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June 26, 2016 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

The Scali Booth

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Photo of yours truly on the left, Gabriella Barbuto and her Dad, Robert on the right, sitting in a booth at the Occidental Restaurant in the Willard Hotel. This is where Alexander Fomin, the KGB Rezident in Washington, met secretly with ABC journalist John Scali (photo in foreground) at 1:00 pm on October 26, 1962 to begin diffusing the Cuban Missile Crisis. Both Robert and Gabriella were students in my History of FBI Counterintelligence at George Washington University.

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An interview with ABC Newsman John Scali

Memorandum From ABC Correspondent John Scali to the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research

John A. Scali; Cuban Crisis Go-Between

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Historical FBI Studies by Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD, author of "The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence" and "Hoover's Secret War Against Axis Spies: FBI Counterintelligence During World War II."

 

A retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent, Ray is now a historian and educator specializing in the discipline of counterintelligence as a function of statecraft.

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