"Reagan was in Los Angeles meeting with Nixon campaign honchos Mitchell, Magruder, Mardian. for a Hollywood fundraiser."
"Clare Booth Luce, thank you. She really was a very good friend. I was at a private dinner with President Reagan the night the lights went out in the Watergate. She and Bill Simon raised money for their defense, and …
"Reagan was in Los Angeles meeting with Nixon campaign honchos Mitchell, Magruder, Mardian. for a Hollywood fundraiser."
"Clare Booth Luce, thank you. She really was a very good friend. I was at a private dinner with President Reagan the night the lights went out in the Watergate. She and Bill Simon raised money for their defense, and I thought that was a good thing. It wasn’t a question; they were entitled to it. From time to time I’ve contributed money on the CIA side when similar things happened, to provide defense. I thought they were entitled to a defense even though with some of them I had personally participated in the disciplinary process. But as long as it wasn’t for individuals, as long as it was a fund, I was comfortable.
They had raised a defense fund for these fellows. I know they were both reasonably close to President Reagan, probably had an opportunity to weigh in on what they had done. I never was close enough to the issues. I think investigations were over."
In '75 Luce called Colby at CIA. She said, "The night of the assassination, right after Oswald was caught, one of my boys telephoned me from New Orleans. Didn't I ever tell you this?
Mr. Colby: No.
Mrs. Luce: It was the captain of my boat. It seems that after the missile crisis a period of about a year had gone by -- he said that all the young Cubans involved profoundly in all of this had been told to scatter and scram, that he and two of my other lads.
Mr. Colby: When, after the crisis?
Mrs. Luce:.. (Yes.) (were told) to leave Miami.
Mr. Colby: In 1962?
Mrs. Luce: Yes. They were to stop their efforts to free Cuba; and if they did not, they would be deported. It has a very interesting end involving you. In any event, this one had been told to leave Miami after the missile crisis was over, and he had opened a cell in New Orleans. He telephoned me to- tell me that Oswald was -- I am telling you what his view was -- was a hired gun:; Oswald had tried to penetrate their little cell; that they turned around and did a counterpenetration job on Oswald."
"One does not really "brief" Mrs. Luce--I am not sure conversation with her can even really be called a "dialogue" but I did respond to her comments and occasional questions in what I believe was an appropriate manner. She is extremely concerned with the need to make the new PFIAB a useful part of our national intelligence organization; she is highly supportive of U.S. intelligence, CIA and our DCI"
Matt-Clare Boothe Luce was one of the people in a photo who was smiling the biggest smile I have ever seen when they knew that JFK had been assassinated. I wish I still had that photo; alas I don't
"Reagan was in Los Angeles meeting with Nixon campaign honchos Mitchell, Magruder, Mardian. for a Hollywood fundraiser."
"Clare Booth Luce, thank you. She really was a very good friend. I was at a private dinner with President Reagan the night the lights went out in the Watergate. She and Bill Simon raised money for their defense, and I thought that was a good thing. It wasn’t a question; they were entitled to it. From time to time I’ve contributed money on the CIA side when similar things happened, to provide defense. I thought they were entitled to a defense even though with some of them I had personally participated in the disciplinary process. But as long as it wasn’t for individuals, as long as it was a fund, I was comfortable.
They had raised a defense fund for these fellows. I know they were both reasonably close to President Reagan, probably had an opportunity to weigh in on what they had done. I never was close enough to the issues. I think investigations were over."
https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/william-h-webster-oral-history
Clare Boothe Luce had funded the Cubans -- my young Cubans she called them -- since Bay of Pigs. https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php?id=AMHINT-5
In '75 Luce called Colby at CIA. She said, "The night of the assassination, right after Oswald was caught, one of my boys telephoned me from New Orleans. Didn't I ever tell you this?
Mr. Colby: No.
Mrs. Luce: It was the captain of my boat. It seems that after the missile crisis a period of about a year had gone by -- he said that all the young Cubans involved profoundly in all of this had been told to scatter and scram, that he and two of my other lads.
Mr. Colby: When, after the crisis?
Mrs. Luce:.. (Yes.) (were told) to leave Miami.
Mr. Colby: In 1962?
Mrs. Luce: Yes. They were to stop their efforts to free Cuba; and if they did not, they would be deported. It has a very interesting end involving you. In any event, this one had been told to leave Miami after the missile crisis was over, and he had opened a cell in New Orleans. He telephoned me to- tell me that Oswald was -- I am telling you what his view was -- was a hired gun:; Oswald had tried to penetrate their little cell; that they turned around and did a counterpenetration job on Oswald."
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp80-00473a000200120015-5
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp83m00914r000300010024-6
"One does not really "brief" Mrs. Luce--I am not sure conversation with her can even really be called a "dialogue" but I did respond to her comments and occasional questions in what I believe was an appropriate manner. She is extremely concerned with the need to make the new PFIAB a useful part of our national intelligence organization; she is highly supportive of U.S. intelligence, CIA and our DCI"
Matt-Clare Boothe Luce was one of the people in a photo who was smiling the biggest smile I have ever seen when they knew that JFK had been assassinated. I wish I still had that photo; alas I don't
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