Why The CIA Killed JFK and Malcolm X: The Secret Drug Trade in Laos

by John Koerner

Overview

This book breaks new ground in two important areas that have yet to be linked and explored by any JFK-assassination historian. John Koerner argues that the CIA’s secret drug trade in Laos, and the president’s effort to end it, provided the primary motive that the CIA needed to assassinate the president. A lot of effort has been made to examine the president’s Vietnam policy, but precious little attention has been paid to the opium trade in Laos that was making the CIA wealthy and powerful beyond its wildest dreams. This book chronicles the president’s secret war with the CIA over Laos, a high-stakes game that cost him his life. Koerner also links the JFK assassination and the drug trade with the other three major assassinations of the 1960s: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy. We will see that all four of the assassinations are linked together, all funded and executed by the CIA to silence the four most vocal leaders who were opposed to the agency’s pro-war and pro-drug policy in Laos and Vietnam. Finally, Koerner examines the impact this has had on the course of history, and imagines a world where these men had lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782797012
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	11/28/2014
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

John Koerner is an author of several historical books and a professor of American History. He is also the founder of Paranormal Walks, LLC. Koerner has appeared on "America's Book of Secrets" on the History Channel, and William Shatner's "Weird or What" on the Discovery Channel. He lives in Buffalo, New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 A Hated President 1

The "Papist" Presidency

JFK vs. the South 5

"A Thousand Pieces" 9

Chapter 2 A Public Execution 17

Proving the Conspiracy

Making the Connection 19

Chapter 3 The Opium Trade in Laos 23

The Key Players 25

The Pressure to Invade 28

A New Policy for Laos 36

The CIA Digs In 40

CIA Sabotage 46

The Vietnam Connection 53

Johnson and Nixon Cast Their Lots 55

The Drug Trade Expands 57

Chapter 4 Trinity of Death: Connecting the Malcolm X, MLK, and RFK Assassinations 60

"I'm not at all sure it's the Muslims"

An Early Opponent of the Vietnam War 65

"The White Man's Poison" 68

The Drug Connection 70

A Malcolm X and King Coalition? 74

Regicide: Connecting the King Assassination 75

"The CIA ordered it done" 76

"The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World" 78

The Final Hope: The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination 81

Making the Connection 84

Morales Strikes Again 87

RFK's Obsession 88

Chapter 5 Unfinished Lives 90

The Costs of War

The United States of Inequality 92

Fathers and Husbands 95

Jacqueline Kennedy's Final Lament 97

References 100