With a conference entitled thw warren report, halfcentury of disclosures. Next, retired u. S. Army Intelligence Officer and former n sa executive assistant john newman discusses declassified documents and code names related to the c. I. A. , cuba, and the assassination. Newman is the author of jfk and vietnam. This program is about an hour and 20 minutes. The small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. Marshall mcluhan. The gospel of thomas includes the following, jesus said know what is in front of your face and what is hidden will be disclosed. There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed and nothing. That will not be raised. Our speaker is a former army Intelligence Officer, an expert in far eastern studies, a scholar of christian theology, and historian, educator, and an author Whose Research has led to revelations about americas hidden histories. Jfk andhor of 1992s f vietnam, and oswald and the c. I. A. , updated for the 2008 edition. And most recently 2011 quest for the kingdom, the secret teachings of jesus. Im honored to introduce dr. John newman. And he will introduce his assistant jay. Welcome, dr. John newman. [applause] he mic . Ive with te good. Im going to get started. I have a busy agenda here with you today. Oh. Ok. Aarct want to thank the for inviting me to be here with you today and to acknowledge my long friend and colleague jay harvey who has worked tirelessly in the archives and has been with me for 20 years since jfjk and vietnam. Thank you, jay, for being there. I could stand here at this podium and tell you what i prepared to say in the next hour and five minutes. That theres difference between saying that something is true and proving its true. Stating opinions about the c. I. A. Is easy to do, proving what the facts are is much harder work. We must begin with an underlying base of facts and details. An evidentiary hierarchy must be built. Any overarching theory of the jfk case must be derived from this hierarchy. The investigation of the kennedy assassination outside of the loop as a outside dealy plaze, is the same as it is inside the plaza. It is all a crime scene. The boxes are still a crime scene. Detail, like each any evidence, must be accounted for from crime scene to court. The big screens in front of you today. Thek you bear with me with technical aspects of my presentation. I am going to try and move the chains down the football field a little bit today. Im going to have to work with you on the devil in the details. Of the grunt work i will put in place comes from the first and subsequent volumes of my forthcoming new works on the pope was a my presentation will be devoted to putting a fresh Evidentiary Base in place, a base that spans from the oss and inld war ii to the c. I. A. The late 1960s. I when to do that by unmasking a few of the c. I. A. Operatives who were behind multiple identities, that bear heavily upon the kennedy assassination case. Ill have something more to say kent, expand on what youve heard so far this morning. Great presentation, by the way. Fantastic. Ill be dealing principally with david philip and someone who is probably known to most of you as tony of these two, only phillips is a true name from birth. Actually, the middle birth name of the person using the name tony was antonio. Let me pose this question. s multiple c. I. A. Identities important to this case . The answer is related to something that was said to me. Under many c. I. A. Operations, there is another operation in play. I refer to these as dark operations. Scott gave us the term deep politics. Webb give us the term dark alliance. I will use the term dark operations or dark matter. Pseudonyms. Ses more portly, they are used internally at the secret level. This internal use is imperative for c. I. A. Counterintelligence. It makes it very difficult for moles to piece to gather sensitive operations. It is the foundation of what is called compartmentalization and tradecraft and the need to know. Reinforceshe c. I. A. The use of multiple identities with carefully crafted deceptions in its secret memos. Backstop andons maintain differentiation between the different identities that belong to the same person. In three secret cables i will show you today, youll be able to see how such deceptions are used to convince those reading these cables that there are two people in the story, when they are both the same person. Ive come to the view that without unmasking, the pseudonyms and multiple identities related to this case, in the end, it will not be possible to prove beyond risible doubt who was behind the assassination and how they got away with it. Jay . The pseudonyms and multiple identities i have chosen to work on with you today were woven into a c. I. A. Operation to recruit who eventually with the support brothers would be used in an operation to assassinate fidel castro. We will penetrate inside the cabella operation and identify who the people who managed to were. From that base, we can build the evidentiary hierarchy that will uncover the dark is operation that was put in play underneath of the cabella operation. I do not believe there was ever a darker operation than this one. Its intent was to play the plot to topple castro back against the president and his brother. It success depended on castro being alive, not dead, after the kennedy assassination. Castro, along with the soviet union, had to appear to be behind the president s murder with oswald as the shooter. It was the c. I. A. Oswald operation to embarrass the fair Cuba Committee in the fall 1963. If you look at the committees report that describes i t, it is an inadequate ascription that betrays its true function as a top shelf cover operation under which Something Else was really going on. Running underneath that supposed oswald fpcc operation was a dark to thended to tie oswald soviets and the cubans while he was in mexico city, whether he was there or somebody else matters less than tying the name to the cubans and the soviet union. Lets not forget that. I have dealt with the evidence for that part of the puzzle in a 2008 book. There is not time to go over that again today. In my presentation today, i will place the cavella operation into the adjacent area of the same puzzle. The operation to kill the president was in play underneath both the oswald op in mexico and the cabella op. It is important to note that the op had an important additional ingredient the backing of the kennedy brothers. Today yourtion to going to hear a lot about four cubans. Three of whom became best friends and to stephanie created them to create the d. R. And whose destiny created them to create the d. R. To overthrow the dictator batista. The groups leader was jose the second childhood friend was cabella. Carlos third is gonzalez, later assigned the cript a. M. Whipe. Jay, lets go to the next slide. Cuba has a history of student opposition to dictators. A groupthe early 1930s formed a secret organization to overthrow the machado dictatorship. Next slide. It was in this tradition that in 1956 antonio formed the d. R. At the university of havana. Carlos finance the group to the profits of his jewelry business. Cabella became the second in command. Next slide. To this group of three i add a fourth. He was a jewel smuggler, who t hrough family connections insinuated himself into this childhood three some and their secret d. R. Francisco pancho alonzo. Concertsigned a. M 1. Today, i will refer to him simply as pancho. Easy to remember. Next slide. The d. R. Was active in cuba before castro. Groupos 26th july was on the run, they launched an attack to assassinate batista. Castro disparage the d. R. And call them cowards for not putting support of his own group ahead of their plans to topple the regime. Castrol was relieved when the plot failed, after the leader was gunned down in the streets. The d. R. Played a crucial role in the final 20 months of the revolution. It batistas flight, was the d. R. Who seized control. Then at the last minute, the d. R. Leader at the time gave into castro. Cabella was immediately alienated by castros move towards communism. Next slide. A c. I. A. Man working with the c. I. A. In havana who appears in the files under the pseudonym andrew f. Merton, had been using an informant. Cabella. Lped recruit that attempt failed when castro spain. Abella to cabella told his friends that if he did not get out of cuba right away, he would throw kill tester himself. A remarked that found its way to the c. I. A. Castro isolated and split the d. R. , which drifted into a void. Many of its members were assimilated into the castro government. Many disenchanted members astro as justsaw c another dictator, and they organize clandestine opposition to his regime. Within 12 months, they fled to the United States as political refugees. There, they readopted the name cubans directorate, d. R. E. Was formed as a unilateral, psychological war asset of the c. I. A. Stationed in miami. In summer, 1963, lee harvey also became publicly involved with the d. R. E. Lee Harvey Oswald became publicly involved with the d. R. E. The real person behind me andrew erton identity leave the main titles. The main one for the whole conference. The real person behind the merton identity has been protected like fort knox for 50 years, even inside the c. I. A. Tothis identification was no the jfk records review board, they did not release it. They might not have known about it. I have seen no evidence that the House Select Committee. Lone 2008 posting on one of jfk website picked up the scent by an internal roadblocks after the assassination. The purpose of that road block was to the man from his long history in the cabella operation. I will get to that again after proving who merton was. It will allow us to solve much more of the puzzle, including the pseudonyms, nicknames, the true birth name and the c. I. A. Crittenden for the person using the name tony. 1958es appear in cuba from to 1960, Andrew Merton appeared in a coup in guatemala. He reappeared again in the c. I. A. Operations in mexico from 1961 to 1964. You have to have life events to associate pseudonyms that are separated in the files. The given expert out there know who this assignment profile belongs to david atlee phillips. Next slide. Good. Among those good soldiers who fought fearlessly for the truth in this case, to whom we are paying should be at this conference, he spent time in my basement. I remember him well. Fondly. A trail to light the way a philips involvement with oswald. We are fortunate to have antonio here this afternoon to tell that story for us. In the 2008 sequel to my oswald book, the c. I. A. Counterintelligence chief played an Important Role in the plot to murder president kennedy. Now i want to stand with them and add my name to his and others who are convinced that psychologicalop warfare officer, David Phillips, also played an Important Role. Ill begin to make that case by may by sharing some work ive done for the last three years on the pseudonyms that belonged to David Phillips. For those philip watchers out there, among his first c. I. A. Crypt was a combination of ive never seen an actual crypt for phillips before. It has been widely known that David Phillips used a pseudonym. The c. I. A. Has not protected that identification and has released cables with the name phillips handwritten over the top of the name. You have probably seen these. Rton, andwas andrew me was behind more than a dozen other aliases. But the Andrew Merton jack stewart identification is going to take us on a trail that begins with the d. R. , continues with the d. R. E. , operation, through the cabella operation and all the way to and through the 1963 oswald operation in new orleans and mexico city, whose trail takes us across from the parts of the puzzle. The counterintelligence staff, andiam harveys task force, fitzgerald special affairs op. This trail will also begin to shine a light on another hardly know element at the top of the c. I. A. The p. E. P. Staff. The psychological and paramilitary operations staff at the top. Guess who came from there . Howard hunt, David Phillips, and a whole lot of other people. If i am disciplined, we can get in thep. T. Staff question and answer session. To get there, we must be absolutely certain of each foothold along the way. We are working with a few people who appear to be many. The pseudonyms that need to be broken to put this puzzle together. So, let me roll up my sleeves. Break out my stubby pencil. The Evidentiary Base for this part of the puzzle. Leave that there. This part of the presentation, we will be working with for documents the c. I. A. Havana station cable, and two critical fbi documents. Memos, noteas these the assignment of the person whose name the c. I. A. Wants to keep secret. First in havana and later mexico city. These assignments match the assignment profile of philips. Well get started with this c. I. A. Havana station cable. My methodology im going to show you the doc. I am going to blow it up in 70 font, so that you can see it in the back row. Dvd, it isthe going to be there for you. Go ahead to the next slide. So, the key that you can see is the close relationship between phillips and carlos teppidino. Together,ing phyllis ended up in mexico city. This excerpt shows just how closely carlos trusted phillips. Opget to the 1962 defection you can see the agency played this any friend of merton to help to get tos cabella. This one shows that phillips recruited tepedino around may, 1958. Next one. This is in miami. An fbi miami office. 62 is the first of two 19 documents i mentioned. As we scroll down, youll notice in the margin there is c. I. A. Request to keep stuff secret. Want usday, they dont to know what is inside those reductions. The unredacted material obviously the life story of philips. Next slide. Lets blow some stuff up. The redactor did not widen the reductions beyond the withheld words. It allows freaks like me to precisely count letters and spaces and fill in the blanks. Lets do this one in which tepedino talks about his contacts in the van. Whichot 13 spaces into fits perfectly the name Dave Phillips. This one mentions phillips transferred to mexico city. Name fits perfectly. But arthur was a deputy chief of station. Guess whose name fits into the second hole perfectly . Lets go to the next one. This is the devil in the details. This hoover memo to the c. I. A. Is the second key fbi document. It tells the same story th originated in the miamia document. As we scroll down, you will see the c. I. A. s they want this stuff redacted. Again, the life story belongs to phillips. This one here, this part is about tepedinos c. I. A. Contact. 13 spaces for phillips and four for the c. I. A. This one about the change of tepedinos contact is just as easy. Next slide. We will go back to the end of the other fbi document. Just below the bottom the c. I. A. Wants to keep the comparison being made between two people a secret. Blow it up. Lets fill in the blanks for this crucial gem. It is exactly 39 spaces. Guess what fits in there. Dave phillips was using merton. Perfect. This is another crucial gem. Containing six and 18 spaces discussing an identical physical description. Therewhich names fits in perfectly . Merton and phillips. This one about who contacted cabella in mexico city. 7 spaces for the c. I. A. One hole for phillips and two for the c. I. A. You can see that tepedino who had been talking with the fbi, would be afraid that phillips would be afraid he would be working behind the c. I. A. s back. Let scroll down to the end of this cable. Again, and tell us how close the looks and tepedino were. It at the new contact that pancho will give him. The name Harvey Thompson. Next slide. Heres a c. I. A. Document that tells us more about this Harvey Thompson. Blow it up. Thompson is phil toomey meeting with an anticastro it mentions castro. Next slide. Bay is an excerpt from the of pigs history. It tells us more about phil toomey. He was a close associate of philips and was a political and psychological strategist. Next slide. Pseudonyms. Nch of merton. Books. Appears in hunts next slide. We have got a bunch more. Up ine f. Barker opops mexico city. Somebody asked me a question . Bob lee and roberto has a lot to do when he is running conte aguero. Nadleman was used for the p. P. Op staff. In radio and tv. And pickworth, first used in an interview. There is also a Donald Barton who is philips contact. Slide. To the next i meant to the roadblock set in place to decouple phillips from merton. This is the cable in which it was inserted. Next slide. We are going to blow up the top. At the top, a known pseudonym for phillips is negotiating with merton. Because we know i just showed you be on reasonable doubt that phillips was merton and that merton cannot be a negotiating with himself, what we now have is a very valuable example to exactly how compartmentalization is used inside the c. I. A. At the secret level to fragment somebody who is playing multiple roles. Bac to the main conferencek sheet. Part of myarize this presentation by posing this question what is so crucial about the philipsmerton identification that it remains classified today . Points to consider. Eisenhowers policy was to replace both the in cuba and the leader in the Dominican Republic with less corrupt and more moderate leaders. It was the look who chose to recruit the d. R. For the task in cuba. Why . Was the most. R. Legitimate Cuban Revolutionary group that was not subordinate to the communist party. Inowas phillips and teped who began the operation to defect and recruit cabella the moment castro seized power. Without the knowledge that. As mert that phillips was merton, it is the merton history that takes us from cabella in cu ba to oswald in mexico city. After the assassination, phillips had to be disconnected from that history. Part of myis presentation with this observation phillips had to leave cuba around january 1960. The havana station chief needed someone who could handle the d. R. Element that remained. Tepedino. Ancho and that someone is the subject of the remainder of my presentation. Just leave it there. Previously, i mention the failure of tepedino and Dave Phillips to defect cabella in january 1959. When phillips left cuba at the end of that year, the chief of station took over the case. Then then, after they atten