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Dec 5, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Tomorrow is a big day for me. I’ve been thinking about and researching CIA operations related to JFK’s assassination since November 1994 when I interviewed James Angleton’s longtime aide Jane Roman about the pre-assassination Oswald file.
washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…
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Roman's comments raised a lot of questions. Twenty eight years later, I will answer some of them. Tomorrow I will share my latest findings on JFK and CIA at the National Press Club at 9:30 am. If you can't come in person, watch here.

People ask me, Is there a ‘smoking gun?’ I want to say “Was there a smoking gun in ‘Spotlight’?’ Was there a smoking gun in “She Said?” No. Investigative reporting is not about ‘smoking guns.' Instead I say "No, there is no smoking gun proof of a JFK conspiracy," but ...
There IS smoking gun proof that certain senior CIA officers were far, far more interested in hapless Lee Oswald while JFK was alive than they ever admitted. They used the man who would be arrested for killing JFK in a COINTELPRO-style psychological warfare operation.
It's a serious claim that requires the closest scrutiny. I welcome that along with a discussion of its implications. Is this operation evidence of CIA complicity in Kennedy's death? Or CIA incompetence?
My friend @geraldposner leans towards incompetence as he explained to Tucker Carlson last year. In general, I don't find the CIA to be incompetent. Only full #JFK disclosure can resolve the question.
The undisclosed Oswald operation tells us three things. First, it illuminates the corrosive effect of covert action on American democracy. It is a reminder why ex-president Harry Truman called for abolition of the clandestine service one month after JFK was killed. Image
Second, it illuminates the CIA’s recalcitrance when it comes to compliance with the JFK Records Act. That law, passed unanimously by Congress, set October 2017 as the deadline for full JFK disclosure. The CIA has blown the statutory deadline three times since then.
What will CIA do on December 15? Practice full disclosure? Or demand more secrecy? This story is a clear and simple test of Biden's order on JFK disclosures
Third, if the CIA does not practice full disclosure by December 15—if it does not produce the 44 records I’ve identified—it will be acknowledging that the story I tell is substantially true, with profound implications for the official story that a “lone gunman" killed JFK.
Tune in tomorrow at 9:30 EST
If you favor full JFK disclosure, subscribe to JFK Facts, Substack edition.
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Apr 7
Ever since I testifed before @RepLuna Task Force, the CIA's pro bono lawyers have emerged to impugn my reputation that of my co-author @MargotWilliams.

I invite any of my critics to join me in a 90 minute live debate with a respected moderator such as @ChuckTodd.
Note that Williams has two Pulitzer Prizes, which is two more than @MarkSZaidEsq @geraldposner @philipshenon and @davetroy combined.

Their ad hominem arguments about our reporting is a pathetic effort to distract attention from the story of George Joannides and the pattern of CIA malfeasance found in the new #JFKFiles that

jfkfacts.substack.com/p/my-testimony…?
I documented in my sworn testimony for @RepLuna.

These savants don't want to talk about Joannides' agents in the top-secret AMSPELL program who generated propaganda about Oswald before AND after JFK was killed. They avoid any mention that Joannides obstructed
Read 7 tweets
Mar 19
While we continue to look through the new JFK documents a couple of observations. First, this is a breakthrough. The absurd and suspicious redaction that have denied us the full story are, for the most part, removed. We know know why JFK wanted to "splinter the CIA into...
a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds." Because as Arthur Schlesinger told him, the CIA was effectively usurping presidential authority. The Agency censored Schlesinger's case for six decades to obfuscate the reality of CIA power.
Schlesinger warned JFK that "CIA encroachment on the traditional functions of State" undermined his abilit to conduct his own foreign policy independent of CIA.

See pp.4-5 for what the CIA didn't want you to know.

archives.gov/files/research…
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Feb 15, 2023
NYT contributors who allege anti-trans bias cite a Jan. 22 feature on a parent who discovered her 15-year old's school was helping her kid transition w/o her knowledge. The piece "misframed the battle over children’s right to safely transition." Really ?
nytimes.com/2023/01/22/us/…
The frame is one parent's discovery of this common practice. The letter does NOT dispute the accuracy of Katie Baker's' reporting: that dozens of parents said they "felt villainized by educators who seemed to think that they — not the parents — knew what was best ....
for their children." Rather, they say "The piece fails to make clear that court cases brought by parents who want schools to out their trans children are part of a legal strategy pursued by anti-trans hate groups." But the story was NOT about parents who bring court cases. And..
Read 7 tweets
Jan 2, 2023
THE ART OF SPIN: A CIA spox told selected DC reporters last month, "The assertion that CIA has been holding, and has not disclosed, a set of documents about Lee Harvey Oswald that were part of now-deceased, former CIA officer George Joannides’ files in the JFK Collection ....
is false." REPORTERS BEWARE: This statement is cleverly worded so as to be technically accurate and entirely misleading. Let me explain. CIA denies that it is withholding records "that were part of .. Joannides files in the JFK Collection." That is true because....
the 44 documents about Joannides' undercover operations in 1963 and 1978 that I discovered are NOT YET part of the JFK Collection. They are not in the JFK Collection because....
jfkfacts.substack.com/p/yes-there-is…
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Dec 31, 2022
JFK Facts -- JFK 2022: Bare Majority Believes in Conspiracy jfkfacts.substack.com/p/jfk-2022-wha…
This is not a Twitter poll. It is a statistically valid sample of midterm voters nationwide and a lesson in American history. To wit: JFK's assassination has always been a surrogate for trust in the federal government. Post-Warren Commission, liberals/leftists lost trust and ...
...suspected conspiracy. The right did not and embraced the official story. Post-Bush II, the Trumpian right lost trust in government--and faith in the "lone gunman." Now Republicans are more likely to see a JFK conspiracy, while Dems are somewhat less likely.
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Jul 4, 2022
The @nytimes review of a new book on the Star Spangled Banner is admiring while @washingntonpost is more skeptical about F.S. Key than the author. What the reviews don’t quite capture is impact of the Banner on the politics of slavery. #4THJULY thread.
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
1/In 1833 President Andrew Jackson appointed Key to be District Attorney for the City of Washington. Jackson wanted to deploy Key’s fame and liberal reputation in service of enforcing the slavery system. An ambitious man, Key obliged. #4THJULY
2/In 1834, Key prosecuted Benjamin Lundy, a courageous itinerant editor, who brought his antislavery publication to Washington DC. Lundy was actually acquitted of “seditious libel” but had to leave town under the threat of violence from the slavers. #4THJULY
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