A 'Jarring' Oswald Disclosure Attracts Widespread News Coverage
A 'Jarring' Oswald Disclosure Attracts Widespread News Coverage
And a new poll shows a bare majority of Americans reject the official story of a lone gunman.
My presentation on the CIA’s undisclosed operational interest in accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1963 is drawing national and international news coverage.
I presented more of the evidence behind my JFK Facts story, “Yes, There Is a Smoking Gun,” at a media event at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. Judge John Tunheim, former chair of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) also spoke, calling on President Biden to release the last of the JFK files. Bradford and attorney Larry Schnapf discussed the foundation’s lawsuit against Biden and the National Archives for failure to enforce the JFK Records Act.
Fernand Amandi, a Florida pollster and MSNBC analyst, presented results of his firm’s nationwide poll conducted in mid-November that gauged how Americans think about JFK’s assassination today and what they think President Biden should do about the remaining secret files.
The press conference made national news in two ways.
Marc Caputo led his NBC News story with the results of the Bendixen & Amandi poll and followed up with details of my presentation about CIA operational activities involving Oswald while JFK was alive. Caputo sets the stage for my story with this plain statement of fact.
The CIA has played a central role in covering up information about the JFK assassination over the years.
and Caputo quotes me on the gist of my story.
“What are they hiding? There’s 44 documents that we know exist, that are assassination-related but have not been released. And they relate to covert programs in which George Joannides was involved,” Morley said in an interview. “There was authorized operational activity around Oswald before the assassination. And that’s what’s in these withheld documents.”
The Axios newsletter reported on the JFK poll, adding a concise explanation of key points in the assassination story.
Brian Pfaill picked up the story for NewsMax. Bevean Hurley reported for Yahoo News and the U.K. Independent with a key quote from my talk.
“What the CIA is hiding is what they’ve always hidden, which is their sources and methods as they relate to Lee Harvey Oswald,” he said. “We’re talking about smoking-gun proof of a CIA operation involving Lee Harvey Oswald.”
The Daily Beast calls my work a “jarring revelation,” and I think “jarring” is the right word. The story of the undisclosed Oswald operation is jarring because it is factual, not conspiratorial or anti-conspiratorial. The story jars the reader out of the familiar grooves of the debate between Conspiracy Theorists and Lone Nutters and into the historical record of the assassination as the best researchers understand it in 2022.
We will post the a video of the National Press Club event shortly.
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I watched the presser on December 6 from the National Press Club and enjoyed all 4 speakers.
I think Jeff made a clear case for the CIA's involvement with the DRE in 1963.
However, there was no evidence that the CIA or DRE had contact with LHO or influenced him when he had his interaction with Carlos Bringuier in July, 1963 in New Orleans. Oswald may have been a witting accomplace in creating a legend for himself as a Cuban/Coimmunist sympathizer, or he may have, indeed, felt an affinity for the pro-Castro cause. The evidence at present does not answer that question. Maybe Johanades' files will show a connection.
What we do have from the presentation is a very old piece of evidence, discovered by the NOPD in July, 1963: a FPCC leaflet handed out by Oswald was stamped "L.H. Oswald, 544 Camp Street." As everyone knows, 544 Camp Street was Guy Bannister's address in 1963. It was also Carlos Bringuier's address in 1962, when he directed an anti-Castro group which preceded the DRE.
Did the CIA, as part of COINTELPRO, actively infiltrate and sabotage the FPCC in 1963? Yes. Did LHO collaborate in that effort? We don't know yet.
I thought the Tunheim statements were the highlight but I really appreciated the polling data also. Well done.