[4] 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".

[4] While calling it a "[b]old and authoritative revisionist analysis", Kirkus Reviews said "this electrifying report portrays a wily, stubborn, conflicted leader who grasped realities that eluded virtually everyone else in the US establishment.

"[6] 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.

According to Summers, Newman "vilified Kennedy beyond the wildest dreams of his worst enemies" and "his chapter on the withdrawal decision turns JFK into a scheming politician, devoid of principle and devoted only to his re-election.

"[8] 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.