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Despite three official investigations and hundreds of journalists and researchers, history does not know who Lee Harvey Oswald was--disgruntled loner, Russian spy, an agent of Castro; s intelligence service, low-level Mafia pawn, or a U.S. intelligency agent. Melanson takes a micro look at Oswald through the lens of espionage to provide unseen clarity into this controversy.
In this investigation into a murder that changed history, Melanson draws on intelligence community sources and interviews with key witnesses (including James Earl Ray) to point out glaring oversights and illogical conclusions in the official explanation of King's assassination.
The author of Plausible Denial and Rush to Judgment, two bestsellers on the JFK assassination, reassesses assassination of Robert Kennedy--a political murder that drastically changed the course of American politics. Targeted mailings.
Covers such controversial topics as American political assassinations, nuclear safety, Secret Service protection of the presidents, and CIA covert operations and alleged involvement in the sale of crack cocaine
Murkin was the code name chosen by the FBI for their investigation into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. Today, 20 years after the fatal shooting of the civil rights leader, Philip H. Melanson, a renowned authority on American political assassinations, unveils his own investigation into the murder. Melanson . . . has done an exhaustively thorough job on the still-mysterious King assassination. After following Melanson's meticulous pursuit of seemingly every lead in the case--including interviews with the men whose names were used as aliases for alleged killer James Earl Ray--there can be little doubt in the reader's mind that neither of the two official versions of ...
The US Central Intelligence Agency is no stranger to conspiracy and allegations of corruption. Across the globe, violent coups have been orchestrated, high-profile targets kidnapped, and world leaders dispatched at the hands of CIA agents. During the 1960s, on domestic soil, the methods used to protect their interests and themselves at the expense of the American people were no less ruthless. In CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys, Patrick Nolan fearlessly investigates the CIA’s involvement in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy—why the brothers needed to die and how rogue intelligence agents orchestrated history’s most infamous conspira...
A comprehensive history of the Secret Service provides coverage of assassinations and assassination attempts, presidential demands on the agency, the impact of a Secret Service career on its agents, and issues surrounding agency failures and gender gaps. Reprint.
Traces the death of Robert F. Kennedy, raising questions about coerced testimony and other issues
New revelations on the conspiracy and cover-up
THE ACCLAIMED BOOK, NOW IN PAPERBACK, with a reading group guide and a new afterword by the author. At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy’s change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark "Unspeakable" forces recognized that Kennedy’s interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged...