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

Did the Kremlin order a hit on President John F. Kennedy in 1962? The former chief of Communist Romania's foreign intelligence service thinks so. And he lays out his case in a recently published book with the title Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination. According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, "all Soviet-bloc espionage services were identically organized and had an identical modus operandi."... Read Full Review

I have read a great deal about the Kenendy assassination, but I have never seen anything with such a unique perspective about Oswald's motives. No one has bothered to look at the situation from his viewpoint, which is odd, considering that Oswald is the only one to date who has been formally accused of the crime. Of course it is based on existing evidence, but Pacepa's position inside the Soviet intelligence machine gives... Read Full Review

Pacepa's proofs that Lee Harvey Oswald was a Soviet agent, along with the standard KGB ploy of providing their nerdy recruits with a sexual-cookie wife, are irrefutable. Pacepa's speculation that the evil Khrushchev, Stalin's lickspittle, who hated the young and suave Kennedy, assisted the assassination plans by sponsoring Oswald's return to the US after rifle and spy training are also credible. What is curious is Pacepa's... Read Full Review

General Ion Mihai Pacepa has given us a new and very different point of view of the JFK assassination, clarifying what has been the conspiracy theorists' haven in the 20th century. In the FBI we taught that 'the truth is in the details,' and the General exquisitely reveals the truth-with verifiable, consistent, meshing-together, and incontrovertible facts about the involvement of the Soviet leadership and the KGB in this tragedy... Read Full Review