Law of Honor by Michael Newton

Author:Michael Newton [Newton, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781641196147
Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
Published: 2019-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

FBI Field Office, Manhattan: November 22, 1988

The twenty-fifth anniversary of Dallas had rejuvenated interest in the JFK assassination, forcibly reminding Agent Erin O'Hara of the case that had obsessed her grandfather and likely drove her father to his death in Washington.

In fact, the case was inescapable on television and in print today, and one participant was speaking out at any given opportunity. Jim Garrison, no longer D.A. of New Orleans, was now a judge on Louisiana's 4th Circuit Court of Appeal, elected in 1978—five years after his acquittal on corruption charges—and twice reelected since then. This year, he'd published his second book on the assassination, a best-seller titled On the Trail of the Assassins, and sat for an interview with Pacifica radio station KPFA in Berkley, California, while participating in a TV documentary series, "The Men Who Killed Kennedy."

In Garrison's view—echoing opinions voiced in private by Erin's grandpa and in public by her dad—those men included rabid elements of the CIA's Operations Division, fanatical anti-Castro Cubans, and a collection of mobsters aided by late Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa.

Leaders at Justice predictably disagreed, despite vague congressional findings that JFK—and Dr. King as well—were "probably" killed by separate but equal conspiracies. Trying to silence the persistent rumblings on Capitol Hill, William Weld, Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ's Criminal Division, had sent a three-page memo to the House Judiciary Committee, assuring its members that "no persuasive evidence can be identified to support the theory of a conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy." That said, and taking no further questions, he'd retired to private practice in his native Massachusetts, with hopes to run for governor in 1990.

TV had yielded another surprise in February, when America's Most Wanted premiered on seven Fox-owned stations. Host John Walsh had lost a child to brutal violence, slain in 1981 by a serial killer now on death row for a different murder, and his obvious hatred of criminals had struck a chord with the public. He'd also impressed Bureau headquarters when seventy-five separate Fox viewers steered agents to FBI "Top Ten" fugitive David James Rogers—a robber and rape-slayer with five known victims who'd escaped from prison in October 1986—living quietly as "Robert Lord," director of a homeless shelter on Long Island. Public applause for that capture echoed all the way to Fox headquarters, which renewed Walsh's show as a weekly series in March.

Three months later, the Bureau had revealed "Operation ILLWIND," a ten-year multi-agency investigation that began with mafiosi selling stolen art, then picked up rumors of corruption at the Defense Department, ultimately spreading across twelve states and D.C. Indictments were finally coming down, mainly bribery charges filed against nine government officials, forty-two consultants, plus various top-rank executives at Boeing, General Electric and United Technologies. Three headline-grabbing Pentagon perps were Melvyn Paisley (Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of the Navy from1981 to '87), his successor James Gaines, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Victor Cohen. Many of those indicted worked for Unisys Corporation, a Pennsylvania-based information technology firm with global contacts, and most were pleading guilty to minimize their penalties.

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