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JFK, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate

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JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (Second Edition)
By L. Fletcher Prouty

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The true story of the man who inspired Oliver Stone's JFK—now with a new foreword by Jesse Ventura.
Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, the former CIA operative known as “X,” offers a history-shaking perspective on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. His theories were the basis for Oliver Stone’s controversial movieJFK. Prouty believed that Kennedy’s death was a coup d’état, and he backs this belief up with his knowledge of the security arrangements at Dallas and other tidbits that only a CIA insider would know (for example, that every member of Kennedy’s cabinet was abroad at the time of Kennedy’s assassination). His discussion of the elite power base he believes controlled the U.S. government will scare and enlighten anyone who wants to know who was really behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 40 black-and-white illustrations

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Amazon Sales Rank: #84514 in Books
Published on: 2011-04-01
Original language: English
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416 pages

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From Publishers Weekly
Prouty, who was a Washington insider for nearly 20 years--in the last few of them as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Kennedy--has a highly unusual perspective to offer on the assassination and the events that led up to it. Familiar to moviegoers as the original of the anonymous Washington figure, played by Donald Sutherland in the Oliver Stone's movie JFK , who asks hero Jim Garrison to ponder why Kennedy was killed, Prouty leaves no doubt where he stands. The president, he claims, had angered the military-industrial establishment with his procurement policies and his determination to withdraw from Vietnam, and had threatened to break the CIA into "a thousand pieces" after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. His death was in effect a coup d'etat that placed in the White House a very different man with a very different approach--one much more acceptable to what Prouty consistently calls "the power elite." Although he declares that such an elite has operated, supranationally, throughout history, and is all-powerful, he never satisfactorily explains who its members are and how it functions--or how it has allowed the current East-West rapprochement to take place. Still, this behind-the-scenes look at how the CIA has shaped postwar U.S. foreign policy is fascinating, as are Prouty's telling questions about the security arrangements in Dallas, his knowledge of the extraordinary government movements at that time (every member of the Cabinet was out of the country when Kennedy was shot) and his perception that most of the press has joined in the cover-up ever since. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Prouty, the mysterious "X" in Oliver Stone's JFK , promises to explain why Kennedy was assassinated. Instead, he delivers a muddled collection of undocumented, bizarre theories, most significantly that a super-powerful, avaricious power elite engineered the Cold War and all its pivotal events--Korea, Vietnam, the U-2 incident, the Bay of Pigs, and the Kennedy assassination. Although they are never identified, these shadowy technocrats, working through the CIA, allegedly had Kennedy murdered because he was on the brink of ending America's commitment to Vietnam, along with its billions of dollars of military contracts. Prouty avoids some very important issues. Would Kennedy, a Cold War warrior's warrior, have indeed ended American support for Diem? And why couldn't the omnipotent power elite ensure the election of Richard Nixon, its preferred candidate, in 1960--especially since Kennedy won by only .02 percent? A much better choice is John M. Newman's JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power ( LJ 3/15/92). See also James DiEugenio's Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case , reviewed in this issue, p. 123.--Ed.
- Karl Helicher, Upper Merion Twp . Lib., King of Prussia, Pa.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Following Oliver Stone's JFK, Prouty (whom Stone depicted as ``X,'' Jim Garrison's secret informant on the military-industrial complex) offers an update on the assassination. Anyone new to assassination studies will find Prouty's many theses (not much different than those he discussed in The Secret Team, 1973) unsettling at the very least, and it seems unlikely that every single column of smoke Prouty points at has no fire at its base aside from a blaze of paranoia, especially when he is not given to paranoid phraseology. Here, he adds nothing new to the theories set forth by the Stone film, only spells them out. Prouty's point of view comes from his nine-year stint as a chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, carrying out secret operations against Vietnam and Cuba, among other countries. These ``Black Ops,'' which included infiltrating CIA teams into foreign countries and building up insurgencies, in many ways married the CIA to the military-industrial complex. Prouty outlines how the government has carried out policies meant to swell defense contracts while maintaining low-intensity wars since 1945; tells how, in that year, he watched US equipment stockpiled on Okinawa being shipped to Indochina, where we armed all sides for their upcoming conflicts--all support for his contention that there's an elite power-base behind the US government, which knowingly or unknowingly fulfills its needs. On the assassination, Prouty restates many themes whose familiarity and thinness of detail here in no way lessen their force. But one finds spotty scaffolding that brings into question whole sections of the assassination plot. Conspiracy? Perhaps. Carried out for the reasons Prouty suggests? Maybe. But does he present the facts? No, just theories. The big picture, in large strokes, by a man of unusual courage in going out on limbs. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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116 of 121 people found the following review helpful.
An Admirble Attempt at Truth-telling by a Good Man
By Gianmarco Manzione
If you have come to this book looking for another lean, persuasive investigation of the various conspiracies that could have led to the killing of JFK, you have come to the wrong place. prouty's book reaches far wider than that narrow scope, exploring every square inch of his vast, first-hand knowledge of the workings and consequences of the so-called Cold War (though I don't see how the bloody loss of millions of lives during that time constitute a war that was anything but blazing hot).
Prouty, a former Air Force colonel and CIA insider, manages to observe his life's work from an objective standpoint that raises countless probing and often hair-raising questions and warnings. Reaching back to the origins of the cold war and its effects on the policy and history that would soon be made, Prouty paints an expansive, thorough and detailed account not only of the JFK assassination, but of the entire political and industrial framework festering in the 20 years leading up to that moment that allowed such a tragedy to take place.
Contrary to most other books that deal --either obliquely or directly -- with JFK's murder, prouty's endures with a relevance that has as much to say about our own time as it does about Kennedy's. He foresees all the problems of a tyrannically powerful CIA that functions as the President's puppet master. "Many of the skilled saboteurs and terrorists of today are CIA students of yesterday," Prouty asserts in what amounts to an astonishing revelation when one considers that, among others, Osama Bin Laden is one of those "CIA students of yesterday." But it isn't only terrorists: it is the people we put in place as American puppets around the world. Take Hamad Karzai, for example, former CIA agent and millionaire now serving as President of Afghanistan.
The intimate and omnipotent mingling of money, military, covert intelligence operations and politics is precisely the network of power Prouty implicates not only in the crime that was the JFK murder, but the crime of so many brutal wars and coups performed by the CIA throughout the world to this very day. We are under the tyranny of an intelligence elite, an elite that happens to have the most powerful military and political machines on the planet at its service.
As prouty shows, Truman regretted his approval of the formation of the CIA toward the end of his presidency. Eisenhower tried to curb its powers but failed miserably, and when Kennedy fired Allen Dulles -- CIA chief at the time -- and not only threatened but actually worked to break the CIA "into a thousand pieces," he was killed. If that strieks you as an irrational logical leap, you need to read Prouty's book.
It is admirable that he undertook the writing of the book himself, rather than resorting to the services of some professional writer as so many politicians and military officials do for their memoirs and other books. Consequently, Prouty's book suffers a bit from a lack of the kind of polish it might have had. He struggles to organize his vast knowledge into the kind of coherant narrative he envisions and promises to no avail throughout. The reader has to work a little harder here to put the many pieces together that prouty lays out.
Nonetheless, Prouty's book reads like a desperate, angry and even frantic attempt at telling the truth by a man whose writing voice belies a remarkable warmth and sincerity. He knows so much and is so appalled at the hypocrisy he witnessed throughout his career -- hypocrisy that turned to horror -- that his book reads like the result of a minor god angrily shaking his fists and roaring in a locked room. His background, littered with merits and accolades, backs up every claim he makes here.
Prouty's book is entirely based on first-hand knowledge and expertise he gleaned over the course of a distinguished career: the precarious security arrangements in Dallas that day, Kennedy's advocacy of a US note that would compete with the federal note, his vow to remove all troops from Vietnam by 1965 and how this threatened the money-making machine that was the Vietnam "conflict," the utter astonishment in Washington at Kennedy's victory over Nixon, a man for whom various war and intelligence initiatives had already been drawn up for him to sign off on at the start of his presidency -- before he was even elected!
From its first hour, Kennedy's thousand-day presidency threatened so many established powers, so many benefactors of the military industrial complex, that there was no way it could have ended up otherwise. Even Robert McNamara, a great admirer of the president and godfather to one of Bobby Kennedy's kids, understood that a helicopter-augmented war like Vietnam would "churn out big dollars," that the war itself was capable of creating the $500 billion in military-industrial profits it eventually raised. Any former Ford executive understands the profits inherent in the collusion between military and industry.
As Prouty reports, quoting the controversial novel "Report From iron Mountain," "The war system is indispensable to the stable political structure . . . war provides the sense of external necessity without which no government can long remain in power." This is precisely the bleak "necessity" that Kennedy eventually grew to rebuke, and it was that rebuke that put the nails in his coffin long before his trip to Dallas.
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61 of 65 people found the following review helpful.
A Sobering Look Into the Past of JFK and the CIA
By Jon W. Davis
Prouty was well postioned to tell his story as seen from inside the intelligence community. Unknown to most people Kennedy challenged the hegemony of the privately owned and controlled Federal Reserve. In the summer of 1963 Kennedy signed an executive order to create 4 billion dollars in United States Notes, in direct competion to Federal Reserve Notes. Why? The United States Notes were based on the government silver stores and their creation did not create interest payements to the world bankers and owners of the Fed. Bills in denominations of $2, $5, $10, and $20's were authorized and the $2's and $5's were printed and in circulation. The $10's and $20 were being printed when Kenndy was killed. In Johnsons first month in office the US Notes were recalled from circulation. Go to any good coin shop and ask to buy a 1963 US Note. See it for yourself! The one gem in Prouty's book that ties Kennedy to this issue is a few sentences where he discusses Kennedy sending Robert McNamara to meet with the Governors of the Federal Reserve to let them know that there are going to be big changes in the nations money system. There is very little information out there about Kennedy and money and Prouty clearly knew there was a connection. Why is the topic of Kennedy and the money he created so obscure and unknown? The only other president in the history of the country to create US Notes directly from the authority of the US Government was Lincoln with his greenbacks during the civil war. The only two presidents to buck the money powers were both assasinated in office. I think Prouty shows a possible origin of one of the smoking guns.
49 of 52 people found the following review helpful.
Intelligent reading
By Rollie Anderson
Now that we've made it through the nauseating hoopla of the 40th anniversary where the media bent over backwards to prove that Oswald "could" have done it I can only say that this book may be the only one that skips all the "window dressing" and spells out the real reasons we should continue to suspect people in high places as being the culprits. It's a bit jagged and disjointed at times but remember that these facts come from the most reliable source ever. The guy that was there in the midst of all the treachery. One must answer the question of "who had the power to pull all security out of Dealy Plaza and allow the assassination to happen?" before ever breaching the question of whodunnit. Not one network dared to go near that problem. A must-read for anyone who really wants to know WHY.
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Folks are travelling from across the country to lobby congress for Healthcare Not Warfare on Tues. It's time for us to step up and make sure they have an overwhelming pile of signatures on the letter linked below to wield against the non-believing congress critters. See the message below, sign, and forward!

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Please sign this letter to the Senate Democratic Caucus asking them to support the DNC Afghanistan Withdrawal Resolution and Sanders' American Health Security Act of 2011 (S.915).

This letter will be distributed to the members of the Senate Democratic Caucus on June 7, as part of the June 7 Rally and Lobby Day with the Nurses. (If you can't make it to DC for the rally and lobby day, then please mark you calendars for the June 7 National Call-in Day.)

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The worst legislative session in Florida history is over, but the fight for Florida’s future is just beginning.

Join us at the Festival For Florida’s Future, June 4th in Orlando, for a day of family fun and activism.

The Festival for Florida’s Future is not a rally, but a daylong celebration of what it means to be a working Floridian. This day of activism, education, food and music will serve as a kick-off for a larger, sustained campaign to organize Floridians from all backgrounds and walks of life to take action in meaningful, effective ways that will help build a better Florida.

At the Festival, Progress Florida will be working alongside our progressive allies, including hosting a workshop on social media and internet organizing. Will we see you at the Festival on June 4th?

Register for the Festival For Florida’s Future today.

With only 29% of Floridians approving of Gov. Scott’s job performance (57% disapprove), now is the time to continue to build this growing movement of working Floridians fighting to move our state in a progressive direction.¹

For progress,

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MEMORIAL DAY 2011 UNITED STATES

2011-05-29T23:59:00.000-04:00

Whatever the threat, be it real or a false flag operation, these brave men and women, answer the call to protect their homes, their families, their country. We will always be eternally grateful.

It is the
VETERAN,
not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion. It is the VETERAN,
not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press. It is the VETERAN,
not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the VETERAN, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to assemble.
It is the VETERAN,
not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the VETERAN,
not the politician, Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the
VETERAN who salutes the Flag,

It is the VETERAN who serves under the Flag,

ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON
THEM.

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Murdering Liberty Killing Hope Read it here today, an eye opener about the false flag operation of 911. The truth must never be allowed to die, no manner how belligerent and threatening they BECOME.

The following pages separate the wheat from the chaff, the strong
from the weak, the wise from the uninformed.
This is a story predicated upon real life. We, the civilian population
of the world are not trained or educated in the finer distinctions
of global finance. Our perception of millions, billions and trillions
of dollars, let alone millions, billions or trillions of ANYTHING is
hopelessly mired in the gunk of enigma. We just don’t get it. In fact
our eyes generally glaze over and we’re ready to move on to the
next subject of study, the next point of distinction whenever anything
larger then a bread-box is mentioned. It’s just human nature.
Add to that vast sums of gold, illegal gold at that, even stolen gold,
national treasury gold, and we seem to want to head for the nearest
exit.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, because the choice is really yours, the
events described in the following pages are true. You see, real life is
a complicated and convoluted mess of various seemingly disjointed
and unconnected events somehow strewn together to make up
the many years we call “our life” and rarely do our lives amount to
anything more then having children, working and enjoying a few
pleasurable moments. We are not the elite. Their lives are things we
imagine for brief moments while we’re busy living our own lives.
These people don’t walk in our footsteps but even more importantly,
we don’t walk in theirs.
Take a walk with me, in theirs …the rest is here, CLICK HERE WILL OPEN IN EBOOK PDF FILE!

The above links open the book in a PDF file format, if you want to read the text without the underlying pictures, which I found difficulty in seeing the text, CLICK HERE!

Cautero controversial history

2010-09-10T12:23:00.000-04:00

Cautero comes to Citrus County with controversial history

Submitted by Robby Douglas on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:18pm.

Vince Cautero (Photo Courtesy: Marco Eagle News, Naples News Media Group)

Vince Cautero, who is Citrus County Administrator Brad Thorpe's choice to replace reassigned County Development Services Director Gary Maidhof, comes to the county with a controversial history behind him.

According to Naples News andSouthwest Florida Online, Cautero had to resign from his Collier County post in Southwest Florida following controversy over a golf course.

"Vince Cautero, Collier’s development czar, resigned that year (1997) after a county audit revealed that employees of his department who failed to collect $2.4 million in impact fees from golf courses had gotten free rounds of golf," according to Naples News. (Story here)

Southwest Florida Online alleges that when Cautero was in Hendry County as the county planner, he was not licensed by the state as a building official, but gave "marching orders" to Building and Zoning director Bob Bott. (Story here)

The publication says that Cautero does have certification from the American Planning Association as a planner. "To become a certified planner, APA members must meet certain education and experience requirements and pass a written examination, given twice a year, in May and November. Cautero has been a member of the Association since 1986," the publication says.

Southwest Florida Online also quotes Collier County Commissioner Frank Halas as saying Cautero was the "darling of the developers." The commissioner accused Cautero of bending or ignoring rules to allow developers to get their wishes.

Cautero also served as Community Development Director for Marco Island before resigning and going to Hendry County. He told Marco Eagle News that his annual salary at his new job in Hendry County would be $95,000, compared to the $84,978 he made with the city. (Story here)

"Community Development Director Vince Cautero left his post Aug. 4 (2006) for a similar one in Hendry County in order to qualify for a better pension from the state retirement plan," Marco Eagle News says.

Prior to leaving for Collier County, Cautero served as Citrus County Development Services director for the county from 1990-95. Prior to serving as the director of Citrus County’s Development Services, Cautero had served variously as the county’s Planning Director, chief of Comprehensive planning and Planner II.

Presently, a five-member panel of "senior Citrus County managers", including County Administrator Brad Thorpe, has now picked Cautero as the top candidate for Development Services Director after interviews with the final dozen candidates, and Cautero will now go before county commission on Sept. 14 for confirmation.

Cautero has a master’s degree in Urban Planning with a specialization in Land Use and Environmental Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Employees Pay More and Get Less from Medical Coverage

2010-09-03T14:34:00.003-04:00

Employees Pay More and Get Less from Medical Coverage

By Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today
Published: September 03, 2010

WASHINGTON -- Workers are paying 14% more for their employer-sponsored plans than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a new survey.

Workers paid nearly $3,997 this year toward the cost of family healthcare coverage -- up $482 from the average employee share in 2009 and a jump of 47% from the average employee share for family coverage in 2005.

Meanwhile, employers are paying an average of $9,773, down $87 from what they paid last year. Moreover, 30% of companies surveyed said they reduced the scope of benefits at the same time that they increased the amount their employees must pay for health insurance in the past year.

The data come from a 2010 Employer Health Benefits Survey released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust.

"The striking finding is the increase in the employee's share with no increase in the employer's share," said Drew Altman, Kaiser Family Foundation president and CEO in a Thursday call with reporters.

Employees with individual coverage are contributing an average of $899 in 2010, up from an average of $779 in 2009, according to the Kaiser telephone survey, which covered public and private employers with three or more workers and was conducted from January through May.

Altman said the struggling economy has caused businesses to shift more of the costs onto workers by requiring them to pay a greater share of their healthcare costs.

In addition to the higher premiums, many employers are also raising the annual deductibles -- 27% of employees faced deductibles of at least $1,000 in 2010 compared with last year when 22% of workers had deductibles of $1,000 or more, the survey found.

What employees pay for their healthcare costs has increased much more than their wages, the report found. Since 2005, workers' contributions to premiums have gone up 47% while wages increased 18% (and inflation rose 12%).

"From a consumer perspective, the cost of health insurance just keeps going up faster than wages," Altman said.

The survey also looked at the most common type of insurance offered to employees and found that Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) continue to dominate the employer market, enrolling 58% of covered workers. The average premiums for a family PPO plan topped $14,000 annually in 2010, with $3,823 of tab paid by the employee, representing a 20% increase from 2006.

(Another recent survey by United Benefit Advisors found that PPOs covered about 66% of all employees).

About 157 million employees receive health insurance through their employers, according to Kaiser.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), the healthcare reform law signed by President Obama on March 23, contains provisions that are supposed to slow the growth of healthcare spending, but it's unclear if those savings will translate into savings for the average worker.

Altman called the ACA "the only thing we have coming on line as a country to control costs other than what now seems like the primary default strategy in the private sector -- shifting costs to people."

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Homosassa-Kirby scam team invade county.

2010-04-23T07:04:00.003-04:00

A van traveling through the county, from Lake City, FL, had a team of young people being dropped off and going door to door selling Kirby vacuum cleaners. Now the product itself has a long history of being a dependable brand and usually high price, but if your are willing to put the bucks out for it, generally most people are satisfied. However, it is not the product we are referring to here, it's the hard sell with between three and four individuals entering your home demonstrating the Kirby and never taking your repeated, no, no, no, I don't want it for an answer! But where the scam begins is during their calling for financial arrangements with the lender, these new machines sell for around $2800.00, while their on the phone, wheeling and dealing, they are taking the machine that they showed you in your home outside, packing it up, and bringing in another machine, that no one mentions, is a refurbished machine, that they say you are getting a great deal on, the old bait and switch routine, so caveat emptor!

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