> After leaving the position of Press Secretary for President
> Eisenhower, James Haggerty went to work for a division of ABC. So it
> was no surprise when he turned up on ABC's coverage of the
> assassination. About 2:18 CST on the afternoon of the assassination,
> the subject of presidental protection came up. Haggerty said:
>
> I have seen many motorcades. . . . A rifle shot . . . from a window
> of
> a building is pretty hard to guard against.
>
> About twenty minutes later, after interruptions for breaking news, he
> continues:
>
> In a large city it is impossible to guard every single window. In the
> years that I served with General Eisenhower, the only time I ever saw
> all windows guarded in the line of march was in Tehran, when
> President
> Eisenhower went to visit the Shah of Iran . . . . That was the only
> time I saw that.
>
> When Fletcher Prouty and other conspiracy authors tell us that
> security was "stripped away" in Dallas, they sound plausible enough.
> Unfortunately, plenty of "plausible" propositions happen to be
> untrue.
>
> YoHarvey
>
> Gil Jesus has proven time and again that NOTHING he
> says has any credibility whatsoever. He absurd theories
> with no basis for truth along with his videos is appealing
> to those WHO HAVE TO BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY.
> It's all they have in their lives. Not one thing, not one
> that Jesus has EVER brought forward on this forum
> has EVER proven to be true. Gil Jesus has NO
> credibility left. I'm totally convinced Jesus has but a 6th grade
> education. His continued inability to provide even ONE
> coherent thought is frightening for one his age. His lack
> of knowledge about typical Presidential motorcades is very
> apparenty. Jesus is your typical blue collar type (Ricland,
> Rossley included) whose mind has NEVER been trained
> in an objective and meaningful way. One can only hope
> he's had no children.
>
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>
> L. Fletcher Prouty
> Fearless Truth Teller, or Crackpot?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­-----
> One of the truly interesting individuals associated with the Kennedy
> assassination, the late L. Fletcher Prouty was an Air Force officer
> who served in the Pentagon. He was therefore an "insider" who
> supposedly knows the "real scoop" about the Cold War, Vietnam, covert
> operations, and the Kennedy assassination. But did he really? Or was
> he a story teller whose stories don't survive scrutiny?
> Prouty was in New Zealand when Kennedy was shot, and believed that
> the Christchurch Star reported on Oswald's background far too quickly.
> It smelled to him like a CIA-planted cover story. Researcher David
> Perry looked at this issue to see whether the initial reports on
> Oswald and his background contained any suspicious information. He
> found that all the information in the paper was available in the files
> of U.S. newspapers and ready to be quickly sent over the news wires.
> And Bob Cotton, Chief Reporter of the Christchurch Star, has explained
> how the paper they published that day was the result of journalistic
> diligence, and not conspiratorial machinations.
>
> Proutyism #1 - Where Was Nixon During the Shooting?
> The Prouty Version
> We have noted in an earlier chapter that, despite frequent denials,
> Richard Nixon was in Dallas during those fateful moments, attending a
> meeting with executives of the Pepsi-Cola Company. According to the
> general counsel of that company, Nixon and the others in the room
> knelt in a brief prayer when they heard of Kennedy's death. JFK, The
> CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, p. 310.
> The Reality
> Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who left Dallas only a few
> hours before President Kennedy was shot to death on a city street, had
> made a prophetic plea for the chief executive's safety
> Mr. Nixon had urged a courteous reception for President Kennedy and
> Vice President Johnson in an interview printed in The Times Herald
> Thursday and in the first edition Friday.
>
> The former vice president, who was defeated by President Kennedy in
> 1960, told The Times Herald by telephone from New York he was shocked
> and distressed by the news of the President's death.
>
> He said he learned of the President's death while in a taxi driving
> from Idlewild Airport. He said a citizen ran into the street, hailed
> the cab - not knowing who was inside - and excitedly told him, "The
> President has been shot."
>
> Dallas Times Herald, Nov. 23, 1963, p. A-7.
>
> Prouty and the Far Right
> An essay, written from a leftist perspective by Chip Berlet, deals
> with the ties between Prouty (and, incidentally, Mark Lane) and the
> extreme right-wing paranoid Liberty Lobby. Nothing here shows Prouty
> to have been a Nazi or an anti-Semite, but shouldn't he have shown
> better judgment in picking his associates?
>
> High Cabal Had Planned Korean and Vietnam Wars in 1945?
> According to Prouty, a harbormaster in Guam told him that a massive
> quantity of arms, made surplus by the recent Japanese surrender, were
> being diverted to anti-communist Syngman Rhee in Korea, and communist
> Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam. To Prouty, this indicated that the "High
> Cabal" had already decided to foment wars in those two nations. But
> when Dan McLaughlin looked into the history of the communist movement
> in Vietnam, it became obvious that no such arms shipment ever took
> place.
> Proutyism #2 - Presidential Protection
> The Prouty Version
> As the presidental motorcade began its procession through the streets
> of Dallas, we note that many things which ought to have been done, as
> matters of standard security procedure, were not done. These omissions
> show the hand of the plotters and the undeniable fact that they were
> operating among the highest levels of government in order to have
> access to the channels necessary to arrange such things covertly.
> Some of these omissions were simple things that were done normally
> without fail. All the windows in buildings overlooking a presidential
> motorcade route must be closed and observers positioned to see that
> they remain closed. They will have radios, and those placed on roofs
> will be armed in case gunmen do appear in the windows. All sewer
> covers along the streets are supposed to be welded to preclude the
> sewer's use as a gunman's lair. People with umbrellas, coats over
> their arms, and other items that could conceal a weapon are watched.
>
> JFK, The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, p.
> 291.
> The Reality
> Just Last Week, He Wanted No Special Guard
> By Edward Kirkman
> Top city police with many years of experience in guarding Presidents
> and visiting heads of state said yesterday that President Kennedy took
> too many chances.
>
> On Nov. 14 - eight days before the assassin's bullet struck him down -
> the President rode through New York City without a motorcycle escort
> and with fewer guards than police and the Secret Service wanted him to
> have.
>
> Authorities believed that Kennedy was too responsive to criticism for
> his own good.
>
> Heavily Guarded Until Last Week
> A frequent visitor to New York City, the President until last week had
> been heavily guarded, had a motorcycle escort, and traveled heavily-
> guarded streets which had been cleared of other traffic to make way
> from him.
> There were those who spoke disparagingly of the interruption of normal
> living occasioned by the President's visits, and this disturbed him.
>
> Small Guard Not Enough for Safety
> He insisted last week that there be no motorcycle escort and that his
> motorcade stop for traffic lights. His principal protection on the
> ride from LaGuardia Field to the Hotel Caryle, 76th and Madison Ave.,
> was two city police cars in front of his limousine and one car with
> Secret Service men immediately behind the limousine.
> During the ride into Manhattan, cars containing newsmen on occasion
> came dangerously close to the side of the President's car before being
> waved off. While the President's car was stopped for a red light at
> 72d St. and Madison Ave., an amateur photographer stepped up close and
> took pictures before he was chased off.
>
> All this was clear evidence to security men that the small guard
> insisted upon by the President was not adequate to insure his safety.
>
> Queried on this point, Police Commissioner Michael Murphy officially
> said, "No comment." But those close to him knew that he and his top
> brass and the Secret Service were deeply concerned.
>
> New York Daily News, Nov. 23, 1963.
>
> What About People Who Actually Know about Motorcades?
> After leaving the position of Press Secretary for President
> Eisenhower, James Haggerty went to work for a division of ABC. So it
> was no surprise when he turned up on ABC's coverage of the
> assassination. About 2:18 CST on the afternoon of the assassination,
> the subject of presidental protection came up. Haggerty said:
> I have seen many motorcades. . . . A rifle shot . . . from a window of
> a building is pretty hard to guard against.
> About twenty minutes later, after interruptions for breaking news, he
> continues:
> In a large city it is impossible to guard every single window. In the
> years that I served with General Eisenhower, the only time I ever saw
> all windows guarded in the line of march was in Tehran, when President
> Eisenhower went to visit the Shah of Iran . . . . That was the only
> time I saw that.
> When Fletcher Prouty and other conspiracy authors tell us that
> security was "stripped away" in Dallas, they sound plausible enough.
> Unfortunately, plenty of "plausible" propositions happen to be
> untrue.
>
> Prouty and Presidential Protection
> Where presidential protection is concerned, Prouty seemed to just be
> making things up. Unfortunately, Prouty's ideas have little to do with
> what the Secret Service actually did - particularly with a very
> politically attuned president like Kennedy. Consider Prouty's claim
> that the failure to close windows overlooking the motorcade route
> indicated a conspiracy. This photo, discovered by David Stager, shows
> Kennedy touring Hawaii. Spectators watch the motorcade from tall
> buildings on the motorcade route - just as in Dallas.
> When Kennedy toured Ireland his motorcade wound down Patrick Street,
> in Cork. As in Dallas, windows were open over the route, and
> spectators were in the windows. Elliot Perry brought this photo, from
> the National Archives, to my attention.
>
> Prouty and the Vietnam War
> Prouty is most visible in conspiracy literature as an interpreter of
> how the United States got into the Vietnam War. This brief essay is a
> critique of the author's JFK book. Written by Dave Fuhrmann, it was
> posted as a series of messages on the Compuserve POLITICS Forum. It is
> reposted here by permission.
> Fuhrmann later posted a longer, much more detailed analysis of
> Prouty's JFK book, debunking Prouty's treatment of issue after issue.
> Here are his Compuserve posts, included here with Fuhrmann's
> permission. Critique Number 1
> Critique Number 2
> Critique Number 3
> Critique Number 4
> Critique Number 5
> Critique Number 6
> Critique Number 7
> Critique Number 8
> Critique Number 9
> Critique Number 10
> Critique Number 11
> Critique Number 12
> Critique Number 13
> Critique Number 14
> Critique Number 15
>
> Proutyism #3 - Army Intelligence Told to "Stand Down"
> One of the most quoted assertions of L. Fletcher Prouty is the claim
> that an Army Intelligence unit - the 316th Field Detachment of the
> 112th Military Intelligence Group - was ordered to "stand down" and
> provide no additional security for Kennedy's Texas visit.
> The Prouty Version
> The commander of an army unit, specially trained in protection . . .
> had been told he and his men would not be needed in Dallas. "Another
> Army unit will cover that city," the commander was told. I called a
> member of that army unit later. I was told that the commander "had
> offered the services of his unit for protection duties for the entire
> trip through Texas," that he was "point-blank and categorically
> refused by the Secret Service," and that "there were hot words between
> the agencies." This leaves an important question: Why was the
> assistance of this skilled and experienced unit "point-blank refused?"
> Who knew ahead of time that it would not be wanted in Dallas?
> L. Fletcher Prouty: JFK, The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate
> John F. Kennedy, p. 294.
> The Reality
> The House Select Committee on Assassinations took testimony from
> Colonel Robert E. Jones, who had been the Operations Officer of the
> 112th Military Intelligence group from June, 1963 until January 1965.
> He was questioned about a variety of matters, including his unit's
> role in the protection of President Kennedy during his Texas trip. Not
> only did Jones not mention any orders to "stand down," he explicitly
> noted that his unit provided protection for the president in Dallas!
> He stated:
> We provided a small force - I do not recall how many, but I would
> estimate between 8 and 12 - during the President's visit to San
> Antonio, Texas; and then the following day, on his visit to Dallas,
> the regions also provided additional people to assist, that is
> additional people from Region 2. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on
> the Assassination of John F. Kennedy of the Select Committee on
> Assassinations, House of Representatives, Executive Session,
> Washington, DC., April 20, 1978, p. 1-14.
> Prouty's claim is thus flatly at odds with the on-the-record sworn
> testimony of the Operations Officer of the unit. Like so many of his
> claims, it just doesn't jibe with the historical record.
>
> More Proutyisms
> Prouty seems drawn to the wildest interpretations of about any issue
> you can think of.
> The Col. L. Fletcher Prouty Reference Site, run by Len Osanic,
> contains several more examples of Proutyisms. For example:
> Oil isn't really a fossil fuel. That's just something the "Oil Barons"
> want us to think.
> Franklin Roosevelt didn't die a natural death - Churchill had him
> poisoned!
> And don't miss Prouty's view on UFOs.
> There was a nuclear accident at "Windscales" [sic] in the 1950s that
> the British government supposedly covered up. Not only did Prouty get
> the name of the nuclear plant wrong, he mangled other key facts too.>From the Prouty CD offered for sale at The Col. L. Fletcher Prouty
>
> Reference Site:
> Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was not shot down by the Soviets. It just
> landed!>From the web:
>
> Prouty "would not be surprised" if the Secret Team killed Princess
> Diana! This message from Prouty was formerly on the "We The People"
> website.
> Although not a member, Prouty has been a supporter of the cult
> religion of Scientology, and its founder L. Ron Hubbard.>From the web site of the Scientology magazine Freedom, read what
>
> Prouty has to say about the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. He
> doesn't believe it was a suicide. Rather, the government killed all
> those people.
> The nefarious forces of the Federal Reserve Bank killed Kennedy
> because he was moving against them.
> In Dealey Plaza, the conspirators had a man with an umbrella shooting
> a poison dart at JFK.
> Proutyism #4 - Assassins Shooting Blanks?
> The Prouty Version
> . . . Although the gunmen [in Dealey Plaza] may have used "automatic"
> weapons, it is more likely that what the reporters heard that day was
> the well-coordinated fire from at least three gunmen in different
> locations, and that they fired at least three times each.
> This is an old firing-squad and professional hit-man ploy. It serves
> to remove the certain responsibility from each gunner as a
> psychological cleanser. If three men are to fire, they all know that
> two guns are loaded and one gun is firing blanks. The gunmen do not
> know who had the bullets, or who had the blanks. Each man can swear an
> oath that he was not the killer.
>
> L. Fletcher Prouty: JFK, The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate
> John F. Kennedy, pp. 307-308.
> The Reality
> In how many different ways is the Prouty scenario ludicrous?
> Under Texas law, even a gunman shooting blanks would be a party to the
> murder, and thus subject to execution.
> The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution would have protected the right
> of the assassins to remain silent under questioning.
> Any experienced "gunman," "hitman," or "assassin" would know instantly
> if he was shooting blanks, due to the nearly non-existent recoil
> force.
> Prouty seems to believe that professional assassins - men willing to
> murder the president of the United States - would have scruples about
> lying under oath!
> Thanks to Gary Nivaggi for point (3.) above, and to Brian Dasher for
> point (1.)
>
> Prouty's "Wacky Imagination"
> Prouty's boss at the Pentagon was General Edward Lansdale. He
> described Prouty in Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American by Cecil B.
> Currey:
> I continue to be surprised to find Fletcher Prouty quoted as an
> authority. He was my "cross to bear" before Dan Ellsberg came along.
> Fletch is the one who blandly told the London Times that I'd invented
> the Huk Rebellion, hired a few actors in Manila, bussed them out to
> Pampanga, and staged the whole thing as press agentry to get RM
> [Magsaysay] elected. He was a good pilot of prop-driven aircraft, but
> had such a heavy dose of paranoia about CIA when he was on my staff
> that I kicked him back to the Air Force. He was one of those who
> thought I was secretly running the Agency from the Pentagon, despite
> all the proof otherwise. (p. 384)
> Elsewhere, Lansdale comments on Prouty's "wacky imagination" (ibid.).
> As if to confirm what Lansdale says, Prouty claimed to see Lansdale in
> a photo of the three tramps under arrest in Dealey Plaza at the time
> of the assassination!
> Proutyism #5 - George Bush Named Three Ships
> The Prouty Version
> Recently I interviewed former CIA liaison officer L. Fletcher Prouty.
> He is a consultant for the excellent new movie on how the CIA killed
> JFK, being made by Oliver Stone. He told me that one of the projects
> he did for the CIA was in 1961 to deliver US Navy ships from a Navy
> ship yard to the CIA agents in Guatemala planning the invasion of
> Cuba. He said he delivered three ships to a CIA agent named George
> Bush, who had the 3 ships painted to look like they were civilian
> ships. That CIA agent then named the 3 ships after: his wife, his home
> town and his oil company. He named the ships: Barbara, Houston &
> Zapata. Any book on the history of the Bay of Pigs will prove the
> names of those 3 ships. Again, this is more finger prints of George
> Bush's involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Yet Bush denies his
> role in this great adventure. Why would Bush be so shy about his role
> in this war? What is the secret? Is there something dirty about this
> war that Bush & Nixon don't want the public to know about? (Source:
> "The Kennedy Assassination: The Nixon-Bush Connection" by Paul Kangas.
> Originally published in The Realist.) The Reality
> Prouty's story is absurd on several levels. Thanks to solid research
> by Jim Olmstead and Gordon Winslow, we know the following:
> There was no ship named "Zapata." The whole operation was "Operation
> Zapata," but no ship was named that.
> The ship Prouty calls the "Barbara" was in fact the "Barbara J." But
> Mrs. Bush's maiden name is "Barbara Pierce" with no middle initial,
> according to the 1999 edition of Who's Who. So no ship "Barbara J."
> could have been named after Mrs. Bush.
> The ships in question had long carried the names they had at the Bay
> of Pigs invasion, and were not renamed for that operation.
> The ships were indeed civilian ships, and not Navy ships painted to
> look like civilian ships.
> No records have been found supporting Prouty's claimed role as
> supplier of ships for the operation.
> Finally, the Assassination Records Review Board looked into the claim
> that George Bush was a CIA agent, and found the following:
>
> 4. George Bush
> A November 29, 1963, memorandum from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to
> the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the
> Department of State refers to the fact that information on the
> assassination of President Kennedy was "orally furnished to Mr. George
> Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency." At the request of the Review
> Board, the CIA made a thorough search of its records in an attempt to
> determine if the "George Bush" referred to in the memorandum might be
> identical to President and former Director of Central Intelligence
> George Herbert Walker Bush. That search determined that the CIA had no
> association with George Herbert Walker Bush during the time frame
> referenced in the document. (Source: Final Report of the Assassination
> Records Review Board, September 1998.)
>
> What is so disturbing about this is that Prouty did not merely repeat
> a silly factoid. He claimed personal knowledge of something that did
> not happen.
>
> Proutyisms are Endless
> "The Col. L. Fletcher Prouty Collection" is a photocopied volume of
> reprints from Prevailing Winds Press. It can be bought from The Last
> Hurrah bookshop. The volume contains yet more Proutyisms.
> Prouty says Oswald could be tried, even though he is dead.
> In an interview with Gallery, apparently from the early or mid-1970s,
> he is asked when the Secret Team first began to run things. He says
> they "manipulate government policy and have probably done so since
> 1959 or 1960." (In his book JFK, The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to
> Assassinate John F. Kennedy, Prouty has the "High Cabel" planning the
> Korean and Vietnam wars at the end of World War II.)
> He recounts a supposed episode in World War II in which Gurka
> soldiers, fighting for the British, slipped into a German camp and
> slit the throats of every other German while they were asleep. This,
> according to Prouty, was to intimidate the remainder of the Germans,
> and was effective, as the next day the Germans broke camp and ran
> away.
> He says the U.S. lost 970 F-4 Phantom aircraft over Hanoi during the
> Vietnam War.
> In the same Gallery interview, he says it's wrong to build any F-16
> fighters, since the Mig-25 Foxbat can fly at 2,200 miles per hour. To
> quote him: "If they can do 2,200 miles an hour, we have not got the
> right to pay for the production of any fighter in this country that
> can't do 2,201 miles an hour or better. We're wasting billions of
> dollars on crud." (Reality: The F-16 badly outclasses every Soviet-
> made fighter it has ever faced, and has a 71-0 score in air-to-air
> combat. Source: Lockeed Martin)
> And the most "interesting" claim of all: That Korean airlines flight
> 007 was downed by "an explosive device" planted aboard by the CIA.
> Given that the Soviet government admitted to shooting down the plane,
> this one counts as especially bizarre.
>
> Prouty the Environmentalist
> Unlike support for Scientology or the Liberty Lobby (see above),
> support for environmentalism is pretty mainstream. And Prouty was
> indeed an environmentalist, as shown by his article titled "The Law of
> Earth." The problem comes when Prouty completely mangles several key
> factual issues. He appears to have been no more reliable discussing
> ecology than he is when discussing the Vietnam War, the Kennedy
> assassination, or the Military Industrial Complex.
> Prouty the Political Activist
> Actor Donald Sutherland (below, right) played a mysterious "Mr. X" in
> the movie JFK. The inspiration for "Mr. X" is none other than L.
> Fletcher Prouty. This is not an inference or supposition. Oliver Stone
> introduced Prouty to the National Press Club as the man who was the
> basis for "Mr. X," and many of this mysterious figure's words are
> almost verbatim from Prouty. However, some of Prouty's political
> connections were not the sort that would find favor among politically-
> active Hollywood leftists - nor indeed among sensible people.
>
> The following is taken from Edward J. Epstein's The Assassination
> Chronicles.
>
> Aside from advising Oliver Stone, Prouty is also extremely active
> with other conspiracy-hunters. He served, for example, as editorial
> adviser to publications of the futuristic Church of Scientology; as a
> consultant to the far right Lyndon LaRouche Organization, who also
> provided its convention with a presentation comparing the U.S.
> government's prosecution of Lyndon LaRouche (for mail fraud) "to the
> persecution of Socrates"; a board member of the Populist Action
> Committee, where he joined Robert Weems, a former leader of the Ku
> Klux Klan, and John Rarick, the organizer of the White Citizens
> Council; and as a featured speaker for the anti-civil rights
> organization called the Liberty Lobby, whose founder, Willis Carto,
> also set up the Institute for Historic Review, a disseminator of books
> and videotapes that allege that the Nazi death camps in Europe were
> fictions devised by Zionist propaganda to justify tax money being
> donated to Israel. (It also published Prouty's own book, The Secret
> Team: the CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the
> World.)
> Prouty also exposed the machinations of putative global conspiracies.
> For example, when the Liberty Lobby held its annual Board of Policy
> convention in 1991, he presented a special seminar, "Who Is the
> Enemy?," which blamed the high price of oil on a systematic plot of a
> cabal to shut down oil pipelines deliberately in the Middle East.
> "Why?" he asked, and explained to the seminar: "Because of the
> Israelis. That is their business on behalf of the oil companies.
> That's why they get $3 billion a year from the U.S. taxpayer." His
> enemy list also included the CIA, usurers, school textbooks, the
> media, political parties, international banks, federal crises-planning
> exercises, and the U.S.-Soviet Trade and Economic Council (which,
> according to Prouty, had stage-managed, along with David Rockefeller,
> the liquidation of the Berlin Wall to profit from "the rubles and the
> gold").
>
> So this is the intellectual provenance of the man Oliver Stone chose
> as his technical adviser - and the man called "X" . . . .
>
> Prouty/X's secret knowledge about the elite's organizing principle and
> the "war system" derives from a very special source - a suppressed
> Kennedy administration study, which he discussed in the Liberty
> Lobby's Radio Free America on December 14, 1989. He explained that
> this study was so secret that the group of "power brokers" who
> conducted it met, according to Prouty, "in an underground storage and
> security area" in the Hudson Valley of New York called "Iron
> Mountain." The explosive issue they addressed was: Could America
> survive "if and when a condition of permanent peace should arise"?
> Their conclusion, which "X" would echo in the film JFK two years
> later, was "the organization of society for the possibility of war is
> its principal political stabilizer"; without a believable war threat
> "no government could remain in power," and consequently "the
> elimination of war . . . implies the eventual elimination of national
> sovereignty." He explains on this radio program and in a subsequent
> issue of Spotlight, the newspaper of the Liberty Lobby, that these
> conclusions come directly from the report from this Iron Mountain
> group - which he has obtained a copy of (and that the Institute for
> Historic Review republished). He concludes the program by relating
> about the "high cabal . . . calling the shots."
>
> While Prouty quotes accurately from the Report from Iron Mountain, he
> fails to realize it was a complete hoax. There was no group in
> underground storage vaults in Iron Mountain, no study of the
> elimination of the war threat, no report from power brokers. The
> "Report from Iron Mountain" was a brilliant spoof by political
> satirist Leonard Lewin of think tanks in 1967. . . . [Lewin could not]
> forsee . . . that this hoax would reemerge a quarter of a century
> later, first in radical-right radio broadcasts and Liberty Lobby
> publications, and then as the connective logic of Oliver Stone's film
> JFK. (pp. 578-580)