From: saltzman@ISOVAX (Bob Saltzman)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: New book by L. Fletcher Prouty
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:53:05 GMT
Reply-To: saltzman@ISOVAX
Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY

Relatively new book information:
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| "JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy"       |
|     by L. Fletcher Prouty (introduction by Oliver Stone)                   |
|     A Birch Lane Press Book, Carol Publishing Group, 1992                  |
|     ISBN 1-55972-130-8  U.S. $22.00, Canada $28.00                         |
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From jacket:

"With this single volume, Colonel Prouty blows the lid right off our
Official History and unforgivably, sadly, inexorably for anyone who 
dares enter this cave of dread and shame shines his torch forever onto 
the ugliest nest of vipers the civilized world has probably seen since 
the dreaded Mongol raiders of the tenth and eleventh centuries." 

	(from the introduction by Oliver Stone)

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 advisor 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":

o 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.  

o Upon receiving the report of the Cuban Study Group from General 
  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.  

o The army set up a full-fledged covert operation derisively named 
  Operation Camelot to thwart Kennedy's efforts to end the war.  

o 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.  

o 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.  

A retired colonel of the U.S. Air Force, jet pilot, and former
professor of air science and tactics at Yale University, L. Fletcher
Prouty during the Kennedy years served as the chief of special 
operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  He was directly in charge of 
the global system designed to provide military support for the 
clandestine activities of the CIA.  

Prouty knows the truth about the Kennedy assassination plot.  He is the 
author of "The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies".  He lives in 
Alexandria, Virginia.  

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Prepared 16-Sep-1992 by Bob Saltzman
Committee to Investigate Assassinations
Niskayuna, NY 12309
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