Carl Oglesby - The Yankee and Cowboy War

Carl Oglesby

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The astonishing link

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deposing of Nixon

Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate and Beyond

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DALLAS AND WATERGATE ARE CONCRETE LINKS IN A CHAIN OF OMINOUS EVENTS... A HIDDEN DRAMA OF COUP AND COUNTERCOUP WHICH REPRESENTS THE LIFE OF AN INNER POWER SPHERE, AN INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT, CAPABLE OF ANY ACT, SETTING ITSELF ABOVE THE LAW AND BEYOND MORAL RULE: A CLANDESTINE AMERICAN STATE.

from The Yankee and Cowboy War

No writer of fiction could have conjured the nightmare events of our recent past. Only an entirely new way of looking at them could make sense out of what on the surface seems an insane pattern of violence, villainy and horror.

The Yankee and Cowboy War provides the approach and the evidence we need to understand what is happening in America. We urge you to read itif you have the nerve to take the naked truth.

The most readable book on conspiracies and assassinations I have read and also the most stimulating. I think Oglesby is one of our first-rate political writers, skilled, always interesting, and with a rare gift for making political theory as lucid and exciting as a good narrative.

Norman Mailer

To my mother

Copyright 1976, 1977, by Carl Oglesby

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-23321 SBN 425-03493-3

BERKLEY MEDALLION BOOKS are published by Berkley Publishing Corporation 200 Madison Avenue New York, N. Y. 10016

BERKLEY MEDALLION BOOK TM 757,375 Printed in the United States of America Berkley Medallion Edition, SEPTEMBER, 1977

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to quote from published material:

Carroll Quigley for excerpts of his book Tragedy and Hope, copyright 1966 by Carroll Quigley.

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward for excerpts of their book All the Presidents Men, copyright 1974 by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.

Walter Cronkite for permission to quote from his March 1974 interview with Robert Vesco, copyright 1974 by CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

Doubleday & Company, Inc. for use of excerpts from Just About Everybody versus Howard Hughes by David B. Tinnin. Copyright 1973 by David B. Tinnin. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Andrew St. George for permission to quote from his article The Cold War Comes Home, copyright 1973 by Harpers magazine. Reprinted from the November 1973 issue by special permission.

Bernard Barker and Eugenio Martinez for permission to use excerpts of their article Mission Impossible, copyright 1974 by Harpers magazine.

Acknowledgments

Many people helped. Special thanks for the special help from Bob Katz, Ann Koutso, Toby Kranitz, and Jim Kostman.

Contents

i

CLANDESTINE AMERICA

1. Yankees and Cowboys: A Perspective on

the Dallas-Watergate Decade 1

2. Clandestine AmericaThree Sources 14

II

DALLAS

3. The Whole Bay of Pigs Thing 47

4. Dealey Plaza 80

5. 1968 161

III

WATERGATE

6. The Hughes Connection 173

7. The Watergate Plane Crash 227

8. McCord, Double Agent 268

IV

NEITHER YANKEE NOR COWBOY

9. Who Killed JFK? 319

APPENDIX: The Official Theory of the Watergate Plane Crash 325

NOTES 337

INDEX 365

Preface to the Berkley Edition

The apperance of this new edition of The Yankee and Cowboy War confronts me with the temptation to update the book across the board. Since publication, Carter has become president, the JFK and King assassination cases have been reopened by the Congress, there has been more heavy commotion within the Hughes empire, and accounts published by such Watergate heroes as John Dean (Blind Ambition, 1976) and Fred Thompson (At That Point in Time, 1976) have further strengthened the view that there is some important, still-concealed connection between Watergate and the CIA. These matters tie directly to the themes explored in this book. But since a general update would still be premature, I decided to restrict my textual changes to a few corrections of fact and adjustments of style, except for the insertion of one new passage, a Yankee-Cowboy analysis of the coming of President Carter, at the end of chapter 8. This addition allows me to bring to a fuller close my argument that Watergate, like Dallas, was a coup detat, culminating in the installation of a new president and a new executive elite.

C.O.

March 1977