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Beyond the smoking gun: The new JFK files fill in 2 holes in the assassination story
jfkfacts.org ^ | 2017 | Jeff Morley

Posted on 10/22/2017 12:22:45 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I’ve been hearing from news reporters for major news organizations, who ask, “What’s in the new JFK files? Is there a smoking gun?”

The answer is no. There is no one piece of evidence in the 113,00 pages of JFK records scheduled to be released by October 26, 2017, that will change people’s minds...

But the new JFK files, if released in their entirety, will fill in the two key gaps in the JFK assassination story that have long been obscured by government misconduct, official secrecy, and lazy journalism.

Think of the JFK assassination story as an incomplete mosaic. The new files help complete the picture in two ways.

The new files shed light on the CIA’s use of Lee Oswald for intelligence purposes before November 22, 1963. They also illuminate the illegal actions of government officials to conceal the CIA’s manipulation of Oswald and its plot to kill Fidel Castro in late 1963....

The CIA’s Use of Oswald:

The new files strengthen the claim–long denied by the CIA and mainstream news organizations–that the agency used accused assassin Lee Oswald for intelligence purposes.

Part of the story was brought to light the JFK review board in the 1990s when they released, a complete version of one of the agency’s many pre-assassination cables on Oswald. It was prepared by Jame Angleton’s Counterintelligence Staff on October 10, 1963.

More of the story is coming in the testimony of Orest Pena, a New Orleans bar owner who said he saw Oswald in the company of a senior FBI agents in the summer of 1963. The Pena testimony was not included in the first batch of National Archives releases last week.

The newly-declassified financial records of the CIA front group, the Cuban Revolutionary Council, are also relevant, as Larry explains at The New JFK Show Blog. In his turn as a public supporter of Castro in the summer of 1963, Oswald had repeated contacts with people associated with the CRC. I will be writing more about these records in comings weeks.

Meanwhile, intelligence historian John Newman has already begun to use the new files to develop the granular knowledge of CIA covert operations and cryptonyms necessary to tell this story.

The Criminal Cover-up:

The JFK release last week includes a great deal of material about Russian defector Yuri Nosenko, who claimed to have seen Oswald’s KGB file. The veracity of Nosenko’s claims in the face of CIA interrogation is a key issue that requires deeper analysis, as Newsweek has already reported.

Key documents to come include the still-unreleased testimony of Angleton to the Church Committee on September 12, 1975.

Also important are the operational files of CIA officers hostile to JFK who were involved in assassination operations including Bill Harvey, David Phillips, and Howard Hunt.

None of these files were included in the first Archives release.


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KEYWORDS: assassination; cia; ciaangleton; conspiracy; fbi; grassyknoll; jfk; jfkassassination; jfkfiles; johnson; kennedy
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To: FreedomStar3028

Dude, do you really think if there were a plot to kill a president of the United States there’s going to be a paper trail?


121 posted on 10/22/2017 4:55:30 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: myerson

So where do you think your second shooter was located?


122 posted on 10/22/2017 4:56:09 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: Hostage

The noise inside your head is loud, huh?


123 posted on 10/22/2017 4:56:38 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: odawg
The only wall here is you . You've got all the answers to a situation that never existed. Shallow? Shallow is what passes for your thought process, it's a mile wide and an inch deep. And go look up the definition of irony.
124 posted on 10/22/2017 5:00:06 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: FreedomStar3028
"I would never put my finger on the trigger unless I was planning to fire."

Many negligent discharges occur as a result of people failing to realize that objects other than the finger can get into the trigger and cause the weapon to fire.

125 posted on 10/22/2017 5:02:26 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Covenantor

My now deceased stepfather had an assortment of Minox cameras which my mother gave to the Minox corporate office upon his death. She received a very nice letter from them thanking her for the gift which they said they were going to put on display at their corporate headquarters.


126 posted on 10/22/2017 5:06:54 PM PDT by MarDav
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To: MarDav

Depending on the models and mfr. dates, that was quite a generous gift to Minox. $$$$$


127 posted on 10/22/2017 5:11:35 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Pelham

“...had been haranguing his fellow Marines with communist propaganda while he was in the service....”
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Reminds me of that Spenser Rapone communist dirtbag who was allowed to graduate from West Point in 2016.


128 posted on 10/22/2017 5:15:13 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

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Of course it has bo be laid out for you as usual!

The Kennedy assassination files were fully sanitized decades ago.

This is theater.
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129 posted on 10/22/2017 5:18:45 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: jmacusa

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Your cerebral cortex is what was faked.
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130 posted on 10/22/2017 5:25:44 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

The blame Russia thing explains a large missing piece in my opinion.

For example, why did pols on BOTH SIDES go along with the coverup? How did LBJ sell that?

I could never figure that out.

Once I had that piece, the rest of it lined up.


131 posted on 10/22/2017 5:34:04 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: editor-surveyor

From reading accounts about the dozens of Texans involved with/knew of - including at least 5 who suicided themselves right afterwards - it seems Mac Wallace, who seemed to have hit at least 5 for LBJ over the years personally, set up the snipers’ nest, E.L. Hunt got the SS to modify the route AND provide an agent in case LHO missed and another backup on the grassy knoll. Three levels of surety after Hunt learned through his (ex-FBIer staffed) private intel which Hoover helped build, since JEH and virtually all Texans viewed JFK as a commie. Only Q is which bullet made target.


132 posted on 10/22/2017 5:36:54 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

To elaborate on this a bit more, LBJ needed cover. If he had pols on both sides saying there DEFINITELY WAS NOT A CONSPIRACY he would be golden.

How did he do this? He used the CIA/FBI for what they are really good at.

And that is making it look like Russia did it.

By selling the story that if the fact got out that Russia was behind it, the US public would DEMAND nuclear war, he got everyone from both sides on board.


133 posted on 10/22/2017 5:38:11 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Pelham

Sometimes there IS a conspiracy. Over 80% of the people believe there was. The only thing close is TWA 800.


134 posted on 10/22/2017 5:39:38 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: txhurl

s/b after Hunt learned early that Wallace was going to announce.


135 posted on 10/22/2017 5:39:50 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

so i guess lee harvey oswald is the most amazing rifle marksman in history! perfect headshot in a moving vehicle. single bolt action rifle. magic bullets. wow!!


136 posted on 10/22/2017 5:41:50 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: editor-surveyor
Thank you for conceding the argument. You can offer NO proof there was a plot to kill JFK.
137 posted on 10/22/2017 5:45:53 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

If 80% of people said it was a good idea to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge would you do it?


138 posted on 10/22/2017 5:47:28 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

There’s a small problem with that theory:

Ion Mihai Pacepa verified that the USSR had conducted Operation Dragon, a KGB disinformation campaign, immediately after the JFK assassination (and he’d know because he was personally involved in planning the operation), and there’s at least one East German spymaster who directed someone to ask Fidel Castro about the JFK assassination when asked about involvement. So unless you mean to tell me that LBJ somehow managed to contact two guys who at that time were loyal to the Eastern Bloc to basically parrot his statements about the Russians being to blame, I think you really need to rework your theory.


139 posted on 10/22/2017 5:51:36 PM PDT by otness_e
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Well, we’ll get the remaining ones soon enough anyways.

Let’s hold off until ALL 350,000 documents are released regarding who was responsible for the assassination (besides LHO, I mean). Though personally, if I had to hazard a guess, it’s probably either Khrushchev or Castro. Ion Mihai Pacepa and Humberto Fontova certainly made very convincing arguments to the case, at least.


140 posted on 10/22/2017 5:56:34 PM PDT by otness_e
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