Smashing new book blows cover off Cuba, CIA, The Mob, and JFK's murder
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November 22, 2009 at 03:36:14
"New JFK assassination bombshells"
By Richard Clark
For OpEdNews: Richard Clark - Writer
Bombshells in the new trade paperback of a good JFK assassination book are
featured in a new Discovery Channel special, "Did the Mob kill JFK?"
produced by NBC. It premieres Sunday, November 22, 2009, on the Discovery
Channel (US) at 8pm and again at 11pm. Authors of the book, Legacy of
Secrecy, Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann, are extensively interviewed in the
documentary, which will continue to air in the coming months.
The updated trade paperback's new information completes the story of how the
top secret plan of John and Robert Kennedy to stage a coup against Fidel
Castro on December 1, 1963 -- with the help of Cuban Army Commander Juan
Almeida -- was used by three powerful Mafia bosses to murder JFK.
Documented from the National Archives for the first time is Watergate
burglar Bernard Barker's decades-long work for the Mafia, even as Barker
aided the CIA with the coup plan. This let Barker sell out the coup plan to
his mob bosses and help to assassinate JFK in a way that forced top US
officials to withhold key information from the Warren Commission and the
press, to prevent a nuclear confrontation with Russia.
This legacy of secrecy also allowed two men who confessed their roles in
JFK's murder to be involved in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King,
in 1968. The trade paperback also contains important new information about
the FBI informant who obtained the JFK assassination confession of godfather
Carlos Marcello, which the Bureau kept secret for twenty years.
The rifle fire in Dallas that killed John F. Kennedy didn't just start a
frantic effort to find his assassins. JFK's murder also launched a flurry of
covert actions by officials like Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and
Richard Helms to hide the fact that, at the time of the assassination, the
United States was on the brink of invading Cuba as part of a JFK-authorized
coup only ten days away. The plan's exposure would have cost the life of
JFK's coup leader, Cuban Army Commander Juan Almeida, and could have led to
a nuclear confrontation with the Soviets, just a year after the Cuban
Missile Crisis. But the cover-ups by these top officials also had the tragic
effect of preventing a full investigation of JFK's assassination, spawning a
legacy of secrecy that would impact Presidents, Congress, and U.S. foreign
policy for the next forty-five years.
Legacy of Secrecy details the secret attempts of Robert F. Kennedy and his
aides to expose his brother's killers, while protecting Commander Almeida.
It shows how RFK continued his war against the Mafia by focusing increased
attention on the Mafia bosses behind JFK's assassination, until his own
murder. RFK's associates continued his quest, almost exposing the truth
several times. But like a deadly, high-stakes chess game-at the height of
the Cold War-they were blocked each time by three Mafia chiefs and a handful
of CIA operatives. Legacy of Secrecy details each step taken by mob bosses
Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, and Johnny Rosselli to hide their
involvement in JFK's murder, and depicts the tragic results that followed.
The long shadow of secrecy surrounding both JFK's murder and the coup plan
set the stage for the murder of Martin Luther King, ultimately driving two
Presidents from office, and bringing about the murders of five Congressional
witnesses in the mid-1970s.
This is not just speculation. With an investigation that has lasted more
than 20 years, authors Hartmann and Waldron have been able to back up their
allegations with the testimony of witnesses plus corroborating evidence from
the National Archives, some of it just recently released. In the course of
their investigation, Waldron's car was run off the road and flipped over by
someone trying to discourage him from continuing. Hartmann's car was smashed
by someone using a sledge hammer and also had a few bullet holes put in it.
All of the allegations in this 940-page book are supported by the documented
evidence that fills every room in Waldron's house, all of it cited in the
book.
Reviewing the main points:
1. Documented (from the National Archives) for the first time is Watergate
burglar Bernard Barker's decades-long work for the Mafia and the CIA,
particularly his work on the CIA-JFK-planned coup in Cuba. (The planning for
this coup started with Nixon when he was VP to Eisenhower.)
2. Bernard Barker sold out the coup plan to his mob bosses which led to the
assassination of JFK. The plan was for coup leader, Cuban Army Commander
Juan Almeida, to "neutralize" the Russians in Cuba with the help of US
forces that were to enter the country, to help him take over the country and
become its president. The Mafia knew that this meant they would lose all
their gambling operations in Cuba, and they also had good reason to believe
that Bobby Kennedy was getting ready to push them out of Las Vegas, Chicago,
and New Orleans. So they decided the Kennedy brothers had to go.
3. Two men who confessed their roles in JFK's murder were involved in the
assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, in 1968.
4. An FBI informant obtained the JFK assassination confession of godfather
Carlos Marcello, which the Bureau kept secret for twenty years.
5. Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Helms hid the fact that
the United States was on the brink of invading Cuba as part of a
JFK-authorized coup. The coup had been scheduled to take place in December
of 1963. The plan's exposure would have cost the life of the coup leader,
Cuban Army Commander Juan Almeida, and might well have led to a nuclear
confrontation with the Soviets, just a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis
had barely been forestalled.
6. After his brother's assassination, RFK continued his war against the
Mafia by focusing ever more attention on the Mafia bosses that had been
behind his brother's assassination -- which eventually led to murder. RFK's
associates then continued his quest, almost exposing the truth several
times, despite the efforts of the CIA and Mafia to muddy the waters by
floating plenty of bogus and confusing "information" and "evidence."
Watch the presentation on TV Sunday night on the Discovery Channel.