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JohnNickleback

25, Welsh🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Bi🏳️‍🌈, Software Developer. Epic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Enjoyer.

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  • Sep 26, 2026
    CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why Us Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK
    CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why Us Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFKPatrick Nolan
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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 2.5Characters: 1.0Plot: 5.0Audiobook: 5.0

    This book is a magical roller coaster just wonderfully entertaining and enthralling. Some of the leaps in logic I have to just be impressed by. The central thesis of this book is this. The CIA using MK Ultra created supersoldiers using drugs and hypnosis who would be completely under their control. And therefore and this is my favorite part, Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan could not possibly have assassinated the Kennedy brothers. Just brilliant work. As I stated in one of my forum posts the research into why official reports about what happened may be misleading or staged are really meticulous and well sourced. But then the author just puts his whole train of thought directly into a wall and starts ranting about Hypno soldiers its incredible.

    I remain skeptical of the official narratives of both of these assassinations and I'd love to blame the CIA. But the conclusions this book makes are completely insane. First of all IF the CIA had real Manchurian Candidates why would they not use those people to actually do these assassinations? Why does that make them innocent? You cant just say hey MK Ultra scary and link it to something completely unrelated just because the Kennedy's didnt like the CIA and the CIA was doing some mad shit at the time.

    Ultimately I loved reading this book but it is an absolute mess written by a man with meticulous research skills and the pattern recognition ability of a slug. So I cant rate it 5 stars as much as I would like to.

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    JohnNickleback commented...

    Me and my friends think its the funniest thing in the world to say that everything ever was started or invented by John [insert anything here]. So my names everywhere are John [insert something here]. Just think the idea that the lead singer of Nickleback being called John Nickleback is funny. See also: John Toast, John Portable DVD Player and John Audi A4 Convertible.

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    hi pagebounders!

    as the title says, what's the background/backstory behind your username? just curious and see so many creative ones!

    mine is just my name lolol (pronounced sue-chin tai)

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