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BALL, GEORGE WILDMAN

Sources:

SSCIA 157-10002-10081; Official and Confidential, Summers, p. 335; JFK and Vietnam, Newman, pp. 140-141, 465; High Treason, Groden & Livingstone, pp. 469, 472; Dallas Morning News, Sat., May 28, 1994, p. 36-A; New York Times, Sat., May 28, 1994, p. 10; Washington Times, 5/28/94, p. A-4

Mary's
Comments:

DOB: 12/21/09. POB: Des Moines, Iowa. DOD: 5/26/94. POD: New York, NY. His father was Vice-President of Standard Oil of Indiana. Under Secretary of State in 1962, he advised JFK in the Cuban missile crisis. On Sept 6, 1963, in Gordon Chase's memo to Bundy, Ball is mentioned as one of those in State who had specific knowledge about exile raids in Operation MONGOOSE. In Nov 1963, he went to the White House to work out a transition to the new Administration. Wife: Ruth Murdoch Ball (married in 1932) died in August 1993. Survived by sons: John Colin Ball, of West Concord, Mass., and Douglas Bleakly Ball of Rockville Centre, L.I.

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