A page from the photo spread of the book LIVE BY THE SWORD Copyright 1998 by Gus Russo Published by Bancroft Press Baltimore, Maryland. Compare the handwriting on this note - which according to Gus Russo was written by Layton Martens - to the handwriting on the memo from Ed Lansdale in the Office of Special Operations in the U.S. Department of Defense to Hugh Cumming in the U.S. Department of State's Intelligence and Research. Also look at Layton Martens signature on the I. D. card. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison was coming very close to uncovering the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. Russo's book draws in part on documents released in 1992 from the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation. Russo's conclusion: Oswald did it. The book BROTHERS - THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE KENNEDY YEARS by David Talbot is recommended by Uanna's son. He found the description of Ed Lansdale and the Luce press interesting and the conclusion that the attempts on Fidel Castro's life were not coming from President Kennedy or Attorney General Robert Kennedy makes sense in light of the embarrassing Bay of Pigs invasion and the face off with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It describes in detail Robert Kennedy's anguish after the death of his brother John. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was conceived during the Eisenhower Administration and sold to President Kennedy within months of his inauguration. Uanna's son thinks it is possible that the Bay of Pigs invasion was the main part of the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy, a conspiracy  carefully crafted over a number of years which culminated in a ruse in Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Texas managed by Ed Lansdale with Robert Kennedy's approval. It was intended to embarrass the anti - Castro Cubans and silence the war faction in the U.S. Government. It left President John Kennedy unprotected and his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was manipulated into taking control of the internal security of the United States (a well intentioned idea but something he knew little about) responsible. And in the political climate of the time something he could say nothing about it until he became president in 1968. He was assassinated before he could be elected.
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