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Deep Politics and the Death of JFK Paperback – June 22, 1996

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Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective―that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes―Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s American international and domestic policies.

Scott offers a disturbing analysis of the events surrounding Kennedy's death, and of the "structural defects" within the American government that allowed such a crime to occur and to go unpunished. In nuanced readings of both previously examined and newly available materials, he finds ample reason to doubt the prevailing interpretations of the assassination. He questions the lone assassin theory and the investigations undertaken by the House Committee on Assassinations, and unearths new connections between Oswald, Ruby, and corporate and law enforcement forces.

Revisiting the controversy popularized in Oliver Stone's movie JFK, Scott probes the link between Kennedy's assassination and the escalation of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam that followed two days later. He contends that Kennedy's plans to withdraw troops from Vietnam―offensive to a powerful anti-Kennedy military and political coalition―were secretly annulled when Johnson came to power. The split between JFK and his Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the collaboration between Army Intelligence and the Dallas Police in 1963, are two of the several missing pieces Scott adds to the puzzle of who killed Kennedy and why.

Scott presses for a new investigation of the Kennedy assassination, not as an external conspiracy but as a power shift within the subterranean world of American politics. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK shatters our notions of one of the central events of the twentieth century.
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"Staggeringly well-researched and intelligent overview not only of the JFK assassination but also of the rise of forces undermining American democracy. . . . A kind of Rosetta stone for cracking open the deepest darkness in American politics. Will test the most well-informed."--"Kirkus Reviews

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"A serious study by a concerned scholar into the underlying motives of our time. A book that will become part of our alternate history--to be read and studied by future generations. Thank you, Mr. Peter Dale Scott."--Oliver Stone

"I have used Peter Dale Scott's work the way I would a CIA archive: to name names, establish relationships, and generate hyphotheses. That we still have no CIA archives, establishes the worth of Scott's work."--Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago

"A masterful synthesis of decades of research into President Kennedy's assassination. Weaving together the malevolent common interests of organized crime, J. Edgar Hoover, the CIA, Military Intelligence, and various upperworld businesses that comprise the "deep politics" most likely responsible for the assassination, Scott's work is a major contribution to assassination research and, indeed, the social history of modern America. This work sets the standard for all future inquiries into the assassination."--Alan A. Block, Pennsylvania State University

"From probing the conspicuous deficiencies of the Warren Commission to exploring the skewed political priorities of the House Assassinations Committee, Peter Dale Scott offers a trenchant analysis of Government's failure to solve the murder of President Kennedy. I've long been an admirer of Scott's prodigious ability to synthesize and clarify the disparate components that have been injected into the investigation of the Kennedy assassination over the years. No one provides a broader and more revealing perspective. From what he calls 'the underlying continuities of deep politics' to the mutual interests of military, right-wing, intelligence agency and organized crime conspirators, Scott's selective revelations move the Kennedy assassination into the historical context all Americans must first grasp before they can truly understand the consequences that terrible event had--and still has--on their lives."--Gaeton Fonzi, Former Investigator, U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press (June 22, 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 442 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520205197
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520205192
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.06 x 1.11 x 8.9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, deep, and unique.
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Amazing for BOTH the depth of its theoretical insight and the breadth of its historical knowledge, this is a salient text for understanding American history. There is no one quite like Peter Dale Scott, and his contributions have been far more influential for the dissident community and its political thought than is generally recognized or acknowledged. He coined the term "Deep Politics" and has been a key documentarian of US and international power dynamics--the deeds of corporations, nation states, intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, police forces, and thousands of named individual persons--since the early 1960's. You will learn much more than the outlines of the President's murder, as Scott depicts (geo)political reality as a dynamic system that includes ongoing relationships between the legitimate state with its laws and ballots and the "deep state" with its violence and corruption.
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Luc REYNAERT
5.0 out of 5 stars Deep investigation.
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2003
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Peter Dale Scott poses essential questions and his investigations lead to very disturbing answers.
He uses the JFK assassination as a paradigm for the revelation and understanding of the real powers in the US.
With parallels to 3 other political scandals (MacCarthyism, Watergate, Contragate) he shows that there are deep continuities in the US political system. He arrives at the most alarming conclusion that the US power system is intrinsically vicious, violent and murderous and that conspiracies form an essential part of it.
He shows convincingly that the real powers in the US lay in a symbiosis of public government, organized crime and private wealth.
Most diabolic are the FBI (lead by the insidious Edgar J. Hoover) and the CIA, which are both responsible for the ruthless destruction of opponents and dissidents without legal or moral restraint.
This book gives an appalling picture of the Agency, fighting for the justification of its existence and its resources by prolonging the Cold War. It infiltrated the media in order to preach its Gospel. It used organized crime and drug traffickers as means for its ends.
Very revealing also is the fact that 20 percent of the shares of General Dynamics were in the hands of the mob.
His final analysis is devastating: 'how far our office-holders, including our Presidents, have been reduced to the status of clients, dispensable when the more enduring patronage is withdrawn?' and 'To what extent has our visible political establishment become one regulated by forces operating outside the constitutional process?'
After reading this book, I confess that posing these questions is answering them.
A provocative, dark and disturbing book.
A must read.
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JT
5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to know who really makes the decisions, read this.
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2015
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This book is not about the assassination of JFK. Peter Dale Scott presents the dour political milieu that existed on November 22, 1963. Criminals with resources comparable to the government's and protection from the highest level officers of the national government conducted egregious criminal activities with impunity. This book concludes with convincing documentary support that the assassination of the President of the United States plotted, supported and carried out by multiple nefarious elements within corrupt government at all levels and private individuals from the overworld and underworld was inevitable. This book lays out the facts. The fact is, drugs, oil, bananas and political ambitions succeeded in eliminating the president of the United States.
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Jeff Marzano
4.0 out of 5 stars OK For Experienced JFK Guys
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2017
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This book attempts to describe the different criminal elements that conspired to assassinate President Kennedy and the relationships between those different individuals and groups.

This is a very important subject in relation to the JFK case. I think many people feel the public has never been told the real truth about the JFK assassination but many are not clear about who was really responsible for this murder.

Researchers have had over 50 years to unravel this greatest of American mysteries and I think a lot of progress has been made. Speaking in simple terms the forces that conspired to assassinate President Kennedy were composed of a bunch of greedy, lying murderers. The main point of this book is to show how diverse the groups involved in the conspiracy really were and that the activities of these groups were international in scope.

For whatever reasons the Kennedy brothers became engaged in a crusade against dark forces which had probably always existed in America but which mutated into something truly diabolical after World War II. These were all individuals who had much to gain if JFK's presidency was ended and in some cases much to lose if JFK was not killed. They were looking at 4 more years with John Kennedy as president probably followed by 8 years of his brother.

The true masterminds of the assassination could only have resided in groups like the CIA and military intelligence as far as having the expertise to do something like that. Then there were people like Lyndon Johnson whose role was to stop all serious investigations after the assassination which he accomplished by setting up the Warren Commission whitewash.

The lower level groups such as the Italian mafia and the anti Castro nuts probably provided a buffer to insulate the real masterminds of the assassination in case things went wrong and the cover up could not be maintained. And since the mafia doesn't do things for free we can only imagine what this criminal empire received as payment for becoming involved with this monumental crime.

To me another main point of this book is that level of absolute corruption within the power structures of the United States did not happen overnight. These nefarious relationships between all of the different groups had been entrenched for many years going back at least to World War II.

Another interesting point for me is the idea that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover blackmailed JFK to accept Lyndon Johnson as his running mate. Hoover must have had enough movies of JFK in bed with women that he could have produced a full length film.

Peter Scott doesn't totally buy into that idea but he does concede that Anthony Summers heard this from President Kennedy's personal secretary, the ironically named Evelyn Lincoln. Lincoln said she was present or at least within listening distance when the Kennedy brothers realized they were going to have to accept Johnson due to J. Edgar Hoover's blackmail.

I would not doubt that the theory about Hoover's blackmail to force them to put Johnson on the ticket is true. And if it is true John Kennedy's womanizing ultimately cost him his life.

Because I don't think John Kennedy gets killed unless Johnson or someone like him was the Vice President. They could not afford the risks of doing something like that unless they knew they would have the new president in their pocket. And there were very few as corrupt as Lyndon Johnson.

Lyndon Johnson had a lot to lose if John Kennedy was not killed. Bobby 'Lyndon, Jr.' Baker was already being investigated for many greedy schemes that were going to lead directly to Johnson. If JFK had lived Johnson was going to be sitting right next to his old friend Bobby Baker in the penitentiary.

In that sense perhaps Roger Stone is correct and Lyndon Johnson really was 'the man who killed Kennedy'.

This book contains a lot of interesting details but I wouldn't say all of that information is woven into a coherent narrative perfectly. The book seems to start digressing sometimes where he gets into subjects like international drug trafficking. It's definitely worth reading but I would not recommend it for someone who is just starting out reading about the JFK case.

The first 3 books listed below provide a good overview of the JFK assassination conspiracy theories for new researchers.

 Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

A Deeper, Darker Truth

On the Trail of the Assassins: One Man's Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy

David Ferrie: Mafia Pilot, Participant in Anti-Castro Bioweapon Plot, Friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and Key to the JFK Assassination

JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy

The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination
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Al K. Mickel
5.0 out of 5 stars A far saner and wider analysis of JFK's death
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019
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This book and JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass are the best written attempts at grasping and expressing the hidden psychosocial forces in modern political economy, as exposed by events such as the assassination of JFK, that I've read. They surpass theory systems like Marxism, conservatism, capitalist economics or popular conspiracy theories and manage to convey, at least on an emotional level, how truly disturbing our civilization is. Please buy or at least borrow and read this book.
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