From JFK's Murder to Princess Di and 9/11: Do Conspiracy Theories Ever Have Merit?

"The Mystique of Conspiracy" delves into the mystery surrounding the JFK assassination. It focuses mainly on anti-Castro Cuban exiles and their relationship with the CIA, but it also offers an excellent framework to gauge the “plausibility” of any conspiracy theory. Unique to this work is the offer included at the back of the book to involve the reader in an online exchange with the author. The author, an online Professor of criminal justice and security management at the University of Phoenix, will guide the reader/student into formulating his or her own credible approach to solving the nagging mystery behind the JFK assassination (or any conspiracy theory they are interested in). Also compelling is the Foreword and personal letters included in the Appendix written to the author in 1978 by David Atlee Phillips, former CIA Western Hemisphere Division Chief. Mr. Phillips passed away in 1988. Some private researchers have tried to link him directly to a CIA plot to assassinate JFK utilizing anti-Castro Cuban exiles. As such, serious researchers will want to see what David Phillips had to say to the author about his role in the Kennedy assassination.

Gaeton Fonzi, former federal investigator on the House Select Committee on Assassinations, had this powerful accusation to level against David Atlee Phillips in his book "The Last Investigation":

“David Atlee Phillips played a key role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy.”

A new name in the annals of the JFK assassination is CIA covert operative George Joannides. Mr. Joannides passed away in 1999, but his role in directing a group of anti-Castro Cuban exiles who had contact with the assassin in New Orleans several months before the assassination has never been made public up until now. As recent as 2005 the CIA went to court and blocked the release of any documents on George Joannides. David Atlee Phillips was Mr. Joannides’ supervisor in the CIA. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the “mystique” surrounding conspiracy theories, whether it is JFK, RFK, MLK, Princess Diana, 9/11 or Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko, killed in London by radioactive polonium 210. There is a common thread that runs through them all. The author will reveal what that is. Visit the author's website at: http://www.provocativeideas.net


Reviews of The Mystique of Conspiracy: Oswald, Castro, and the CIA:

“It requires courage to remain dispassionate in the heat of emotion which has been kindled about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Brian Buggé is to be commended. He has eschewed sensation, laid the facts on the line. It is up to each of us to reach our own conclusion, but Brian Buggé has performed a public service in making his case. What he has done is to ask us to look at the evidence. That is a refreshing suggestion.”

— David Atlee Phillips, CIA Western Hemisphere Division Chief (Ret.). Author of The Night Watch

“Buggé offers an excellent synopsis of the current assassination theories, which should be helpful to anybody trying to understand…what happened that tragic day in Dallas. Buggé writes in a concise, easy to understand style and, unlike some other assassination writers, doesn’t fill his pages with his own political philosophy.”

— Staten Island Advance

“This well researched and highly informative book comes full circle in the Kennedy assassination controversy. This book, originally produced as a masters thesis in criminal justice, has a quality of academic objectivity and intellectual design that one will not often find in the more saleable and sensational ‘conspiracy’ books.”

— Law Enforcement News