CHARACTERS, ORGANIZATIONS, CRYPTONYMS, COVER NAMES

(NOTE: Characters who appear in only one episode and are not referred to again are not listed, but an asterisk precedes all real historical personages, and all actual cryptonyms; a dagger precedes the names of those people who were directly involved in the Watergate break-in.)

         

*Dean Acheson Secretary of State under Harry Truman, member of Ex com under John F. Kennedy

*Roberto Alejos owner of the tract of land in Guatemala given to TRAX

*AM/BLOOD cryptonym for Cuban contact to Rolando Cubela

*AM/LASH cryptonym for Rolando Cubela

ANCHOVY-BLUE operational name for Harry Hubbard in ANCHOVY project

ANCHOVY-GRAY operational name for Fidel Castro

ANCHOVY-RED operational name for William Harvey

ANCHOVY-WHITE operational name for Johnny Roselli

*Aureliano Sanchez Aranjo Frente leader

*Manuel Artime Frente and Brigade leader

*William Attwood Special Advisor to the U.S. delegation to the UN

AURAL code name for Wilma Raye, Modene’s friend

AV/AILABLE cryptonym for Harry Hubbard in Montevideo

AV/ALANCHE 1–7 slogan-painting gang working for CIA in Montevideo

AV/ANTGARDE cryptonym for agent run by Gordy Morewood

AV/ARICE cryptonym for journalist working for CIA in Montevideo

AV/EMARIA 1–4 cryptonym for mobile surveillance team in Montevideo

AV/ERAGE cryptonym for journalist working for CIA in Montevideo

AV/FIREBOMB cryptonym for Chief of Uruguayan Army Intelligence

AV/GROUNDHOG cryptonym for grocery-clerk agent in Montevideo

AV/HACENDADO cryptonym for Howard Hunt in Montevideo

AV/IARY 1–3 cryptonyms for the Bosqueverdes

AV/IATOR cryptonym for journalist working for CIA in Montevideo

AV/LEADPIPE cryptonym for Uriarte, an agent run by Jay Gatsby

AV/OCADO cryptonym for Chevi Fuertes in Montevideo

AV/OIRDUPOIS cryptonym for Gordy Morewood

         

*Arthur Balletti private detective hired by Robert Maheu Faustino (Toto) Barbaro Frente leader

*†Bernard Barker Howard Hunt’s assistant in Miami

*Tracy Barnes CIA officer

*Luis Batlle President of Uruguay

*Frank Bender CIA officer

*Richard Bissell CIA officer

Don Bosco Teótimo Blandenques owner of Montevideo villa rented to Varkhov

*Capt. Roy E. Blick officer in the Washington, D.C., police force

BLUEBEARD code name for Modene Murphy

BONANZA cryptonym for Chevi Fuertes

Bradley (Sparker) Boone St. Matthew’s classmate of Harry Hubbard

Greta Bosqueverde CIA agent in Montevideo

Hyman Bosqueverde CIA agent in Montevideo

Rosa Bosqueverde CIA agent in Montevideo

BOZO cryptonym for William Harvey

*McGeorge Bundy member of Special Group, Augmented

*Guy Burgess friend and colleague of Kim Philby and an agent for the KGB

Raymond James (Bullseye) Burns a training officer in CIA; later, in CIA Office of Security

Damon Butler first mate in Augustus Farr’s crew

Dix Butler Harry Hubbard’s classmate at the Farm

Gilley Butler one of Harry Hubbard’s neighbors in Maine

Wilbur Butler Gilley Butler’s son

         

*Gen. Charles Cabell DDCI and Acting Director during the Bay of Pigs operation

Salvador Capablanca Montevideo Chief of Police

Don Jaime Saavedra Carbajal Uruguayan landowner

*José Miro Cardona head of the Cuban Revolutionary Council

Carey code name for CIA agent stationed in London

*Justo Carrillo Frente leader

*Marshall Carter DDCI under John McCone

Frank Castle cover name for Dix Butler in Miami

*Raul Castro Fidel Castro’s brother

CATHETER cryptonym for the Berlin tunnel operation

Robert Charles cover name for Harry Hubbard in Miami

Chloe Harry Hubbard’s mistress in Maine

Roger Clarkson CIA contract agent in Montevideo

COLT cryptonym for William Harvey

*Miles Copeland CIA officer

Crane code name for CIA agent stationed in London

Crosby officer on Argentina-Uruguay Desk

*Rolando Cubela second-in-command of the Foreign Division of the Interior Ministry of the Castro government

         

*Jean Daniel French journalist

*DEA Drug Enforcement Agency

*Marquis de Goutière Dorothy Hunt’s first husband

*DGI Castro’s intelligence service

DN/FRAGMENT cryptonym for Harry Hubbard in Snake Pit paper trail

*James Donovan negotiator for Brigade prisoners

*Allen W. Dulles Director of the CIA

Snowman Dyer fisherman (d. 1870) on Bartlett’s Island, Maine

*Feliks Dzerzhinsky father of modern Soviet espionage

         

*Sheffield Edwards head of CIA Office of Security

Eleanor Cal Hubbard’s secretary

EUPHONY cryptonym for Nancy Waterston

Augustus Farr pirate captain who once owned Doane’s Island

Harry (Tom) Field cover name for Harry Hubbard when with Modene Murphy

*†Frank Fiorini Cuban exile and gunrunner, a.k.a. Frank Sturgis

*Desmond FitzGerald CIA officer

Flarrety Soviet Russia Division operative

*Sam Flood alias of Sam Giancana

FLORENCE cryptonym for C. G. Harvey

Eusebio (Chevi) Fuertes member of Uruguayan Communist Party recruited by CIA

         

GALLSTONE a cryptonym for Hugh Montague

GANTRY a cryptonym for Hugh Montague

Maisie Minot Gardiner Kittredge’s mother

Rodman Knowles Gardiner Kittredge’s father

Jay Gatsby CIA officer in Montevideo

Theodora Gatsby Jay Gatsby’s wife

*Reinhard Gehlen ex-Nazi working for the BND in Germany

GHOUL a cryptonym for Hugh Montague

*Sam Giancana Chicago Mafia don

GIBLETS cryptonym for William Harvey while Chief of Base, West Berlin

*Roswell Gilpatric member of Department of Defense and Special Group, Augmented

*Gittinger psychologist working in TSS

*Arthur Godfrey TV host in the fifties

Gogol nickname for Hyman Bosqueverde

*Sam Gold alias of Sam Giancana

Plutarco Roballo Gómez Uruguayan Foreign Ministry official

         

HALIFAX cryptonym for Cal Hubbard on Cuban operations

*Dashiell Hammett American author

*Col. Hank U.S. Army commandant at TRAX

Harlot an in-house name for Hugh Montague

*Averell Harriman Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs under John F. Kennedy; formerly Governor of New York

*Clara Grace Follich (C.G.) Harvey William Harvey’s second wife

*Libby Harvey William Harvey’s first wife

*William King Harvey former FBI man; COB, West Berlin; later head of Mongoose; then COS, Rome

HEEDLESS cryptonym for operation with Modene Murphy

*Lillian Hellman American playwright

*Richard Helms CIA officer, DDCI under McCone; later DCI

Heulihaen Soviet Russia Division operative

*Lawrence Houston CIA officer

*Lisa Howard journalist for ABC-TV

Boardman Kimball (Cal) Hubbard father of Harry Hubbard

Colton Shaler Hubbard cousin of Harry Hubbard

Doane Hadlock Hubbard Hubbard ancestor who built the Keep

Hadley Kittredge Montague (née Gardiner) Hubbard third cousin of Harry Hubbard; wife of Hugh Montague; later wife of Harry Hubbard

Herrick Hubbard known as Harry or Rick

Jessica Silverfield Hubbard mother of Harry Hubbard

Mary Bolland Baird Hubbard second wife of Cal Hubbard

Roque Baird (Rough) Hubbard half-brother of Harry Hubbard

Smallidge Kimball Hubbard grandfather of Harry Hubbard; Headmaster of St. Matthew’s

Toby Bolland (Tough) Hubbard half-brother of Harry Hubbard

Randy Huff cover name for Dix Butler in Berlin

*Dorothy Hunt wife of E. Howard Hunt

*†E. Howard Hunt COS in Montevideo and propaganda officer during the Bay of Pigs operation

         

IOTA code name for John F. Kennedy in HEEDLESS

Ingrid dollar-a-dance girl at Die Hintertür

*U. Alexis Johnson Deputy Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, member of Special Group, Augmented

*JM/WAVE CIA base in Miami during Mongoose

         

Barry Kearns Communications Officer in Montevideo

*J. C. King chief of Western Hemisphere Division

*David Knight cover name for David Phillips

*Mario García Kohly pro-Batista Cuban exile leader

KU/CLOAKROOM cryptonym for Harry Hubbard during his assignment to the Snake Pit

KU/ROPES onetime cryptonym for Harry Hubbard

         

Libertad La Lengua courtesan in Havana and Montevideo

*Gen. Edward Lansdale director of Mongoose

*Meyer Lansky leading criminal, based in Miami

*Julius LaRosa entertainer on Arthur Godfrey’s TV show

*Carlos Lechuga Cuban Ambassador to the UN

*Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer member of Special Group, Augmented

William Madden Libby alias on Harry Hubbard’s passport in 1984

Mr. and Mrs. Lowenthal Harry Hubbard’s landlords in the Bronx

LYME cryptonym for Rolando Cubela’s case officer in São Paulo

         

*Sir Donald Maclean British intelligence agent stationed in the U.S.A., working for the Soviets

*Antonio Maceo member of Cuban Revolutionary Council

*Robert Maheu ex-FBI, private detective for Howard Hughes, occasional contract agent for CIA

Minot Mayhew COS, Montevideo, before arrival of Howard Hunt

Maria bartender at Die Hintertür

*José Martí revolutionary and poet during Cuba’s struggle for independence from Spain

*†Eugenio Martínez Cuban exile boat captain

*Rolando Masferrer pro-Batista Cuban exile

Boris Masarov Undersecretary of Soviet Embassy in Montevideo

Zenia Masarov wife of Boris Masarov

Freddie McCann CIA Junior Officer in Berlin

Martita Bailey (Bunny) McCann wife of Freddie McCann

*John McCone DCI replacing Allen Dulles

*Dorothy McGuire one of the McGuire Sisters, a singing group

*Phyllis McGuire Dorothy McGuire’s sister; Sam Giancana’s girlfriend

*Reggie Minnie boxing instructor at the Farm

*MI5 British domestic intelligence service, comparable to FBI

*MI6 British foreign intelligence service, comparable to CIA

MK/ULTRA-17 a cryptonym for Kittredge Montague at TSS

*Mongoose operation subsequent to Bay of Pigs to destabilize Cuba by a variety of covert means

Hugh Tremont Montague high-level CIA officer, a.k.a. Harlot

Christopher Montague son of Hugh and Kittredge Montague

Gordon (Gordy) Morewood CIA contract agent in Montevideo

*Mossad Israeli intelligence service

*MRO ultra-left, sometimes violent Uruguayan political group

Modene (Mo) Murphy Eastern Airlines stewardess and mistress to John Kennedy, Sam Giancana, Frank Sinatra, and Harry Hubbard

         

*Benito Nardone Uruguayan politican elected head of government

Regina Nelson Howard Hunt’s neighbor in Miami

*NKVD Soviet secret police, a precursor of the KGB

*Archie Norcross COS replacing Hunt in Montevideo

*NSC National Security Council

         

O’Brien code name for William Harvey in dealings with Johnny Roselli

*Tony Oliva Brigade leader

*Dr. Frank Olson victim of CIA experiment with LSD

Hjalmar Omaley Soviet Russia Division operative

*OSS Office of Special Services, U.S. intelligence service organized during WW II, precursor of the CIA

Otis cover name for a CIA agent stationed in London

         

Gen. Packer representative of Joint Chiefs visiting Berlin

*Joe Pecora alias of Santos Trafficante

Pedro Peones Deputy Chief of Police in Montevideo

*Kim Philby British intelligence officer working for the Soviets

*David Phillips chief propaganda officer at Quarters Eye

Susan Blaylock Pierce American consulate employee in Berlin

Sally Porringer wife of Sherman Porringer

Sherman Porringer CIA officer in Montevideo

Margaret Pugh secretary to Hugh Montague

         

*Johnny Ralston alias of Johnny Roselli

RAPUNZEL cryptonym for Sam Giancana

*José Ignacio Rasco Frente leader

RASPUTIN code name for Fidel Castro

*Wilma (Willie) Raye Modene Murphy’s friend

RETREAD cryptonym for Toto Barbaro

*Blanco Rico military intelligence officer in Batista government of Cuba

*Raul Roa Cuban Ambassador to the UN

*Rolando cover name for Eugenio Martínez

*Johnny Roselli California-based Mafia member

Reed Arnold (Arnie) Rosen classmate of Harry Hubbard at the Farm; later Kittredge Montague’s assistant at TSS

*Dan Rowan entertainer

*Jack Ruby killer of Lee Harvey Oswald

*Enrique Ruiz-Williams Brigade fighter released from Cuban prison

         

*Pepe San Román Brigade leader

*Charles Sapp Chief of Police Intelligence in Miami

Peter Sawyer cover name used by Harry Hubbard in the Bronx

Dr. Schneider an alias for Reinhard Gehlen

*SGA (Special Group, Augmented) a committee of high-ranking military, Cabinet, and other government personnel overseeing Mongoose

Charley Sloate cover name for Harry Hubbard in Berlin

Polly Galen Smith classmate of Kittredge Montague at Radcliffe

SM/ONION cryptonym for Harry Hubbard in Snake Pit paper trail

Augustus (Gus) Sonderstrom Deputy COS in Montevideo

*SSD East German intelligence service

STONEHENGE cryptonym for Frank Sinatra

         

Dr. Taylor cover name for Hugh Montague in Berlin

*Gen. Maxwell Taylor member of SGA

*Clyde Tolson J. Edgar Hoover’s assistant and companion

*Santos Trafficante head of Mafia in Cuba operations during Batista regime and afterward in Southern Florida

*TRAX Brigade training camp in Guatemala, donated by Roberto Alejos

*TSS (Technical Services Staff ) a division of the CIA specializing in psychoactive drugs, poisons, special weapons, and other exotica

Roger Turner one of Harry Hubbard’s Berlin roommates

         

Vassily Vakhtanov Soviet defector

*Dr. René Vallejo Castro’s friend and physician

Georgi Varkhov KGB chief in Montevideo

VQ/BOZO Bill Harvey’s office in Berlin

VQ/COLT paved parking area behind Harvey’s Berlin home

VQ/GIBLETS-1 Bill Harvey’s private office in his Berlin home

VQ/STARTER cryptonym for Harry Hubbard in Berlin

         

Nancy Waterston Administrative Officer in Montevideo; later worked in Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s office

WILDBOAR cryptonym for Wolfgang

*Frank Wisner CIA officer

Wolfgang German agent for CIA

*Robert Woodward U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay

*Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes President of Guatemala

*Yevgeny Yevtushenko Soviet poet

         

Eliot Zeeler one of Harry Hubbard’s Berlin roommates

*ZR/RIFLE “executive action” (i.e., assassination) operation