23-06-2015, 05:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-06-2015, 07:13 AM by Jim DiEugenio.)
The way I see this happening is Phillips and Goodpasture in the field and Angleton behind the lines as the commander.
This is one of the things I objected to in the first edition of Hancock's book, Someone Would have Talked.
He called Phillips there a CIA general. From all the study I did of Phillips and his career, this was simply not true in 1963.
As Bill Colby called him, David Phillips was a first class operations officer. Which would mean he was more like a Lt. Colonel, a la Oliver North.
(BTW, Larry said Morales was a general too in that book. Morales I would not even figure as a captain in the CIA in 1963. Maybe, maybe, a Lieutenant.)
Angleton I would call a CIA general.
It was after the JFK assassination, and his work on it, that Phillips began to rise up the ranks rather quickly. As Philip Agee related in, I think, his first book, there was a big meeting at Langley in early 1964. As Lisa told me, he described a turnover in positions and leadership. And recall, it was Phillips who recommended Goodpasture for a medal for spotting Oswald in MC. Which is hilarious, since that is exactly what she DID NOT DO!
LOL, ROTF BARF BARF
Anyway, it was after that reorganization that Phillips now began to rise up the ranks to a full colonel, then field marshall rank, and then a general. From what I have been able to piece together, Phillips was in on the design of the CIA coup in Indonesia in 1965. Which the Agency holds as its masterpiece of subterfuge.
Then, Phillips was a major player in Chile in 1973. In fact, as many think, the man who actually supervised the American aspect of that coup, and may have actually run the assassination of Allende, worked under Phillips. This agent, Michael Townley, was then in on the assassination of Letelier.
After this, Phillips then became chief of the Western Hemisphere. He then retired. Although as Marchetti told me, "Jim, Dave was retired, but he really was not retired." In fact, he told me that when Phillips was forming the AFIO, he was really working for the CIA. He met with him at a spook restaurant in New York where Phillips tried to pitch him. His real function was to blunt the impact of the Church Committee and then protect the Agency and himself from being implicated in the JFK case by the HSCA. Well, Dave did a good job on both. But the main thing he did was to get rid of Sprague, who was hot on his trail in Mexico City.
See Sprague thought it was Oswald at Sylvia Odio's, and he could not understand why the Commission doubted her word. This is what convinced him that something was up in MC. So he interviewed the Tarasoffs, the translators, and they told him someone created a translation that they did not type. Sprague asked if they still had their typewriter, and they did. He brought the typewriter back to Washington to test it against the CIA documents that had been given him of the translations.
At that point he was fired. In an interview for Probe he told us: and I will wager that that typewriter is still sitting in a warehouse somewhere in Washington.
I disagree with him on that. IMO, when Sprague left, Blakey probably gave it to one of the spooks on the staff, like Harold Leap, and he gave it to Phillips as a souvenir.
This is one of the things I objected to in the first edition of Hancock's book, Someone Would have Talked.
He called Phillips there a CIA general. From all the study I did of Phillips and his career, this was simply not true in 1963.
As Bill Colby called him, David Phillips was a first class operations officer. Which would mean he was more like a Lt. Colonel, a la Oliver North.
(BTW, Larry said Morales was a general too in that book. Morales I would not even figure as a captain in the CIA in 1963. Maybe, maybe, a Lieutenant.)
Angleton I would call a CIA general.
It was after the JFK assassination, and his work on it, that Phillips began to rise up the ranks rather quickly. As Philip Agee related in, I think, his first book, there was a big meeting at Langley in early 1964. As Lisa told me, he described a turnover in positions and leadership. And recall, it was Phillips who recommended Goodpasture for a medal for spotting Oswald in MC. Which is hilarious, since that is exactly what she DID NOT DO!
LOL, ROTF BARF BARF
Anyway, it was after that reorganization that Phillips now began to rise up the ranks to a full colonel, then field marshall rank, and then a general. From what I have been able to piece together, Phillips was in on the design of the CIA coup in Indonesia in 1965. Which the Agency holds as its masterpiece of subterfuge.
Then, Phillips was a major player in Chile in 1973. In fact, as many think, the man who actually supervised the American aspect of that coup, and may have actually run the assassination of Allende, worked under Phillips. This agent, Michael Townley, was then in on the assassination of Letelier.
After this, Phillips then became chief of the Western Hemisphere. He then retired. Although as Marchetti told me, "Jim, Dave was retired, but he really was not retired." In fact, he told me that when Phillips was forming the AFIO, he was really working for the CIA. He met with him at a spook restaurant in New York where Phillips tried to pitch him. His real function was to blunt the impact of the Church Committee and then protect the Agency and himself from being implicated in the JFK case by the HSCA. Well, Dave did a good job on both. But the main thing he did was to get rid of Sprague, who was hot on his trail in Mexico City.
See Sprague thought it was Oswald at Sylvia Odio's, and he could not understand why the Commission doubted her word. This is what convinced him that something was up in MC. So he interviewed the Tarasoffs, the translators, and they told him someone created a translation that they did not type. Sprague asked if they still had their typewriter, and they did. He brought the typewriter back to Washington to test it against the CIA documents that had been given him of the translations.
At that point he was fired. In an interview for Probe he told us: and I will wager that that typewriter is still sitting in a warehouse somewhere in Washington.
I disagree with him on that. IMO, when Sprague left, Blakey probably gave it to one of the spooks on the staff, like Harold Leap, and he gave it to Phillips as a souvenir.