A collection of documents regarding notable people within the investigations of President Kennedy's assassination.

Dean Adams Andrews: New Orleans lawyer, former part-time Jefferson Parish assistant district attorney, and New Orleans Prosecutor Jim Garrison’s prior associate who eventually became a hostile witness. Andrews provided the alias Clay Bertrand to the FBI that would fuel Garrison’s later prosecution and suggest this was an alias used by Clay Shaw. Instances of evolving testimony given by Andrews eventual refuted many of his prior claims but other facts suggest while some major claims regarding Shaw are not reliable, the claim that he may have been using the Bertrand alias has the support of some official evidence. 

Orlando Bosch Avila: He was a pediatrician trained in the United States during the nineteen fifties and took his skills to Cuba while supporting the revolution of Fidel Castro. However, in time he became disillusioned and Bosch joined the CIA backed Operation 40 targeting the Castro regime, led the Insurrectional Movement of Revolutionary Recovery (MIRR) Cuban exile group, and he later formed the anti-Castro Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) organization as well. Subsequently he was considered a Cuban exile militant terrorist responsible for several lethal attacks and was charged but acquitted of a prior attack on Cubana Flight 455.

William "Guy" Banister: He served as both Assistant Superintendent of New Orleans Police and former FBI Special Agent before he was deemed a suspect by New Orleans Prosecutor Jim Garrison’s investigation of the President Kennedy’s death. Banister aided anti-Castro exile Sergio Arcacha Smith in forming a small exile organization, frequently was in contact with former New Orleans criminal David Ferrie, and conman Jack Martin. This Central Intelligence Agency document offers Guy Banister was a CIA informant despite the decades of claims by officials and Banister himself that he possessed no connection to the Agency.

Antonio Carlos Veciana Blanch: He was an accountant and one of the founders of the Alpha-66 Cuban exile group that alleges unverified contacts with Lee Harvey Oswald, Central Intelligence Agency officer David Atlee Phillips, and Agency officer James Walton Moore. Veciana began courting US officials with his stories in the nineteen seventies but his evolving claims have shifted with each new problem discovered in the multiple accounts he provided over time. Significant deceptions and mischaracterizations by Veciana have rendered portions of his story mythical and lacking most verifiable evidence.  

Carlos Jose Bringuier: He was a Cuban exile whose brother fought and was captured in the Bay of Pigs and Bringuier served the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) a Cuban exile group funded covertly by the Central Intelligence Agency. Bringuier had a famous public confrontation with Lee Harvey Oswald and subsequently debated him seeking to use the event for maximum attention. He was also committed to spreading propaganda that Fidel Castro was responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in order to secure the American military invasion of Cuba. This document offers information on Bringuier and the Agency' sponsorship of the DRE and offers possible other motivations for Oswald to be targeted by the propagandist.

Manuel Francisco Artime Buesa: Referred to multiple times in the press as the CIA's "golden boy", the Agency helped Artime escape Cuba and defect to the United States. After training and leading forces at the ill-fated Bay of Pigs attack Castro regime forces captured and successfully ransomed him to the United States. Artime eventually assumed control of the Movement for Revolutionary Recovery (MRR) a huge exile group with extensive official support and financing that officials would give the ability to function independent of oversight. US intelligence leaders would later eventually realize the danger of such large independently operating groups but prior to realizing this official richly invested in Artime's operations. An internal CIA document reveals nearly five million dollars was spent just for Artime related operational expenses between June of nineteen sixty-three and June of nineteen sixty-four. Officials additionally could not guarantee they would not secure funding for unknown and illegal purposes.

Richard Scully Cain: He served in the Chicago Police, as a private investigator, and was the Chief Investigator for the Cook County Sheriff's Office in Chicago. Cain was additionally an informant of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency who reported his frequent associations with various Cuban exiles to United States officials. He was further was the driver for Chicago Mafia Boss Sam Giancana and associated with several organized crime figures. A related document offers that in nineteen sixty-three Cain offered an unconfirmed report stating members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) undertook a secret meeting to discuss the assassination of President Kennedy. Masked men later burst into a Chicago restaurant and shot Cain to death in public to possibly send a message about his mixed loyalties.

Earling "Jim" Carothers Garrison: He was the New Orleans District Attorney who launched an investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy in nineteen sixty-seven targeting businessperson and CIA informant Clay Shaw. Garrison’s case would prove sensational and reinvigorated the public interest in several unanswered questions the Warren Commission had been unable to resolve. Yet due to the constraints of his jurisdiction Garrison’s case was limited in scope and suffered from official interference, dishonest witnesses, and a limited pool of viable suspects. Garrison’s investigation was unsuccessful in determining the existence of an assassination conspiracy but it did expand the leads in the greater case and helped verify problems within prior investigation.

John Henry Hill: He was a millionaire who made his living primarily in the oil business and was accused of threatening to organize influential men who could deal with President Kennedy if his policies remained opposed to Hill's financial interests. The statement of Jo Beth Hill, his wife, places John Henry Hill near the site of a strange encounter with some witnesses observing a large armed man. Eyewitness John Lawrence corroborates the statement of Philip Hathaway of the physical description of a large man at the corner of Commerce and Akard Streets near the Baker Hotel with a rifle. Hill matches the hair color, weight, and height described by witnesses, he just had purchased a rifle, and he was mere blocks from Dealey Plaza over a half hour before the assassination. While the evidence does not implicate Hill presently, it does support a person could enter the area with a weapon and remain largely undetected by officials.

John Edgar Hoover: The Federal Bureau of Investigation under Hoover was formed in nineteen thirty-five and its powers and funding increased to control intelligence both domestically and abroad. Following World War II Hoover's power was diminished by the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency; a perceived slight Hoover never forgave. Hoover targeted any official group considered a threat to the Bureau or his reputation including the President's Commission. He suppressed information, deceived other investigators, and sought to destroy those challenging his authority. Former FBI Assistant Director William Sullivan stated among the attacks on the CIA and the Commission Hoover repeatedly leaked secret information to influence public reaction and preempt other official findings. Sullivan offers "...if the Warren Commission could be torn apart the FBI would therefore look better." Unfortunately, Hoover's organization led the Commission's investigation. 

Meyer Lansky: He arrived in the United States as a Polish immigrant with his family in nineteen eleven and his name was changed from Maier Suchowljansky to its current version. Lanksy formed a close relationship and gang with Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegal and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, each an infamous gangster. He in time began a series of lucrative criminal operations focused on gambling, illegal alcohol sales, and various business enterprises that include multiple Cuban casinos.  Before the United States government had developed the Castro Assassination Plots, Lansky met with anti-Castro Cuban leader Manuel "Tony" Varona to discuss the Castro government. Lansky's associate and Mafia leader of Tampa, Santo Trafficante, suggested Varona's use to the CIA during the subsequent plotting against Castro.  

Manuel Antonio de Varona Loredo: Tony Varona associated with Mafia leaders Santo Trafficante, Sam Giancana, and Meyer Lansky regarding the assassination of Fidel Castro. Varona led the CIA supported Frente Revolucionario Democratico (FRD) which served as a front organization to recruit forces used in the Bay of Pigs and to conduct political and paramilitary actions targeting Cuba while attempting to unify the dozens of Cuban exile factions.

George de Mohrenschildt: A traveling European businessperson that provided repeated corporate information to the Central Intelligence Agency. He also provided financial assistance to Lee and Marina Oswald and was their occasional concerned associate. De Mohrenschildt wrote an incomplete manuscript before his untimely suicide. A document verifies that beyond his prior informant contacts to the CIA, George's second wife served as a receptionist in one Agency covert project and the Agency utilized his brother Dmitri S. von Mohrenschildt in foreign intelligence. The de Mohrenschildt's note they might be the only people to have associated with both the Oswald and Kennedy families.

Edward Pierpont Morgan: Morgan was a former FBI agent and left the Bureau in 1947 to form a legal practice specializing in tax and international law. He later served as the Chief Counsel of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee and eventually was the attorney of CIA employee Robert Maheu and gangster Johnny Roselli who told him about the Agency's Castro plotting with the Mafia.

Lee Harvey Oswald: He was the twenty-four-year-old former Marine and defector to the Soviet Union the President's (Warren) Commission alleged was the lone assassin of President Kennedy despite the substantial contending evidence. Several officials and US government agencies denied any connection or surveillance of Oswald despite the ever-increasing amount of declassified official evidence that disproves such claims. The following CIA file proves over thirty official documents were missing from Oswald's Central Intelligence Agency 201 File and this suggests pervasive official incompetence or the intent to suppress evidence. 

Manuel (Manolo) Ray Rivero: He was a well-known engineer and prior served as Minster of Public works under the Castro regime. Following his break from the Cuban government Ray founded two notable anti-Castro groups supported by the CIA, the Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo (Revolutionary Movement of the People) (MRP) and the Junta Revolucionaria Cubana (JURE). Ray attempted to use members inside Cuba to launch several failed sabotage and clandestine operations. Ray consistently opposed unification attempts with other exile groups to attempt maintaining nearly sole power in the groups he founded. Officials would eventually determine Ray's later group among the funded autonomous exile threats in nineteen sixty-four. Subsequently, Ray's sister alleges that he planned to denounce the CIA and destroy the Agency's Cuban intelligence network.

Jack Leon Ruby: Two official documents reveal that Jack Ruby, the assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald, was an unproductive FBI informant and had knowledge of some Mafia operations. However, this is contrary to the legal statement J. Edgar Hoover made to the President's Commission that claimed Ruby and Oswald had no association with the FBI. This brazen deception would challenge the many claims offered by Hoover and the evidence his organization withheld from investigating officials.

Clay Laverne Shaw: New Orleans business leader and Central Intelligence Agency business informant Clay Shaw was accused by District Attorney Jim Garrison and found not guilty of assassinating President Kennedy. Among Garrison's accusations were that Clay Shaw used the pseudonym Clay Bertrand based on evolving witness claims. The first document features a CIA record of Shaw's contacts and the second document offers two unnamed FBI informants who state that Clay Shaw was Clay Bertrand. 

Walter James Sheridan: Sheridan was a former FBI Investigator for the Special Security Division, a Justice Department employee, and NBC television reporter. Sheridan maintained associations with leading officials including Attorney General Robert Kennedy. He also was pivotal in creating a noted NBC program that would reportedly "bury" Jim Garrison according to CIA officials.

Sergio Vicente Arcacha Smith: Cuban exile and alleged embezzler, Smith was the New Orleans delegate of the anti-Castro Frente Revolucionario Democratico (FRD) and was the associate of Guy Banister and anti-Castro militant David Ferrie. He would eventually lose his position for the alleged misuse of funds and likely his attempts to intervene on behalf of David Ferrie’s illegal activities in New Orleans.

Harold Weisberg: Reporter, former member of the Office of Strategic Services, Senate investigator, and researcher Harold Weisberg was among the staunchest critics of the Warren Commission. He also was among those researchers influencing the Garrison case and wrote multiple books regarding the cases of President Kennedy, Dr. King, and Senator Kennedy.