Lane, Mark. Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination
of JFK? New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991. 393 pages.
This bestseller recounts the defamation case brought by E. Howard
Hunt against the newspaper Spotlight and its publisher Liberty Lobby.
Hunt sued because of a 1978 article by another former CIA officer, Victor
Marchetti, who wrote that an internal CIA memo had surfaced that placed
Hunt in Dallas on the day of JFK's assassination. In the process of
defending the newspaper, Lane was able to take depositions from David
Atlee Phillips, Richard Helms and Stansfield Turner. The trial featured
the testimony of Marita Lorenz, Fidel Castro's former mistress, in which
she said that she had been with Hunt, Frank Sturgis and Jack Ruby in
Dallas on November 21. The jury concluded that Hunt lied about his
whereabouts on the day of the assassination.
Elsewhere Lane recounts how Phillips once admitted that the photo of
Oswald in Mexico City and his visit to the Soviet Embassy there were both
nonexistent. The Oswald Mexico City caper a few weeks before the
assassination may have been a CIA disinformation trick, designed to
implicate the KGB so that Earl Warren would agree to a cover-up as a way
to keep us out of World War III. This same cover-up conveniently (for the
CIA) obscured all evidence of conspiracy -- including evidence that might
implicate U.S. intelligence itself.
ISBN 1-56025-000-3
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