The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [522]
598 “Hoover was a …”: LL interview with William Hundley.
599 Johnson spoke the language: William F. Roemer Jr., Man Against the Mob (1989), p. 206.
599 Bobby listened to the: ibid.
599 according to Cartha DeLoach: Thomas, p. 423.
599-600 “In one particular instance …”: LL interview with Cartha DeLoach.
600 “You look old to me”: Thomas, p. 118.
600 “ridiculous on the face of it”: RKIHOW, p. 129.
600 “a Polish-Jewish refugee”: To: Director, FBI, from Legat, Rome, January 30, 1961, FBIFOI.
600 FBI records: Seymour Hersh, p. 113.
600-01 more than six hundred wiretaps: James W. Hilty, Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector (1997), p. 233.
601 nearly eight hundred bugs: Thomas, p. 117.
601 Hoover, however, could produce: DeLoach, p. 52, and RKHT, p. 274.
601 “perhaps… he did not…”: RKHT p. 278.
601 In the White House, Mike: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
601 He also boasted: C. A. Evans to Mr. Parsons, “Subject: Samuel M. Giancana Anti-racketeering,” March 6, 1961, HSCA, NA.
601 “I hope Sinatra …”: Paul Fay, unedited manuscript.
602 “The attorney general indicated …”: J. Edgar Hoover to Mr. Tolson, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Rosen, and Mr. DeLoach, April 17, 1961, Giancana files, HSCA, NA.
602 “I wrote Sam’s name …”: ibid.
602 “& promptly”: Special Agent in Charge, Chicago, to FBI Director Hoover, December 9, 1961, HSCA, NA. The memo refers to “John (LNU) possibly John Drew.” Evan Thomas has concluded that this was Johnny Formosa, Thomas, p. 163. The memos themselves are courtesy of Evan Thomas.
603 “As the Bureau is aware…”: Special Agent in Charge to FBI Director Hoover, January 18, 1962, HSCA, NA.
604 “The relationship between …”: J. Edgar Hoover to Kenneth O’Donnell, February 27, 1962, HSCA, NA.
604 “So what do you …”: LL interview with Joe Dolan.
605 “This man is going …”: quoted in Seymour Hersh, p. 104.
605 “Well, she loved him …”: LL interview with George Smathers.
606 “believe[d] his …”: R. W. Smith to W. C. Sullivan, “Subject: Frank A. Capell,” July 14, 1964, FBIFOI.
606 In the years since: Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe (1993), pp. 594-611.
606 Bobby’s host and: ibid., pp. 562-63.
606 Beyond that: Special Agent in Charge, San Francisco, to FBI Director, August 6, 1962, FBIFOI.
606 On one of these: LL interview with Edwin Guthman.
606 “I’m dancing …”: LL interview with Joe Naar.
606 “Eunice kidded …”: LL interview with Charles Bartlett.
606 “The man in charge …”: LL interview with Milton Gould.
607 “If there’s …”: LL interview with Milt Ebbins.
607 a decision that haunted: LL interview with Patricia Lawford Stewart.
607 “Bobby’s three younger …”: Time, August 3, 1962, p. 10.
607 The Forest Service, at: U.S. News & World Report, August 27, 1962, and Special Agent in Charge Milnes to Mr. Hoover, “Subject: Visit of Attorney General to Seattle and the Northwest,” August 7, 1962.
608 That was October 31, 1960: IR, p. 125.
608 “If you have seen …”: ibid., p. 133.
608 “He cautioned Larry Houston …”: interview, Colonel Sheffield Edwards, Rockefeller Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States, April 9, 1975, Gerald R. Ford Library.
608 “I told the attorney general…”: Memorandum for Messrs. Tolson, Belmond, Evans, Sullivan, DeLoach, and Malone, May 10, 1961, HSCA, NA.
609 “Mr. Bissell… in connection…”: J. Edgar Hoover to Robert F. Kennedy, May 22, 1962, FBIFOI. See also IR, pp. 125-27.
609 “It must be understood …”: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
609 “contingency plans”: Brig. Gen. Lansdale, memorandum for the record, “Subject: Meeting with President,” March 16, 1962, Courtesy Gus Russo. See also David Corn and Gus Russo, “The Old Man and the CIA,” Nation, March 26, 2001.
610 “I commented that this was…”: ibid.
610 “exploited”: memorandum for the record, Caribbean Survey Group, March 21, 1962. Courtesy Gus Russo.
610 “His job was…”: LL interview with Samuel Halpern. See also Thomas, p. 178.
611 Operation Mongoose was not: CIA Operations Officer for Operation Mongoose (Harvey) to Chief of Operations (Mongoose) Lansdale, memorandum, Washington, D.C., July 24, 1962,