My Review (5 stars out of 5)
(Audiobook)
Patrick Nolan’s highly researched book explores the CIA’s involvement in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Detailing the lives and movements of both Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, the author targets the CIA’s Richard Helms and many others, who he believes took part in the plots to kill the Kennedys, as well as the killing of Dr Martin Luther King Jnr.
Like many people of a certain age, I’ve long been fascinated by the numerous theories surrounding the conspiracies linked to the assassination of the Kennedys. Narrated by Stephen Bowlby, this is an intriguing book that delves into the CIA’s MK-Ultra program which used mind control and hypnosis to set up assassins who would then remember little of their own actions. Nolan explores the idea that Oswald and Sirhan were duped into behaving in ways that made them look guilty of murder when in fact they were merely pawns in a conspiracy to get rid of men whose political achievements went against the objectives of the CIA. Disappointingly, what the book does not reveal is who was at the top of the tree in terms of the CIA’s murderous machinations – it’s hard to believe that Helms himself was the sole individual responsible for coordinating the murders.
Entertaining and fascinating – a must for all Kennedy conspiracy fans.
Colin Garrow 