The Deaths of the Cold War Kings: The Assassinations of Diem & JFK

This is not a dry and antiseptic treatise, but rather a highly engaging and informative work that grabs you early with a provocative foreshadowing of its premise and keeps you hooked right to the astonishing end. The authors build their case with logic and sometimes shocking detail taken directly from the national archives, making you wonder what other "smoking guns" may still lie waiting for perservering sleuths such as those who worked behind the scenes in researching this fascinating book. A "must read" not only for Kennedy conspiracy buffs, but for anyone interested in a candid and unflinching historical view of the Mafia, the French underground, heroin trafficking, the underbelly of American politics, and the events leading up to the Vietnam War.

The premise of this non-fiction, investigative book is to look at some newly released documents that prove the U.S. Government took an active role in overthrowing a foreign ally and as a result, JFK was assassinated. I found this book to be a fascinating commentary on the behind-the-scenes activities of our elected officials during the early-`60s. But the book also contains some answers to the bigger questions that surround JFK's death.THE DEATHS OF THE COLD WAR KINGS is basically the tale of this: US supports Vietnamese President Diem, Diem terrorizes Buddhists and embarrasses US. Diem cuts deal with Marseille Mob in France to maintain the supply of opium, and thus heroin, harveted and run from South Vietnam to the States through the US Mob. US green-lights Diem's assassination, successors are worse...we lose Viet Nam War. The Mobs in France and the US are hurt financially by Diem's overthrow.JFK travels to Dallas and is assassinated three weeks later. Book shows proof that, within 48 hours of the hit, the US deports a highly sought after foreign terrorist who was in Dallas the day JFK was shot. Then the authors reveal the identity of this terrorist and address the motivations of why he would be in Dallas on that very day. The book also answers questions as to: where is JFK's brain?; how many sets of JFK autopsy photos were submitted?; why was Diem's wife a staunch critic of the America in the US at the time of the Diem coup?; why did the Pope, after a mysterious visit from JFK, recall Diem's brother to the Vatican at the onset of the coup?; and more. Oswald's credibility as a sniper is also re-examined, and there's a detailed account (the first in book-form, I believe) of the Dealey Plaza re-enactment of 1998. We can only hope that, with more and more documents being released, we may one day actually get to the real truth behind JFK's assassination. Until that time, THE DEATHS OF THE COLD WAR KINGS is the closest we've come yet.

It's been a long time since the publishing industry has released anything new about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which is just one reason why this book, THE DEATHS OF THE COLD WAR KINGS, should re-light the conspiracy furnace in a big way. Political journalist Bradley O'Leary and novelist Edward Lee have just dropped a doozy into the never-ending investigation of Kennedy's murder, and have soundly backed up their own theory with a trove of official documents that many JFK researchers have never seen before, the most interesting of which are federal records and White House cablegrams that prove beyond a doubt that Kennedy and his closest advisors had a large hand in the overthrow and murder of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem. Was it a coincidence that three weeks after Diem's assassination, Kennedy was assassinated?The authors contend that is was no coincidence at all, and they do so with analyses and documentation that's disturbingly credible; equally disturbing conspiratorial links between Diem, the Marcello/Trafficante/Giancana triad, and the French heroin syndicate are revealed in a shocking new light. (One federal document actually recounts a confession that Carlos Marcello made to federal detention officers in 1989.) The book also provides the most detailed breakdown yet of infamous CIA Document 632-796, the cryptic 1964 missive that acknowledges the presence of a French hit man in Dallas at the same time JFK was shot, and that same hit man is exhaustively biographied with more volleys of documentation. The book's only low points are a couple of dragging chapters of anti-Posner rehash (anyone who's read Harold Weisberg's CASE OPEN already knows all of this) , but all in all, O'Leary and Lee's THE DEATHS OF THE COLD WAR KINGS may be the best JFK assassination analysis in the last ten or fifteen years. Serious theorists should consider this book a "must-read."