“People are eliminated. Honey, you don’t know how many people are just eliminated, just on the operating table alone. They just need to be disposed of. And don’t ever believe what you read in the papers. It’s all made up.”

–Joe Shimon, professional assassin for U.S. Military Intelligence.

Peter Janney, Mary’s Mosaic: the CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision For World Peace (Skyhorse Publishing: 2012), 384; quoted by Richard Belzer, Hit List (Skyhorse Publishing: 2013), vii.