The handwriting and style of this memo from Ed Lansdale of the Office of Special Operations in the U.S. Department of Defense matches another note with a National Archives stamp that Uanna's son saw in a book by author Gus Russo called LIVE BY THE SWORD. The note is reproduced in the photo spread of Russo's book and it's background is given on pages 406 - 411. But in Russo's book Layton Martens wrote the note to Sergio Aracha Smith in 1967 while Jim Garrison was investigating both Martens and Smith and "With Garrison making so much noise about the 544 Camp Street "assassins"." Martens thought the note might help Smith. Through other research Uanna's son noticed that Ed Lansdale had been introduced into the Kennedy Administration early on - February 6, 1961, before the Bay of Pigs invasion, probably by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy in National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) #9. Bundy is suspected of cancelling the U.S. air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion, thus insuring it's failure. CIA Director Allen Dulles was "retired" over his management of the debacle. But Lansdale, who was Allen Dulles' protégé, would stay on and become one of the alternatives that Kennedy had to the war hawks. Uanna's son also noted that in NSAM's 136 and 161 in an effort to reign in the intelligence community, and probably under the direction of McGeorge Bundy, Robert Kennedy took control of the internal security of the United States by taking command of the IIC - Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference (J. Edgar Hoover's bailiwick) and the ICIS - Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security (this was the group Bud Uanna worked in under the National Security Council but on the Department of Commerce payroll). Uanna's son suspects that a staged event was supposed to take place in Dealy Plaza the day President Kennedy was assassinated, managed by Ed Lansdale, with Robert Kennedy's approval. It was designed to embarrass the Anti Castro Cubans and silence the war hawks so relations could be reopened with Cuba. President Kennedy's motorcade was not supposed to pass there that day. This is what was torturing Robert Kennedy, not any plans to kill Fidel Castro. Richard Nixon may have been referring to the above when he said "...the WHOLE Bay of Pigs."
Ed Lansdale Office of the Secretary of Defense November 6, 1958
U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense Ed Lansdale November 6, 1958