The first of eight admitted assassination attempts against Castro took place in 1960.
The program was, of course, a failure, if not a circus. The invasion of Cuba by the CIA's anti-Castro
exiles was put off until after John Kennedy took over the presidency. The invasion at the Bay of
Pigs was a fiasco, and Castro's forces easily prevailed. But the program continued.
In 1960, FFrank Fiorini '') and other Florida-based Cuban exiles were trained as killers and drug-telix Rodriguez, Luis Posada Carriles, Rafael Chi Chi '' Quintero, Frank Sturgis (orraffickers in (^)
the Cuban initiative; their supervisor was E. Howard Hunt. Their overall CIA boss was Miami
station chief Theodore G. Shackley, seconded by Thomas Clines. In later chapters we will follow
the subsequent careers of these characters--increasingly identified with George Bush--through the
Watergate coup, and the Iran-Contra scandal.
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NOTE:
- Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made--Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), p.
- Reed was better known in high society as a minor diplomat, the founder of the Triton Press and
the president of the American Shakespeare Theater. - Palm Beach Post, Jan. 13, 1991.
- For Lovett's residency there see Isaacson and Thomas, op. cit., p. 417. Some Jupiter Island
residencies were verified by their inclusion in the 1947 mClub, in the Harriman papers, Library of Congress; others were established from interviews withembership list of the Hobe Sound Yacht
long-time Jupiter Islanders. - Arthur Burr Darling, The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950
(College Station: Pennsylvania State University, 1990), p. 59. - The Chicago Tribune, Feb. 9, 1945, for example, warned of `` Creation of an all-powerful
intelligence service to spy on the postwar world and to pry into the lives of citizens at home. '' Cf.
Anthony Cave Brown, Wild Bill Donovan: The Last Hero (New York: Times Books, 1982), p. 625,
on warnings to FDR about the British control of U.S. intelligence. - Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau, Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob (New York:
Paddington Press, 1979) pp. 227-28. - See John Ranelagh, The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (New York: Simon andSchuster, 1987), pp. 131-32.
- Clark Clifford, Counsel to the President (New York: Random House, 1991).
- Sidney Hyman, The Lives of William Benton (Chicago: The University of Chi1969), pp. 438-41. cago Press,
- Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, World Population Crisis: The United States Response (New York:
Praeger Publishers, 1973), `` Foreward, '' by George H.W. Bush, p. vii.