Ghost by Jefferson Morley [on J.J. Angleton CIA-CI Chief]

[Peter Lemkin]

Morley's OUR MAN IN MEXICO also briefly wrings its hands as to whether there was a conspiracy and whether Oswald did the shooting. I'm not sure I want to follow that line of thought into Morley's motivations too deeply. It's depressing. There was another Angleton bio released just a handful of years back, within the past decade. It looked decent.

The info of Angleton being linked to the Huston Plan is important though. It links a couple of extra dots, some of which feel pertinent when examining Gladio, Bill Harvey, Israel, the neocons, 9/11 and related subjects.

Do you refer to this book? https://www.amazon.com/James-Jesus-Angle...1558496505
Morley clearly says the Warren Commission was compromised by CIA and others [then lists lots of people including Angleton high on the list and 'desiring to wait the Commission out']. Yet, he states in a sentence I had to read five times to believe it, LHO was the assassin - and if one looks back a few pages Morley implies that LHO not only fired the magic bullet, but also fired from behind the fence on the grassy knoll....what a guy that LHO was!!!!! He wasn't just a patsy, he was a SUPERPATSY! [thanks to Angleton and a few others]. Morley is not a good logician with his own material. He either has blinders on, just can't 'go there', or is doing a modified limited hangout of first order.

The moment Angleton heard about the Assassination he knew all about Oswald - more than any other person in the USA or Planet perhaps - and he never told anyone that he knew or what he knew and how he had watched and used Oswald all along. Angleton kept his secrets well.

Yes, the Huston Plan was Angleton's baby, but he didn't want his name associated with it. Angleton championed Nixon.
The stonewalling of the Commission, infiltrating Garrison's investigation and HSCA were also Angleton and his pals.
Allowing Israel to break US law to get their nuclear program was Angleton, as was having the USS LIberty where it was on that fateful day.
Some of Angleton's best friends later turn up in Gladio operations and other mayhem like that.
Cord Meyers was a very close friend and they played chess and had dinners together often.
Operation CHAOS was Angleton's baby.
Removing all the papers from Win Scott and Mary Meyers homes was Angleton's doing - much never to be seen again.
A long list of people who had information Angleton didn't like them having died suddenly after and strangely. Morely is sure they were all coincidences.
Dulles was a close friend, and Harvey was a close associate - as were a lot of other names on the suspicious JFK assassination list...in fact all that were CIA and many that were FBI such as Win Scott, Phillips, you name them,....he knew and worked close with them..he knew what they knew...they often didn't know what he knew.
He was a VERY important figure in the CIA and in our covert history from before Dallas, through Dallas, and until his death and beyond.
He was and is more important that Morley makes him out to be and Morley makes him out to be very important.

Morely is very confused and conflicted on some points, but he has new and clear documentation that others who can see the whole picture more clearly can use. The who knew who when information and who passed what information to whom when information is well done - but then the analysis and conclusions that should follow are often flawed.
The book has value for a researcher who can see what is new and true and what is not true...but I'd not suggest it to those not really soaked in these issues - as Morely clearly gets some major things wrong....but adds some new fuel against Angleton vis-a-vis the cover-up on the JFK assassination and what was known about Oswald all along [among other things]. Mixed bag......