In Angleton, he has a character beyond the imagination of John LeCarré, perhaps even of Patricia Highsmith.
Source: Minneapolis native’s ‘Ghost’ is a gripping bio of a CIA spy hunter – StarTribune.com
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In his era, Johnson was rightly vilified in his escalation of the Vietnam War, but in other areas of legislation (the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, the anti-poverty Great Society) LBJ sought to uplift the underclass in this country, based on an empathy that is smartly expressed in the film. The assassination of JFK was a shocking act, and it was Johnson in the aftermath who had to reset the path of a nation.
Source: ‘LBJ’ is Important American History Brought to Light
As Morley makes clear, Oswald had been of “intense” interest to the agency, and Angleton had control of the growing file on him. The most charitable explanation for Angleton’s actions is that he was hoping to catch one of those moles who, he was convinced, had infiltrated the agency.
Source: New Book Reveals Secrets About Boise-Born Spy James Angleton | Lit | Boise Weekly
Arnaldo Fernandez on the History Channel’s misguided, and now disappeared, JFK series.
After mixing Oswald with the anti-Castro and CIA-backed paramilitaries of Alpha 66 in a weird pot made of “special intent to kill President Kennedy soup”, Baer keeps on blighting a big-budget TV show by ignoring the body of the evidence, writes Arnaldo Fernandez. With an insert by Milicent Cranor on the History Channel’s version of the “jet effect”.
Source: Kennedys And King – JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald, Part 5
In this final installment of his review of the History Channel series, Arnaldo Fernandez concludes: “With Castro as vantage point instead of the CIA, Baer was not tracking Oswald to articulate a true picture of the past, but to drive the historical truth away.”
Source: Kennedys And King – JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald, Part 6
In response to Vincent Salandria’s talk on the alleged role of Ruth Paine in the assassination, Ed writes:
“I listened to all 39 minutes of Vince Salandria’s speech. If he was my lawyer I would fire him.” …
Joan Mellen sends word she is writing a book about the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. I recently posted about James Angleton’s role in the incident. …
In his review of Trained to Kill, Bill Kelly calls attention to Antonio Veciana’s work for Army Intelligence. He nails the point that Veciana’s critics strive to avoid. Phillips did use the alias “Maurice Bishop” and his physical description of “Bishop” bore an uncanny resemblance to Phillips.
Kelly offers an original thesis, supported by documentation: …
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He is a native of Cuba, who now resides in Miami, FL. He is 88 years old and in failing health. He insisted that he wrote the book because he no longer feared a Cuban-inspired assassination attempt on himself. Veciana said it was time to reveal “the truth about his double life.”
Source: Plots against Castro and the JFK case: a CIA agent’s storyLos Angeles Post-Examiner
After I published my review of Antonio Veciana’s book, Trained to Kill, for Newsweek, several people asked me about Dan Hardway’s review of the book AARC web site and W. Tracy Parnell’s blog, purporting to debunk Veciana’s story.
The former is an investigator’s take, the latter a prosecutor’s brief. Dan looks to get beyond Veciana’s self-presentation. Parnell seeks to impeach his credibility. Dan sees Veciana’s story as “modified limited hangout,” Parnell sees it as a fantasy.
Both are worth taking seriously.
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After years of silence, a former CIA operative speaks out about Castro, Oswald and the assassination of JFK.
Source: The CIA’s Secrets About JFK, Che, and Castro Revealed in New Book By Former Operative
I mentioned William Matson Law the other day, and I thought I should amplify. I want to recommend Law’s JFK research. It is lucid, original, factual and untainted by speculation. It is amazing that no one else had thought to conduct these essential interviews. Law went where news organizations and congressional investigations did not tread. The story he tells of the Kennedy autopsy speaks for itself.
In his own words: …
In the early 1960s, Antonio Veciana was the CIA’s man in Havana.
So begins my review in Newsweek: The CIA’s Secrets About JFK, Che, and Castro Revealed in New Book By Former Operative.
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In the Soviet Union banned publications and writings that circulated privately were known as “samizdat” (Russian for “I self-publish”). Now that History Channel’s “JFK Declassified” has been taken off the air for unknown reasons, we must rely on samizdat reports to learn about what we cannot see.
Reader MDG reports the substance of episode 4: …
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Reader Diana says “JFK Declassified” is showing in Canada. But not apparently in the United States. Why would that be?
“I watched in Canada the third episode of ‘Tracking Oswald’ on the History Channel last night Wed May 17,” she writes …
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