Jefferson Morley
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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He felt they were trying to dictate policy to him. And he talked about reorganizing the CIA, in the words that are often quoted, breaking up the CIA and scattering it to the winds, right? So this was actually a concrete expression of that impulse. We need to do something about an agency that's out of control. Arthur Schlesinger writes up his thoughts.
He's got a security clearance, does a very careful study of CIA operations. In that memo to Kennedy, there is still almost an entire page redacted. OK, so the CIA is censoring criticism of itself by the White House. And we're not allowed to see that 61 years later. So Schlesinger's memo, it's not about the events that happened in Dallas. It's about the alienation of Kennedy and the CIA.
That's a that's a very basic test. If we don't get that document, the whole thing's a joke. OK, it's that simple.
Well, that's what this document, it raises the question, right? If somebody knows the contents of that censored page and came to me and said, Jeff, I'll tell you what's in there, you know, under the law right now, they would be taking a certain legal risk. You know, that's a fact.
And, you know, when a JFK whistleblower approached me a couple of years ago, and I wrote about this on JFK Facts last year, You know, he described to me a secret CIA facility in northern Virginia where he had worked as a contractor. And he said, there's a JFK archive in there. He had seen it. He had talked to the people, to the woman who ran it, who controlled access to it.
He saw what was on the on the shelves there. So, you know. That guy, it was risky for him to talk to me. And it took a long time for me to convince him to come forward. And he only came forward after a couple of years when he realized nothing was happening. There was no prospect of the CIA coming clean. So that's important. I'll tell you something else that's good about President Trump's order.
I think it makes it easier for any whistleblowers to come forward. And I'd like to say, if there are people out there who have access to classified information, consult your lawyer. But I think President Trump's order effectively, well, it reduces their risk about talking about things that are classified. Because the president's saying, we want all of this out. That carries some weight.
So that in itself is an important development.
Yeah, that was an amazing story. And it goes to show you that, you know, talking about this stuff... you can be threatened with legal action. That's still possible. So that threat needs to be removed. And I hope the president's order has done that, and that people can feel that this is perfectly legitimate to talk about.
There are no real national security concerns in this material, except for the fact that the assassination of a president is a national security concern, right?
Yeah. So another story, which I reported on JFK facts last year. Before President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, the CIA had Lee Harvey Oswald under surveillance for four years. By November 21st, 1963, they had compiled 180 pages of material on Oswald.
His personal life, his political beliefs, his contact with a KGB officer, his arrest, they had all of that at the time Kennedy was leaving for Dallas. CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton knew that Oswald was in the Dallas area in the first week of November of 1963. That pre-assassination Oswald file was not completely declassified until April 2023. That's how sensitive this is.
And they're very good at keeping this stuff off the public record. And, you know, now when you go to people in in the mainstream media, they won't report on Oswald's pre-assassination file. They'll say, oh, they were just covering their asses. They make excuses for the CIA instead of saying, hey, you had 180 pages on the guy.
You know, was that extreme negligence, intentional negligence or actual complicity? You know, and we don't we don't know. But that file is the pre-assassination Oswald file is one of the most significant things to come out in recent years, for sure.
No. When the Warren Commission interviewed CIA Director John McCone and Deputy Director Richard Helms behind closed doors, only Warren Commission members there were Allen Dulles and Gerald Ford, and John Sherman Cooper was there for a little bit. They lied. I mean, they committed perjury, especially Helms, and said, we didn't have any information about Oswald before the assassination.
Minimal information, that was the line. So in their mind, 180-page file on Oswald, that was minimal information. Pay no attention and don't hold us accountable for missing the fact that this guy killed the president. We're sorry, Mrs. Kennedy, but that's just the way life is. That's their attitude. It's bland arrogance. And we see it to this day.
You know, I wrote a book about James Angleton, the counterintelligence chief who ran the Oswald, who held the Oswald file from 1959 to 1963. Angleton told the church committee kind of off the record that he believed RFK had been killed by organized crime figures. So there's the body of records from the LA Police Department.
The CIA had people in the LAPD who helped control the investigation of the assassination and exclude marginalized witnesses who didn't say what the government wanted said. The RFK documents are a problem because they're not in one place and it will take a little bit of effort to collect them.
And it's good that the president wrote in 45 days, not 15 days for those documents, because it's going to take a little more work. That's a reasonable delay in light of, you know, getting, you know, getting, finding and getting and releasing those documents.
Yeah, I mean, you have the testimony of the coroner who was hyper aware that the JFK autopsy was a joke and a fraud. And Dr. Noguchi said that Kennedy's head wound was a contact wound, that the gun had been close to Kennedy's head when the shot was fired. Well, Sirhan Sirhan was never that close to RFK.
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