JFK Conference: Dan Hardway Detailed how CIA Obstructed HSCA Investigation

[Gabi Hayes]

12. check this out....review of Morley's book about Joannides. this thread reminded me of Winston Scott

CIA station chief during Oswald's ostensible visit.

you know....this guy:



And this is where I have my first complaint about the book. Goodpasture is a most fascinating character. And Morley interviewed her for two days in 2005. (See page 305) Either he does not find her very intriguing, or he took most everything she said at face value. John Newman, Ed Lopez, Dan Hardway, Lisa Pease and myself disagree. Lopez and Hardway -- under the supervision of Mike Goldsmith -- wrote the absolutely excellent Mexico City Report for the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

Now Goodpasture was supposed to be working for and under Winston Scott in Mexico City. When the Mexico City Report -- sometimes called the Lopez Report -- was first declassified by the Assassination Records Review Board, I interviewed Lopez at his home in Rochester, New York. Since this was the first time I had seen the woman's name repeatedly emphasized, I asked Lopez who she was. Surprisingly, he said that "She worked for Phillips when he got stationed down there ... she handled all his projects for him." (Emphasis added.)

When I asked Ed what Phillips was doing there, he said, "He had some bullshit title, but he was in charge of almost all the Cuban operations from there at the time." He then expanded on this by saying that since Phillips was constantly traveling from Washington to JM/Wave in Miami and to Mexico City, Goodpasture was the officer who guided his operations emanating from Mexico in his absence.

In and of itself, this is extraordinarily interesting. It would make her a front tier figure in any book on the Kennedy assassination that focuses on both Mexico City and Phillips. Which this book does. But there is even more to the woman

http://www.ctka.net/reviews/morley.html

Scott's son had tried for years to get the manuscript his father wrote, after his death.
Curiously, his stepmother was talked into giving it to the CIA (the day after Winston Scott's death), by, guess who? James Angleton. Sound creepily familiar?

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-03-27/news/ls-51612_1_michael-scottx