Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, & the Garrison Case by James DiEugenio

Author:James DiEugenio [DiEugenio, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620870563
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2011-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

As stated earlier, there were four stages enacted in the overall plan to subvert Garrison. What has been just described here is the first one, consisting of singleton type penetration operations by DeTorres, Gurvich, and Novel. It is important to note a certain crossover from phase one singleton operations to what can be called phase two: the Walter Sheridan assault. For William Gurvich was sent by Sheridan to visit with Bobby Kennedy. Clearly this was an attempt by Sheridan to prejudice Kennedy against Garrison.71 Novel fleeing to Columbus, Ohio, and beginning an incessant media smear crusade against the DA is also important in the overall picture. Because as Paris Flammonde noted in his book The Kennedy Conspiracy, there was a long and intense media campaign that culminated in the last week of June with Walter Sheridan’s Monday night program entitled “The JFK Conspiracy: The Case of Jim Garrison.” What Novel’s proclamations did was to begin this national propaganda barrage which would provide cover for certain governors not to honor extradition requests and for certain judges to decline to serve subpoenas.

Once Ferrie and Del Valle were dead, it became much more difficult for Garrison to proceed. The lawyers on his staff knew that. Garrison held a meeting to see what his employees wanted to do at this point. Assistant DA Charles Ward recommended he stop the inquiry. Garrison disagreed. After the meeting, Jim Alcock and John Volz, two of his best trial specialists, went into his office. They explained how difficult it would now be with his best witness gone. Volz pointed out how short they were of help and he also recommended halting the inquiry. Garrison would have none of it, although he did say that anyone who wanted off the Kennedy inquiry could leave.72

Garrison now decided to proceed against a second suspect he was building a case against. The man who he knew was Clay Bertrand. On March 1, 1967, at 5:30 P.M., Garrison issued an arrest warrant for Clay Shaw and a search warrant for his home in the French Quarter. When Garrison’s investigators came back from Shaw’s house, they had with them some strange artifacts: two large hooks that had been screwed to the ceiling of Shaw’s bedroom, five whips, several lengths of chain, a black hood, a webbed hat, and a cape. Shaw passed this off as Mardi Gras attire.73

Explanations aside, it was clear that the fifty-four-year-old bachelor was into the nether regions of sadomasochist activity. In fact, Shaw’s position as director of the International Trade Mart had caused him to come under the all-seeing eyes of J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover had in his Bureau files a report by an informant who stated that his homosexual relations with Shaw included sadism and masochism.74 It all explained Shaw’s use of Andrews to defend the “gay Mexicanos.” It also may have accounted for his use of an alias. Shaw’s homosexuality may also have provided a bond between the cool, wealthy, well-mannered Shaw and the excitable, rootless, eccentric Ferrie, a bond beyond their politics, and (as later revealed) their Agency ties.

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