Final_Judgment

[386] Final Judgment 483
Even after the release of Oliver Stone's JFK, Anson went to work and
published attacks on Garrison and other JFK assassination researchers. In
one published article Anson claimed that in his own book Garrison never
mentioned that he (Garrison) had been indicted on corruption and tax evasion
charges. In fact Garrison has a whole chapter on this in his book and this
leads me to believe that Anson hadn't read the book.
JFK: The Facts & the Theories by Carl Oglesby is quite good, but my
own problem with Oglesby is that although he acknowledges the Permindex
Connection he falls into that peculiar trap of suggesting that Permindex is
some sort of "Nazi Connection" to the JFK assassination when, as we've
seen, nothing could be further from the truth. Other than that the book is
worth reading for a good overview.
Crime & Cover-Up: The Dallas-Watergate Connection by Peter Dale
Scott, a slim monograph on the subject, is fascinating. It examines the
special interest groups in Washington that were opposed to JFK and their
ties to Organized Crime and the intelligence community. Needless to say,
however, Scott doesn't get into the Israeli Connection.
Likewise with Scott's equally fascinating, far lengthier, and more recent
Deep Politics and The Death of JFK. This book is severely flawed in that
just when one thinks that Scott is about to get into the Israeli Connection
(whether through his discussion of Organized Crime or through the CIA),
Scott very carefully tiptoes away.
Scott's research is deficient in that despite the depth and breadth of his
work he never gets into the Garrison investigation whatsoever. There I
believe is another very serious flaw. One never knows precisely who Scott
suspects of responsibility for the assassination. As I have said, Scott says
very much, but at the same time, says very little. Nonetheless his writings
are well worth your while.
THE 'FICTIONAL' APPROACH
At this juncture I'd like to discuss several of the novels that have
appeared over the years dealing with the JFK assassination. The most
notable is Executive Action by Mark Lane and Donald Freed which actually
appeared in the wake of the film by the same name. (Mark Lane was the
prime mover behind the film, but in the end was disappointed with the final
product). This book demonstrates how high-level power brokers could have
orchestrated the assassination.
Robert Morrow's novel, Betrayal, is similar in many ways to Executive
Action. It is presented as a novelized treatment of Morrow's own purported
experiences as a CIA contract operative who became unwittingly enmeshed
in the JFK assassination conspiracy. Morrow indicts Clay Shaw as one of
the conspirators–perhaps the primary conspirator—and paints him as some
sort of "rogue" CIA agent operating without official sanction of the CIA. In
subsequent years Morrow issued a revised edition of this book in a nonfiction
format and I will discuss that later.