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Summary: Please read with a critical mind
Review: A) Strengths of the Book
1) The author, "Gregory Douglas," is evidently very knowledgeable about the CIA and the Kennedy Assassination.
2) The author writes straight to the point, and avoids verbosity. His style of writing suggests a logical and clear mind.
B) Weaknesses of the Book
1) The alleged documents in the book agrees with the Soviet claim that they shot down the U2 piloted by Gary Powers. This is contradicted by a much more credible source, L. Fletcher Prouty, who wrote that the U2 was forced to land and was NOT shot down.
2) The alleged documents claim that a total of 3 shots were fired at Kennedy. This is contradicted by overwhelming evidence that at least 6, to as many as approximately 10 shots were fired during that assassination.
3) The alleged documents claim that there were two snipers, located in the Texas School Book Depository building and in the grassy knoll, respectively. There is strong evidence that there was a sniper in the building directly behind Kennedy, which the documents fail to cite.
4) The alleged documents claim that the hit team was composed of 4 members recruited from the Corsican Mafia by Sam Giancana of the Chicago Mafia. There are several statements about the operational and getaway plan that stretches my credulity. For example, 3 members of the hit team allegedly allowed complete strangers to participate in, or to execute, their getaway after Kennedy was killed. Why would these Corsican mafiosi entrust their getaway wholly or partially to complete stangers? I cannot state the other dubious allegations in these documents for reasons of brevity.
5) According to a former military intelligence analyst, a Top Secret document has the following features:
5a) "Top Secret" is stamped or typed at the top and at the bottom of EACH page of the main text;
5b) There is a "Modifications Page," where any modifications are logged;
5c) There is a "Read By Page," where all the readers of the document are logged, or log themselves.
NONE of these features can be found in the alleged "Top Secret" documents of this book. Only ONE page partially satisfies item 5a above, with single "Top Secret" typed at the top, and a theatrical exclamation point appended to it: "Top Secret!"
C) Conclusion
I agree with Professor James H. Fetzer's review, in this website, that this book "appears to be a fraud." Read it if you like, but please read with a critical mind.
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Summary: Highest Praise
Review: After an intense interest in the Kennedy assassination, and the struggle to discover the truth, I recently came across a copy of Regicide. I was dumbfounded -- this book is the most coherent portrait I have ever seen of how and why Kennedy was killed, who was behind it and who pulled the triggers. The conclusions reached in this book independently corroborated with the facts I have gleaned from other sources and that I trust: For instance, the three Corsican assassins that shot him, the use of an exploding bullet from the grassy knoll, Lee Oswald's part in the U2 incident concerning Gary Powers, his status as a double agent, CIA motivations for the murder lying in Cuba, Vietnam, and Kennedy's detante with the Soviet Union, double crossing the CIA, who recruited the mafia, the military and LBJ into complicity.This sews it all up. The actual existence of OPERATION ZIPPER is the bomb that has been waiting to go off for forty years. P.S. This is not an irresponsible book, because it tells the truth. We do not need to line up behind Bush and his terrorism crusade, because this nation does not need Iraq to become its next Vietnam, or the Cuba that Kennedy kept us out of.
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Summary: Regicide: The Official Assassination of JFK
Review: Book is well written & to the point. A real throat choker and good Hollywood material...
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Summary: Regicide Rejuvenates the JFK Assasination
Review: Buy it. Read it. You won't be sorry, it''s a stunner.
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Summary: There is light at the end of the tunnel
Review: Getting hooked on the JFK assassination story as a kid watching Geraldo in 1975, I have read over thirty books on the subject. Some that made sense, some that were fiction (posner). What this book does is put alot of the various information into context. So much of what has been written over the years gets pushed aside by the mainstream media because the fingers were being pointed in so many differant directions. The mafia did it, or the cubans, or the texans. This could go on and on. This story shows that some or all of the groups often blamed for the murder, either were involved or at least knew that it was going to take place.If the documents in this story stand up then this is the smoking gun that everybody has been looking for. This is the first book that starts from the top down.It looks at who got the ball rolling . What is a surprise is that the source of the documents, Robert Crowley till the day he died, thought that the murder was justified. This is required reading for anybody that has been following the case as it shows that sooner than later the truth will come out. I just hope that the mainstream media tells the story so that people will finally realize the truth.
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Summary: The Search for JFK's Killers Is Over!
Review: Having read most of the books, and the majority of the 4.2 million word Warren Hearings as well as the U.S. House Report, I'll be honest in saying that this book by Greg Douglas is the book that EVERY friggen talk show host & newsman should be on top of! It is chilling and about as a matter of fact as you will ever see on the subject of the 1963 Coup. Official documents let it be known that Kennedy was killed because members of the CIA, his Administration, FBI head J Edgar Hoover and others felt JFK was sellling out to the Russians. Incredible writing and documents tell it ALL! Pedro Fernandez
Talk America Radio Network...
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Summary: Short Book for such a Topic
Review: I found the book to be sufficient but nothing that amazed me. Suprisingly the book is short considering the amount of evidence it gives to the JFK assassination. The author just concentrates on the documents of the assassination he has and really does not give you much of his own intrepretations or further research onto the matter.
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Summary: Short Book for such a Topic
Review: I found the book to be sufficient but nothing that amazed me. Suprisingly the book is short considering the amount of evidence it gives to the JFK assassination. The author just concentrates on the documents of the assassination he has and really does not give you much of his own intrepretations or further research onto the matter.
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Summary: One of the VERY BEST books on the JFK Assassination!
Review: I have eagerly been looking forward to reading this book, and I was not disappointed!!! If the documents cited are truly genuine, it brings a great deal of closure for many of the issues I have researched and questioned for over 30 years. There are many details in this book that "fill in the blanks" to many of the interesting, minute details one notices in other volumes on the assassination that until now, were interesting curiosities and didn't make any sense. Among these items are how LBJ knew in advance which explains Sen. Ralph Yarbrough's statement that as they were going through Dealy Plaza, that LBJ had his hand over his ear as if listening to a radio, and then crouched down in the seats as the shots began firing (Zirbel--The Texas Connection). Supplementary material in the book from J. Edgar Hoover explained that "none of the shots were fired at" LBJ (How could this be ascertained at the time?) (And of course, in the same letter, Hoover explains the sequence of shots fired without mentioning the "single bullet" theory (Beshloss and recently release tapes of LBJ's taping system) One item which recently came to light in James Bamford's "Body of Secrets" discussed plans to create a war with a spurious attack on Guantanemo Bay. Kennedy's "back channel" negotiation system, which kept the Missle Crisis from escalating was seen as a reason to remove him. Other reasons are mentioned, and in the eyes of the CIA people involved, were justifiable reasons to get rid of him. Douglas cites a KGB report which was translated and interpreted by the Defense Intelligence Agency which reads as a narrative noting various sources within intelligence and other sources. The other important document he cites is a report and documentation of what was called Operation ZIPPER, and this is the most explosive revelation. He came into possession of this report from his aquaintance with R. T. Crowly ("Crow") who held a high position in the directorate of the Central Intelligence Agency. There are still many questions unresolved, but this certainly seems to close the loop on a lot of issues, and with what we have learned from ARRB releases, it is readily apparent that our government cannot be trusted with regard to this issue--when leaders of the CIA, Hoover and the FBI, Gen. Lemnitzer of the JCS and LBJ can all be brought together to cover this up. In its effort to keep the "official" story alive, don't look for the major media to promote this expose`. The reason we have the 2nd amendment was for citizens to be protected from their own government!
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Summary: Breach of Faith
Review: I have rated this book highly because it is well-written but must further amend this and state my objections to its subject matter because it is a terrible example of breach of faith.
Robert Crowley, who supplied the author with sensitive and terrible documents about the assassination of President Kennedy, was a very senior official of the CIA, sworn to maintain the secrecy of highly sensitive and classified material under his control.
For reasons not made clear, Crowley obviously breached his trust and allowed documents of the most sensitive nature to leave his custody and control with the knowledge that they would be made public.
It seems to me that at a time when America is sorely tried by its war on terrorism, the publication of documents that do nothing but bring tremendous discredit on governmental agencies including the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff is nothing short of gross irresponsibility.
The question here is not about the authenticity of the documents: it is plainly evident that they reek of authenticity, but more a question of irresponsibility on the part of the late Mr. Crowley for releasing these classified documents and Mr. Douglas for publishing them.
Also, I have seen a small note of anti-Semitism in this work, not on the part of the author but on the part of Crowley. In these papers, he mentions the inclusion of a former Israeli official in the assassination plot. He specifically mentions Amos Manor, chief of the Shin Beth, Israel's Internal Security agency.
The statements are made that this agency supplied an individual to assist in the assassination plot. Mention is also made of the heroic Stern gang and the implication is made by Crowley that this was a terrorist organization...which it certainly was not.
The Stern people were genuine freedom fighters, not terrorists as Crowley states.
In times of national anxiety and in view of the constant harassment that the Central Intelligence Agency has been continually receiving in the media, has not the time come to back off and show a little respect for an agency that has done so much to assist and protect both the peoples of America and Israel?
Certainly, like all of us, the CIA has made its share of little errors but to heap this awful business, true as it may be, onto their heads (and the heads of others) is to my mind, doing this stellar agency a great disservice.
One should read a really positive work, "Case Closed" by the admirable Gerald Posner instead of a negative work of this kind.
Certainly, to my way of thinking,Posner has more than conclusively (and even brilliantly) proven the much-maligned Warren Commission Report to be the real truth of the tragic Kennedy killing.
He has proven, certainly to my complete satisfaction, that Oswald acted completely alone in his senseless killing.
Americans should praise their protective agencies, not question and attack them and that is why I personally cannot give this frightful and throughly depressing work a positive overall recommendation, entertaining and clearly presented at it is. Istvan Kovacs
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