Table of Contents
Introduction: The Secret History of the United States (1943-90) Oliver Stone vii
Preface xxii
1 The Role of the Intelligence Services in the Cold War: 1945-65, the Vietnam Era 1
2 The CIA in the World of the H-Bomb 20
3 The Invisible Third World War 29
4 Vietnam: The Opening Wedge 42
5 The CIA's Saigon Military Mission 51
6 Genocide by Transfer-in South Vietnam 70
7 Why Vietnam? The Selection and Preparation of the Battlefield 81
8 The Battlefield and the Tactics, Courtesy CIA 102
9 The CIA in the Days of Camelot 118
10 JFK and the Thousand Days to Dallas 136
11 The Battle for Power: Kennedy Versus the CIA 153
12 Building to the Final Confrontation 170
13 The Magic Box, Trigger of the Expanded War in Vietnam 189
14 JFK Makes His Move to Control the CIA 205
15 The Erosion of National Sovereignty 219
16 Government by Coup d'État 232
17 JFK's Plan to End the Vietnam Warfere 246
18 Setting the Stage for the Death of JFK 266
19 Visions of a Kennedy Dynasty 286
20 LBJ Takes the Helm as the Course Is Reversed 312
21 Game Plan of the High Cabal 334
Afterword: Stone's JFK and the Conspiracy 347
Acknowledgments 356
Notes 357
Index 369