Turner, William W. Rearview Mirror: Looking Back at the FBI, the CIA and
Other Tails. Granite Bay CA: Penmarin Books, 2001. 318 pages.
After ten years as an FBI special agent, William Turner resigned
and became an investigative journalist. He went on assignments for
Ramparts magazine and was soon a senior editor (Ramparts was arguably the
most significant magazine that has appeared in the U.S. since the 1930s).
Turner became interested in Jim Garrison's efforts to reopen the JFK
assassination, and also co-authored a book (with Jonn Christian) on the
Robert Kennedy assassination. His "Hoover's FBI" is one of earliest to
blow the whistle on Hoover, and "The Fish is Red," which he wrote with
Warren Hinckle, is a detailed look at the CIA's Cuban exile community.
Turner was personally targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, at about the time
that Ramparts was a target of dirty tricks engineered by the CIA. And
needless to say, any high-profile person who saw the assassinations as
conspiracies in the late 1960s could forget about qualifying for life
insurance. Turner not only survived, but still has that rare quality of
being able to put things into useful perspective, without dismissing
relevant evidence or becoming paralyzed with paranoia. The chapters
about the adventures of Ramparts, and the JFK and RFK assassinations,
are excellent. As just one example, Turner was involved with "Farewell
America," a mysterious book from Europe about the JFK assassination.
ISBN 1-883955-21-1
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