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==