James H. Johnston

Murder, Inc. (eBook, PDF)

The CIA under John F. Kennedy

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Produktbeschreibung

Late in his life, former president Lyndon B. Johnson told a reporter that he didn't believe the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy. Johnson thought Cuban president Fidel Castro was behind it. After all, Johnson said, Kennedy was running "a damned Murder, Inc., in the Caribbean," giving Castro reason to retaliate. Murder, Inc., tells the story of the CIA's assassination operations under Kennedy up to his own assassination and beyond. James H. Johnston was a lawyer for the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975, which investigated and first reported on the Castro assassination plots and their relation to Kennedy's murder. Johnston examines how the CIA steered the Warren Commission and later investigations away from connecting its own assassination operations to Kennedy's murder. He also looks at the effect this strategy had on the Warren Commission's conclusions that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and that there was no foreign conspiracy. Sourced from in-depth research into the "secret files" declassified by the JFK Records Act and now stored in the National Archives and Records Administration, Murder, Inc. is the first book to narrate in detail the CIA's plots against Castro and to delve into the question of why retaliation by Castro against Kennedy was not investigated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640122161
• Artikelnr.: 72310050

Autorenporträt

James H. Johnston is a lawyer, writer, and historian in Washington DC. He is the coauthor of The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough: A Southern Woman’s Memories of Richmond, VA, and Washington, DC, in the Civil War and the author of From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1.  Castro, Oswald, and Kennedy
2.  The Bay of Pigs
3.  Mongoose
4.  Missile Crisis
5.  The Brigade
6.  Fidel and Hidell
7.  Oswald in New Orleans
8.  Assassins and Spies
9.  AMLASH
10.  Mexico City
11.  Hubris
12.  Carpe Diem
13.  The Plot Accelerates
14.  The Last Weekend
15.  A Barrier Once Removed
16.  John Kennedy and the Rogue Elephant
17.  Washington, Paris, and Dallas
18.  November 22, 1963, in Dallas
19.  November 22, 1963, in Other Cities
20.  The Days After
21.  An Investigation Hobbled from the Start
22.  The Investigation Sputters On
23.  Regime Change
24.  The Warren Report
25.  The Never-Ending Investigations
26.  John Kennedy and the CIA
27.  Lyndon Johnson and the CIA
Appendix A.  Where It Might Have Led
Appendix B.  Richard Helms's Testimony on the Assassination Investigation
Appendix C. Sources and Secret Files
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index