Chapo Trap House meets JFK
Jefferson Morley
July 4, 2022
In which we unravel the “whole Bay of Pigs thing,” and how Hollywood glamorizes the CIA
Tricky Dicks: Watergate and the CIA
Jefferson Morley
June 29, 2022
A friend writes: “I’m recommending a fantastic chat between Aaron Good and Jefferson Morley, two of the most cogent and relevant analysts of the Cold War’s domestic political legacy. It’s “about” Watergate, but it covers so much more than that. Take the time and have a deeper understanding of the break-in, the burglars,….
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Watergate at 50: revelations from newly declassified evidence
Jefferson Morley
June 21, 2022
In RealClearPolitics James Rosen grapples with the legacy of Jim Hougan’s groundbreaking Watergate book, Secret Agenda.’ …
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‘If you need a dirty job done’
Jefferson Morley
June 20, 2022
A former CIA military trainer gets real about one Agency operation to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Douglas Horne on Operation Northwoods
Jefferson Morley
June 16, 2022
Doug Horne, formerly of the Assassination Records Review Board, talks about what i think is the single most significant finding of the ARRB: Operation Northwoods, the template for November 22, 1963.
The Myths of Watergate in Adams-Morgan
Jefferson Morley
June 14, 2022
On Thursday night, June 16, I’ll be talking about the myths of Watergate with Eddie Becker, historian of American power in the city of Washington, D.C.
We will appear at Lost City Bookstore, a very cool new and used book emporium at 2467 18th Street Northwest in Washington D.C. The show starts at 7:30 pm.
How the CIA hid its hand in the Watergate affair
Jefferson Morley
June 11, 2022
Listen to the story: “The CIA had no involvement in the break-in,” said the duly sworn witness Richard Helms. “No involvement whatever.'”
…JFK and Watergate: the Frank Sturgis story
Jefferson Morley
June 10, 2022
The Rockefeller Commission wanted to know: Was the Watergate burglar involved in the assassination of President Kennedy?
…The Watergate Break-in: 50 Years Later
Jefferson Morley
June 10, 2022
I’ll be speaking on a conference panel on The Watergate Break-in: 50 Years Later at 11: 45 am ET today.
…Talking about Watergate at the Spy Museum
Jefferson Morley
June 10, 2022
CIA tradecraft & JFK’s assassination: the making of a patsy
Jefferson Morley
June 9, 2022
[ICYMI Part I : A veteran officer analyzes the death of a president / Part II: ‘The very top people.’ / ]
CIA veteran Rolf Mowatt-Larseen proposed a “thought experiment” to the November 2019 JFK conference in Dallas. He reverse-engineered the lone gunman scenario, posing a question both novel and incisive.
“How can you get away with a really elaborate but very simple plan of deception, to end up in a place where the president is dead and it is blamed on someone else, other than the people who perpetrated it?” he asked. “Not easy.”
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Spies fall out: a Watergate story
Jefferson Morley
June 9, 2022
The buddy-buddy friendship of CIA director Richard Helms and Watergate burglar Howard Hunt did not end well.
My story in Graydon Carter’s AirMailNews
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