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What the Huffington Post doesn’t know about the CIA and JFK

Jefferson Morley September 21, 2015

What’s with the Huffington Post?

In his news report, New CIA Information on JFK Assassination, on the release of thousands of presidential briefings from the 1960s, HuffPo reporter Keith Thomson devoted considerable effort to ridiculing unnamed JFK conspiracy theorists who attended a press briefing at the Lyndon B. Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas last week.

Along the way, Thomson managed to miss the historical significance of the CIA’s disclosure. …

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What did the CIA’s release of JFK and LBJ presidential briefings reveal?

Jefferson Morley September 21, 2015

The briefings, released last week, showed how the Agency sought to get information to the two presidents.The CIA had long resisted releasing the records on the grounds that any disclosure would harm national security, an argument the Agency has now abandoned.

One of first briefings in the wake of JFK’s assassination revealed something important: where the CIA’s JFK assassination cover-up originated: in the Directorate of Operations and the Counterintelligence Staff.

CIA disclosures bare the origins of the JFK cover-up

Jefferson Morley September 17, 2015

Three days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the CIA told his successor Lyndon Johnson a bit of news: the agency’s sources had just confirmed press reports that accused assassin Lee Oswald had visited the Cuban and Soviet Embassies in Mexico City two months before.

Here’s what the President’s Intelligence Checklist (TPIC)– just released by the CIA and LBJ Library–reported on November 25, 1963.

It was revealing moment. Intentionally or not, the CIA was misleading the new U.S. president about what Agency personnel knew of the man accused of killing his predecessor.

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Declassified CIA presidential briefings shed new light on the agency’s reaction to JFK’s assassination

Jefferson Morley September 16, 2015

The CIA’s release of 2,500 presidential briefings written during the Kennedy and Johnson presidential administrations is shedding new light on the agency’s reaction to the assassination of JFK. The CIA has long contended that the briefings could not be released in any form for reasons of national security

On the day Kennedy was killed the CIA briefers wrote they could find “no more fitting words” than a poem that JFK sometimes cited about the burdens of his office: …

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What the Huffington Post doesn’t know about the CIA and JFK

What did the CIA’s release of JFK and LBJ presidential briefings reveal?

CIA disclosures bare the origins of the JFK cover-up

Declassified CIA presidential briefings shed new light on the agency’s reaction to JFK’s assassination