Where Angels Tread Lightly: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume 1

by John M. Newman

The first in a series of volumes on the JFK assassination, Where Angels Tread Lightly is a unique scholarly examination of historical episodes that go back to WWII, the Office of Strategic Services, and the early evolution of the CIA—up to and beyond Castro’s assumption of power in Cuba in 1959. This book is a groundbreaking investigation of America’s failure in Cuba that uncovers the CIA’s role in Castro’s rise to power and their ensuing efforts to destroy him.

This work retraces the paths taken by many of the key players who became entangled in the CIA’s plots to overthrow Castro and the development of the myth that Castro was responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy.

With rigorous scholarship and the brilliant insight of a trained textual records interpreter and document forensic specialist, Dr. John M. Newman sheds new light on the multiple identities played by individual CIA officers. Where Angels Tread Lightly deciphers the people and operations that belong to a large number of CIA cryptonyms and pseudonyms that have remained, until now, unsolved.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Ebooks

457 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 23, 2015

About the author

John M. Newman is an American author and retired major in the United States Army. He served on the faculty at the University of Maryland from 1995 to 2012, and has been a Political Science professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia since January 2013.

Reviews

[Pete daPixie · Rating 4 out of 5]

After his 'JFK and Vietnam', followed by 'Oswald and the CIA', John Newman returns to the JFK assassination after a seven year absence.
'Where Angels Tread Lightly' is Volume One of what Newman states is the first of a series of four or perhaps even five volumes to follow.
As a groundwork, clearly laying the foundations for these future editions, W.A.T.L. trawls through the National Archives and FOIA documents, for what promises to be a monumental collection. In this first instalment Newman investigates the clandestine web of C.I.A. operatives and operations that took place following the fall of Fulgencio Batista's Cuban dictatorship, and the rise of Castro.
Peter Dale Scott and John Newman have both probed the 'deep politics' and 'black ops' relating to the Kennedy assassination and the C.I.A. than any other authors working this case, therefore these instalments are very likely to become essential reading.
Almost one hundred pages of appendices, full of cryptonyms, pseudonyms and spy data.