Lee D. Shepherd
John F. Kennedy’s assassination is not a theoretical abstraction. To understand it, we must examine the broader patterns. As an historian, I have tried to look at the overall picture. Individuals stationed at the CIA Miami station possessed the training, capability, and motive to carry out the President’s murder. It is a cartography of a life--where the intersecting lines of fate, through their connections and associations, reveal the inescapable workings of providence Thousands of books have been written about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, yet none have illuminated the one critical piece still missing from the puzzle: the CIA’s covert Command and Control center in Miami JMWAVE. This book is the first to focus on the role this facility played in the months leading up to the assassination, exposing its personnel, operations, and the Cold War networks it managed. What makes this story especially compelling is the CIA s own reaction: following JFK s murder, the Agency quietly conducted an internal investigation of JMWAVE and then destroyed the report. Drawing from declassified documents, insider testimony, and corroborated accounts, this book reveals a hidden infrastructure of regime-change operations, psychological warfare, and compartmentalized secrecy. This is not another book about Dealey Plaza. It is the story of the men and machinery capable of setting the assassination in motion.
