Is there an audiobook of ‘Scorpions’ Dance?’
Jefferson Morley
May 21, 2022
Yes there is. If you like listening to your spy stories, you can pre-order it here.
‘The centrality of Nixon and Helms to so many pivotal moments in history.’
Jefferson Morley
May 20, 2022
Book List on Scorpion’s Dance:
…“As the Senate Intelligence Committee prodded the CIA over all sorts of issues, including the JFK assassination and attempts on the life of Fidel Castro, Helms became increasingly defensive of his agency’s conduct over the years. The centrality of Nixon and Helms to so many pivotal moments in history makes Morley’s revelations about their sparring even more intriguing.”
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The Audiobook of The Ghost is on sale
Jefferson Morley
May 20, 2022
Do you prefer to listen to your books rather than read them? If so, you’ll want to order the audiobook of THE GHOST 2017 biography of CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton. For a limited time only, the eBook of THE GHOST is only $2.99!
Available now at your favorite eBook retailer.
Excerpt: How James McCord’s road to Watergate began
Jefferson Morley
May 19, 2022
“Helms was also a man of action. Three agency operatives had been arrested in Havana in September 1960, while mounting an audio operation against the offices of the Chinese news service. They were sentenced to ten years in jail, though not identified as CIA agents. Helms asked John Mertz, deputy chief of the Counterintelligence Staff, to come up with a plan to free the prisoners. Mertz consulted with his boss, James Angleton, counterintelligence chief, who supplied him with some “underworld” connections in Havana.
“Mertz then tasked James McCord, deputy chief of the Security Research Staff in the Office of Security, to scope out the prison and execute the escape. As McCord later explained, his agents “gained entry to the prisons and returned to the United States “with data acquired. However, the captured men were freed in a prisoner exchange before any rescue operation could be mounted. McCord was credited with being “an actual case officer for Cuban agents” from 1960 to 1962. Helms surely knew of his work, at least in passing. McCord’s road to Watergate had begun.” –From Scorpions’ Dance by Jefferson Morley
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Publisher’s Weekly on Scorpions’ Dance
Jefferson Morley
May 19, 2022
In this eye-opening investigation, journalist Morley (The Ghost) scrutinizes the CIA’s involvement in the Watergate scandal. Drawing on taped conversations between Richard Nixon and CIA director Richard Helms, Morley claims that “the Watergate affair originated in the clandestine collaborative relationship” between the two men.
Talking JFK in the desert
Jefferson Morley
May 5, 2022
This was an educational experience for me. I thought I was going into the proverbial lions’ den. I was wrong. The secret intelligence professionals in the room were quite open to the way Mowatt-Larssen and I described and explained the events of November 1963.
Russia, Russia, Russia was on our minds, of course, but the talks also included a fascinating discussion on the activities of “rogue” CIA agents surrounding the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, presented jointly by investigative journalist Jefferson Morley and former senior CIA officer Rolf Mowatt- Larssen. The audience at the Hacienda del Sol, a hillside luxury resort that once hosted John Wayne, Spencer Tracy. Katharine Hepburn and other Hollywood stars filming Westerns nearby, was also treated to presentations by former female CIA operatives Mary Beth Long, Plame, Jonna Mendez and Lucy Kirk (left to right, above).
Abe Bolden speaks: they framed me for warning of a JFK plot
Jefferson Morley
May 3, 2022
WhoWhatWhy has an exclusive interview with Abraham Bolden, the falsely convicted Secret Service agent who was pardoned by President Biden last week
Bolden explains what most people don’t know–that it was his professional response to JFK’s assassination that got him fired, framed, and falsely imprisoned.
“They don’t have the details of what occurred and what it had to do with the assassination of President Kennedy, how I was treated, the reason for my incarceration, the effort to declare me insane. Or the fact that I wrote a book that explained everything. That’s not before the public.”
Source: Black Secret Service Agent, Jailed for JFK Plot Warning, Cleared: The Full Story – WhoWhatWhy
Abe Bolden’s Long Wait for Justice
Jefferson Morley
April 29, 2022
From his longtime home in Auburn Gresham, Bolden released a statement through his caregiver. “We are grateful and happy that this day has come, but I just wish my children were alive on this occasion.”Source: Biden pardons Abraham Bolden after multiple Crusader articles – The Chicago Crusader
Biden pardons Abraham Bolden, the only Secret Service agent who sought JFK accountability
Jefferson Morley
April 26, 2022
The good news is that President Biden has pardoned Abraham Bolden, the first African-American Secret Service agent, who was falsely convicted on bribery charges in the 1960s.
The bad news is that initial reports emphasize Bolden was persecuted for the color of his skin, which is true enough but not the whole story.
Bolden was silenced because he raised questions about the causes of JFK’s assassination. For doing his job, he was targeted, defamed, and railroaded.
What did Nixon mean by ‘the whole Bay of Pigs thing?’
Jefferson Morley
April 25, 2022
The Spy Museum is hosting an online event for my new book, Scorpions’ Dance at noon on June 17th, the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in. The event is free. You can register here.
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Pre-publication sale on Scorpions’ Dance
Jefferson Morley
April 20, 2022
Publisher’s Weekly calls it an “eye-opening investigation.” …..
…. “Jefferson Morley has captured, in all its surreal conspiratorial glory, the last sinister tango of a pair of wicked Richards. A riveting story that will make you chuckle and shiver.” — John Aloysius Farrell, author of Richard Nixon: The Life…….
Pre-orders are key to my chances of making the best-seller list. ……
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Don McLean Celebrates 50th Anniversary of ‘American Pie’
Jefferson Morley
April 14, 2022
AARP asked the singer-songwriter: “Do you agree with the consensus that the song points to an end of innocence in America?”
McLean responded:
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Marilyn Monroe’s final hours
Jefferson Morley
April 13, 2022
I’m going to be watching this on April 27 on Netflix.
Sixty years ago, her death was ruled a “probable suicide,” but questions have persisted about the iconic actor’s relationships with JFK and RFK—and how they might have been exploited by the Mafia, the Soviet Union, and the FBI. New details from an updated investigative biography, soon to feature in a Netflix documentary, shed clarifying light on the turmoil swirling around Monroe on the last day of her life.
Source: Marilyn Monroe’s Final Hours: Nuke Fears, Mob Spies, and a Secret Kennedy Visitor | Vanity Fair
‘It feels like ancient history but it’s a live story’
Jefferson Morley
April 13, 2022
Why is the government still hiding JFK assassination files?
So asks Robbie Robertson, host of the Out of Blank podcast and a young man with legit questions about history and secrecy and the JFK story. Here’s our conversation.