Late in his life, former president Lyndon B. Johnson told a
reporter that he didn't believe the Warren Commission's finding
that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F.
Kennedy. Johnson thought Cuban president Fidel Castro was behind
it. After all, Johnson said, Kennedy was running "a damned Murder,
Inc., in the Caribbean," giving Castro reason to
retaliate. Murder, Inc., tells the story of the CIA's
assassination operations under Kennedy up to his own assassination
and beyond. James H. Johnston was a lawyer for the Senate
Intelligence Committee in 1975, which investigated and first
reported on the Castro assassination plots and their relation to
Kennedy's murder. Johnston examines how the CIA steered the Warren
Commission and later investigations away from connecting its own
assassination operations to Kennedy's murder. He also looks at the
effect this strategy had on the Warren Commission's conclusions
that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and that there was no
foreign conspiracy. Sourced from in-depth research into the "secret
files" declassified by the JFK Records Act and now stored in the
National Archives and Records Administration, Murder, Inc. is the
first book to narrate in detail the CIA's plots against Castro and
to delve into the question of why retaliation by Castro against
Kennedy was not investigated.