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Judge Tunheim on CIA’s ‘inaccurate representations’

Jefferson Morley February 22, 2014

There is a body of documents that the CIA is still protecting, which should be released. Relying on inaccurate representations made by the CIA in the mid-1990s, the Review Board decided that records related to a deceased CIA agent named George Joannides were not relevant to the assassination. Subsequent work by researchers, using other records that were released by the board, demonstrates that these records should be made public.

Judge John Tunheim, former chair of the Asssasination Records Review Board (ARRB) and Thomas Samoluk, former deputy director of the ARRB.

#HowtosolveJFK: Join the Twitter bomb attack on JFK secrecy

Jefferson Morley February 5, 2014
Franquis Vegas

An invitation from a Facebook friend named Franquis Vegas.

She calls it Operation Liberate Joannides Files Twitter Bomb and it’s going on through Feb. 8.

The theory is JFK “information wants to be free” but government secrecy prevents it.

So inundate the National Archives with Tweets telling them to free our history.

This is how fans save their favorite TV shows. Can social media free the JFK files?

 

2013 JFK Facts scoop #2: CIA continues to stonewall on decorated officer’s files

Jefferson Morley December 28, 2013
George Joannides
George Joannides

Throughout 2013, I reported on the latest developments in Morley v. CIA, my long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for the JFK files of deceased CIA operative George Joannides,

Picked up by dozens of news organizations, the Joannides story was one of three 2013 journalistic scoops from JFK Facts that made national news.

In my coverage I explained why I filed the lawsuit, recounted the Feb. 25 hearing before U.S. Court of Appeals, and reported on  the appellate court’s favorable ruling in June. In November, I revealed that the CIAacknowledged for the first time in a court filing that Joannides maintained a residence in New Orleans while serving as the chief of the psychological warfare branch of the CIA’s MIami station in 1963-64.

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Judge who curbed the NSA will decide on my JFK records lawsuit

Jefferson Morley December 17, 2013

Judge Richard Leon, who yesterday challenged the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance program, has been hearing my FOIA lawsuit, Morley v. CIA, for the last ten years.

The Times says Judge Leon has a record of wrestling with the government — but not so much when it comes to secrecy claims for ancient JFK assassination records held by the CIA.

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Nov. 23 1963: The first JFK conspiracy theory, paid for by a CIA officer

Jefferson Morley November 23, 2013

On November 23, members of the Cuban Student Directorate, a CIA-funded organization based in Miami, published a special edition of their monthly magazine, Trinchera (Trenches), in which they linked the accused assassin Lee Oswald to Cuban president Fidel Castro.

This was the first JFK conspiracy scenario to reach public print.

According to declassified CIA records, it was paid for by undercover officer, George Joannides.

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The drums of conspiracy and the fear of transparency

Jefferson Morley September 2, 2013

Dale Myers and Gus Russo are obsessed about conspiracy.

In recent media coverage of JFK assassination news, these two veteran JFK experts hear “Drums of Conspiracy” and seek to warn the public of impending danger: Those crazy conspiracy theorists are coming. Watch out, they say. And watch out especially for that Jefferson Morley. His purpose in reporting on the CIA’s role in the JFK story is, they insinuate, actually a ruse to promote a JFK conspiracy theory that is just about as crazy as the notion that JFK was shot by a Secret Service man.

Myers and Russo use the word “conspiracy” no less than 28 times in their piece. They especially take exception to what I told Associated Press reporter David Porter: that my legal battles for JFK files were “about transparency, not conspiracy.” Not so, they insist.

“It’s about conspiracy,” they declare, “and everybody knows it.

Not quite.

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AP exposes sealed JFK assassination files

Jefferson Morley August 18, 2013
George Joannides, chief of CIA covert operations in Miami in 1963 whose files remains secret a half century later.

From the Associated Press, via the Washington Post, a JFK assassination story that is informative, balanced and timely. It begins:

“Five decades after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot and long after official inquiries ended, thousands of pages of investigative documents remain withheld from public view. The contents of these files are partially known — and intriguing — and conspiracy buffs are not the only ones seeking to open them for a closer look.”

The article, by AP reporter David Porter, describes my lawsuit for the JFK files of deceased CIA officer George Joannides and reports on the 1,100 JFK files still withheld from public view by the agency. It provides valuable perspective with quotes from informed sources. On a subject that often attracts sensational or foolish coverage, AP provides serious journalism. Let’s hope other news organizations follow suit.

Highlights of the story include:

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