JFK : The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy

With an Introduction by Oliver Stone, the director of the hit movie JFK and a Foreword by Jesse Ventura, author of the New York Times Bestseller, They Killed our President, here is an insider’s view of JFK, the CIA, Vietnam and the plot that led to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, the former CIA operative known as “X,” offers a history-shaking perspective on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. His theories were the basis for Oliver Stone’s controversial movie JFK.Prouty believed that Kennedy’s death was a coup d’état, and he backs this belief up with his knowledge of the security arrangements at Dallas and other tidbits that only a CIA insider would know (for example, that every member of Kennedy’s cabinet was abroad at the time of Kennedy’s assassination). His discussion of the elite power base he believes controlled the U.S. government will scare and enlighten anyone who wants to know who was really behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy.This is must reading for anyone who believes that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act along and that a complicated plot led to the murder of President Kennedy.

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prouty, Who Was A Washington Insider For Nearly 20 Years--in The Last Few Of Them As Chief Of Special Operations For The Joint Chiefs Of Staff Under President Kennedy--has A Highly Unusual Perspective To Offer On The Assassination And The Events That Led Up To It. Familiar To Moviegoers As The Original Of The Anonymous Washington Figure, Played By Donald Sutherland In The Oliver Stone's Movie Jfk , Who Asks Hero Jim Garrison To Ponder Why Kennedy Was Killed, Prouty Leaves No Doubt Where He Stands. The President, He Claims, Had Angered The Military-industrial Establishment With His Procurement Policies And His Determination To Withdraw From Vietnam, And Had Threatened To Break The Cia Into ``a Thousand Pieces'' After The Bay Of Pigs Fiasco. His Death Was In Effect A Coup D'etat That Placed In The White House A Very Different Man With A Very Different Approach--one Much More Acceptable To What Prouty Consistently Calls ``the Power Elite.'' Although He Declares That Such An Elite Has Operated, Supranationally, Throughout History, And Is All-powerful, He Never Satisfactorily Explains Who Its Members Are And How It Functions--or How It Has Allowed The Current East-west Rapprochement To Take Place. Still, This Behind-the-scenes Look At How The Cia Has Shaped Postwar U.s. Foreign Policy Is Fascinating, As Are Prouty's Telling Questions About The Security Arrangements In Dallas, His Knowledge Of The Extraordinary Government Movements At That Time (every Member Of The Cabinet Was Out Of The Country When Kennedy Was Shot) And His Perception That Most Of The Press Has Joined In The Cover-up Ever Since. Photos Not Seen By Pw. (sept.)

Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, the former CIA operative known as “X,” offers a history-shaking perspective on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. His theories were the basis for Oliver Stone's controversial movie JFK. Prouty believed that Kennedy's death was a coup d'état, and he backs this belief up with his knowledge of the security arrangements at Dallas and other tidbits that only a CIA insider would know (for example, that every member of Kennedy's cabinet was abroad at the time of Kennedy's assassination). His discussion of the elite power base he believes controlled the U.S. government will scare and enlighten anyone who wants to know who was really behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Reveals Kennedy's plans for Vietnam, Kennedy's intentions to "shatter the CIA," and President Johnson's reversal of Kennedy's orders concerning Vietnam immediately following the assassination, arguing that the assassination was a professionally executed coup d'etat Reveals Kennedy's plans for Vietnam, Kennedy's intentions to "shatter the CIA," and President Johnson's reversal of Kennedy's orders concerning Vietnam immediately following the assassination, aruging that the assassination was a professionally executed coup d'etat