Everything about Victor Marchetti totally explained
Victor Marchetti (
1930 - ) is an
American soldier who, while serving during the
Cold War, was recruited into
intelligence agencies in
1952 in order to engage in
espionage in
East Germany. Marchetti joined the
Central Intelligence Agency in
1955, working as a specialist on the
USSR. He was a leading CIA expert on
Third World aid, with a focus on USSR military supplies to
Cuba after the end of the
Kennedy administration.
In 1966 Marchetti was promoted to the office of special assistant to the Chief of Planning, Programming, and Budgeting, and a special assistant to
CIA Director Richard Helms. Within three years Marchetti became disillusioned with the policies and practices of the CIA, and resigned in 1969, writing an
exposé of the CIA in a book published in 1971 entitled,
The Rope Dancer.
Later Marchetti published books critical of the CIA with author
John D. Marks. The books included,
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1973). Before this book was published, the CIA demanded that Marchetti remove 399 passages, but Marchetti stood firm and only 168 passages were
censored. The publisher chose to publish the book with blanks for censored passages and with boldface type for passages that were challenged but later uncensored. The publication of this book was one of the events that led to the establishment of the
Church Committee by
Frank Church.
In 1976 Marchetti published,
Foreign and Military Intelligence, and in 1978 he published an article about the
JFK assassination in the newspaper of the
Liberty Lobby,
Spotlight. Marchetti, a proponent of the
organized crime and the CIA conspiracy theory, claimed that the
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) revealed a CIA memo from 1966 that named
E. Howard Hunt,
Frank Sturgis and
Gerry Patrick Hemming in the JFK assassination. Marchetti also claimed that
Marita Lorenz offered sworn testimony to confirm this.
In
1981 E. Howard Hunt sued the
Liberty Lobby and Marchetti for
defamation and won $650,000 in damages. Liberty Lobby appealed the case with lawyer,
Mark Lane. Marchetti,
Liberty Lobby and
Mark Lane won the appeal in 1995.
Mark Lane wrote a book,
Plausible Denial, to describe the unfolding of that historic trial.
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