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JFK 101 Part 11: The Schweiker-Hart Subcommittee on the Ochelli Effect

Join authors Larry Hancock, Carmine Savastano, and your host Chuck Ochelli to review the Schweiker-Hart Subcommittee, evidence, and the influence this group had on future investigations. #JFK #US #evidence
 

Deception and Secrets

It will come as no surprise to those familiar with the internal actions undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency that deception and protecting vital secrets are undeniable necessities for national security. However, some activities venture far beyond what is necessary and despite contrary official statements, other actions have repeatedly occurred not from necessity but agenda. Deciphering what is merely operational requirement and what is possibly nefarious intention can prove difficult at times. There is significant evidence while officials frequently employ benign deception at times questionable and dishonest agendas too are in play. 

The chance for abuses can occur using a method of intelligence protection called compartmentalization. This allows the secreting of intelligence among a smaller group of people to prevent exposure and reduce who possesses the most important operational details. Yet this creates the ability to conceal information from external oversight. One document seeking to prevent Agency Employee Joseph Stefan Piccolo's affiliation orders his records to"...be blocked from all outside inquiries from 16 October 1957 forward." Officials determined that Piccolo's "...entire association with the Agency must be denied, you are requested to block his records for the entire period of time he has been employed by the Agency."i  While this method would protect an employee from public investigation and enemy intelligence gathering, it alternately might compartmentalize records from public officials as well; this likely would include later investigating officials. 

Some might protest that the CIA would not knowingly deceive allied official groups especially those who aided the Agency by providing cover to many of its agents, and those people would be mistaken. A portion of one internal memo regarding the CIA's support of controversial Cuban exile leader Marcos Diaz Lanz considers why the US State Department would not appreciate the Agency having infiltrated Diaz Lanz into America without its prior consent. After consulting Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles concerned officers decided to hold Diaz Lanz and later alert the State Department. However, they did not mention ignoring the State Department's jurisdiction, their secretly aiding Diaz Lanz, and the specifics of his journey to America.ii The Agency verifiably would use deception against even its closest allies and repeatedly ignore the law if doing so served their purposes.  

One little known Agency document assesses President's (Warren) Commission Assistant Staff Counsel Samuel A. Stern regarding a future visit to its headquarters in 1964. The CIA gathered nothing but positive information on him but this document provided a notable additional fact. "In October 1961 a CSA (Covert Security Approval) was issued for Stern's utilization in connection with..." a redacted Agency undertaking. Stern worked as the law clerk for an attorney named Lloyd Cutler, who would later serve as the White House counsel of two United States presidents. A connected document states, "...there has been no contact with him since his association with the Warren Commission."iii This begs some reasonable questions, what exactly did the Agency discuss with Stern while he served the Commission? Were these contacts all merely formal Commission staff associations? Did they utilize Stern to gather internal information about the Commission's investigation or even attempt to influence his reports? All these things are within the realm of possibility. That Stern's connection remained largely unknown then would likely imply he did not share his prior association with the Central Intelligence Agency.  

    White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler

Similarly, former Commission member and later President Gerald Ford had concerns would verify the CIA's suppression of critical information aimed at the President's Commission itself. A significant existing amount of declassified official documents presents a repeated series of Central Intelligence Agency assassination plans and operations underway in the 1960s. Yet Ford states, "As I remember, those of us on the Commission got the impression the Agency has never engaged in such activities against Castro."iv It seems the President was unaware of exactly with whom he was dealing. However, not just the Agency but also those associated with them used deception as well. 

Former President's Commission Staff Counsel Samuel A. Stern

Cuban exile Antonio Veciana has claimed observing Lee Harvey Oswald meeting with a CIA officer using the pseudonym Morris or Maurice Bishop during the later months of 1963 in Dallas. Yet discrepancies in the circumstances, evolutions in the identity of the Agency officer present, and no set date for the purported meeting leaves his claims vaguely unproven at best.  Perhaps a document in the more recent JFK Records act files can present additional clarity to the matter. One such document states Antonio Veciana despite the CIA's repeated claims of a few limited contacts was an active informant for the Agency as they undertook a Cuban related project in late 1962. Antonio Veciana Blanch was a source for Department of the Army listed on the Interagency Source Register in 1962 and Veciana could provide access to three Cuban exile Second National Front of Escambray frogmen who had attempted to sabotage a Soviet vessel. Veciana himself was not of operational importance in that matter as most evidence would suggest but contrary to Agency claims they did maintain contact with him as an informant until the "...early part of 1963."v vi Thus despite the latest deception offered by the Agency seeking to minimize Veciana's use, his contacts ceased before his later allegations regarding Lee Harvey Oswald were purported to happen. The document further confirms that Veciana's informant status was later renewed after 1963 and ended July 22, 1966.vii   

While some of Veciana's claims are verifiable, substantial evidence contends his greatest evolving accusation. He stands by his claim that CIA officer David Atlee Phillips met with Lee Harvey Oswald using the pseudonym Maurice Bishop, despite that he prior denied Phillips was Bishop to congressional investigators. Subsequently he changed this identification to Agency officer J. Walton Moore, and then later reversed back to Phillips. Veciana further asserts that Bishop told him to create the Alpha 66 exile group and subsequently attributes most of his and the exile group's operations to the elusive Bishop. Yet official documents contend not just Veciana controlled Alpha 66 but that he neglects to mention it had multiple cofounders who authored its operations and this challenges the very foundation of his later claims.

       Exile leader Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo

In a media article reporting the death of Cuban exile leader Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, he states that not Antonio Veciana but he first created the Alpha 66 exile group in Miami to overthrow Fidel Castro.viii Veciana was the treasurer for Alpha 66 and he prior states to officials in 1962 that he met with other unidentified Cuban exile leaders to form Alpha 66. Additionally he publicly announced he was the spokesperson for the group and that Alpha 66 "...has no leader as such." ix He further claimed that if the paramilitary actions planned by Alpha 66 failed, they would return all donations sent to the group. Yet Veciana seemingly failed to return the donations following a divide in the original group and he later formed the group's corporate entity to deprive opposing group members of the name Alpha 66. After Veciana's subsequent attempts to raise donations Puerto Rican officials received complaints from Cuban exiles "...describing Alpha 66 as just another fraud to obtain money from the exiles."

The negative assessments likely stem from October 1962, when the majority of original Alpha 66 members felt betrayed by Veciana. Controversy began when they learned of whom reportedly controlled the group, accessed its funds, and used Veciana as their proxy. Evidence states Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo the head of the Segundo Frente Del Escambray, "...was behind both organizations (Alpha 66 and SFDE). When Veciana's covert association with SFDE and Gutierrez came to light, Alpha 66 members felt they had been deceived, and Veciana was forced to resign."x One contributing factor to explain the feeling of betrayal was the longstanding accusation and some circumstantial evidence that links Menoyo to Cuban intelligence in 1959.xi It is possible the many failures of Alpha 66 operations were according to Menoyo's design. His part in forming and leading multiple exile groups could have been to gather intelligence and prevent these groups from actually doing significant damage to the Castro regime.  

Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara is pictured here with Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo

Hidden control of the Alpha 66 is not attributable to the unproven Maurice Bishop as Veciana claims but more likely the very real Eloy G. Menoyo and other unnamed co-founders. Further supporting Menoyo's hold over Veciana is following the Alpha 66 split Veciana and Menoyo together left the original membership without finances and largely damaged from their past failed operations. Notable was Veciana prior being used by the Agency to gain access to members of Menoyo's group. Six months later in 1963, Veciana and Menoyo established a unity coalition between the later formed version of Alpha 66, the MRP (Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo), and the SNFE (Second National Front of Escambray). 

The truth feasibly rests between the CIA's deceptive claims and Veciana's legendary evolutions. Yet evidence proves both sources have made unreliable statements and one lie does not lend credibility to the other's assertions. While the Agency desperately sought to distance itself from Veciana and his growing allegations, Veciana has seemingly ever sought to aggrandize his associations with the CIA and rewrite the history of Alpha 66. The Agency and those associated with it have concealed their full past associations from most because some are too eager to use deception and secrets. Honesty is fleeting in a society where truth is a cherished resource and lies are the currency of the realm.
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References:
i. HSCA, Seg. CIA file, Piccolo's entire association must be denied, Joseph Stefan Piccolo, November 14, 1957, 104-10161-10149
ii. HSCA, Seg. CIA file, Microfilm Reel 6, De Torres-Diasado, July 27, 1959, 1994.04.21.11:44:10:40005
iii. Central Intelligence Agency, Oswald 201 File, Bio on Samuel A. Stern and Howard P. Willens, Members of the Warren Co, March 27, 1964, 1993.06.17.10:20:17:930000
iv. White House Internal Correspondence, Memo for Phil Buchen from President Gerald Ford, March 10, 1975, 178-10003-10345, p. 2
v. HSCA, Seg. CIA file, Microfilm Reel 17, Ruiz-Webster, Trace Request: Veciana-Blanche, Antonio, November 14, 1962, 104-10181-10195
vi. United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Subject: SD 10721 (Veciana),  April 19, 1966, 178-1003-101188
vii. HSCA, Seg. CIA file, Microfilm Reel 17, Ruiz-Webster, Folder P, Antonio Carlos Veciana Blanch, 1994.05.09.10:57:29:630005
viii. Douglas Martin, (October 26, 2012), Eloy Gutierrez-Menoyo, Cuban Dissident, Dies at 77, New York Times, nytimes.com  
ix. HSCA, Seg. CIA file, Operation Alpha 66- Internal Security- Cuba- Registration Act- Cuba,  Box 34, August 8, 1962, pp. 1, 3, 4, 104-10102-10073
x. HSCA, Seg. CIA file, Staff Notes, No Title, MRP and its major personalities, 180-10141-10365  xi. HSCA, Seg. CIA file, Alleged Castro Agents, Box 16, August 11, 1959, 104-10073-10117

The JFK File Releases, Internet Censorship, and Evidence

C.A.A. Savastano pays a visit to Pirate Radio's Japhy Ryder to discuss internet censorship, the JFK document releases, myths, and evidence. Join them for an unfiltered conversation regarding some the verifiable and mythical ideas related to the JFK case. #JFK #evidence

The Overthrow of Salvador Allende

The Ochellli Effect's "Sinister History" is back with Chuck Ochelli and C.A.A. Savastano as they discuss the official evidence related to the past overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende. #history #evidence #Allende #conspiracy #CIA

Robert Kennedy Assassination review as the case nears Fifty Years

Join Chuck Ochelli and researcher Carmine Savastano to discuss the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, nearly fifty years of official suppression, and the surviving evidence. #RFK #50 #evidence

 

The Ochelli Effect w/ authors Mike Swanson and C.A.A. Savastano

Authors Mike Swanson and Carmine Savastano join Chuck Ochelli to discuss new files, selected members, and present additional evidence regarding the notorious Operation Mongoose. #JFK #US #Cuba

Operation Mongoose Documents

A selection of over twenty notable documents largely from the new JFK Records releases that present additional details regarding Operation MONGOOSE and related officials. Among the files are documents regarding Phase I (Course A), Phase II (Course B), Special Group Augmented meetings, and one related official's view of Mongoose Chief Edward Landsdale being a "kook...wildman" and "just plain crazy". #JFK #CIA #MONGOOSE
 

McCuistion programs w/ C.A.A. Savastano discussed new files and the JFK case

Author C.A.A. Savastano joins Jacob Hornberger President of the Future of Freedom Foundation, attorney Paul Watler, and host Dennis McCuistion to discuss the new JFK documents and the possible implications they have upon the Warren Commission. #JFK #McCuistion
http://www.frtv.org/2018/01/what-do-new-jfk-documents-imply-about-the-warren-commission-report/

C.A.A. Savastano also joined journalist Jefferson Morley and host Dennis McCuistion to discuss the CIA and FBI cover-ups and controversies regarding Lee Harvey Oswald.#JFK #McCuistion
 http://www.frtv.org/2018/01/cia-and-fbi-cover-ups-vietnam-mexico-city-and-the-controversies-over-oswald-part-one/

JFK Myths Episode 13

JFK Assassination Myths returns to the Ochelli Effect! Join researchers Rob Clark, Steve Roe, Carmine Savastano, and Chuck Ochelli to discuss myths related to the JFK case and compare them to evidence. #JFK #myths #evidence
https://ochelli.com/jfk-assassination-myths-13-bush-lbj-circus/
 

The Man with Plans

                         WILLIAM KING HARVEY
                        CrediT To: Alchetron

The success and failure of various intricate plans developed by the Central Intelligence Agency relied on the oversight of its administrators, the professionalism of its employees, and the control of its assets. In such a high pressure and secretive environment, obsession and imagination can be valuable tools and deadly hindrances if one strays too far afield from the illumination provided by verifiable facts. Unfortunately, secret agendas can allow exception to be made, the bending of policies, and even the most unthinkable has been given voice for its utility with little consideration to blowback.  A frequent underlying lesson regarding many intelligence operations has ever been doing unto others before they do unto you.

A seemingly endless cast of people surrounds many of the most nefarious and foreboding plots to emerge from the United States military and intelligence community. In some instances, plots can involve members of both communities with drastically varying expectations and personnel. Yet one trait shared by some of the more notable people and handed down to later members was a strong dislike for complete oversight and a want to conceal operations that could damage their respective groups if exposed. One such person with a staunch commitment to the superiority of clandestine matters over civil laws is CIA officer Bill K. Harvey.

William King Harvey was reportedly born in Cleveland, Ohio during the fall of 1915 to literature professor Dr. Sara Jewell Harvey and lawyer Drenan R. Walker. Following the death of Harvey's father in 1916 at the age of 27, William is noted to have developed a very close relationship with his mother subsequent to losing his father. Harvey spent his childhood in Danville, Indiana and later went to Wiley High School in Terra Haute and official reports consulting Harvey's school records note he was a "brilliant boy" and "a real leader".

                                                   Wiley High School Terra Haute, Indiana

He attends Indiana University and subsequently his later wife Clara Grace (CG) Harvey describes Bill developing a strong relationship with his godfather attorney Benjamin F. Small.i  This friendship and Small's later employment as the dean of Indianapolis University Law School feasibly influenced Harvey upon his path to become versed in law. Harvey was employed by the Danville Gazette and performed reporter and printer duties in 1931. He left the newspaper and in 1934 was a publicity writer for Indiana University at Bloomington. By 1937, Harvey was practicing law and three years later the US Department of Justice would employ him.

Harvey was a supervising Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation until he resigns for his behavior in 1947.ii By this time, Harvey was able to speak German proficiently and was able to use this in the service of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG). The CIG was a precursor intelligence group that when joined with other related intelligence organizations would become the CIA. The CIA was legally created mere weeks before Harvey is employed by the CIG on September 29, 1947 as the Division Chief of the Internal USSR Division.iii During Harvey's service as Division Chief from CIA Headquarters, he additionally was the Chief of Foreign Intelligence Staff E and later served on the Deputy Director of Plans Staff as well.
 
The Agency transfers Harvey in 1952 to Europe and he assumes a new position as Chief of Berlin Station. He came to this new job with an idea to create a secret way into the Soviet controlled zone of Berlin. Harvey oversaw the development of an underground Berlin Tunnel that connected the West Berlin to East Berlin but the project was compromised and eventually abandoned.iv Harvey is later consulted about the series of Soviet agents that had infiltrated British Intelligence. Harvey offered suspicions regarding Kim Philby a well-placed British intelligence officer. However, some in MI6 and CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton who maintained a friendship with Philby decided the British officer was not the source of the recurring Soviet penetrations. Years later when Philby fled to Moscow, it was a hollow vindication for Harvey due to Philby's long-term success in deceiving MI-6 to become its most notorious mole. 

                                   A suburb of Berlin in Fall of 1955

According to official records, Harvey was the Station Chief in Berlin until 1959 and following his German assignment, he transfers to CIA headquarters and is named the Chief of Foreign Intelligence Staff D. This Agency group sought to penetrate and pillage enemy signals intelligence and cryptographic materials.v However, this staff's activities would later quietly provide a plausibly deniable home for deadly plans.vi During portions of Harvey's prior assignments in Germany and future placement in Italy, he utilizes the US State Department's Foreign Service for cover.

Deputy Director of Plans Richard Bissell subsequently tasks William Harvey with the development of "Executive action", a euphemism for political assassination capabilities in February of 1960. Chief of Luxembourg Station Arnold M. Silver recruits espionage agent, spotter, and potential assassin Jose Marie Andre Mankel (QJWIN) in Europe.vii Silver had a conversation with Richard Bissell and was informed of plans to possibly use Mankel for a potential assassin operation. The target suggested by Richard Bissell was the Prime Minster of the Congo Patrice Lumumba who had resisted American attempts to influence the control of Congo's natural resources and openly accepted the aid of Soviet and Communist groups. Staff D member Justin O' Donnell approaches William Harvey and recounts Bissell ordering him to "undertake an operation in the Congo, one of the objectives of which was the elimination of Patrice Lumumba."viii  

By August of 1960, the Eisenhower administration's Special Group of advisers discussed potentially removing enemy foreign leaders using assassination, Lumumba is mentioned by name. November 2, 1960 Richard Bissell dispatches Justin O'Donnell under the pseudonym Oliver Altman to meet the Agency's new potential assassin in Paris. O'Donnell claims he refused to participate but he does later venture to meet Jose Mankel in Europe to assess him. Officials hire Mankel to spot potential sabotage agents, useful criminals, and perform clandestine operations. Yet another purpose officials' note for Mankel is political assassination but the Agency refrains from telling Mankel the full details of his potential assignment and eventually sends Mankel to the Congo. 

Evidence suggests the Agency did not assassinate Patrice Lumumba directly because local CIA Station Chief Larry Devlin refused. However, Devlin did choose to influence the leader of Congolese military forces to consider Lumumba a lethal security threat. These Congolese forces soon captured Patrice Lumumba and murder him in January 1961. By February 28, 1961, Mankel signed a contract with the Agency to continue his spotting activities. William Harvey later that year designs operational notes for Project ZRRIFLE to spot, recruit, and use sabotage agents and assassins.

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Lawrence "LArry" RAymond Devlin

Jose Mankel is designated the primary agent of ZRRIFLE but he was only a single method of dispatching the CIA's enemies. Among those who discussed other means of assassination with Harvey by utilizing virulent poisons was the Agency's Technical Services Director Sidney Gottlieb.ix Gottlieb is another notorious Agency officer who among his duties created and studied biological and chemical weapons for the Agency. In the early stages of the Project, Harvey begins in some instances to combine the related cryptonyms and this incites confusion during later official investigations. Additionally, Harvey claimed that his varying designations were for record keeping purposes to separate ZRRIFLE from other connected plots but his record keeping does not consistently reflect his assertion.
 
In 1962 Harvey becomes the CIA representative for Operation Mongoose, an organization of collaborating US government agencies and military groups seeking to overthrow the Cuban regime. He additionally is the leader of the Task Force W a group undertaking operations targeting Cuba's leadership conducted from Agency headquarters; the W denotes the group as under the leadership of William. Justin O'Donnell who had acted earlier to assess Jose Mankel for Richard Bissell was also serving on Staff D under the command of Harvey.

Richard Bissell and Agency Director of Security Sheffield Edwards brief Harvey on prior aborted plans seeking to displace Fidel Castro via assassination using Mafia leaders. Harvey leads Phase II of the Castro assassination plots and retains the help of gangster Johnny Roselli. William Harvey led or is connected to every related official group contemplating assassination plots by 1962. As his responsibilities mount so too do the pressures, Harvey's temperament worsens and he launches a Cuban mission without the full approval or knowledge of the Kennedy administration. After no significant progress had been made and with notable past failures to adhere to the chain of command Harvey is removed from his many posts and sent to Italy in the summer of 1963.

Officials reassign the staunchly opinionated Harvey to the position of Chief of the CIA's Rome Station and he serves roughly two years before his removal from the CIA's Italian operations. Harvey returns to Agency headquarters and voluntarily accepts retirement amid drinking concerns in 1967. Harvey maintains a relationship with Johnny Roselli despite warnings from his superiors to desist and this damages his official credibility. Rumors about Harvey and Roselli, the CIA, Mafia, and the Kennedy assassination persistently circulate in the media, books, and the public.

His involvement in multiple assassination projects eventually placed William Harvey in the path of subsequent congressional investigations. In June of 1975, the Senate Select "Church" Committee hears the testimony of William King Harvey. Senator Tower asks Harvey during testimony if the Special Group Augmented, a presidential advisory group with the addition of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, knew "...there was an assassination capability?" Harvey responds "Senator Tower, not to my knowledge."x While Robert Kennedy was told by J. Edgar Hoover of some earlier CIA plotting with Mafia, Kennedy had no idea how many specific plots were still underway.

           Office of Security Director                             Sheffield Edwards

The Committee was concerned with misleading statements Harvey made in official files regarding his use of Mafia member Johnny Roselli. Officials quote a memo by Sheffield Edwards in which Harvey "...indicated he was dropping any plans for the use of the subject...for the future." Harvey confirms he did make the statement and Mr. Schwarz of the Committee replies, "Now, that wasn't true, was it?" William Harvey states, "No, it was not true, and Colonel Edwards knew it was not true." Harvey further claims he undertook the deception on the record to create "...a logical termination on the file that Edwards had..." Harvey wanted "...to completely remove any duality in this, to remove it from the Office of Security and to permit Colonel Edwards to be able to say that as of such and such a date, as far as I, Colonel Edwards know, this matter is dead."xi  Harvey sought to fabricate a recorded end to ongoing plots to further compartmentalize and remove them from the normal oversight system. This deceptive method also matches his prior suggestions in the ZRRIFLE notes. 

Senator Frank Church subsequently presses Harvey for his feasible attempt to "falsify the record" and Harvey does not deny his action but responds he does not "...find the term falsify very palatable."xii Harvey's actions to disregard normal oversight procedures and not inform his superiors directly about the Castro plots drew wide criticism from the Select Committee on Intelligence. Senator Richard Schweiker refers to Harvey's intentional reporting lapses as " ...thwarting the very thing that you said this morning was essential by, in essence, entering into a conspiracy with your superior, to abort that process." Harvey contends despite the facts there was "...no collusion, agreement, conspiracy, to 'deny' information to the DCI (Director of Central Intelligence)."xiii He insists that he merely wanted to terminate the operation safely and decided to discuss the matter with his superior and felt that was sufficient oversight.

        Senator Richard SCHWEIKER

Harvey attempts to justify himself to the Committee and dismiss Schweiker's criticism of his actions by stating he was in keeping with all professional standards of conduct. Among the "compelling reasons" Schweiker claimed full operational disclosure to the CIA highest leaders was necessary is due to Harvey's collaboration with the Mafia. A further reasonable concern of investigating officials was William Harvey's actions following his Agency employment. He continued a friendship with gangster Johnny Roselli that extends to several phone calls and personal visits at William Harvey's dwelling over the years following his retirement. Roselli at one point in 1974 stopped to visit at the invitation of Harvey, and while these multiple visits do not prove nefarious actions, they do infer Harvey maintained a "personal friendship" with his former assassination collaborator.xiv What common interests would a Mafia hit man and a former CIA officer connected to multiple assassination plots discuss in their free time? 

September 24, 1975 Committee representative Frederick D. Baron interviews William Harvey regarding additional questions regarding the plans to eliminate Patrice Lumumba. Harvey claims that he never heard about assassination plans in the Congo, despite his former statements to the contrary. One interesting portion of Harvey's testimony suggests that Jose Mankel (QJWIN) was not under his control in the Congo but he was loaned to the CIA's African Division via Harvey's deputy. While related documents state this was a Staff D operation, Harvey replies that notation was merely "an administrative device to secure funding for QJWIN and allow for accounting out of Staff D funds." He also states that he never actually met Mankel in person.xv
 
William Harvey dies of a heart attack June 9, 1976 and unknown parties dismember Johnny Roselli two months later. Since then William Harvey based upon his statements, actions, and the evidence is a reasonable suspect in yet unsolved possible assassination conspiracies. Some claim Harvey is guilty and others declare his innocence but his wife CG Harvey, another CIA operative, sought to clear Harvey's name. Reportedly, she never did so due to legal agreements with the Agency and the damage it might financially inflict. Clara Harvey dies twenty-four years following her husband and never offers evidence that would dismiss the public allegations. 

Harvey's words and deeds cast the shadow of suspicion upon him and those with access to the murderous plots he oversaw. His disregard for oversight and attempts to fabricate a portion of the legal record forces us to consider the question of how many others attempted to do so to support the Agency's operations. While deception is a key weapon for successful intelligence operations, when operators deceive their legal administrators and perform illegal actions by avoiding proper channels of oversight they become a serious danger. When they attempt to conceal illegality directed against the American public or media, they become the central threat to a well-informed citizenry. Such actions endanger the credibility of all related officials and possibly cloak nefarious peripheral actions.  
Sincerely, 
C. A. A. Savastano
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References:
i. Mike McCormick, (April 28, 2007), Historical Perspective: America's James Bond: The new biography of William King Harvey, Indiana Tribune Star, tribstar.com
ii. House Select Committee on Assassinations, Segregated CIA file, Biographic Profiles of David L. Christ, William Harvey, and Howard Hunt, June 24, 1970, 104-10136-10362, p. 1
iii. Central Intelligence Group, Letter of Acceptance for Employment to William K. Harvey, September 29, 1947, Central Intelligence Agency Library, cia.gov
iv. President Commission on CIA Activities with the U.S., Excerpt from the Testimony of William K. Harvey, May 1, 1975, 157-10005-10169
v. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Excepts from the Testimony of William Harvey, June 25, 1975,  p. 9, 157-10002-10105, p. 9
vi. Ibid p. 49
vii. Senate Select Comm., Department of Defense Memo from Edward Lansdale, Alternate Course B of Operation Mongoose, August 13, 1962, 157-10004-10137
viii. Senate Select Comm., Excerpts from Testimony of W. Harvey, p. 9
ix. Ibid, p. 53
x. Senate Select Comm., Boxed Files, Testimony of William K. Harvey, p. 127, June 25, 1975, 157-10002-10106
xi. Ibid, p. 97
xii. Ibid, p. 100
xiii. Ibid, pp. 89-91
xiv. Ibid, pp. 140-141
xv. Senate Select Comm., Interview with William Harvey by Frederick D. Baron, September 14, 1975, 157-10011-10124, pp. 1-3