THE DULLES MEMO

A Novel

AUTHOR: [WITHHELD]
EDITOR: CDJ
STATUS: UNPUBLISHED

This manuscript was recovered from a safe deposit box in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1983. The box was registered to a name that does not appear in any public records. "CDJ" has never been identified. Efforts to authenticate the documents quoted herein have been inconclusive. Some are clearly genuine; others cannot be verified.

The reader must decide what to believe.
The reader must always decide.

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CONTENTS

Seventeen documents. One architecture. The truth buried in plain sight.

PART ONE The Architecture

PERSONNEL FILE The Director

Allen Welsh Dulles. DCI 1953-1961. The man who believed he owned American foreign policy.

SUBJECT FILE The Target

John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Not the martyr. The assessment. A player who tried to change games.

CHAPTER ONE The Patrician's Burden

Georgetown, 1953. Allen Dulles learns that democracy is a managed outcome.

CHAPTER TWO Acceptable Losses

Bay of Pigs, April 1961. The operation designed to fail. The President designed to learn.

CHAPTER THREE The Sunday Communion

Georgetown, December 1961. The men who still come on Sundays. The architecture takes shape.

CHAPTER FOUR The Gordian Knot

MONGOOSE. ZRRIFLE. The Castro obsession and the mob connections that would echo in Dallas.

PART TWO The Machinery

CHAPTER FIVE Lessons Learned

The intelligence budget that kept growing. The president who tried to stop it.

CASE FILE WIROGUE

Congo, 1961. The CIA post-mortem on Lumumba. What worked. What didn't. What to do next time.

ADDENDUM The New Frontier

Saigon, November 1963. Diem falls. A template for regime change, twenty days before Dallas.

EXHIBIT A The Subject

Lee Harvey Oswald. Defector. Repatriate. Asset? The file that asks more questions than it answers.

PART THREE The Crossfire

EXHIBITS E & F The Rehearsals

Chicago. Miami. Dallas. Three cities, three weeks, two cancellations. The pattern the Secret Service knew.

CHAPTER SIX The Crossfire

Dallas, November 22, 1963. 12:30 PM. The geometry of Dealey Plaza. The shots that changed history.

EXHIBITS B & C The Policeman & The Silencer

Officer Tippit, shot forty-five minutes after Kennedy. Jack Ruby, who ended the interrogation forever.

EXHIBIT D The Procedure

Bethesda Naval Hospital. LeMay in the gallery. The autopsy controlled by brass. The brain that disappeared.

PART FOUR The Burial

CHAPTER SEVEN Twenty-Six Volumes

The Warren Commission. Dulles on the panel. The truth buried under 17,000 pages of paper.

EXHIBIT G The Mortality Index

Hartwell & Associates, 1977. An actuary runs the numbers on the Dallas cohort. The model breaks.

POSTSCRIPT The Resignation

Nixon, August 1974. "The whole Bay of Pigs thing." The president who knew too much, walking out instead of being carried.

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