Degree Absolute and the JFK Assassination Conspiracy

[robertpaulsen]

29. I wish I had seen The Prisoner sooner. Absolutely riveting!

I'll probably be rewatching it from start to finish very soon.

I've got kind of mixed feelings about Waldron. I've only read his book with Hartmann, Ultimate Sacrifice, so my opinion is a bit limited in that regard. I do think he has done a fantastic job detailing the Mob connections with the assassination. Also, there is some good work mapping out the operational context with CIA operatives like David Sanchez Morales. But I can't help thinking of that scene in JFK:

Jim Garrison: I don't doubt their involvement, Bill, but at a low level. Could the mob change the parade route? Or eliminate the protection for the President? Could the mob send Oswald to Russia and get him back? Could the mob get the FBI, the CIA, and the Dallas Police to make a mess of the investigation? I mean, could the mob get the Warren Commission appointed to cover it up? Could the mob wreck the autopsy? Could the mob influence the national media to go to sleep? And since when has the mob used anything but .38s for hits up close? The mob wouldn't have the guts or the power for something of this magnitude. Assassins need payrolls, schedules, times, orders. This was a military style ambush from star to finish. A coup d'etat with Lyndon Johnson waiting in the wings.

I'm wondering if Waldron addressed the Oswald double in Mexico City. Does he think the Mob set that up? Seems a bit beyond their capacity, IMHO.