Key Points Revealed in the Book

  • Why were repeated attempts to remove FDR from office by right-wing Fascist elites ignored, and there were no prosecutions?

  • During the 1930s and 1940s, the American right and their European monarchist allies, including the Vatican, supported Nazi Germany and ignored the atrocities perpetrated against Jews.

  • Starting with World War II, the U.S. military and intelligence repeatedly employed the Mafia’s services, a practice that would continue for decades, with deadly consequences.

  • Following World War II, the U.S. secretly freed numerous Nazi war criminals to be used against America’s new enemy, the Soviet Union.

  • To break the economy of the two major Communist countries, the United States instituted a policy of containment around the Soviet Union and Red China. Any President who attempted to normalize relations with them or accepted coexistence with Communists was lied to, sabotaged, and undermined to curtail what they intended to do.

  • Underground stay-behind armies, made up of ex-Nazis and eastern European Nazi collaborators, were created throughout Europe by the CIA to contain the spread of communism, done without the U.S. government’s knowledge or approval. A joint illegal drug operation between U.S. intelligence and the Mafia funded the project.

  • The Joint Chiefs and General Douglas MacArthur committed treason when they purposely initiated the Korean War. They lied to President Truman throughout the conflict to prevent him from allowing Formosa, South Korea, and Japan to fall to the Communists, which he said he was willing to do.

  • In the late 1940s and early 1950s, eight left-leaning State Department officials suspected of being Communists suspiciously died and were most likely murdered by U.S. intelligence.

  • Jack Ruby was an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the Kefauver hearings into organized crime in 1950. Jean Pierre Lafitte, a Federal Bureau of Narcotics member, who employed Ruby’s services, used the alias Hidell. It was the same alias Lee Harvey Oswald would use in the summer of 1963.

  • The CIA murdered numerous key Mafia figures before they could testify before the Kefauver Committee to keep hidden the growing relationship between the CIA and the Mafia.

  • In the early 1950s, CIA agents suspected of being Communists were murdered by the Agency before they could testify before Congress.

  • A perpetual war machine was created in the early 1950s, made up of major defense contractors and right-wing military generals, whose sole purpose was to prepare the nation for war and expand the Military-Industrial Complex. They would destroy anyone who tried to curtail their operations.

  • An international right-wing paramilitary group, made up of private intelligence operatives from Europe and the United States, centered around Madrid. This city was the center of fascism in post-war Europe.

  • The CIA sabotaged a 1957 attempted coup in Indonesia to try and force Eisenhower to involve U.S. military forces in the conflict.

  • Eisenhower was sabotaged by his Secretary of State and the Joint Chiefs when he attempted to normalize relations with the Soviets. It led to the “massive retaliation” defense policy that characterized his administration throughout the 1950s.

  • Eisenhower’s generals repeatedly wanted to use nuclear weapons in a first-strike attack against the Soviet Union and China, but he never submitted to their pressure.

  • Around 1960, Army Generals Medaris, Taylor, Gavin, and Ridgeway resigned to protest Eisenhower’s military policy and publicly chastised the President. Eisenhower called their conduct treasonous.

  • CIA Director Allen Dulles sabotaged a 1959 coup in Cuba to overthrow Castro to prevent a left-wing Cuban government in exile from taking power.

  • The CIA sabotaged the 1960 U-2 flight that crash-landed in the Soviet Union to prevent Eisenhower from signing a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviets.

  • An internal struggle regarding how to combat communism existed between the right-wing and left-wing at the CIA, which would result in Oswald’s defection and his eventual involvement in the JFK assassination.

  • During the Bay of Pigs invasion, the CIA right-wing planned to murder the left-wing Cuban government in exile. The Cuban exile government was put together by the progressive State Department and the left-wing at the CIA.

  • CIA operatives Cord Meyer and Priscilla Johnson were one-time supporters of one-world government. In the late 1950s, along with Harvard’s Russian Research Center and the MIT Center for International Studies, they were involved in Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union. Ex-Communist Harold Isaacs, another supporter of one-world government, led the MIT Center. Johnson, Meyer, and Isaacs allegedly “woke up” as they got older and worked to combat communism. After the assassination, Johnson “babysat” Oswald’s wife Marina, and Meyer became a suspect in JFK’s assassination. Isaacs had a connection to Oswald’s cousin, Dorothy Murret, who may also have had intelligence connections.

  • Right-wing anti-Communists shadowed Oswald and directed him from the time he returned from his Russian defection until his murder at the hands of Jack Ruby.

  • Oswald’s defection to the Soviet Union was a hoax, designed to make it appear he had been murdered in the Soviet Union and replaced with an impostor. The plan was for it to look like a Soviet “sleeper agent” returned to the U.S. in place of Oswald. U.S. intelligence could then set up this Soviet “sleeper agent” as the fall guy for any crime, including assassination.

  • June Cobb, a CIA agent with Mafia ties stationed in Cuba around 1960, was likely connected to Oswald. She orchestrated an attempted CIA coup to topple Castro in 1960. Cobb then became involved in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee at the same time as Oswald. When Oswald traveled to Mexico City, she was already there, working out of the CIA station under assassination suspect David Atlee Phillips. She seemed to shadow the accused assassin of JFK during the last year of his life and may have been part of the assassination plot. The last book Oswald checked out from the Dallas library was The Shark and the Sardines. It was translated into English by June Cobb. The book was about a shark (the United States) who swallowed up sardines (Latin America).