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How CIA surveillance tracked Oswald on his way to Dallas

Jefferson Morley April 12, 2018

The most important revelations in the new JFK files concern the CIA (and possibly NSA) surveillance of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

A Senate investigator’s memo, released in December 2017, gives the exact date that the surveillance of Oswald began: November 11, 1959.

This is one of the most important JFK records released in the Trump era, so its details are worth understanding.

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JFK Files Watch: Will Gina Haspel destroy assassination records like she destroyed torture tapes?

Jefferson Morley April 6, 2018

As the April 26 deadline for release of the last of the JFK assassination files approaches. President Trump will be hearing from his new CIA director Gina Haspel on the issue of what can and cannot be made public.

What will Haspel say? …

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FLASH CANCELLED response: FBI wasn’t interested in Oswald

Jefferson Morley March 31, 2018

Jean Davison responds to Bill SImpich’s “Why was Oswald’s name taken off the FBI’s watch list?” …

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Why was Oswald’s name taken off the FBI’s watch list?

Jefferson Morley March 28, 2018

Bill Simpich, a civil rights attorney in the Bay Area and the author of State Secret, proposes an answer to the riddle of “FLASH CANCELLED” …

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FBI wide shut: One key JFK file that remains redacted

Jefferson Morley March 26, 2018

Redacted FBI Oswald doc — Released in full. Not

I spent Friday at the Archives II in College Park Maryland in search of this Dec. 10, 1963 FBI report on the Bureua’s handling of the Lee Harvey Oswald file before JFK was killed.

At right is the version available on the Mary Ferrell site. The accompanying RIF sheet states the document is “released in full.”

I pulled the document at Archives II and it is not “released in full.” It remains heavily redacted. These black marks are a reminder that the Trump administration has yet to enforce the JFK Records Act. …

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FLASH CANCELLED: What one of the last JFK files will tell us about Oswald

Jefferson Morley March 26, 2018

In response to my post, “FBI wide shut”, a faithful reader points out there is a “minimally redacted” version of a key FBI memo about accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. …

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RIP: Michael Paine, debated politics with Lee Harvey Oswald

Jefferson Morley March 16, 2018

In testimony before the Warren Commission, created to investigate the assassination of JFK, Paine said he did not regard Oswald as someone likely to kill a president.

Source: Michael Paine, debated politics with JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 89

The surveillants: more U.S. intelligence officers who watched Oswald

Jefferson Morley March 11, 2018

Bill writes:

“I am appreciating your insistence that Oswald was under surveillance, pursuant to LINGUAL, AMSPELL, and LIENVOY.”

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Crux of the JFK issue: conspiracy or gross negligence?

Jefferson Morley March 9, 2018

Jacob writes:

“If I interpret your March 5 post correctly, it seems that you have ultimately decided that Oswald did it, either alone or in concert with one or more people, and that the CIA, at worst, was guilty of gross negligence in preventing Oswald (alone or with others) from committing the assassination.”

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Spy vs. Spy: Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko confronted CIA accuser James Angleton

Jefferson Morley March 6, 2018

A new JFK assassination tape found among the new JFK files in the the National Archives yields the previously unknown coda of one of the most famous espionage controversies of the 20th century. …

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What Politico doesn’t know about the JFK files

Jefferson Morley March 5, 2018

Politico’s Thomas Maier mines the new JFK files to competently retell the oft-told but still-disturbing story of how respectable CIA officials and murderous Mafia dons tried and failed to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s.

Along the way, Maier drops this claim:

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The documentation that Oswald was under surveillance

Jefferson Morley February 25, 2018

“Oswald was under counterintelligence surveillance from 1959 to 1963,” Morley said. “Everywhere he went he touched CIA collection operations, code-named secret intelligence operations, whose product was delivered to [counterintelligence chie James] Angleton.”

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Oswald lived in a surveillance state

Jefferson Morley February 13, 2018

In response to my post on Oswald under surveillance, a Twitter friend asked if surveillance was the reason why Oswald rented a room under a fake name (“O.H. Lee”) six weeks before the assassination of JFK.

I said no. …

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A comment on Angleton and Oswald

Jefferson Morley January 11, 2018

David Lifton, author of Best Evidence, writes:

“Jeff: I think you’ve framed the question too narrowly….. …

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Was Angleton culpable in JFK’s assassination?

Jefferson Morley January 10, 2018

I’ve been debating the question with CIA historian David Robarge,

In Washington Decode, he asserts “that the US government did not have actionable information that Oswald was a clear threat to the President before 22 November 1963.”

That is true. He says, correctly, that historians “must fairly assess why people acted based on what they knew at the time.”

That is exactly what I did in THE GHOST. And that’s why I think Angleton was culpable in the death of JFK. …

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