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(19124 - 1993) American CIA operative and spy, a former close associate of Castro who became disillusioned with the Cuban leader and undertook several attempts to assassinate him, helped to plan the Bay of Pigs invasion, widely-rumored to have been involved in the Kennedy assassination, arrested with the other ""plumbers"" at the Watergate Hotel. An incredible and revealing grouping of hundreds of letters, notes, manuscripts, photographs and related ephemera pertaining to Sturgis from his days in service during World War II until his death in . Of particular interest is a small grouping of autograph material relating Sturgis' belief that an Oswald ""double"" assassinated John F. Kennedy. Included in the manuscript material is an autobiographical A.D.S. 1p. 4to., [n.p., n.d.], in pencil describing himself in part: ""...I am no stranger to intrigues and treachery...I was born among the deep shadows of death and darkness and death was to follow me into the arena of the Cold War...I myself was trained to be a warrior of death, to destroy everything and everyone in my path. God was watching over me...To live is to die. God bless America Frank Sturgis Code name: Attila the Hun..."". In another 5pp. pencil manuscript he names Kennedy's killers as: ""Khruschev...KGB...Fidel Castro...Raul Castro..."", and describes the plot. In part, he postulates that: ""...Oswald was killed or is alive in Russia and replaced by a K.G.B.agent trained in his place in 1959...a member of the State Security Service...Sabotage and assassination section...the evidence created would place responsibility on Cuba...To avoid World War III it was decided by [Lyndon] Johnson...not to attack Cuba...all the evidence of Soviet & Cuban conspiracy be with held...Soviet Secret Police (MVD) planned to assassinate Richard Nixon [if elected President in 1960]...Raul Castro and Che Guevara [were] to coordinate the conspiracy to kill Kennedy..."". Sturgis then undertakes a detailed examination of physical traits and scars of the original Oswald which (apparently) were lacking on his double. He also sets forth a timeline, describing Oswald meeting a KGB agent in 1959, discrepancies in accounts as to whether he was able to speak Russian, and mentioning his first meeting with Marines, where the account abruptly stops. Another 3pp. pencil manuscript further delves into the issue: ""...I was at a staff meeting [in] which Fidel made threats against America and its leaders in 1959...CIA was helping Fidel secure his position of power..."", with much discussion as to the Ruby/Oswald connection and Dorothy Killgallen's ""lost"" interview with Ruby. Other holograph material includes a page of pencil notes signed ""Frank Fiorini"" (his given name) in the text, concerning his CIA anti-Castro activities, mentioning boat operations, flights to Cuba, a meeting with Kennedy concerning the Bay of Pigs, and so on. Another memo signed in the text indicates that Sturgis ""help[ed] to hijack a Soviet freighter and hold it hostage for the return of the U.S. spy ship Pueblo...could arrange for 1 or 2 Russian MIG's flown out of Cuba for the right price..."". Four additional pages of manuscript notes (three in pencil, two signed in the text) include such items as: ""...I went to kill Fidel 3 times...had to leave my post...a CIA friend...ask[ed] me if I would do a hit on an important person...[I] was accused [of] placing a bomb at Cuban Embassy - by FBI...a trailer load of automatic weapons...[recruit] undercover agents for the U.S. gov. One is for the guns and the other is drugs..."". Much ephemera accompanies the above including two anti-Castro documents issued by ""P.U.N.D."", a group that sought to overthrow Castro; legal and sometimes cryptic personal correspondence to Sturgis; typescripts for articles, magazines, a plan to loot the Philippine treasury; book proposals; Watergate-related legal texts, including a copy of his indictment, and so on. Also included are perhaps several hundred original photographs showing Sturgis from his days in the Army during World War II, and many images showing an armed Sturgis in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution. Also present are four videotapes, not viewed by us but apparently showing interviews of Sturgis. Finally, his death certificate is included, and the signed guest book from his wake. A fascinating archive relative to one of the most shadowy figures of the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy assassination and Watergate affairs. Certainly worthy of examination and much further research, overall very good.
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