President John Kennedy
Why the book was
written:
Without total immersion in the documents and an extensive background in related
investigations, it is virtually impossible for a casual reader or even a motivated
newcomer to deal with the massive amounts of data now available. This leaves
interested parties exactly where they were in 1963 and 1964 - suspicious, mystified
and with the simple conclusion that nothing makes sense, and probably never
will.
Someone Would Have Talked was written to demonstrate with available information,
the cover-up, the leaks, Lee Oswald, Jack Ruby and the people that did talk,
providing a cohesive and coherent explanation of events. And in doing so this
book gives the reader an introduction to the history of the secret war against
Castro and against Communism during the 1960s, an introduction that is vital
to an appreciation of the individuals, and their motivations.
The Difference:
Someone Would Have Talked deals with specific people
who talked about their personal knowledge of a conspiracy in the murder of
a President. These individuals include four men associated with the CIA’s JM
WAVE station in Miami Florida. Two of them were senior CIA officers, one a
veteran of three years of Castro assassination projects and the other a three
year prisoner of Castro - and an organizer and participant, along with a former
U.S. Ambassador, in one of the most potentially explosive Cuban penetration
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Major
Points:
- The initial investigation of
President Kennedy’s assassination was hamstrung
by a consistent pattern of damage control and
evidence management. Actions personally orchestrated
by President Johnson prevented a true open-ended
criminal investigation of leads suggesting conspiracy
in the murder.
- A body of investigative documents
(FBI, CIA, NSA, HSCA, and ARRB) exist which reveal
pre-assassination leaks suggesting that President
Kennedy was at risk prior to the assassination;
these leaks can be traced to Miami Florida and
tied to a common network of individuals shown
to have been associating with each other in 1963.
- Informant reports and private
research shows that Lee Oswald was in contact
with, and influenced by, this same network of
individuals he initially came into contact with
in New Orleans during August of 1963.
- These individuals, including
two high ranking CIA officers and one highly
placed member of organized crime, can be shown
to have been associated with one another and
connected with the CIA’s JM/WAVE operations in
Miami in 1963.
- Cuban Exile John Martino, the
common thread in the book, provided limited details
about a conspiracy against President Kennedy
to a reporter who had covered his return to Miami
after years of suffering in a Cuban prison. With
a wealth of new information only now available,
Martino’s remarks have become increasingly credible
and provide unique insights into the conspiracy.
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The
2006 edition of Someone Would
Have Talked contains
three years of additional research as well as a
number of new elements which we hope will assist
the reader:
- Where possible, new research has been inserted
directly into the relevant text or into end-notes.
Chapter level references and endnotes have been
consolidated and are all located at the rear
of the book.
- New documents and research on some subjects
have been so extensive that they could not be
incorporated into chapter text without serving
as a major diversion for the first time reader.
To avoid that, this edition contains a number
of new appendices; several of these appendices
are also supported by their own document exhibits.
- Exhibits and hundreds of pages of document references
for this edition are now provided via an internet
WEB site at http://www.larry-hancock.com for
online access rather than being distributed via
CD. This allows for ongoing updates of support
material.
- Many of the names and groups discussed in the
book will be very new, readers are encouraged
to routinely consult the section “Names from the
Secret War”; this section has been updated and
expanded in this edition. The book also contains
a photo section showing many of the individuals
discussed. A greatly expanded set of photo pages,
supporting the individual chapters in the book,
are provided on the book web site. They are listed
(as are the documents and exhibits) by chapter
and readers are encouraged to browse the reference
material while reading the book.
- This edition contains an index
of names and places discussed in the book. Where available, CIA groups
and operations are referenced along with their
code names. CIA employee crypt names are also
provided as well as crypts assigned to various
assets and contacts. Crypts are found extensively
in the reference documents and hopefully the presentation
of crypts in the chapter text and index will assist
the reader in reading these documents.
- A number of important books on the JFK assassination
were published towards the end of 2005. Where
possible, relevant information from these books
has been added with special reference in the chapter
text. An expanded list of related books and publications
are provided in the bibliography, presented at
the rear of the book.
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