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devised. 526 The object was to carry out an assassination of a U.S. president – any
president – to sell short on the stock market to make a fortune for “The Group.” The
Soviets apparently were unwittingly part of the plot – believing that Oswald would be the
tool of the KGB and not “The Group.” When Oswald returned to the United States, he
waited to be activated to carry out the assassination – precisely to coincide with a stock
market swindle that was already driving the stock market down.
Lawrence combined his incredible theory of a mind control assassin with a real
swindle: a convicted fraudster named Tino de Angelis and his Allied Crude Vegetable
Oil Refining Corporation. His company collapsed in a fraud involving the commodities
market and soybean oil. The collapse of the company coincided with the assassination,
but Lawrence suggested this was not coincidence. He claimed that de Angelis’ actions
were also being controlled “the Group.” The author wrote that “the time-table of Allied’s
artificial expansion and eventual financial bust was a matter of delicate timing….when it
did topple, there was a President to be assassinated immediately.” 527 Oswald kills
Kennedy, and then Ruby under another form of hypnosis guns down Oswald – all on
behalf of “the Group.”
Lawrence claimed the plot was “the cleverest, most technically sophisticated
crime ever committed,” and explained many of the inexplicable testimony and
contradictions in the evidence. 528 “The Rumor,” according to Lawrence, offered “A
motive for the assassination;” “A key to the strangely mentally-confused Jack Ruby’s
526 Lawrence and Thomas, 84-85.
527 Lawrence and Thomas, 126,
528 Lawrence and Thomas, 171.
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