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14 Sturgis on break-in: True magazine, August 1974, p. 74.
15 McCord fire and CIA contract agent: A former official with the FBI, Lee Pennington was also a director of the ultraconservative American Security Council.
16 Nixon on Hunt as “double agent”: Memoirs, by Richard Nixon, Grossett & Dunlap, N.Y., 1978, pp. 643-44.
17 Nixon on Hunt “scab”: www.ajweberman.com/tape.htm (New Nixon Tapes).
18 Los Angeles Star on Boggs: November 22, 1973.
19 Gray and Hunt files: “Dirty Politics—Nixon, Watergate, and the JFK Assassination,” http://mtracy9.tripod.com/kennedy.html.
20 FBI memo about Ford informing on Warren Commission: Written to Hoover from Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, disclosed in 1991 by the Washington Post.
21 FBI probing Hunt’s residence: Author Tad Szulc.
22 McCord to Caulfield: Letter of Dec. 21, 1972, http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=4558.
23 Helms destroying documents: Legacy of Secrecy, by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann, Counterpoint, Berkeley, 2008, p. 724.
24 Morgan on assassination: Interview with Dick Russell, 1976.
25 McCord helping Fensterwald: Article in Los Angeles Times.
26 Jaworski and CIA conduit: From Wall Street to Watergate: North American Conference on Latin America, November 1973, p. 30.
27 Theft of Hughes documents: “The Great Hughes Heist,” by Michael Drosnin, New Times Magazine, January 21, 1977.
28 Hunt claims on assassination: “Blowing Smoke From the Grave: E. Howard Hunt and the JFK Assassination,” by Don Fulsom, www.crimemagazine.com/07/howard-hunt_jfk-assassination,0606-7. htm citing article in Rolling Stone.
Chapter Eight
1 Lyman Kirkpatrick CIA memorandum: Foreign and Military Intelligence, Book I, Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, U.S. Senate (April 26, 1976), p. 390.
2 Holsinger quote: “Slain Congressman to be Honored,” San Mateo (Calif.) Daily Journal, November 12, 2008.
3 Writers looking into “broader conspiracy”: One is Jim Hougan, author of the Watergate classic, Secret Agenda, among other books. Hougan wrote a long article, “The Secret Life of Jim Jones: A Parapolitical Fugue,” that came out in a British publication (Lobster 37) in Summer 1999. More light was shed by Peter Levenda, in volume two of his Sinister Forces series in 2006. And for those who really want to dig deep into the muddy waters, there’s Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?, by Michael Meiers, in Studies in American Religion, Volume 35 (1988).
4 Temple assets: John Judge, in a piece about “The Jonestown Banks” (August 1982) wondered: “Was the Jonestown empire built with the same dirty money that came from the Banco Ambrosiano, the Nugan Hand Bank and other international conduits of cash for the men who trade in narcotics, espionage, human flesh and death?”
5 Body counts: Sinister Forces, Book Two: A Warm Gun, by Peter Levenda, TrineDay, Waterville, Oregon, 2006, p. 223.
6 Cyanide: Ibid., p. 224.
7 Disappearing samples: “The Secret Life of Jim Jones: A Parapolitical Fugue,” by Jim Hougan, Lobster 37, Summer 1999. Also on www.jimhougan.com.
8 Handling of bodies: New England Journal of Medicine, “Law-Medicine Notes: The Guyana Mass Suicides: Medicolegal Re-evaluation,” by William J. Curran, J.D., L.L.M., S.M. Hyg., June 7, 1979, cited in Hougan.
9 Removal of medical tags: Newsweek, December 4, 1978. Robert Pastor denied the article’s account.
10 Bracelets and bodies: Sinister Forces, p. 224.
11 Survivors treated at Langley-Porter: Hougan article.
12 Langley-Porter research: Mind Wars, by Ron McRae, St. Martin’s Press, 1984, p. 136.
13 Ryan letter to CIA: October 10, 1978. San Francisco Mayor Moscone was reportedly involved in funding of the rehab program.
14 Ryan and Vacaville research: Sinister Forces, p. 207.
15 Ryan’s investigation: Researcher John Judge was the first to suggest this, in his 1985 article, “The Black Hole of Guyana