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Books
Books
Castro
Castro Quote
CIA
CIA Blame
CIA Clipped
CIA Clipped
CIA Deceit
CIA Names
CIA Names
CIA New
CIA New
CIA New
CIA New
CIA New
CIA New
CIA New
CIA New
CIA Oswald
CIA Oswald
Data
Disclosure
Mind-set
Mind-set
Mind-Set
Mind-set
Mind-set
Mind-set
Mind-set
The Last Investigation
Open Veins, The 50 Year Wound
Account of Castro’s meeting with Jean Daniel just prior to JFk’s death is riveting.
“I cannot help hoping that a leader will come to the fore in North America (why not
Kennedy, there are things in his favor!), who will be willing to brave unpopularity, fight
the trusts, tell the truth, and most important, let the various nations act as they see fit.
Kennedy could still be this man. He still has the possibility of becoming, in the eyes of
history, the greatest President of the United States, the leader who may at last
understand that there can be coexistence between capitalists and socialists, even in
the Americas. He would then be an even greater President than Lincoln.”
CIA ran its own foreign policy, especially in Laos, Africa
JFK blamed CIA for deaths of Diem and also Patrice Lumumba in Africa
JFK clipped CIA’s wings with NSAM 55 & 57, ending CIA PM ops.
JFK fired Dulles, Bissell, & Cabell (general), cut CIA budget
CIA briefed LBJ on Oswald transcripts as real, with Hoover’s help he did not buy it
David Atlee Philips, David Sanchez Morales, Richard Helms
Desmond Fitzgerald posed as US Senator speaking for Attorney General Robert
Kennedy and ordering assassination of Fidel Castro in his name
Bay of Pigs was a trap intended to force JFK to approve use of US military forces
Hue 8 May 63 bombs courtesy of the CIA, US military officer placed them
JFK rejected CIA pressure to order assassination of Castro
CIA may have routed around Hoover to get FBI SA Marvin Geesling to take Oswald off
the FBI watchlist so Oswald would not be routinely swept up prior to JFK in Dallas
Interesting discussion of Focal Point as CIA’s means for creating its own chain of
command within the Pentagon, one able to issue order as if from SecDef but not
Good discussion of CIA’s Office of Technical Services routinely forging Secret Service
credentials for covert use
LBJ fully understand that CIA sought to blame Soviets for JFK’s assassination, he was
not willing to confront them over it but he did not buy it either
Truman’s letter in Washington Post of 22 December 1963 provided grave warning
Best compiled coverage drawing on others of how there were multiple Oswalds and
much of what was offered by CIA against him was actually fabricated by CIA
Persuasive case that Oswald was recruited by CIA while guarding U-2 base on
Okinawa, used as a line crosser into USSR, and badly managed by CIA, then repurposed
as a patsy
Book opens with a provocative and useful timeline
1992 JFK Records Act led to 1993 disclosure of JFK and Khruschev correspondence
Cold War “justified” unspeakable [as GWOT has also]
Author explores US mind-set of achieving pre-emptive strike capabilities and using
Thomas Merton saw that our advanced in technology of death invited a mind-set of
pre-emptive attack; he was among the first to reject life under a balance of terror
Good discussion of NSC 10/2 authorizing CIA to do covert actions, break laws, and lie
about it, this created a “moral hazard” for US Government
JFK rejected “Pax Americana” and its military-industrial complex
Generals Lemnitzer and LeMay wanted to use nuclear weapons, JFK thought them
crazy and vice-versa
General Clay in Berlin was rehearsing tank break-down of Berlin Wall, had to be
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Peace
Peace
Peace
Peace
Peace
Peace
Peace
Treason
Treason
Treason
Treason
Treason
Treason
Truth
Unspeakable
Unspeakable
Unspeakable
Unspeakable
Unspeakable
Unspeakable
Unspeakable
Unspeakable
Unspeakable
Unspeakable
US Culpability
US Culpability
ordered to stand-down by General Clarke
JFK achieved secret exchanges with Khruschev, Castrol, and Pope
Opens my mind to the “theology of peace” nurtured by monk Thomas Merton
In many ways a resurrection of JFK and an epitaph of peace
Ably portrays contributions of Monk Thomas Merton to devising a theology of peace
Khruschev renounced war as a communist option in East Berlin speech January 1963
JFK drew strength from a single Quaker meeting, this led to his feeding Russia against
all wishes of the establishment
Fascinating detail on role Norman Cousins (Pathology of Power) played as an emissary
for peace between Kennedy and Khruschev
Role of the Pope and his Paccem in Terris manifesto, well presented
Kennedy, Castro, & Khruschev all forces to circumvent their own internal hard-liners
Averel Harriman betrayed Kennedy, communicated the opposite (escalation) to North
Viet-Nam instead of JFK’s intended message of de-escalation
Henry Cabot Lodge betrayed JFK to allow Diem’s assassination
Active cover-up of kill shot into front of throat blowing out back of head
Secret Service rushed body away from autopsy, turned over to the military which not
only fabricated the autopsy and x-rays of an intact skull, but conspired with CIA to have
one honest Navy officer murdered in his own office after he took photos of the entire
body that would have broken the cover-up
Most detailed evidence of a systematic cover-up, goes beyond earlier books in
integrating varied books
Book is intended as a “truth force” or as Gandhi called it, “Satayagraha”
Reminds us that Malcolm X was also assassinated
Connects assassination of two Kennedy brothers and two black leaders
“Plausible deniability” led to a “void in accountability”
Trial concluding MLK was killed by conspiracy explicitly including US government
agencies re-opened JFK cover-up
Chicago plot for 1 Nov 63 busted, same pattern of patsy on the loose
Dramatically shows JFK surrounded by treason within while reaching out to Khruschev
JFK “crossed over” 10 June 1963 calling for end to Cold War. Speech in Appendix
JFK issues NSAM 263 “out of Viet-Nam” on 11 Oct 63 and then was killed
JFK went against the complex on USSR, Laos, VN, Cuba, Indonesia, and steel prices
Secret Service detail “hated” JFK and joked about getting out of way of any threat
Bay of Pigs was what inspired Castro to ask for and Khruschev to agree to missiles
Truman started the Cold War by using “atomic diplomacy”