Cryptonym: ZRCLIFF
104-10104-10368: CABLE REQUESTING EMPLOYMENT RECORD OF SUBJECT
01/03/67, Cable from Director to JMWAVE (Orig: N. Gratz, WH/COG/CICS): CITE DIRECTOR 63685: REF: DIRECTOR 63391: "1. HQs requests JMWAVE contact ZRCLIFF and obtain complete details employment record SUBJ of ref without revealing reason for WOFIRM (CIA) interest. HQs particularly interested detailed report unsatisfactory performance resulting termination, SUBJ's personal habits and activities, reaction to termination. 2. Request inquiry be directed to IDEN, president, ZRCLIFF. HQs Comment: Traces requested Leslie Norman Bradley, former ZRCLIFF employee." Releasing Officer: William V. Broe, C/WHD. Coordinating Officers: WH/COG/EXO: Mr. Oberst in draft. SA-DD/S: (Mr. Warfield in draft). OCG: Mr. Greaney by phone). OS/SRS: (Mr. Tighe by phone). CI/R&A: (Mr. Pratt by phone). Authenticating Officer: David A. Phillips, C/WH/COG.
01/03/67, Cable from Director to JMWAVE (Orig: N. Gratz, WH/COG/CICS): CITE DIRECTOR 63686: REF: DIRECTOR 63685: "IDEN is Mr. Stan Williams." Releasing Officer: William V. Broe, C/WHD. Coordinating Officers: WH/COG/EXO: Mr. Oberst in draft. SA-DD/S: (Mr. Warfield in draft). OCG: Mr. Greaney by phone. OS/SRS: Mr. Tighe by phone. CI/R&A: Mr. Pratt by phone. Authenticating Officer: David A. Phillips, C/WH/COG.
104-10404-10447: MEMO NO. 2 - GARRISON AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
This 1967 memo reviewing persons who came to Garrison's attention records the following about Leslie Norman Bradley: "He was briefly considered for employment as a co-pilot in Project ZRCLIFF and filled out a personal information form, but the offer of employment was canceled." Bradley had been an employee of ZRCLIFF the company for many months by this point; perhaps during Garrison's investigation there was an internal attempt to disassociate CIA from some of these people?
104-10104-10256: LESLIE NORMAN BRADLEY
Another memo recording Bradley's employment with ZRCLIFF, stated as a co-pilot in this memo, includes additional information indicating that ZRCLIFF involved CIA operations: "During his period of employment, he had absolutely no exposure to sensitive or classified information.....These personnel are paid on an hourly rate and his pay was thus dependent upon how much flying he did." It seems likely that this flying was in support of anti-Castro operations.
104-10170-10164: REQUEST TRACES LESLIE NORMAN BRADLEY, PILOT, BORN 21 AUG 28, MINNEAPOLIS
This cable about Leslie Norman Bradley notes "Hdqs records indicate subj employed as ZRCLIFF (IDEN) pilot May 66 - Sept 67."
01/02/68: Cable from Director to JMWAVE (Orig: N. Gratz, WH/COG/CICS): CITE DIRECTOR 63392: REF: DIRECTOR 63391: "IDEN - Southern Air Transport, Inc., Miami, Fla." Releasing Officer: William V. Broe, C/WHD. Coordinating Officers: WH/COG/EXO: Mr. Oberst in draft. DC/CI/R&A: (Mr. Pratt - TELECON). DC/OS/SRS: (Mr. Solie - TELECON). OGC: (Mr. Lansdale - TELECON). Authenticating Officer: Earl J. Williamson for David A. Phillips, C/WH/COG.
1993.08.11.11:27:49:870007: MEMO ON LAWRENCE J. LABORDE (ASSESSMENT AS SOURCE FOR DCS)
This memo provides corroboration that ZRCLIFF is the same as Southern Air Transport Inc. of Miami: "DDS-HB requested a Provisional Covert Security Approval on 26 May 1966 to use Leslie Norman Bradley inside the continental U.S. as a co-pilot employed by Southern Air Transport Inc., Miami."
104-10105-10188 MEMO NO. 8: GARRISON AND KENNEDY ASSASSINATION (IDENTIFIES 30 PERSONS)
1/12/68, from Donovan Pratt, CI, to Larry Houston, General Counsel, CIA. Memo about 30 figures close to the Garrison case. Pratt believed that Garrison had mistakenly arrested Edgar Eugene Bradley rather than Leslie Norman Bradley, who had a history as a soldier of fortune. Bradley had a Domestic Contacts Service interview during June 1963.