The state of the still-classified JFK files
Jefferson Morley
March 21, 2021
Rex Bradford and I assess the State of JFK Releases 2021 at Mary Ferrell Foundation web site.
…Breaking a promise, Trump blocked the release of JFK files a year ago
Jefferson Morley
October 16, 2018
Earlier this year documentary film maker Randy Benson makes a important point about the JFK file releases of 2018–which left more than 15,000 assassination-related records beyond public view.
President Trump is responsible.
I have no doubt that Trump personally wanted to release all the JFK files. But after tweeting, inaccurately, that the files had been released, Trump protected the last of the CIA and FBI’s assassination-related secrets.
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From the Black Vault: a note on getting good JFK data
Jefferson Morley
February 9, 2018
John Greenewald, the man behind the Black Vault site of declassified government records, writes with some thoughts about the difficulty of figuring out which JFK files the Trump has NOT released. …
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Correction: the number of secret JFK files may be less than previously reported
Jefferson Morley
February 9, 2018
Robert responds to my recent post on JFK files.
Black Vault deserves a thanks for putting on line a pdf and excel file of the latest data provided by NARA, but if you take the Black Vault figures to mean that there are thousands of records still withheld in full, that is not correct.
I’m not certain that Robert is correct but I want to air his concerns so that we get an accurate number of still-secret JFK files. …
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JFK Most Wanted: Dave Phillips’ CIA operations files
Jefferson Morley
June 27, 2017
David Phillips was a failed actor turned expatriate newspaper publisher in Santiago, Chile when he was recruited into the CIA in the early 1950s. He made his mark fast. In 1955, he won a Distinguished Intelligence Medal, one of the agency’s highest honors, for mounting deceptive radio broadcasts in the CIA’s overthrow of the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954.
After that his CIA career took off. With Howard Hunt, Phillips served as propaganda chief in the CIA’s failed effort to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs In April 1961. When he was assigned to Mexico City in 1962, station chief Win Scott described him as “the finest covert action officer I have ever met.”
After JFK’s assassination, Scott was not so complimentary and I suspect the reason why was Oswald’s curious handling of Oswald. .(I tell the story in my biography of Scott, Our Man in Mexico. Buy it here.)
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The CIA’s secret files on Jim Garrison, the prosecutor celebrated in ‘JFK’
Jefferson Morley
August 19, 2016
The CIA retains two secret files on New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, the crusading prosecutor who inspired Oliver Stone’s hit movie “JFK.”
The files–whose existence was first reported by JFK Facts–are among the 3,600 secret U.S. government records related to JFK’s assassination that are scheduled to be released in October 2017. …
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Agencies hint they may try to block JFK declassification in 2017
Jefferson Morley
May 10, 2016
I missed Lauren Harper’s useful update on UNREDACTED about the National Archives plans for JFK declassification in 2017.
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What will happen with JFK disclosures in October 2017?
Jefferson Morley
April 27, 2016
A faithful friend responds to Politico story on JFK disclosures coming in October 2017. …
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10 questions about the still-secret JFK records
Jefferson Morley
February 27, 2016
JFK blogger Bill Kelly has ten questions about the still secret JFK files uncovered by Michael Ravnitsky and WhoWhatWhy, and reported by Politico.
Some can be answered but some can’t. See Number 4.
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List shows what the public doesn’t know out about JFK’s assassination
Jefferson Morley
February 13, 2016
The documents were collected by the Assassination Records Review Board, an independent agency created by the JFK Records Act, which has previously released thousands of documents about Kennedy’s assassination. They should be released by October 2017 as per the JFK Records Act unless the next President decides they should remain classified.
Source: Daily Mail Online