How to decipher CIA pseudonyms
Jefferson Morley
April 30, 2017
In CIA communications, undercover officers are usually referred to, not their real name, but by a pseudonym, or, in intelligence lingo, a cryptonym.
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Anthony Summers digs deeper on Orest Pena
Jefferson Morley
January 2, 2017
A faithful reader adds to what is known about Orest Pena, the New Orleans bar owner whose testimony to Congress in 1978 remains secret. The reader quotes from Anthony Summers’ useful reporting in his book, Not in Your Lifetime.
“There was the claim of Orest Pena, a New Orleans bar owner who in 1963 himself supplied occasional information to FBI agent Warren De Brueys. Pena was to say he had seen Oswald with Agent De Brueys on “numerous occasions” and that De Brueys threatened him physically before his Warren Commission appearance, warning him to keep quiet.
Summers continues: …
What Orest Pena knew
Jefferson Morley
January 2, 2017
Orest Pena’s story is particularly compelling because he was trusted by the FBI agents in New Orleans. As a bar owner of Cuban descent, he saw and heard a lot of interest to law enforcement. Oswald had visited his bar in the summer of 1963 in the company of a man Pena described as Mexican. Pena also said he saw Oswald with FBI agent Warren DeBreuys on several occasions. DeBreuys denied this and denigrated Pena as unreliable.
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Secret JFK document #1: the Orest Pena interview
Jefferson Morley
January 1, 2017
To launch the New Year, JFK Facts will highlighting key JFK documents that remain secret in part or in full. We will also be focusing on the effort to make sure that all these documents are made public by the legal deadline of October 26, 2017.
The first is a document that has always intrigued me. As described by Rex Bradford of Mary Ferrell Foundation, it is
A transcript of the HSCA interview with Orest Pena, the New Orleans bar owner who told them that he saw Oswald was palling around with FBI agents in New Orleans. There are actually 3 copies of this 1978 interview with different RIF numbers – all still withheld in full
Source: Mary Ferrell Foundation: Mark the Date
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Open letter on full JFK disclosure in 2017
Jefferson Morley
December 12, 2016
The following is an open letter from 22 JFK authors and investigators recently sent to the White House General Counsel . The letter calls for full enforcement of JFK Records Act in October 2017.
We will post the White House response when we receive it.
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MKULTRA mystery: the CIA and Jack Ruby
Jefferson Morley
November 10, 2016
This incredible story of MKULTRA and Jack Ruby is, alas, well-documented.
Was the CIA manipulating Ruby mentally before or after he killed Oswald? It’s not a crazy question. Given what we now know, it’s a necessary question.
From Glomar Disclosure, a tale from the CIA’s own crypts.
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The 2016 election and the secret CIA memo targeting ‘conspiracy theorists’
Jefferson Morley
September 25, 2016
Viewed dispassionately, “conspiracy theories” are controversial political messages about secret power. They purport to tell us how the world really works, as opposed to official accounts of government and experts. At a time when the credibility of federal government and news organizations is low, conspiracy theories flourish at the expense of public authority.
Credible or not, conspiracy theories have shaped the course of the 2016 presidential campaign. Conservative strategists Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone claim that Hillary Clinton has organized a conspiracy to conceal her own dire medical condition. Liberals Ezra Klein and Cass Sunstein warn that conspiracy theories distort our political discourse and endanger the political process. Who’s right?
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Lee Harvey Oswald’s application to work at the Texas School Book Depository
Jefferson Morley
April 21, 2016
Take a look. See anything suspicious?
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Exclusive: What Angleton told JFK investigators about the mole at the CIA
Jefferson Morley
March 1, 2016
On June 15, 1978,investigators from the House Select Committee on Assassinations interviewed James Angleton, retired CIA counterintelligence chief about his handling of the JFK assassination investigation in 1963 and 1964.
The interview, which sheds new light on Angleton’s conspiracy theories about a mole in the ranks of the CIA, was never transcribed or made public–until now.
In a Web exclusive, JFK Facts is offering a downloadable PDF transcript of Angleton’s closed-door HSCA interview.
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Investigators interview with TV reporter Judd McIlvain still sealed
Jefferson Morley
February 19, 2016
Among the first three documents on the list of those still-secret JFK Assassination records is: “178-10004-10394 McIlvain Tape 75′ Rock (Duplicate).”
In a post for JFKCountercoup2: Judd McIlvain – TV Reporter Subject of Secret JFK File, Bill Kelly explains who McIlvain was.
RFK and Dulles: A closer look at the record
Jefferson Morley
October 14, 2015
Phil Shenon writes:
“I see there’s a suggestion on your site, in response to my POLITICO piece, that Bobby Kennedy would never have recommended Allen Dulles for membership on the Warren Commission. I continue to believe the record shows that RFK did propose Dulles, and not just because LBJ (more than once) said that was the case.
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Project ARTICHOKE: how the CIA tried to hypnotize an unwitting assassin
Jefferson Morley
September 26, 2015
A revealing document from UNREDACTED, the blog of the nonprofit National Security Archive illuminates how CIA officers pondered carrying out political assassinations. …
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Are the tax records of Lee Harvey Oswald still secret?
Jefferson Morley
July 17, 2015
No. They were not available for many years leading to speculation that Oswald might have had other sources of income. Oswald’s tax returns were made public in 1996 with the permission of his widow, Marina Oswald Porter. You can view them here.
Six weeks before Dallas, these CIA officers wrote two misleading memos about Lee Harvey Oswald
Bill Simpich
April 6, 2015
Why would senior CIA officers circulate two inaccurate descriptions of Lee Harvey Oswald with various government agencies six weeks before he allegedly shot and killed President John F. Kennedy?
The answer to the question is elusive. The CIA has never formally offered an explanation, another reason why all of the government’s assassination-related documents need to be released. Presently, key documents about the death of the 35th president will not be released until October 2017 at the earliest. Other documents now found in the National Archives are riddled with redactions hiding key names, dates, words and phrases.
Where has this shameful secrecy taken us? To a place of confusion and suspicion.
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Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book
Jefferson Morley
March 29, 2015
Take a look, in living color, right here, thanks to A.J. Weberman. …