Mihail Pacepa should know. He was high up in Soviet intelligence.
This is a really good book from an authentic and competent author. Old story - today's problems.
To rate this book you have to determine first if it should be classified as fiction or non-fiction. Whatever artistic value the book may have, if I look at it the way it is presented, as non-fiction, I have to give it the lowest rating.
I found this book to be a fascinating and informative experience, Coupled with "Disinformation," one can become much more aware of what President Reagan best described as, "An evil empire." The highly successful manipulative and deceptive activity employed by Soviet intelligence organizations against the West often incite disgust, This read will provide an insight that extends to events of the present.
Author was debriefed by CIA for a few years, then was given a new identity, citizenship, and a government paycheck. Did he have any motive to cover up for the CIA?
I think the above tag just about sums up this book. You could save your money and spend it on something much more worthwhile than this fanciful piece of Cold War junk.
This author attempts to take the CIA/Texas cabal's own cover story: that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) was a "sent Soviet agent" and refashions it into a bona fide spy tale in which LHO is seen as being controlled by the KGB. But the upshot is that in the end, LHO ends up deciding on his own, against his own Russian handlers advice, to shoot the U.
Package of six new hardbounds arrived badly damaged en route by USPS.Upon notification, vendor immediately replaced (2) crumpled editions.
Why would the KGB equip Oswald for the crime of the century with such piece of junk as the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle in question? Also, why would they eschew Oswald's having any kind of target practice in preparation for this triumph of shooting accuracy since there is no evidence that Oswald fired a gun at all between his discharge from the USMC and 11/22/63?
American readers probably missed the fact that four months after Pacepa's book came out Ludvik Zifcak, the former intelligence officer in Czechoslovakia, published his book "We Killed Kennedy" (Zabili jsme Kennedyho, Nakladatelstvi ELLF). In this book Zifcak, using records from KGB archives in Moscow, fills in essential information supporting Pacepa's hypothesis.
I have read a great deal about the Kenendy assassination, but I have never seen anything with such a unique perspective about Oswald's motives. No one has bothered to look at the situation from his viewpoint, which is odd, considering that Oswald is the only one to date who has been formally accused of the crime.
Lee Harvey Oswald was given the standard KGB sex-puppet wife Marina to take home with him. The KGB spotted Oswald as a CIA plant early on and played along.
Ion Mihai Pacepa has yet to convince me that the former Soviet Union was directly behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy on this very date, forty-four years ago.
General Ion Mihai Pacepa has given us a new and very different point of view of the JFK assassination, clarifying what has been the conspiracy theorists' haven in the 20th century. In the FBI we taught that 'the truth is in the details,' and the General exquisitely reveals the truth-with verifiable, consistent, meshing-together, and incontrovertible facts about the involvement of the Soviet leadership and the KGB in this tragedy from start to finish, and even afterward in covering up their malfeasance.
Not only does Gen. Pacepa claim that Lee Oswald was a pawn of Soviet foreign intelligence, but that Carousel Club owner Jack Ruby was working as an intelligence agent for the Cuban DGI.
