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actions and statements;” “The only credible explanation for the self-destructive course
taken by De Angelis and Allied;” and “The unlocking of the riddle of Oswald.” 529 The
book ended with the question “Is it all true…or is it just a Rumor?” 530
Lawrence’s book was republished 1997 by Adventures Unlimited Press, whose
other titles include Psychic Dictatorship in the USA, Extraterrestrial Archaeology, and
Anti-Gravity and the World Grid. In his introduction to Were We Controlled?, an author
associated with Adventures Unlimited, Kenn Thomas, acknowledged that the book was
one of several that contained “the most outré speculation about the JFK murder.” 531
Thomas claimed that “One measure of the veracity of the main control claims” in the
book “is its durability as an urban legend.” 532 It seems more likely that its durability as
an urban legend shows the gullibility of some people, and the vast suspiciousness of
many Americans concerning their government. This suspiciousness reached toxic levels
following the JFK, Martine Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy assassinations, the
Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and the 1970’s revelations of CIA abuses,
including the plots to kill Castro with the help of organized crime.
Jerry Leonard offered another theory of a brainwashed Oswald: he was the victim
of CIA mind control techniques. Leonard is a physicist – demonstrating once again the
eclectic nature of the assassination researchers – who wrote The Perfect Assassin: Lee
529 Lawrence and Thomas, 171-172.
530 Lawrence and Thomas, 173.
531 Lawrence and Thomas, ii.
532 Lawrence and Thomas, viii.
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