Tag: National Archives

Roger Stone’s valid JFK point: CIA is not complying with the law

Jefferson Morley March 12, 2018

As President Trump’s April 26, 2018 deadline for release of the last of the government’s JFK files, Roger Stone, the sartorial dirty trickster of American politics, makes a legally valid point:

The CIA is not obeying the JFK Records Act.

Stone pointed out that the 1992 law which required the JFK documents be released also required the agency redacting records to justify their redactions in writing and that those explanations be published in the Federal Register.

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Later this month, Trump will decide on release of 23,000 secret JFK files

Jefferson Morley March 8, 2018

The final countdown for disclosure of the last of the U.S. government’s JFK assassination files begins next Monday with prospects for full disclosure, as mandated by law, still in doubt.

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You’ll want to read this

Jefferson Morley February 20, 2018

.. one of the most important JFK assassination records released in the Trump era.

What the last of JFK assassination files will show us

Jefferson Morley February 14, 2018

A report on what we will learn, if and when President Trump releases the last of the government’s JFK assassination files in April 2018.

“If Lee Harvey Oswald was, as cliche has it, a “lone nut,” he was the one and only isolated sociopath monitored by top CIA counterintelligence officers in the weeks and month before JFK was killed.”

Read the full story, with documentation, here.

Latest Group of JFK Assassination Records Available to the Public National Archives

Jefferson Morley November 9, 2017

the National Archives today posted 13,213 records subject to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (JFK Act). The majority of the documents released today were released previously in redacted form. The versions released today were prepared by agencies prior to October 26, 2017, and were posted to make the latest versions of the documents available as expeditiously as possible

via Latest Group of JFK Assassination Records Available to the Public National Archives

If you find something interesting in the JFK files, let me know

Jefferson Morley October 26, 2017

I’m watching the National Archives page for the new JFK files to drop.

If you see something interesting, send it along to me at Editor@jfkfacts.org and I will post and comment.

9 things you should know about the JFK file release

Jefferson Morley October 26, 2017

In my latest piece for AlterNet, I say the most significant story in the new JFK files will be details of the CIA’s pre-assassination monitoring of Oswald.

And, if, contra Posner, Trump approves CIA and FBI requests to withhold some records, the JFK files Trump keeps secret will be more important than the ones he releases.

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Trump likely to block release of some JFK files

Jefferson Morley October 22, 2017

Trump is almost certain to block the release of information from some of the thousands of classified files related to the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Source: Trump Likely to Block Release of Some JFK Files – POLITICO Magazine

With 9 days to go, planned disclosure of secret JFK files is ‘in flux’

Jefferson Morley October 17, 2017

I report the latest development on the Trump administration’s plans for JFK disclosure in AlterNet. …

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From the Black Vault, all the new JFK assassination files

Jefferson Morley September 11, 2017

The Black Vault (“Exposing government secrets… one page at a time.”) is the best online source for the latest release of JFK assassination documents. Their interface, far superior to the National Archives web site, makes for easy searching and linking.

Send along noteworthy finds to JFK Facts.

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Top 4 revelations from the new JFK files

Jefferson Morley September 10, 2017

Earle Cabell, Dallas mayor and CIA asset

The release of long-secret JFK assassination files by the National Archives has drawn the attention of news organizations nationwide.

Four revelations stand out so far.

1) WhoWhatWhy reported on documents showing that Earle Cabell, the mayor of Dallas at the time of JFK’s assassination, was a CIA asset in the 1950s. His brother, Charles Cabell, was a high-ranking CIA official until 1962.

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‘Exceptional reporting. Exceptional writing’

Jefferson Morley August 21, 2017

MDG writes about my post, “4 CIA Lies” critiquing Politico’s flawed JFK coverage.

Exceptional reporting. Exceptional writing. Thank you for your dedication to seeking justice in this case. We have been waiting a long time to read what you wrote. The facts have led us here

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The new JFK files: What Politico missed about the CIA role

Jefferson Morley August 7, 2017

The first nationally known analysts to weigh in on the new JFK files are Phil Shenon and Larry Sabato, former New York Times reporter and University of Virginia professor respectively. In a story for Politico Magazine, they purport to tell the story How the CIA Came to Doubt the Official Story of JFK’s Murder.

The tipoff to the story’s limitations is the headline, which sounds a bit odd: how the CIA came to doubt the official story…

The CIA was the source for key parts of the official JFK story–that a lone gunman killed President Kennedy out of “hatred for American society.” The CIA’s doubts only surfaced in the spring of 1975 when the official story was shredded by revelations about the agency’s pre-assassination knowledge of Oswald and plots to kill Castro.

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#NewJFKfiles: In 1964 Nikita Khrushchev schooled Drew Pearson on the JFK conspiracy question

Jefferson Morley July 31, 2017

To people interested in the new JFK releases, I can highly recommend item 3) on Bill Kelly’s Top Ten Newly Released Records.

3) Drew Pearson’s interview with Nikita Khrushchev.

In this May 1964 conversation about the assassination of JFK, Drew Pearson, one of the nation’s leading syndicated columnists, failed to dispel the conspiratorial convictions of Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union.

Three years later, Pearson’s fellow investigative reporter Jack Anderson would break a story that shattered Washington’s confidence in the official JFK story and lent credence to Khrushchev’s view.

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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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