CIA RUNS NY TIMES, SAYS KRASSNER PARANOIA PATROL

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• Publication Date: March 9, 1972
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Dear Nat frontal shot? Why was his body whished freedom of the press. However, the
For the past couple of months I've been away to Washington before the legally material was critical of Johnson, not
investigating the Manson case, and there required Texas inquest? Why? Nixon. And, although the Timesran the full Waren is evidence ofinvolvementwithScientology John Leonard became editor of the New dyrrediComthey on Report
and the CIA. During the course of my
zed the Pentagon
research l discovii,;-ed that John Leonard's York Times Book Review in January 1971. Papers, thus setting'the stage for the crurt.
double review of American Grotesque by The Timeshasneverreviewed any of Dick battle which -even though so many never
James Kirkwood and A Heritage of Stone by Gregory's four books. Here is an author actually read through the material Jim Garrison had been cut short, with who went from being a pioneer for black nevertheless left the image that the Times
meaning changed,bythe New York Times. performers ontelevision to being a write would stand up to the government: when it
OnDecember 1, 1970, under the headline, in presidential candidate, yet he was cameto the first amendment. That line of
"WhoKil{edJohn F. Kennedy?" the review ignored; only nowwith his latest book does credibility established; they could -then
in the early edition of tile Times concluded: the Timespresent a review, and that is critical out editorially in favor of Nixon's
(Garrison) insists that the Warren cal of Gregory for his paranoid peace proposal to Vietnam, that a junior
Commission, the executive branch of the conspiracy theories and facts linking the high school student could see through so
government, some members of the Dallas CIA with several assassinations. easily.
The Times has never reviewed m Police Department, the pathologists at y own When World War Two ended, Werner von
Bethesda who performed the "second book, How a Satirical Editor Became a Braun was not the only Nazi the United
Kennedy autopsy, and many, many others Yipp1e Conspirator' in Ten Easy Years States acquired. This country also
must have known they were lying to the (publishodby Putnam). I wrote to Leonard,. imported German Intel Iigenceexports who
American public. trying to f ind out why. Since the Realist was organized the CIA here. Fascism grew
Mysteries Persist the first contemporary underground paper through control of the most important
Frankly, / prefer to believe that the -and since the book was praised lavishly media, aswell as the legal processes. It's .
Warren Commission dida poor job, rather by Joseph Heller, Groucho Marx, Terry foolish to believe that the Rand Corporation
than a dishonest one. i like to think that 114r. Southern, K urt Vonnegut Jr., Susan Sontag, could engineer a dictatorship in Greece but
Garrison invents monsters to explain Julius Lester and others -a review would not here; or that the CIA could plot the
incompetehce. (In the next edition, the have seemed appropriate. Leonard wrote assassination of Malcolm X and Martin
review ended at this point, chopped off in back to me, saying: "We have a review of 'Luther King and Bobby Kennedy but not
mid-paragraph. The headline was changed your book in the house; it's not a very good Kent State and Jackson State and, yes, even
to "The'Shaw-Garrison Affair" and the one, I'm afraid." Even that never Sharon Tate and the others, partly as a
sub-head disappeared altogether. In the appeared. I've since found out that the propaganda device to discredit the
original version it continued:) But until review was extremely favorable, and the communal family, psychedelics, rock
somebody explains why two autopsies came criticwaspaidforit.So John Leonard lied lyrics -all the things-that add up to a
'to two different conclusions about the to me. cultural revolution that could affect the
President's wounds, why the limousine was I publicly accuse the CIA of controlling American economy which is basedon a kind
washed out and rebuilt without the New York Times policy. Among other of mindless productivity.
investigation, why certain witnesses near things, my book quotes Mort Sahl on the TV Even if Paul Revere were a paranoid
the "grassy knoll" were never asked to show from which he was fired: "I went to schizophrenic it doesn't mean the British
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were all so eager to buy Oswald's brilliant was in there for several hours, running it,
marksmanship in splitseconds, whyno one then looking at it frame by frame on a slide Paul Krassner
inquiredinto Jack Ruby's relations with a projector. When the President is first The Realist
staggering variety of strangepeople, why a struck it seems that he's struck in the back. 1772 Vallejo
"loner" like Oswald always had friends It's reasonably obvious looking at it, you San Francisco, Calif. 94123
andcoulda lways get a passport - who can don't have to be a ballistics expert. Thert
blame the Garrison guerrillas for he's struck in the throat -and his hands go
fantasizing? up-and he begins to fall slowly into Mrs.
Something stinks about this whole affair. Kennedy's lap, he sags as the i ife goes out
"A Heritage of Stone" rehashes the of him, and then he's hit in the head, and as
.smelliness; the recipe is as unappetizing he's hit in the head it's the force of a train
as our doubts about the official version of hitting you. The President is hit from the
what happened. (Would then Attorney right front. I saw it repeatedly. I saw a
General Robert F. Kennedy have endured major portion of his skull fly to the rear and
his brother's murder in silence? Was John to the left. (Audience recoils audibly. j Yes,
Kennedy quite so liberated from cold war it's shocking, and it'll help any of you who
cliches as Mr. Garrison maintains?) But can't make up your mind about where you
the stench is there andclings to each of us are in this.... '
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examined at Bethesda for evidence of a onspired scenario to make it
seem as though the Timeswere fighting for