◆ SpookStack

organization in the United States, that the time had come for Diggs and Pulley to be asked "to forego their efforts on behalf of Mario Garcia Kohly Antiga." This recommendation was approved by General C. P. Cabell on 13 October 1960.* 22/ Insofar as the available records show, the con- tacts between Vice President Nixon's office, and the * More nonsense from Mario Garcia Koh1y Antiga would surface again in the summer of 196'1 following Castro's offer to free the Bay of Pigs"prisoners in return for us tractors when Garcia bounced up with another pro- posal for the planned escape of the prisoners -- pro- viding, of 'course, that he be given a bundle of bucks. In fact, the hand of Garcia reached from beyond the grave to touch on the BOP operation. On 2 August 1976, almost a year after Garcia's death, the Washing- ton star carried a UPI dispatch saying that Rep. Thomas N. Downing (D., Va.) had affidavits claiming that: In return for support of the invasion [of Cuba] from Mario G. Kohly, a popular right-wing leader who was exiled from Cuba, then Vice President 'Nixon agreed in October 1960 to order the CrA to arrest the leftist leaders and ~urn them over to Kohly for "elimination" after Premier Fidel Castro was thrown out of office. The affidavits reportedly came from a former CIA con- tract agent and Mario G. Kohly, Jr., son of the would-be invasion leader. These materials were supposed to have some bearing on House of Representatives's investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy; but there is no indication that they were given any credence. 23/ - 268 - 101' S£:CREi"