Summary of David Atlee Phillips:
- Background & Profession: US born CIA propagandist. Alias Maurice Biship.
- Associates: []
- Involvement in JFK murder: Evidence indicates involvement is likely.
Antonio Veciana, Alpha 66's Cuban leader, saw him talking to Oswald shortly before the assassination. - Motive: [].
- Possible Role: Spreading propaganda & disinformation.
- Fate: Dies of lung cancer in 1988.
Details:
David Atlee Phillips died of cancer on 7th July, 1988. He left behind an unpublished manuscript. The novel is about a CIA officer who lived in Mexico City (that is where Phillips was in 1963). In the novel the character states: "I was one of those officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald... We gave him the mission of killing Fidel Castro in Cuba... I don't know why he killed Kennedy. But I do know he used precisely the plan we had devised against Castro. Thus the CIA did not anticipate the president's assassination, but it was responsible for it. I share that guilt."
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