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Coup in Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK
The CIA, Dallas, and the Hard Details of the JFK AssassinationCoup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy and how the assassination plot was carried out. Through exhaustive research and newly translated documents, author H. P. Albarelli uncovers and explains the historical roots of state-sponsored assassination, finding disturbing parallels to the assassination of JFK. Albarelli goes beyond conventional JFK assassination theory to piece together the biographies of the lesser-known but instrumental players in the incident, such as Otto Skorzeny, Pierre Lafitte, James Jesus Angleton, Santo Trafficante, and others. Albarelli provides shocking detail on the crucial role that the city of Dallas and its officials played in the maintenance of Dallas as a major hub of CIA activity, and how it led to JFK’s assassination and its cover-up. Go beyond LBJ, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby, and read the full, definitive account of what happened on November 22, 1963—and how it came to fruition.
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Published November 16, 2021
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December 27, 2021
Phew! I have spent over two weeks on Hank Albarelli's 'Coup in Dallas', touted as 'the decisive investigation into who killed JFK'. It is not the first, and I am sure it will not be the last book on JFK's killing that will proclaim to contain the truth behind this murder mystery.
Co-author Leslie Sharp contacted me prior to publication concerning my research in one aspect of this case, after my 2020 JFK Lancer presentation. So, I do get a mention in the text, although my surname is spelt incorrectly.
The claim that this book holds 'decisive' evidence hangs on the datebook of Pierre Lafitte, the provenance of which the reader must judge. My initial feeling when reading this book was, it all sounds too good to be true, and as the saying goes, if something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is! To support the provenance of the datebook we simply get " Hank Albarelli could not have been duped. "He would not be a victim of fraud". This is simply asserted, explained with this non-explanatory statement: "In my relatively informed opinion, Hank would never have subjected himself to ridicule were the datebook to be determined to be the equivalent of the 'Hitler Diaries'." That is, Albarelli would never willingly subject himself to ridicule if it was fraudulent, therefore the datebook is genuine. Some might find this syllogism less than satisfying.
Also less than satisfying is the verdict of the professional handwriting/document analysis, supposedly executed by a London expert who would only state that "he is under a Nondisclosure Agreement and could not comment."
The tome that has occupied fifteen days of my reading time, I did not find an easy journey through its almost seven hundred pages. After the Foreword by Dick Russell and Albarelli's Introduction there are ten fairly long chapters, each containing a veritable cascade of individuals names, companies and business links and organisations. Some may be familiar to assassination readers and researchers, but may well prove heavy going to any first time readers. A further hundred pages are taken up with the Epilogue and a number of Essays, some more interesting than others.
The central players are purported to be Nazi Otto Skorzeny and the mysterious French S.O.E. assassin Jean Souetre, who some books have placed in Dallas at the time of the assassination. The Souetre/Mertz claims have been chewed over for years without conclusive proof.
Rather than any diary/datebook of Jean Pierre Lafitte, what I wouldn't give for a similar artefact of Jim Angleton's.
Co-author Leslie Sharp contacted me prior to publication concerning my research in one aspect of this case, after my 2020 JFK Lancer presentation. So, I do get a mention in the text, although my surname is spelt incorrectly.
The claim that this book holds 'decisive' evidence hangs on the datebook of Pierre Lafitte, the provenance of which the reader must judge. My initial feeling when reading this book was, it all sounds too good to be true, and as the saying goes, if something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is! To support the provenance of the datebook we simply get " Hank Albarelli could not have been duped. "He would not be a victim of fraud". This is simply asserted, explained with this non-explanatory statement: "In my relatively informed opinion, Hank would never have subjected himself to ridicule were the datebook to be determined to be the equivalent of the 'Hitler Diaries'." That is, Albarelli would never willingly subject himself to ridicule if it was fraudulent, therefore the datebook is genuine. Some might find this syllogism less than satisfying.
Also less than satisfying is the verdict of the professional handwriting/document analysis, supposedly executed by a London expert who would only state that "he is under a Nondisclosure Agreement and could not comment."
The tome that has occupied fifteen days of my reading time, I did not find an easy journey through its almost seven hundred pages. After the Foreword by Dick Russell and Albarelli's Introduction there are ten fairly long chapters, each containing a veritable cascade of individuals names, companies and business links and organisations. Some may be familiar to assassination readers and researchers, but may well prove heavy going to any first time readers. A further hundred pages are taken up with the Epilogue and a number of Essays, some more interesting than others.
The central players are purported to be Nazi Otto Skorzeny and the mysterious French S.O.E. assassin Jean Souetre, who some books have placed in Dallas at the time of the assassination. The Souetre/Mertz claims have been chewed over for years without conclusive proof.
Rather than any diary/datebook of Jean Pierre Lafitte, what I wouldn't give for a similar artefact of Jim Angleton's.
October 26, 2023
Superb research into an extremely plausible lynch pin that connects many of those already suspected. As I have said before, putting Allen Dulles (a Prime suspect) in (charge of) the Warren Commission shows just how much of an inside job the whole assassination (and subsequent Cover-Up) was!
December 8, 2021
A decisive feeling exists that this is the wrong time; this is the wrong world; this is not how things were supposed to have gone.
The point where engine block cracked and doomed it all is November 22, 1963. November 22, 1963 is the oozing, bloody wound right in the guts of this country. It was not a loss of innocence by any respect. The Civil War is the best candidate if there ever was such a loss in the first place. Losses of innocence aren’t mortal. November 22, 1963 was.
An optimist says that if you can “solve” that day you can cure it all. Jackie Kennedy was the first person to make the attempt when she climbed to the end of the presidential limousine to retrieve a portion of her husband’s head: ‘to try and put him back together.’ she said.
The Warren Commission tried- or some of its members tried. Some weren’t really interested in trying. Earl Warren himself was afraid to try. Lyndon Johnson knew that to try was too dangerous and he attempted to make right by the Kennedy legacy and gave us the Civil Rights Act, and the War on Poverty but then he bolted it all on Vietnam and surrendered the field to Nixon in ‘68. Before that bit of reaction Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were both consumed by the same elements that cracked the engine block to begin with. Reagan killed any belief that government’s duty was for the benefit of its populace. Nine more presidential terms of Reagan-clones have spoken. Domestic policy is: “eat shit and die” unless you’re a rich man, or a military contractor. Obviously there’s to be no solution to November 22, 1963 from that end.
H.P. Albarelli was one of the many, many optimists to be produced in that vacuum of government and he very nobly tried like Jackie Kennedy to put it all together; and he very nobly failed like Jackie Kennedy to put it all together.
Arguing ‘if Kennedy had lived…’ is nothing compared to ‘if H.P. Albarelli had lived…’ and perhaps even more fruitless because I don’t know if he’d have been able to edit it out in such a way to ‘work’ any better than it does right now. I very much doubt it. This last book is obsessive and grasps at every connection. It might well have been a better encyclopedia of its centerpiece: a cryptic diary from a new (believe it or not!) lead in the assassination. As it is this lead just extends the circle slightly more amongst the same, likely group of perpetrators that has arrested previous optimists since the beginning.
The supplementary essays in the latter part of the book are the real gems of the text connecting our present day dystopia where one of our major political parties is effectively a white nationalist party. But, they don’t elevate this text above its own distracting zeal and nothing within it manages to put it all back together.
The point where engine block cracked and doomed it all is November 22, 1963. November 22, 1963 is the oozing, bloody wound right in the guts of this country. It was not a loss of innocence by any respect. The Civil War is the best candidate if there ever was such a loss in the first place. Losses of innocence aren’t mortal. November 22, 1963 was.
An optimist says that if you can “solve” that day you can cure it all. Jackie Kennedy was the first person to make the attempt when she climbed to the end of the presidential limousine to retrieve a portion of her husband’s head: ‘to try and put him back together.’ she said.
The Warren Commission tried- or some of its members tried. Some weren’t really interested in trying. Earl Warren himself was afraid to try. Lyndon Johnson knew that to try was too dangerous and he attempted to make right by the Kennedy legacy and gave us the Civil Rights Act, and the War on Poverty but then he bolted it all on Vietnam and surrendered the field to Nixon in ‘68. Before that bit of reaction Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were both consumed by the same elements that cracked the engine block to begin with. Reagan killed any belief that government’s duty was for the benefit of its populace. Nine more presidential terms of Reagan-clones have spoken. Domestic policy is: “eat shit and die” unless you’re a rich man, or a military contractor. Obviously there’s to be no solution to November 22, 1963 from that end.
H.P. Albarelli was one of the many, many optimists to be produced in that vacuum of government and he very nobly tried like Jackie Kennedy to put it all together; and he very nobly failed like Jackie Kennedy to put it all together.
Arguing ‘if Kennedy had lived…’ is nothing compared to ‘if H.P. Albarelli had lived…’ and perhaps even more fruitless because I don’t know if he’d have been able to edit it out in such a way to ‘work’ any better than it does right now. I very much doubt it. This last book is obsessive and grasps at every connection. It might well have been a better encyclopedia of its centerpiece: a cryptic diary from a new (believe it or not!) lead in the assassination. As it is this lead just extends the circle slightly more amongst the same, likely group of perpetrators that has arrested previous optimists since the beginning.
The supplementary essays in the latter part of the book are the real gems of the text connecting our present day dystopia where one of our major political parties is effectively a white nationalist party. But, they don’t elevate this text above its own distracting zeal and nothing within it manages to put it all back together.
October 10, 2021
One negative review for a book that still has *not* been released yet. The release date has been pushed back since at least 2019. This sort of thing really makes me wonder. As Oliver Stone said of the subject matter in general, and applies to the book in question, it makes people angry because they don't want to face the truth. Many people can't accept having their world view turned upside down which comes for many when having to acknowledge that our government is horribly corrupt and criminal, and has been for a very long time.
We can't do anything about a problem, if we're not willing to acknowledge it. Here's hoping Mr Albarelli's book finally sees publication this year (2021). The woman who has taken over the finishing of the book after Albarelli's passing, a Ms Leslie Sharp, has said that the indexing is the hold up. Apparently it is an incredibly difficult and complex task. Not surprising considering the subject matter.
We can't do anything about a problem, if we're not willing to acknowledge it. Here's hoping Mr Albarelli's book finally sees publication this year (2021). The woman who has taken over the finishing of the book after Albarelli's passing, a Ms Leslie Sharp, has said that the indexing is the hold up. Apparently it is an incredibly difficult and complex task. Not surprising considering the subject matter.
April 23, 2022
Exhaustive and Exhausting.
This is a very tedious read. It would have been much better if 75% of the text had been in an appendix of footnotes, with the main part of the book dealing with the actual alleged interactions of the main players, with the background descriptions and minor characters available if the reader were to be interested. A quick link to the particular footnote a reader might find interesting and a quick way to get back to the point of departure would have been invaluable.
The author relies heavily on other researchers, and attempts to find consensus with other “respected” authors.
On page 418 was a rather off-putting slur on the flyover population, or “swamp” dwellers as he calls the majority of the politically active population. This rotten smelling remark taints the book for this reader.
I am resolved to finish this book because I sense it may explain some hidden workings that are still active.
This is a very tedious read. It would have been much better if 75% of the text had been in an appendix of footnotes, with the main part of the book dealing with the actual alleged interactions of the main players, with the background descriptions and minor characters available if the reader were to be interested. A quick link to the particular footnote a reader might find interesting and a quick way to get back to the point of departure would have been invaluable.
The author relies heavily on other researchers, and attempts to find consensus with other “respected” authors.
On page 418 was a rather off-putting slur on the flyover population, or “swamp” dwellers as he calls the majority of the politically active population. This rotten smelling remark taints the book for this reader.
I am resolved to finish this book because I sense it may explain some hidden workings that are still active.
February 22, 2023
Interesting but proves nothing to do with JFK
The book reads like an unedited first draft. Perhaps this is due to the untimely death of Hank Albarelli. It certainly proves the CIA was full of Nazis and never met a Nazi they weren't ready to do business with, but all I see is a great deal of greedy people in the CIA, their consultants, and the Texas Oil Industry. Do they leave their morals at the door? Certainly. Would they kill a president to make sure they can continue to make lots of money under the table? Possibly. But there is no proof. Just innuendo and wishful thinking.
The book reads like an unedited first draft. Perhaps this is due to the untimely death of Hank Albarelli. It certainly proves the CIA was full of Nazis and never met a Nazi they weren't ready to do business with, but all I see is a great deal of greedy people in the CIA, their consultants, and the Texas Oil Industry. Do they leave their morals at the door? Certainly. Would they kill a president to make sure they can continue to make lots of money under the table? Possibly. But there is no proof. Just innuendo and wishful thinking.
January 1, 2022
Reads like an encyclopedia and if you cannot keep track of an endless listing of names, places and who said/wrote what, this book can be a frustrating experience. I have a feeling that this book suffered greatly from the untimely death of the author. Read a Terrible Mistake by Albarelli for a good taste of his capabilities as an author.
However, if you have already read a few good books about the JFK assassination and are curious about Pierre Lafitte & Otto Skorzeny, then this book is an A+ winner start to finish.
I also recommend reading about mind control which is overlooked and underestimated at every turn when delving into these topics.
However, if you have already read a few good books about the JFK assassination and are curious about Pierre Lafitte & Otto Skorzeny, then this book is an A+ winner start to finish.
I also recommend reading about mind control which is overlooked and underestimated at every turn when delving into these topics.
August 27, 2025
At the end of this book I have barely any idea what the authors believe the motive for the assassination was, who was directly involved or how all their tangential pieces and people fit together. The notations in the datebook that make up the basis for this book are intriguing, but need to be presented in a better way.
July 20, 2022
He does raise some questions but I am not compelled to get excited about the new speculations.
Fun though!
Fun though!
July 21, 2023
This is an exhaustive and detailed chronicle of forces leading up to the 1963 assassination, stretching back to the genesis of the Nazi party. ln the end, this makes a convincing argument against the "lone gunman" theory, but the colorless writing something of a slog.
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