McGinniss wrote `` Fatal Vision , '' ` ` The Selling of the President 1968 '' `` Fatal Vision '' chronicled the murder case of Green Beret doctor Jeffrey MacDonald . In this book he describes how a CIA agent named James Jesus Angleton had been hired by the White House to investigate and discredit Dr. MacDonald.
McGinniss wrote `` Fatal Vision , '' `` The Selling of the President 1968 '' `` Fatal Vision '' chronicled the murder case of Green Beret doctor Jeffrey MacDonald . `` Selling of the President '' charted Richard Nixon 's presidential run .