Bissell made the decision to formally change the plans against Castro from one of infiltration to a full invasion. He now hoped that a direct invasion of the island could establish a beachhead and spark a mass revolt against Castro. Neither he nor Allen Dulles ever asked for Eisenhower’s ap
When I spy travels and only the Special Activis Pilots flying them know are the pilots a risk?
My belief is it is possible my father James Paul Donegan was several ways connected to Sidney Gottlieb and CIA flights (RECON) and may have worked on L. Fletcher Prouty’s book with Prouty, Prouty also a special activities pilot.
Leroy Fletcher Prouty (January 24, 1917 – June 5, 2001)[1] served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John F. Kennedy. A former colonel in the United States Air Force, he retired from military service to become a bank executive. He subsequently became a critic of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the covert activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), about which he had considerable inside knowledge.
Prouty was the inspiration for the character “Mr. X” in Oliver Stone‘s film JFK.[2]
World War II[edit]
Prouty was commissioned as a reserve 2nd lieutenant in the cavalry on June 9, 1941, and began his military career with the 4th Armored Division in Pine Camp, New York. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant on February 1, 1942. He transferred to the United States Army Air Forces on November 10, 1942, and earned his pilot wings that same month. He arrived in British West Africa in February 1943 as a pilot with Air Transport Command.[citation needed]
In the summer of 1943 he was the personal pilot of General Omar Bradley, General John C. H. Lee and General C. R. Smith (founder and president of American Airlines), among others. He flew the U.S. Geological Survey Team in Saudi Arabia, October 1943, to confirm oil discoveries in preparation for the Cairo Conference. He was assigned to special duties at the Cairo Conference and the Tehran Conference November–December 1943. He flew Chiang Kai-shek‘s Chinese delegation (T. V. Soong‘s delegates) to Tehran.[citation needed]
An important mission he was involved in was the evacuation of the British commandos made famous by the novel Guns of Navarone involved in the Battle of Leros from Leros to Palestine. He was promoted to captain on February 1, 1944. In 1945 he was transferred to the Southwest Pacific and flew in New Guinea, Leyte and was on Okinawa at the end of war. He landed near Tokyo at the time of the surrender with the first three planes carrying General Douglas MacArthur‘s bodyguard troops. He flew out with American POWs.[citation needed]
Post-war service[edit]
After the war, Prouty accepted an assignment from the U.S. Army in September 1945 to inaugurate the ROTC program at Yale University, where he also taught during each scholastic year from 1946 to 1948.
This timeline intersects with the years that George Bush and William F. Buckley, Jr. also spent at Yale. Prouty fondly recalled Buckley at that time in his role as editor of the Yale Daily News, and Prouty later told an interviewer in 1989 that he had written for Buckley on several occasions.
In 1950 he transferred to Colorado Springs to build Air Defense Command. From 1952 to 1954 he was assigned to Korean War duties in Japan, where he served as Military Manager for Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) during the post-war U.S. occupation.
In 1955 he was assigned to the coordination of operations between the fledgling U.S. Air Force and the CIA.[1]
As a result of a CIA commendation for this work he was awarded the Legion of Merit by the U.S. Air Force, promoted to colonel, and assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense.[citation needed]
Following the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency and termination of the OSO by Secretary Robert McNamara, Prouty was transferred to the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and charged with the creation a similar organization on a global scale.
Moving Up to the Big Leagues
The Founding of the Office of Special
Operations (U) 1946
Michael Warner and Kevin C. Ruffner https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB493/docs/intell_ebb_016.PDF
At the end of World War II, the Truman administration dismantled the wartime Office of Strategic
Services (OSS), giving most of OSS to the War Department for “salvage and liquidation.” The
foreign intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities of OSS went to the War Department as
the “Strategic Services Unit” (SSU). This new organization, however, waited in a state of
bureaucratic limbo for several months while the administration decided how to revamp the
nation’s intelligence establishment. In early 1946, a rough consensus emerged: the Stations,
personnel and assets preserved in SSU would go to the newly created Central Intelligence Group
(CIG) to form the nucleus of a permanent foreign intelligence capability. (U//FOUO)
Conclusion
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OSO’s creation and early course embodied the consensus among America’s handful of intelligence professionals that clandestine operations constitute a national, strategic asset that should be managed from Washington.
The fragility of human source intelligence–its rarity and potentially great value–suggested to the cadre of experienced intelligence leaders that espionage should be tightly controlled and used only for the most important tasks. These officers sought to cut it away from potentially compromising liaison contacts and potentially distracting tasking from local American commanders and diplomats. (C)
(b)(1)
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Considering that the United States developed the modem discipline of foreign intelligence only after Pearl Harbor, it is truly impressive that CIA had a professional, worldwide clandestine service operating at all by 1950. OSO had started with a clean slate, carefully maintaining securio/and planning rational collection priorities and strategies in 1946-47.1
Defense Intelligence Agency formalized 1961.
From 1962 to 1963 Prouty served as Chief of Special Operations with the Joint Staff. .In an chance encounter with Edward Lansdale in the hallways of the Pentagon, a “month or two before” the assassination (as Prouty tells it), Lansdale informed Prouty he had arranged for him [Prouty] to accompany a group of VIPs to the South Pole from November 10 to 23, in the capacity of Military Escort officer.[9]
The ostensible purpose of the trip was the activation a nuclear power plant at the United States Navy Base at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, to provide heat, light, and sea water desalination.[citation needed] Prouty later described his confusion at the unusual assignment, but he expected the job to be a “paid vacation” and accepted the task.
Prouty retired in 1964 as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force. As recognition of his long and distinguished career in the service of his country, he was awarded one of the first three Joint Service Commendation Medals by General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[citation needed]
In this same lot as far as being pilots are Phillip Marshall, Gus Ferrir, Barry Seal, and others.
Ferrie was involved with the Civil Air Patrol in several ways: He started as a Senior Member (an adult member) with the Fifth Cleveland Squadron at Hopkins Airport in 1947.[7] When he moved to New Orleans, he transferred to the New Orleans Cadet Squadron at Lakefront Airport.
Consider the two Special Activities Pilot books of Phillip Marhsall 1) The Big Bamboozle and 2) Lakefront that is a fictional fleshing out of the more limited reality based work that illustrates the missing pieces, Phillip Marshall not have been in the entire operation but aware of it.
Adler Berriman “Barry” Seal was an American commercial airline (TWA) pilot who became a major drug smuggler for the Medellin Cartel (for the CIA backed by BCCI Bank) Probable Columbian network Cali Cartel also thought to have Eric Holder connections and backing.
When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials. Wikipedia
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David William Ferrie (March 28, 1918 – February 22, 1967) was an American pilot who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.[1] Garrison also alleged that Ferrie knew Lee Harvey Oswald. Ferrie denied any involvement in a conspiracy and said he never knew Oswald.[2]
Decades later, photos emerged establishing that Ferrie had been in the same Civil Air Patrol unit as Oswald in the 1950s, but critics have argued this does not prove that either Ferrie or Oswald was involved in an assassination plot.[3]
In 1944 Ferrie left St. Charles because of “emotional instability.”[4] He obtained a pilot’s license and began teaching aeronautics at Cleveland’s Benedictine High School. He was fired from the school for several infractions, including taking boys to a house of prostitution.[5] He then became an insurance inspector and, in 1951, moved to New Orleans where he worked as a pilot for Eastern Air Lines, until losing his job in August 1961, after being arrested twice on morals charges.[6]
Ferrie was involved with the Civil Air Patrol in several ways: He started as a Senior Member (an adult member) with the Fifth Cleveland Squadron at Hopkins Airport in 1947.[7] When he moved to New Orleans, he transferred to the New Orleans Cadet Squadron at Lakefront Airport. There he served as an instructor, and later as the Commander.[7] After a Ferrie-trained cadet pilot perished in a December 1954 crash, Ferrie’s annual re-appointment was declined. He was asked to be a guest aerospace education instructor at a smaller squadron at Moisant Airport, and lectured there from June to September 1955. On July 27, 1955, 15-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald joined this squadron.[8]
In March 1958, a former cadet-turned-commander invited Ferrie back to the New Orleans Cadet Squadron. Ferrie served unofficially for a time and was reinstated as Executive Officer in September 1959. Ferrie quit the squadron in June 1960 after a disagreement during a bivouac. In September 1960, he started his own unofficial squadron, called the Metairie Falcon Cadet Squadron.[9] An offshoot of this group was the Internal Mobile Security Unit, a group formed for the fight against Fidel Castro‘s Cuba.[10] Over the years, he used both his official and unofficial squadrons to develop improper relations with boys ranging in age from 14 to 18, and his August 1961 arrests caused the Falcons to fold.[10]
Ferrie described himself as a liberal on civil rights issues, and he was “rabidly anti-Communist“, often accusing previous U.S. presidential administrations of “sell-outs” to Communism.[5] Ferrie initially supported Fidel Castro‘s campaign against Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, but by mid-1959 became convinced that Castro was a Communist. According to the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, Ferrie “found an outlet for his political fanaticism in the anti-Castro movement.” By early 1961, Ferrie was working with right-wing Cuban exile Sergio Arcacha Smith, head of the Central Intelligence Agency-backed Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front in New Orleans. Ferrie soon became Arcacha Smith’s “eager partner in counterrevolutionary activities.” Both were involved in a raid in late 1961 on a munitions depot in Houma, Louisiana, “in which various weapons, grenades and ammunition were stolen.”[11][12]
Ferrie often spoke to business and civic groups on political issues. In July 1961, Ferrie gave an anti-Kennedy speech before the New Orleans chapter of the Military Order of World Wars, in which “his topic was the Presidential administration and the Bay of Pigs Invasion fiasco.”[5] In his speech, Ferrie attacked Kennedy for refusing to provide air support to the Bay of Pigs invasion force of Cuban exiles.[13] Ferrie’s tirade against Kennedy was so poorly received that he was asked to leave the podium.[5] Ferrie admitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, after the assassination, that when speaking about Kennedy, he might have used the expression: “He ought to be shot.” Ferrie insisted, however, that these words were just “an off-hand or colloquial expression.”[13]
In the early 1960s, Ferrie became involved with Guy Banister, former Special Agent In Charge (SAC) of the Chicago office of the FBI, right-wing political activist, segregationist, and private investigator. Banister also worked with Ferrie’s associate, Sergio Arcacha Smith. In early 1962, both Banister and Arcacha Smith maintained offices in the Newman Building at the corner address of 544 Camp Street / 531 Lafayette Street, New Orleans.[14]
In February 1962, Banister assisted Ferrie in his dispute with Eastern Airlines regarding “charges brought [against Ferrie] by the airline and local New Orleans police of crimes against nature and extortion.”[12] During this period, Ferrie was often seen at Banister’s office.[15] Banister testified to Ferrie’s “good character” at an airline pilot’s grievance board hearing in the summer of 1963.[12][15]
According to several witnesses, Ferrie and Banister also worked together in the fall of 1963 for lawyer G. Wray Gill, on behalf of Gill’s client, New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello, in an attempt to block Marcello’s deportation to Guatemala.[12] On a related matter, the House Select Committee on Assassinations stated that “An unconfirmed Border Patrol report of February 1962 alleges that Ferrie was the pilot who flew Carlos Marcello back into the United States from Guatemala after he had been deported in April 1961 as part of U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy‘s crackdown on organized crime.”[16] Another report, this one by the FBI, “indicated Marcello offered [Ferrie associate Sergio] Arcacha Smith a deal whereby Marcello would make a substantial donation to the [anti-Castro] movement in return for concessions in Cuba after Castro’s overthrow.”[16]
Allegations of involvement in the Kennedy assassination[edit]
On the afternoon of November 22, 1963 – the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated and the day Carlos Marcello was acquitted in his deportation case – New Orleans private investigator Guy Banister and one of his employees, Jack Martin, were drinking together at a local bar. On their return to Banister’s office, the two men got into a heated argument. According to Martin, Banister said something to which Martin replied, “What are you going to do – kill me like you all did Kennedy?” Banister drew his .357 magnum revolver and pistol-whipped Martin several times. Martin, badly injured, went by ambulance to Charity Hospital.[17]
In the ensuing days, Jack Martin told reporters and authorities that Ferrie might have been involved in the assassination. Martin told the New Orleans police that Ferrie “was supposed to have been the getaway pilot in the assassination.”[1] He said that Ferrie had threatened Kennedy’s life, even outlining plans to kill him, and that Ferrie might have taught Oswald how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight. Martin also claimed that Ferrie had known Oswald from their days in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol, and that he had seen a photograph, at Ferrie’s home, of Oswald in a Civil Air Patrol group.[18]
Martin also told bail bondsman Hardy Davis that he had heard on television that Ferrie’s New Orleans library card had been found in Oswald’s possession when he was arrested in Dallas. Davis reported this to Ferrie’s employer, the lawyer G. Wray Gill.[19] (In fact, no such library card was found among Oswald’s possessions.)[20] Ferrie subsequently visited both Oswald’s former New Orleans landlady and a former neighbor about this report.[21] Ferrie was able to produce his library card for FBI agents who interviewed him on November 27, 1963.[22]
Martin also claimed that Ferrie had driven from New Orleans to Texas on the night of the assassination. When questioned by the FBI, Ferrie stated that he and two friends drove 350 miles (560 km) to the Winterland Skating Rink in Houston, about 240 miles (390 km) from Dallas, that evening. Ferrie said that “he had been considering for some time the feasibility and possibility of opening an ice skating rink in New Orleans” and wanted to gather information on the ice rink business. “He stated that he introduced himself to [rink manager] Chuck Rolland and spoke with him at length concerning the cost of installation and operation of the rink.”[23] However, Rolland said that he never spoke to Ferrie about running an ice rink. Rolland said that Ferrie had spent his time at the rink’s pay phone, making and receiving calls.[24]
On November 25, Martin was contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Martin told the FBI that Ferrie might have hypnotized Oswald into assassinating Kennedy. The FBI considered Martin’s evidence unreliable. Nevertheless, FBI agents interviewed Ferrie twice about Martin’s allegations.[25]
Ferrie admitted that he had made public and private statements criticizing Kennedy’s actions during the Bay of Pigs, but he denied ever stating that the President should be killed.
He stated that he had no recollection of having met Oswald and if he had the meeting would have been “very casual”.[26] Ferrie stated that Martin had “bedeviled him in every manner possible” since sending him out of G. Wray Gill’s office in an “undiplomatic manner” in June 1963.[27][28] Gill told the FBI that Martin blamed Ferrie for not getting a job and subsequently “slandered Ferrie at every opportunity”.[29] The FBI also interviewed about 20 other people in connection with Martin’s allegations. The FBI said that it was unable to develop a substantial case against Ferrie. An inquiry by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, conducted a decade and a half later, concluded that the FBI’s “overall investigation of the 544 Camp Street issue at the time of the assassination was not thorough.”[30]
After learning of the allegations, Ferrie contacted several of his former Civil Air Patrol associates for more information about Oswald. Former cadet Roy McCoy told the FBI that “Ferrie had come by looking for photographs of the cadets to see if Oswald was pictured in any photos of Ferrie’s squadron.”[31]
Some of this information reached Jim Garrison, the district attorney of New Orleans, who had become increasingly interested in the assassination after a chance meeting with Louisiana Senator Russell Long in late 1966. Garrison said that Long told him: “Those fellows on the Warren Commission were dead wrong. There’s no way in the world that one man could have shot up Jack Kennedy that way.”[32][33]
In December 1966, Garrison interviewed Jack Martin. Martin claimed that during the summer of 1963, Ferrie, Banister, Oswald, and a group of anti-Castro Cuban exiles were involved in operations against Castro’s Cuba that included gun running activities and burglarizing armories.[34] Garrison later wrote: “The Banister apparatus … was part of a supply line that ran along the Dallas–New Orleans–Miami corridor. These supplies consisted of arms and explosives for use against Castro’s Cuba.”[34]
According to testimony by Banister’s personal secretary, Delphine Roberts, Ferrie and Oswald were frequent visitors to Banister’s office in 1963. She remembered Ferrie as “one of the agents.” “Many times when he came into the office he used the private office behind Banister’s, and I was told he was doing private work. I believed his work was somehow connected with the CIA rather than the FBI”.[35] The House Select Committee on Assassinations investigated Roberts’s claims and said that “because of contradictions in Roberts’ statements to the committee and lack of independent corroboration of many of her statements, the reliability of her statements could not be determined.”[36]
As Garrison continued his investigation, he became convinced that a group of right-wing extremists, including Ferrie, Banister, and Clay Shaw, were involved in a conspiracy with elements of the CIA to kill John F. Kennedy. Garrison later claimed that the motive for the assassination was anger over Kennedy’s attempts to obtain a peace settlement in both Cuba and Vietnam.[37][38] Garrison also believed that Shaw, Banister, and Ferrie had conspired to set up Oswald as a patsy in the JFK assassination.[39]
Death[edit]
Ferrie lived in the upstairs of this two story house located on Louisiana Avenue Parkway in the Broadmoor section of New Orleans.
On February 22, 1967, less than a week after the New Orleans States-Item broke the story of Garrison’s investigation, Ferrie was found dead in his apartment.[40] Two unsigned, undated typed letters were found at Ferrie’s apartment: The first, found in a pile of papers, was a screed about the justice system, beginning with “To leave this life is, for me, a sweet prospect.”[41] The second note was written to Al Beauboeuf, Ferrie’s friend to whom he bequeathed all his possessions.[41] Garrison said he considered Ferrie’s death a suicide, but added “I am not ruling out murder.”[40] Garrison’s aide, Lou Ivon, stated that Ferrie telephoned him the day after the story of Garrison’s investigation broke and told him: “You know what this news story does to me, don’t you. I’m a dead man. From here on, believe me, I’m a dead man.”[42]
Ferrie’s autopsy was performed by Orleans Parish coroner Nicholas Chetta and pathologist Ronald A. Welsh.[43] They concluded that there was no evidence of suicide or murder and that Ferrie died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage due to a congenital intracranial berry aneurysm that had ruptured at the base of his brain.[40][44][45][46] Upon learning of the coroner’s findings, Garrison said, “I suppose it could just be a weird coincidence that the night Ferrie penned two suicide notes, he died of natural causes.”[37] On March 1, 1967, Garrison had Shaw arrested and charged him with conspiring to assassinate Kennedy.[47]
Jack Wardlaw, then with the now-defunct afternoon newspaper the New Orleans States-Item, and his fellow journalist Rosemary James, a native of South Carolina, co-authored Plot or Politics, a 1967 book which takes issue with the Garrison investigation. Wardlaw won an Associated Press award for his story on the death of Ferrie.[48]
Allegations regarding a relationship between Ferrie and Oswald[edit]
In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations stated in its Final Report that Oswald – who had been living in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 – had established contact with anti-Castro Cubans[49] and “apparently” with American anti-Castro activist Ferrie.[50]
The Committee also found “credible and significant” the testimony of six witnesses who placed Oswald and Ferrie in Clinton, Louisiana, in September 1963.[51]
One of the witnesses was Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) chairman Corrie Collins. Collins identified a photograph of Ferrie at the trial of Clay Shaw, saying, “but the most outstanding thing about him [Ferrie] was his eyebrows and his hair. They didn’t seem real, in other words, they were unnatural, didn’t seem as if they were real hair.”[52] A later release of witness statements taken by Garrison’s investigators in 1967, unavailable to the HSCA, showed contradictions in the witnesses’ testimony given in 1969 and 1978.[53] For example, Collins was shown a photo of Ferrie by Garrison investigator Andrew Sciambra in January 1968 and (in Sciambra’s words) “said that he remembers seeing this man around Clinton somewhere but can’t be sure where or when.”[54] Yet later at the Shaw trial, he placed Ferrie in the company of Shaw and Oswald.[55]
In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations stated that available records “lent substantial credence to the possibility that Oswald and [David] Ferrie had been involved in the same [Civil Air Patrol] C.A.P. unit during the same period of time.”[8] Committee investigators found six witnesses who said that Oswald had been present at Civil Air Patrol meetings headed by Ferrie.[56][57]
David Ferrie (second from left) and a teenage Lee Harvey Oswald (far right) in a group photo of the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol in 1955
Frontline photograph[edit]
In 1993, the PBS television program Frontline obtained a group photograph, taken eight years before the assassination, that showed Oswald and Ferrie at a cookout with other Civil Air Patrol cadets.[3] Frontline executive producer Michael Sullivan said, “one should be cautious in ascribing its meaning. The photograph does give much support to the eyewitnesses who say they saw Ferrie and Oswald together in the C.A.P., and it makes Ferrie’s denials that he ever knew Oswald less credible. But it does not prove that the two men were with each other in 1963, nor that they were involved in a conspiracy to kill the president.”[3] Author John C. McAdams wrote: “The photo doesn’t prove that they ever met or talked to each other, but only that they were in the organization at the same time.”[58]
in other widely ignored works Fletcher Prouty in explaining Landsdale killing JFK will write a book just on what a Special Activities pilot is.
Dynastic Successions Book 
