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notion the exiles and their backers would never accept.” 610 In this labyrinth, Summers
suggested Oswald was posing as an anti-Castro activist during his stay in New Orleans
before the assassination and that this may have been part of an intelligence operation.
Not In Your Lifetime connected Oswald to the intelligence community, anti-
Castro Cubans, and rabid anti-Communists – hardly the loner described by the Warren
Commission. But Summers was truthful enough to admit that he did not have all the
answers given the incomplete state of the historical record. The title of the revised edition
comes from a statement from Earl Warren, who told reporters that documents in the
Kennedy case “might not be [released] in your lifetime.” 611
Robert J. Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone – longtime Kennedy
assassination researchers – presented their version of the “peace thesis” and “secret agent
Oswald” in their 1989 book High Treason. Groden, who served a photographic
consultant to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and Livingstone argued that
the power structure behind the façade of democracy was responsible for killing Kennedy
as he moved to end the Vietnam War, to accept the Castro regime in Cuba, and forge
détente with the Soviet Union. Groden and Livingstone borrowed the idea of “the Secret
Team” posited by retired Colonel Fletcher Prouty of a power structure operating
underneath the façade of democracy. This “loosely knit, informal organization,”
according to Groden and Livingstone, “has gradually established a shadow government,
610 Summers, 253.
611 Quoted in Summers, xi.
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