John M. Newman

John Michael Newman Jr. (born December 20, 1950, Dayton, Ohio) is an American academic, author and retired major in the United States Army. Newman was on the faculty at the University of Maryland from 1995 to 2012, and has been a Political Science professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia since January 2013.

Career Newman served in the Armed Forces in Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, and China. He served as an attaché in China. He served as executive assistant to the director of the National Security Agency (NSA). He was a faculty member of the University of Maryland, Honors College (1992-2012), and is currently Adjunct Professor of Political Science at James Madison University, where he teaches courses in International Terrorism, Counterterrosm, and America in the 60s. He was interviewed for the 2021 documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.

JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power In his book, JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power, Newman argues that United States President John F. Kennedy would not have placed combat troops in Vietnam and was preparing to withdraw military advisors by the end of 1965. Oliver Stone, director of the 1991 film JFK called it "a breakthrough exploration of Kennedy and his generals, [which] defines the 1961-1963 period in a light I never understood before". Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., a former special assistant to Kennedy, described it as "the most solid contribution yet" to speculation regarding the course of American history had the President not be assassinated. In the Los Angeles Times, historian Leonard Bushkoff wrote: "Newman's vision of warmongering hawks--a group of conspiratorial Washingtonians whose motives he barely examines--is indeed based more on suppositions and innuendoes than evidence. Nevertheless, at another, deeper level, Newman's points are highly persuasive." Kirkus Reviews summarized it as: "Exhaustive, tedious, and diffuse, this study eschews sensationalism but threatens death by minutiae."

Uncovering Popov's Mole In his 2022 book, Uncovering Popov's Mole, Newman reverses the claim he had made in the 2008 edition of Oswald and the CIA, i.e., that James Angleton had masterminded the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In his new book, Newman says Bruce Leonard Solie in the mole-hunting Office of Security was not only Angleton's trusted confidant, father-figure, mentor and mole-hunting superior, but the KGB "mole" for whom Angleton was searching, as well. Newman says Solie sent (or duped Angleton into sending) Lee Harvey Oswald to Moscow in 1959 as an ostensible "dangle" in a planned-to-fail hunt for "Popov's Mole" (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA -- the Soviet Russia Division.

Publications

Books JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power. New York: Warner Books (1992). . Oswald and the CIA: The Documented Truth About the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK. New York: Carroll & Graf (1995). . Quest for the Kingdom: The Secret Teachings of Jesus in the Light of Yogic Mysticism CreateSpace (2013). . Where Angels Tread Lightly: The Assassination of President Kennedy, vol. I (2015). Addendum to afterword. Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy, vol. II (2017). Into the Storm: The Assassination of President Kennedy, vol. III (2019). Uncovering Popov's Mole: The Assassination of President Kennedy, vol. IV (2022). Other Postscript to