This is a good book but I wouldn't necessarily recommend for someone who is just starting out reading about the JFK assassination. New researchers may want to read Jim Marrs' Crossfire or James Douglass' JFK And The Unspeakable to get the basic ideas about the JFK assassination before trying to tackle this book.
One issue is the central character and focus of the book, Richard Case Nagell, was part of a cloak and dagger world where nothing and nobody is ever what they appear to be. The problem is Nagell remained in that mysterious realm for his entire life including the times when he was corresponding with author Dick Russell.
Even though it says on the cover of the book that Nagell was ordered to remove Lee Oswald from the JFK assassination plot and kill Oswald if necessary, I don't recall reading anywhere in this book that Nagell ever came out and stated this. Nagell spoke in riddles at times and never revealed all of his secrets.
Like other JFK books this one covers a lot of the main points of the JFK assassination conspiracy beyond just what Richard Nagell said. So it's interesting to compare what many people believe about the assassination with Nagell's sometimes cryptic statements and revelations. Any high quality JFK book like this one reinforces the reader's knowledge about the assassination.
I found the book very interesting as Mr. Russell travelled to many different places and met with the mysterious Richard Nagell and other people. Nagell's life was filled with violence, danger, and intrigue and he operated in many exotic locations all over the world. In my opinion Richard Nagell really was who and what he claimed to be.
Strangely it appears that there were plots to assassinate JFK in Chicago and perhaps other cities in 1963. The assassination could very easily have happened in someplace other than Dallas and someone other than Lee Oswald would have been set up to take the blame. If that would have happened the world would have never heard of Lee Oswald and Richard Nagell would have put himself into prison for nothing. But as it turned out Nagell was right and Lee Oswald did become involved.
Nagell's mind may have finally caved in which resulted in his fake bank robbery attempt. His mind may have overloaded as he tried to figure out what the Hell was going on and who he was really working for. What happened to Nagell is the absolute worst possible thing that can happen to someone who is operating in that environment. He got a conscience.
Many others involved with the JFK conspiracy never did get a conscience it seems. While it's difficult to know every detail about what happened the JFK books point to a bunch of greedy, murderous criminals who were all a part of that darkness but in more or less sophisticated ways. Someone like Richard Nagell was potentially dangerous for the true masterminds of the conspiracy because he was someone in between them and the low level operatives like Oswald.
This is a deadly serious subject. In my opinion there are no coincidences in the JFK assassination story. If something looks suspicious it probably is. That would include the timing of Richard Nagell's death right when he was going to be called to testify to the government about what he knew about the JFK assassination. Other people Dick Russel interviewed also died, some violently.
Like Lee Oswald Richard Case Nagell became involved with a monster that turned on him. That lying beast from the depths of Hell destroys all who stand in its way or become a threat to it. Richard Nagell and Lee Oswald undoubtedly had their moments when they wished they had become a truck driver or office clerk rather than getting pulled into that James Bond world. For them the villains and mad scientists in the James Bond movies turned out to be real.
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