The CIA and Media Coverage of JFK's Assassination
How a propaganda operation, code name AMSPELL, shaped the news from Dallas.
[Excerpted from Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster and Watergate (St Martin's Press, 2022]
Dick Helms was having a sandwich lunch with John McCone in the director’s suite on the seventh floor of the CIA building when an aide burst into the room. “The president’s been shot!” he cried.5 McCone turned on a television and watchedthe news bulletin…
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