6 Washington insiders who suspected a JFK plot
Jefferson Morley
July 22, 2022
Defenders of the semi-official theory of JFK’s assassination sometimes suggest that anyone who disagrees is deluded or dishonest.
…The CIA’s Watergate cover story: ‘No involvement whatever’
Jefferson Morley
July 7, 2022
Sounded good. It just wasn’t true.
The spymaster on November 22
Jefferson Morley
May 27, 2022
Excerpted from Scorpions’ Dance: The President, the Spymaster and Watergate (St Martin’s Press, 2022
“Richard Helms disliked the term spymaster, but no other word captures his extraordinary—and invisible—position in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination. The deputy director had one hand-picked case officer in Miami, George Joannides, running the AMSPELL network, which was generating headlines across the country and around the world that Kennedy had been killed by a communist
…Biden pardons Abraham Bolden, the only Secret Service agent who sought JFK accountability
Jefferson Morley
April 26, 2022
The good news is that President Biden has pardoned Abraham Bolden, the first African-American Secret Service agent, who was falsely convicted on bribery charges in the 1960s.
The bad news is that initial reports emphasize Bolden was persecuted for the color of his skin, which is true enough but not the whole story.
Bolden was silenced because he raised questions about the causes of JFK’s assassination. For doing his job, he was targeted, defamed, and railroaded.
Three Congressmen seek White House meeting on JFK files
Jefferson Morley
April 5, 2022
Expressing concern about the delay in the release of thousands of secret JFK assassination files, three Congressmen are seeking a meeting with “the appropriate Executive Branch official with knowledge and relevant information of the decision to postpone the release of the remaining records.”
Reps. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn), Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and JIm McGovern (D-Mass.) signed a March 29 letter to President Biden saying it was “imperative that the remaining documents be released as soon as possible.”
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The CIA and Watergate: ‘An eye-opening investigation’
Jefferson Morley
March 28, 2022
Publishers Weekly raves about Scorpions’ Dance, my forthcoming book on the CIA and Watergate, including its revelations about the JFK assassination story.
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Listen: Trish Woods talks to Oliver Stone
Jefferson Morley
March 23, 2022
Woods says the connection between November 22 and “ongoing geopolitical tyranny is clear.” It’s not clear to me.
…The State of the Still-Missing JFK Files
Jefferson Morley
February 23, 2022
I explained what we know now about what the JFK files that the CIA refuses to release.
JFK Expert: Lone Gunman Theory Is Still BS
Jefferson Morley
February 6, 2022
Wecht’s latest book, “The JFK Assassination Dissected” (Exposit Books), summarizes his six decades of research into the subject, and pokes holes in the conclusion made by the seven-man Warren Commission that Oswald, without any help, shot and killed Kennedy when his motorcade drove past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.“Young people are still being taught that the 35th president was murdered by a lone gunman, and that is simply bulls–t,” Wecht boomed during an interview at his modest office in downtown Pittsburgh last month.
Source: JFK assassination expert: Lone gunman theory is still ‘bulls–t’
Lost in Silence
Jefferson Morley
January 31, 2022
Jacobin magazine astutely assesses the JFK story in 2022, starting with Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited.
While the original 1991 movie was met with a full-on media pushback at the time, the response in 2021 to the documentary has been far more fitting for our era: ignored or waved away as pure conspiracizing and fake news. For months after it came out, the closest thing to a politically minded legacy media outlet in the United States that actually reviewed the film was the Daily Beast; the country’s major establishment news outlets simply pretended it didn’t exist. It has fared better across the Atlantic, where it got positive reviews from the Financial Times and Telegraph, and negative ones from the Irish Times, Guardian, and the London Times.
Source: Oliver Stone’s JFK Assassination Documentary Shouldn’t Be Dismissed
JFK Most Wanted: ‘Little Historically Significant Material Is Being Withheld’
Jefferson Morley
January 13, 2022
This commentary comes from Robert Reynolds, a professor at Chi Nan University in Taiwan, via Max Holland’s Washington Decoded site. Since Reynolds mentions my work in his commentary I thought I would introduce him and his work to readers of JFK Facts. Reynolds is part of a diverse listserve of JFK authors and researchers managed by emeritus researcher Paul Hoch. Reynold’s criticism, though I disagreed with it, forced me to clarify my thinking about the last of the JFK files. Here is how Reynolds introduced himself to our group, followed by some highlights of his Washington Decoded piece.
I have responded to Reynolds in a separate post, “JFK Most Wanted: Three Key CIA Files That Need to Be Declassified.”
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JFK Most Wanted: Three Key CIA Files That Need to Be Declassified
Jefferson Morley
January 13, 2022
After I read Robert Reynold’s piece in Washington Decoded, I wrote him a note in our JFK researchers list serve.
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Why Won’t Max Boot Talk About the Substance of ‘JFK Revisited’?
Jefferson Morley
January 9, 2022
Like many other proponents of the official lone-nut theory of the assassination, Boot doesn’t address any of the main features of the autopsy fraud in his rant against Stone.
Source: Max Boot’s Rant Against Oliver Stone – CounterPunch.org
Declassification of the CIA’s Oswald File Took 58 Years
Jefferson Morley
January 6, 2022
“On December 15, came yet another revelation. Under an October 22 order from President Biden, the CIA released 953 documents in their entirety for the first time, including two cables about Oswald written six weeks before Kennedy was killed. For the first time in 58 years, these two messages were completely declassified.”
Source: JFK Revisited: Oliver Stone and the New JFK Fact Pattern – CounterPunch.org