Tosh Plumlee Admits He is Not a Credible Source

This previously-released CIA document is now available with no redactions:

Plumlee sent a note and a letter over to the Denver office of the FBI. They in turn sent the material over to the CIA. There are some cryptonyms in the document:

NVTAG = FBI

NWBOLTON - CIA.

Plumlee claims that he "sabotaged" an article in the Denver Magazine because the documents and and information was being given to the Denver FBI office. He then alleges he was visited by the FBI who talked to him about "incriminating" statements in the article. Plumlee then changed the names and dates in the article "in an attempt to discredit the article and myself." He then claimed that his house in Colorado was "fire-bombed" and that he was attacked and beaten up in Evergreen Colorado. He ends the letter by noting that "I am not a creditable source -- by my o[w]n doing."

Here is the article that Plumlee is referencing, along with my comments:

Plumlee used the pseudonym of William Pearson in his interviews with Peter Boyles. He said it was his CIA operative name, but there is no evidence that Plumlee ever worked for, or was associated with, the CIA.

The article refers to Bernard Fensterwald as a lawyer with the "House Committee on Assassinations." That is not true - Fensterwald ran his own private organization -- the Committee to Investigate Assassinations.

Plumlee provides a lot of details about running guns to Cuba for Fidel Castro -- when he was just 20 years old.

This paragraph sticks out:

In late August, he calls me and says he's going to meet Congressional investigator Bernard Fensterwald at the Stapleton Ramada Inn. This meeting is part of Fensterwald's probe. A member of the catering service is supposed to be his contact. I think to myself, what kind of 007 crap is this? Later I'll talk to Fensterwald and find that that meeting actually took place.

So, Boyles talked to Fensterwald but did not realize he was not working for the HSCA.

Plumlee did serve time at Loxahatchee Road Prison in Florida. However, it is ludicrous to believe that the prison was being used as a cover for CIA operations. Boyles turns to Fletcher Prouty to corroborate that the CIA routinely used prisons as cover. Prouty tells Boyles that "it was not unusual for a man to be listed in solitary confinement while he was actually flying missions in Guatemala."

Plumlee claims that just prior to the Bay of Pigs operation, he was flying photo reconnaissance over Cuba, and that he was hired by a CIA front company. Then he makes the claim that he flew a last-minute recon mission, just before the invasion, and that he had engine trouble and landed in the Zapata swamps in Cuba. "I was moved back through the invasion by some anti-Castro Cubans, then taken to a U. S. destroyer by a small boat with a five-horsepower motor."

Plumlee gives Boyles the number of the plane he flew from New Orleans to Dallas, but he could find nothing in FAA records. The former head of the FAA registration section said the number "does not match any known civil registration marking in any country." Fletcher Prouty comes to the rescue and says that the CIA routinely used "bogus tail numbers made of special black tape that could be fixed on an aircraft."

Plumlee says that he was with "C-section of the CIA" which was attached to Operation Mongoose. He flew three missions for C-section -- one of which was for Johnny Roselli, and another was for Bob Bennett -- who was actually David Ferrie.

Plumlee finally talks about the flight to Dallas. He says seven flew to Dallas but does not include Johnny Roselli or E. Howard Hunt. Boyles asks Plumlee, "Were they the attack team? Did you fly the hit team to Dallas?" Plumlee replies, "Why not? We flew several groups to kill Castro, why not one to hit Kennedy?"