Lane - Plausible Denial

PLAUSIBLE
DENIAL

Was the CIA Involved
in the Assassination of JFK?

MARK LANE

A HERMAN GRAF BOOK
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Copyright 1991, 2011 by Mark Lane

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ISBN: 978-1-61608-359-5

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To Patricia Erdner Lane

I began this journey before I met you but together we have resolved to stay the course, whatever the consequences, until the truth about the death of the president is available to all who wish to hear it.

Without your love, patience, friendship, research, editorial suggestions, even criticism, to say nothing of your typing, this work could not have been accomplished.

Together we have cried tears of frustration, and celebrated moments of joy as well, as we wrote these pages. That is as it should be. William Hazlitt perhaps said it best:

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the differences between what things are and what they ought to be.

ML.

In Gratitude

I have not been alone during the past twenty-eight years as I kept the watch. Many people, then strangers to me, some of them now treasured friends, as well as old allies, have provided help, advice, encouragement, support, and evidence.

In this, my last work about the death of the president, I salute you.

Thank you Donald Freed, Dick Gregory, Ann Lane, Bertrand Russell, Lawrence and Pat Lane, Linus Pauling, Arnold Toynbee, Richard Sprague, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Arthur P. Cohen, Ted Gandolfo, Fletcher Prouty, Emile de Antonio, Paul McCartney, Steve Jaffe, Norman Mailer, Graham Hodges, Robert Tannenbaum, Shirley Martin, Cyril Wecht, Penn Jones, Dorothy Kilgallen, Willis Carto, Florence Kennedy, Jim Garrison, Jean Hill.

I especially recognize those persons who served in the United States Congress and there fulfilled their constitutional contribution in reference to this matter. I acknowledge the contribution to this effort: Richard Schweicker, Don Edwards, Henry B. Gonzales, Andrew Young, Bella Abzug, Richardson Preyer, Christopher Dodd, Herman Badillo, Mervyn Dymally, and Mario Biaggi.

Members of the Fourth Estate who served their principles over the years regarding the death of their president comprise a relatively short list, led by Peter Kihss of the New York Times, Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Joseph Trento of the Wilmington News journal and Penn Jones of the Midlothian Mirror.

Thank you George OToole, John Stockwell, ''Paul,'' Phillip Agee, and Victor Marchetti, all former CIA officers; Arthur Murtagh, William Turner, and Wes Sall former Special Agents of the FBI and those still active officers of the CIA and FBI who, understandably, have requested that my public recognition of their continuing efforts to serve their nation be postponed.

When all others said no, for reasons I fear unrelated to philosophical contribution or potential profit, Neil Ortenberg and his Thunder's Mouth Press said yes. We are now together in Shakespeare's "thunder's mouth" and will see if our passion shakes the world as he promised.

CONTENTS

Rush to Judgment review, by Norman Mailer

Nation article, 7/88, by Joseph McBride

Nation article, 8/88, by Joseph McBride

Lyndon B. Johnson, statements

CHRONOLOGY