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Into the Storm: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume 3
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426 pages, Paperback
Published January 22, 2019
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John M. Newman
8 books19 followersJohn 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.
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August 21, 2019
Here is the third installment of John Newman's projected six volume epic on the assassination of President Kennedy. 'Into the Storm' is the powerful pinnacle of this work so far. Each individual chapter of volume three builds up the storm clouds of Kennedy's presidency as Newman meticulously reveals the detailed history of events and exposes the lies that have evolved and been perpeptuated concerning the Kennedy brothers' time in office.
Perhaps the very high water mark of this book for me was Chapter 8 and 12, dealing with the CIA-KGB spy wars through the late 1950's, that featured the GRU agent Pyotr Popov, which caused CIA to believe there was a KGB 'mole' in CIA, which in turn culminated in Lee Harvey Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union in 1959 as a CIA 'dangle' to trap the 'mole'. Major Newman also demolishes Antonio Veciana's claims of working with David Phillips and therefore his observation of Oswald in Dallas in September '63. Lies are also exposed in the case of Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko. Also CIA's Sam Halpern's vicious untruths regarding JFK and RFK's supposed involvement in CIA-Mafia assassination plots against Fidel Castro, which eventually were written as factual in Seymour Hersch's 'The Dark Side of Camelot'.
Volume III is clearly a masterwork that could stand by itself as one of the most important publications in recent years on this topic.
I immediately want Vol IV, which is the sole down side of this project. It is many months since I read Vol II, and I expect a similar time gap before the following installment is published.
Strangely it was 2018 when I read 'Countdown to Darkness' (Vol II). Since then my review has disappeared off Goodreads database!
However, I have spent a very enjoyable five days with 'Into the Storm' and some chapters I have read twice. I also was able to communicate with the author over the internet, with his reply below.
John Newman to Pete=== KGB-CIA Spy Wars. I am still hunting for the identity of Popov's mole. Bagley left us some good clues. Put together Pete's last testament--"Ghosts of the Spy Wars"--with the article by Richard Harris Smith--"The First Moscow Station: An Espionage Footnote to Cold War History" (published in the Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 1989, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 333-346), and then put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and see where things go. 🔦🗝Our guys were such ridiculously easy marks for their KGB chamber maids!
Perhaps the very high water mark of this book for me was Chapter 8 and 12, dealing with the CIA-KGB spy wars through the late 1950's, that featured the GRU agent Pyotr Popov, which caused CIA to believe there was a KGB 'mole' in CIA, which in turn culminated in Lee Harvey Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union in 1959 as a CIA 'dangle' to trap the 'mole'. Major Newman also demolishes Antonio Veciana's claims of working with David Phillips and therefore his observation of Oswald in Dallas in September '63. Lies are also exposed in the case of Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko. Also CIA's Sam Halpern's vicious untruths regarding JFK and RFK's supposed involvement in CIA-Mafia assassination plots against Fidel Castro, which eventually were written as factual in Seymour Hersch's 'The Dark Side of Camelot'.
Volume III is clearly a masterwork that could stand by itself as one of the most important publications in recent years on this topic.
I immediately want Vol IV, which is the sole down side of this project. It is many months since I read Vol II, and I expect a similar time gap before the following installment is published.
Strangely it was 2018 when I read 'Countdown to Darkness' (Vol II). Since then my review has disappeared off Goodreads database!
However, I have spent a very enjoyable five days with 'Into the Storm' and some chapters I have read twice. I also was able to communicate with the author over the internet, with his reply below.
John Newman to Pete=== KGB-CIA Spy Wars. I am still hunting for the identity of Popov's mole. Bagley left us some good clues. Put together Pete's last testament--"Ghosts of the Spy Wars"--with the article by Richard Harris Smith--"The First Moscow Station: An Espionage Footnote to Cold War History" (published in the Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 1989, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 333-346), and then put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and see where things go. 🔦🗝Our guys were such ridiculously easy marks for their KGB chamber maids!
May 6, 2019
The third book in what may well be the Rosetta Stone of not only the JFK assassination, but the Cold War. Many new findings and surprises about the spies that fought the Cold War. But also some relevant material that really makes clear Eisenhower’s warning about a runaway military industrial complex. Couldn’t put it down. Can’t wait for the next book in the series “Armageddon.”
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