Into the Storm: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume 3

by John M. Newman

Into the The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume III provides insights, details, and revelations about the absolutely essential question of What was the true nature of the national security state during the era of President Kennedy's public service? New in this * Retracing the 1960 presidential campaign and the extraordinary interconnections of JFK, RFK and MLK Jr. which literally created a foundation upon which all of the history that followed was based. * JFK's preparations as president-elect for executive leadership as he planned "The New Frontier." * Cuban policy aftershocks from the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. * Shake-ups within the Pentagon and CIA. * The administration's handling of the Race issue during the Freedom Rides and the violent response to desegregation laws throughout the southern states. * KGB-CIA spy wars and Cold War conflicts over Berlin and Cuba. * The decades long defamation of RFK by senior CIA officials and journalists whose lies have gone largely unchallenged until now. * The intricate web of claims, contradictions and complexities relating to the former leader of the anti-Castro paramilitary group, Alpha-66, Antonio Veciana, and how our pursuit of truth is better served through careful analysis of declassified U.S. military and CIA records than by simply embracing unproven stories that we might want to believe are true. Veciana's 2017 memoir, Trained to The Inside Story of CIA Plots Against Castro, Kennedy and Che, represents his most recent telling of his own story. For the first time, Dr. Newman does what others have failed to He postpones any assessment of Veciana's explosive claim that he was present in Dallas, Texas at a meeting in September of 1963, two months prior to President Kennedy's assassination, with Lee Harvey Oswald and an agent/handler whom he knew by the name of Maurice Bishop (eventually identified by Veciana as CIA officer David Atlee Phillips), and instead, begins at the beginning of the story. In an eloquent endorsement of Into the Storm, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refers to Dr. Newman's book as "...a groundbreaking work that finally illuminates the dark places where democracy goes to die ... he here exposes the momentous official lies that for fifty years have been corroding the heart of American idealism." Dr. John M. Newman is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at James Madison University. He is a retired U.S. Army intelligence officer who served for two years as Military Assistant to the Director, General William Odom at the National Security Agency. He has testified before various sub-committees of the U.S. House of Representatives, worked as a consultant on two major motion pictures, Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) and Nixon (1995), and to various U.S. and foreign media organizations including PBS Frontline, the History Channel, C-Span, NBC, and other news agencies. His experience and expertise as a strategic intelligence cryptologic analyst make his qualifications and credentials unique among those who delve into the hidden histories buried within America’s military and intelligence bureaucracies. For the past quarter century his works have overturned orthodoxies, broken new ground, introduced new facts, and produced revelations about America during the Cold War. His publications include Quest for the The Secret Teachings of Jesus in the Light of Yogic Mysticism (2011), 2017's second edition of JFK and Vietnam, 1995's Oswald and the CIA which was updated and expanded for reissue in 2008, and his current five or six volume series on the Kennedy Where Angels Tread The Assassination of President Kennedy, Volume I (2015, 2017); Countdown to The Assassination of President Kennedy, Volume II (2017) and Into

Genres: Nonfiction

428 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 8, 2019

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 5 out of 5]

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!

[Manuel P. Revuelta · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.”