CIA on Ancient JFK Files: Let’s Not Make ‘Hasty’ Decisions
Jefferson Morley
October 24, 2021
Amy Yang at The Washington Post gets the story right.
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From the White House, President Biden’s Order on JFK Files
Jefferson Morley
October 24, 2021
The White House uses the right language on JFK files but the two-month delay in releasing decades-old records is more than a disappointment.
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About the JFK Files: Did Biden Comply with the Law?
Jefferson Morley
October 22, 2021
That’s the question Larry Sabato, Larry Schnapf and I will answer at a press conference next week after the White House issues its decision on the last of the JFK files on Monday October 26.
The UVA Center for Politics will host a discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time following the scheduled release of remaining John F. Kennedy assassination records. Joining UVA Center for Politics Director and author of The Kennedy Half-Century Larry J. Sabato will be Jefferson Morley, author and editor of the JFK Facts blog, and Lawrence Schnapf, co-chair of the JFK Records Legal Task Force.
Seven Members of Congress Calls for Full JFK Disclosure
Jefferson Morley
October 22, 2021
Congress passed the JFK Records Act in 1992 to declassify all documents related to the assassination of President Kennedy, yet more than 15K documents are still being withheld from the public. I sent a letter w/ @RepCohen urging @POTUS to release all remaining records by Oct 26th pic.twitter.com/MeIQXWaIUs
— Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (@RepAnnaEshoo) October 13, 2021
Biden Faces October 26 Deadline for Release of More JFK Assassination Papers
Jefferson Morley
October 21, 2021
(This article, written by Jefferson Morley and Rex Bradford, was first published in The Intercept, on October 20, 2021.)
President Joe Biden will soon decide an obscure but potent question: Which secret files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy should be made fully public?
When President Donald Trump faced the same decision four years ago, he delayed in the name of national security. While releasing thousands of files about the 1963 Kennedy assassination, Trump acquiesced to the demand of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to keep portions of thousands more secret until October 2021, 58 years after Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested as the gunman. For all his “deep state” rhetoric, Trump issued a memo giving the executive branch agencies four more years of secrecy.
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Why Did the CIA Reclassify Parts of Some JFK Files in 2018?
Jefferson Morley
October 19, 2021
The Central Intelligence Agency reclassified portions of once-public JFK assassination files in April 2018, according to a study by the Mary Ferrell Foundation, the largest online archive of government files on JFK’s assassination.
Is this CIA incompetence? Or CIA trickery?
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JFK Redacted: The CIA’s Collaborators in the Miami News Media
Jefferson Morley
October 18, 2021
As the October 26, 2021 deadline for release of secret JFK assassination files approaches, here’s one improperly redacted document that identifies the CIA’s collaborators in the Miami press.
The document, dated March 1964, is titled “Special Activities Report on JMWAVE Relationship.” …
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From the Secret JFK Files, Praise for a CIA Officer Who Monitored Oswald
Jefferson Morley
October 15, 2021
The secret JFK assassinations files now under review at the White House include the records of senior CIA officers who knew about the supposed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before President Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963.
The Public Interest Declassification Board, which advises the president on historical issues, has urged President Biden to insure “maximum disclosure” in JFK files, set for release on October 26. Sabato’s Crystal Ball has examined the uneven enforcement of the JFK Records Act. WhoWhatWhy asks, “Will Biden Follow the Law?”
I want to share with readers, reporters, and Twitter, what is on the public record about these officers, individually and collectively. These files may shed light on the breakdown of presidential security in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
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The JFK Records Act: Will There Be a Final Chapter?
Jefferson Morley
October 13, 2021
Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the blog of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, weighs in on President Biden’s upcoming decision on the last of the JFK files. …
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Oliver Stone on Trump and JFK
Jefferson Morley
July 16, 2021
Oliver Stone on the still-secret JFK files that are supposed to be released in October 2021:
Stone believes that no US president since Kennedy died has been “able to go up against this militarised sector of our economy”. Even Trump “backed down at the last second” and declined to release all the relevant documents relating to the assassination. “He announced, ‘I’m going to free it up, blah blah blah, big talk, and then a few hours before, he caved to CIA National Security again.”
Stone is absolutely correct on this point. Read here.
Why CIA Ties Were Omitted from Obituaries of Priscilla Johnson McMillan
Jefferson Morley
July 14, 2021
My fellow JFK researchers note lugubriously that the New York Times and Washington Post obituaries of the late Priscilla Johnson McMillan, prominent defender of the official theory of JFK’s assassination, made no mention of her documented relationship with the CIA.
Too true! Newly declassified records reveal what McMillan (and the newspapers of record) did not care to share publicly. At the time McMillan wrote an influential biography of supposed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, she was a “witting collaborator” with the clandestine service.
Before I go on, let me just say, tediously, no, I do not think McMillan was part of a plot to kill JFK. No, I am not citing her CIA ties to justify any theory of JFK’s death. No, I’m not speaking ill of the dead; citing a relationship that she herself cultivated cannot be considered derogatory.
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Federal Declassification Board Calls for JFK Disclosure
Jefferson Morley
May 14, 2021
The Public Interest Declassification Board is an office in the U.S. government that advises the White House on declassification of government records with the goal of “the fullest possible public access to a thorough, accurate, and reliable documentary record of significant U.S. national security decisions.”
In recent post on the PIDB’s blog, Transforming Classification, the nine-member board signaled its support for maximum disclosure of the still-secret JFK assassination files.
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Will Rep. Maloney Hold Oversight Hearings on JFK Files?
Jefferson Morley
February 24, 2021
If you’re interested in freedom of information and/or the JFK story, you’ll want to read this letter from New York attorney Larry Schnapf on the disposition of the last of the government’s JFK assassination files in October 2021.
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CIA Director Bill Burns will advise Biden on secret JFK files
Jefferson Morley
February 20, 2021
On Wednesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold hearings on the nomination of longtime diplomat William Burns to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
If confirmed as expected, Burns will have to advise President Biden on a symbolically potent decision: whether or not to release the last of the CIA’s files related to the assassination of President Kennedy in October.
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