Ultimate Sacrifice

by Waldron, Lamar

• ISBN13: 9780786714414
• ISBN10: 0786714417
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-27
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Ultimate Sacrifice reveals, for the first time, John and Robert Kennedy's plan for a coup in Cuba on December 1, 1963 a plan that involved a U.S. military invasion. Unique, distinctly different, and far more advanced than any previously disclosed operation, this plan is corroborated by many declassified military and CIA documents that have never been quoted in any book before. It provides the missing piece of the puzzle regarding JFK's murder, and explains why Bobby Kennedy told close associates that the Mafia was behind his brother's assassination. The Mafia had managed to infiltrate the Kennedys' intended coup. Ultimate Sacrifice describes and documents an attempt they made to kill JFK in a motorcade several days prior to Dallas. This attempt had more than a dozen parallels to Dallas. Building on the work of the seven governmental committees that investigated aspects of JFK's assassination, the four million documents that were declassified in the 1990s, and exclusive interviews with many Kennedy insiders, the authors are able to tell the full story of these incidents. Ultimate Sacrifice Makes News with Kennedy's Cuba Coup Plan New History Reveals Previously Unknown CIA Code Name As Well As Linked Assassination Attempt

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	1	(20)
PART ONE
CHAPTER ONE: THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND C-DAY	21	(8)
CHAPTER TWO: HARRY WILLIAMS	29	(12)
CHAPTER THREE: THE C-DAY "PLAN FOR A COUP IN CUBA"	41	(14)
CHAPTER FOUR: AMWORLD: THE CIA's PORTION OF C-DAY	55	(12)
CHAPTER FIVE: THE KENNEDY MEN: VANCE, HAIG, AND CALIFANO	67	(13)
CHAPTER SIX: HARRY WILLIAMS, RFK, AND THE COUP LEADER	80	(6)
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE "PLAN FOR A COUP IN CUBA": DECEMBER 1, 1963	86	(15)
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE CONTINGENCY PLANS	101	(12)
CHAPTER NINE: "PLAYING WITH FIRE"	113	(14)
CHAPTER TEN: THE COUNTDOWN FOR C-DAY BEGINS: NOVEMBER 22, 1963	127	(11)
CHAPTER ELEVEN: HARRY WILLIAMS AND THE CUBANS	138	(9)
CHAFFER TWELVE: ANUEL ARTIME	147	(13)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: MANOLO RAY	160	(5)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: ELOY MENOYO	165	(13)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: TONY VARONA	178	(10)
CHAFFER SIXTEEN: CUBAN-AMERICAN TROOPS ON US MILITARY BASES	188	(5)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: CHE GUEVARA: A REASSESSMENT	193	(10)
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE OTHER PLOTS AGAINST CASTRO	203	(15)
CHAPTER NINETEEN: US "ASSETS INTO CUBA"	218	(6)
CH.APTER TWENTY: THE CHICAGO AND TAMPA ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AND C-DAY	224	(14)
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: DID BOBBY FEEL RESPONSIBLE?	238	(11)
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: PIECES OF C-DAY: BANISTER AND FERRIE; MARTINO AND CAIN	249	(14)
PART TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: MARCELLO, TRAFFICANTE, AND ROSSELLI	263	(14)
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: RUBY, HOFFA, HEROIN, AND GUN-RUNNING	277	(8)
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: NIXON, HAVANA, AND ASSASSINATING AN ATTORNEY GENERAL	285	(8)
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: GUATEMALA: THE MAFIA ASSASSINATES A PRESIDENT, THE CIA STAGES A COUP	293	(6)
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: THE KENNEDYS GO ON THE ATTACK	299	(6)
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: RUBY, THE MAFIA, AND THE CIA HELP CASTRO	305	(8)
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: 1959: CIA-MAFIA PLOTS AND COUP ATTEMPTS	313	(11)
CHAPTER THIRTY: THE CIA TURNS To HOFFA	324	(16)
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: MENOYO, MORALES, AND PHILLIPS PLAN A COUP	340	(13)
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: RUBY, TRAFFICANTE, THE KENNEDYS, AND "JACK LA RUE"	353	(18)
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: SEPTEMBER 1959: ARTIME, VARONA, AND RUBY TARGET CASTRO	371	(15)
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: 1960 AND 1961: NEW CIA-MAFIA PLOTS, THE BAY OF PIGS, AND RFK's WAR AGAINST MARCELLO	386	(13)
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: THE WAR AGAINST THE GODFATHERS AND TARGETING RFK	399	(11)
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: SHIFTING THE TARGET TO JFK	410	(8)
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: THE CIA-MAFIA PLOTS, OPERATION MONGOOSE, PLANS TO INVADE, AND THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS	418	(9)
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: 1963: TARGETING CASTRO AND THE MOB TARGETING JFK	427	(12)
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: SOMEONE TO TAKE THE FALL: LEE HARVEY OSWALD	439	(21)
CHAFFER FORTY: THREE OSWALD RIDDLES	460	(13)
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: DAVID ATLEE PHILLIPS AND FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA, MARCELLO AND OSWALD, OSWALD AND GILBERTO LOPEZ	473	(10)
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: TARGETING HARRY WILLIAMS	483	(8)
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: THE FRENCH CONNECTION HEROIN NETWORK AND THE PLAN TO KILL JFK	491	(18)
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: OSWALD AND THE SUMMER OF 1963	509	(16)
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: OSWALD AND DAVID ATLEE PHILLIPS: HIS NEXT ASSIGNMENT	525	(14)
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: OSWALD IN MEXICO CITY: A CIA OPERATION COMPROMISED	539	(21)
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: FALL 1963: ROSSELLI, ROBERT KENNEDY, AND RUBY	560	(7)
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: MORE KENNEDY PRESSURE ON THE GODFATHERS	567	(8)
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: THE GODFATHERS' PLAN TO KILL THE PRESIDENT	575	(20)
PART THREE
CHAPTER FIFTY: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR CHICAGO	595	(11)
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: THE CUBA CONTINGENCY PLAN AND THE PHONY CUBAN AGENT	606	(13)
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO: THREE WEEKS BEFORE DALLAS: THE CHICAGO ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT	619	(18)
CHAPTER F1FTY-THREE: JFK'S CHICAGO MOTORCADE: CANCELLED AT THE LAST MINUTE	637	(15)
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR TAMPA	652	(14)
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE: MID-NOVEMBER 1963: THE PRESIDENT PREPARES A MESSAGE FOR THE COUP LEADER	666	(18)
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX: NOVEMBER 18, 1963: THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE JFK IN TAMPA	684	(13)
CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN: NOVEMBER 19-21: REGROUPING FOR DALLAS	697	(17)
CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT: NOVEMBER 22: JFK IS MURDERED	714	(16)
CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE: RFK'S SUSPICIONS AND C-DAY IS PUT ON HOLD	730	(23)
CHAPTER SIXTY: ANOTHER MOB HIT IN DALLAS DEVASTATES BOBBY	753	(17)
CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE: THE LEGACY OF SECRECY	770	(17)
PHOTO AND DOCUMENT APPENDICES	787	(18)
ENDNOTES	805	(72)
INDEX	877	(22)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	899