Yet the government has neither claimed perjury nor come forward with evidence to attack the jury's decisión. Some attack the verdict because the crucial evidence was provided by Marita Lorenz, who - fearing for her life - testified in a deposition taken at a secret location. The jury agreed with the defense, acquitted Liberty Lobby, and in effect found that the CIA was invol ved with Kennedy' s assassination. While Hunt was working for the CIA at the time, it remains to be determined whether this mission was an official assignment, whether he was running a Contra-like renegade operation, or whether he was just cooperating with Mafiosi or Cubans. Howard Hunt, to the scène of the assassination. While she did not know the purpose of her assignment, and repeatedly claimed so, it is difficult for a reader to avoid the conclusión that she was driving the paymaster, E. Howard Hunt to Dallas two days before the assassination, with a great deal of money in tow. Most ri veting was her testimony of how she drove E.
Among her assignments was an assassination attempt against Castro, an assignment that she was unable to carry out, both because of her own reticence and because of some technical glitches. Lorenz is an ex-CIA spook who was recruited by the agency after she had established an intímate relationship with Fidel Castro. Most explosive was the testimony of Marita Lorenz.
Anyone reading this book would find it difficult to avoid the conclusión that the CIA was involved, although how and why are still open to debate. For the first time a j ury heard the JFK assassination case, without media hysterics, through formal evidence in court. Legal tools of discovery and thejury system werebrought to bear. Lane tumed the dispute into a trial on the CIA's complicity in the assassination.
Liberty Lobby appealed, won a new trial, and in one of the most unusual political marriages of the century, hired radical lawyer Mark Lane to defend its case. Hunt, the famous Watergate burglar and CIA operative, claimed that he was libeled by the ultraconservative Liberty Lobby, which published a piece by ex-CIA man Victor Marchetti claiming that Hunt was in Dallas at the time of the Kennedy assassination. Like "JFK," "Plausible Denial" is ostensibly an account of a trial, that of E. Almost simultaneous with the release of Oliver Stone's film "JFK," was the publication of Mark Lane's book, "Plausible Denial." While Lane's book is likely to have less impact on the general populace than the movie, it is a better work. ■ -!: ■ 'il4'.' "Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved with the Assassination of Kennedy?" by Mark Lane, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York 1991.
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