Author of the last word

Mark Lane
was born with a brain. Just getting a new book causes so much excitement that all the old flames merely smolder in the back burner region of hell on wheels when Last Word (2011) by Mark Lane was enticing me like a former Military Intelligence fanatic with a bunch of internet pornography saying:

Let’s go to your room.

Alvin Greene was charged with some kind of speech crime at a University in South Carolina after a student’s mother told her daughter to call the campus police. Mark Lane is trying to out-Momma that Momma by calling for an indictment of the CIA in the murder of JFK. The late Isaiah Berlin wrote an essay on:

The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia

which is reprinted in his book, Russian Thinkers (1978). Young Russians who had studied Hegelian philosophy at German universities had been bringing their brightest ideas over to Russia to bring about the pantheistic feeling of identification with the cosmos. Like Americans claiming victory in World War II, feelings in Russia after the long march to Paris following the invasion by Napoleon brought about an awareness of sheer brute force with a nationalism that felt itself being challenged by: 

Russian Thinkers

a growth of the feeling of responsibility
for the chaos, the squalor, the poverty,
the inefficiency, the brutality, the
appalling disorder in Russia. (Berlin, p. 118).

As a President, JFK had allowed his brother to menace higher swindle fanatics who were gangsters. My life was largely shaped by the ten years following the assassination of JFK, including a live national TV broadcast from the basement of the Dallas Police Station when the arresting officers put the handcuffs on Jack Ruby and he told them:

You all know me. I’m Jack Ruby.

KGB envy.

Oliver Stone is listed in the contents of Last Word as the author of a section of this book:

The KGB and Jim Garrison.

The Media Response to official efforts to blame Lee Harvey Oswald, who died shortly after being shot by Jack Ruby, as the lone assassin firing the bullet that killed JFK largely conformed to the behavior of a wealthy elite trying to bomb the rest of the world back into the stone age. Zeus as a character in Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus became a Greek personification of the king of the gods picking on anyone who attempted to help humankind escape from the MK Ultra treatment. Oliver Stone had some Vietnam experience before he became a movie director responsible for the movie JFK on the case against Clay Shaw brought by Jim Garrison. Oliver Stone blames «an orchestrated effort by the CIA to discredit critics of the Warren Commission» (p. 75) for picking on Jim Garrison. A CIA publication Studies in Intelligence with an article by Max Holland was reviewed in Foreign Affairs by Philip Zelikow blaming a «KGB disinformation operation» (p. 72) for spreading the idea «that the CIA had been involved in the assassination of President Kennedy.» (p. 72). The KGB was accused of planting a false story in March 1967 in an Italian left-wing newspaper. The global politics behind the news story:

The articles were actually
assigned in the wake of a
right-wing coup in Greece
and were intended to prevent
such a coup in Italy. (p. 74).

A student newspaper at the University of Michigan complained about the government of Greece being overthrown when I was a student in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and 1967 was the year the Unabomber got a PhD in mathematics there so he could teach at the University of California to get enough money to buy land in Montana and leave all the brilliant students trying to figure out how to join all the higher swindle fanatics in collective dedication to their own devices while he worked on his own devices.

Haldeman and Helms have a conversation after the Watergate break-in of June, 1972, almost ten years after the JFK assassination which made Haldeman think:

«in all those references to the
Bay of Pigs, he was actually
referring to the Kennedy
assassination.» (p. 284).

Walter Kaufmann gave a talk in the week following the JFK assassination in which he talked about Oedipus as one who was brought so low that the audience should shiver with the kind of reaction:

What is to become of us?

that was quoted in stories about people in the world who felt the assassination as a personal event in their lives. America needed a Super President then to convince the world that the United States of America would be the new Martin Luther Stonehood promoting equality in ways that would knock their socks off.

Last Word does not have an index, but the chapter The CIA and the Media begins with some analysis of articles by Max Holland as «CIA’s mole.» (p. 105). Mark Lane was picked on as one of «The JFK Lawyers’ Conspiracy» (p. 106). Mark Lane had published Rush To Judgment before he met the other three lawyers who had supposedly conspired. Holland is capable of seeing and believing the truth. For example:

And now for the accurate statement
by Holland. He complained that
«Lane’s basic allegation (was)
that the government was indifferent
to the truth.» All along, I had been
led to believe that shibboleth was
the motto of The Nation and a concept
that defines the role of the people
and the press in a democratic society. (p. 107).

Counterintelligence is the tricky concept that gives higher swindle fanatics their plausible denial. Mark Lane interviewed many of the jurors in the trial of Clay Shaw after Clay Shaw was acquitted in 1969. Even if the CIA played a part in the assassination, the jurors did not believe it was proved that Claw Shaw worked for the CIA. The kind of fake personal identities that popped up in the Alger Hiss case might apply to Clay Shaw if they had all agreed to call him something else when he was doing any dirty work. The who- and what-ness of how people act crumbles all to hell when a society falls for really high swindles like:

The CIA instructed its media assets
that «because of the standing of the
members of the Warren Commission,
efforts to impugn their rectitude and
wisdom tend to cast doubt on the
whole leadership of American
society.» (p. 110).

Thus stated, Martin Luther Stonehood applied to an entire generation who are totally off our nut when «God bless America,» Memorial Day, the National anthem, and the pledge «one nation, under God» are assumed to have sentimental value to the quivering cows who noticed that LBJ let the bull into their pasture.

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This is Mark Lane’s final word on not only the CIA but also the Secret Service, the Warren Commission, and Vincent Bugliosi’s 1,600 page, 5.5 pound opus called ‘Rewriting History’. I’ve read about some of this before but this book added a lot of fascinating and important details.

Reading about what really happened with the Warren Commission and their so called report is like wading into a putrid swamp of lies and deceit. The commission’s objective was to just collect any evidence which supported Lee Oswald’s guilt and not to try to investigate any other possible theories about the assassination. Which is the exact opposite of how a real criminal investigation is supposed to work.

I didn’t realize until now Mr. Lane helped organize the HSCA government hearings to look into the assassination. Mr. Lane recommended two other lawyers to run the HSCA investigation. But as those guys got closer and closer to the truth the hypocrisy and cowardice machine in Washington, DC kicked into high gear. Mr. Lane’s friends resigned from the HSCA in disgust and were replaced by government lackey G. Robert Blakey. Blakey signed a secrecy agreement with the CIA and then proceeded to replace one fairy tale, the Warren Report, with another one about how the Italian mafia was ultimately responsible for JFK’s murder. The HSCA was the last chance to uncover the truth about the JFK assassination and bring the true conspirators to justice.

The image of the CIA that emerges from this book is a sponsor of international terrorism and war crimes. People tried to warn presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to reign in this multi headed hydra of evil before it was too late. The Agency is like a dangerous creature which, when cornered, lashes out with its vast resources. And it lashed out at John Kennedy who was threatening to shut down the CIA for good.

And John Kennedy was just the beginning. The list of mysterious deaths of people who knew too much about the JFK mystery for their own good and who turned up dead is very long. What’s scary about these murders is they weren’t done to send some kind of political message. They were done in secret and the intention was that they will remain secret forever. These are people who had become a threat to an Agency with much larger objectives and schemes. Women. Police officers. People serving in the military. Even a former director of the CIA. Nobody was safe.

I don’t agree with everything in this book. Mr. Lane suggests that the Secret Service agents who were driving the presidential limousine intentionally stopped the car so the snipers could blow JFK’s head off. But there’s a very sharp turn there in Dealey Plaza which forced the driver to come to an almost complete stop. That’s where they had the crossfire set up. And the people who committed this assassination weren’t amateurs. I don’t care how much the Secret Service agents disliked John Kennedy, nobody is that dedicated to a cause that they would put themselves into that car if they knew what was going to happen.

Also he says Lee Oswald did not travel to Mexico City. However Judyth Baker how now surfaced after many years. She says that yes they did send Lee to Mexico City to deliver an injectable form of cancer to use on Fidel Castro. But when Lee’s contact in Mexico didn’t show up he knew something was wrong. Although in any case it’s clear that Lee Oswald never went to the Cuban or Soviet embassies in Mexico City. I guess they just wanted to create a fake paper trail of him going there.

This is an excellent book I thought, one of the best I’ve read about the JFK case. Up until now I didn’t realize that certain details about the assassination surfaced in a court room or government investigation setting. I will probably read more of Mr. Lane’s books.

Mr. Lane was there right from the beginning. He knew John Kennedy personally and worked on one of JFK’s political campaigns. That’s over 50 years of experience and knowledge about the JFK mystery. Mark Lane is up there with Jim Garrison, Fletcher Prouty, and a few other people in the list of JFK heroes.

These are people who, for whatever reasons, were not willing to accept what was going on. And they all took risks in speaking out.

A Deeper, Darker Truth: Tom Wilson’s Journey into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

On the Trail of the Assassins: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy

JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy

Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald

The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover

Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace: Third Edition

Texas in the Morning: The Love Story of Madeleine Brown and President Lyndon Baines Johnson

2: Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume II (Volume 2)

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Our country has been destroyed by power hungry individuals that have taken our freedoms with little or no resistance. Regaining those freedoms will require much blood, much blood!

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