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For decades, the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured by those with an agenda of one kind or another. Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty has, in his interviews, letters, and books, explained the motives and methods behind the plot to topple an American president. JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy provides a fascinating perspective on the assassination. L. Fletcher Prouty draws on his experience and insider knowledge to review the particular security...

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For decades, the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured by those with an agenda of one kind or another. Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty has, in his interviews, letters, and books, explained the motives and methods behind the plot to topple an American president. JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy provides a fascinating perspective on the assassination. L. Fletcher Prouty draws on his experience and insider knowledge to review the particular security arrangements in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and other circumstances to support his belief that Kennedy's murder was, in fact, a carefully played and professionally executed coup d'etat. Prouty's work was a source for Oliver Stone's movie, JFK, and he was the basis for the Donald Sutherland character "X" in the movie. Anyone who suspects that the Warren Report didn't reveal the whole truth about the murder of President Kennedy, or is interested in an insider's perspective on one of America's most shocking crimes, will want to read Prouty's views.

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 government. In the movie, the advocate of this theory is a character named "X, " who explains how and why this plot came about. Now his identity can be revealed: "X" is L. Fletcher Prouty, who was Chief of Special Operations during the Kennedy years.

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Prouty, who was a Washington insider for nearly 20 years--in the last few of them as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Kennedy--has a highly unusual perspective to offer on the assassination and the events that led up to it. Familiar to moviegoers as the original of the anonymous Washington figure, played by Donald Sutherland in the Oliver Stone's movie JFK , who asks hero Jim Garrison to ponder why Kennedy was killed, Prouty leaves no doubt where he stands. The president, he claims, had angered the military-industrial establishment with his procurement policies and his determination to withdraw from Vietnam, and had threatened to break the CIA into ``a thousand pieces'' after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. His death was in effect a coup d'etat that placed in the White House a very different man with a very different approach--one much more acceptable to what Prouty consistently calls ``the power elite.'' Although he declares that such an elite has operated, supranationally, throughout history, and is all-powerful, he never satisfactorily explains who its members are and how it functions--or how it has allowed the current East-West rapprochement to take place. Still, this behind-the-scenes look at how the CIA has shaped postwar U.S. foreign policy is fascinating, as are Prouty's telling questions about the security arrangements in Dallas, his knowledge of the extraordinary government movements at that time (every member of the Cabinet was out of the country when Kennedy was shot) and his perception that most of the press has joined in the cover-up ever since. Photos not seen by PW. (Sept.)
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Prouty, the mysterious ``X'' in Oliver Stone's JFK , promises to explain why Kennedy was assassinated. Instead, he delivers a muddled collection of undocumented, bizarre theories, most significantly that a super-powerful, avaricious power elite engineered the Cold War and all its pivotal events--Korea, Vietnam, the U-2 incident, the Bay of Pigs, and the Kennedy assassination. Although they are never identified, these shadowy technocrats, working through the CIA, allegedly had Kennedy murdered because he was on the brink of ending America's commitment to Vietnam, along with its billions of dollars of military contracts. Prouty avoids some very important issues. Would Kennedy, a Cold War warrior's warrior, have indeed ended American support for Diem? And why couldn't the omnipotent power elite ensure the election of Richard Nixon, its preferred candidate, in 1960--especially since Kennedy won by only .02 percent? A much better choice is John M. Newman's JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power ( LJ 3/15/92). See also James DiEugenio's Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case , reviewed in this issue, p. 123.--Ed.-- Karl Helicher, Upper Merion Twp . Lib., King of Prussia, Pa.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781602397316
  • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
  • Publication date: 11/1/2009
  • Pages: 416
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

L. Fletcher Prouty (1917–2001), a retired colonel of the U.S. Air Force, served as the chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy years. He was directly in charge of the global system designed to provide military support for the clandestine activities of the CIA. He was also the author of The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies.

Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has won Oscars for directing “Born On The Fourth Of July”
and “Platoon”, and for writing “Midnight Express”. He was nominated for director (JFK) and co-writer (Nixon).

Jesse Ventura is the former governor of Minnesota and author of four national bestsellers, including 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read and American Conspiracies. Ventura is the host of the television show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura on truTV.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Secret History of the United States (1943-90)
Preface
1 The Role of the Intelligence Services in the Cold War: 1945-65, the Vietnam Era 1
2 The CIA in the World on 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 203
15 The Erosion of National Sovereignty 219
16 Government by Coup d'Etat 232
17 JFK's Plan to end the Vietnam Warfare 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
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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 12, 2012

    Great read

    Great book to read if you love the behind the scene look at why the President was killed...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 27, 2012

    Informative

    Screw the CIA

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  • Posted January 3, 2011

    A Very Discriptive and Detailed Book Covering a Number of Topics

    This book is a must read, if you are looking for the truth when it comes to CIA operations, how the Vietnam War came to be, along with all of the events and controversy in the JFK Assassinaton. Prouty does a great job of including all of the facts through numerous different papers and other important document. Along with the documents, he had the first hand experience when it came to a majority of the information he talks about in the book. All of the controversial topics, including the CIA, Vietnam, the plot to assassinate JFK, and a high cabal are all backed up with factual information and not just what ifs. A very interesting part of the book occurs in the final chapters where the actual events of the assassination are talked about along with all of the unusual things and events that point to a high cabal ordering the assassination of JFK. The actual evidence that is found how the cover story has a number of loop holes is very interesting. There was a change that was occurring when Kennedy was in office it would have been really showcased if he had been President for a full two terms. How the CIA got started and how it had progressed to become very powerful is very interesting, along with what tactics they have been using for years in lower developed countries. This book also gives you a better picture of what the Vietnam War was actually like along with how long U.S. personel were actually there. Overall, this book is very eye opening when it comes to the CIA, Vietnam, and how the assassination of JFK went down.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 7, 2004

    The ultimate book for understanding US involvement in Vietnam

    L.Fletcher Prouty's brilliant book takes us back to the end of WW2 thru the assasination of JFK in easy to understand language that is simply impossible not to believe. Prouty was there, first as a pilot involved in WW2 and later as a member of the CIA, and worked for the Joint Chiefs. He was as near to the coup that toppled JFK as anyone. Although he had no part in the coup, he brilliantly pieces it together. The motives and the reasons why JFK had to be removed were because he was determined to end US involvement in Vietnam, as well as him being a virtual lock to be re-elected in 1964. His enemies decided drastic measures were required to allow the Vietnam Conflict to continue on, ensuring billions in profit for the military industrial complex companies.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 4, 2003

    By far the most significant book of the century

    Fletcher Prouty's knowledge of events of the post war era is surpassed by none, and his willingness to share this knowledge is truly remarkable. His courage and honesty are all the more significant in view of the circumstances he describes therein. This book provides more insight into the post war world than any other ten books combined. It is highly interesting to note that the book swiftly became almost impossible to find in any bookstore, and that the original price of US$18.95 has, in a few short years, skyrocketed to nearly $90, IF it can be found at all.

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  • Posted March 1, 2011

    Great Book

    This book has been very informative and was written wonderfully. I thought that this book would be based upon the authors opinion but after reading you can tell without a doubt he is speaking from personal experience and he is very educated on the subjects that are not his experience. Leroy Fletcher Prouty was a very good author and I found this book to be not only extremely entertaining but very informative. If you are looking to gain knowledge about (as the title says) JFK the CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy I highly recomend this book.

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