- Paperback: 671 pages
- Publisher: Allworth Press (1 July 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1616082135
- ISBN-13: 978-1616082130
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.5 x 3.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,500,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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34 of 41 people found the following review helpful
The Final Chapter on the JFK Assassination
20 Jun 2000
Format:Hardcover
This book is one of the most important books that I have read on the JFK assassination - and I have read over a dozen since 1964. It is the "final chapter" as it provides the "big picture" answer.
It uses the information that came out since the 1970s. The Congressional Investigation in 1977 resulted in a number of books afterwards.
If you read Curt Gentry's "J. Edgar Hoover, The Man and the Myth" you would know that Hoover had been filing false expense reports for decades, and built up a small fortune. (He stayed at hotels and ate at restaurants for free, then collected expenses as if he had paid.) If he ever left office, he would have been convicted for fraud, and died in jail. He had no other option but to die in office, since he could not (or would not) get a "get out of jail free" card. (The Watergate Burglary came apart when one of the burglars did not get this, as promised.)
You should know that this GOOJF card is not just an invented scene in the movie "Clear and Present Danger". Back in the 1940s the four-star General who headed the CIA went to President Truman with a complaint about an assignment: it clearly crossed the line into a felony. But Harry just wrote out a signed but undated full Presidential Pardon! Read the biography of Allen Dulles, "Gentleman Spy" for more details.
And LBJ's crony was implicated in various frauds, some of which were said to be in complicity with organized crime. LBJ was likely to be dumped as vice-president, and would also face prosecution, disgrace, and jail.
Mark North has collected a number of letters that passed between LBJ and JEH. Surely no one would expect either of them to put their plans in writing?
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Great, analytical book on Hoover (and JFK/ RFK)
8 Jan 2006
Format:Hardcover
Mark North's "Act Of Treason" is a great, albeit dry, book on Hoover (and JFK/ RFK), making great use of contemporary news accounts and so forth. This is a nice companion volume to R. Andrew Kiel's outstanding book on Hoover, along with Anthony Summer's masterpiece "Official and Confidential." Get this!
P.S. Who he thinks may be J. Edgar Hoover in his photo section is actually Secret Service agent Stewart G. "Stu" Stout, Jr.
Vince Palamara
Secret Service expert, History Channel, author of 2 books, in over 30 other author's books, etc.
P.S. Who he thinks may be J. Edgar Hoover in his photo section is actually Secret Service agent Stewart G. "Stu" Stout, Jr.
Vince Palamara
Secret Service expert, History Channel, author of 2 books, in over 30 other author's books, etc.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Very Useful Background on the FBI
26 April 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I found that this book provided excellent background in my research for Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald (Volume One). The book has hundreds of useful facts about the FBI, including this one, on page 213: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation has nearly 1500 informants in the 8500-member Communist party, according to a former agent who also made public a report criticizing the `autocratic' way the bureau is run. The former agent is Jack Levine. . . . The bureau, Mr. Levine said, had found that the informants payroll had become a `severe drain,' and that `through its dues-paying FBI contingent it had become the largest single financial contributor to the coffers of the Communist party.'"
Why is this important? Because from this we learn that the FBI had thoroughly infiltrated the Communist Party, and in fact, 17% of the members of the Communist Party were, in fact, FBI informants. Thus, the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist means that there was, on this evidence alone, a 17% chance he was an FBI informant!!
Anyway, lots of other great information on Hoover. It's not necessarily the best written book out there, but there are going to be facts in this book you aren't going to find in any other book.
Why is this important? Because from this we learn that the FBI had thoroughly infiltrated the Communist Party, and in fact, 17% of the members of the Communist Party were, in fact, FBI informants. Thus, the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist means that there was, on this evidence alone, a 17% chance he was an FBI informant!!
Anyway, lots of other great information on Hoover. It's not necessarily the best written book out there, but there are going to be facts in this book you aren't going to find in any other book.
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