The Last Investigation Quotes

“Moby Dick was a helluva lot more than just a fish in the ocean.”)”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“It has been suggested that Nixon’s antidrug campaign was, in actuality, a bid to establish his own intelligence network. It has also been suggested that it was exactly that bid which brought the sucker setup that was Watergate and Nixon’s political assassination.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation

“Congressional public hearings are not for the public but for Congress. They are designed to provide the Committee members with as much exposure as possible, and give the public the impression that its Congressmen are serious about what they’re doing and that they have not been squandering the taxpayer’s money. Hearings are primarily designed, in other words, to be politically rewarding.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation

“Under such a propaganda barrage, the Arbenz government fled the country before many real bullets could fly. Phillips later termed the technique, which he would use again, “the big lie.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation

“Antonio Veciana reveals to Schweiker Subcommittee investigator Fonzi that a CIA masterspy named Maurice Bishop was his secret control officer, initiated the founding of Alpha 66, instigated two Castro assassination plots, and planned anti-Castro raids during the Cuban missile crisis in an attempt to embarrass President Kennedy and provoke Cuban or Russian retaliation that would spark a major U.S. reaction. Veciana also reveals he saw Bishop with Lee Harvey Oswald. After years of sworn denials by the Agency, it is the first evidence that the CIA was directly involved with Oswald.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“Edward Korry reveals to the Church Senate Intelligence Committee his opposition to the CIA’s role in overthrowing Allende: “The CIA is amoral. . . . It could operate behind my back, not merely with the president of the United States, but with Chileans. . . . In that sense, the CIA could be an ‘invisible’ government.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“As the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Cennedy descends on us,” she said, “I am much concerned that we are on the threshold of a failure from which there will be no forgiveness. “We must win this struggle for truth . . . and do so quickly, lest the assas—ination of President Kennedy flounder on some remote shoulder of highway, in a century whose history is on the way to the printer.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“It is precisely in moving from belief to knowledge that the citizen moves from irresponsibility to responsibility, from helplessness and hopelessness to action, with the ultimate aim of being empowered and confident in one’s rational powers.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“But perhaps we all might find it easier to come to KNOW it, and to face that awesome thought, if we constantly reminded ourselves that on November 22nd, 1963, a man’s life ended in Dallas. A man’s life ended.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“Today most Americans BELIEVE there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy, but they don’t KNOW it. They don’t want to KNOW it—and our Government doesn’t want to KNOW it and our elected representatives don’t want to KNOW it because KNOWING it would mean having to do something about it. That’s an awesome thought.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“And the American people are more than willing to be held in this state because to KNOW the truth—as opposed to only BELIEVE the truth—is to face an awful terror and to be no longer able to evade”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“It is so important to understand that one of the primary means of immobilizing the American people politically today is to hold them in a state of confusion in which anything can be believed but nothing can be known, nothing of significance that is.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“So, again, our Government slapped the American people in the face. We have been slapped in the face over and over again and we still deny it is happening to us. Why?”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“I will always remember what she said to me when I told her the Committee had changed its mind about permitting her to tell her story publicly, to the American people. Her words echo in my mind, a soft shroud covering the years of my investigative sojourn through the labyrinth of the Kennedy assassination: “We lost,” she said. “We all lost.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“The notion that somehow people outside of Washington can come into Washington and do great and noble things in Washington without understanding the place, is just nonsense.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“He never considered using his position to demonstrate a loyalty to higher principles.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“He never considered the Kennedy assassination as a pivotal event in American history or as a possible manifestation of the iniquities within the very institutions he was so bent on protecting.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“To sum up. This report has serious shortcomings. It pulls its punches. It insinuates much about the Mob and JFK’s death which it then says it doesn’t really mean. It is alternately confused and dogmatic on the subject of Oswald’s motive. It tells us it could not see all the way into the heart of CIA or FBI darkness, yet assures us that we are secure.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“Yet the Committee’s decision to impeach both Veciana’s and Phillips’s testimony also impeaches its own conclusions in a key area of evidence. And that, concurrently, undermines its entire final report. And the last investigation.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“The Committee had to conclude that both Veciana and Phillips were liars. Any other conclusion would have opened doors that the Committee did not want to open; would have questioned the validity of the Committee’s entire relationship with the CIA; would have raised ominous doubts about the worth of the Agency’s promise to cooperate with the Committee; would have made suspect the Agency’s veracity in responding to questions, in making documents available and in providing access to all its files; and would have challenged the Agency’s claim of having had no association with Lee Harvey Oswald and no knowledge of the circumstances of Kennedy’s assassination.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“Second, Veciana would not supply proof of the $253,000 payment from Bishop, claiming fear of the Internal Revenue Service.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“How could the Committee reach such a conclusion without calling for a deeper and more forceful investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency?”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“The operative word was “definite.” There was a huge amount of circumstantial evidence which I felt proved beyond a reasonable doubt that David Atlee Phillips was Maurice Bishop.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“Kiss two years goodbye, the sweetness, no! the sorrow. Wish us luck, the same to you, But we will regret what we could not do, what is hid from view.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“Said G.R. to us, the guilt is Lee’s so prove it. It’s as if he always knew, and we won’t forget What he did to us, what is hid from view. Gone, truth is ever gone. As we travel on, that’s what we’ll remember. Kiss the hill goodbye and give me, please, no byline. He did what he wished to do. Won’t forget, will regret what we could not do, What was done to us, what is hid from view. Truth, truth is over wrung. As we travel on, that’s what we’ll remember. Kiss it all goodbye and give us not a mention, Bob gets the attention. So we all are shafted through. . .Won’t forget, will regret What we did for Lou, what was done to us, and they’ll kid you, too.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“Veciana showed me the bullet holes with a sense of wonderment. “It’s funny I’m still alive, isn’t it?” There was a touch of bemusement in his tone, but absolutely no note of fear.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“I fear that we may have forgotten why we are here. “I fear that we have grown complacent and smug. “I fear the satisfaction that comes from having three cars in the driveway and a chicken in every pot, and knowing we can say what we damn well please without valuing that freedom. “That’s what I fear.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“she said, and has come to accept what she termed “the aberrations from normal life.” “But fear?” she wrote. “Never. The fear we know, if it can be rightly called that, is the fear many others are not fortunate enough to experience”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“My American friends never understood the politics or the violence that comes with Latin politics,” she wrote. “To this day I have not been able to explain, but only to describe, the passion Cubans feel for the freedom that’s taken for granted in this country.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK

“Her family, she said, has come to accept the fact that they must live with danger, but they have refused to live with fear. Fear is the mind killer. Her family, she said, has chosen to live with pride.”
― Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation: What Insiders Know about the Assassination of JFK