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Crossfire, High Treason, and Lane’s Plausible Denial also discussed an
interpretation of a key White House tape of President Richard Nixon that allegedly linked
the Watergate break-in cover-up with the Kennedy assassination. On the tape from June
23, 1972, Nixon spoke to his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman of the need for the CIA to
tell the FBI to back off the Watergate investigation because it involved former CIA
operative E. Howard Hunt and the some of the anti-Castro Cuban burglars. Nixon said
“this Hunt, that will uncover a lot of things… That is going to open the whole Bay of
Pigs thing up again.” 622 Conspiracy theorists claim that the “whole Bay of Pigs thing”
was a euphemism for the Kennedy assassination that supposedly involved the mob, the
anti-Castro Cubans, and the CIA. Hunt was a CIA liaison for the Cuban exiles. In his
memoirs, Haldeman himself claimed that Nixon was referring to the assassination in his
reference to the Bay of Pigs. This interpretation would find its way into another Oliver
Stone film – Nixon. Stone’s films and the popular books of Lane, Groden and
Livingstone, Summers, and Marrs show the American public’s insatiable demand for
material counter to the official version of the assassination and Oswald’s life.
The Secret Agent Oswald received support from a surprising source in 1988 on
the 25 th anniversary of the assassination: Marina Oswald Porter. The widow of the
alleged assassin told the Ladies’ Home Journal that she now believes Oswald “worked
for the American government” as an agent. 623 She said she can see “certain traits of
professional training, like being secretive.” She also claimed that Oswald “was taught
622
See Marrs 272-273, and Groden and Livingstone 332-333.
623
Myrna Blyth and Jane Farreel, “Marina Oswald,” Ladies’ Home Journal, (November
1988), 184-188, 236-237.
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