Clay Shaw
Where each worldview places it
A CIA operative, the only man tried for the Kennedy assassination, and a director of Permindex; Guy Bannister's "immediate CIA superior"[1]. Both books say he was cleared only after key witnesses were intimidated or murdered[2].
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Key events
- wartime: meets Louis Bloomfield while serving with the OSS in London, and becomes a friend of Churchill[3]
- 1960s: charged by Jim Garrison, tried and acquitted[2]
- Author's claims · 3
- 01He was managing director of the International Trade Mart and connected to the Lansky syndicate[3].
- 02The Stern family (owners of WDSU) were "very close friends of Clay Shaw"[4].
- 03In The Biggest Secret he was an adviser to Churchill and "danced to the tune of people like Lord Victor Rothschild"[5].