Special Agent James Hosty began investigating Lee Harvey Oswald in October 1963, a full month before the JFK assassination. From November 22 on, Hosty watched as everyone from the Dallas Police, the FBI, the CIA, Naval Intelligence, and the State Department up through the Warren Commission to J. Edgar Hoover, Robert Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson reacted to and manipulated the facts of the presidentâs assassinationâuntil Hosty himself became their scapegoat. After seeing his name appear in three inconclusive federal investigations and countless fact-twisting conspiracy theories (including Oliver Stoneâs motion picture), Hosty decided to tell his own story.
Assignment: Oswald is the authoritative insiderâs account of one of our countryâs most traumatic events. Combining his own unique, intimate knowledge of the case with previously unavailable government documentsâincluding top secret CIA files recently released from the National ArchivesâHosty tells the true story behind the assassination and the governmentâs response to it, including the suppression of a documented Oswald-Soviet-Castro connection. Hosty offers an exclusive insiderâs knowledge of the mechanisms, the power structures, and the rivalries in and among the various intelligence and law enforcement agencies and why they have determined who knows what about the assassination. Here, at last, is an unmistakably expert and responsible account of the murder of President Kennedy.