Winds of Doctrine

In 1978, a small conservative-populist weekly newspaper published a story by former CIA official, Victor Marchetti, linking ex-CIA operative and convicted Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt to the assassination.  Hunt sued for defamation and Mark Lane signed on as defense counsel for the newspaper.  What followed was a remarkable courtroom drama as he set out to prove the truth of the allegations against Hunt and the CIA. The jury voted unanimously for Lane’s client in the only case about the assassination ever decided in a federal court.

“Winds of Doctrine” uses the actual transcripts of depositions and of the trial itself.  It takes us through interviews with G. Gordon Liddy and other agents, some too far in the shadows to even reveal their identities, as well as high level officials including Richard Helms, former director of the CIA.  We also meet the beautiful Marita, former lover of Fidel Castro, who was recruited by the agency to assassinate the Cuban leader.  Marita reveals that she was in the convoy of cars containing CIA operatives on November 22, 1963.  She is corroborated later by Gerry Patrick Hemming who has admitted under oath that he was employed as an assassin by the CIA.   The play is now being considered for production in New York, Los Angeles and London.

Interested in producing Winds of Doctrine at your college or community theater?  Please click here to contact Sue Herndon of the Herndon Agency.