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member of the CIA-funded Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba and the cofounder
of the Citizens Committee for Peace With Freedom in Vietnam. 752
It might be added, in passing, that AIM has consistently also been a
strident defender of Israel and its interests. To even hint at any conspiracy
which might involve Israel and its allies in the CIA would be an outrage,
insofar as AIM would be concerned. So much, then, for accuracy in media
from Accuracy in Media.
OLIVER STONE
What about Oliver Stone's JFK? Where does this controversial film fit
in the lore of JFK assassination conspiracy theories? What of the media's
hysterical response to the film (which actually brought it greater publicity)?
Writing in the New York Times on December 20, 1991, Stone asked a
rather simple question: "When a leader of any country is assassinated, the
media normally ask: 'What political forces were opposed to this leader and
would benefit from his assassination?"
The irony, as we shall see, is that although Oliver Stone himself
seemed to have asked that very question in a big, big way—through the aegis
of his controversial film JFK—the fact is that Stone himself has, in a
sense, proven in the end to have become a major factor in the continuing
cover-up of the real truth about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
It is ironic indeed that although Stone's film JFK has focused
widespread international attention on the JFK assassination conspiracy, there
has been quiet speculation that the media's furor might be part of a highlevel
plan to further cover up the truth about the conspiracy.
Many JFK assassination researchers, Mark Lane in particular, are deeply
concerned that Stone's film presents a strange mixture of both fact and
fiction. The facts about the assassination conspiracy are sensational enough
without fictional details being added, he and others have pointed out. Lane
summarized it best: "It was good that Stone called the attention of
teenagers and others to the unsolved murder. It was bad that he did so by
falsifying the record." 753
POINTING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
Although Stone's film referenced, in passing, the CIA connections of
David Ferrie and Clay Shaw—and actually mentioned Permindex—the film's
primary thrust was that the conspiracy originated in the so-called "militaryindustrial"
complex.
The primary conspirators were presented as high-level military men and
their allies among the multi-billion-dollar defense contracting companies.
The intelligence community's role was understated, to say the very least.
This, in itself, lead some of Stone's critics to suggest that perhaps the
ultimate purpose behind the film was not, in fact, to pinpoint those truly
responsible for the JFK assassination, but to point the finger in another