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Book makes case for foreign involvement
By Justin P. Liuba
Special to The Epoch Times May 08, 2008
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: A book written by a Romanian KGB operative
offers another answer to who was behind the assassination of John F.
Kennedy. (
Courtesy Ivan R. Dee publishers)
BOSTON=97A new book by a former communist insider brings a new and
unexpected twist to the already sizable library devoted to John F.
Kennedy's assassination, stirring new passions in the circles that
have never truly accepted the Warren Commission's findings.
Although the Soviet implication in the assassination was rumored and
even mentioned in some previous works by other authors, the volume
Programmed to Kill, subtitled Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB and
the Kennedy assassination by Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking
defector from a communist intelligence service organization, states
for the first time that Oswald, instructed and programmed by the
Soviet highest echelons to assassinate JFK, single-handedly and
deliberately, in spite of an order to abort, pulled the trigger of his
Carcano carbine, killing the president and wounding Texas Governor
John Connolly.
By his defection, Pacepa, a former general in the Directia Informatii
Externe (DIE), the branch of the Romanian intelligence covering
foreign countries, which entertained "sisterly" relations with the
KGB, pulled the rug from under his former associates, uncovering not
only certain aspects of KGB's modus operandi, but also a list of
communist agents in the West.
Since then, Pacepa lives with a new identify in the U.S., avoiding the
revenge of his former colleagues. Well informed and familiar with the
events surrounding the assassination, he succeeds in making a strong
case for his theory. He does not provide a smoking gun or recognizable
hard proof, but relies only on circumstantial evidence. Lest we
forget, people have been executed on circumstantial evidence.
Pacepa also suggests that Marina Oswald, the innocent wife, was in
reality a tool of the KGB, recruited, and trained to provide the
Oswald couple an air respectability. Such arrangements were, and still
are, standard procedure for the KGB branch specializing in foreign
intelligence. In a period when Soviet intelligence agencies were
plagued by defections, a wife and child could assure loyalty to
Moscow.
"That will tie him to us for all eternity," was the slogan. In this
context, Pacepa mentions a Soviet agent married to a Czechoslovak
woman, who together with their son, arrived in Montreal in 1961
carrying through customs "a toy truck in which the KGB has concealed
cipher pads, microdots with communications instruction, a microdot
reader and a Minox camera." The author asks whether at his return from
the USSR to the U.S. with his Soviet wife and baby, couldn't Oswald
have staged a similar performance?
The author notes that Marina, like other women in similar positions,
only pretended to cooperate with the U.S. investigation, due to the
mortal fear installed in her by her handlers. Moscow's involvement in
the assassination was to be erased, denied, and deflected by all
available means. The book presents a surprising but credible picture
of the workings of the KGB, its thinking, methodology and operations,
analyzing facts and events through the eyes of an intelligence insider
who is convinced of Moscow's involvement in the crime.
Based not only on his research of the vast available literature on the
subject, but also on his personal experience as a high-ranking officer
in the Romanian DIE, which received direct orders from Moscow, his
story should probably complement if not substitute the standard
manuals on the KGB used by American intelligence services. Considering
the numerous failures of U.S. intelligence agencies, one wonders
whether any of the high-ranking communist defectors succeeded in
presenting such sagacity the workings of Soviet foreign operations.
Concerning Oswald's assassination by Jack Ruby, Pacepa's opinion
differs from that of the Warren Commission. Eventually, the jailed
assassin's killer was himself executed, conveniently dying of a most
likely induced rapid lung cancer on January 3, 1967. At his turn,
Oswald's Soviet handler in the U.S., a shady character of European
aristocratic extraction, privy to deadly secrets, was silenced in 1977
in Florida, having allegedly committed suicide.
At the end of his fascinating and engrossing account, which should be
required reading for the entire American intelligence community,
Pacepa presents a chapter that point by point, logically, methodically
and inexorably presents the trajectory of the events, persuading the
reader of its plausibility. Even if his explanations don't cover
everything that occurred on that fateful day in Dallas, his theory
gives the reader pause.
Considering the situation in a Russia that is now led by a former KGB
officer and autocrat, whose increased espionage activities in the West
were uncovered by the murder of Litvinenko in London, Pacepa's book
sends a storm warning that no one interested in foreign affairs or
JFK's assassination can afford to ignore.
Justin P. Liuba is a free-lance journalist, former Romanian bureau
chief of Radio Free Europe and president of the Romania Relief
Foundation. Contact him at veliuba@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmed to Kill=97Lee
Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB and the Kennedy Assassination by Ion
Mihai Pacepa is published by Ivan R. Dee.
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