Newman, John. Oswald and the CIA. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995. 627 pages, including 90 pages of reproduced documents.

Since the JFK Records Act was passed in 1992, some two million pages have been added to the National Archives. Many of these have been examined by author John Newman and other JFK researchers. The National Archives will take years to process this material, and the Assassination Records Review Board has just begun its task of determining whether some of the more sensitive documents should also be released. This book, in other words, is not the last word on the topic of Oswald and the CIA.

Based mainly on the new material released from 1993-1995, Newman paints a picture of "Oswald the file," as opposed to "Oswald the man." What did compartmented bureaucrats at the CIA know about Oswald from the records available to them, and when did they know it? Much more than what has been publicly acknowledged: there was significant interest in Oswald prior to the assassination. There are also bizarre holes in this interest, suggesting that Oswald was being manipulated by CIA counterintelligence. "We can finally say with some authority that the CIA was spawning a web of deception about Oswald weeks before the president's murder, a fact that may have directly contributed to the outcome in Dallas. Is it possible that when Oswald turned up with a rifle on the president's motorcade route, the CIA found itself living in an unthinkable nightmare of its own making?" (page 430)
ISBN 0-7867-0131-5

Extract the names from this source

Back to search page