Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel by Chauncey Holt
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Really an amazing tale of an underworld Zelig renaissance man that was every wear: So. American & Caribbean coups, CIA wars in Indochina, keeping the books for Meyer Lansky, standing by Oswald while he passed out Fair Play for Cuba flyers and, of course, behind the Grassy Knoll on that fateful day in Dallas. He also could do anything: creative accounting with the best of them, military aviation, expert marksmanship, portraiture, document forgery, and more. Is it all true? I don't know, but it is a fascinating read full of facts on crime and cop figures that could be verified with lots of photos and documents and appendices with two lengthy interviews and more that purport to support his role as an unwilling bit player in an American coup by scorned Mafia-CIA-AntiCastro forces that all had it in for Kennedy.
This book is packed with false flag ops, dark ops, and the criminal underworld including insight in the nighttime bombing that disrupted Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno's Arizona retirement and was a mystery in [b:Honor Thy Father|1159133|Honor Thy Father|Gay Talese|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1212100268s/1159133.jpg|109625].
I did an interview on my program related to this book and the interview transcripts.
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