SYNOPSIS

NEW EDITION!!

Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination
The FBI’s War on Rock Stars

by Salvador Astucia

First edition published April 2004.

Preliminary second edition published Feb. 2009.

Salvador Astucia’s research of John Lennon’s murder—on December 8, 1980—reveals that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI led a violent assault against high profile opponents of American military involvement in Vietnam from 1966 until Hoover’s sudden death in 1972. The assault included the murders of Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, and numerous rock stars. Persecution of rock stars by covert intelligence operatives continued after Hoover’s death. Eventually Lennon was driven into retirement. When he returned to the public eye, he was quickly killed. Astucia reports the following new information about Lennon’s murder:

• Accused killer Mark David Chapman is completely innocent of the murder; a professional assassin most likely shot Lennon. Astucia concludes that the true killer was Cuban exile and professional assassin Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo who was on the CIA’s payroll for 10 years. Perdomo posed as a security guard at the Dakota (Lennon’s Manhattan residence where the murder occurred) and was probably placed there by a well-known security firm contracted by Brown, Harris and Stevens, the real estate company that managed the Dakota in 1980, and still does.

• Astucia phoned representatives from Brown, Harris and Stevens and the large security firm, Wackenhut, to find out information about Perdomo, and to confirm or deny if Wackenhut ever provided security services for the Dakota. Representatives at both firms refused to confirm or deny the existence of such a business relationship. Wackenhut was founded by an FBI agent and hires retired federal agents from the FBI, CIA, plus retired military officers.

• Wackenhut’s "outside legal counsel" and board member was the late William J. Casey, Reagan’s campaign manager whom Reagan later appointed CIA director.

• Lennon was killed while Reagan was president-elect, just three weeks after a top secret nuclear test was conducted in the Nevada Desert. It tested laser-nuclear technology and was a huge success. Laser-nuclear technology became the mainstay of Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, nicknamed "Star Wars" by the press). The SDI test were sponsored by the late Edward Teller, the man who credits himself as co-inventor of the H-Bomb, but critics say he took credit for the work of others. Teller was the driving force behind SDI, and possibly the sponsor of Lennon’s murder.

• Chapman’s mental faculties were likely compromised through the use of hypnosis and drugs, thereby making him a perfect patsy.

• Lennon’s autopsy report and death certificate exonerate Chapman. They reveal four wounds on the left side of the body, but Chapman was reportedly standing to Lennon’s right, a few feet behind, according to a New York Times report published immediately after the murder.

• During Hoover’s 48 year rule, the FBI waged a full-scale war against rock ‘n’ roll artists since Elvis Presley set the American music scene on fire in 1956.

• A business relationship is revealed between J. Edgar Hoover and Frank Costello. Surprisingly, convicted murder conspirator Charlie Manson has claimed to be friends with Costello as well, and has indicated in interviews that the mob was involved in the infamous Sharon Tate murders in the summer of 1969.

• Astucia uncovers suspicious anomalies in the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and countless other rock stars who died prematurely under mysterious, often violent circumstances.

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