H. P. Albarelli Jr. - Coup in Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD
BY DICK RUSSELL

The book you are about to read contains the strongest evidence ever published of a high-level conspiracy by the military-industrial complex and its ultra-rightwing allies to assassinate President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. As an author who has spent years researching and writing three books on the subject, I state that unequivocally.

The narrative by H. P. Albarelli Jr., coauthored with Leslie Sharp and Alan Kent, is based upon a 1963 datebook, or desk diary, kept by a mysterious, deep-cover intelligence operative named Jean Pierre Lafitte. Albarelli had written about Lafittes connection to the CIA in his 2009 book, A Terrible Mistake. Ill let the authors describe how he gained access to the datebook.

It is eerie to see this come to light after all these yearsa template, albeit intentionally cryptic, for the diabolical planning resulting in a coup dtat that haunts our national psyche. Albarelli, author of previous books probing the US governments efforts to control human behavior as well as on the JFK case, died of complications from a stroke in June 2019. He was a zealous researcher who spent years developing the context that underlies the datebook revelations. This traces back to relationships spawned in World War Two, including those with Nazis subsequently utilized by US intelligence during the Cold War.

Some of the people identified as apparent conspirators in the datebook will be familiar to students of the Kennedy assassination. Others are named for the first time publicly. The interlocking connections between Texas oil interests and intelligence operatives are examined in detail, as well as the global reach involving fascist elements threatened by the Kennedy administrations move toward peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union.

Here established beyond doubt is that the real perpetrators needed a fall guy to take the rap as a lone, Left-leaning gunman. The setup of Lee Harvey Oswald began many months before, carefully orchestrated by a cabal of evil geniuses in espionage. One of these was James Angleton, then-chief of CIA Counterintelligence. Another was Charles Willoughby, who formerly served as spymaster for General Douglas MacArthur. A third was Otto Skorzeny, Hitlers favorite commando, aided by the US to establish a postwar domicile in Francos Spain, where he created secret camps to train assassins.

In implicating Willoughby (whose possible role was first raised in my book The Man Who Knew Too Much), French hitman Jean Rene Souetre, soldier-of-fortune Thomas Eli Davis, Jr., and oil industrialist Jack Crichton, Coup in Dallas opens wider doors to which researchers have been seeking keys for years.

Albarellis book also adds corroboration to my own work as an investigative journalist, including knowledge imparted to me by double agent Richard Case Nagell. While Nagell is not named in the datebook, it provides substantiation for his stressing Mexico Citys Hotel Luma as a planning site and offers up the name of a Willoughby associate (Jack Canon) who Nagell had hinted was among several shooters in Dealey Plaza.

Coup in Dallas examines other layers of intrigue: the utilization by the conspirators of an East German call girl (Ellen Rometsch) in an effort to compromise JFK, and the alleged suicides of Washington Post publisher Philip Graham and Kennedy confidante Grant Stockdale.

Readers should not expect that Coup in Dallas means case closed. By design of Lafitte, himself very much part of the plot, his entries are thin on detail and sometimes confined to initials. Doubtless, analysis of their content will occupy researchers in search of the truth for the next fifty years. But the clues are numerous, and sometimes explicitfor example, this chilling notation two weeks before the assassination: On the wings of murder. The pigeon way for unsuspecting Lee. Clip, clip his wings.

Lafitte had died by the time the datebook was made accessible to author Hank Albarelli. It raises the question of why he would leave behind such a legacy. To assuage his guilty conscience? As a final puzzle that would tantalize and frustrate future historians? We will never know the motivation of a man who, in the words of a CIA official who knew Lafitte well, gives a whole new meaning to the label spook. Regardless, Lafittes datebook, a faux leather-bound red volume with a vintage Nazi coin taped to the inside front cover, is of immeasurable importance toward unraveling the takeover that took place that terrible day in Dallaswith ramifications that reverberate in our times. The assassination operation, Project Lancelot, is finally being exposed.

Dick Russell is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, On the Trail of the JFK Assassins, and They Killed Our President! with Jesse Ventura

PUBLISHERS STATEMENT

We are proud to bring to readers, researchers, and scholars Hank Albarelli Jr.s book Coup in Dallas, a comprehensive analysis of the machinations behind the John F. Kennedy assassination.

We do not have a definitive position on the authorship of the Jean Pierre Lafitte 1963 datebook and make no representation or warranty as to the veracity of its entries. However, we feel that Hank was a serious and dedicated researcher with absolute faith in the legitimacy of the datebooks, and his analysis ought to be part of the public record.

Tony Lyons, Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

THE LAFITTE DATEBOOK:
A LIMITED ANALYSIS BY DICK RUSSELL

Submitted September 13, 2018, upon request of a film production company interested in developing a documentary focused on the book initially titled Coup in Dallas: Who Killed JFK and Why.

Pending verification by forensic document specialists and handwriting experts, I have carefully reviewed the 1963 datebook allegedly written by Jean Pierre Lafitte. Based on the entries I have seen, cryptic as many of them are (no doubt intentionally), this is a crucial piece of new evidence indicating a high-level conspiracy that resulted in the assassination that November 22 of President John F. Kennedy. Many of the names mentioned are familiar to me as someone who has researched and published numerous articles and three books on the assassination over the past forty-plus years. A number of these names, however, were