Deep Politics II: Essays on Oswald, Mexico and Cuba

by Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott has written extensively on the Kennedy assassination and other dark corners of the American political scene. His encyclopedic knowledge enables him to connect the dots among the players, the organizations, and the unacknowledged collusions - the deep politics - of our often troubled political system.

Deep Politics II narrows the focus of Scott's earlier Deep Politics and the Death of JFK; more than half the book is taken up with the most detailed treatment yet of the mysterious sojourn of Lee Harvey Oswald, or someone using his name, to Mexico City in the fall of 1963. It is now known that allegations of communist conspiracy in the wake of the JFK assassination, emanating mostly from Mexico City, caused Lyndon Johnson to put together a "blue ribbon commission" to "lay the dust" of Dallas. LBJ told Warren Commissioner Richard Russell that "we've got to take this out of the arena where they're testifying that Khruschev and Castro did this and did that and kicking us into a war that can kill 40 million Americans in an hour."

If, as Peter Scott's analysis suggests, the evidence from Mexico City was part of a frame-up, then this puts a whole new light on the "communist conspiracy" allegations.

Genres: Nonfiction, Conspiracy Theories, Politics, American

174 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Nathan Steinmetz]

This is a very close read of very specific information. Fantastic analysis of the then-known information about Oswald in Mexico but keep in mind the scope of this particular work is narrow.

[Pete daPixie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just a few years back I read Scott's 'Deep Politics and the Death of JFK', published in 1993. 'Deep Politics on Oswald, Mexico, and Cuba', published in 2013, can be seen as a follow on from the 1993 book.
As the author writes in his Introduction, "This is an unusual interim publication, responding to an unusual time in the protracted history of the John F. Kennedy assassination." Scott's collection of essays are dated from 1994, and were written as responses to the JFK Records Act and as direct aids for the Assassination Records Review Board.
I have to wonder why it has taken almost twenty years to bring this set of writings to the wider public? However, in similar theme to 'Deep Politics and the Death of JFK' Scott trawls the pre and post assassination government intelligence records concerning Oswald, Mexico and Cuba. While in both books he highlights the phase one 'communist conspiracy' which post assassination was quickly altered to the phase two 'lone-nut' cover-up. Also in both books Scott falls short of declaring CIA guilt for Dallas from these documentary anomalies and outright falsifications and deceptions.
A brief read of just over one hundred and thirty pages, but sharp analysis throughout. Ten essays with accompanying notes that provide good recommendations for further study plus thirty pages of four appendices and a sharp review of Posner's 'Case Closed'.

[Jeff Russo · Rating 3 out of 5]

First of all.... man oh man is the text in this book tiny. Amazingly tiny text. It may rival my copy of Spengler in smallness of text. I'll have to measure them. I'm not getting any younger and I'm having trouble with the text.

On the content.... look, I knew what I was buying here, early 1990s impressions of what was coming out from the ARRB re: Mexico and related matters. This material has been beaten to death in the interim, but I am of the opinion that sometimes you can get nuggets of insight from looking at early reactions. Only one or two chapters really sucked me in.

I wanted to add to my Oswald library and this is added, but hard for me to recommend unless you have some niche reason for this material by Mr Scott... and the book loses a half-star just for the tiny text