Bibliograph

JFK, the CIA, Vietnam, and the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy, L. Fletcher Prouty ; with an introduction by Oliver Stone

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JFK, the CIA, Vietnam, and the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy, L. Fletcher Prouty ; with an introduction by Oliver Stone

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

JFK

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

798581911

Responsibility statement

L. Fletcher Prouty ; with an introduction by Oliver Stone

Sub title

the CIA, Vietnam, and the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy

Summary

Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, the former CIA operative known as 'X, ' offers a history-shaking perspective on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. His theories were the basis for Oliver Stone's controversial movie JFK. Prouty believed that Kennedy's death was a coup d'etat, and he backs this belief up with his knowledge of the security arrangements at Dallas and other tidbits that only a CIA insider would know (for example, that every member of Kennedy's cabinet was abroad at the time of Kennedy's assassination). His discussion of the elite power base he believes controlled the U.S. government will scare and enlighten anyone who wants to know who was really behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy

Table Of Contents

Introduction: The secret history of the United States (1943-90) / by Oliver Stone -- The role of the intelligence services in the Cold War: 1945-65, the Vietnam era -- The CIA in the world of the H-bomb -- The invisible Third World War -- Vietnam: the opening wedge -- The CIA's Saigon military mission -- Genocide by transfer-in South Vietnam -- Why Vietnam?: the selection and preparation of the battlefield -- The battlefield and the tactics, courtesy CIA -- The CIA in the days of Camelot -- JFK and the thousand days to Dallas -- The battle for power: Kennedy versus the CIA -- Building to the final confrontation -- The magic box, trigger of the expanded war in Vietnam -- JFK makes his move to control the CIA -- The erosion of national sovereignty -- Government by coup d'etat -- JFK's plan to end the Vietnam warfare -- Setting the stage for the death of JFK -- Visions of a Kennedy dynasty -- LBJ takes the helm as the course is reversed -- Game plan of the high cabal -- Afterword: Stone's JFK and the conspiracy

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J.F.K

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