The Skorzeny Papers: Evidence for the Plot to Kill JFK

Having read JFK assassination books for the last 25 years, this book clearly stands out among the best for breakthrough research. The book read like a thriller until its' anti-climactic finish. While I have read such authors as Jim Marrs, Harrison Livingstone, Anthony Summers, James DiEugenio, Larry Hancock, Dick Russell, David Talbot, James Fetzer, Douglas Horne, and John Newman, among many others, I can't remember Skorzeny or his organization coming up for serious discussion. QJWinn has always been an important puzzle piece along with the mysterious presence of French assassin, Jean Rene Soutre in both Fort Worth and Dallas on 11/22/63. More sinister is the U.S. Government removal of known OAS assassin, Soutre, from the U.S., immediately after the JFK assassination.I was disappointed in the author's shallow analysis of the motive for the JFK assassination. The Rometsch affair is not remotely believable as a motive. Lyndon Johnson, who was being investigated for bribery in a Senate hearing on 11/22, had a better motive than anyone worried about Rometsch. JFK was no saint but there was a huge compelling war behind the scenes between the Pentagon and CIA hawks on one side and Kennedy's attempt at rapprochement with Khrushchev and Castro, on the other. By November, 1963, it was clear that Kennedy was not going into Cuba and was about to pull out of Vietnam. The Joint Chiefs knew it and the Cold Warriors in (and those forced out of) the CIA, knew it as well. The problem was that JFK's popularity was at 59%. The intelligence community and for that matter, the national security state, had the assassination capability before JFK's election. The removal of Patrice Lamumba was an example of that capability. Lamumba's assassination 3 days before JFK'S inauguration, meant more than the sanitized version in this book. It was a war between colonialism and nationalism. Lamumba was removed and colonialism triumphed. De Gaule almost lost his life a few months before, to OAS assassins for not defending colonialism in Algeria.The violent removal of John Kennedy was a huge victory for war hawks who coveted a showdown in Vietnam and beyond. Their fingerprints are everywhere. They won with bullets because they could not triumph with ballots. Bullets were a big winner in the 1960s.Skorzeny's story, is proof that the CIA and U.S. intelligence were compromised by Nazis and right wing fanatics that were capable and willing to use means not permitted by our constitution to accomplish treasonous ends. This is an important but disturbing book.

Unfortunately, the publisher inadvertently left the whole section of PHOTOS out of the hardback version, which included images of key DOCUMENTS, but they are in the Kindle version. A MUST READ for anyone interested in the JFK story. Perhaps when the book is republished, the photos will be included in the HB version as well. Needless to say, the author was shocked to see that they were omitted in the initial printing. This book is a must read for anyone who is interested in the DOCUMENTED truth behind the assassination.

OK it's an interesting read. The papers seem to be historically important. Ganis' bibliography is impressive, though it's hard to know if he actually read all the material because it's hard to mesh this background with the assertion that the JFK assassination was a mercy killing to avoid scandal or blackmail control. It would have been a lot easier, less costly to knock off the blackmailers, if necessary. How come the higher ups who supposedly were motivated by this to order the crime of the century didn't know that Hoover had already measured the will of JFK's own party to keep the scandal away from Kennedy? It's easy for the author to say that it doesn't matter whether we agree with the decision or not, because it happened, yet readers are offered no evidence at all. There needs to be more research done into the relationships between the Texas and European terror networks to clarify the historical record, because many other pieces seem to fall into place.I bought the book. Read it. Learned a lot about Skorzeny. So, for the record, don't share the author's seemingly starry-eyed respect for this man who very possible turned an awakening world into a degenerating human tragedy. Skorzeny is due immeasurable shame as are the people who this book revealed as complicit in facilitating his evil doing.

Cast aside all the old theories generated by Hollywood films and erroneous research and grasp the solid facts concerning JFK’s assassination. Ralph Ganis follows his treasury of secret Otto Skorzeny papers and delivers to readers the complete foundation to understanding who killed JFK.

Author appears to have done a great deal of research for this book, which is very impressive. And the book is also disturbing, if true. But too many flaws.First of all, this book is poorly edited. Aside from all the misspellings and other grammatical errors, an entire paragraph is repeated, leading one to the belief that this book was hastily put together and that author is jumping to conclusions. I must say it’s very difficult to keep all the people mentioned in the Skorzeny papers straight to be able to connect the dots, as author would like. Author himself, for example, mentions more than once a reminder of who a particular person is just in case reader forgets. That, frankly, should be unnecessary.The biggest problem for this reader though is the lack of hard evidence to support Author’s claims. The title of the book states “Evidence for the Plot to Kill JFK.” But there is no evidence. I also agree with one reviewer who dismisses as absurd the motive for the killing, i.e., the Ellen Rometsch affair. The veracity of the affair is still, apparently, alleged. And even if true, the killing of a President because of it is simply not believable.With the people found in the Skorzeny papers positioned to connect the dots, Author seems to be leaving it to the reader to decide. Well, this reader needs more evidence to decide. At the end, the book made me feel that Author went through half the Skorzeny papers, formed a theory, read the balance of the papers, then wrote a book in such a way as to conform to his theory.

This was a very enjoyable book...informative and highly intriguing!.... It was fascinating to find out how many of the world's governments and intelligence services did business with Otto Skorzeny after the conclusion of WWII. The evidence that he was highly connected to many involved in the intrigues surrounding the death of JFK is indisputable in my view. Many questions are answered here, but many more raised in turn. Highly worth reading by those who take an interest in history, as some of the most important characters are frequently airbrushed out....such as Otto Skorzeny.