Once the Chicago plot failed, the Dallas assassination was allowed to happen, unimpeded by the intelligence community’s knowledge of its forerunner. After Dallas, Vallee alone was exposed in Chicago, as if the only precedent were that of another gun-toting malcontent like Lee Harvey Oswald. The real parallels between the two CIA-connected scapegoats, both set up with jobs directly over the president’s motorcade, vanished along with the snipers behind them.
