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New JFK Files: CIA drags its feet on compliance, failing to release 12 documents

Jefferson Morley July 25, 2017

Tony Cuesta, anti-Castro fighter with a JFK story

The National Archives’ long-awaited release of JFK assassination files, which began on Monday, has some holes in it.

At least 12 CIA documents that were supposed to be released online Monday are still in the possession of the Agency, according to the Archives.

Among the missing documents are ten pages of notes on the FBI/Army Intelligence file of Tony Cuesta, an anti-Castro militant who implicated a Cuban exile marksman in the assassination of JFK.

The CIA also retains a 47-page file on Cuesta, which is supposed to be released this year, according to the National Archives online database.

The omission of the Cuesta file and 11 other documents from this week’s release was inadvertent, according to archivist James Mathis.

In an email to JFK Facts, Mathis wrote.

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Calling all JFK researchers

Jefferson Morley July 24, 2017

The National Archives servers are crashing, making it very difficult to download the new JFK assassination files from the NARA site.

If you have succeeded in downloading any of the zipped files, please send a copy of the entire batch to editor@jfkfacts.org.

I am getting calls from the national news organizations and would like to respond knowledgably.
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National Archives starts releasing long-secret JFK assassination records

Jefferson Morley July 24, 2017

The National Archives has begun the long-awaited release of JFK Assassination Records.

I will start writing about these records as soon as I have reviewed them. I welcome your thoughts and suggestions. You can download the documents now. Please send me anything you think is his historically significant or interesting, whether or not it directly relates to JFK’s assassination.

What’s in these documents? I summarize what is know in a recent article for Newsweek: “Donald Trump and the Kennedy Assassination: America’s Most Powerful Conspiracy Theorist Will Decide Fate of Secret JFK Trove.”

In Allen Dulles’ papers, an analysis of the Nix Film

Jefferson Morley July 11, 2017

Source: Allen W. Dulles Papers at Princeton University–Series 4: Warren Commission Files — Nix Film Analysis (h/t)

Documents shedding light on CIA-orchestrated coup in Iran are released by State Department

Jefferson Morley June 19, 2017

Source: Documents shedding light on CIA-orchestrated Iranian coup of ’53 released by State Dept — RT America

Earliest recording of JFK found at Harvard

Jefferson Morley May 9, 2017

Harvard has just released what its archivists believe is the earliest voice recording of the future president, who, as it turns out, sounded a lot like a politician even as a young man.

Source: Earliest recording of JFK found in Harvard Archives | Harvard Gazette

Kennedy, the non-proliferation president

Jefferson Morley April 23, 2016

From the National Security Archive, Kennedy and Dimona, a trove of declassified new documents about how JFK sought to prevent Israel from obtaining nuclear weapons.

“More than any other American president, John F. Kennedy was personally engaged with the problem of Israel’s nuclear program; he may also have been more concerned about it than any of his successors. Of all U.S. leaders in the nuclear age, Kennedy was the nonproliferation president.

Kennedy and Dimona: the First Two Years (1961-62)

Jerry Hill’s lies: the heart of the J.D. Tippit shooting

Bill Simpich March 12, 2016

Jerry Hill lied over and over again. That, I think, is the heart of the story of the killing of Dallas Police Department officer J.D. Tippit on November 22, 1963, shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy and right before the arrest of Lee Oswald.

Hill died in 2011 but there’s not a cop alive or dead who can contradict this story. …

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Dallas police chief Jesse Curry’s JFK file

Jefferson Morley March 10, 2016

For collectors: A copy of Jesse Curry’s “JFK Assassination File,” signed by the Dallas police chief himself. Curry had this to say about the gunfire in Dealey Plaza.

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