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<li> The inspiration for Oliver Stone’s JFK, Jim Garrison’s Kennedy assassination <BR><BR>investigation has been one of the most discussed and controversial episodes related to <BR><BR>the event. Often overlooked are some of the lesser known individuals prosecuted by <BR><BR>Garrison, one of whom Kerry Thornley, a Marine Corps pal of Lee Harvey Oswald, who <BR><BR>was writing a novel based on Oswald three years before Kennedy’s assassination.</li><BR><BR><li>This is the first book to conduct a thorough examination of Thornley and the Garrison <BR><BR>investigation period and how this episode dramatically altered Thornley’s life. </li><BR><BR><li>Garrison claimed that Thornley had been one of the notorious Oswald doubles involved <BR><BR>in the JFK assassination conspiracy. Initially, Thornley denied these allegations, but he <BR><BR>later came to suspect that he had been used as an unwitting pawn in a JFK assassination <BR><BR>conspiracy.</li><BR><BR><li>Thornley and Oswald both served at Atsugi Air base in Japan, one of the CIA’s largest <BR><BR>and most critical installations of the period. Atsugi was one of two overseas outposts<BR><BR>where the CIA conducted MK-ULTRA drug experiments during the late 50’s and early <BR><BR>60’s. Caught In The Crossfire presents the theory that both Thornley and Oswald were <BR><BR>probable victims of such mind control experimentation.</li>