Michael Burns > Quotes

“That job has been left to independent writers, like attorney Mark Lane, or Jim Marrs, both now deceased. Lane’s book, My Indictment of the CIA in the murder of JFK, should be required reading for everyone who wants to be part of Eisenhower’s “alert and knowledgeable citizenry.”
― Michael Burns, A Study of Assassination

“On page 232 of his book, Murder In Memphis, Mark Lane wrote this: “On November 30, 1973, it was revealed that the CIA had forty full-time news reporters on the CIA payroll as undercover informants, some of these as full-time agents. Two months earlier, William F. Colby , then the director of the CIA, ordered a review of the practice since legitimate reporters were concerned that agent-journalists seriously compromised the integrity of the American press in general and might cripple the ability of reporters to function overseas.”
― Michael Burns, A Study of Assassination

“The purported “JFK files” are not the real deal. President Trump has apparently made a calculated decision to keep the truth hidden. He doesn’t want the whole sordid story out there for the American public to see or hear. He has once again reneged on his pledge to release the actual JFK files.”
― Michael Burns, A Study of Assassination

“The actual phrase “conspiracy theory” was concocted by the CIA following JFK’s assassination to counter the arguments coming from dozens of legitimate investigative journalists and writers who maintained that the Warren Commission was a whitewash.”
― Michael Burns, A Study of Assassination

“When his dreams collided with the dark forces of greed and lust for power, Robert Kennedy was cut down at the crest of a promise that was never to reach our shores. What washed up instead was a bloody tide of lies from which this country has never recovered.”
― Michael Burns, A Study of Assassination