What are your top 5 JFK assassination books?

[Michael Davidson]

Its possible to read something and find it valuable even if you disagree with it

[Thomas Graves]

Its possible to read something and find it valuable even if you disagree with it

Yeah, and when it comes to stuff written about the CIA by Morley and his ilk (Mangold, Wise, James "Jumbo Duh" DiEugenio, Cleveland C. Cram, Bruce Solie, Leonard McCoy, Richards J. Heuer, John L. Hart, et al.), be sure to read Tennent H. Bagley's Spy Wars and Ghosts of the Spy Wars, and Mark Riebling's Wedge, first, otherwise you'll just become another "useful idiot" for KGB-Mafia boy, Vladimir Putin.

SPY WARS (2007)

https://archive.org/details/SpyWarsMolesMysteriesAndDeadlyGames/page/n3/mode/2up

GHOSTS OF THE SPY WARS  (2014)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2014.962362

WEDGE: THE SECRET WAR BETWEEN THE FBI AND CIA (1994)
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https://archive.org/details/WedgeFromPearlHarborTo911HowTheSecretWarBetweenTheFBIAndCIAHasEndangeredNationalSecurity
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--  MWT 

[Michael Davidson]

The point surely is to read various sources and think for yourself , thereby avoiding becoming a fan boi of either Mr Putin or the CIA ...

[Margaret Kelly]

PS  Why would anyone like anything by Jefferson "Nosenko Was A True Defector" Morley?

Have you read my one-star Amazon review, under the username dumptrumputin, of his abominable book The Ghost?

I think Morley is well read in the JFK assassination. I don't think he'd fall under the category of conspiracy theorist. He seems to be logical.

[Thomas Graves]

I think Morley is well read in the JFK assassination. I don't think he'd fall under the category of conspiracy theorist. He seems to be logical.

Margaret, Margaret, Margaret ...

Have you read my one-star Amazon review of The Ghost I posted under my username dumptrumputin?

You will remain naive regarding Morley and Company's incorrect "take" on the CIA and the KGB until you read the two works by Bagley I linked-to, above, as well as pertinent chapters from the Riebling book, Wedge, which I also linked.

Why remain ignorant?

--  MWT 

[Steve M. Galbraith]

I think Morley is well read in the JFK assassination. I don't think he'd fall under the category of conspiracy theorist. He seems to be logical.

As I read him, Morley's not a conspiracist. Unless he's changed in recent weeks.

He thinks that it's possible that Counter Intelligence under Angleton used Oswald (unwittingly) for some type of operation to discredit the FPCC. And that maybe George Joannides, the CIA case officer who handled relations with the DRE, may have been part of that. Or knew about Oswald. Or something. There's a lot of maybes in there.

But there's nothing, as I see it, that says he thinks they were involved in the assassination of JFK. He's said that they were, somehow, criminally negligent in not warning about the danger of Oswald. Which indicates to me that he believes Oswald was the assassin of JFK. But he later retracted that to say they may have been negligent.

As to Nosenko: Lots of people believe in the legitimacy of Nosenko and are lone assassin believers. Nosenko may have been a triple agent; he may have lied about the KGB relationship with Oswald. But that's not connecting the KGB to Oswald's acts.

[Margaret Kelly]

As to Nosenko: Lots of people believe in the legitimacy of Nosenko and are lone assassin believers. Nosenko may have been a triple agent; he may have lied about the KGB relationship with Oswald. But that's not connecting the KGB to Oswald's acts.

In the book Passport To Assassination, Nechiporenko says that Nosenko was a drunk who only rose to the heights he did in the KGB because his dad got him there. Then Nosenko left his wife and kids (the first woman he got pregnant he simply up and left without marrying her) in the USSR and defected to the USA where he drank some more at the expense of the american taxpayer while in CIA custody.

Nosenko was probably hard to figure out because he would make up anything and everything to anyone.

[Thomas Graves]

In the book Passport To Assassination, Nechiporenko says that Nosenko was a drunk who only rose to the heights he did in the KGB because his dad got him there. Then Nosenko left his wife and kids (the first woman he got pregnant he simply up and left without marrying her) in the USSR and defected to the USA where he drank some more at the expense of the American taxpayer while in CIA custody.

Nosenko was probably hard to figure out because he would make up anything and everything to anyone.

In the book Passport To Assassination, Nechiporenko says that Nosenko was a drunk ...

Yeah, and probable mole George Kisevalter (look him up, but disregard the unfortunate fact that he got CIA's coveted "Trailblazers" Award) said Nosenko was "always drunk" during the five meetings he and my hero, Tennent H. Bagley had with Nosenko in Geneva in June of 1962.

George Kissevalter, the guy who "chattingly" gave Nosenko classified oral information during said meetings, the guy who lied when he said a couple of years later that Nosenko had told himself and Bagley in Geneva in 1962 that KGB agents had spotted John Abidian "setting up" Penkovsky's dead drop in Moscow in December of 1960  -- when in reality Penkovsky, himself, had set it up, and Abidian only went near the dead drop once, in December of 1961 -- , ah, yes ... George Kisevalter ... the guy who was best buds with probable mole Richard Kovich, ... George Kisevalter, the guy who, although fluent in both Russian and English, somehow managed to make 150 "errors" in his transcribing of the tape recordings of those Geneva 1962 meetings, the guy who swore up and down that Nosenko was a true defector and that (true defector) Anatoliy Golitsyn was a nut case, the guy who, due to his "stellar record" wasn't interviewed by CIA during the HONETOL mole hunt, the guy ...

What a piece of work was chess expert George Kisevalter, the guy of Russian ancestry who was married to a Slav foreigner, the guy who had been stationed in Germany, the guy whose name started with the letter "K" ...

The guy who handled Popov and Penkovsky ...

LOL

--  MWT