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
  1. 01He was managing director of the International Trade Mart and connected to the Lansky syndicate[3].
  2. 02The Stern family (owners of WDSU) were "very close friends of Clay Shaw"[4].
  3. 03In The Biggest Secret he was an adviser to Churchill and "danced to the tune of people like Lord Victor Rothschild"[5].

Notes

  1. ↑ And the Truth Shall Set You Free (1995), The Hidden Hand (part 1); The Hidden Hand (part 3). The Biggest Secret (1999), Chapter Twelve: The Black Sun (part 2).
  2. ↑ a b And the Truth Shall Set You Free (1995), The Hidden Hand (part 1). The Biggest Secret (1999), Chapter Nineteen: The Goddess and the King (part 1).
  3. ↑ a b And the Truth Shall Set You Free (1995), The Hidden Hand (part 2).
  4. ↑ And the Truth Shall Set You Free (1995), The Hidden Hand (part 3).
  5. ↑ The Biggest Secret (1999), Chapter Twelve: The Black Sun (part 2).