Programmed to Kill

by Pacepa, Ion Mihai

• ISBN13: 9781566637619
• ISBN10: 1566637619
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-31
• Publisher: Ivan R Dee

Summary

The assassination of President Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald, the American Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union and four years later committed the crime of the century, was an extremely rare Cold War episode in which both sides were vitally interested in hiding the truth. In Programmed to Kill, former Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet bloc, reveals most of the facts covered up by the Kremlin and addresses the myriad of questions left unanswered by the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and the numerous books written on this subject.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Principal Figures in the Book	p. xvii
Kennedy Killed by a "Serzhant"	p. 3
Moscow's Operation Dragon	p. 11
First Hard Evidence of the PGU's Hand	p. 18
Recruiting a Serzhant	p. 26
A "Defector"	p. 31
Recruitment in Japan	p. 36
An Ideal Agent	p. 43
Working for the PGU	p. 50
A Secret Trip to Moscow	p. 56
Soviet Citizenship Denied	p. 64
Bogus Documents	p. 71
Khrushchev Declares War on Kennedy	p. 76
May Day in Moscow	p. 82
Assassination Becomes a Tool of Foreign Policy	p. 91
Testing the Waters	p. 98
Prelude to Repatriation	p. 103
Marina	p. 112
A Foothold in Texas	p. 120
The Commo Plan	p. 126
Oswald's Best Friend	p. 133
The Background of an Illegal Officer	p. 145
Trained to Make Friends, Not Money	p. 156
The Friend's PGU Role	p. 164
A Shift in Plans	p. 178
Khrushchev's Final Humiliation	p. 184
Oswald Goes It Alone	p. 187
The Dry Run	p. 193
A Game of Jai Alai	p. 198
Plans for Kennedy's Visit	p. 206
Moscow's Cold Shoulder	p. 211
Disappointment in Mexico City	p. 217
The Lone Assassin	p. 227
The Silence of the Grave	p. 237
The Cuban Contribution	p. 246
Nosenko's Testimony	p. 259
A Tangled Web of Deception	p. 266
Death of a Hit Man	p. 272
Operation Dragon Lives On	p. 278
Connecting the Dots	p. 283
Notes	p. 305
Index	p. 337
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