Jerry Leonard

The Perfect Assassin: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Cia and Mind Control Jerry Leonard

Hollywood movies have provided dramatic, fictional accounts of brainwashed assassins who were "programmed" by the government to unwittingly commit criminal acts. Films like "The Manchurian Candidate", "The Long Kiss Goodnight" and "Conspiracy Theory" have portrayed government-trained assassins and operatives helplessly performing unlawful deeds that ran counter to their personal codes of morality. Is there more to this theme than good drama? Recent revelations have linked the Unabomber's assassinations with notorious government mind control experiments from the 1950s and 1960s... experiments conducted to develop the technology for programming an assassin to commit murder against his will. Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, volunteered for what turned out to be traumatic psychological experiments under a CIA-linked psychologist during his undergraduate days at Harvard. Researchers have long postulated connections between these CIA programs and notorious crimes such as the assassination of Robert Kennedy and his brother John Kennedy. Indeed, a classified CIA memo from the 1950s described a covert operation in which a government-programmed assassin/defector kills an American official and then is himself slain while in custody. This fantastic-sounding scenario foreshadowed the tragic events surrounding the JFK assassination in 1963. Could Lee Harvey Oswald...a defector who was slain while in police custody following his alleged assassination of an American official...have been such a CIA assassin? Declassified CIA documents and investigations by major American newspapers and others over the years suggest dark forces may have been at work in one of the great crimes of the century. Recent press articles have revealed that Lee Harvey Oswald...the alleged "lone-nut" assassin of JFK...was more involved with ongoing CIA programs than the public was led to believe. According to a front-page article in the New York Times, he was even monitored by the FBI associating with CIA assassi