30-12-2010, 07:01 PM
You are welcome Charles. Over at Spartacus I just kind of felt that MB was distorting things knowing that people like Colby would eat it up.
Pertaining to the Nelson book, Green pointed out over there that Nelson has LBJ in just about complete charge of everything. This includes a Liftonesque version of the autopsy--hijacking and alteration--and complete control of the cover up after.
To me, this is about as bad a solipsistic view of things as John Hankey in JFK 2.
The idea that someone like LBJ, who had no training in intelligence work, could control something like the JFK plot which, as Jim Garrison once said, "Makes Dr. No and Goldfinger look like auditor's reports", is just unfounded. It simply could not happen.
Barr McCllelan's book, which is another source that Nelson uses, is so simple minded in this regard, that its almost risible.
Pertaining to the Nelson book, Green pointed out over there that Nelson has LBJ in just about complete charge of everything. This includes a Liftonesque version of the autopsy--hijacking and alteration--and complete control of the cover up after.
To me, this is about as bad a solipsistic view of things as John Hankey in JFK 2.
The idea that someone like LBJ, who had no training in intelligence work, could control something like the JFK plot which, as Jim Garrison once said, "Makes Dr. No and Goldfinger look like auditor's reports", is just unfounded. It simply could not happen.
Barr McCllelan's book, which is another source that Nelson uses, is so simple minded in this regard, that its almost risible.