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Pseudonym: Campbell, Gordon

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Definition:

An alias used by Robert Moore after the CIA maritime officer Gordon Campbell died in September 1962.

Category:

pseudonym

Status:

Probable

Discussion:

Bertrand Jobes was probably CIA officer Gordon Campbell. There is no mention of Jobes after the June of 1962 dispatch. This is consistent with the recorded death of Gordon Campbell. Campbell's death certificate stated that he was born on July 5, 1905 and died on September 19, 1962. Bradley Ayers, pseudonym "Thomas Darguzis," was assigned to JMWAVE in 1963 and 1964. Ayers claimed that he knew a CIA officer named Gordon Campbell during that time Gordon Campbell passed away 9/62. Campbell and Moore had worked closely together on the Eisenhower Cuba Project and ultimately on the operation at the Bay of Pigs. In later maritime operations conducted by JMWAVE Campbell would secure the boats used in missions overseen by Moore. Campbell ran Maritime out of Miami and Moore out of Key West until Campbell passed. Moore then possibly started using "Gordon Campbell" as an alias. His main CIA pseudo that he used for memos was probably Frederick Inghurst. He may also have used the aliases of Irving Peggins and "Mr. Bishop" when he was not at JMWAVE. Rex was commanded by Alejandro Brooks and the Leda by his brother Gaspar Brooks: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=124186&relPageId=17

Sources:

104-10231-10418: PM CASE OFFICERS IN CONTACT WITH SEGMENTS OF THE CRC.

1/11/62 memo from Chief PM Glenn Farnsworth to Chief of Operations re "PM Case Officers in Contact with Segments of the CRC": "Carlos Hevia, Naval Advisor - Gordon Campbell and Lloyd Lindland

John Prados, Safe for Democracy (Ivan R. Dee: Chicago, 2006) pp. 305-307

1962: "Theodore Shackley's JM/WAVE had 112 exiles on board from the beginning, plus 40 CIA officers at Zenith and 39 more at Opa-Locka. At any given time there were a dozen or more Special Forces with the exile commandos. Bob Moore, later Gordon Campbell, were his deputies. David Morales led the paramilitary staff, Jack Corris took charge of support. Seymour Bolten headed the political action staff. The station eventually grew larger than the one that supported the Bay of Pigs invasion...The Miami operating base, set up under the station's aegis, lagged on maritime capability throughout MONGOOSE, in spite of the efforts of Gordon Campbell and Rudy Enders. Training the commandos proved easier than finding boats to move them. Motorboats sailing from Miami and throughout the Florida Keys made up the core. The station's maritime branch has been described as 'huge', but the Special Operations Division remained the largest element."

Sworn Statement of Bradley Ayers of 8-6-2007

Re 1962-1963: "I first met the man I identify as Gordon Campbell in The Zenith Secret (Keith Randall in The War That Never Was, Bobbs-Merrill, hardcover 1976, paperback 1981) in May 1963 when I arrived in Miami at JMWAVE headquarters. He was introduced to me as the deputy chief of station and chief of the maritime operations branch...he became my case officer at the Elliot Key refinery raid training mission that I was given in the late summer of 1963...Campbell was a polished, affable man I estimated to be in his forties, always casually stylishly dressed and in apparent robust health...by chit-chat at the station, I gained the impression Campbell had a Navy background, possibly ONI, and was supposedly involved outside the station with exile commando groups that were being supported at arms length financially and logistically by CIA...The recent production of an obituary and death certificate attesting to the death of a Gordon Campbell in Miami 1962, and the testimony of still living American and Cuban JMWAVE operatives cannot be reconciled with my association with the man I knew as Gordon Campbell...The Gordon Campbell I knew was very much alive in 1963 and visibly interactive with Ted Shackley as his deputy...

NOTES_HALPERN.WPD

At interview with Sam Halpern, someone identifies Gordon Campbell as DCOS during the 1962-1963 period.

124-90102-10154

1/2/63, Robert Moore identified as "Deputy Chief, CIA" at a meeting with CIA security chief Fred Bucci and others involving the investigation of the bombing of the automobile of Jose Miro Cardona on Nov. 20, 1962.

180-10073-10072: INTERVIEW REPORT WILLIAM TURNER DECEMBER 22-24, 1977

Re October 1963: ...On October 22, Mambises unit/AMGLOSSY attempted a landing from the Rex on Pinar del Rio province. Set off a firefight and strafing of freighter J. Louis by MIGS...Castro reported that four of Rex crew had been captured, described the Rex and named her home port in West Palm Beach...The Leda (was harbored) at Port Everglades. Captains of the vessels were brothers Alejandro Brooks (Rex) and Gaspar Brooks (Leda)...without interference from the INS...those captured were Alberto del Busto/AMSHAG-1, Luis Montero Carrazana (see 104-10217-10081: 201-309615), Dr. Clemente Inclan Werner/AMSIGH-2 and one other not identified by name...Gordon Campbell, JMWAVE assistant station chief, would go to the ship just before a mission and hand Captain Brooks sealed orders to be opened at sea. After the Rex had cleared the harbor, the guns would be taken from the magazine and fastened to the deck mounts. Rex would rendezvous at sea with the commando, frogman and infiltration teams. Would replenish her stores and ammunition at Stock Island near Key West, where there was a CIA warehouse. A good portion of this section is a recounting of various raids reported in the book The War That Never Was by Bradley Ayers. It is good adventure reading..."

CY 2007 Case Log

During Jan. 2007, document F-2007-00555 was released by the CIA about George Joannides, David Morales and Gordon Campbell.

Contributors:

David Boylan • Bill Simpich