Regicide: The Official Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Hardcover)

by Gregory Douglas (Author) "The following chapters will consist of facsimile reproductions of the DIA's translation of the Soviet intelligence study, of its own analysis, and of quoted excerpts..." (more)
Key Phrases: telephone conference, intelligence study, New York, United States, Falls Church (more...)

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"One is impressed by the book's internal coherence. It should trigger a fresh Congressional inquiry into this national tragedy." -- Fredrick J. Norris, LtCdr., US Naval Attaché, ret.

"The book is so astounding… how did the CIA persuade... government officials to... overthrow the... government? It is all here!" -- Military Magazine, Summer 2002

"The materials revealed in Mr. Douglas' book deserve front page news. A monumental achievement." -- Back Channels magazine, Summer 2002

Product Description
39 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the truth finally comes to light: In 1996, ROBERT CROWLEY, former Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations of the CIA, gave documents of his own top secret operations to his friend, historian Gregory Douglas. After Robert Crowley died in late 2000, Gregory Douglas was free to begin publishing important sections of the Crowley papers. Backed up with documents reproduced in the book, Douglas proves which individuals plotted to kill John F. Kennedy, why they thought that this assassination was justified, how it was done, who else was involved, and how the cover-up of this major clandestine operation was mounted.

REGICIDE recasts the loyalties, disloyalties, and covert plots of the U.S. intelligence community during the Kennedy administration in a new light. As is well known, the rise of Fidel Castro as communist dictator of Cuba led to a series of very dangerous confrontations with the U.S.— the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the subsequent Cuban Missile Crisis being two of the best known events. It is less well-known that both the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA were plotting to drag the U.S. into open hostilities with Cuba by staging "Cuban aggressions" and to intentionally cause "collateral damage" outside and inside the U.S. In other words: to kill innocent civilians, including U.S. citizens, and blame it on Castro in order to supply a reason for a military invasion of Castro's Cuba. When U.S. President John F. Kennedy discovered this treasonable program, he intervened and prevented what would certainly have triggered a nuclear world war. In order to prevent another such clandestine intelligence horror, Kennedy felt strongly that it was an urgent necessity to circumvent both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA who were obviously determined to force a dangerous war on his administration and on the country.

"OPERATION ZIPPER" was the code name of the assassination plot of John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America. The 98 pages long paper entitled "OPERATION ZIPPER Conference Record" is a long list of decisions and activities of various U.S. authorities in a CIA-conducted project. All major facts behind the Kennedy assassination are found in the "Zipper" Document. For the first time, the motives of those who organized and instigated the act are clearly and decisively exposed, as are the names and official positions of those who directed the killers. This document was probably produced by the five CIA top officials mentioned in the distribution list (McCone, Angleton, Carter, Crowley, Harvey) in order to cover themselves, since this document clearly proves that the assassination of J. F. Kennedy was anything else but a private plot by a few CIA senior officers going rampant.

Among Robert Crowley's papers is a 1978 in-depth analysis of a Soviet intelligence report on the assassination of President John Kennedy, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency, and dubbed THE DRISCOLL REPORT. At one time, the Russians were held suspect in this act, and in the intervening years, their intelligence organs had been compiling data in refutation of this thesis. It should be noted that Lee Oswald, the purported assassin, had defected to the Soviet Union and, while resident in that country, married the niece of an MVD intelligence officer. Although the DIA Report makes it very clear that Oswald was a source for the Office of Naval Intelligence and that his defection was spurious, his openly avowed Marxism, public support of the Communist government of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and his repeated pro-Communist utterances made him a very handy weapon with which to attack the Russians. This report, signed by Army Colonel Vedder B. Driscoll, chief of the Soviet Intelligence division of the DIA, appears to be the first official analysis of the Kennedy assassination that does not follow the official line, and which survived the post-assassination shredd

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Monte Sano Media; First Edition edition (March 4, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591482976
• ISBN-13: 978-1591482970
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The final word?, May 28, 2002

By	Christian Toussay (Paris France) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Well, I've been looking into the assassination for 39 years now, and it seems that finally the truth has come out and names are named...It is funny that after all this years we finally come full circle to the first hypothesis, that of the Great Conspiracy hatched by the US government itself.. That hypothesis was rejected as being too outlandish, to be replaced by more acceptable thesis: CIA, Mafia, FBI, oil barons, or whatever.
Now Mr DOUGLAS apparently delivers the good, whith a short (and often repetitive, in my view) book based on secret documents entrusted to him by a former high ranking CIA official. If those papers are true (and there lies my only reservation: how can we be sure?)we indeed have the answers to all the questions, notably the classic "such a conspiracy would require the participation of too many people inside and outside the governement". Well, if the Government itself did it...Personnally, I am inclined to think the docs are genuine, since they verify informations available from other sources, for instance the HARVEY Papers (which can be found in "Bloody Treason")describing the logistics of what could well be the bueprint to the JFK hit. I hope researchers in the US check this rapidly and let us know of the validity of the documents
A must for every concerned citizen...

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There is light at the end of the tunnel, April 22, 2002

By	Lee Stephenson (Courtenay, B.C. Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Getting hooked on the JFK assassination story as a kid watching Geraldo in 1975, I have read over thirty books on the subject. Some that made sense, some that were fiction (posner). What this book does is put alot of the various information into context. So much of what has been written over the years gets pushed aside by the mainstream media because the fingers were being pointed in so many differant directions. The mafia did it, or the cubans, or the texans. This could go on and on. This story shows that some or all of the groups often blamed for the murder, either were involved or at least knew that it was going to take place.If the documents in this story stand up then this is the smoking gun that everybody has been looking for. This is the first book that starts from the top down.It looks at who got the ball rolling . What is a surprise is that the source of the documents, Robert Crowley till the day he died, thought that the murder was justified. This is required reading for anybody that has been following the case as it shows that sooner than later the truth will come out. I just hope that the mainstream media tells the story so that people will finally realize the truth.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Wine and Sour Grapes, July 26, 2002

By	kenneth spender (Santa Clara, California) - See all my reviews

I have read this book three times and loved it better each time I did so.

I have been recommending this to all of my friends and correspondants who are fascinated with the Kennedy Assassination subject. Almost all of these people have read the book and found it to be way and beyond the best, most factual and believable book yet writted. Some of these people, on the other hand, are furious with it.

These are writers, at one level or another, who have published, or wish to publish, their own ideas of what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963. A lot of these studies, and books, are outlandish, convoluted and very intense, a good discription of many of their authors.

Actual examples of these odd ideas, sent to me under conditions of privacy (their names were never to be mentioned to a soul):

Ruby was a Freemason; a Mafia member; a Mossad agent.

Kennedy was shot 3-6-9-11 times with various calibers of guns; by "sabot" shells, rifles camouflaged as cameras and umbrellas and so on.

Nixon, the Hunt family and J. Edgar Hoover were all in Dallas that day, watching the shooting from some unspecified nearby building.

Platoons of CIA agents and Mafia dons were crowding around Dealy Plaza disguised as tramps and railroad workers.

Of course there is never any documentation supplied on all of these labored theories and I guess that a book filled with documentation is reproach to their ideas.

Actually, the truth is always found in the simplest answer and this book clearly expresses as much of the actual, as opposed to the official, truth as we will ever learn.

One of my writer friends told me that the author of this book "was obligated to prove" (to him) the "originality" of his ream of his published and supporting official papers.

My comment is that the reader who dislikes their obvious authenticity is the person who has to prove there is something wrong with them...other than the obvious fact that the reader's personal opinions (or those of his friends) were stepped on.

Incidentially,I found out later that this writer was actually a retired government intelligence agent who, along with his former employers, were outraged at the documented accusations!

One of the statements in the official papers shown in the appendix is that the government happly encourages the publication of as many far-fetched books as possible on this subject.

The reasons for this are simple: It is strongly hoped that the public (who is always kept in the dark on such things) should get so confused that they will (hopefully) disregard anything that might really expose the actual killers.

Again, I cannot speak highly enough of the "Regicide" work and the relentless logic one finds in this landmark work of exposure!

Kenneth Spender