I want to let folks know about a new book that is out that basically does a TKO of left gatekeepers like Chomsky and Alexander Cockburn on the Kennedy Assassination.
As we know from the example of Encounter magazine (heyday 1950-64) the CIA can sometimes fund left-liberal magazines for purposes of limiting what they say about US foreign policy. (The best books about this funding of the left by the CIA to create divisions in the left is The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Saunders. Another GREAT BOOK ON THE CIA AND the origins of communications research is Christopher Simpsons book The Science of Coercion. Simpson is a professor of Communications at American University)
With that in mind that-- that most gatekeeping on the CIA and JFK has come from the "left"-- it is significant that two left liberals have endorsed this new book by James W. Douglass JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE: WHY HE DIED AND WHY IT MATTERS
“Douglass presents, brilliantly, an unfamiliar yet thoroughly convincing account of a series of creditable decisions of John F. Kennedy—at odds with his initial Cold War stance—that earned him the secret distrust and hatred of hard-liners among the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA. Did this suspicion and rage lead directly to his murder by agents of these institutions, as Douglass concludes? Many readers who are not yet convinced of this ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ by Douglass’s prosecutorial indictment will find themselves, perhaps—like myself—for the first time, compelled to call for an authoritative criminal investigation. Recent events give all the more urgency to learning what such an inquiry can teach us about how, by whom, and in whose interests this country is run.” --Daniel Ellsberg, author, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
As someone who has read 15 books on the Assassination and 50 on the post 1947
National Security State, I can assure you that there is an unbelivable amount of new stuff here.
This includes more material than anywhere else on the Chicago Plot of 11-2-63. The author has made an amazing breakthrough here: it was the same Chicago CIA connected cop in charge of the Chicago Soldiers Field plot of 11-2-63 that was in charge of the 1969 Chicago raid that killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (on Hampton I would urge all patriots to see the Youtube movied The Murder of Fred Hampton, WHICH CLEARLY PROVES THAT THE BLACK PANTHERS WERE NOT A RACIST ORG, BUT RATHER EMPHASIZED CLASS INSTEAD OF RACE. Seriously check out what the guy says about white people and how race is used to divide the working and middle class to help the rich!)
Also check out this quote from Harry Truman which I found in this book for the first time:
The first I heard of it was as quoted here in James W. Douglass' incredible book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. -------------- On December 22, 1963, one month to the day after JFK's assassintion, Former President Truman published a very carefully worded article in the Washington Post warning the American people about the danger of the CIA taking over the government. He wrote: "I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency--CIA...for some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at time a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas. We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. THere is something about the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historica position and I feel that we need to correct it" (note 678, Chapter 6) Trumans's warning, with its ominous post-assassination timing, was greeted by total silence (note 679) Had it been noticed and heeded the , the contraversial ex-president might have been accused more justly this time of trying to abolish the CIA, since he did indeed want to abolish its covert activities. Ptesident Harry Truman had himself established the CIA in 1947, but not he thought, to do what he saw it doing in the fall of 1963. He restated his radical critique of the CIA in a letter writeen six months later (note 680, Chapter 6). The managing editor of Look magazine had sent Truman the latest Look featuring a piece on the CIA. Truman wrote back: "Thank you for the copy of Look with the article on the Central Intelligence Agency. It is, I regret to say, not true to the facts in many respects. The CIA was set up by me for the sole purposse of getting all the available information to the president. It was not inteneded to operate as an international agency engaged in strange activities" (note 681, Chapter 6) (pp.332-333, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters) ------------ "It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. " Well Douglass book is full of examples of this generalization by Truman.
This is not only an "assassination" book. Rather it is a history book that clearly shows the STRUCTURAL THREAT that JFK posed for the faction of our rulers who favored War, Oil and and defense contractors instead of investments in the Civilian economy. The author shows how JFK represented a tripple threat of peace with Vietnam, Cuba and the USSR. He was killed so that the Cold War-- with all of its cover for US oil and defense contracting and the financial sector taking over our entire economy-- could live and spread greater disparity between the super rich and the middle class and working class.
As we know from the example of Encounter magazine (heyday 1950-64) the CIA can sometimes fund left-liberal magazines for purposes of limiting what they say about US foreign policy. (The best books about this funding of the left by the CIA to create divisions in the left is The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Saunders. Another GREAT BOOK ON THE CIA AND the origins of communications research is Christopher Simpsons book The Science of Coercion. Simpson is a professor of Communications at American University)
With that in mind that-- that most gatekeeping on the CIA and JFK has come from the "left"-- it is significant that two left liberals have endorsed this new book by James W. Douglass JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE: WHY HE DIED AND WHY IT MATTERS
“Douglass presents, brilliantly, an unfamiliar yet thoroughly convincing account of a series of creditable decisions of John F. Kennedy—at odds with his initial Cold War stance—that earned him the secret distrust and hatred of hard-liners among the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA. Did this suspicion and rage lead directly to his murder by agents of these institutions, as Douglass concludes? Many readers who are not yet convinced of this ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ by Douglass’s prosecutorial indictment will find themselves, perhaps—like myself—for the first time, compelled to call for an authoritative criminal investigation. Recent events give all the more urgency to learning what such an inquiry can teach us about how, by whom, and in whose interests this country is run.” --Daniel Ellsberg, author, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
As someone who has read 15 books on the Assassination and 50 on the post 1947
National Security State, I can assure you that there is an unbelivable amount of new stuff here.
This includes more material than anywhere else on the Chicago Plot of 11-2-63. The author has made an amazing breakthrough here: it was the same Chicago CIA connected cop in charge of the Chicago Soldiers Field plot of 11-2-63 that was in charge of the 1969 Chicago raid that killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (on Hampton I would urge all patriots to see the Youtube movied The Murder of Fred Hampton, WHICH CLEARLY PROVES THAT THE BLACK PANTHERS WERE NOT A RACIST ORG, BUT RATHER EMPHASIZED CLASS INSTEAD OF RACE. Seriously check out what the guy says about white people and how race is used to divide the working and middle class to help the rich!)
Also check out this quote from Harry Truman which I found in this book for the first time:
The first I heard of it was as quoted here in James W. Douglass' incredible book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. -------------- On December 22, 1963, one month to the day after JFK's assassintion, Former President Truman published a very carefully worded article in the Washington Post warning the American people about the danger of the CIA taking over the government. He wrote: "I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency--CIA...for some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at time a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas. We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. THere is something about the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historica position and I feel that we need to correct it" (note 678, Chapter 6) Trumans's warning, with its ominous post-assassination timing, was greeted by total silence (note 679) Had it been noticed and heeded the , the contraversial ex-president might have been accused more justly this time of trying to abolish the CIA, since he did indeed want to abolish its covert activities. Ptesident Harry Truman had himself established the CIA in 1947, but not he thought, to do what he saw it doing in the fall of 1963. He restated his radical critique of the CIA in a letter writeen six months later (note 680, Chapter 6). The managing editor of Look magazine had sent Truman the latest Look featuring a piece on the CIA. Truman wrote back: "Thank you for the copy of Look with the article on the Central Intelligence Agency. It is, I regret to say, not true to the facts in many respects. The CIA was set up by me for the sole purposse of getting all the available information to the president. It was not inteneded to operate as an international agency engaged in strange activities" (note 681, Chapter 6) (pp.332-333, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters) ------------ "It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. " Well Douglass book is full of examples of this generalization by Truman.
This is not only an "assassination" book. Rather it is a history book that clearly shows the STRUCTURAL THREAT that JFK posed for the faction of our rulers who favored War, Oil and and defense contractors instead of investments in the Civilian economy. The author shows how JFK represented a tripple threat of peace with Vietnam, Cuba and the USSR. He was killed so that the Cold War-- with all of its cover for US oil and defense contracting and the financial sector taking over our entire economy-- could live and spread greater disparity between the super rich and the middle class and working class.
