Date: 10-14-92 (05:24) Number: 3404 of 4255 To: ALL Refer#: NONE From: JOHN DINARDO Read: (N/A) Subj: Part XV, PACIFICA RADIO I Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE Conf: US_JFKCONSPIR (193) Read Type: GENERAL (+) From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) Subject: Part XV, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy Date: 12 Oct 92 21:23:31 GMT I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) GAETON FONZI: When I was working for Senator Schweiker, on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, I developed a witness in Miami named Antonio Visiana. He was a former accountant in Cuba who had founded Alpha 66. As I said, it was Alpha 66 that was one of the anti-Castro Cuban groups that actually tried to blow up the Russian ships in Havana Harbor, and blow apart Kennedy's deal with Kruschev. Visiana told me that he was recruited in Havana in 1961 by an American named Maurice Bishop. Bishop was the secret behind-the-scenes strategic director of everything that he did with Alpha 66. He worked with Bishop from 1961 until 1973, and during that period of time, he worked with him on three attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. These were operations planned by Bishop who was obviously an intelligence operative. He met with Bishop several times a year and whenever it became necessary to plan strategy. In September of 1963, he made arrangements to meet with Bishop in the lobby of an office building in Dallas. That was nothing new because he had met Bishop a number of times in Dallas. When Visiana arrived, Bishop was talking to a young man. When President Kennedy was assassinated, Visiana immediately recognized Lee Harvey Oswald as that young man. I thought that this was tremendously important; perhaps the single most significant piece of new evidence since the Warren Commission investigation, because Bishop was obviously CIA. And the CIA had repeatedly denied any connection or contact with Oswald. After we got Visiana to develop a sketch of Bishop, it was Senator Schweiker who identified Bishop as being David Atlee Phillips, a CIA officer who had risen to one of the highest ranks in the Agency as the Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division. And we discovered that Phillips was an undercover agent in Havana during the period in which Visiana said that he had met Bishop. In 1963, Phillips was Chief of Covert Operations in Mexico City, and he was subsequently responsible for all the disinformation that the CIA had fed the Warren Commission about Oswald's visits there. This was one of the areas -- the link between David Atlee Phillips and Maurice Bishop -- that I feel the House Select Committee didn't want to go into because it would have opened too many doors, too many important doors. And every one of those doors was marked "CIA". GARY NULL: Alright. Now, if that is the case, then let's summarize here. What we have is a group of individuals with intelligence community associations: CIA. We also have a few people who were ex-FBI, including one who would play a very important role, and who was also very familiar with Alpha 66. Then we had Guy Bannister. Now I don't believe that it was possible for Guy Bannister and David Ferrie ..... who both were known to Alpha 66 and the people [thereunto] associated, and who also were familiar with what had gone on with some attempted assassinations of Kennedy (with CIA involvement). I believe that that had to have been a sub-contract to the Mob. And when you look at what Johnny Roselli was testifying about in secret, and then he was killed just a short time after that, then you start to bring in Sam Giancana and Santos Trafficante, the Mob boss of Tampa. And you start showing the connection -- that it wasn't just possibly the Mob, and it wasn't just the intelligence community. It was a marriage of the two. Still, if you look at the precision of the assassination -- and we have new information about that assassination that we're going to be revealing for the first time anywhere, in another week or so -- it could not have been done unless people were very very SKILLED in hits. [JD: The tape ran out here. I'll try to obtain a copy of the missing remainder of the broadcast, but for now, let's resume with the next day's broadcast. Here again, I missed some of the beginning.] GARY NULL: ..... ended up being there when it arrived in Bethdesda. And also, (a very important piece of evidence) the fact that there were three separate caskets that entered that hospital ..... DAVID LIFTON: I said two. GARY NULL: Two. Well, also there was a circumstance of the same one being seen twice: the bronze casket. DAVID LIFTON: Separate entries of two caskets. That's correct, according to the evidence. GARY NULL: But the public was led to believe that there was only one casket: the casket that the President's body was put in in Dallas, arriving at Bethdesda Naval Hospital hours later, a routine autopsy being performed. And that was the end of the story. That's what the Warren Commission was told. That's what we have been led to believe. In point of fact, another casket, which actually contained the body of the President, arrived. Give us the circumstances surrounding the arrival of that casket. What witnesses were there to acknowledge that another casket had arrived -- that it was not the bronze casket -- that the President's body was not the way that it was when it left Dallas? DAVID LIFTON: Now, these are two separate issues you're addressing here. One is the condition of the body, and the other is the issue of multiple caskets. So which would you like me to address first? GARY NULL: Begin with the different caskets. DAVID LIFTON: Okay. What I was able to show in BEST EVIDENCE (and I obtained reports which had not been examined. In fact, they're not even in the National Archives, as far as the Warren Commission investigation goes) is the report of the military casket team. In that casket team report (and I interviewed the men who were on the casket team) ..... Let's make sure we understand what the casket team is. These are the pall bearers, the honor guard that met Air Force One when it arrived on the night of November 22nd at Andrews Air Force Base. This is a multi-service casket team consisting of Navy, Air Force, Army and Coast Guard, and headed by a man named Lieutenant Samuel Byrd who subsequently died of wounds incurred in Vietnam. These men described to me (in telephone interviews and, in one case, in an in-person interview in the year 1967. And it's hard to believe that it was so long ago: twenty-five years ago) what occurred at the front of Bethesda Naval Hospital when the Navy ambulance pulled up. That ambulance pulled up and they tried to follow that ambulance from seven o'clock when it arrived at the Date: 10-14-92 (05:24) Number: 3405 of 4255 To: ALL Refer#: NONE From: JOHN DINARDO Read: (N/A) Subj: Part XV, PACIFICA RADIO I Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE Conf: US_JFKCONSPIR (193) Read Type: GENERAL (+) front of Bethesda until eight o'clock when they finally brought the coffin in. There is an hour, sort of a missing time in there. Now we can quibble over whether it's forty-five minutes, thirty-five minutes. But there's a serious incident in there where they attempt to follow the Navy ambulance, lose the ambulance, and are told by their superiors that they have followed the decoy. There is a decoy ambulance. NONE of this made it into the Warren Commission Report. It's ALL on my telephone interview tapes. And the written report says that they brought the big casket, which we all saw off-loaded on TV, and the one that is supposed to contain the body .... they brought that in at eight o'clock. That is their official written report dated December (oh, I don't know) fifth or tenth, 1963. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking. John DiNardo