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

The story of the man who inspired Oliver Stone’s JFK.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’?tat, 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. 40 black-and-white photographs and illustrations Millions have been gripped by Oliver Stone's film JFK and its premise that the plot to assassinate Kennedy originated beyond the highest levels of the U.S. government. In the movie, the advocate of this theory is a character named "X" played by Donald Sutherland, who, as the film's "Deep Throat," explains how and why this plot came about. As Stone acknowledged, "X" not only was faithfully depicted in the film, but also as the film's creative adviser provided fully. Documented information and analysis that helped shape the script. This mystery man was not a fabricated character, as some critics contend. His identity can now be revealed: "X" is L. Fletcher Prouty, a former top-level "military-CIA" operative and the author of JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy. Now, for the first time, Prouty presents in book form the explosive thesis that influenced Oliver Stone from the time he first began reading the. Author's writings in the late 1980s. Among the author's revelations in JFK:. Kennedy's plan to change the course of the Vietnam conflict and to remove all U.S. military personnel from that country by the end of 1965 created enormous concern at the center of the military-industrial complex and led directly to his assassination. Upon receiving the report of the Cuban Study Group from Gen. Maxwell Taylor after the Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961, Kennedy vowed to "shatter the. CIA into a thousand pieces." He began by firing longtime Director of Central Intelligence Allen W. Dulles and his top aides. The army set up a full-fledged covert operation derisively named Operation Camelot to thwart Kennedy's efforts to end the war. President Johnson reversed Kennedy's orders to wind down in Vietnam immediately following Kennedy's murder. And in March 1964 he set the course for massive troop escalation. Why Kennedy was ultimately against the war and. Why he was really murdered. Brilliantly written and researched over nearly eight years, JFK is riveting. It is the first eyewitness account by a top-level insider, a man who had access to the primary documents and personalities - including those in the White House - dating back to 1943. The shock waves generated by JFK will shake the halls of government for decades to come.

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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.)

Introduction: The secret history of the United States (1943-90) / by Oliver Stone The role of the intelligence services in the Cold War : 1945-65, the Vietnam era The CIA in the world of the H-bomb The invisible Third World War Vietnam : the opening wedge The CIA's Saigon military mission Genocide by transfer-in South Vietnam Why Vietnam? : the selection and preparation of the battlefield The battlefield and the tactics, courtesy CIA The CIA in the days of Camelot JFK and the thousand days to Dallas The battle for power : Kennedy versus the CIA Building to the final confrontation The magic box, trigger of the expanded war in Vietnam JFK makes his move to control the CIA The erosion of national sovereignty Government by coup d'etat JFK's plan to end the Vietnam warfare Setting the stage for the death of JFK Visions of a Kennedy dynasty LBJ takes the helm as the course is reversed Game plan of the high cabal Afterword: Stone's JFK and the conspiracy. 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. 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'etat, 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