Oliver Stone: Putin Apparatchik?

[Benjamin Cole]

(A tip of the hat to the inimitable Tom Graves, our resident KGB authority, for inspiring this post)

Oliver Stone, of course, directed two films on the JFKA, those being JFK (1991), and JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021). Both films suggest or conclude there was official US government complicity in the JFKA.

In fact, there is no daylight between Stone narrative and the KGB narrative on the JFKA.

Is Stone simply a Putin puppet, a KGB apparatchik?

Filmmaker Oliver Stone has developed a reputation for creating sympathetic documentaries about authoritarian leaders, most notably Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he has described as a "great leader". Stone’s connections often involve securing extensive, exclusive access to these leaders, resulting in documentaries that critics frequently characterize as "soft" or "hagiographic".

Connections to Vladimir Putin: "The Putin Interviews" (2017): Stone conducted over 20 hours of interviews with Putin over two years, presenting the Russian leader's perspective on topics such as NATO, surveillance, and U.S. elections.

Stone has praised Putin as a "patriot," "rational," and "calm". He has frequently blamed Western media and U.S. policy for hostile relations with Russia, arguing in 2017 that Putin was a "friend of humanity".

Actually, the Stone saga is even worse than that. He became to veritable go-to cinematic hagiographer for Putin-buddy despots and vassals, and producing fawning biopics of Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan), Castro and Hugo Chavez.  Stone was on-deck to produce yet another hagiography on the Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, but the project fizzled after Putin invaded Ukraine.



https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/pro-kremlin-us-filmmaker-pitched-fawning-films-to-dictators-starring-oliver-stone#:~:text=The%20document%20is%20undated.,decision%20by%20the%20United%20States.)

Look, I don't care if anyone is a libertarian or a socialist, or anywhere in-between. I have heard all the political arguments, and decades ago.

But there is such a thing as integrity, and calling a spade a spade. If you are a socialist, you still must  acknowledge Castro, Chavez and Putin were and are monsters, who killed off rivals and dissidents at well.

Vice-versa if you a free-market type.

(I contend free-market economies generate much more wealth than socialist economies, but that is not germane to this discussion.)

Stone's craven kow-towing to Putin raises questions about his motivations and integrity in his JFKA films.

The bigger lesson is that JFKA junkies must consider whether JFKA narratives are financed from offshore, whether Tehran or Moscow. When Jeff Morley suddenly starts dog-whistling "Mossad" as a JFKA suspect...why?

Substack subscriptions? Insanity and desperation after 60+years in the JFKA snipe hunt?

Yes, I concede the US government tried to shape the JFKA narrative also, especially in the Cold War era, and especially in concordance with President LBJ's directive that the Warren Commission come to no conclusions that could start a nuclear war with Russia.

Like I said, you gotta call a spade and spade.

Caveat emptor, and draw your own conclusions.