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Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace
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James W. Douglass · 514 pages
In this fascinating and disturbing book James Douglass presents a compelling account of why President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and why the unmasking of this truth remains crucial for the future of our country and the world. Drawing on a vast field of investigation, including many sources available only in recent years, Douglass lays out a sequence of steps by JFK that transformed him, o
The Kennedy Conspiracy
Anthony Summers · 640 pages
One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
Whitney Alyse Webb · 544 pages
JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy
L. Fletcher Prouty · 366 pages
Millions have been gripped by Oliver Stone's film JFK and its premise that the plot to assassinate Kennedy originated beyond the highest levels of the U.S. government. In the movie, the advocate of this theory is a character named "X" played by Donald Sutherland, who, as the film's "Deep Throat," explains how and why this plot came about. As Stone acknowledged, "X" not only was faithfully depicted
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain · 384 pages
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Annie Jacobsen · 614 pages
In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. Many of these men were accused of war crimes,
The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA
Ted Gup · 398 pages
In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. Official CIA records only name thirty-five of them, however. Undeterred by claims that revealing the identities of these "nameless stars" might compromise national security, Ted Gup sorted through thousands of documents and interviewe
Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?
Mark Lane · 400 pages
An investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy draws on new documentation that links the CIA to the murder of the president.
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
David E. Hoffman · 577 pages
This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. During the Cold War, world superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power of one million Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the "Dead Hand,"
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
David Talbot · 478 pages
Robert F. Kennedy was the first conspiracy theorist about his brother's murder. In this new account of the Kennedy years, David Talbot explains why - even on 22 November 1963 - RFK had reason to believe that dark forces were at work in Dallas.
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Steve Sheinkin · 370 pages
From Steve Sheinkin, the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Bomb comes a tense, exciting exploration of what the Times deemed “the greatest story of the century”: how Daniel Ellsberg transformed from obscure government analyst into “the most dangerous man in America,” and risked everything to expose the government’s deceit. On June 13, 1971, the front page of the New York Times announ
High Treason: The Assassination of JFK & the Case for Conspiracy
Robert J. Groden, Harrison Edward Livingstone · 621 pages
A nation lost its innocence on November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. Thirty-five years later the nation continues to suffer the aftershock of perhaps the most traumatic single event in its history, in part, no doubt, because the case continues to elude closure. For more than three decades, Harrison Edward Livingstone has continued
Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century
Sergei Kostin, Eric Raynaud · 430 pages
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War
Giles Whittell · 274 pages
Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin's Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange between East and West? Bridge of Spies traces the paths to that exchange on February 10, 1962. It is the story of three men -- William Fisher, alias Rudolf Abel, a British born KGB agent arrested by the FBI in New York City and jailed as a Soviet s
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
James Bamford · 721 pages
A no-holds-barred examination of America's National Security Agency - packed with startling secrets about its past, news-breaking revelations about its present-day activities, and chilling predictions about its future powers and reach.The NSA is the largest, most secretive and most powerful intelligence agency in the world. With a staff of 38,000 people, it dwarfs the CIA in budget, manpower and i
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein · 260 pages
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll · 728 pages
An account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which pro
On the Trail of the Assassins
Jim Garrison · 342 pages
This book is a record of Jim Garrison, Prosecuting Attorney in New Orleans, attempt to prosecute those responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. His contention is that the assassination was a conspiracy involving the CIA and the military industrial complex, and that it was, in effect, a coup d'etat. This book was used as one of the basis for the movie, JFK. Although he di
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
Philip Shenon · 632 pages
"Groundbreaking new history of the Kennedy assassination, investigative reporter and bestselling author Phil Shenon writes the ultimate inside account of what has become the most controversial murder investigation of the 20th century, the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Based on groundbreaking research, deep reporting, and unprecedented access, the book is character dr
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner · 727 pages
Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized United States national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its ter
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · 364 pages
The Death of a President: November 1963
William Manchester · 736 pages
An account of the assassination of President Kennedy and the days after culled from "evidence and recollection, scenes and moods, quotations and opinions from an enormous number of observers and participants." Pub W.
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
Stephen Kinzer · 409 pages
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into foreign adventures that decisively shaped today's world as the Cold War was at its peak.
The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship & Espionage
Robert Lindsey · 387 pages
True story about two young men from affluent families who, under the code names "Falcon" and "Snowman," commit a brazen act of espionage, by selling some of America's most sensitive secrets to the KGB.