MEMO TO PB/NSC COORDINATOR FROM D CI

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• Publication Date: July 22, 1980
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MEMORANDUM FOR: PB/NSC Coordinator
FROM: D CI
SUBJECT:
I'd like to refresh myself on the
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renewed anti-U.S. demonstrations throughout the Caribbean. `S)
Add to the Brzezinski list for Wednesday to have a discussion on the
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ed) - movement-and that his days with the FairPlay for Cuba
In. the mid-1960s, -those who doubted the . Warren Committee were a ruse to make him seem pro-Castro,
Commission's solution to President Kennedy's assassin- and to have the Kennedy assassin portrayed in the press
ation were generally dismissed as untrustworthy con- as being, pro,-Castro. In Dallas, -Summers argues, the
spiracy addicts..:The only forums that generally -.wel anti-Kennedy conspirators left Oswald holding the bag
corned them. were nighttime radio talk shows.-,.And... and then had Jack Ruby kill him.
there, hosts often treated serious scholars and crazies "From the plethora of past theories as to who killed
with equal respect. Listeners did not know what to be-, Kennedy and why, the.key targets of suspicion can now
lieve about the assassination after hearing a complicat-,? .. be distilled to three-members of the :Mafia, American
ed discussion of ballistics immediately followed. by an intelligence personnel and anti-Castro activists, ' Sum
-astrologi- st blaming it all on the stars groups, accorrpiices
mers'wntes. "Elements of all these
Looking back on:those years, it now seems surprising . in crimes that they indubitably were in the Sixties, may
-o,, :oeen involved"
that the nation so- unquestioningly accepted the com have
mission's solution-'to .the murder.- of .the century-that The book' does not settle the dispute Preoccupied
'Lee Harvey Oswald acted completely-on.bis.owninkill with conspiracy, Summers does?not hesitate,to make,.1
ing, the President:.. Possibly, the event was so terrible shaky- inferences. A 1963 Associated Press interview.
that few wanted tathink about it with Fidel Castro, for example, went against Summers'.
In nis excellent book, Anthony, Summers, a British controlled by the CIA.
journalist, says that instead of.the.truth, Americans ac- But this book does not have to settle the dispute. The
cepted the commission report. as. "an analgesic.". The. book's importance is the compilation of existing material
time, he argues, has come for the nation to quit taking - in -.readable;' understandable style. Considering the
aspirin and try to find out what really happened in Dal- enormous amount of detail and the confusing number of
Us in 1963. characters,. Summers has covered the case with literary
An immediate reaction might be why?" And. espe- ,style, particularly. once he is out of the forest of conflict-
cially why another Kennedy. assassination book. Why? ing'physical evidence. Then his story becomes a thriller
Because new. information has come out in recent years as Summers- evokes the dangerous world of right-wing
from investigations of 'the House Assassination Com- fanatics, anti-Castro Cubans and Mafia killers that are a
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mation, combined with grave flaws in the Warren Com -'fed'eral investigation of asiiurder,.the murder, that end-
mission findings, makes a new investigation imperative. ed America's post-World War II optimism and began
Summers distills work by the House and Senate com- years of trauma.
mittees, by previous scholars and supplements it.,with
interviews and an investigation of his own. Boyar'sky is The Tames' Los Angeles County bureau
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Carefully'and=calrrily` Summers builds a Persdasive
case tnat Oswald was not a lonely, mentally ill killer. He
was, in fact;'a'man-with interesting associations, espe-'
cially. for someone just 24 years: old.. Summers makes a
convincing. argument that Oswald had associations. with?
,-U.S. intelligence as a Marine,-as a defector living in the
Soviet Union and as-an alleged pro-Castro demonstrator
in New Orleans, where he actually.Nyorked out of the of
Tice of an extreme right-wing private detective.who
used Iobean-FBIagent.
+, { Motives for Xi lhng , ~
Assassinatfon.scholars have argued over Oswald's-:
background for a long. time. In that sense, Summers is
going over familiar ,ground.. What "makes, Summers'
book significant is that post-Warren Commission inves-
tigations have. shed so much light 'onthe peculiar. rely--
--tions between U.S.'intelligence, the Mafia and the anti-.-
Castro Cubans in the United States. These investiga-
-tions have provided motives for'the killing: Some ele
merits of- -intelligence' and ,the anti-Castro -Cubans op-
posed Kennedy's growing inclination to reach a settle-
ment With-Castro. The mob.wanted'to stop Kennedy's
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