Deep Cover, Shallow Graves w/ Ralph Pezullo

👉 Pitch in on Patreon and fuel the future of free-thinking conversations. https://www.patreon.com/parallaxviews Also visit our returning sponsor Mike Swanson's Wall Street Window for the best financial and trading newsletter around: https://wallstreetwindow.com/ On this edition of Parallax Views, Ralph Pezullo joins us to discuss Tosh Plumlee’s Deep Cover, Shallow Graves, a controversial account of Cold War covert operations, CIA activities, anti-Castro networks, and the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. We explore Plumlee’s claimed experiences as a covert pilot and intelligence operative, his work around Cuba, the Bay of Pigs and Operation Mongoose, and the shadowy network of intelligence officers, Cuban exiles, organized crime figures, and other operatives surrounding these operations. Among the book’s most extraordinary claims is Plumlee’s account of attending the secretive School of Illusionary Warfare in Nags Head, North Carolina, where he says he encountered a young Lee Harvey Oswald and received training in psychological operations, infiltration, propaganda, communications, and other forms of covert warfare. We discuss the significance of Plumlee’s account, the challenges of evaluating firsthand testimony about clandestine operations, and the larger questions the book raises about intelligence, compartmentalization, and the hidden history of the Cold War. What can Plumlee’s story tell us about the world of covert operations that existed behind the public events of the Cold War, and how should we approach extraordinary claims about some of the most consequential events in American history?