David Sánchez Morales was a Central Intelligence Agency operative who worked in Cuba and Chile.
Education
Morales, of Mexican descent, spent his early life in Phoenix, Arizona, and attended school at Arizona State College in Tempe (now Arizona State University) and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles before joining the Army in 1946.
Career
He served in the 82nd Airborne, and was recruited into United States Army intelligence during that time. Morales maintained an Army "cover" even after joining the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951. Shortly after joining the Central Intelligence Agency, Morales became an operative for the Central Intelligence Agency"s Directorate for Plans.
lieutenant"s alleged that he was involved in Executive Action, a series of projects designed to kill foreign leaders deemed unfriendly to the United States.
Morales reportedly was involved in Operation PBSUCCESS, the Central Intelligence Agency covert operation that overthrew the democratically-elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. Through the 1960s and mid-1970s, Morales was involved at top levels in a variety of covert projects, including JMWAVE, the ZRRIFLE plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, the Bay of Pigs Invasion operation, the Central Intelligence Agency"s secret war in Laos, the capture of Che Guevara, and the overthrow of Salvador Allende.
John F. Kennedy In the April 5, 2007 issue of Rolling Stone, Saint John Hunt detailed a number of individuals purported to be implicated by his father including Morales, as well as Lyndon B. Johnson, Cord Meyer, David Atlee Phillips, Frank Sturgis, Lucien Sarti, and William Harvey. According to Hunt"s widow and other children, the two sons took advantage of Hunt"s loss of lucidity by coaching and exploiting him for financial gain.
The Los Angeles Times said they examined the materials offered by the sons to support the story and found them to be "inconclusive".
Robert F. Kennedy In November 2006, British Broadcasting Corporation Television"s Newsnight aired a twelve-minute screening of Shane O"Sullivan"s documentary Robert F. Kennedy Must Die. O"Sullivan stated that while researching a screenplay based on the Manchurian candidate theory for the assassination of Robert Kennedy, he "uncovered new video and photographic evidence suggesting that three senior Central Intelligence Agency operatives were behind the killing". He claimed that three men seen in video and photographs of the Ambassador Hotel immediately before and after the assassination were positively identified as Central Intelligence Agency operatives Gordon Campbell, George Joannides, and Morales.
Several people who had known Morales, including family members, were adamant that he was not the man who O"Sullivan said was Morales.
After O"Sullivan published his book, assassination researchers Jefferson Morley and David Talbot also discovered that Campbell had died of a heart attack in 1962, six years prior to the assassination of In response, O"Sullivan stated that the man on the video may have used Campbell"s name as an alias. He then took his identifications to the Los Angeles Police Department whose files showed the men he identified as Campbell and Joannides to be Michael Roman and Frank Owens, two Bulova sales managers attending the company"s convention in the Ambassador.
O"Sullivan stood by his allegations stating that the Bulova watch company was a "well-known Central Intelligence Agency cover".