AUTHOR TO CRITIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200760014-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 8, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

SEP 8 1966.
,App?roved Fpr.Release 2005/08/22 IA_RQP -,
Approved"far Release 2005/08/22:: CIA-RDP88-.0135DROQ0200600*4
Author to Critic
SIR: Your 'journalistic embodiment of all three l
fabled monkeys, Jeremiah O'Leary, in the polemic,;
pretending to be a review of my book, "Whitewash: The >
Report on the Warren Report," commits exactly the,:
ysame errors he attributes to critics of the commission.'
His ax-swing is practiced, but, having .sharpened the
weapon, he uses the wrong end. And his display of.1
ignorance of what he pretends to inform your readers'
about is monumental.
A President of the United States Was murdered. Do
we live, or does O'Leary want us to live, in a society in'
which there may remain a single unanswered question
that it is within the capacity of man to answer? Can i
there be any doubt about the adequacy of the investiga
:'don and the institution of the presidency or any incum-
bent ever being safe? President Kennedy was bestowed
the dubious epitaph of a most questionable inquest. This -1
"Whitewash" proves with the 'Commission's own evi-
dence.
This so-called review is its own kind of testimonial
to the content, viability and approach of "Whitewash."
There' are 110,000 words in it, and not one does O'Leary
`? even. try to prove wrong. He substitutes his own unwillrtingness to believe what he cannot refute. Nor does he'd
even allude to the entirely irrefutable photographic
{;evidence printed In "Whitewash"' alone' of the books,;?
;proving this. evidence was. tampered with, some. ofiit
"actually destroyed. In fact, he really says nothing about'I
~ my bbok,"does not in any way repoit'what it says. J
Harold, ~~ ,:
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