Final_Judgment

490 The Battle of the Books [393]
The primary role that I see the Cubans playing in the conspiracy was
having helped lay the groundwork for the cover-story that the hapless
Oswald was a "pro-Castro agitator." The Cubans—both the pro- and anti-
Castro Cubans—were, in my view, little more than additional "false flags"
planted in the midst of the assassination conspiracy landscape by those
ultimately responsible for the crime.
In Final Judgment I relied heavily on Morrow's book, The Senator
Must Die, for information on the assassination of Senator Robert F.
Kennedy. This book suggests that the Iranian secret police, SAVAK, carried
out RFK's murder on contract from the CIA. I haven't seen any evidence
anywhere to indicate that Morrow might not be in part correct on this, and
in Final Judgment I have noted that SAVAK was a joint creation of the
Mossad and the CIA.
There had long been a close covert relationship between the Mossad and
the CIA and the Iranians, although many people have been unaware of this
fact. So if RFK was killed by SAVAK as Morrow says, that to me suggests
that we should look further into an Israeli connection there, although
Morrow, of course, doesn't get into that.
I do have to say that I do have some doubts about Morrow's overall
reliability in the sense that it is sometimes very difficult to determine what is
indeed his own first-hand knowledge or what is his opinion or what others have
told him.
Morrow's books are interesting and provide many fascinating leads.
There's no doubt about it. However, I am deeply concerned that Morrow
seems to suggest that James Angleton of the CIA was somehow out of the
loop as far as the JFK assassination and cover-up was concerned—and
nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact that Morrow was a CIA contract operative moving in some
rather unsavory circles is another factor to consider in all of this. People in
such a position don't always know who they really are working for.
Sometimes they think they are working for one purpose when, in fact, they
are working for another purpose. And they don't always know all of the
facts. So Morrow's own experiences (and his account of his experiences)
have inevitably been colored by all of this. I'm not suggesting that Morrow
was a dupe or a patsy, but I suggest that we should look at his first hand
account with caution.
A note of interest: I have been reliably informed that Morrow is
familiar with the thesis presented in Final Judgment and by this time he
may well have read the book. He has yet to contact me however.
HUGH McDONALD
In Final Judgment I have discussed the books Appointment in Dallas
and the follow-up work, LBJ & the JFK Conspiracy, both by Hugh
McDonald, another former contract operative for both the FBI and the CIA.
I've pointed out that I don't find either of these works particularly credible.
The first volume was co-authored by Geoffrey Bocca, a former propagandist