Clay Shaw

[Paul Rigby]

John Kennedy Assassination: What Clay Shaw's Early Career as a Playwright Reveals
3rd February 2011

http://www.und.edu/instruct/jfkconferenc...docChapter 8
"I Feel Like a Spring Lamb"

What Clay Shaw's Literary Life Reveals

Michael Snyder

Like his dramatic alter ego Shaw, Clay Shaw was sacrificed, this time by the CIA, who felt that Americans were no longer buying the "lone-nut assassin" narrative. Shaw was to be a "limited hang out," a sacrificial lamb to attract attention away from CIA complicity. They knew that Garrison would not be able to prove Shaw's CIA involvement with the evidence to which he had access. In light of this sacrifice of Shaw, it is fascinating that when Shaw was asked before and during the trial, "how do you feel," Shaw repeatedly, to the point where Kirkwood says he could reply for Shaw, smiles and declares, "I feel like a spring lamb," (100, 101). the Oscars." New York Times 29 March 1992, Film Section. Rpt. . 7 June 2008.

At last - we come to the nub of it: CIA exchanged Shaw...so far so good...but for what?

The answer, of course, is the the relaunch of the Z-fake, "the proof they didn't count on" (or whatever the precise absurdity was).

The CIA gave to get; and what it got was a credulity beyond its wildest dreams.

Great find, by the way, Peter, for which many thanks.