W. Tracy Parnell

Did anti-Castro activist Antonio Veciana really see Lee Harvey Oswald with CIA man David Atlee Phillips just weeks before the assassination of JFK? My new eBook— The Bishop Hoax: Fonzi, Veciana and the Making of a Conspiracy Myth —seeks to answer that question for all time. In 1976, Veciana met with Congressional researcher Gaeton Fonzi for a series of three interviews. During those meetings, Fonzi reported that Veciana said that he met with a case officer code named Maurice (Morris at first) Bishop for thirteen years. It was Bishop who directed the anti-Castro efforts of Veciana and Alpha 66. Most significantly, before one of his meetings with Bishop, Veciana claimed he saw the mysterious mentor in the company of Oswald. For twenty-five years, David Atlee Phillips was one of the most distinguished agents in the history of the Cold War CIA. In 1975, he retired to defend the agency from what he believed were unfounded accusations fueled by a media frenzy in the wake of Watergate....

I am pleased to announce that my eBook The Bishop Hoax: Fonzi, Veciana and the Making of a Conspiracy Myth will be released on March 21st free of charge right here on this blog. Four chapters (out of 30 total) will be released initially followed by one per week thereafter. The book, which consists of more than 110,000 words with over 1000 footnotes, is the result of five years of research and three years of writing. Stay tuned! EDIT: Check out this teaser- Appendix A: The CIA and the Media 1960-1975 . The Bishop Hoax Now Available HERE