JOHN HUGHES WILSON

Lee Harvey Oswald, whatever anyone says, could not possibly have been the lone assassin of JFK in 1963. And John Hughes-Wilson, a former senior British Intelligence officer, not only names names, but also identifies the shadowy plotters who palnned the elimination of the president. The trail leads ot the very heart of the US government. The organisations most threatened by the Kennedy brothers were the oil barons of Texas, the CIA-controlled Cuban Amigrs and the Mafia. The Mob funded Vice President Lyndon Johnson's whole career as a senator. They even paid Richard Nixon's bills. They were also blackmailing J Edgar Hoover, Head of the FBI. This is a fascinatingly murky tale, summed up in a carefully ambiguous letter from LBJ to one of the leaders of the Dallas oil men, which says, 'If certain obstacles were to be removed ...

The book that gives an insider's view of some of the great intelligence blunders of recent history. Including Stalin's Operation Barbarossa, Hitler being misled by his own intelligence staff, the bungling that enabled an attack on Pearl Harbor, lack of preparation for the Viet Cong's offensive 1968, Arab Israeli war 1973, Falkland Islands, Gulf War 1991...New material to include: The US failure to run warning system before 9/11; the War on Terrorism; the Islamic Terrorist threat; mis-use of intelligence by UK government in War with Iraq; intelligence problems of Middle East; challenges of 21st century.