRESS.
> Note:  Both William Reily and Judyth=s boss, William Monaghan, were active
> members of INCA.  Monaghan, though nominally the company=s VICE PRESIDENT
> AND credit manager, was actually ex-FBI and an expert in industrial
> security.
> At Reily=s, Lee interviewed Cuban women, refugees, that were cycled thru the
> factory.  Winning their trust, he would extract from them the names of safe
> contacts they had left behind in Cuba.
> Both Reily and Monaghan were aware of Lee=s mission and Judyth=s role as his
> Aaide.@  But Lee=s immediate supervisors were not.
> Judyth covered for Lee=s activity, and for his daily absences from work,
> making sure to punch him out at 4:30PM or 5:30PM when he was no longer
> there, which was almost always.
> Evidence:  The Warren Report shows precise time-outs on the half-hour, an
> impossibility since there was a line to wait on and such precise time-outs
> could not occur accidentally. It didn=t occur to Judyth to vary the time-out
> stamp.
> Evidence:   She also wrote an obviously phony background report on Lee for
> Reily=s files. This report is also a Warren exhibit, although Judyth insists
> it has not been published in its entirety.  One missing piece refers to a
> bank account; the WC reported no evidence that Lee had such an account.
> Often Lee would go through The Crescent City Garage, next door to Reily=s,
> to get UNOBTRUSIVELY to the offices of ex-FBI man, now-CIA operative, Guy
> Banister, who was deeply involved in anti-Castro causes.  This necessitated
> his befriending garage owner Adrian Alba.
> Note:  Previous accounts have maintained that Lee whiled away time at the
> garage reading gun magazines.
> Note:  The garage was regularly used by FBI and CIA cars.  Alba has
> testified that he saw the driver of one such car pass a white envelope to
> Lee.
> Lee was fired after he stole a green glass Judyth was admiring but could not
> afford.
> These glasses were packed together with tea made by the company. According
> to the Warren Commission, he had been reprimanded by supervisors who often
> could not find him (as well he should have been, because he was often not
> there). The glass incident was the proximate cause of his dismissal, but his
> work at Reily=s was done anyway.
> Corroborating testimony:  She told her children in 1980 of this episode.
> Judyth still treasures the glass.
> Judyth was fired from Reily=s on August 9, after she was seen with Lee
> leafleting on Canal Street..
> Evidence:  Judyth is 90% certain that Warren Commission exhibit Pizzo 453-B,
> a photo of the scene, includes her standing near Lee.  The picture is
> blurry, but there is a resemblance between the girl in the photo and
> contemporaneous photos of Judyth. The dress pattern in the picture matches
> close-up photos of a dress Judyth wore in other photos in her possession.
> The original film from which the still was made was recently sent by TV
> station WDSU, on which it aired, for archiving at the University of New
> Orleans.  The last time we checked, it was still unarchived, in one of many
> unmarked boxes.
>    Evidence:  Her last pay stub was cut that very day.
> Note: The site of the leafleting USUALLY DESCRIBED AS ON CANAL STREET  IN
> FRONT OF MAISON BLANCHE, was also NEXT DOOR TO  the site of INCA=s
> headquarters.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> The Noble Conspiracy

> This is a totally new account of what was going on in David Ferrie=s
> home-based lab.
> Lee arranged for Judyth to meet David Ferrie, who she would soon learn was
> an associate of New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello. FERRIE WAS a
> CIA-operative who flew missions into Castro=s Cuba, and an Aamateur cancer
> researcher.@
> Note:  Ferrie had lost his job as an Eastern Airlines pilot because of his
> homosexuality. The 15-year-old Lee had spurned Ferrie=s homosexual advances
> when Ferrie captained Lee=s Civil Air Patrol Unit (CAP).
> Corroborating evidence:  After decades of denials that Oswald and Ferrie
> were acquainted, a photo emerged showing the two at a CAP picnic.  Judyth
> says there was an additional photo of the group, including Lee, hanging on
> the wall in Ferrie=s apartment.
> In early May, Judyth was told Ochsner had set up both Ferrie=s home-based
> cancer lab, as well as a smaller lab in the apartment of Dr. Mary Sherman, a
> luminary at Ochsner=s Clinic.  The labs were devoted to Athe medical side of
> subversive matters,@ i.e., a form of biological warfare.
> Corroborating evidence:  The existence of the Acancer labs@ is documented in
> an obscure book by Ed Haslam, Mary, Ferrie and the Monkey Virus.
> Judyth put her extensive training in ways of speeding tumor growth in the
> service of her government.  Her job, which she accepted as a patriotic duty,
> was to culture the strongest possible strains of lung cancer for eventual
> transport to medical contacts in Cuba who could arrange for their injection
> into Castro through a seemingly Ainnocuous innoculation.@
> This lung cancer material would appear to kill Castro "naturally," as a
> heavy cigar smoker might be expected to develop lung cancer.  This
> Aassassination by natural causes@ would avert a possible confrontation with
> Russia that could ignite World War III.  Judyth really believed this was a
> duty, considering the horrifying alternative.
> The serum in which the cancer cells were placed included a virus that knocks
> out the immune system, thus enhancing the strength of the already powerful
> cancer cells. This material B scraped from the kidney=s of sick monkeys B
> was, in fact, the PRECURSOR OF THE AIDS virus.
> Note: This material, DERIVED FROM VIRAL CONTAMINANTS FOUND in the early
> polio vaccine and other applications, is now the subject of an important new
> book on the origin of AIDS, Edward Hooper=s The River.  Judyth knew of its
> deadly potential and wrote letters to have its use stopped at the same time
> as she was working with it.
> ..
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Associates
> Judyth personally met other plotters, including Banister, Shaw, and
> Marcello, though, as a girl of 19 or 20, she was often treated as if she
> were wallpaper.  Wallpaper with ears, a 160 IQ, and the ability to do
> cutting edge cancer research.
> Banister
> Banister used Lee to collect the names of Communist sympathizers at
> area{DELETE s ] colleges.
> Corroborating testimony:  Prof. Michael Kurtz, an historian specializing in
> Louisiana history, personally witnessed Lee, in Banister=s company, making
> anti-integrationist remarks at Tulane.  Banister was a racist.  Lee, Judyth
> says, was staunchly pro-civil rights.
> Lee sometimes used a work area on the second floor of the 544 Camp building
> that housed Banister=s offices.
> Note:  Critics of DA Jim Garrison insist there was no stairway  ALLOWING
> ACCESS between the two offices.
> According to Judyth, while there was no public stairway, there were stairs
> leading down from the second floor to a door inside Banister=s private
> office.
> Corroborating Testimony:  Anna Vincent, a new witness and ex-wife of
> Banister Adetective@ David Lewis, confirms the existence of the stairway (on
> audiotape).
> Judyth saw Lee sign out guns from Banister's weapons storeroom on the third
> floor of 544 Camp.  Lee also kept his own guns there and, contrary to the
> belief of most conspiracy theorists, she maintains that he was an excellent
> shot.  She never saw or heard of a Mannlicher-Carcano, the gun Oswald
> supposedly used to kill Kennedy.
> Ruby, Marcello
> While Judyth was in Lee=s company, she met Jack Ruby twice, in May and June
> of 1963, once at Ferrie's apartment and once at The 500 Club, a Marcello
> hang-out. Ruby worked with Banister and Marcello in running guns to Cuban
> exiles.
> Corroborating testimony:  Anna Vincent: ARuby knew all of =em,@ including
> Oswald.  She also claims that David Lewis knew Lee before Judyth ever met
> him, she believes in 1962.  It has long been suspected that Ruby and
> Banister ran guns to the exiles.
> Corroborating testimony:  Prof. Kurtz and others claim that Ruby was in New
> Orleans on several occasions in 1963.
> Corroborating testimony:  Gerry Patrick Hemming, head of Interpen, a
> mercenary group linked by some to the assassination, says he saw Oswald at
> the New Orleans airport in Amid-1962.@  (Actually, Hemming claims other
> members of his group were involved, but that he turned down two contracts
> from Texas money, believing he was going to be made the patsy. Hemming is
> still very much alive and talking.)
> Judyth knew Ruby as "Sparky" Rubenstein. When Lee was killed, she did not
> know that Jack Ruby and Sparky Rubenstein were the same man! The shock of
> seeing Lee killed on TV, AND FEAR THAT SHE WOULD ACCIDENTALLY REVEAL HER OWN
> INVOLVEMENT IN THE MATTER, caused her to avoid all further coverage of the
> assassination, as well as the official investigations that followed.
> Lee told Judyth that he first met Sparky when he was just 15, and that he
> spurned Ruby=s attempts to recruit him into Mob business.  Even so, he ran
> errands for his uncle, Dutz Murrett, who ran a bookmaking operation for
> Marcello.  Judyth accompanied Lee on one such errand soon after she met him.
> Lee told Judyth that he was trusted by Mob figures, up to and including
> Marcello, for his ability to keep his mouth shut.  Marcello told Ruby to
> look after the boy when the family moved to Texas.
> Corroborating evidence:  Oswald=s ties to the Mafia came not just via his
> uncle, but from his mother, who dated a number Marcello employees, including
> Sam Termine. Oswald and his mother ONCE lived in a Mafia neighborhood on
> Exchange Alley.

> CIA Work
> Lee and Ferrie HELPED TEACH [taught] combat techniques to Cuban exiles at
> the CIA-established training camp NEAR [at] Lake Pontchartrain (other camps
> were in Florida), and portions of these training sessions were filmed.
> Judyth saw some of this film in Ferrie=s apartment.
> Corroborating testimony:  Robert Tanenbaum, Deputy Counsel of the House
> Select Committee on Assassinations, saw such a film before he quit the
> investigation in disgust.. He believed it was archived at the Georgetown
> Library, but it is no longer there. His attempts to relocate it have proved
> fruitless. Like so much other evidence (including the President=s brain and
> numerous autopsy photos!), it is missing.  Tanenbaum is today a very
> successful mystery writer, as well as the former mayor of Beverly Hills.
> Tanenbaum=s novel Corruption of Blood was a very thinly veiled account of
> his experience with the HSCA, and includes a description of the film.
> Judyth saw Lee use an expensive Minox camera, typically used in espionage
> work.
> Corroborating evidence:  The FBI tried to get the Dallas police to change
> its evidence inventory  from Asmall German camera@ to "light meter" --  
> efforts fully documented by the officers they pressured.  An FBI document
> refers to Minox film retrieved from Oswald=s possessions after the
> assassination.
> Lead: Where is the film today?  Where is the camera or light meter?  In
> fact, a Minox camera sits in the National Archives today (owner unknown).
> It is glued shut so its serial number cannot be seen. In any case, how could
> Oswald, supposedly a virtual pauper, afford a $200 spy camera?
> Note: According to Judyth, Lee=s Minox was so sensitive that she never saw
> IT USED with a light meter.
> To establish his pro-Castro bona fides, Lee handed out leaflets bearing the
> name of the AFair Play for Cuba Committee@ three times in August.  He got
> the idea for leafleting from an episode of AI Led Three Lives,@ an early
> 1950s TV show about Herbert Philbrick, an FBI man pretending to be a
> Communist.
> Evidence:  Lee=s brother, Robert, confirms his fascination with that show.
> Note:  Lee [AT SOME TIME] [later] met the real Herbert Philbrick, who was a
> consultant to Ochsner=s group, INCA.  He found his boyhood hero unimpressive
> in the flesh.

> Lee staged his own arrest at an August 16th leafleting. His Afight@ with
> Cuban exile leader Carlos Bringuier was based on an incident he had read
> about in a local newspaper months earlier.  The story concerned a clean-cut
> narcotics agent who provoked a street fight to enhance his cover as a bad
> guy.
> Evidence:  Judyth has the May 4, 1963 article.
> Corroborating testimony:  Ex-CIA agent William Gaudet said he saw Oswald
> inside the International Trade Center several times.  Judyth says Lee stored
> some of his propaganda materials there.  Gaudet has said the street scuffle
> was Aa sort of PR operation@ and declared his belief that Kennedy was the
> victim of an anti-Communist conspiracy.  Gaudet was a friend of Ocshner=s.
> At a meeting arranged by Ochsner=s group, INCA, held to prepare for a radio
> interview of Lee, someone accidentally uttered the name [ACTUALLY, THEY SAID
>  >DAVID PHILLIPS,=AND LEE RECOGNIZED THIS AS DAVID ATLEE PHILLIPS] ADavid
> Atlee Phillips.@ Lee came to believe his CIA handler, AMr. B.," was actually
> Phillips. Judyth waited in the car as the meeting took place at Reily=s.
> Lead: Phillips, propaganda specialist in Cuban affairs, denied ever knowing
> Oswald.  There are reports of a death-bed confession in which he admitted,
> at the very least, that he did meet Oswald.  Judyth=s source, a national
> book award winner, claimed this information came from Phillips=s nephew,
> [REMOVE a] Shawn Phillips, but THE WRITER now refuses to help us locate this
> man.
> Lee then participated in a radio debate with Bringuier, also organized by
> Ochsner=s group, INCA.
> Shaw and Ferrie knew each other well.  Once, Judyth accompanied Lee to an
> airfield where Ferrie took the other two men on a flight to Canada.
> Corroborating testimony:  Others have reported on Ferrie-Shaw flights to
> Canada.
> Corroborating testimony:  An ex-secretary of Ochsner=s, Aura Lee, worked at
> Shaw=s Trade Mart and claimed that Ferrie, a distinctive-looking gentleman,
> was a frequent visitor to Shaw.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Judyth=s Lee
> Judyth portrays Oswald as a much more intelligent and charming man than we
> have seen in most previous accounts.
> Although Lee confessed to her within days of their meeting that he beat
> Marina, Judyth says he never raised a hand to her.  In fact, she describes
> no fights of any kind.  Lee told her that Marina mercilessly denigrated him.
> Lee admitted to a mother-wife problem, which they often discussed, and she
> believes the abuse stopped (it would be interesting if Marina would confirm
> this).
> Corroborating testimony:  In his unpublished manuscript B I=m A Patsy, I=m A
> Patsy B the urbane George DeMohrenschildt[OMIT ,] described by some as Lee=s
> CIA  Ababysitter@ in Texas, described Marina=s DEMEANING treatment of Lee.
> Although primarily self-taught, the range of Lee=s knowledge impressed
> Judyth, as did his ability to teach himself Russian despite being dyslexic.
> Corroborating evidence:  Oswald=s library records show that he was an avid
> reader. They also show Judyth=s influence (anthropology and sci-fi), as well
> as books he took out for her to read (e.g., a primer on C[ O][u]mmunism).
> Judyth says he took out more books than are shown in the Warren Report, some
> using her or Ferrie=s library cards.
> Evidence:  Refer to the text of a speech Lee gave to a Jesuit-sponsored
> conference in MobileYa transcript of his radio debateYa short sci-fi story B
> [>HER WAY=][NOT AHer Story@] B A 17 PAGE SCIENCE FICTION STORY he wrote with
> Judyth.
> Corroborating testimony:  DeMohrenschildt praised Lee=s intelligence in his
> book (a different account of the man than the one he gave to the Warren
> Commission).
> Note: AThe Baron@ committed suicide just prior to meeting with House
> investigator Gaeton Fonzi (The Last Investigation) B before he could be
> asked to explain these inconsistencies.
> While in the company of Oswald, Judyth sometimes posed as Marina, which was
> possible because of their physical resemblance and her ability to speak
> Russian.  Judyth=s husband was out of town most of their married life in New
> Orleans.
> Evidence:  Judyth has photos of herself at the time, some of which show a
> striking resemblance to Marina. THEY WERE ALSO THE SAME HEIGHT AND BUILD.
> In testimony, Marina said Lee was always home at night, but she never said
> by what time.
> Corroborating testimony:  Anna Vincent asserts that she, her husband, Judyth
> and Lee were a foursome, meeting after work on a regular basis early that
> summer, usually at Thompson=s Restaurant, where Anna worked. Lee and Judyth
> would keep company with them until 8:00-8:30 PM.  Anna describes a call from
> Marina at Thompson=s.  Marina wanted to know if Lee was there with another
> woman.
> Although they fell in love almost immediately, Lee and Judyth resisted
> becoming lovers until the summer.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Clinton/Jackson: Mystery Solved

> This is a totally new account of the trip to Clinton
> Judyth=s work took longer than expected, and was, to her horror, tested on
> at least one human guinea pig -- the real reason for the mysterious trip to
> Clinton, probably on August 23, by Shaw, Ferrie, and Oswald.
> Note:  The House Select Committee on Assassinations found the Clinton
> witnesses B including John Birchers and CORE activists B credible, but no
> one has been able to come up with a coherent explanation for the trip.  All
> have been sidetracked by the fact that Oswald tried to register to vote
> while in Clinton though he didn=t live there.
> Lee mentioned picking up a man in white hospital garb who guided them to the
> mental hospital in Jackson, the next town over from Clinton, and to the
> PROPER BUILDING AND ENTRYWAY IN THE LARGE COMPLEX [experimental area] there.
> Note: Witnesses reported seeing a fourth man B a Aman in white@ -- emerge
> from the car with Lee in Clinton.
> The true reason for the long stop in Clinton was an unexpected delay:  the
> prisoner(s) had not yet arrived at the hospital.  Oswald got [IN][ on] line
> after betting Shaw that he could get registered just because he was white,
> EVEN THOUGH HE WAS FROM A DIFFERENT PARISH.
> Lee and Judyth were heartsick over the plan to treat a prisoner/mental
> patient, but were powerless to stop it.  Several days after the first trip,
> Lee took Judyth to the hospital to see the test subject.  Shaw OK=d the
> trip, as he wanted her professional assessment of the patient=s condition.
> Judyth checked on the bloodwork to see if the serum Atook.@  If the
> bloodwork was not conclusive, an immediate blood sample could have been
> drawn and checked while she was still there. As it turned out, radical
> changes began quickly.  The only man she saw (more than one may have been
> treated) was Cuban, white, about Castro's age and physique.
> They made one stop going to Jackson and another on the way home. Judyth
> stayed in the car both times.
> Corroborating evidence:  Despite Aslouching,,@ she was seen by at least two
> witnesses:
> Edwin Lea McGehee:
> An "old...battered" car drove up to his barbershop and Lee Harvey Oswald
> came inside for a haircut. "There was a woman sitting on the front seat [of
> the car]...and in the back seat what I noticed was -- looked like a [baby]
> bassinet..." (Judyth says this was a car used by the Lewis=s and that the
> bassinet was for the ever-pregnant Anna. ANNA EVENTUALLY HAD TEN CHILDREN.).
> Mary Morgan, daughter of Reeves Morgan, State Representative (and a guard at
> the Jackson hospital!):
> When Oswald was in the house talking with her dad, she went onto the porch
> and Ajust casually noticed there was a dark colored car parked under a tree
> in the front of the house." She remembered "seeing a woman in the car.@
> Note:  The fact that there were two trips within days of each other explains
> why some accounts say this was a three-day trip.  It is unlikely that any of
> these men, and certainly not Shaw, would make a three-day trip together.
> The test was a success, as the subject died within weeks.
> Lee and Judyth began to realize that they were trapped. They could not back
> out of the plot for fear they would be killed.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Road to the Assassination
> Lee and Judyth actually liked the Kennedys; in their youthful
> overconfidence, they never thought they would be racing a deadline to keep
> JFK from becoming a target.
> In private, Ferrie told them that he opposed the assassination;  he was only
> putting on an act for Shaw, who represented Texas money in New Orleans.
> Note:  Excluding comments in Banister=s company, every mention in the
> historical record of Oswald talking about Kennedy is a positive one.  (We
> have a compilation of his statements.)
> Based on a message from AN H.L. Hunt EXECUTIVE conveyed to a Shaw associate,
> those involved with the labs had reason to fear for their lives once they
> had outlived their usefulness.
> Ferrie arranged for Judyth to take a job, beginning in September, at
> Peninsular Chem Research in Gaine[S]ville, Florida, which CUSTOM-made
> ORGANIC AND [REMOVE highly] toxic chemicals.  There she could continue to
> contribute to the project by making Acustom@ chemicals for Ferrie.
> Evidence:  Judyth has a read-out from a chemical analysis, marked F-1, done
> at PenChem on a rare carc[CI][en]ogenic substance.
> The three understood, as early as the third week of August, that Lee's
> grooming in Russia and his [PRO-CASTRO] activities in New Orleans made him
> the perfect patsy.
> Fearing he was a dead man if he tried to break with the conspirators at this
> point, he would pretend to embrace Plan B, walking with eyes wide open into
> the patsy role. He hoped to get close to the inner circle of the conspiracy
> in Dallas and stop the plot from the inside.  To get further inside,
> [LEE][he ] played up his connections to Marcello and revealed his
> marksmanship.
> At the end of August, Shaw paid for the last of several hotel trysts for
> Judyth and Lee.  According to Judyth, Shaw felt sorry for them.
> Judyth then left for Florida.  The supposedly impoverished Lee gave her $400
> for Aemergencies@ B equal to about $2,800 in today=s dollars.  Judyth told
> her family that the money fell out of an ironing board she bought at a yard
> sale. AIT BECAME A FAMILY LEGEND,= SHE SAYS.

> .._____________________________________________________________________
> Mexico City: Mystery Solved

> This is a totally new account of the mysterious trip to Mexico City.
> In August, Judyth trained Lee to handle the deadly material. LEE, IN TURN,
> WOULD TEACH A CONTACT IN MEXICO CITY HOW TO HANDLE THE MATERIALS, AND IN
> THIS MANNER, THE MATERIALS WOULD SURVIVE TRANSFER TO A CUBAN MEDICAL LAB..
> AFTER PLEDGES TO MEET ONCE THIS MISSION WAS OVER,  Judyth left for Florida
> at the end of the month.
> Lee couriered the materials to Mexico City at the end of September,
> expecting to meet a contact who would bring them into Cuba.  He was ordered
> to make the trip by AMr. B.@
> New information: Mr. B may not have been Phillips. Another CIA figure, Frank
> Bender, one alias of Gerry Droller, was known inside the agency as Mr. B.
> He was posted to Mexico City at the same time as Phillips. The record says
> that Droller worked for the OSS during the war, but there are indications he
> had actually worked on biological weapons for the Nazis.
> Lee was left holding the bag -- i.e., no one was there to meet him in Mexico
> City to take the materials off his hands.  So he desperately tried to get
> into Cuba himself, where his knowledge of HOW TO HANDLE THE MATERIALS, the
> language, the terrain, safe houses, and contacts might still be used.
> Indeed, initially, he expected to make the entire trip himself.
> He was frantic because the materials had a limited life span outside a lab B
> hence, the official  reports of his erratic behavior.  He was also frantic
> because he knew what failure meant.  In fact, the conspirators had already
> turned to Plan B without telling him.
> They were later told that Hurricane Flora had created so much destruction
> that information about safe houses, and about Castro=s routine, was no
> longer to be trusted, so Plan A had to be called off.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Endgame
> With Lee in Texas and Judyth in Florida, Ferrie arranged for about 14
> back-channel phone calls through a cooperative (and well-paid-off) operator
> in Covington.
> Corroborating evidence: Only one call placed to Oswald at the Book
> Depository is on record.  This call came from Aa lady with no accent@ The
> Warren Commission tried to track the origin of the call, but couldn=t get
> past Covington.  According to Judyth, the record would not even show this
> call except for the fact that the operator putting this call through was not
> their usual operator.
> Note:  Interpen had a presence in Covington.
> Lee told Judyth that he made several unsuccessful attempts to stop the
> assassination, including calling death threats to the FBI.
> Corroborating evidence:  A number of anonymous threats and warnings were
> called into FBI offices prior to the assassination.
> In their last conversation, on November 20th, they discussed the option of
> fleeing before the assassination.  Judyth recalls Lee=s words precisely:
> Aif I stay, that will be one less bullet aimed at Kennedy.@
> Lee told Judyth of his last-ditch plan: to fire a premature shot, a warning
> shot, at the motorcade, hoping to alert JFK=s Secret Service protectors.
> Corroborating Testimony:  At least 5 Warren Commission witnesses reported a
> bullet hitting the pavement behind the President=s limo.  This would have
> been his closest and, presumably, easiest shot.
> Note:  The "street shot" bullet was presumably never found, unless that is
> what is being picked up by the "mystery FBI man" photographed with Dallas
> Deputy Sheriff Buddy Walthers and Officer J.W. Foster.  The photo has long
> been the subject of speculation.
> Corroborating Testimony:  Anna Vincent says it was open knowledge in the
> local Mafia that Lee fired a premature shot.
> If he did fire a warning shot, it went unheeded by the sleepy Secret Service
> agents.
> Lee and Judyth had made plans for an escape and rendezvous in Mexico.
> Judyth tells of Ferrie sobbing uncontrollably during phone calls with him
> because it had all gone so wrong.  His 400-mile car trip to Houston the day
> of the assassination was made in vain (he told Garrison, variously, that he
> and two friends went [ICE][roller]-skating or goose-hunting).

> _____________________________________________________________________
> Deaths After Dallas
> Guy Banister died of an apparent hear[T] attack at his home in early 1964.
> New Testimony:  According to Anna Vincent, her husband, David Lewis, and
> fellow Banister employee, Jack Martin, went  to the office immediately upon
> hearing the news, only to find the files carted off and yellow
> [TAPE][ribbon] surrounding the office as if it were a crime scene.  Lewis
> played a minor role in the Cuban operation and, according to Anna, was told
> to Akeep his mouth shut.@
> Note:  Author Ed Haslam (see above) believes he saw remnants of Banister=s
> missing files at INCA=s offices.
> David Ferrie died of an apparent brain anyeurism (not cancer as he told
> those curious about his lab) in early 1964.
> Note:  An empty bottle of Proloid B which could kill a man suffering from
> hypertension -- and two typed Asuicide notes@ keep his death controversial.
> Mary Sherman was brutally murdered in her bed [IN JULY, 1964][just weeks
> later,] with reports of cancer cells stolen.
> Corroborating testimony:  Judyth has a letter from a former resident of New
> Orleans in which he recollects radio reports of stolen cancer cells.
> THE NON-SMOKING Jack Ruby died of Aa galloping LUNG cancer@ in  JAIL IN
> 1967.  When [RUBY][ he] visited Ferrie=s apartment in the summer of 1963,
> Judyth showed him the lab and told him about the cancer cell injections --  
> including where on the body the injections should be administered.
> Note:  In jail, Ruby insisted he was injected with cancer cells, but no one
> took him seriously.  His mind was shot and they just assumed he was babbling
> incoherently.
> Clay Shaw died suddenly of SUSPECTED LUNG cancer in 1972 after being treated
> for an undisclosed illness at Ochsner=s Hospital.
> Note:  Of the 8 persons Judyth knew who were connected to the New Orelans
> cancer project, 5 were dead by 1967. After 1972, only she and Ochsner
> remained -- and she was in hiding.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> The Participants
> Who was involved?  Mafia, CIA Arogues,@ Cuban exiles, financed by Texas oil
> AND INDUSTRY  B or a smaller group culled from these.  When the CIA-Mafia
> alliance was established in 1959, an infrastructure was created that could
> be used by a subset of this group to put into motion the assassination of
> JFK.

> Their Motives
> The Mafia
> JFK's failure to regain Cuba meant the permanent loss of billions of dollars
> from their casinos, HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION, AND DRUG RINGS.  Also providing
> motive was Bobby Kennedy=s unprecedent assault on organized crime, including
> particularly aggressive treatment of New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello.
> Bobby had the proud Marecello kidnapped [WHEN MARCELLO REPORTED TO A PAROLE
> OFFICER][from his office], put on a plane, and dumped in Guatemala.  He made
> it back to the US, barely surviving the wilds of Honduras. The treatment was
> no way to repay a debt, i.e., the Mob=s help in rigging 1960 election
> results in Illinois and Texas.
> The CIA
> After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, JFK threatened to Asplit the CIA into a
> thousand pieces.@  He fired CIA Director Allen Dulles (who would later sit
> on the Warren Commission!) and General George Cabell (whose brother Earl was
> Mayor of Dallas in 1963).  JFK was seen as soft on Communism,
> [WEAKENING][weakening] his resolve in Vietnam, and extending an olive branch
> to Castro AND KHRUSHCHEV.
> Cuban Exiles
> Kennedy=s betrayals: the Bay of Pigs; the deal with the Soviets that ended
> the Cuban Missile Crisis, which included a non-invasion pledge; RFK=s
> dismantling of exile training camps the CIA set up for exiles; his
> suppression of raids on Cuba; WITHDRAWAL OF FUNDING OF ANTI-CASTRO EXILES,
> and, finally, JFK=s attempt late in 1963 at a rapproachmant with Castro.
> Texas Money
> This group B led by H.L. Hunt BOR POSSIBLY BY HIS LIEUTENANTS--- detested
> JFK=s Cuba policy, as well as his integrationist stance, but mostly they
> were threatened by his vow to repeal a major tax windfall, the oil depletion
> allowance.  They wanted a man in the White House they could control, i.e.,
> LBJ, and they needed to get him there fast, as the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol
> Estes scandals threatened his continuation as Vice President.

> If this cabal couldn=t get to Castro, paving the way for a rebellion, or at
> least more compliant leadership, they had decided to go after Kennedy.  With
> the blame pinned on Oswald, who was groomed to look like a Communist, and
> would soon be groomed to look pro-Castro, they hoped to spark a second
> invasion of Cuba.
> Ironically, CIA stonewalling of the Warren Commission was almost certainly
> conducted to prevent its relationship with the Mafia from being exposed, as
> well as its surveillance operation in Mexico City.  Thus, the assassination
> cover-up was thus joined by high officials in the CIA, who may not
> themselves have participated in the assassination.

> _____________________________________________________________________
> On Proof and Evidence
> While there is no Asmoking gun@ proof -- no government document, for
> example -- for this particular plot, no such proof should be expected for a
> project kept so secret.  However, the account provided by Judyth Vary Baker
> is much more detailed than any previous account by a late-emerging witness,
> and it explains [MUCH OF WHAT WAS][a lot] previously subject to wild, and
> widely divergent,  speculation.

> ____________________________________________________________________
> Last Words

> AThey did it too good.@
> Gerry Patrick Hemming, Interpen, on why the conspirators failed:
> "What backfired on the plotters was painting this picture that it was a
> Castro hit. It scared the shit out of some high-ranking people, and they
> covered it upY.How could these people [the plotters]  possibly figure out
> that this scenario would scare the shit out of the people in Washington?
> Jesus Christ, the best laid plans of mice and men. They did it too good.
> They painted too clear of a picture that burned its way right back to Fidel
> Castro. It scared the fuck out of the powers that be. They wouldn't go to
> war. The American people never realized we had come so fucking close to
> nuclear holocaust."

> AYWho Struck John@
> James Jesus Angleton, CIA counterintelligence spymaster:
> "A mansion has many rooms and there were many things going on during the
> period of the bombings. I'm not privy to who struck John."  [The New York
> Times, March 1975]

> WHICH THEN CHANGED TO THIS:

> Before the Silence Came: Lee=s Last Telephone Calls

> =====================================================================
> Please note: The writing of this book, including the reconstruction of the
> telephone calls I received (below) is based on principles I learned at the
> feet of Luis Urrea, 1999 American Book Award winner, whose works Across the
> Wire, By the Lake of Sleeping Children, and Nobody=s Son were written based
> on his personal experiences as a blonde, blue-eyed half Mexican who has
> lived with and fought prejudice and violence on both sides of the
> Mexican-American border.
>      In Urrea=s ACreative Non fiction@ courses taught at the University of
> Louisiana at Lafayette, I learned how to better recreate my memories into
> the most accurate reconstruction of the actual events. Urrea=s creative
> nonfiction works successfully bring to life his own extraordinary
> experiences, and include reconstructed dialogues.  I have used Urrea=s
> methods in reconstructing the events between April and December of 1963 in
> that same manner.
>     Further, in 1998 at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, I also had
> the opportunity to study additional techniques of reconstruction of events
> and the writing of nonfiction narrative under the tutelage of Dr. Ernest
> Gaines, a world-renowned writer whose based-on-true-life works include The
> Sky Is Gray, A Gathering of Old Men, and   A Lesson before Dying, a recent
> novel of choice of Oprah Winfrey.   Dr. Gaines= thoughts and comments
> concerning my own work have helped me to better present my own
> based-on-true-life narrative.
>       And finally, my experience as a newspaper reporter in the Houston area
> for a handful of years was important in helping me to learn how to report
> events as accurately as possible. Of course, nobody is perfect, and I do not
> mean to imply that ALL my recollections have been recounted here, since
> every time somebody questions me, it may remind me of something I had
> forgotten.  Lee=s own natural reticence also forced me to sometimes guess
> what he really meant.
> =====================================================================

>       Years have passed, but sometimes it seems I heard his voice only last
> night. Years have passed, but many elements of the last telephone calls, the
> last times I heard Lee=s voice, remain embedded in my soul, never to be
> forgotten.
>     Getting them out on paper has been painful. I=ve had nightmares reliving
> them.
>      I have already mentioned part of the telephone call of October 25th,
> but there was a great deal more that occurred during this call.   I received
> this call, as best as I can remember, while still at work.  I was on the
> phone more than an hour, but I had provided an excuse for myself, knowing
> this call was coming, and it would be a long one.  Lee had missed a post
> call, and could not miss another without changing the call pattern, so I was
> certain he would call me at the earliest opportunity, which he did.  He,
> himself, was supposedly Astill at work@ when he called me, even though he
> wasn=t even in the book depository building at this hour, since he was using
> a payphone in downtown Dallas.
>      So much had happened since we had last spoken, and between pieces of
> information, we kept making our little comments to each other.  We had
> developed our own love language, which would have sounded incomprehensible,
> i suppose, to anyone listening in, since some of it was in Russian.
>     Eventually, I was able to tell Lee I was sorry I=d missed his birthday,
> and he said gently to me, AMy birthday present was Rachel. Noegan to tell me
> why he=d