Nov 10, 2013

Jefferson Morley: What we still don’t know about JFK’s assassination

copied from the Dallas Morning News.....


Jefferson Morley: What we still don’t know about JFK’s assassination

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These White House communications tapes were discovered in 2011, made in the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination involving Air Force One in flight from Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy endures as the pre-eminent mystery of American history. How a popular president came to be shot dead in broad daylight has never been explained by Washington in a way that the majority of the American people find credible. A new History Channel poll finds 71 percent of respondents reject the official story that one man alone killed JFK on Nov. 22, 1963.
The tragedy in Dallas has been the subject of six official inquiries over the past 50 years, hundreds of books and dozens of documentaries. By common consent, the release of 4 million pages of long-secret documents since Oliver Stone’s movie JFK has clarified some disputes about the events leading to Kennedy’s death.
Yet the new records also raise new questions.

Secret CIA files: The nature of the CIA’s interest in accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy was killed is still shrouded in official secrecy, even after 50 years.
The story the CIA gave to the Warren Commission in 1964 — that Oswald had attracted only routine and sporadic attention — is erroneous. Documents released by a civilian review panel in the 1990s revealed that senior CIA officers had monitored Oswald closely between 1959 and 1963.
The officers most knowledgeable about Oswald before JFK was killed reported to Jim Angleton, a legendary spymaster who headed the agency’s counterintelligence staff, and Deputy Director Richard Helms, who would become known as The Man Who Kept the Secrets.
Both are dead, yet their actions are not yet subject to full disclosure. Last year, a CIA official acknowledged in a sworn affidavit that the agency retains 1,100 records related to JFK’s assassination that have never been made public.
These files are “not believed relevant” to JFK’s death, according to the CIA.
The online database of the National Archives indicates these records concern the operations of six CIA employees involved in the JFK story who reported to Helms and Angleton.
The still-secret documents are found in files generated by:
William K. Harvey, a legendary operative who oversaw the CIA’s efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro. Harvey’s contempt for John and Robert Kennedy cost him a high-ranking position in mid-1963.
David Phillips and Anne Goodpasture, career officers who monitored Oswald’s movements in Mexico City weeks before JFK was killed. In the ’70s, they testified that they learned about Oswald’s recent contacts with suspected Soviet and Cuban intelligence officers in October 1963.
Howard Hunt and David Morales, two swashbuckling operatives who made statements late in life that seemed to implicate themselves in JFK’s assassination.
All of these officers knew each other in 1963. All are deceased.
In the affidavit filed in federal court, CIA information coordinator Michelle Meeks asserted that the 1,100 documents must remain secret until at least October 2017 for reasons of “national security.”

Air Force One tapes: New details about the Pentagon’s response to JFK’s assassination have emerged in recent years, but a significant portion of the story is missing.
In October 2011, a previously unknown recording of Nov. 22, 1963, radio communications to and from Air Force One, the presidential jet, surfaced at a Philadelphia auction house. The tape was found in the estate of Gen. Chester Clifton, an aide to JFK who died in 1991.
The recording, donated to the National Archives, revealed how the Air Force immediately sent a plane to pick up Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay in Canada. LeMay, a harsh critic of JFK’s foreign policy, returned to Washington, where he may have attended JFK’s autopsy.
The conversations about LeMay’s movements were edited out of the shorter version of the Air Force One tape released by the LBJ Library in the ’70s.
Both the LBJ tape and the Clifton tape were taken from a longer Air Force One recording, according to Primeau Forensics, an acoustic engineering firm that worked with JFK researcher Bill Kelley to clean up and transcribe the recordings.
The available tapes capture 88 minutes of conversation. Kelly notes that the flight from Dallas to take JFK’s body back to Washington took almost four hours, or 240 minutes.
So it is virtually certain that there were other conversations to and from Air Force One that fateful day that were recorded but have never been heard. Even after 50 years, the real-time response of the Pentagon to the violent death of a commander in chief is not part of the public record.
In a new book on JFK, University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato writes that it is “irresponsible” to accuse an agency of the federal government of orchestrating the assassination. “At the same time,” he argues, “it is impossible to rule out the possibility that a … cabal of CIA hard-liners, angry about Kennedy’s handling of Cuba and sensing a leftward turn on negotiations with the Soviets … took matters into their own hands.”
What these unknown chapters from the JFK story might reveal about the perennial conspiracy question will only be known if — and when — the CIA and Pentagon produce the missing JFK records.

Jefferson Morley is moderator of JFKFacts.org and author of “Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA.” He wrote this for The Dallas Morning News. His email address is info@jfkfacts.org.

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Cary Jennings12 days ago
It is outstanding to see that the Morning News agreed to publish Mr. Morley's piece, as he is quite knowledgeable about the documents the CIA has produced relative to the assassination and the records the Agency is still withholding, primarily due to his 10-year experience in litigation against the government pursuant to numerous Freedom of Information Act requests.

Interested readers should consult Mr. Morley's excellent website (JFKfacts.org) for many additional CIA disclosures that he was not able to address in this short piece, such as the Agency's ongoing attempts to block the release of information on George Joannides, a CIA employee who directed the activities of the anti-Castro DRE in New Orleans in 1963, which group Oswald had significant dealings with, and revelations concerning Clay Shaw and George deMohrenschildt, both of whom are now known to have had substantial ties to the CIA.
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LouGreeley13 days ago
LHO didn't do it. That much is just about certain.
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Anonymous14 days ago
On November 22, 1963, a coup d’état by the highest echelons of the National Security State was accomplished with the brutal murder of President John F. Kennedy. Andrew Gavin Marshall has written an excellent and concise online summary article, “The National Security State and the Assassination of JFK,” which compliments the definitive, path-breaking research of author James W. Douglass in JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.

The “smoking gun” in the cover-up of the assassination is found in CIA Dispatch #1035-960 (available online). This was the crucial covert directive to the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird elite media assets to vigorously denounce critics of the Warren Commission Report as “conspiracy theorists.” This is when that particular derogatory term of denunciation and disinformation entered the national conversation in an attempt to cut off and stifle informed debate on the president’s murder because the path of evidence would lead directly to those elements behind the sinister cover-up.

These facts are discussed in detail in Lance deHaven-Smith’s authoritative Conspiracy Theory in America (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press). Dr. Smith is a widely published scholar in peer-reviewed academic journals and is Professor in the Reubin O’ D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University in Tallahassee. DeHaven-Smith has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, CBS Nightly News with Dan Rather, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and other national TV and radio shows.
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Robert Truitt15 days ago
Thank you Dallas Morning News for publishing Jefferson Morley's piece "What we still don't know About JFK's assassination". To much is still being withheld by the United States government. The Dallas Morning News could be instrumental in getting those files released. Thank you. R. Truitt
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Jefferson Morley15 days ago
Thanks to Dallas Morning News for publishing my piece. Its good to see a wide range of perspectives on the JFK story in the pages of the News.

There is currently a typo in the paragraph about CIA operatives:David Morales and Howard Hunt. It should read as follows:

"Howard Hunt and David Morales, two swashbuckling operatives who made statements late in life that seemed to implicate themSELVES in JFK’s assassination."

To be clear, Hunt and Morales did not implicate David Phillips and Anne Goodpasture in JFK's assassination. They each made reliably reported comments that suggested they had personally participated in a conspiracy to kill the president.
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nstockdale15 days ago
Thanks, Jeff! This has been corrected online.
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David Calvert16 days ago
"So I'm the Patsy?" Lee Harvey Oswald as heard on news film while handcuffed and being led into a room.

I have no idea who killed Kennedy, if LBJ knew about it, etc. I only know it wasn't LHO and there ain't no such thing as a magic bullet.
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O'Reilly goes "O'Reilly" on Geraldo Rivera's radio show when asked about JFK.......and how I made the cutest pillowcases with the barn yard pigs.

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an interestin comment on the post......

John Onesti The CIA under operation Mockingbird infiltrated the media. They never talk about it but that is really something to look at (it explains a lot of the misinformation and bias) in light of JFK's attempt to clean it. He also eliminated many of his joint chiefs after they suggested bombing US cities under the Operation Northwoods proposal (an idea it appears was ok with Johnson when the Gulf of Tonkin & USS Liberty incidents occurred). After JFK was killed Vietnam & the drug trade exploded. I look out on the street here where I live and I see all the drug lords & users and I often wonder if it would be this way if JFK had lived.


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Nov 7, 2013

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Chloe Louise Geraldo, I think you should do a special about JFK on your radio show....talking about the media and their treatment of the whole JFK thing and your experiences and your opinion. If anyone from the media can talk on this issue it is you....you have had a lot of experiences with the media and with this subject in particular. I am still angry about you being left out of the Dusquene University forum. That was ridiculous, especially in light of the antics of JFK, himself. Forever, I have wanted to hear what you have to say on this subject and I would be very interested in your thoughts.......cl

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