Chasing Ed - Lavin, Gregory C.

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Résumé :
In Chasing Ed: Was Major General Edward G. Lansdale the Mastermind of the JFK Assassination?, Greg Lavin follows the money in conjunction with the politics of the time to reveal Ed Lansdale's alleged involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Chasing Ed details author Greg Lavin's experiences with Ed Lansdale. Lavin studied Ed in graduate school at Cornell, met him in 1973, and kept in contact with him until Ed died in 1987. Letters from their correspondence can be found in the appendix of this book. Throughout their close acquaintance, Lavin repeatedly questioned Ed on a number of issues, focusing mainly on his use of finances to build modern Asian states. Ed built governments in the Philippines and South Vietnam and introduced the concept of counter insurgency in dealing with unfriendly Communist nations. After Ed died, Lavin discovered that as an OSS agent in World War II in the Philippines, Ed had discovered $1.2 trillion in gold, platinum, and gems taken from the Chinese by the Japanese. President Truman declared the cache a state secret, and Ed and the intelligence community were granted control of the funds free from Congressional oversight. As Ed's career progressed in the Pentagon, he became a general officer and expert in special operations including assassinations. Such particularly sensitive matters required maintaining ongoing mythologies to hide the truth behind the operations. Lavin reveals that Ed had sufficient resources to buy off inconvenient opponents and could lay false stories to continue sidestepping responsibility for one particular assassination-that of President John F. Kennedy....

Biographie:
Growing up, Greg Lavin's military family of nine kids gave him a sense of belonging. But to what? The military academy consisted of 400 other kids who preferred to be home with their parents. The real discipline he practiced was by himself-in sports and morality. He tried to pass the ball and support his teammates. College was a wonder, with three years of division I soccer and an ex-Marine coach who put him on a team of half-mile runners who became champions. After college, Leavenworth Federal Prison scared Lavin to the core. A guard was knifed and died in his cellhouse. Greg became ready to fight and die if attacked. This was his moral lesson: keep his twenty-four-year-old fists balled up and ready to fight. Kill only as a last resort. And pray!...

Sommaire:
In Chasing Ed: Was Major General Edward G. Lansdale the Mastermind of the JFK Assassination?, Greg Lavin follows the money in conjunction with the politics of the time to reveal Ed Lansdale's alleged involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Chasing Ed details author Greg Lavin's experiences with Ed Lansdale. Lavin studied Ed in graduate school at Cornell, met him in 1973, and kept in contact with him until Ed died in 1987. Letters from their correspondence can be found in the appendix of this book. Throughout their close acquaintance, Lavin repeatedly questioned Ed on a number of issues, focusing mainly on his use of finances to build modern Asian states. Ed built governments in the Philippines and South Vietnam and introduced the concept of counter insurgency in dealing with unfriendly Communist nations. After Ed died, Lavin discovered that as an OSS agent in World War II in the Philippines, Ed had discovered $1.2 trillion in gold, platinum, and gems taken from the Chinese by the Japanese. President Truman declared the cache a state secret, and Ed and the intelligence community were granted control of the funds free from Congressional oversight. As Ed's career progressed in the Pentagon, he became a general officer and expert in special operations including assassinations. Such particularly sensitive matters required maintaining ongoing mythologies to hide the truth behind the operations. Lavin reveals that Ed had sufficient resources to buy off inconvenient opponents and could lay false stories to continue sidestepping responsibility for one particular assassination-that of President John F. Kennedy....