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Type: Excerpt from a book, report, or memoir (possibly fictional or conspiratorial literature)
File Size: 1.54 MB
Summary

The text describes a political deal involving journalist Anderson, Watergate, and Air America's alleged heroin smuggling. It includes a quoted letter from Frank Sturgis to the narrator (implied to be Richard Nixon), claiming a CIA faction orchestrated both JFK's assassination and the narrator's political downfall.

Timeline (4 events)

Watergate break-in
'72 election
resignation in 1974
assassination of Kennedy

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Key Quotes (4)

"Air America had been shuttling out its actual product: heroin."
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"I realize that the same faction of the CIA that masterminded the assassination of Kennedy was also behind your downfall."
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"I was a member of the Assassination Section."
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"unstated policy included domestic as well as foreign enemies."
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forth a single drop of Pepsi. Air America had been shuttling out its actual
product: heroin.
However, Anderson agreed not to publish this material. In return, we
agreed not to publicize the fact that he knew about the Watergate break-
in weeks before it occurred. He had warned Lawrence O' Brien at
Democratic National Committee headquarters, but O' Brien remained
silent because he assumed that such a scandal would provide ammunition
for a Democrat coup in the ' 72 election. He overestimated public
outrage.
Anderson held back because he did not wish to endanger his source,
one of the "burglars," Frank Sturgis, whom he had known for some
twenty years. Shortly after my resignation in 1974, I received a long letter
from Sturgis. I shall quote here a portion of that correspondence:
Now, I' m telling you this because I still consider you my Commander in
Chief. I realize that the same faction of the CIA that masterminded the
assassination of Kennedy was also behind your downfall. They thought JFK
was soft on Communism in Cuba, and that you were soft on Communism
in China, but that they didn' t necessarily have to kill you to get rid of you.
While I participated in Operation 40, our job was primarily to infiltrate
foreign countries. I was a member of the Assassination Section. Orders
would filter down, and our job would be to kill, say, a military official or a
politician. Even in those days, unstated policy included domestic as well as
foreign enemies.
But I had nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination myself. The FBI
came to interview me the day after it happened, and I didn' t have a thing
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