My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Joseph McBride]

A new interview on my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE by Ray Kelly of Masslive.com and the Springfield (MA) Republican:

http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/in...cart_river

Joseph,

This interview closes with the following comment made by you:

"The beneficiaries were Johnson and the military-industrial complex that owned him and which he helped enrich with the Vietnam War. Through my extensive research, I shed new light on the murderous political context of the case, including the hatred against Kennedy by Texas right-wing extremists, and I demonstrate that Officer Tippit was one of the key ground-level functionaries in that high-level plot."

With all due respect -- and a great deal indeed is due -- I find that your conclusions expressed above reveal A) the absence in your work of a viable conspiracy model upon which research of the complexity and significance you proffer must be stretched if it is to assume a form conducive to the formulation of deep political insight, and B) a fatally narrow identification of the "beneficiaries" of the assassination.

May I humbly suggest that you think about the following as presented most recently (post 169) at:

https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...#post71393


In order to save inordinate amounts of time and angst, we should agree on some basic definitions. When I use the terms Sponsors, False Sponsors, Facilitators, and Mechanics, I do so within the context of what has come to be known as the Evica-Drago Model for the JFK conspiracy:

SPONSORS -- Those with the authority and motive to sanction the assassination and the connections to engage facilitating agents and systems. Among them in my opinion: the most powerful supra-national entities who were -- and are -- above Cold War and Clash of Civilization cosmetic differences.

FALSE SPONSORS -- Selected primarily from involved high-level FACILITATORS and otherwise uninvolved entities who logically might have come under suspicion. Among them in my opinion: LBJ, the CIA, the Mob, anti-Castro Cubans, Big Business, Big Oil, Castro, Khrushchev, etc.

FACILITATORS -- From the "princes" who directly and/or through buffers routinely interacted with and carried out the agendas of the SPONSORS and who created the plot in all its complexities, through high-level members of facilitating organizations, to mid- to low-level functionaries who performed the heavy lifting. Among them in my opinion: LBJ, James Angleton, Edward Lansdale, David Atlee Phillips, David Sanchez Morales, Lucien Conein, Gerald Patrick Hemming, "William Bishop" and other CIA officers and agents, Santos Trafficante, Johnny Rosselli, Jimmy Hoffa, certain Secret Service, FBI and military intelligence officers and agents, individuals intimately linked to Big Business and Big Oil, certain Dallas elected officials and members of the DPD, certain members of the print and broadcast media, certain heads of state, etc. etc. etc.

MECHANICS -- The gunmen and support personnel on-site who carried out the attack and escape-evade procedures. Among them in my opinion: possibly a team from Pakse Base, former Wermacht/SS sniper(s), etc. Think the most skilled hunters of humans on the planet.


Within this model, LBJ is appropriately placed within the "False Sponsors" and "Facilitators" groupings.

Tippit, as I believe you realize, is justly considered to be a low level "Facilitator."

You have every right to focus on the model the full and considerable force of your critical faculties and to ask after the identities of the "Sponsors" as I perceive them.

In re the latter: The best I can do at this point in time is to quote from my Introduction to George Michael's A Certain Arrogance:

Haunting the pages of A Certain Arrogance in the company of the shades of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald is a revelation so menacing in its assault on convention as to provoke a reflexive shielding of our eyes from its searing light. Yet the author cannot spare us the psychic pain that is the unavoidable side effect of his scholarship, insofar as such suffering remains the sine qua non for the eradication of our common malady and the return to robust good health.

Within the nucleus of the disease, Professor Evica has discovered "a treasonous cabal of hard-line American and Soviet intelligence agents whose masters were above Cold War differences."

In light of this revelation, we are left with no choice but to embrace a new paradigm of world power.

Professor Evica reveals the universally accepted vertical, East v. West Cold War confrontation to have been a sophistic construct, illusory in terms of its advertised raison d'etre, all too real in its bloody consequences, created by the powerful yet outnumbered manipulators of perception to protect what they recognized to be an all too fragile reality. The true division of power, he teaches us, then as now is drawn on a horizontal axis.

Envision the earth so bifurcated, with the line drawn not at the equator, but rather at the Arctic Circle. Above the line are the powerful few the "Haves." Below the line, in vastly superior numbers, are the powerless many the "Have-Nots."


I hope that you will find the time to respond.

Best,

Charles

Charles,

I appreciate that you and I may have different views on the
backers and beneficiaries of the assassination, and I glean
some possibly salient points about multinationalism from your post (though
I am not entirely clear about your argument). But I think
our discussion of this important issue would be best served
if you'd read the whole book I wrote rather than just an interview I gave about it, since I go into considerable
detail on what I regard as the connections among the parties involved and
the deep politics behind the case. That brief interview quote is accurate, but
there is a wealth of supporting detail in my thoroughly researched 675-page book.
I take care to be as specific as possible about my factual statements and theories.
You may feel differently after reading INTO THE NIGHTMARE and might characterize
it differently after so doing.

Joe