01-07-2013, 03:58 PM
Mr. McBride -
I spent a lot of time yesterday reading through the Amazon preview of your book, so clearly it's possible that my questions are answered by other sections of the book. But I do have a few questions (and/or observations you may want to respond to) -
1) you state very clearly as far as I can tell that you think Mary Ferrell was a disinformation agent and had intelligence connections - and that the dictaphone tape, you indicate, is useless as evidence and the result of her "disinformation" efforts - was also wondering if you had read D.B. Thomas' work in this area?
2) you don't seem to be aware that Kennedy had an active representativeWilliam Atwood, I believe it wasin negotiations with representatives of Castro for some time before the assassination. You only mention Jean Daniel's late encounter with Castro in this regard ( and I did check in the index and did not see any entry for Atwood).
3) you also seem, and once again this is only by partial reading so I apologize if I'm incorrect, to be at least partly in the camp that theorizes that JFK was reckless in his supposedly hawkish stance and policies towards Cuba, and thus vulnerable. Now I know that Jim here has done a lot of work in this area, of course. but I was wondering if if you do subscribe to the "JFK as hawk" theories.
thanks
I spent a lot of time yesterday reading through the Amazon preview of your book, so clearly it's possible that my questions are answered by other sections of the book. But I do have a few questions (and/or observations you may want to respond to) -
1) you state very clearly as far as I can tell that you think Mary Ferrell was a disinformation agent and had intelligence connections - and that the dictaphone tape, you indicate, is useless as evidence and the result of her "disinformation" efforts - was also wondering if you had read D.B. Thomas' work in this area?
2) you don't seem to be aware that Kennedy had an active representativeWilliam Atwood, I believe it wasin negotiations with representatives of Castro for some time before the assassination. You only mention Jean Daniel's late encounter with Castro in this regard ( and I did check in the index and did not see any entry for Atwood).
3) you also seem, and once again this is only by partial reading so I apologize if I'm incorrect, to be at least partly in the camp that theorizes that JFK was reckless in his supposedly hawkish stance and policies towards Cuba, and thus vulnerable. Now I know that Jim here has done a lot of work in this area, of course. but I was wondering if if you do subscribe to the "JFK as hawk" theories.
thanks