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26 Simson-Kallas on Sirhan: Ibid., p. 385.
27 Sirhan to Simson-Kallas: Ibid., p. 384.
28 FBI agent on programming: R.F.K. Must Die, by Robert Kaiser, Overlook Press 2008 edition, pp. 355-356, also posted on www.maryferrell.org. Today, Kaiser writes in the epilogue to a new edition of his book that he believes “the Manchurian Candidate aspect” to be what happened. “I hold it now, maybe ninety-five percent certainty,” Kaiser says, “that he really didn’t remember shooting Robert Kennedy, that he probably killed Kennedy in a trance and was programmed to forget that he’d done it, and programmed to forget the names and identities of others who might have helped him do it.”
29 Spiegel quote: Ibid., p. 392.
30 Bryan and Sirhan: Ibid., pp. 398-400.
31 William Kroger: The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination, by Philip H. Melanson, Shapolsky, N.Y., 1991, p. 208.
32 Kroger interviews with Russell: Personal conversation (the interviews have not been published).
33 Selection of attorneys: Legacy of Secrecy, pp. 663-664.
34 Melanson on trial: Ibid., p. 656.
35 Sirhan on Cooper: told to author Dan Moldea.
36 Sirhan to Cooper: Ibid., p. 682.
37 Sirhan and money: Ibid., p. 652.
38 Sirhan and mob ties: Ibid., p. 651.
39 Mob involvement: Ibid., p. 671-672.
40 Morales: Ibid., p. 676.
41 Pepper and regression therapy: Who Killed Bobby?, p. 492.
Chapter Seven
1 Most of the material in this chapter was developed by my collaborator, Dick Russell, over the course of 20 years of research.
2 Liddy on Watergate: “G. Gordon Liddy: Voice of Unreason,” Independent, November 22, 2004, http://mediamatters.org/items/200411230004?offset=20&show-1.
3 Haldeman on Nixon and Bay of Pigs: The Ends of Power, by H.R. Haldeman with Joseph DiMona, Dell, New York, 1978, pp. 67-70.
4 Haldeman-Ehrlichman conversation: As recounted by Haldeman in his memoir.
5 Ehrlichman and documents: Ibid., pp. 53-54.
6 First Anderson column on plots: January 18, 1971, syndicated. It’s also believed that Nixon hated Anderson because of a story the columnist broke just before the 1960 election, about a secret loan from Howard Hughes to Nixon’s brother Donald.
7 Maheu and O’Brien: One matter that Nixon would obviously have been concerned about was O’Brien’s possible knowledge of a $100,000 illegal campaign contribution that had come to him from Hughes, using Nixon’s best friend “Bebe” Rebozo as the go-between.
8 Anderson second column on Rosselli: February 23, 1971, in the Washington Post: “Castro Stalker Worked for the CIA.”
9 Maheu/Mitchell meeting: The Arrogance of Power, by Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan, Viking, N.Y., 2000, p. 197.
10 Hunt investigating JFK assassination: 1975 interview given by Hunt.
11 Ellsberg-Frances FitzGerald friendship: Recounted by Jim Hougan in the book, Secret Agenda.
12 Nixon-Helms conversation: “Richard Nixon’s Greatest Cover-Up,” by Don Fulsom, http://crimemagazine.com/03/richardnixon,1014.htm (audiotape of Nixon-Helms-Ehrlichman session is available on www.nixontapes.org). See also, The Arrogance of Power by Anthony Summers, Viking, 2000, pp. 176-178.
13 McCord and anti-Castro operations: Enrique (Harry) Ruiz-Williams was a Bay of Pigs veteran who later became a key figure in AM/WORLD or C-Day, a plan to overthrow Castro and take back the island, scheduled for November 1963. Williams has said that both McCord and Hunt became his CIA “handlers” that year. The Fish Is Red, a history of the exile movement, reported that “Hunt became Williams’s link to the Langley headquarters, while McCord liaisoned with brigade veterans at Fort Jackson.” Tad Szulc’s biography of Hunt (Compulsive Spy) described how Hunt and McCord each played a role in “Second Naval Guerrilla,” another name for the proposed Cuban invasion in 1963. Ruiz-Williams recalled, “Both of them said to call [them] Don Eduardo. Both Hunt and McCord.” That was a pattern, as Secret Agenda pointed out, that would repeat itself during Watergate, when “McCord would be arrested and booked under a Hunt alias, ‘Edward Martin,’ producing a phony ID on which the birthdate