JFK Common Intent

Kennedy's Enemies

by Lee D. Shepherd

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Synopsis

John F. Kennedy's assassination is not a theoretical abstraction. To understand it, we must examine the broader patterns. As an historian, I have tried to look at the overall picture. Individuals stationed at the CIA Miami station possessed the training, capability, and motive to carry out the President's murder. It is a cartography of a life--where the intersecting lines of fate, through their connections and associations, reveal the inescapable workings of providence

Thousands of books have been written about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, yet none have illuminated the one critical piece still missing from the puzzle: the CIA's covert Command and Control center in Miami JMWAVE. This book is the first to focus on the role this facility played in the months leading up to the assassination, exposing its personnel, operations, and the Cold War networks it managed. What makes this story especially compelling is the CIA s own reaction: following JFK s murder, the Agency quietly conducted an internal investigation of JMWAVE and then destroyed the report. Drawing from declassified documents, insider testimony, and corroborated accounts, this book reveals a hidden infrastructure of regime-change operations, psychological warfare, and compartmentalized secrecy. This is not another book about Dealey Plaza. It is the story of the men and machinery capable of setting the assassination in motion.

About the Author

In 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy flew into Willow Run Airport near Ann Arbor, Michigan, and my mother took us kids to see his plane land. As he descended the gangway, I reached through the crowd—he looked down, grinned, and shook my hand. Three years later, someone blew his head off.

After earning a B.A. in History, I began working for a marine services company in California that had secured the contract to move Howard Hughes's airplane from its hangar in Long Beach. I lived in that building with the "Spruce Goose" for three months and became fascinated by Hughes's many connections to both the CIA and JFK.

Since retiring fourteen years ago, I've conducted historical research for various authors at the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection in Washington, D.C. My studies led me to interview several individuals connected to the story, including former employees of the CIA's Miami office during the Cold War. In 2017, I brought together four of the leading JFK researchers for a symposium at the George Marshall Center in Lexington, Virginia. This book is the result of our collective findings.