BARD 8 Fave 7OO0 8 BU Bernt Sacer 8 Wenge 16 oa de a . : nothing sudden, and then an autopsy would not reveal whatever killed him, Who was going to administer it? Some fellow was coming by Hand either he had a cousin who was the chef for Castro, or he Inad @ friend that was a chef for Castro, one of those. Waitina leo hear from him, The poison was passed. Wall, wa kicked 1t around, and I'm j very familiar with security for haads of qovernment, and ! went Ante Ojreat detail and told tham what I had to do, the job I “had to do with the Swadish Prince, what wa do with tha President, and T said, hell, thin quy's probably an axnart at afaansination himasif. la'sa not aolna to ao for a thins Like thie. Furthermora, I think his sacurity is 40 marfact that everybody on his staff would sure as hell tea chackad out as *o their relatives and who was in «exile and what tha hell, and thare's another thing, thay all agreed about one out of avary five of thoss axilas belongs to Castro. He nlanted Florida full of than. And he said wall, they knew thera ware soma olantad, Am! 1 said, I think vou'll find there's @ hell of a lot olentad, end this 48 a great necrat, nobody's sunocsaad to know ie, the ‘Bureau -- well, way down dedsep == hell. Lika I nald, to ma it was a joke, to bs housst with you. T'ma pro. You don't do it that wav. You know, sone auy -- and § said you'ra paying this fallow? Oh, vag, Well, that'n
BLED O Paw « Watongen DC. 20001 AIO F wnt Nee 4 € i jenough for me. You don't give him @nything unt1l he brings t) j the body back. But anyway, f fordet whether it was that niqht or the naxt night, we all want and we had dinnar and then we went to i sea the Jimmy puranta show and the whole qenq, and we had |stoaere, twanty-six of us want to dinner, but anyway, the contact an mada. And thia fallow showad up outside the Room foom Roon, ; Mr. Postal. This is where? Mr. Shimon. Tha Fontainbleau. A short quy, and I falt like ha had a reddish tint to hia hair. tte didn't belong in the lobby. tte lookad like a bad bua “fin a silker, bad. Mr. Postal. Wheat was he cdrassad like? Mr. Shimon. Ila had a dark shirt, andl a shirt on, open 3; }COllar, no tie. Me looked Lika a typical Cuban that vou saw up and down the straets. You kaow, Miami Reach was loaded with them, I remember saying Sam, this ia a creen. What the hell is this? Meceuse Sam took a dim view of it. Wall, Johnny disappearad with this “Tuy. Ar. Postal. Did Johnny tall you thet he made the -- Mr. Shimon. No, no. Bob said, he's doing the talking. Johnny's gotna to handle everything, this ia Johnny's contect. So while We were waiting, I was strolling around, Jodtany -cama beck, he had to ao nee nvome French antartainer, and we separats?
PAM & Oar and Sam and {I worg walking, doing some window shopping, and he said, how {n the hell did you got into this, and I naid 1 camo to sca a fight, what ara you doing in it? And he sata, 1 am not in ft, and thoy're asking ma for some namen of guys who used to work in casinon, And then ho alao naid this, it was crazy, that Mahou's conning tha hell out of the CIA. No maid it's a laugh, f'm not in it, I came to sao a figint. fo’ then thoro was a big party, an all-night thing, yokny fro cluu to eluy witn Sinatray and everybody got crunk UX e nee, had to haul Mahou in on my back and put him in tae tub ta adie: ayy mer he couled gadl Nonebody ane mas everyting was adior: Me Camu back to vashinaton., About tw. havea Latics In Tae Washinton Poat == abaut two Haye et herr tee fa tt ee wan taken atl. “Sy ohene rana, job MTR, Ser tot Wier, mes aan, “you mee the saper? Castro'a dll. tata Nong ta be @¢ick two er three dacs, Vow, we aot him, “ell, they didn't get him, the duit ana planted the story. Meagtag. Vt you qet oto see the Mew bontne n? nhinen, fo oread the paper, Postal, You aaw the article? “i. Uhamon, th. Gee VE bdede, 5 Mr. Pane at , it: ioe ce too ae eee AEN tees, TOP-SECRET
Ames & Hwee j use amateurs. Iomean, I couldn't figure CIA -- 1 know thaere'a ja lot of abla guys and f have a lot of respect for them, thera's | really somw qood oparatora thera, but thin was a stupid 4 | Operation. T couldn't beliave it. You don't set up a thing -- N | well, I'm not qoind to tell you how to saat it up. You'll think a fl t've been doing thia thing for a living or something and you it wonder why they call me in. Well, I wondered why they calle! { = in, other than I think they wanted a Washington contact for “lea work in case Roh wasn't avallabla hucausa he was on the tludhen 4; payroll toa, you know, : Necausa when Johnny came in town, like one tima ha calle Me, he said CLA wantna to locate thres Cubana, end thay're supposed to ba in soma hotel in Washinaton, and tha firat thought cama to mind, tha CIA, why can't thay call the hotals and find out for thamselvan. Now, I'm sunovosed to do it, volice danartnent facilities. - Woll, {it wasn't much trouble, I could just say to ona of my clerks, cali the hotel and find out. So Il picked up Johnay and I take him to lunch, and the funny thing, coming ba from lunch going toward the Mayflower Hotel, there in front o! the Annapolis Hotel were the three, he know these three. Appatently ha'd talkad to then Dafora, and thara they were on the cornar. So he aot out of the car and I drove around the corner art ha stood and talked to those man for better than two Hours, and then we want directly to tha hotal and checked
I ne and straight to my house and he pickad up the phone and 4 Called Big Jim O'Connell and Alq Jim came ovar, nd ho reported to Dig Jim whatever took place at thin i Meeting with these Cubana. Now, I didn't sit in on that, because I didn't want to hear it. did that take place, do you know? Mr. Shimon. A couple of months after the fight. Mr. Pontal. A couple of months aftar the fiqnht? i if ( E Postal. No you know whan that was, what time? When Mr. Shimon. It wan in the spring of the year, it wan 1941, Mr. Rhea. Wher you ware down {tn Mieml, did vou saa Bly Jim dows thare? Rae © Paomn Mr. Shimon. 10, nO. Mr. Postal. vid anybody suqqest he wan in town, in Mtami? ‘4r. Shimon. Ie was not in town, bacausa We would havs seen him. I have met 31iq Jim in Nob's house many times. In fact, 1 kiow Jim apt if he'd bean anywhere in town, I maan “Tor: » @Ven 1f he had not callad, I would have known {t was hin. No, he wasn't thera on that trip. Mr. Postal. pie vou aver gas Johnny with Rig Jim? 2 Baw gimn TE Mr. Shimon. Oh, yaah, wa all had dinner together one ‘Seewt VE aight, put Johnny on the olana, and Sia aim waa aOind somawhers aul he got drank aut wa put him on the plang. Onuw of thong ago taow Messy nights, you kiow. neo!