"Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination"

amazon.com reader:

"Ion Mihai Pacepa has yet to convince me that the former Soviet Union was directly behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy on this very date, forty-four years ago. I do, however, take him seriously and will do further research on the matter. It is plausible, but would the Russians take such a risk? How might they possibly know for sure the American Left would eagerly contend that right-wing American fanatics were somehow behind the murder? But the author is probably right on target in saying the following:

"With respect to the assassination, the interests of Lyndon Johnson, the new president, happened to coincide with Khrushchev's. President Johnson faced elections in less than a year, and any conclusion implicating the Soviet Union would have forced him to take unwanted political and even military action." It is indeed quite safe to assume that Johnson, on a gut level, would prefer to run from reality. The man already had enough on his plate with our growing Vietnam involvement. Also, the leftists within his own political party were sure to throw constant roadblocks in his way. There is another book that readily compliments Pacepa's work. It is James Piereson's Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism."