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Charles .\lcCarrv. was ‘chief speech 5h°[-Trhe Tlggr Lad)’ said» “ll)’°" hilvc
-,,,-im. for Hem}-' Cabot Lodge in the the Kennedy Administration for an ally,
i960 Campaign Since Hcmv Cabot |you don tneed an _
Lodge is remembered more for h:.tving- Twenll’ dz)’-5 11fi‘¢l' lhfi murders,-in Sal"
slept through the Campaign than for gonthere was a murder in Dallas. Thehaving made rousing sp¢¢¢h¢5_ this credit ‘Tiger Lady, bitter over the earlier assas-
would better have fcmaingd unm,-3,- 'sination of her husband and her brother-=
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zinc-law, commented that justice had been-3
Interestingly, Hgmy Cabot Lodgg is served, or words to that effect.
also remembered as being in charge of? '
JFK3 Sill.‘-Z0" bungle whichresulted in
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the murders of the brothers Diem and'
Nhu. All of which brings us back to The 3
Tears of/1 utumn. 4 -_I
A rumor in Saigonat the time of the
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coup held that the Ngo Dinhs were_liqui-
dated because they were playing footsie -'
with Hanoi. McCarry devotes three lines
to this, which is about two lines more
than it descrves.,The rumor, however,
convinced some doubters on the scene 5
that the assassinations werejustified. A
McCarry has expanded this theme,
using an ex-CIA man as his vehicle
for running down yet another “true”
story of Kennedy‘s death. how -the
.\'vo familv 2.l"tfll"€l'l the murders ofT‘ I D ..
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Runy w-.is' recruiti;-l‘= to eliniinzile‘. .
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Oswald. The tale is gripping and im-
plausible‘ enough to make a good
movie script.
In order to explain whv the avenge l'S
The real reason the Noos w ere i“tr€) busy recruiting Oswald in mtg Sep-'
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item er one month before the‘ ha uny-rcmoved is that the Knights of Qamelotilhing to avengq Mccan-y hays {lo gnu-o_“cm persuaded to b¢“°"e_lha‘ D‘em_“'a5-‘ duce horoscopes. eeomantics and otherno more than a Sclf'5cckm.g'peny meta‘ astrological nonsense. This businesstor and Nlw W“, a mac chmfoiia brim‘. ienablesv the avengers to outdo even5.€cr¢.‘ Ponce r°"ce' NO‘ mllch lmagm§'i".!eanne Dixon. Thei: are able to predict"on '5 n¢?dcc.l to guess the Sour“ of thls l
not only that they will have something tocharacterization. The usual charges of avenge but whd they Wm have to “km
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dent Kennedy that this appraisal was _
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accurate. Diem and Nhu had to go, $l3"5 l'¢°""l¢d _
Rubi! (¢°""¢$Y °f ‘hf
A plot in August had failed‘ but the Mafia, but without the Godfatl1er,s
one in November would not. In the O'K‘) to km, Oswald and thc'§bY take
meantime an embarrassing -
visitor the heat _0fl" themselves. lf this is what
Showed up'in the United Smtcs _
the Russians were interested. in. it is the
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_ least thing they would have done.The Tiger Lady, the glamorous wife of
.Nhu and President Diem’s state hostess, Anatoli A. Gromyko (yes, Andrei's
arrived from Europe where she had been 5 son)_in his Through Russiari @t'es,‘_Pre.¢i'-
warmly received. (Even in_Communistjde/it Kenried_v's. 1.036 Days asks the
Yugoslavia at the Parliamentary Con-lquestion, “How could it happen that the
gress she was given -a standing ovation.) . . . apparent perpetrator of_the crime
Oificial Washington, from the President was liquidated literally before the eyes
on down, constrained by guilt and shame ofeveryone. and. naturally, can no longer
over the as-yet unexecuted conspiracy, furnish evidence?"
did not greet her. The State Department _' '
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acknowledged her presence, however, Tl“? Jackcl °l MCCB")/5 b°°k hlnls
by calling a conference of editors urging that it should be taken seriously. Come
that she be buried on pagc 22_ CB5 now. lf that‘s the case. then McCarry
responded by canceling her appearance j0l"5 Hllrold wfiiflbfifg. Thom?-\_S
on “Face the Nation,“ and the press gen- Buchanan. Fred Cook. Sylvan Fox.
erally showered hgr with d¢ri5iQri_ Edward Epstein, and a host otothers who
have advanced their own, sometimes
wild. theories of what really happened
in Dallas.
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if McCarry's story istal-zen simply as
a Day oflhe Jackal tale, it‘s pretty good
reading. though not masterpiece. Met-
aphors are blurred and similes strained.
The reader grows weary, occasionally
wary, of pompous name dropping, not so
much of people as of wine, food and
places. » a
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Programed sex, 6 Ia Masters and John-
son, intrudes asan extraneous distrac-
tion in' _imitatio'ni oi‘ today's crummy
-literature. The hero's character is not
entirely even. He is both a good guy and
a CIA man, a currently‘ extinct species.
He wouldn't think of using a gun, but he
is-not beyond asking-his agents to use a
little close-range bird shot inithc face,
said not to be fatal but capable of much
gore,- temporary blindness and “a lot of
pain and shock." You'd better believe it.
He wouldn't support a regime that tor-
tures. political prisoners, yet he i_sn’t
above kidnapping and torturing his own
victims. He is an _“_entirely sentimental"
man, interested solely in the facts. ma'am.
Yet he manages to develop a rnaudlin
middle-class arl'ecti'on for his erstwhile
bedmate ofconvenience as well as a senti-
mental passion for his dead President and
his country. Even Vex-CIA men can't be
all bad. .
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McCarry solves all the mysteriesAsur-
rQunding_the deaths of Diem, Nhu and
Kennedy excepting one. Who in the world
did E. Howard Hunt expect to convince,
who *-v:is:i"t :1iret:d1- -:on-‘in-zed. when he
for-i::_d _'ir-.i-_-nu? -with =.?:-=.<:- $1211!-:s -to Sai-
-l-._sn_",'_ 9:: '.I':.:’.'-.; no :-.~:ii -.-ri:it';E;.::t'. .-\t‘z:r
Ltll,'.iOi'!i'l Dear. couldn't answer that one.
Pm/f Keysrr was born in Wiuhingion. D.C..
5'21.’ esca_::ed unharmed to New England, where he
has liizd time I946. Hi: moral decline starred
kizeh he lieccnie cit assistant dean of a college.
L'r:da:mled. he managed to work hirn.veIj'd0wri to
'cOmmOn\\:'-21:}! i’ro_!'es:o.' Emeritus and retired in
1"5'$»9_I'rcm the L'rii'ter.\"i'!_i' of .%!a.r.rachu.ieit.r when
shouting and shooting again seemed imminent.
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