From: pcollac@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Paul Collacchi)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: Conspiracy Book of the Year Nomination
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:46:03 GMT
Reply-To: pcollac@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Paul Collacchi)
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In article <1992Dec30.092439.2301@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>,
f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
|> 
|> Nomination for Conspiracy Book of the Year
|> 
|> If you haven't yet read L. Fletcher Prouty's "JFK. The CIA, Vietnam
|> And The Plot To Assassinate John F. Kennedy", then add it to your
|> 'must read' list.  In real life Prouty is a former high-level military-
|> CIA operative who was the character named "X" in Oliver Stone's
|> momentous movie JFK.
|> 

I nominate Dick Russell's "The Man Who Knew Too Much."  Russell develops
a thesis regarding the assassination of JFK based on much new data, much
of which comes directly or indirectly from Richard Case Nagell.  For those of
you unfamiliar with Nagell, he appears to be a dis-illusioned spy who
came in from the cold type who first made himself known to Garrison.  
Briefly, Nagell claims to have been an agent working for a branch of US
intelligence who was contracted to penetrate a "project" involving
Oswald, and ultimately, to kill Oswald to prevent the assassination.

Nagell was always believed to be a little eccentric by the research 
community, but Russell ferrets him out, gets much more detail, and then
chases down the details not only to establish-- once and for all--
Nagell's credibility, but to advance the investigation into new territory.

The blockbuster regarding Nagell is that he came to understand that he was
being manipulated by the Soviets while he thought he was working for the
CIA.  In other words, his "case officer" at that time, was KGB or GRU or
whatever,
and he was at that time an unwitting "double-agent."  The Soviets wished 
to *prevent* the assassination.  

There's circles within circles within circles within circles in this case, 
and it kind of makes sense.  Like Prouty, Russell believes that JFK was
a victim of presumably "rogue" cold-warriors united by many diverse and
common desires.  Elements of this cabal are the same elements dug up by
Garrison -- anti-Castro Cubans, spies, militant right-wingers, Army.

Russell also establishes some of the relationships and inter-relationships
in the "intelligence" community and comes to understand a sense of
brotherhood that exists within the community itself and stands outside
of nationalism.
In a sense, any serious investigation into JFK's murder would ultimately
have exposed the entire world-wide intelligence apparatus -- CIA, Military,
KGB, GRU, G-2, MI5. etc.  No serious, honest investigation could have
avoided it.  And so, in a really bizarre sense, I have come to believe
that a cover-up was necessitated -- if you really believe that your
intelligence apparatus is
worth protecting.  Hoover was uniquely qualified to do this, provided he could
enlist Johnson.  I would guess therefore, that the WC was set up and
manipulated by Hoover to arrive at the "cover" story.  Not because Hoover
or Johnson or anyone in officialdom had anything to hide about the
participating in the killing of JFK, but because they didn't want to
expose any intelligence apparatus to scrutiny, including Hoover's and
inform the public of the (amazing) shit that they were doing at the
height of the cold war.

Read the book, its good.

Paul Collacchi
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