How Did President Kennedy's Assassination Happen?

[Stan Wilbourne]

American Culture in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
By Mike-Frank G. Epitropoulos, page 96:

In more recent history, Communist Party General Nikita Khrushchev presided over a period of Westernization and liberalization as well, leading to some speculation that Khrushchev era reforms (and the Kennedy era reforms in the United States) would have brought an end to the Cold War and allowed for the increase in political and economic rights in both countries, had the United States been able to support Khrushchev in his attempts to reduce the Soviet military.

The impetus for increased business transactions with the West, echoing the joint ventures and foreign investment in Russia in the late nineteenth century, that occurred in greater frequency during the perestroika period, occurred early under Soviet rule, with antecedents dating back to the New Economic Policy of the 1920s. The Soviet government had major business dealings not only with Armand Hammer but also with Henry Ford and heads of the other major corporations. Although transactions slowed during the Stalinist period and the Cold War, they began to accelerate several years before perestroika at the instigation of Soviet leaders. One author describes the treatment that Soviet elites extend to American business executives, even before perestroika, as "The Red Carpet." As early as the 1970s, Pepsi-Co signed contracts for sales of bottled flavored carbonated beverages, while banker David Rockefeller, Kaiser Industries Chair Edward Kaiser, W. Averell Harriman, and others were treated like royalty in Moscow.

Armand Hammer, David Rockefeller, Cyrus Eaton, Donald Kendall and Averell Harriman were all part of "The Red Carpet."

"I want to know who the men in the shadows are."