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| critics were shut out. No nonfiction
book in recent memory ever received such a huge publicity
campaign-and deserved it less.
Looming in the Background
After Jim Marrs debated Posner on the Kevin McCarthy show in
Dallas, he chatted with him. Marrs asked him how he came to do
the book. Posner replied that an editor at Random House, one Bob
Loomis, got in contact with him and promised him cooperation from
the CIA with the book. This explains how Posner got access to KGB
turncoat Yuri Nosenko, who was put on a CIA retainer in the late
seventies. At the time of Posner-mania, Alan Houston wrote Mr.
Loomis, who also edited the Posner book. In a reply dated
10/27/93, Loomis revealed much about himself:
I have no doubt that you really believe what you are saying, but
I must tell you that your letter is one of the best indications
I've seen yet as to why the American public has been misled by
ridiculous conspiracy theories.
You have proved nothing insofar as I can see, except for the fact
that you simply can't see the truth of the situation. My feeling
is that it is you and others like you who have perverted the
historical record and, in an inexcusable way, pardoned the
murderer.
Readers of Probe know that Loomis is not a new pal of the CIA. In
our Watergate issue (Vol. 3#2), we wrote about the long,
controversial career of journalist James Phelan, a strong
supporter of the Warren Commiss
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