Maurice Bishop Quotes

When everything was ready, the group fell silent. Ed and Bishop McKenna stared at each other silently. For Maurice Theriault arid the force that possessed him, the climactic moment had come. By the time it was finished, everyone in the living room of this modest farmhouse would be changed forever, and one person would have come close to death. Ed

The color is yet another variant in another dimension of variation, that of its relations with the surroundings: this red is what it is only by connecting up from its place with other reds about it, with which it forms a constellation, or with other colors it dominates or that dominate it, that it attracts or that attracts it, that it repels or that repel it. In short, it is a certain node in the woof of the simultaneous and the successive. It is a concretion of visibility, it is not an atom. The red dress a fortiori holds with all its fibers onto the fabric of the visible, and thereby onto a fabric of invisible being. A punctuation in the field of red things, which includes the tiles of roof tops, the flags of gatekeepers and of the Revolution, certain terrains near Aix or in Madagascar, it is also a punctuation in the field of red garments, which includes, along with the dresses of women, robes of professors, bishops, and advocate generals, and also in the field of adornments and that of uniforms. And its red literally is not the same as it appears in one constellation or in the other, as the pure essence of the Revolution of 1917 precipitates in it, or that of the eternal feminine, or that of the public prosecutor, or that of the gypsies dressed like hussars who reigned twenty-five years ago over an inn on the Champs-Elysées. A certain red is also a fossil drawn up from the depths of imaginary worlds. If we took all these participations into account, we would recognize that a naked color, and in general a visible, is not a chunk of absolutely hard, indivisible being, offered all naked to a vision which could be only total or null, but is rather a sort of straits between exterior horizons and interior horizons ever gaping open, something that comes to touch lightly and makes diverse regions of the colored or visible world resound at the distances, a certain differentiation, an ephemeral modulation of this world—less a color or a thing, therefore, than a difference between things and colors, a momentary crystallization of colored being or of visibility. Between the alleged colors and visibles, we would find anew the tissue that lines them, sustains them, nourishes them, and which for its part is not a thing, but a possibility, a latency, and a flesh of things.

Antonio Veciana reveals to Schweiker Subcommittee investigator Fonzi that a CIA masterspy named Maurice Bishop was his secret control officer, initiated the founding of Alpha 66, instigated two Castro assassination plots, and planned anti-Castro raids during the Cuban missile crisis in an attempt to embarrass President Kennedy and provoke Cuban or Russian retaliation that would spark a major U.S. reaction. Veciana also reveals he saw Bishop with Lee Harvey Oswald. After years of sworn denials by the Agency, it is the first evidence that the CIA was directly involved with Oswald.

The operative word was “definite.” There was a huge amount of circumstantial evidence which I felt proved beyond a reasonable doubt that David Atlee Phillips was Maurice Bishop.

In answering questions about Maurice Bishop, he repeatedly mentioned David Phillips’s name in the same sentence. Henry wanted us very much to know that, yes, he knew Maurice Bishop and he knew David Phillips and they were two different individuals.

Do you know or did you know Maurice Bishop? A: Yes. Q: Was he an Agency employee? A: I believe so. Q: Do you know what his duties were in 1963? A: No. Q: For instance, do you know whether Maurice Bishop worked in the Western Hemisphere Division or whether he worked in some other division of the CIA? A: I do not know. I do not recall. I knew at the time but I do not recall. Q: Do you know whether Maurice Bishop used any pseudonyms? A: No, I do not know that.

I got the impression he just somehow recalled the name from his days at the Agency and that was about it. I believed him.” Initially, I found it difficult to fit McCone’s recollection of the name of Maurice Bishop—and that was basically all he really remembered—into the model of the evidentiary structure which was emerging. Then, as I dug deeper, the role of John McCone himself appeared to provide a perspective. David Phillips obviously didn’t appreciate the appointment of McCone as CIA Director, describing McCone as an “outsider” without experience in clandestine operations. “In his first appearances at Langley,” Phillips wrote in his autobiography, “he left an impression of austerity, remoteness and implacability

the initial raison d’être of Maurice Bishop’s relationship with Antonio Veciana, for instance, was to assassinate Castro.

Having gotten the surprising confirmation of the existence of a Maurice Bishop from both John McCone and Bart Henry, the Assassinations Committee asked the CIA to once again search its files for any references to a Maurice Bishop.

Chief Counsel Bob Blakey would later tell journalist Tony Summers that he had been privately briefed by the CIA about the issue. So, while he personally accepted the notion that David Phillips was, indeed, Maurice Bishop, he didn’t believe that Veciana ever saw Oswald.

mentioned a Maurice Bishop to him. “This Bishop you ask about, I do not know,” he said. “But I believe it could be true because Veciana is an action man and to do all the things he did you have to have a lot of connections, and that’s not too easy.

In October 1983 Castro’s friend Maurice Bishop, the Prime Minister of Grenada, was overthrown and killed by an even more radical Marxist faction.