07-11-2012, 10:08 PM
[ Note: I interviewed FBI Special Agent Wayne Barnes who had been assigned to debrief the author of this book upon the author's defecting to the United States. Wayne is uniquely qualified as he is fluent in Romanian and was involved in counter-intelligence. LHO as Manchurian Patsy, indeed. That description by Jan is actually inadvertently supported by the reportage in this book. It's a good read although I do not agree with the LHO as the lone gunman conclusion, it at least concludes that there was a conspiracy. However, mixed throughout there are gems into Eastern Bloc intelligence workings. I don't know why the author was so enamored with the work of Edward J Epstein so as to rely almost exclusively on it for source material regarding Oswald's early life, etc. Suffice to say, it does shed light on the subject of programmed assassins from the "Red" side of the equation. It is also anger provoking because it stubbornly holds to the official version of the lone assassin albeit from the reverse angle. It also demonstrates, albeit unintentionally, how the Sponsors are outside of and above the workings of governments (plural). ]
PROGRAMMED TO KILL
Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination
Ion Mihai Pacepa
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...SBN=1566637619
"The assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald, the American Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union and four years later committed the crime of the century, was an extremely rare cold war episode in which both sides were vitally interested in hiding the truth.
Soviet premier Khrushchev feared that Oswald's involvement in the assassination would ignite nuclear war. The new president Lyndon Johnson faced elections in less than a year, and any conclusion implicating Moscow would have forced him to take unwanted political or even military action.
Thus, forty years later America lives with the uncertain truth about this political drama. In Programmed to Kill, former Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet bloc, reveals facts covered up by the Kremlin and addresses the myriad questions left unanswered by the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and the numerous books written on this subject.
Pacepa is the only investigator of the assassination who had direct knowledge of the KGB's ties to Oswald. He spent fifteen years of his previous life at the top of a frenzied Communist intelligence effort designed to cast the blame for Kennedy's death on forces within the United States.
Programmed to Kill places Pacepa's knowledge of the KGB's secret involvement with Oswald in the context of factual reporting that has appeared on the case. The book juxtaposes the KGB modus operandimostly unknown to outsidersagainst the irrefutable evidence assembled by the FBI and other U.S. investigators.
According to Wayne A. Barnes, retired Special Agent in the FBI who worked foreign counterintelligence for over 25 years as a cold warrior, and was a principal debriefing agent for General Pacepa for nearly two years after his defection in 1978:
"General Ion Mihai Pacepa has given us a new and very different point of view of the JFK assassination, clarifying what has been the conspiracy theorists' haven in the 20th century. In the FBI we taught that the truth is in the details,' and the General exquisitely reveals the truthwith verifiable, consistent, meshing-together, and incontrovertible facts about the involvement of the Soviet leadership and the KGB in this tragedy from start to finish, and even afterward in covering up their malfeasance."
"The General's credibilityfrom the time of his initial debriefings and to the presentcontinues to ring true. He speaks the language of intelligence' and admirably translates it for those who lived through that time but were unaware of how to interpret what the plethora of facts really meant. A younger generation can now also profit from the General's insight to see this historic event clearly."
Programmed to Kill is mind-boggling in its detail. The book illuminates the inherent evil of the KGB, whose former officers are now running Russia and apparently continuing to dispose of dissidents at home and around the world.
PROGRAMMED TO KILL
Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination
Ion Mihai Pacepa
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...SBN=1566637619
"The assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald, the American Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union and four years later committed the crime of the century, was an extremely rare cold war episode in which both sides were vitally interested in hiding the truth.
Soviet premier Khrushchev feared that Oswald's involvement in the assassination would ignite nuclear war. The new president Lyndon Johnson faced elections in less than a year, and any conclusion implicating Moscow would have forced him to take unwanted political or even military action.
Thus, forty years later America lives with the uncertain truth about this political drama. In Programmed to Kill, former Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet bloc, reveals facts covered up by the Kremlin and addresses the myriad questions left unanswered by the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and the numerous books written on this subject.
Pacepa is the only investigator of the assassination who had direct knowledge of the KGB's ties to Oswald. He spent fifteen years of his previous life at the top of a frenzied Communist intelligence effort designed to cast the blame for Kennedy's death on forces within the United States.
Programmed to Kill places Pacepa's knowledge of the KGB's secret involvement with Oswald in the context of factual reporting that has appeared on the case. The book juxtaposes the KGB modus operandimostly unknown to outsidersagainst the irrefutable evidence assembled by the FBI and other U.S. investigators.
According to Wayne A. Barnes, retired Special Agent in the FBI who worked foreign counterintelligence for over 25 years as a cold warrior, and was a principal debriefing agent for General Pacepa for nearly two years after his defection in 1978:
"General Ion Mihai Pacepa has given us a new and very different point of view of the JFK assassination, clarifying what has been the conspiracy theorists' haven in the 20th century. In the FBI we taught that the truth is in the details,' and the General exquisitely reveals the truthwith verifiable, consistent, meshing-together, and incontrovertible facts about the involvement of the Soviet leadership and the KGB in this tragedy from start to finish, and even afterward in covering up their malfeasance."
"The General's credibilityfrom the time of his initial debriefings and to the presentcontinues to ring true. He speaks the language of intelligence' and admirably translates it for those who lived through that time but were unaware of how to interpret what the plethora of facts really meant. A younger generation can now also profit from the General's insight to see this historic event clearly."
Programmed to Kill is mind-boggling in its detail. The book illuminates the inherent evil of the KGB, whose former officers are now running Russia and apparently continuing to dispose of dissidents at home and around the world.
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monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)