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The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt Gore Vidal From December 7, 1941, to August 15, 1973, the United Slate' has been continuously at am except fore brief,

The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt

Gore Vidal

From December 7, 1941, to August something of the Kapstein creative island story has this our embattled yet correspondent in the Pacific." Who',
15, 1973, the United Slate' has been writing method. I require the tyro still mightily sceptered realm owed to
continuously at am except fore brief, pen-oleo to copy out in long hand but one man...." Who corroborates, "Movie script angl-
too little celebrated interregnum. Be- some acknowledged world masterpiece.
tween 1945 and 1950 the empire Howie copied out-if memory serves- H. H. is a daydreamer and like all er, editor March of Time (1942-43):
turned its attention to peaceful pur- Of Human Bondage." great dreamers II think particularly of
suits and colored something of a Edgar Rice Burroughs) he stirs one's was corr. Life meg. 1942." Yet one
golden or at leen (or us not too own inner theater into productions of
brazen in age. The arts in perticulor the most lurid morn, aerials from which wonders what movies he wrote and
nourished. Each week new genius was dull fact must be rigorously ex-
cluded-like the Random Hoop blurb? what Arides he filed, and from where.
revealed by the press, and old genius "In February, 1942, Howard Hunt was
decently boned Among the new novel But until the Kapstein Connection is detached from has ship and sent to Limit of Darkness (Random House,
Leta of that far-off time were Truman Boston." Now if the dates given on the
Capota (today a much loved television jacket are accurate, he served as an 1944) was written during this period.
performer) sod myself. Although we ensign for no more than nine months.
made, I must search the public record H. H.'s second novel is concerned with
were cor.....4 (a wort! (het the late Ss) Till( of tom Biro: month:
for clues. The IWO locket of H. WS a novel air squadron on Guadalcanal in
William Faulkner thought meant evil at could he have spent protecting Eng-
first novel Letts us that he became a land's embattled life-line? It tUa naval the SOI0M001. Was H. H. actually on
the same hint as), we were unlike: career ends when he is "sent to
naval enotan in May, 1941 -There Boston, to lake treatment for an Injury Guadalcanal or did he use as source
Cappto looked upon the gorgeous in a naval hospital." This is worthy of
followed merry months of active duty the Great Anti-Semanticist Nixon him- book Ira Wolfert's just published Battle
Speed Laud. as a Ulm tiger in the self. Did H. H. dip a disk while taking
at sea on a destroyer, on the North for she Solomons? Possible clue: the
Capotean garden where l saw mere cholera shot down in the dispensary?
tambkin astray in my devouring jungle. Atlantic patrol. protecting the life-line Who', Who merely records: "Served character of war correspondent Fran-

The mu thing that Capote end I did to :thlhattled P,1:1: with USNR, 194(1-42." list.h X. 0'80.11Ori... r,at girth.
have in common was a need for
money And so each of us applied to I turn for Information to Mr. Tad a surrogate for H. H. who never casts

the Guggenheim Foundation for a Sault, H. it's principal biographer and himself In his boots as anything but a
grant; and cacti was turned down. an invaluable source of reference.
Shocked, we compared notes, Studied According to Mr. Soak, H. IL worked Wasp. O'Bannon is everything H. H.
the hat of More who had received for the next two years "as a movie
grants 'VW you just look." moaned script writes sod, briefly, as a was detests-a low-class papist vulgarian
Truman. "at those 4kb-full pie-pull
they keep giving oruh-nee tor Racer who is also-what else?-"unhealthily
for the admirable Carson McCollers
who got so many gran. in her day fat and his jowls were pasty." The au-

that she was known as the conductress thor contrasts him most unfavorably

on the gravy train, the list of honored with the gallant Wasps to whom he dedi-
writers ins not to our minds disc
=Visited Typical of the sort of cate, the novel: "The Men Who Flew

novelist the Guggenheims preferred to from Henderson."

Capote and me in 194-6 was twenty. They are incredibly fine, these
right-year-old iproctleally middle-aged)
Howard Hunt, author of Ear, of young chaps. They ought to be with
F.:wawa:I (Random House, 1943);
names like McRae, Cordell, Forsyth,
novel described by the publishers as
"probably the foss novel about this Lambert, Lewis, Griffin, Sampson,

was by en American who actually Vaughan, Scott-not a nigger, faggot,
helped fight it." The blurb LI unusually
lake, or woo in the outfit. Just reel
elicited. Apparently, H.14. "grew up
guys who say real true simple things like
.`. like any other American boy" (no
"a guy who's fighting just to get back
tap-dancing on a river boat for him)
"gomg to public schools and to college to the States is only half fighting ..."
(Brown University, where he studied
under 1.1. Kapstein)." A love scene: "'Oh, Ben, if it only

A clue. I slip iota Uriefie, Kapstein would stop.' She put her face into the

will prove to be my Rooebud. The key hollow of his shoulder. 'No,' he
to the Hunt mystery. But doe. Key.
stein still H.? WIII he talk? Or f, he sad.... 'We haven't killed enough of
afreml I daydream. "Hunt ... E. How-
ard Hunt ... ab, yet. Sit down, them yet or burned their cities or
Mr.... ash, Boxell? Forgive me .. this
bombed them to hell the way we
lest stroke memo to have.... Where
were we? Howie, Yes. I must tell you must. When I put away my wings I

want it to be for good-not just for a

few years.' " A key motif in the H.11.

Oetivie the enemy must be defeated

more like it. My eyes shut: the ma. A once and for all so that man can live
cold foggy day. Slender, •trite H. H.
arrives (by kayak?) at a secret rendez- at peace with himself in a world where
vous with a British battleship. On the
bridge u Admiral Sir Ledie Charteria. United Fruit and ITT' know what'.

It's Walter Pidgeon, of count. best not only for their stockholders
"Thank God, you got through. I never
thought it possible. There's someone but for their customers as well
particularly WleLS to thank you." Then
out of the swirling fog items a altort An academic critic would doubtless
burly figure; the face h truculent yet .
somehow indomitable (no, it's not make something of the fact that since
Norman Mailer). In one powerful band
he holds a thick cigar. When He the only had guy in the book is a fat,

speaks, the voice is the very voice of pasty Catholic newspaperman, H. H.

human freedom and. yea, dignity. "En- might well be reproaching himself for
sign Hunt. seldom in the annals of our
not having flown with the golden

gallant guys who gave so much of

themselves for freedom, to get the job

done. In their numinous company.

H. FL may very well have fell like an

overweight Catholic-and all because of

that mysterious accident in the naval

BOOKS REVIEWED

Give Us This Day Maelstrom Be My Victin The Coven
by David St. John.
by Howard Hunt. by Howard Hunt. by Robert Dietrich. Weybrieht and Talley (1972l,
Arlington House, 215 pp., 57.95 Farrar, Simms & (firm., 1948 Dell, 1957 159 pp., 54.95;

The Berlin Ending Bimini Run End of s Stripper Fawcett (1972), 159 pp.,1.95 (paper)
by Howard Hunt.
by E. Howard Hunt. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1949 by Robert Dietrich. Compulsive Spy: The Strange
Potions's. 310 pp.. 56.95 Macfadden-Bartell, 160 pp., Dell, 1960 Career of E. Howard Hunt

Eon of Farmsell 5.75 (paper) Angel Eyes by Tad Stoic.
Viking, 179 pp, 55,95
by Howard Hunt. A Foreign Affair by Robert Dietrich. (to be published in January)
Random Howe, 1943 Dell, 1961
by John Baxter. Anismin's Dairy
Limit of Darkness Aron, 1954 A Gift for Goma. by Arthur H. Bremer,

by Howard Hunt. 1 Come to Kill by John Basler. Harper's Mapaine Press,
Lippincott, 1962 14? pp., 16.50
Random House, 1944 by Gordon Davis,. Pocket Hooka 51,51l
Fawcett, 1954 Where Murder Wall
Stranger in MINI by Gordon Davis.
Fawcett (19651, 157 pp., 5.95 (paper)
by Howard Hunt.

Random Howe, 1947

The New lark Arnim

hospital; In Its wry so like Homy fight for human dignity, this time in worthy black retainer who could have weren't very clean. and after It was all
James's often alluded to but never the skies. played De Lewd in Green Pastures. A ones when 1 was down on the street
precisely by the Master named dis- quick resume of Fleming's career fol- again, walking home, I thought that
ability which turned out to have But aceopAng to Mr. Saute what lows. never wanted to see lies again." Ernest
been—after years of petient literary H. H. really joined was not the Air would have added min to that sen-
detective work—chronic acumination. Force bur the Office of Strategic Incidentally, each of H. H.'s narra- tence, if not to the scene.
Academe- critic. are not always wrong. Services, a cloak-and-dagger outfit tives U periodically brought to a halt
whose clandestine activities probably while he provides the reader with The themes that are to run through
The actual limiting of Limit of did not appreciably lengthen the vat highly detailed capsule biographies
"Al a cover, hr was given the rank of written in Who', Who style. it H. H. el.'s work and life are all to be
Darkness is not at all bad: it Is not at Air Corps Lieutenant." Mr Sauk tells plainly enjoys composing plausible found ui Stranger in Town. The sense
us that ft II. was sent to China to (and implausible) biographies for his that blacks and Latins are not quite
all good either. H. H. demonstrates the- train guerrillas behind the Japanese characters—not to mention for himself. human (Fleming is attracted to a
Linea Curiously enough. I have not In Contemporary Authors, II. H. com- "Negress" but fears syphilis). The in-
way a whole generator, of writers come across a Chinese setting In any of Posed a hio. for his pseudonym Robert terest in pre-war laze: Beidcrbecke and
H. H.'a nose's Was he ever in China? Dietrich. taking len years off his age, Goodman. A love of fancy food. drink,
ordered words upon the page in Imita- One daydreams. "'Lieutenant Hunt putting; himself in the infantry during decor, yet whenever the author tries to
reporting for duty, General." The hag- Kota, awarding himself a Bronze Star strike the elegant worldly note, drapes
tion of what they took to be Heroine- gaol face with the luminous strange and a degree from Georgetown. A not curtains tend to obscure the view
eyes stared sel hint through the tangled quarter century later when the grand- from his not so magic casements,
way's technique. At beat Hemingway vines. 'Lieutenant Hunt?' WIngate's mother trampler and special councilor looking out on tacky lands forlorn.
was an artful, careful writer who took voice was shrill with awe. 'Until today, to the President Charles W. Colson Throughout his life's work there Is a
no man ha, ever hacked hie way wanted documents invented and his- constant wistful and. finally, rather
a good deal of trouble to master meats through that living wall of slant-eyed tory revised to the interest of Nixon's touching ideroilicstion with the old
of action—the hardest kind of writing Japanese flesh....' " re-election, he turned with confidence American patriciate.
to H. IL He knew his man—and fellow
to do, while his dialogue looks most In 1946, 14,11. returned to civilian Brown alumnus. Them is a rather less touching
attractive an the page. Yet unwary mathusinara for war: "An atom bornb is
life and wrote what Is probably his A. Fleming orders himself cham- Just a bigger and better bomb," while
imitators use apt to find themselves (as most self-revealing novel, Stranger in "the only justification for killing in
in Limit of Darkness) slipping into Town (Random House. 19471. This pagne and a luxurious meal ending wet is that evil must be destroyed."
must have been very nearly the first of with Baked Alaska (for one!), we get Although evil is never exactly defined,
aimless redundancies. Wanting to Hem- the returned war veteran novels. a the hlo. He has been everywhere in the the killers for goodness aught to be
insets-vile the actual cadences of Wasp left alone to kill in their own way
speech as spoken by young fliers, H. H. genre best exemplified by Merle Mil- war from "Jugland" (Yugoslavia?) to because "If I hired a man to do a dirty
so stylizes their voices that one char- ter's That Winne; reading it, I confess the Far East. He remembers good job for me, I wouldn't be pre-
acter Mends with another. Although to a certain nostalgic. meals in Shanghai and Johnny Walker sumptuous enough to specify what
Hemingway worked with pasteboard Block Label. Steak_ Yet his memories weapons he was to use or at what
cutouts, too, he was cunning enough Handsome, virile young Major Flem- am hitter. He is bitter. He is also edgy. hour...." Toward the end of the
ing returns to New York City, a "1 can't go around for the rest of my
to set his dolls against moat stylishly glittering Babylon in those days before life like somebody out of the Ministry hook, H. H. strikes a minatory anti-
the writing appeared on Mayor Lind- of Fear." communist note. Fleming denounces
rendered landscapes; he also gave them say's wall, Fleming has a sense of Pacifists and "a new organization
Alienation (new d'ord in 1947). He Fleming if an artist. A sculptor. called the Veterans Action Council"
vivid things to do: the duck that got ...moot bear the callous civilian world H. H, conforms to that immutable rule whose "Ideals had been a paraphrase of
shot was always a real duck that really which he contrail, unfavorably with of had fiction which requires the the Communist manifesto." Apparently
got shot. Finally, the Hemingway trick how it was for us back them in the sensitive here to practice the one art these veterans prefer to follow the
Pacific in our eruddr foxholes with the his creator knows nothing about. We party line which is to disarm the US
of repeating key &OWLS and proper frigging sound or mortal overhead and learn that Fleming's old girl friend her while Rona' arms. A few year. later
our buddies dying—for what? How married someone else, This is a re- when Joe McCarthy got going. this war
names is simply not possible for other could any blackiparketing civilians spiv current theme in the early novels. Was a standard line. But It was hot stuff in
know what war was really like? H. H. jilted? Recipient of o Dear John 1945, and had the bookchat writers of
writers—as ten thousand novels lin- letter? Get cracking, thesis-writers. the day like Orville Prescott and
Actually. none of Lis knew what it Charles Poore not hewed to closely to
eluding Vale of Hemingway's Own/ was Like either ainde, as far as my The civilian world of New York, the commie line Stranger in Town
investigations have liken me, no novel- 1946, anr.oya Fleming ("maybe the would have been much read. As it was.
testify. ist of the Sectrid World War or Far East hes spoiled me for America"). the book failed. Too avant-garde. Too
In H.11.1 early books, which won returned-veteran-front-lhe•war novelist He is particularly enraged by demobili-
ever took part in any action. Most zation. "Oversees. the nineteen-year-old patriotic.
for him a coveted (by Capote and rate) mete clerks in headquarter companies milksops were bleeding for their
or with Yana or Stare and Striper; the toolbar', and their mothers were bleed- The gullible Who*: Who now tells us
Gummobsun grant, there is a certain manlier was a cook. H. H. may have ing for them, and the army was being
ohsened some of the war all a corre- demobilized, stripped of its poems.... that H. H. was a "screen writer.
amount of solemnity if not seriousness. spondent and, perhaps, from behind the He had had faith In the war until they 1947-48; attache Am Embassy. Pero,
lines in China, but no foxhole ever partitioned Poland win.... Wherever France, 1948-1.5i." But Mr. Saute
The early H. H. liked to quote from held him, no Wed ever fed him, no ' Russia moved in. that pert of the knows better. Apparently H.H.
vastatIon overwhelmed him in the world was sealed off." Fleming has I joined the CIA "early in 1949, and
high-toned writers like Pliny and Louis Gellert' at Naples. But the daydreamer suspicion that he la not going to like after • short period in Washington
MacNeke as well as from that echt of course is always there. And how! whet he calls "the Atomic Age." But headquarters. he was sent to Paris for
American Wasp Witham Cullen Bry- then, "They trained nee to be nearly two years. Now for a cover, he
ant—whose radical politics would have The book is dedicated to two dead called himself • State Department
officers (Wasp), as well as to "The ... Now they'll have to undo reserve officer." But the chronology
shocked H. H. had he but known. But other gallant young vice who did not it" *cents a bit off.
Men I suspect the quotations are not return." Only a book reviewer whose
dues were faithfully paid up to the At a chic night club, Fleming meets According to the blurb of a John
from H. H.'s wide reading of world Communist Party could keep a tear the greasy Argentine husband of his
from his eye as he read that line. Then old flame; he beats hire up. It seems Bunn novel, the author (H. H.)
literature but from brief random in- the story, it Is early 1946, Maine that Fleming her never been very keen
spection. of Harlem's Familiar Ow, Fleming checks Into the elegant Man- about Latine. When he was a school- "worked as a screen writer until Holly-
lotions. hattan flat of his noncombatant boy at Choate (yes, Choate). he met wood felt the impact of TV. 'When
brother who is out of town but has an Italian girl in New York. She took unemployed screen wnter colleagues tie-
H.11.'s fliers are conservative lads given him the flat and the services of a him home and got his cherry. But "she pin hanging themselves aboard their
smelled of girlie. and the sheet, yachts,' Baxter joined the Foreign Ser-
who don't think much of Rooievelt's vice." I slip into reverie. I am with
Leonard Spigelgaw. the doyen of
Four Freedoms. They fight to get the movie writers al MGM. "Lenny, do
Job dale. That's alt. Old Glory. H. It you remember E. Howard Hunt alias
John Baxter alias Robert Dietrich Ol-
la plainly dotty about the Wasp aristoc- ga ..." Lenny nods: a small smile
racy. One of the characters in Limit u/ plays across his handsome mouth.
"Howie never got credit on a moor
Darkness is almost unhinged when he picture. Used to try to peddle them
foreign Intrigue scripts, He was hipped
learns that a gill he has ,met went to on assassination, I M'a Poor Howie.
Not even Universal would touch him."
Ethel Walker. Had H. Ft. not chosen a But I feu that like Pontius Pilate in
the Anatole France story, Lenny
life of adventure I think he might have would merely say, "E. Howard Hunt? I
made a good second string to O'Hara's
The New York Review
second string to Hemingway. H. H. has

the O'Hara sense of irredeemable social
Inferiority which takes the place for so
many Irish-American writer. of original
tin, he also shares O'Hara's pleasure in

listing the better ',rend names of thai
world. Evan on Guadalcanal we are

told of a pipe tobacco from "a tether

good hew Zealand leaf."

By 1943 H. was a promising

author. According to The New Yuri

Times, "East of Farewell was a fine

realistic novel, without any doubt the

best sea story of the wet " Without
any doubt it was probably the only sea
story of the war at that point but the
Timer has a style to maintain. Now •

momentous change in the daydreamer's
life. With Limit of Darkness in the

works at Random House. H. H. (ac-
cording to Who's Who) honed the
USAF (1943-1946); and rose to the

rank of first lieutenant. It would mean

that despite "the injury in a nasal
hospital" our hero was again able to



problem is, simply. • basic loathing of Howie. April, 1961. Out of that humiliation ham Manchester's book for a time
democracy, even of the superficial grew the Rertin Wall, the missile crisis, focused public attention on events
American sort. The boobs will only In 1960 H. H. publirhed three Diet- guerrilla enrage thoughout Latin surrounding the assassination of John
send boots to Comsteu unless a clever rich thrillers. In 1961 It H. published America and Africa, and our Domini- Fitzgerald Kennedy. Once again it
smooth operator like Representative two Dietrich thrillers. to 1962 there can Republic intervention. Castro'. became fashionable to hold the city of
Lansdale in End of a Shipper 1114114444-1 was no Dietrich thriller. But as John beachhead triumph opened a bottom- Dallas collectively responsible for his
to buy an election in order to drive Beeler H. H. published Gift for Go-- less Pandora's box of difficulties...." murder. Still, and let this not be
the country, wittingly or unwittinglY, male (Lippincott, 1962). The dates Ins "This is the classic reactionary's view of forgotten, Lee Harvey Oswald was a
sianifir-anL In 1961 H. FL wan involved the world, unoompnonLved by mete partisan of Fidel Castro, and an ad-
further along the road to collectivism. in the Bey of Pip and so, presumably, fact. How does one lose China if ono mitted Marxist who made desperate
It would be much simpler in the world too busy to write books After the Bey did not possess Chino in the first efforts to loin the Red Revolution in
of Pigs, he dropped Robert Dietrich place? And what on earth did John- Havana. In the end he was an activist
of Steve Bentley not to have elections son's loony intervention is the Domini- for the Fair Play for Cuba Commit-
of any kind. and revived John Butter, a straight if can Republic really have to do with
out unsuccessful attempt to overthrow tee." Well, this is what H. H. and a
Steve doesn't much cotton to lady rather light novelist who deals with the Castro?
publisher. either. "lest,. lay Redpath, not-so-high comedy of Kennedy Wash- good many like-minded people want us
otherwise known as Alma Ward" (or ington. H. ti. deplores the shortness of the to believe. But is it nue? Or special
Mr.. Philip Graham, otherwise known national memory for America's dis- pleading? Ora cone! son? A pattern
as Kay Meyer) 411444 an appearance in H. It begins his apologia for his grace twelve years ago. He denounces
Angel Eyes, and hard as milli she ix the media's effort to make JFK seem s emerges.
part in the Bay of Piga with the hero foe having pulled bock from the
Steve masters the pinko spitfire. brink of Mold War Ill. Oddly, he H. H.'i memoir is chatty. He tells
fie mums, everything, In feet, but statement that "No event wince the remarks that "Tbe death of lack Ruby
Washington efeelf with its "muggen communiretion of China In 1949 has and worldwide controvern over Wit. bow in 1926 his father traced an
and heroin numbers and the white- had such a profound effect on the absconding partner to Havana and with
slavers and the taggotry.... halo town United States end as aim u the
seed. a purifying rain!" Amen to that, Ireful of the US-trained Cuban inva- an Army Colt .45 got luck his money.
sion brigade at the Bay of Pigs in "Father's intervention was direct, die
gel, and effective." Years later his son's

Cuban work proved to be indirect and

ineffective; but at least it mu every hit

as illegal as Dad's. Again one comes up

against the panda of the right-wing

A startling and American who swean by hue and order
yet never hesitates to break the law for
his own benefit. Either law and order
ie simply • code phrase meaning 44t
the commie-weirdo-fag-nigger-lovers or

wholly original essay FL H.'s Nixonien concept of law and
order is nut due process but vigilante.

A. IL H. tells as how be is brought

into the Cuban adventure, the narrative

on the causes reads just like one of his thrliten with
the some capsule biographies, the name
tight-lipped nide.. "I'm a career offi-
cer. I lake orden and carry them out."

of war' It appear. that ex-Resident Fiancees
offered to provide the anti-Castro
Cuban, with a base in Costa Rico (the
name Fiancees sheltered Mr. Vesco),
But the Costs Rican sacrament de-

cided not to be host to the patriots so

FL H. set up his Cuban government-in-

exlie in Mexico City, resigning from

"A uniquely challenging and the Foreign Service this cover). He told
provocative work ....Sampson everyone he had come into some
money And planned to live in Mexico.

weaves a stunning essay in European Privately, he tells us he was dedicated

intellectual history culminating in to getting rid of the "blood-waked
a categorical rejection of a world
gang" in li by shedding mum

order based on democratic national blood.
Thin was the Raring and Ammer of
states." —Kirkus nevi:eras
1960 and Kennedy and Nixon were
"A moat unusual approach to the running fur president. Since Kennedy's

subject of power and Its relationship denunciations of the commie regime
ninety man off the coast of Florida
to war ... It reveals a fresh mind were more bellicose than Nixon's, the
asking extremely penetrating ques- ended Cubans tended to be pro-
tions about nations and societies that
have shown historical proclivities Kennedy in the election. But not H. H.
toward war-making ... British
political scientist Sampson analyzes He most have known even then this
Tolstoy's religious and sociological JFK van a communist at bean because
his chief support came from the pinko
thought. especially his moral views elements in the land. H. ti, also had a
on war, along with the ideas and certain insight into the new President's
character because "WK end t wen

influence of some of his predecessors college contemporaries" (what he

—de Malaise, Stendhal, Herten and mean. is that when lack cues at
Proudhon Sampson's approach Harvard Howie was at Brown) "and I
had met him at a Boston debut" (of
through studieS of Julien Sorel, whet!) "where he was pointed out ro
protagonist of Stendhal's The Red me ... I freely confess not having
and the Black, and of Tolstoy's major discerned in Me relaxed Lin.ments the
characters In War and Peace, may be future naval hero, Killdeer laureate.
offbeat political science, but it cer- Senator, and President."
tainly enhances the interest of the
general reader." Meanwhile It. H. is suck with his
provisional government in Mexico and

—Publishers Weekly he was "disappointed, For Letin Amer-

ican males their caliber was about

.areas; they displayed most Latin

g6.95, now et your boolutere faults and few Latin virtues.' In other

Pantheon11111111 words, alliftlees but not musical. What

can an associate member of the Wasp
patriciate and would-be killer of com-

L mies do but grin and hear it and try to
make I silk-purse or two of his Latin

The New,Yogic Reeiew

pi ears? Frederic C. Lane The wooden t.agr at Rube. a pseud 01, C.1174,1.10
In 19'60 Allen Dulles recolved'the
VENICE
top teem for a briefing On the pro-
posed liberation of Cuba. H. H. was A Maritime Republic
them and tells us of the plan to drop
paratroopers at "Santa Clara, located "The publication of this book is an event of paramount irrt-
ethical In Cuba's geographic center portanee . . the culmination of a lifetime of careful research
while "reithibtalng troops would land by one of the country's finest historians "—Louis B. Wright
by Maim at Santa Clare and Trini-
dad ... on the southern coast" Assum- Few cities in world history have held so much fascination as
ing that Caaluu'e troops would be in Venice. In, Fredenc Lane's graceful narrative the sixth
the [Inane area, the Brigade would through the eighteenth centuries of Venetian history unfold
"march nit and west, picking up — the maritime life so central to the city's development
strength as they went." There would the unique and jealously guarded social and political institu-
also be, simultaneonely. a Gfth column tions envied by her neighbors . the architecture, sculp-
to "blow up bridges and cut oarnmuni. ture, and painting that made Venice a center of artistic crea-
cations." But "let me underscore that tion . . and the peculiar genius and industry of her people.
neither during thin tintother meetings Lanes massive, richly illustrated volume is truly the most
was It asserted that the underground or complete history of Venice published in 50 years.
the populace was to play a decisive
role in the campaign." H. H. goes on Photographs, maps, drawings
to explain that the CIA operation was Deluxe clothbound edition $17,50
to be essentially military and he ad- Softbound edition $6.95
mits, tacitly. that these would prob-
ably he no great uprising apinn Ernesto Cardenal
Conn, Thee Is candid but then H,
wants no part of any revolution. At Homage "Extraordinary," Daniel Berrigan calls this book
one point he expiable to on ;hat the to the of poems. 1Cardenall blows into flame the extin-
American revolution was nut a class guished fires of love, hatred, passion, for survi-
revolution but a encenful reparation American Indians val, cold fury, the very soul of those first inhabit-
of a colony from an empire. "Clan ants who sing in their chains and die of their love
warfare, therefore, is of foreign ori- of life. . . . In Ernesto, they have a voice in our
midst, . . He grants us a future, a second birth
The Kennedy administration did not out of our bloody torment."
inspire H. H. with confidence. Richard
Ernesto Cardenal is a Nicaraguan poet and priest
Goodwin, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Ches- now recognized in this country as a major voice in
ler Bowles "all had a common beck- Latin Amin-lam letters.
pound in Americans for Democratic
Action—the ADA." In H. H.'s world to Translated by Carlos and Monique Altschul
belong to ADA 11 tantamount to illustrated by Dino Aranda
membership in the Communiu party.
True to form, the White House Fenles $6.95 cloth, $2.50 paper
started saying that the Castro revolu-
tion had been a good thing until Murray Krieger
betrayed by Castro. This Trotskyite
variation was also played by Marthio Visions of Exremity
Rey, e liberal Cuban leader H. ft.
found as eminently &hallow and oppor- in Modern Literature
tunistic as the White House found
whin, H. H. had hit hands full with Originally published separately, The Tropic Vision and The Classic Vision are now available in paperback as
the Console or goveounent-tn-be of
Cube. companion volumes under a new title, Visions of Extremity in Modern Literature. Murray Krieger has written a

Meanwhile, troops were being Volume I: new introduction to the set. Volume
trained In Guatemala. H. H. made e
',nit to their secret camp and took a The Tragic Vision The Classic Vision
number of photographs of the Bripde
Proud of his einem he thought they The Confrontation of Extremity The Retreat front Extremity
should be published in order to 'gins-
"A very full book indeed, -Krieger is one of the most discern-
unite recruiling" also, to Shaw the with not only a rationale of
world that members of the Connie ing, seminal literary critis in this
wen getting on wall with the Brigade,
which they were riot tragedy and the outline of a country, and each new volume of

At this point in time (an opposed to new literary method rihetha- criticism has been awaited by seri-
fictional point, out of time), antis-
untie Tracy Barnes suggested that tics') but perceptive analyses ous students of the subject. But
FL H. meet Arthur Schlesinger, It. at
the White House where Camelot', his. of fourteen novels... I know none more than this.... Krieger
torten was currently "pounding out"
the White Paper on Cub. for Arthur of no criticism that confronts us turns his attention to a `retreat from
the King. Arthur the historian "wee
wand it his desk typing furiously, a to powerfully with that first extremity,' to the self-imposed re-
cigarette clinging to hie half-open
mouth, baking as disorderly at when phase of every tragic course — the straints and discipline enabling the
we had firm met In Pan, a decade
before." Although H. H.'s etyle Is not experience of stark, stains evil, the writer to accept the human condition
elegant he seldom comes up with an
entirely wrong word; it it particularly demoniac, the monstrous, the absurd. instead of rejecting it.... Krieger's.
nice that in the moneternidden cellar
of his brain the word "disorderly" From now on, we can talk about 'the introductory essays brilliantly set his thesis
should have surfaced instead of "di-
sheveled" for are not all ADA'ers tragic vision' with significant precision." - into proper perspective. .. . A major work of
enemies of law'n'order and so Ills
orderly? R. B. Sewall in Yak Review $3.25 paper critidsm."--iAr race $12.50 cloth, $3.65 paper

During this meeting. H. H. learns at your bookstore or order direct from
that Dean Rink has vetoed she seizure
from the ail or Trinidad because the Johns Hopkins
world would then know that the IFS
was deeply Emplinted in the invasion. The Johns Hopkins University Press Let 13 MIL Al 3 II
(The word ninaranah had not yet been Baltimore, Maryland 212I8

'DeremVer 13, fon I
13

minted by the empire's hardworking to say that there were no cowards on That is H.11.'1 only reference to Bernie later became a real estate
cuphemists.1 Then the supreme master the beach, aboard the assault ships or Sturgis( Florini On the other hand, he
of disorder appeared in the historian', in the air." But the Bay of Pigs was a tens us a good deal about Bernard agent in Miami Later still. he was to
office. Said AdIS Stevenson to aristo- disaster for the free world and H. H. "Bernie" L. Barker, "Cohan-born US
cratic Tracy Barnes "'Everything go- uses the word "betrayal." As the sun citizen. First man in Cuba to volunteer recruit two of his employees, Felipe de
ing well, Tracy?' and Barns gave a set on the beachhead which he never after Pearl Herbs. Served as USAF Dirge and Eugenic, P. Martinez, for
positive response. This exchange is saw, "only vultures moved." Although Captain /Bombardier. Shot down and duty as White House burglars. Accord-
important for it was later alleged that safe in Washington. "I was sick of spent eighteen months in a German ing to Barker, de Diego had conducted
Stevenson had been kept in the dirk lying and deception, heartsick over prison camp," H. H. tells us how "a successful raid In capture Casco
shout invadon preparations" political compromise and military de- Bernie was used by the CIA to government documents," while Mar-
feat." Fortunately, H. H.'s sickness tine made over "300 infiltrations into
Latei. waiting in the preen secretary's with lying and deception was only infiltrate the Hanna police so "that Castro Cuba." At the time of Water-
°Mee. "I at an Pamela Tonsure's desk temporary. Ten years later Camelot the CIA could have an inside view of gate Martinez was still on the CIA
until the getaway signal came and we would he replaced by Watergate and Cuba n enttiubversive operations" payroll
could leave the While House un- FL H. would at last be able to hat the Whatever that means Bernie was
observed, much like President Hard- beach In freedom's name. H. H.'s assistant in Miami during the Gire Us This Der is dedicated "To
ins'a mistress" Bull's eye, Howie! pre-invasion period, He was "eager,
Worthy of Saint-Simon, of Harold Al least two other Watergate burg- efficient, and completely dedicated." It the Men of Brigade 2506." The hero
wee Bernie who brought Dr. Jost Mira of the book is a very handsome young
Robbins!? lar, were involved with the Bay of Pigs Cuban leader named Artirne. H. H.
mper. "Co-pilot of • plane that Cardona into H. H.'s life. Mho Is a offers us t photograph of this glam-
D-Day. "I was not on the beach- dropped leaflets over Haven' I was an right-wing "former president of the mom youth with one arm circling the
head, but I have talked with many es-Marine named Frank Fiarini," who is Cuban bar" and Later head of the haunted-eyed author-conspirator. II is a
Cubans who were." Shades of the war identified in a footnote: "Later, as Cuban revolutionary council. He had touching picture. No arm, however,
novelise of s quarter century before Frank Sturgis, a Watergate defendant." also been, briefly. Castro', prime minis. figuratively speaking, ever encircles the
"Rather than attempt to write what ter.
het been written before, It is enough equally handsome Augustus of the

West. H. H. is particularly exercised by

what he believes to love been Ken-

Philosophy nedy's tactic "to whitewash the New
Frontier by heaping pall on the CIA."
H. H. is bitter at the way the media

c and played along with this "unparalleled
Religion campaign of vilification and obloquy
that must have made the Kremlin mad
with Joy." To H. H., the real enemy is
anyone who affects "to are tom.

munani springing from poverty" rather

than from the machinations of the

men in the Kremlin.

"On December 29, 1962, President

AESTHETICS AND THE CANTS ANALOGIES OF CANTS POLITICAL THOUGHT Kennedy reviewed the survivors of the
THEORY OF CRITICISM EXPERIENCE: Its Origin! and Derekreorund Brigade in Miami's Orange Bowl.
Selected Essay. of Arnold Isenberg Watching the televised ceremony, I saw
Arthur ?debris* Rana Saner Pepe San Roman Ore JFK the Br-
Edited by William Callaghan Translated by E. B. Ashton glade's flog" (Footnote: "Artime told
et al. With an Introduction by Offering new interpretaihau of Kant's
Mary Misheraill and a Biographical argiansents Melmck outlines and de- Winner of the Ilerman Hesse Prize in me the flag was a replica, and that the
Sketch by William Callaghan fends Karat's theurim of substance. Germany in 1968. -Here," says Karl Brigade feeling against Kennedy ens so
ceusation, and interaction in order to Jaspers. "for the Brat time, the weight great that the presentation nearly did
Sixteen of the late philosopher's ea- establish the indinscrumbility of these or Kant's political thinking In the con- not take place") "for temporary safe-
says. explaining hat concept of aes- notions in human experienc e. text of his entire philosophy is . . . keeping In response the President said,
thetic mammy and his radically demister/at/id in a complete interpre- 'I can assure you that this flag will be
innovative approach to traditional Leticia' " $12.75 returned to this Brigade in a free
problems in criticise. and Illustrating Havana.' " it H. adds toady, "One
his distinctive contribution to twenti.
sh-century philosophy. 312.50

and its paperback ... wonders what time period he had in
mind."
THE WORLDS OF EXISTENTIALISM INTRODUCTION TO ARISTOTLE
A Critical Render Second Edition, &reined and Enlarged Who's Who tells us that H. H. was e

Edited, with Introductiona and a Conclusion by Edited by Richard McKeon consultant with the Defense Depart.
Maurice Friedman nient 1960-1965. Mr. Smile finds this
The snowbird met for 11111,111,0112 courses in philosophy and period of H. If.'s gaga entirety murky.
Organized around central argues, this voliane Includes the humanities nose with new introductions throughout. Apparently H. H. became personal
material from the whole range of existentialist writings, and exparekd to Include material front the Metairie and assistent to Allen Dulles after the Bay
much never before available in English, by such Notre" On thr Pans of Aniseeds. $3.25
as Melville, Kafka, Billie, and Same. 14.95

The Find Two Volumes in as New Series, Chicago History of American Religion of Pig,. Mr. Seale also tells us the! in
Martin E. Marty, Editor 1963 the American ambassador to
Spain refused to accept H. H. as dep-
DISSENT IN AMERICAN RELIGION AMERICAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT uty chief of the local CIA station
Edwin Scott Coasted A History because of H. H.'s peculiar activities as
station chit( for Uruguay in 1 95 9.
Thee categories of dissenters—Sehisrdics, Heretics, and William A. Clebsch After persuading President Nucleon to
Misfits—am eaplored, as Caused presents. for the first
time, the broad current of mligkus dissent as a pervasive Clebsch examines the in fine of American religious ask Eisenhower to keep him en pone
and essential clement in both the past and the futtne, of thole which, although varied in its frg,115, 13 1/.19/C.1111.. In Uruguay, H. H. then tried to over-
American life. $0395 hope ul end practical_ He emphasizes the traddim of throw the same President Nardone
"esthetic retigiousnem" created and perpetuated by such without telling the American 'ambas-
pioneer Minkel" as Jonathan Edwards. Emmen, and
William James. $6.95

and in paperback . . . sador. It was OM tactless treatment of
the ambassador this colt II. H. the
SYS t t—NIATIC THEOLOGY THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Spanish post
Vedusee One &twain Marthodo/ogy
01111 of H. H.'s friends told Mr.
Paul Tillich Edited by Mimeo Mimic and Joseph M. Citagevra Sculc, "This is when Howard really
began losing touch with reality."' In
The firstsert of Tillich's three-volume work, containing his Seven scholars consider rneehociolotScal problems which Give Us This Day 11. H. tells how he
famous correlation" of man's deepest question, with then- the history of religions as a discipline must meet in its tried to sell Tracy Barnes on having
logien] answers and focueing on tbe concepts of being and tempt to integotte historical and syttematie ospects of the Casten murdered. Although H. H. gives
enamor. " . . a noble., a profound. cknely reasoned, tote- forma of religious capreseinn. "Highly recummendmi."— the impression that he failed to per-
grated presentation. —H. Bichsel Niebuhr. Union Sere- Ti.. Perairnatias $1.95
man Quarterly Review $2.95

suade the .CIA to have a go at killing

the Antichrist, columnist lack Ander-

son has a different story to tell about

the CIA. In a column for January 25.

1971, he tells us that an attempt was

made to kill Castro in March, 1961,

month before the invasion. Castro was

14 'NYC %ail + 3slapron /V.; Chkuipa 60637 '77se New York Tfrner Suede), _Maga.
nee, lune 3, 1973, p.l 1.,

The Neww York Review

NEW suspect the! whoever planned the exotic backgrounds with a bit of
murder must have been astonished et diabolism thrown
PRINCETON the reaction of the American establish- WsphAeirrsietGtMoourrdLdoeimnr WiCtauolrefiseD, oHar.bkHon.oeakxlrsS.oimIwnilartorhtieen
ment. The most vengeful of all the nark work H. 1.1. daydreams about the
PApERbACkS Kennedy, made no move to discover brave lads who flew out of Henderson,
who really killed his brother. In thin, often to death against the foe. In
Bobby woo a true American. close hWbiethsaetcrheheMwbienhndedersre,WaftainittahelelHyB., aHoyensolydf rvPeuiaglsmt,utsrheealsft
mnks, pretend there was no ern., stirred. Captured, the hero spends nine
spiracy, do not rock the Mas- CmoHafo.IsttnthIrtsoeh,scr.uaiOrndnirodnteuhoacesmmepts0hrabi9amne0tgd1eianr9sissn:HostE.oefHxltfthp-.hleomieauaotrrgiv.coleahnsrfeieofonoudrtf
otti/Warty when both MOSCOW and Watergate his books are more and
Hanna remelt dose to nerenuo break- csmoioopnryesrigTohhpteeendCa1ar9be7on2u,.tbIhyniDsJaupvloyidliotSicfLo1/J9oo7bh1sn, e,osIns-
downs at the thought that they might the recommendation of Charles
be implicated In the death of the Great you have them by the balls their hearra
Prince. The Warm, Report then as- and minds will foLlosv"1 Colston, H. H.
wsuhroehdatuhnetsntahteioAnmtehraictatnhepsloycohtekihlloedr was hired by the White House and be-
struck win. The fact that Bobby edaayrn. !Zeaaplafortr-htiimsenecwrimmianratelnatin9fo10rm0sI
Kennedy accepted the Warren Report every page of The Corers. The villain is
was proof to moot people (myself
aItmwoansg ntohteumn)ttilhsaet vDeornalayldeaahctleadtearlothnaet.
DIthleeapatoranrltetmhdoefunrgothmoBfaJoumbsbetmyicbweeialrltohthfeetahdteimOfaefm,lhiitleye
rreegfuasleida otroEloMoI kSpaetCaMnyIToefotnh-ewFhBatI
might have happened at Dailra, Too
shaken up, I wa told.

TWHHEACTOITNMSTEIATNUSTITOONDAANYD AANKTIEHROKLEOGGAYARD Fortunately,. others have tried to StheenahtuorstVlianngehwainthd"saormagearpicpehayl otoutnhge
D"laETWWpoCnrredweieohdaeihimtrrtnneeohikrsgtbdktsit•hlfsewiiboniPeenvyogrfhedPsrLiRo•k.loaoomSso#nsss:3bttt"haostE0e•ogpc•5rieltTrth.oChishi5Bpgecoe3tyorran.e/•Sn9lOfstrAi5FobcLrortniaim•tanfa.itFegl'cAismteenhktageWeeruHonpafaontesynosssdne•-•t unravel the tangle. Most intriguing is young and disadvantaged" (i.e., com-
by Edward S. Corwin. Revised and Richard H. Poplin's theory that there
swheort;edtiwdonuOtlidvraivldeaa4cOanr:ewwaansteadhthaed
?eisRwnddi.dioiattihnDenrpdd1soe1iublnf.yp1yr.tp1ahH.lb•ee2al1mer8S9ae87lugnd.3put9WroiE3def,d.meC9tih.t5h"oieoa-C1rnWs9oc7amuo2nrb-md7ti.3npC'gTslrelaehatisgnee- world to know that he was pro-Cameo.
This Oswald was caught by the Dallas
MllChcAtaahoemyyOseumtAehU#norer2itpRaccnr9nyeaaT9M.rdnn"S.aie-Ry$tJJiOaa3Fouekn.arsnN4eoklti3iontercTyefkeRat_IhnWdI"AefiAolLclirOabimnousor0itkga.hwDotohfinuiMctgoha- MPGSotLAnlieLtCiecICsnHtsChIuA-IeCAVdeREnIlDlteLunIrLNoyIrIFyAloNreDnce palm and murdered on television. The mie:CI-jun Like Jack-Bobby-Teddy. The
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AFTThiHNveeED!CteWSotriTAalk,ITeLadElLoRTfrStihbeResUN More New Princeton Paper bac Ls sduayssp.ect we may find out one of these Madame Onassis-not to mention
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SINOTVEIREETSPTOGURTOIICUSPS IN atankdethoeuchhorpdeeopofleoathnedr writers who
13.9SEdited by H. Gordan Shilling and put them in
books thinly revealed rather than din,
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STGbhyTIeBOhDoEOnkODeroNsSv8eWT.rPIyHLroiLEtfcRthhEaerdTB.Hib#El3ic0Sa4lU. pSNrIyAS reading for followers of Reston, Alsop grants for." She also seduces her
and Lipprnann who am looking for naianreraatnodr.n"eIwhsapdapseerepnhaothougrnadprhesdomf ahper-
canoymoincerwelhieof.t"rieOdnteowfoolluolwd athllitnhkretehaotf
cutting ribbons, rust-nighting, fox-
thole magi would he beyond comic hunting at Warrenton, and emeethiene
roeptpioer,tuTnhiset tale is cluenry: o black with padded kids. But, as H. H.
ative from adnreoawmsAufrpicaasnanraetpiorensaenndt- reminds rat, "only a fool thinks there's
any resemblance between a public
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African republics are pretty Joky af-
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( I 965-1966) H. H. woe living in Spain, invoked). H. H. believes quite rtioggohthttloye
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PRINCETOPNrimaUcy,NNewIVWraEy 0R134SuITY PRESS CIA man named Paler Ward into

The Sevond °soca

16 The New York Review

to be poisoned with a capsule in his doing his best . to become Identified Pompano Beach. Florida, Sun-Sentinel Oswald had killed Kennedy, on orders
food_ Capsule to be supplied by one publicly with the Fair Play for Cubs to the effect that Oswald had been In from Castro or horn those of his
John Rueelli—s Las Vega, mobster who Committee as well as setting Lona touch with Cuban Intelligence the U11'111=11 who thought that the murder
was eager to overthrow Castro and up privately as a sort of Soviet spy by previous year, as well as with pro- of an American president might in
re-open the mob's casinos. Also in- writing • mysterious "fact"-filled letter Castroites in Miami, Mexico City, New some way cave the life of a Cuban
volved in the project was a former FBI to the Soviet Embassy. That the Orleans. A Mrs. Marjorie Brazil re- president.
agent Robert M•heu, later to be How- Russians were genuinely mystified by ported that she had beard that Oswald
ard Hughes's viceroy at Las Vegas. hi, letter was proved when they turned had been in Miami demonstrating in Yet the only Cuban group that
it over to the American government front of the office of the Cuban
It is known that Castro did become after the assassinatIon. Also, most. Revolutionary Council headed by our would be entirely satisfied by Ken-
ill in March In February-March, 1963, Intriguingly. Oswald visited Mexico old friend Dr. Min5 Cardona, A sister nedy's death would be the right-wing
the CIA again tried to kill Castro. City In September, 1963, when, ac- of one Miguel Suarez told mow Mar- enemies of Castro who held Kennedy
Anderson wonders, not Illogically, if cording to Mr. Souk, H. Fl. was acting jorie Heimbecker who told the FBI responsible for their humiliaelon at the
Castro might have been sufficiently chief of the CIA station there. Finally. that JFK wdult1 be killed by Castro- Bay of PIP. To kill hint would avenge
piqued by these attempts on his life to Oswald's widow tells US that he took hes. The FBI seems eventually to have their honor. Best of all, setting up
want to knock off Kennedy. This was pot-shot at the reactionary General deckled that they were dealing with Oswald as a pro-Castro, pro-Moscow
Lyndon Johnson's theory. He thought Walker, the sort of things deranged lot of wishful thinkers. agent, they might be able to precipi-
the Cmtroitee hid hired Oswald. The commie Could do. Was he then simply tate some desperate international crisis
Scourge of Asia was also distressed to a deranged commit? The right-wing Fiorini/Sturgia denied the that would serve their cause. Certainly
learn upon taking office that "We had Cabana and their American admirers story in the Sun-Sentinel: he said that Castro at this date had no motive for
been operating a damned Murder. Inc., certainly avec us to think so. he had merely speculated with the killing Kennedy, who had ordered a
in the Caribbean." Since it is now clear writer on some of the gossip that was crack-down on clandestine Cuban raids
to everyone except perhaps Earl War- After the murder of the President, making the rounds in MUMPS antb from the United States—of the sort
ren that Oswald was part of a con- one of those heard from was Frank Castro Cuban community. The gossip, that Eugenio Martinez is alleged so
wintry, who were his fellow conspira- FiorinilSturgis, who was quoted in the however, tended to be the mime; often to have made.
tor.? Considering Oswald'. strenuous
attempts to Identify himself with Caw New from California
no. it d logical to assume that his
associates had Cuban interests. But The World in Depression. 1929-1939 The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich
which Cubans? Pro-Castro or anti- Charles P Kineleherger Klaus Hildebrand
Castr o? In this short history of Hitler's foreign policy, Professor
The gnat economic depression which hit Arne-kiln 1929 Hildebrand commies that the Notional Socialist Perry
I think back on the evidence Syl- and sorest throughout the world In the 1930a has bean achieved popularity largely beldame It intaeraud all the
vwiously attributed to American misjudgment and to the political, economic acid socio-political expact•tions me-
via gave the FBI and the War- general breekdown of world matadors. systems. Prof VISOf wiling in Germany since Barnwok.
K nd leberger. however, moves that the dlexassion was wide-
ren Commission's investigator.' spread, deep, and prolonged, not because of the Maroc 240 pages cloth, 610.00; ewer, S3-96
Odin war an anti-Castro, pro-Menolo bonus to the system, bin because the cyanm itself was
Ray Cuban exile who two months basica:1y unstable 336 pages cloth, 910.00; MON% 83:46 Autopsy on People's War
before the nasalisation of President Chalmws Johnson
Kennedy was visited in her Dallas This short essay, by an ex pawned observer of Ana and
apartment by three melt Two were revolutionary rnoremants, oilers a Mg-Vie:UM as es.

Latins (Mexican, she thought, they of the revolutionary strategy known as people's war.
weren't the right color for Cubans). A Quantum Book 128 Oet)et cknh, 99.75i, palm. $726
The third, she maintained, was Oswald,
They said they were member, of her The Heroic Image in Chile
friend Menolo Ray's organization and
one of them said that their companion THE WORLD Arturo Prat, Semler Stunt
Oswald thought Kennedy should have IN DEPRESSION
been Mot after the Bey of Pigs, If Mrs. William F, Saar
Odin is telling the truth, then whoever 19291939
WAS about to murder Kennedy nay Thu volume describes how a Chilean navel °thew became
have wanted the left-wing anti-Castro
group of Manolo Ray to gel the a hero In the War of the Pacific. More than 4 triograrrhY,
credit,' the book corniders the wnole phenomenon at heroism

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was odd but not, necessarily, as official
chroniclers maintain, road. Oswald was •

'Warren Commission Hearings, Vote ,I
XI: 369-381 and XXVI: 834-838; see A
also National Archives: Commission
Document No. 1553, el your bookseller

'The Warren Commission and the FBI UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS tperkeiey • Los Angeles • New York
never satisfactorily identified Mrs.
Odio's visitors. Just before the Report
war finished the FBI reported to the
Warren Commission that one Loran
Eugene Hall, "a participant in numer-
ous anti-Castro activities," had recalled

vatting her with two other men, one

of them, William Seymour, resembling
Oswald. But after the Report appeared
the FBI sent the Commission a report
that Hall had retracted his story and
that Mot Oslo could not Identify Hall
or Seymour as the men the had men,
(Sea Richard H. Popkin, The Second
Ormsid I Avon, 19671, pp. 75-80.)

Hall had already beers brought to the
Commission's attention In June, 1964,
under the names of "Lorenzo Hall,
altar Lorenzo Piscillio." The FBI heard
in Los Angeles that Hall and a man
called ferry Patrick Hemming had
pawned a 30.06 rifle, which Hall
redeemed shortly before the assassin.
lion with • check drawn on the
account of the "Committee to Free
Cubs." Hemming was Identified In
1962 as one of the leaders of Frank
Sturgis's anti-Castro brigade. (See War-
ren Commission Document 1179:
296-298 and, Hans Tanner, Counter
R e soh, tip nary Brigade I London,
1%21,p. 127.)

December 13, 1973

the Nixon campaign." This. Nixon fern to some 'reticle as "tailor than me on the sound track would hare
intuited, might cost him the election.°
5'6." 1 doubt if e neurotic twenty- in his head.

Coast to coast, M ay 15.1972, Arthur H. Bremer ewoyear.old would want to remind The diary tells on how Bremer
praise upon himself on the par that ho ie only
praise... shot tramp Wallace. governor of Ala-
bama. at Laurel, Maryland. and was 5'h" tall. When people talk to them- to kill Nixon. The spelling gets
rely identified as the gunman and
taken tom custody- Nearby In a rented selves they seldom say anything so and worse as Bremer bee
car. the palace found Beemer's diary
(odd that In the poet-Gutenberg age obvious. On the other hand, authors "theirody pieced off." Yet ordden
Oswald, Salim. and Bremer should
have all committed to paper their like this sort or detail. writes, "nth will be one of the
perinea).
The Poputar paperback fiction requires a closely read pages since the Scroll:
According to the diary, Bremer had
LIVING tried to kill Nixon in Canada but failed fuck scene no later than a dozen paper thole caves." A late April entry
to gat care enough, He then decided
to kW George %Mace. The absence of into the narrative, The author of the cords. "Hal bad pain in my left (en
any logical motive is now familiar to
most Americans. who art quits at diary gives us a food ono Bremer goo & just re front & about it," He is n
home with the batty killer who aces
PRESIDENCY Slone in order to be on televioon. to to maestro parlor in hew York the going mad as all the lose killers s
he forever entwined with the golden No told the diary that tie is a and refer, to ',rolling a War
Emmet Jahn hushes legend of the hero he has gunned vtrgin-would he'? Perhaps) where he Peace."
down. In a nation that worthier
psychopaths. the Ostwalzi-Bremer-Sir- given an unsatisfying head-lob. The More Sintatell "taw 'Clockwork 0
hao-Ray figure is to the general lames,
what Robin Hood was to a greener, scene is nicely done and the author ante' and thought about getting Wallac
Miler world.
writes correctly and lucidly until, sud- all thru the picture-fentasing my self a
Brernel'a diary is a festinating
work-of art? From what we Lowe of denty. e block occurs and he can't the Alek on the screen...." This it I
the tethrolt-two-yearsold author he did
NEW YORK REVIEW OF not haee a Literary earn of mind spell anything right-al if the author low blow at highbrow sex'n'violence
lemons his affects were comic books,
BOOKS: -Me. Hughata a long- some porno). He was a television baby, suddenly remembers that he IS meant hooks and flicks. It is also-again-
and a dull one, Politico had no interest
time aficionado of the Preel- for him. Yet suddenly-for reasons he to be illiterate. evaat-earde. Only recently has a debate
never gives la-he decides to kill the
danay, hey us riot so mud) President and stern to keep a diary on One of these Mocks occurs toward begot, in England whether or not the
April 4, 1972. the end of the massage scene when the Cam Clockwork Orange may have
thermry as a poetical and moral

tract whine draws on hletory,

politico. taw. and personal expe- girl teth Bremer that she likes to go CO caused unbelenrod youths to commit
crimes (clever youths now tell the
rience informed, intaiegent, -woolen." This is too cute to be
and acute "
believed. Every red-blooded American Court with tears in their eye. Thal it
-Henry Siesta COM/nage(
was the movie that made them trash
11/12I41airtTriai einigT• .uggde,

ar(if surely ba the basal of AM —the- mice-old amen .Ccrua . is

decade on the Presidency. thrilled). The author anticipated that
Neese has thane been a grealor
ploy all right -and no matter who

need to know how the Pres- wrote the diary we are dealing with a
idency really function". Hers it
true author. One who writes. "Like a
III is: both close-up and In per-
erbose A Intl teal." novelist who knows not how his hook

-Clayton Fffichey will end-I have written this joerrial-

CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK what a shocking surprise that my inner
WORLD: ''l can thine 01 no
better cum for Um pesPrniem character shall steal the climax and
causan by Watergate than the
honest wisdom contained in THE destroy the author and save the anti-
LIVING PRESIDENCY.-
hero from mazinationl" Only one
- Reber Cannily
mi./than-hot in that purple patch, But

TIME: "El/taffy, gracefully, According to Mr, Seek, in March, "en I said borne. I Am A Hamlet." It is
sheeWdly. With ancedote mad
Hashes of Insight. Hughes in- 1972, H. ft visited Dita ("call Inc not irony that abounds so mach in
viltei humans and priclical
reelection upon the most mow these pager as literature,
lefietue And Important public
office in lite world." Mother") Beard in Denver. Wearing a May s, Bremer is reading R.F.X.

- Timothy Fools rod wig and a noire modulator,- H. H. More Diet by Robert Blair Kaiser. Like

persuaded Dita to denounce ae a his predecessor he want. to he noticed

forgery the memo also had written and then die because "suicide is a birth

linking ITV's pay-off to the Republican right." But Wallace did not die and

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: "All party with the government's mese- Bremer did not die. Hr Ls now at a
Emmet John Hughes powers Of
perception, analysis and ex- quent dropping of the best part of tie prison in Baltimore, awaiting a second
pression lay siege to the mind
of the reader and open hie eyes, antitrust suit against the conglomerate. boy, virgin or not, know. the word triaL If he lives to be le-examined. one
as it for the first tins. to some
of the tundairental Mahe about In May, H.H. was installing the first "orgy." Furthermore, Bremer has been wonders If he will ten us what com-
the Presidency'
sot of bap at the Democratic head- wandering around porno bookstore, on pany he kept during the spring of
-Sidney Hyman
quarters. His movements between April 4Lad Srrest and the word "orgy" 1972, and whether or not a nice man

4 and May it might be usefully occurs gnarl an often in his fro:reed helped him to write his diary, as a
Mainlined-not to mention those of G.
Gordon Liddy, et al. ` teats as "fjord" More In the mint. document for the ages like the scrolls

PITTSBURGH PRESS: "THE when an illiterate is forced to guess it in those eaves. (Although H. H. it a
UVING PRESIDENCY rill un-
doubtedly become a standard For someone who is supposed to he the spelling of a word he will render it self-admitted forger of State ewers I
and definitive week on the
orithe of America's chled sem- neatly illiterate there are startling titer' phonetically. I cannot imagine that the do not think that ha actually had a
take."
.cry iefcren..ea and flourishes in the silt said anything that sounded like hand in writing Bremer's diary an the

Bremer diary, The second entry con- "wa-see," It is as if the senior had ground that the thereat is a brilliant if

NEWSDAY; A Crook permeated tains."You heard of Day in rime suddenly recalled the eponymous hard- Rowed job of work, and beyond
MR he iii of the Film Jae. f t illO) where H. H.'s known literary uompeleneel
by a sophielleared Ova Of coun. Lila of farm D_Introrich.! Yesterday ell du bitty.. ter nee vu staiatyingly
Lack of originality has marked the
—Tr" rmmnl grie war nary day. c mhapctling of and the "g" in orgy wet pronounced

traordinary in the range Of hie Denisoviah it not had Cl all. Cure

knowledge •thlering the faro that the RAMO is . 5 hard. On this page, ac though to current Administrationei general style

CLEVELAND PLAIN-DEALER: hard ono for English-;peaking people emehatieset Bremen's illiteracy, we got lee opposed to the vivid originality of

"A ethnithasinneta, sympathetic to get straight, it is something of a "spear" Irtar "spare," "grapheme for its substance: witness, the first maids

and learned work Witten with reiracie that Bernice could sound the "emphasis," and "rememmber." Yet trate's relentless attempts to subvert

wisdom and respect." four sytteligen of the mime correctly in on the ,liar per the diariel has no the Conatitutiont. Whatever PR has

HARTFORD COURANT; "Thin his head. Perhaps he had the hook In trouble spelling "anticipation." "re- worked in the pert is tried again.
book on the development and
growth of Presidential powar is front of him but if he had, he would sponse," -edvanees. - Goof? Then take the Marne yourself -
e rr good that It la hard to do
Justice to II." not have got the one letter *moos The author of the diary give. us jun like JFK after the Bay of Pigs.

The same entry produces more good 'Homy random little facts-seal Caught with your bend in the till?

S EATTLE TIMES: "ProtsabLy no mysteries. "Wallace sat hla big vorne• numbers of airplanes, prices of meals. Checker's time on the tube end the
political writer eine° Harold from Republicans who didn't have any
Laser published The American He does not like "hairy hippies." pulling of heart strings.
Presidency In 1940 has anyone choice of candidates on their mac dislike he 'shams with H. H. He also Went to assassinate a rival" Then
tackled such a monumentaljOb striker oddly Jarring Mersey notes. On
of eralythe and appraisal. batloL Had only about $UMS when I ;es arrival in New York, be tells 'la how ,bout the Dallas scenario? One
Hughes Is strong and thear " slips into reverie. Why not set up
left." This is the first and only

mention of politics until page 45 where that he forgot his guns which the Bremer as a crazy whn wants to shoot
captain then turned over to him, Nixon fthet will avert gust-deem)? But
And thorn Foreign Mobs Mag- he describes his queer clothes and
azine, the last word: "This
heiecut as "jest A disguise to get clam causing the dierial lo remark "Irony have him fail to kilt Nixon lust as
Wok will lest, for It ranks with
the molter works by Corwin, to Nixon." shooed,," A Peeve one doubts that Oswald was said to have failed to kill
Rosati-ea and Rooster."
line reference tie Widlece it the the actual Anhui Bremer woold have his tied target General Walker. In

SIJ 10 or ml t,c.:^6.r.:r.ros beginning. then Another one to Nixon used. As word and qeality, irons, is nil midarrain have Bremer- like trwald
a &wen page. lamer. Oleo, Where did part of America's dernnilit speech nr min um a different quarry To the real

COWARD. MCCANN A the 51.055 come from? Firedly. style. Later. arnring the Great Lakes quarry, Make Bremer, unlike Oswald,
GEOGHEGAN
minor psychological point Bremer re- hr declarer "I all me timid" Had be apolorial. lio heavy an identification

read Wee Dirk" Unlikely. Had ha with the Derethouts might leackTim.

' New Frisk Purr, June 21, 1973. wen the movie on the Late Showa Thee- oh, veiniest-let's help him to
reprinting a Washingron Pen story.
Possibly, But 1 doubt that the phrase write a diary to get the story across.

The New York Itentew



(Incidentally, the creation of phony fictitious Soviet submarine commander
documents and memoirs is a major who had defected to the Free
industry of our secret police forces. World.)1°
When the one-man terror of the South-
east Asian seas Lieutenant Commander The White House's reaction to the
Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter was relieved Watergate burglary was the first clue
of his command, the Pentagon put him
to work writing the "memoirs" of a "See The Arnheiter Affair by Neal
Sheehan (Random House, 1971).

that something terrible has gone wrong have. But have the horrors ceased? Is
with us. The elaborate and disastrous there something that our rulers know
cover-up was out of all proportion to that we don't? Is it possible that
what was, in effect, a small crime the during the dark night of our empire's
Administration could have lived with. I defeat in Cuba and Asia the American
suspect that our rulers' state of panic story shifted from cheerful familiar
came from the fear that other horrors tragedy—to murder,
would come to light—as indeed they farce to Jacobean u
chaos?


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