Lane, Mark. Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991. 393 pages.

This bestseller recounts the defamation case brought by E. Howard Hunt against the newspaper Spotlight and its publisher Liberty Lobby. Hunt sued because of a 1978 article by another former CIA officer, Victor Marchetti, who wrote that an internal CIA memo had surfaced that placed Hunt in Dallas on the day of JFK's assassination. In the process of defending the newspaper, Lane was able to take depositions from David Atlee Phillips, Richard Helms and Stansfield Turner. The trial featured the testimony of Marita Lorenz, Fidel Castro's former mistress, in which she said that she had been with Hunt, Frank Sturgis and Jack Ruby in Dallas on November 21. The jury concluded that Hunt lied about his whereabouts on the day of the assassination.

Elsewhere Lane recounts how Phillips once admitted that the photo of Oswald in Mexico City and his visit to the Soviet Embassy there were both nonexistent. The Oswald Mexico City caper a few weeks before the assassination may have been a CIA disinformation trick, designed to implicate the KGB so that Earl Warren would agree to a cover-up as a way to keep us out of World War III. This same cover-up conveniently (for the CIA) obscured all evidence of conspiracy -- including evidence that might implicate U.S. intelligence itself.
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