A Certain Arrogance: The Sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Wartime Manipulation of Religious Groups by U.S. Intelligence
A Certain Arrogance: The Sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Wartime Manipulation of Religious Groups by U.S. Intelligence
Providing the first global cultural context for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation into how United States intelligence agencies and other entities manipulated liberal religious groups and educational institutions for ideological, political, and economic gain during the Cold War exposes numerous previously misunderstood political operations. Including assassinations, these projects include those facilitated by Allen Dulles, John Foster Dulles, the U.S. State Department, the Office of Strategic Services and its successor, the CIA, and other individuals and groups. Focusing on the manipulations of key individuals in the American Unitarian Association, the Unitarian Service Committee, and the Unitarian-supported Albert Sc
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Exploring unmapped territory,
A Certain Arrogance is rather a unique entry in the JFK assassination canon. Rather than explore previously mined veins of information, the author has elected, as Charles Drago states in the nicely crafted introduction, to explore some unmapped territory in the life of young Lee Harvey Oswald. Everyone knows that LHO claimed to be heading off to study at Albert Scweitzer College (ASC)in Switzerland when he in fact defected to the USSR via Helsinki, but almost no one has asked whether he actually applied to ASC, how he located the obscure school, and whether this somehow fit into the larger pattern of his enigmatic life.
George Michael Evica has produced a series of eight essays, each exhaustively footnoted and supplemented with Endnotes and references to primary sources, that explore the use of religious organizations by US Intelligence since the First World War. Each essay explores in incredible detail some aspect of the central thesis: ASC was a link in a spiraling web of connections to intelligence agencies and ultimately to John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles and the history of the Cold War. Each of Evica’s well researched essays are dedicated to a specific topic in great depth, but they all relate to the use of “illegals” and “false identity” in the world of intelligence. The eighth and final essay is devoted to an exhaustive examination of the extended family of Ruth and Michael Paine which is easily worth the price of the book alone. Finally the “why” of Oswald and the Paines seems to make sense. Also of interest is the examination of how this young man may have “found” this college, how he may have applied and many other issues previously unexamined which are thoroughly covered in this exceptional book.
One caveat: this book is recommended for those who have done extensive reading in the JFK assasination. Others may find this slow going, particularly the pieces on intelligence history and US foriegn policy. For anyone wishing to mine this well further, see Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil
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