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The Assassination Tapes
s/t: An electronic probe into the murder of John F. Kennedy & the Dallas coverup
The author, a former CIA computer specialist, analyzed more than 40 statements with the Psychological Stress Evaluator. The PSE was designed to detect in the voice whether a person was lying or telling the truth. This is the author's evaluation of the results of this test applied to the oral statements given concerning the assassination of President Kennedy.
The author, a former CIA computer specialist, analyzed more than 40 statements with the Psychological Stress Evaluator. The PSE was designed to detect in the voice whether a person was lying or telling the truth. This is the author's evaluation of the results of this test applied to the oral statements given concerning the assassination of President Kennedy.
291 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1975
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April 1, 2022
A substantial portion of this book is a review of lie detection technologies, specifically the polygraph and the voice stress device employed in the author's own investigation of principals in the Kennedy assassination. An advantage of the latter is that it is non-invasive and can be employed over the phone or working from voice recordings.
Lee Oswald was recorded several times while held by the Dallas police. The analysis of these recordings convinced the author and his consultants that Oswald was telling the truth when he denied killing anyone and that several members of the Dallas police force were lying when their own testimonies were analyzed.
The author's narratives, both of his own work and of that of the Warren Commission, are readable and interesting.
Lee Oswald was recorded several times while held by the Dallas police. The analysis of these recordings convinced the author and his consultants that Oswald was telling the truth when he denied killing anyone and that several members of the Dallas police force were lying when their own testimonies were analyzed.
The author's narratives, both of his own work and of that of the Warren Commission, are readable and interesting.
July 31, 2014
Never let it be said that the C.I.A. have remained silent regarding the coup d'état in Dallas. I had no idea that the author of 'The Assassination Tapes' (1975) was an ex specialist in computer application, working for our dear friends in Langley, Virginia. What spurred me to obtain this book was its price of one dollar. The shipping to U.K. costs more than the actual book itself.
O'Toole's JFK investigation is based around his use, typical spook, of a fiendish little piece of lie detection technology known as P.S.E. or psychological stress evaluator. In the early 1970's the author set out to record interviews with principal personages involved in events in Dallas. The most interesting being members of the Dallas police department as well as those so called witnesses to events that day in Dealey Plaza. O'Toole also tracked down tapes from the media organisations of interviews taken over that weekend in November '63. Of course, when he ran the tape of Oswald's declaration "I didn't shoot anybody, no sir" through the P.S.E. it showed zero stress, and when passed on to other lie detection experts they also confirmed that Oswald was telling the truth. What a surprise!
I cannot testify to the veracity of P.S.E. technology, however I do know considerably more about the JFK case and it is interesting to find that this writer arrives at my belief in other patsies for the three reported guns found in the Texas School Book Depository, i.e. the British Enfield 303, the Mauser and the Mannlicher Carcano. Oswald for the Carcano and Buell Wesley Frazier for the Enfield, a gun that he owned. Frazier was tracked down and interviewed for this investigation and he too was found to be telling porkies about curtain rods.
What a field day could be had if the Warren Commission had recorded their activities.
O'Toole's JFK investigation is based around his use, typical spook, of a fiendish little piece of lie detection technology known as P.S.E. or psychological stress evaluator. In the early 1970's the author set out to record interviews with principal personages involved in events in Dallas. The most interesting being members of the Dallas police department as well as those so called witnesses to events that day in Dealey Plaza. O'Toole also tracked down tapes from the media organisations of interviews taken over that weekend in November '63. Of course, when he ran the tape of Oswald's declaration "I didn't shoot anybody, no sir" through the P.S.E. it showed zero stress, and when passed on to other lie detection experts they also confirmed that Oswald was telling the truth. What a surprise!
I cannot testify to the veracity of P.S.E. technology, however I do know considerably more about the JFK case and it is interesting to find that this writer arrives at my belief in other patsies for the three reported guns found in the Texas School Book Depository, i.e. the British Enfield 303, the Mauser and the Mannlicher Carcano. Oswald for the Carcano and Buell Wesley Frazier for the Enfield, a gun that he owned. Frazier was tracked down and interviewed for this investigation and he too was found to be telling porkies about curtain rods.
What a field day could be had if the Warren Commission had recorded their activities.
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March 22, 2010I love books like this. I feel like I'm spying on history.
November 25, 2008
O'Toole examination of the JFK assassinations appears to be well constructed and convincing. His study of the witness involved using voice stress analysis seemed interesting, yet because of the dated nature of the book, I'm not totally convinced, as lie detectors have in recent years discovered to have been inaccurate. Overall, a good book, but I'll have to do more extensive reading before I can say how accurate this book actually is.
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