Nexus: The CIA and Political Assassination

by Larry Hancock

The CIA and Political Assassination - In The Name of National Security. Over and over again, from Guatemala to Trujillo to Lumumba, to Diem, to Schneider what we find is the CIA being "associated" with the people that did political assassinations, always able to deny that it had itself performed any actual murders. There was always the final deniability - "we didn't order it, our employees didn't do it, it was all voluntary, they took it further than we had intended, and it was beyond our control." Yet investigations would again and again determine that there were CIA field officers in contact with the parties involved. Sometimes they had served as military advisers, supplied weapons, sometimes money, sometimes just helped with logistics; but always with fine line of deniability, guiding, but only to a point. You could never literally say the CIA itself had killed anyone. This story exists only because, over time, the American people have risen up and demanded the release of information which revealed the truth of the nation's covert operations during the height of the cold war. It is time to pass on the lessons learned from the release of the JFK records, and to bring about a fundamental change in the way in which American citizens obtain information from their government - especially at a time when we still continue to struggle with seemingly endless (and needless) foreign wars and regime change.

208 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 2011

About the author

Larry is a graduate of the University of New Mexico with a BA in Education and majors in Anthropology, History and Education. Following service in the United States Air Force, he worked in the telecommunications and computer communications fields with Continental Telecom and later Hayes Microcomputer and Zoom Technologies.

During that his career he held the positions of Instructional Systems Design Manager and Engineering Training Manager at Continental Telecom, Vice President of Human Resource Dimensions (specialized in strategic business planning, disaster recovery planning and computer system conversions) and Training Manager, Marketing Manager and Marketing Director at Hayes Microcomputer and Zoom Technologies.

Reviews

[Pete daPixie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I first met Larry Hancock at JFK Lancer's NID conference in 2003 and returned to the U.K. with a copy of 'Someone Would Have Talked' which was just at that time in binder format with an accompanying c.d. and signed by the author. I crossed the pond again in 2013 to Dallas for Lancer's NID event and have heard many of Larry's presentations at D.P.U.K.'s seminars since. His research on the JFK case has spanned many decades and since reading 'SWHT' I have found his probes into JMWAVE and its nefarious collection of CIA agents and assets to be the most plausible answers to the mysteries of Dallas '63. Larry Hancock invited me to speak at Lancer's 24th NID Virtual conference in 2020.
'Nexus: The CIA and Political Assassination' published in 2012 is a far more concise work than 'SWHT', spanning just over two hundred pages in text and Endnotes. Even so, 'Nexus' manages to span the years since CIA's inception, covering the Dulles period and documenting the many cold war foreign actions in Latin America, S.E. Asia , Africa and the Caribbean. In the name of National Security and with true Machiavellian dictates the 'agency' engaged covert actions wherever the threat of 'godless communism' raised its head. Never more so than with Castro's Cuba. Hancock has always been factual and honestly analytical in his research of the JFK case and has made 'SWHT' and 'Nexus' both essential reading.
We may never know the truth behind Dallas '63. Any time of meaningful penetration of the veil of secrecy is now long passed, if it was ever penetrable. All participants are dead, except perhaps at this time of writing this review, Carl Jenkins. The MSM remain as complacent and blind as it was in '63. Yet researchers like Hancock deserve plaudits for their dogged pursuit. As JFK said, "One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."

[Dennis Kocik · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book with tons of information on the possible participants in the JKF assassination conspiracy. A good book, however, that was marred by misspellings and poor sentence structure in many places that sometimes made it difficult to follow the train of thought. Appeared to be, in places, like a transcript taken from the author speaking into a micro-cassette or digital recorder and letting his thoughts ramble without always making the connection to the point trying to be made or the information fully divulged. There was no doubt, however, that our CIA was out of control in the late 50's, 60's, and 70's using "plausible deniability" to not have any of these actions come back and point directly to them. Also no doubt that their people had a direct hand on the assassination of JFK. Recommended reading with the caveat noted above regarding the rather poor editing.