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
‘The centrality of Nixon and Helms to so many pivotal moments in history.’
Jefferson Morley
May 20, 2022
Book List on Scorpion’s Dance:
…“As the Senate Intelligence Committee prodded the CIA over all sorts of issues, including the JFK assassination and attempts on the life of Fidel Castro, Helms became increasingly defensive of his agency’s conduct over the years. The centrality of Nixon and Helms to so many pivotal moments in history makes Morley’s revelations about their sparring even more intriguing.”
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Talking JFK in the desert
Jefferson Morley
May 5, 2022
This was an educational experience for me. I thought I was going into the proverbial lions’ den. I was wrong. The secret intelligence professionals in the room were quite open to the way Mowatt-Larssen and I described and explained the events of November 1963.
Russia, Russia, Russia was on our minds, of course, but the talks also included a fascinating discussion on the activities of “rogue” CIA agents surrounding the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, presented jointly by investigative journalist Jefferson Morley and former senior CIA officer Rolf Mowatt- Larssen. The audience at the Hacienda del Sol, a hillside luxury resort that once hosted John Wayne, Spencer Tracy. Katharine Hepburn and other Hollywood stars filming Westerns nearby, was also treated to presentations by former female CIA operatives Mary Beth Long, Plame, Jonna Mendez and Lucy Kirk (left to right, above).
Don McLean Celebrates 50th Anniversary of ‘American Pie’
Jefferson Morley
April 14, 2022
AARP asked the singer-songwriter: “Do you agree with the consensus that the song points to an end of innocence in America?”
McLean responded:
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The JFK QAnon cult is collapsing
Jefferson Morley
March 23, 2022
… Oliver Stone explains how JFK’s assassination changed U.S. foreign policy
Jefferson Morley
February 27, 2022
In this excellent interview Abby Martin actually lets Oliver Stone explain why the JFK assassination story is important today. What emerges is Stone’s earnest and wide-ranging intellect, a likable quality in a man so often slandered and libeled by critics fearful of his conviction that President Kennedy was killed by his enemies. His interpretation is succinct and, for some, too disturbing to believed: “The president is removed for political reasons.”
Up in Medecino County
Jefferson Morley
December 4, 2021
The Anderson Valley Advertiser in northern California picked up my Miami Herald piece on where to find the JFK smoking guns. It brought back happy memories of reading Alex Cockburn.
…JFK Redacted: Operation Northwoods Was Approved and Never Cancelled
Jefferson Morley
December 3, 2021
In a thoughtful interview on the David Pakman Show, the host and I differed on the last of the JFK assassination files to be released in the next year by order of President Biden.
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What Bob Dylan Told Me About the Assassination of JFK
Jefferson Morley
December 3, 2021
Bob Dylan played in DC tonight. I didn’t have tickets so I have to settle for re-upping my Lit Hub tribute to “Murder Most Foul”
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JFK’s Assassination Explained For British History Channel
Jefferson Morley
December 2, 2021
When History Hit, a British history channel, asked me for an interview about the 58th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, I hastened to agree, especially when they said they’d throw in a hundred dollars for my trouble. “A hundred quid is always welcome,” I said to my new-found Cousins. Stateside news outlets are rarely so fair to free-lance talent. …
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CIA Continues to Conceal JFK Assassination Files. But Here’s What We Do Know
Jefferson Morley
November 22, 2021
As I wrote in today’s Miami Herald…..
But when the Biden White House announced late in the evening of Oct. 22 that the last of the JFK documents would not be released until December 2022 at the earliest, I began to rethink my caution
Source: Biden delays release of Kennedy assassination files until 2022 | Miami Herald
Dylan on the Grassy Knoll: A Defense
Jefferson Morley
November 22, 2021
I published this piece today, the 58th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination.
Dylan urges us to recognize that November 22, like December 7, was an attack on the American nation. And if that claim makes you uneasy—if you want to believe the reassuring official story that Kennedy was killed by one man alone for no reason—he has achieved his purpose.
Source: What Bob Dylan Does—Or Doesn’t—Know About the Assassination of JFK ‹ Literary Hub
RIP Mort Sahl: Comedian and Warren Commission Critic Ahead of its Time
Jefferson Morley
October 27, 2021
John Simkin writes:
Mort Sahl died yesterday aged 94. Younger people might be unaware of Sahl’s connection with the JFK assassination. …
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JFK on Secrecy
Jefferson Morley
October 25, 2021
Responding to President Biden’s Oct. 22 letter on JFK files, Jerry sent this:
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and u warranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.” — President John F. Kennedy April 27, 1961.
How a former Trump aide is pressing Biden to loosen national security secrets
Jefferson Morley
September 30, 2021
Bryan Bender of POLITICO profiles Ezra Cohen, the chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board, which this week called for maximum transparency around secret JFK assassination files.
Ezra Cohen, appointed by President Trump, gets positive reviews from one Democratic congressman on the board, which advises the president on declassification issues.
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