The Mk/Ultra Secret [Hardcover]

Frank Camper (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Christopher Scott Pub (February 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889149020
• ISBN-13: 978-1889149028
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,211,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An examination of the causes and players in JFK's death, July 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mk/Ultra Secret (Hardcover)

The MK/ULTRA Secret opens with a fantastic re-creation of Kennedy's appointment with snipers' crossfire in Dallas. The author then takes us on a well researched trip of the background that leads us to that moment outside the Texas School Book Depository on November 22, 1963. From Lee Harvey Oswald's unknowing involvment with the CIA starting in 1959 and culminating with his role of scapegoat at the hands of rogue CIA agents in Texas four years later, the book takes us on a stranger than fiction ride with an inside look at the murky world of spies. How the Bay of Pigs Operation, begun under Eisenhower, was one of the key factors leading to JFK's death. How Kennedy's mishandling of another CIA operation in South Vietnam also helped seal his fate. But the look into CIA mind control techniques and Oswald's sojourn down that dark rode is one of the major investigations of the book. From his duties as a US Marine radar operator in Japan, to his "defection" to the Soviet Union, to his return to the US and involvment with the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" we see how he was betrayed by the very government and country he'd sworn to protect. The MK/ULTRA Secret also does a very good job of documenting other aspects of the assasination and how they related to the CIA scenario. All in all, an excellent look at a watershed event in American history that may change your view of what really occured that day in Dallas, Texas.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unconvincing new angle on JFK assasination, May 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mk/Ultra Secret (Hardcover)

Camper has conflated two of the hottest topics in conspiracy theory: CIA mind control, and the assasination of JFK. Much of MK-ULTRA/Secret either contradicts some of the more established facts about the case, which would be fine (great actually) if the author could give us any documentation at all to support it, or at least give us more compelling reasons to dismiss the "official party line" Camper deliberately categorizes his research as sensitive, coming as they do from privileged sources. I find that rather convenient.

Who knows? Maybe everything in this book is the gospel truth. But I find none of these hypotheses more compelling, or plausible, than such obviously researched and documented accounts as Lane's and Garrison's. And the tendency here to dismiss long held questions (e.g. "Why does the body of the man shot by Jack Ruby not match the description of Oswald given on his Marine physical?) without substantial explanation makes it a truly unconvincing document.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New Information makes he MKUltra Secret stand out form other JFK theories, May 30, 2006

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This review is from: The Mk/Ultra Secret (Hardcover)

I neve knew quite what to make of this book -- until I saw THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY series on the History Channel. Many theories were presented in this series, and the truth seemed vague -- except during the 9th and final segment, when Judith Baker spoke. Baker was a genius in cancer research co-opted by CIA at the age of 19 and put together with L H Oswald in New Orleans. Her story is verifiable and previously known. Her own admissions during this interview w Nigel Tuner were brand new to the world.

She claims that Oswald's last warning to her was to remember one name: David Atlee Philips. Oswald believd Philips was running him, and running the operation to kill JFK. Philips was head of CIA for the Western hemisphere at the time of the Bay of Pigs betrayal. That is, part of CIA saw it as a betrayal by JFK.

Read this book by Camper and also see the Baker video, the final segment, again, of the THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNED/ Nigel Turner series. Forget the rest of the series and focus on this one new interview w Baker.

THEN READ -- THE MK/ULTRA SECRET by Frank Camper.

Together, they come as close to the truth re the JFK assassinaion as any evidence I have seen, and I've seen quite a lot. Unintentionally, TOGETHER they may well tell the real story. Quite amazingly, you stumble on the truth by seeing both sources. Each substantiates the other in a way not possible before.

Remember, Camper was an operative in this world of Intelligence. Unlike most researchers, he knows the tradecraft and how likely decisions/actions occur in the clandestine world of espionage.