Jefferson Morley
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first heard Jan 2025
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These books really give the context for understanding how the CIA itself understood what happened in Dallas, okay? When I got into this, I thought, there's a million conspiracy theories out there. And you know what, Jeff? No one cares what your theory is. But I thought, what did Winn Scott think about November 22nd? What did Jim Angleton think? What did Richard Helms think? And what did they do?
That's really interesting. And that's far more interesting than any theory I could concoct. And so that's what my books are about. And so they really give people the bigger historical context to not focus on the on the assassination, because then you start going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and you miss the picture. You miss the political reality.
And so the books really give that they really give the context in which The CIA was part of and implicated in and observing the JFK assassination story. And then in larger perspective, I'm trying to, you know, tell people and especially young people, I know this seems very distant. And, you know, who cares? And is it a meme? And why? What are they saying on TikTok and all those things?
And, you know, it is important. It takes a while for this story to get through the static. When you get down to the hardcore facts, it's a really important story. And if you understand it, you understand how it has shaped our world today. And that's really what I hope people come away from my work with, is this thing that happened a long time ago,
It tells us something about the world we live in today. And, you know, make up your own mind about what it tells us. I'm not demanding that you agree with me. Plenty of people disagree with me. That's fine. But the subject, this particular incident in American history, it's really important and it's really relevant to today.
You know, there is this, I think meme is the right word. There's this meme that if you doubt the story that one man killed president Kennedy for no reason, if you doubt that you're a conspiracy theorist, that is a very propagandistic theory. notion. And it has to be rejected, especially in my case, because I don't have a conspiracy theory.
All the charges about crazy conspiracy theorists do this, do that, QAnon, that has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. It is completely irrelevant. to what's going on on JFK Facts and in the historical research that me and my friends are undertaking. So that discourse about crazy JFK conspiracy theorists, I tell people, just put it to a side. I don't talk about that.
I'm not interested in that. And none of that applies to me. Take your eyes off the theories and come to JFK Facts and try and understand what happened and make up your own mind. So the whole discourse of conspiracy theories where people attack people who doubt the official story because they're crazy and they're QAnon and all that. It's really it's a bogus argument that doesn't apply.
And and it's a distraction. And I believe it's an intentional distraction to make people not focus on the facts, but go off into craziness because that serves the purposes of the people who want to keep this story secret. Oh, only a crazy person doubts what the government says. You know, that's nonsense. And it's pernicious nonsense because it's really not true. So we want to get past that.
theoretical realm of craziness. Just put it aside. It has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
I mean, those of us who've been calling for the release of these records for more than a decade, this is a great and promising moment. But there's still pitfalls ahead. And I want to emphasize that, you know, this is not something that can be done with the stroke of a pen. The powers of these secret agencies are strong and we actually kind of see their influence even on Trump's statement.
So it's important to know what we've learned in the recent past, kind of the context of these latest developments, and what is possible under this order. But a lot is now possible. So that's a great development.
So the president's order orders a plan within 15 days from four top officials, two of whom are acting and two of whom are Trump appointees, to come up with a plan for declassification.
In the president's order, section three of the president's order contains a loophole, which to me could be interpreted as saying the CIA director could overrule any decision that comes out of this declassification effort. That's a pretty big loophole that needs to be plugged or disavowed because the agencies cannot have final control over the release of this material, right?
They've been resisting full disclosure since the day President Kennedy died. That's the day that the CIA's lies began. CIA officials began lying about what they knew about Lee Harvey Oswald within hours of President Kennedy's murder. And they've been obfuscating, lying, deceiving, covering up, evading ever since.
So that kind of bureaucratic behavior, it's not going to stop just because President Trump said something on a piece of paper. They are going to continue to fight a rearguard war. effort to prevent full disclosure of CIA records related to President Kennedy's assassination. So we need to be vigilant.
We need to identify the documents are important and set some benchmarks to show, is this effort really obtaining the results? Is it really going to be successful at obtaining full JFK disclosure?
No, the 1992 JFK Records Act passed unanimously by Congress. Think of that, right? When's the last time Congress passed something unanimously? That law said that all JFK records had to be made public within 25 years, except in the rarest of circumstances. That was the language. So 25 years after 1992, 2017, that deadline arrived. It came to President Trump.
And he caved into the CIA's demands for continuing secrecy. So that was a very clear expression of the will of the people and the will of Congress. And they've just blown the deadline. They don't really care to be seen. They don't care that people see them violating the law around JFK records.
So, well, there's two places. There's 3,600 plus documents that are held by the National Archives that contain redactions. Those are in the possession. Those documents should be very easy to review and release quickly if they're serious about declassification and full disclosure.
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