Dale Salvage was the name a lot of people stumbled on, in the years to come. He’d written a book about Kate Meadows. If you did the right kind of internet search, his was one of the names most likely to come up, aside from Meadows herself, Bishop, Malkovich…He was one of the proponents of the Vinokur connection, the mob connection. He also drafted in Mossad (of course), Russia (of course!), even China, even Cuba, the CIA…In short, all the usual suspects. Dale Salvage was a conspiracy theorist.
His book was called Head Over Heels, and it posited that Meadows had been a spook, and been involved in any number of cases, that Bishop had been her handler, that Malkovich had ties, at the very least, to the Kremlin, and that all the secrets were going to be exposed if she’d been allowed to live…
Of course. Of course! Did Dale believe any of it? Of course not! But he had an audience willing to believe all of it. He’d connected all the usual suspects, after all. He threw numbers at it that couldn’t be verified and had therefore been accepted immediately by the more militant believers. Both sides of the political spectrum in the States claimed he belonged to the other side, was symbolic of everything that was wrong with the country…
Oh, did you also want to know where Dale stands in Kennedy? Friend, that’s a different book entirely. Actually, several. The internet attests!
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