Scott, Peter Dale. Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection. Berkeley CA: Westworks, 1977. 80 pages.

In June, 1976, a report on the role of U.S. intelligence agencies in the investigation of the JFK assassination was released by Senators Richard S. Schweiker and Gary Hart. This report was one of the first official confirmations that the Mafia had used its knowledge of CIA assassination plots against Castro to blackmail the U.S. government. In September of that year the House voted 280 to 65 for a resolution that began the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

Peter Dale Scott, whose breadth and mastery of detail has for years been applied to research that ranges from domestic history to the 1965 coup in Indonesia, uses the Schweiker-Hart report as a point of departure to examine the connections between the JFK cover-up, the CIA, the Mafia, Jack Ruby, Howard Hughes, and Watergate. In 1976 the dimensions of the CIA-Mafia collusion were just emerging into the public record, so this little volume made a timely contribution. The 49 pages of text are supplemented with 216 expansive endnotes, and both are extremely dense with names. Although Scott doesn't pretend to have a clear picture, he shows that general shapes can be discerned from the interconnecting debris of Dallas and Watergate. A former Canadian diplomat, Scott has a Ph.D. in Political Science and is a professor of English at UC Berkeley.
ISBN 0-87867-066-1

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