A excellent & well documented book that people should read before writing so-called "reviews"

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	• Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK Lamar Waldron, Thom Hartmann Carroll & Graf, 2005 - 912 pages average customer review:based on 115 reviews view larger image
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Fine account of JFK's murder by the Mafia

Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann have written a remarkable book. They conclude, "John and Robert Kennedy had devised and were executing a secret plan to overthrow Fidel Castro on December 1, 1963."

The `Plan for a Coup in Cuba', drafted by Kennedy's Secretary of the Army Cyrus Vance, was backed by the Departments of State and of Defense and by the CIA. It was to be a `palace coup' backed, if necessary, by a `full-scale invasion' by the US army and `air attacks'. They intended the `liquidation of ... Castro' and of other Cuban leaders.

They even intended to attack any Soviet forces in Cuba. The authors of this insane plan wrote, "US planning should include plans, for implementation as circumstances warrant at the time, for the possible neutralization or elimination of Soviet forces in Cuba." They blithely discussed `US-Soviet confrontation' while aiming `to minimize Soviet loss of life'.

The Department of Defense was given the responsibility for carrying out this illegal aggression, after the CIA's fiasco at the Bay of Pigs. By October 1963, there were two `training camps' in Nicaragua and two in Costa Rica.

The authors also show how three Mafia bosses killed JFK to stop his prosecution of the Mafia. Five Mafia members were involved in the plot against Cuba. The Mafia bosses used the Plan to cover up their plot: exposing their plot to kill JFK would expose JFK's plot to kill Castro, leading most likely to another nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union.

Not surprisingly, over a million CIA records relating to JFK's murder are not to be released before 2017, if then.

This insane Plan was all too reminiscent of Operation Northwood, in which the US Joint Chiefs of Staff planned to kill US citizens by terrorist acts then blame Cuba.

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Excellent history and well written

First, let me note that I have read Kennedy assassination conspiracy books for almost 40 years now, and after believing many of them for years, I am now getting skeptical and coming back to the old Oswald-did-it-alone theory (though I hate to side with the fictional Warren Report).

Thus, I take the theories of the book with a grain of salt. Honestly, at the moment, I don't believe it. HOWEVER...

However, this book is so full of fascinating facts and history, and written so extremely well, that I give it 5 stars anyway. I am fascinated with it, and may read it again. It is the most detailed history of that subject (US attempts to oust Castro) I have ever read.

Even if you believe that the Mark Lanes and Harold Weisbergs are full of it, don't let it stop you from reading this fabulous book. I just devoured it, while remaining skeptical. Who knows, when I read it again, I may take a different point of view.

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A excellent & well documented book that people should read before writing so-called "reviews"

I think this book should be read by those with any interest in JFK's assassination or the Kennedy presidency. It's clear that the authors of several recent Amazon reviews are not even familiar with the book, as they make erroneous assertions about things that are extensively documented in the book from declassified government files, and they raise points that aren't even in the book.

Those who HAVE read the book would know it contains a wealth of new information--from documents as well as people who worked with the Kennedys like Rusk, Salinger, Powers, and others--and it doesn't just rehash old arguments. It shows why JFK's so-called "no invasion pledge" to end the Cuban Missile Crisis never took effect: because Castro wouldn't allow UN inspections for weapons of mass (nuclear) destruction that were part of JFK's deal with Russia. And, it shows why the Mafia had to kill JFK before the planned coup: the Kennedys had tried to keep the Mafia out of the coup plan, and their new "post-coup" Provisional Government in Cuba would not tolerate the Mafia's return.

The writers have made parts of the book available on the internet, so those interested in it can read more for themselves, instead of relying on the inaccurate assertions of those who seem more interested in writing essays about their own views than reviewing the book in question.

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