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characterizes them with the
following: "While some of their tall tales may be true, they are not unaware that truth that is stranger than fiction will sell better in a market already jaded by exotic overexposure." Demaris' book on Hoover can only be called sympathetic. This is immediately indicated by his choice of interviewees. They include high level FBI administrators like Robert E. Wick, John P. Mohr, and Mark Felt; former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst; Hoover publicity flack Louis Nichols who named one of his sons after his boss; and actor Efrem Zimbalist who starred in ABC's glamorized series on the Bureau. In the entire book, there are eight pages on Hoover's infamous COINTELPRO operations, i.e. the infiltration, disruption, and occasional destruction of domestic political movements. In Hoover's disputes with the Kennedys, there can be no doubt where Demaris stands. Speaking of Hoover's reputed blackmailing of presidents, he writes: "It is possible that one or two were intimidated by their own guilty conscience...." He sums up Hoover by saying, "He was, whatever his failings, an extraordinary man, truly one of a kind." The above gives us a hint of why Demaris hooked up with Exner. But a previous work of his is more valuable in that regard. In 1968 Demaris co-authored with Gary Wills a book titled Jack Ruby. The book is, to say the least, a rather shallow portrait of Ruby based on a string of conversations with people the nightclub owner worked with. The profile that emerges is in total concordance with the Warren Commission view of Ruby as a dim, emotional, hustler who kil |
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publishing a Red baiting newsletter, The Herald of Freedom. He
was highly active in attempting to expose leftists in the entertainment industry. It was this experience that put him in a good position to pen his McCarthyite, murderous smear of Bobby Kennedy. But there is another element that needs to be noted about Capell: his ties to the FBI. As Lisa Pease noted in her watershed article on Thomas Dodd (Probe Vol. 3#6), Capell was one of the sources tapped by the Bureau in the wake of the assassination in order to find out who Oswald really was. His information proved remarkably penetrating, considering it came in February of 1964. Capell said Oswald was a CIA agent. Even more interesting, Capell stated in his FBI interview that this information came from "a friend of his...with sources close to the presidential commission" i. e., the Warren Commission. To have this kind of acute information and to have access to people around the Commission (which was sealed off at the time) strongly indicates Capell was tied into the intelligence community, which of course, is probably why the Bureau was consulting him in the first place. This is revelatory of not just the past, i.e. the origins of thi |
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publishing a Red baiting newsletter, The Herald of Freedom. He
was highly active in attempting to expose leftists in the entertainment industry. It was this experience that put him in a good position to pen his McCarthyite, murderous smear of Bobby Kennedy. But there is another element that needs to be noted about Capell: his ties to the FBI. As Lisa Pease noted in her watershed article on Thomas Dodd (Probe Vol. 3#6), Capell was one of the sources tapped by the Bureau in the wake of the assassination in order to find out who Oswald really was. His information proved remarkably penetrating, considering it came in February of 1964. Capell said Oswald was a CIA agent. Even more interesting, Capell stated in his FBI interview that this information came from "a friend of his...with sources close to the presidential commission" i. e., the Warren Commission. To have this kind of acute information and to have access to people around the Commission (which was sealed off at the time) strongly indicates Capell was tied into the intelligence community, which of course, is probably why the Bureau was consulting him in the first place. This is revelatory of not just the past, i.e. the origins of thi |
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back in 1977? Why did she
wait eleven years to bare her soul? Exner says she was afraid and needed to protect herself. Unfortunately, this rings a bit hollow since 1) Giancana and Roselli were both dead when she wrote her book, 2) the Church Committee spilled all the beans on the plots to kill Castro in 1975, which 3) leaves only the Kennedys to fear, and its clear she doesn't give a damn about them. But for those still skeptical, she adds the other (clinching) reason for breaking the silence: her doctor told her she had terminal cancer and she had only 36 months to live. The article ends in a crescendo that would move even the world weary Claude Rains: Now that I know I'm dying and nothing more can happen to me, I want to be completely honest. I don't think I should have to die with the secret of what I did for Jack Kennedy, or what he did with the power of his presidency. I feel that I am finally free of the past. Exner's 1997 Version I hope Exner sued her doctor, because ten years later she's still with us. She now turns up in the pages of the January 1997 Vanity Fair which, unembarrassed, again bills her as "facing her death." This time she was teamed with another questionable expert on Kennedy's Cuba policy - Hollywood gossip columnist Liz Smith. And evidently, the previous fear of death wasn't enough to squeeze the whole story out of her. She still has a few goodies to add. The choice of Smith in 1997 is as revealing as Demaris in 1977 and Kelley in 1988. Smith writes for the New York Post, which is literally a tabloid in both format and approach. Like Kelley, Smith is a big fan of Sy Hersh. In fact, her column has released several "teaser" items about his upcoming book. In the past she has also flacked for Tony Summers. What do those two writers have that other Kennedy researchers, say John Newman, do not? They have both pushed the angle that the |
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back in 1977? Why did she
wait eleven years to bare her soul? Exner says she was afraid and needed to protect herself. Unfortunately, this rings a bit hollow since 1) Giancana and Roselli were both dead when she wrote her book, 2) the Church Committee spilled all the beans on the plots to kill Castro in 1975, which 3) leaves only the Kennedys to fear, and its clear she doesn't give a damn about them. But for those still skeptical, she adds the other (clinching) reason for breaking the silence: her doctor told her she had terminal cancer and she had only 36 months to live. The article ends in a crescendo that would move even the world weary Claude Rains: Now that I know I'm dying and nothing more can happen to me, I want to be completely honest. I don't think I should have to die with the secret of what I did for Jack Kennedy, or what he did with the power of his presidency. I feel that I am finally free of the past. Exner's 1997 Version I hope Exner sued her doctor, because ten years later she's still with us. She now turns up in the pages of the January 1997 Vanity Fair which, unembarrassed, again bills her as "facing her death." This time she was teamed with another questionable expert on Kennedy's Cuba policy - Hollywood gossip columnist Liz Smith. And evidently, the previous fear of death wasn't enough to squeeze the whole story out of her. She still has a few goodies to add. The choice of Smith in 1997 is as revealing as Demaris in 1977 and Kelley in 1988. Smith writes for the New York Post, which is literally a tabloid in both format and approach. Like Kelley, Smith is a big fan of Sy Hersh. In fact, her column has released several "teaser" items about his upcoming book. In the past she has also flacked for Tony Summers. What do those two writers have that other Kennedy researchers, say John Newman, do not? They have both pushed the angle that the |
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