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Jan 2 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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…
the CIA deceived the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) in 1998 by falsely disavowing any knowledge of Joannides' secret operations in 1963 involving Cuban exiles and Lee Harvey Oswald.
jfkfacts.substack.com/p/how-the-cia-…
What @CIA is saying, in essence, is "We don't acknowledge that the Joannides records are JFK related. Therefore, we haven't withheld any of his JFK files."
Judge Tunheim, former ARRB chair, punted this sophistry in a Dec. 5 letter to Biden.
maryferrell.org/pages/Featured…
He wrote:
"The Board would have released the file in full had it not been misled. The House [Select] Committee [on Assassinations] was also misled in a similar manner by the Agency. The Joannides file absolutely needs to be released in full."
Why did CIA mislead the HSCA, ARRB, and now Biden and DC press corps about these records? It seems like they really really really don't want us to know about certain CIA operations and Oswald in 1963. Can they be forced to change their position? Will anything change in 2023?
I think so. The CIA's cover story is not credible. In the sunlight of new facts, it is decomposing before our eyes. #JFKFiles #JFKFacts.

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Last Friday night, Pres. Biden released a ridiculous statement saying he will delay enforcement of the JFK Records Act until Dec. 15. The CIA has annulled a law passed unanimously by Congress. It is a proverbial 'smoking gun:' evidence of complicity. @AmandiOnAir A #JFK thread:
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