Coming Soon: A Spy Called 'Howard'

The full sinister story emerging from the long suppressed personnel file of deceased CIA officer George Joannides will be published here shortly

George Joannides through the ages, left to right: New York City Stuyvesant High School graduate in 1940); as a CIA officer in 1960, 1962, 1964, and 1973, serving undercover in Athens, Miami, and Saigon; and retiring with a Career Intelligence Medal in 1981 (Photos from New York Public Library, CIA, private collection, and CIA)

The July 3 release of the personnel file of undercover CIA officer George Joannides, as reported by Axios, is a breakthrough in the JFK assassination story.

Not so fast, said Gerald Posner on Public News. The story is already known and not important.

I responded on Public News, No, this file illuminates previously unknown CIA machinations in the events leading up to JFK’s murder.

David Von Drehle sees conspiratorial madness.

Axios is right. This is a breakthrough. For the first time we see an undisclosed CIA operation involving the man who supposedly killed the president of the United States. The CIA has some ‘splaining to do.

I explain two key pieces of evidence in the Joannides file to Jim Herlihy on the San Francisco Experience podcast.

You can review the Joannides file yourself at the Mary Ferrell Foundation web site. Click here.

I will publish my full report on the Joannides file in the next day or two. Know this: big news is coming on this story.

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The Joannides file will not be the last revelatory JFK document to emerge from the work of the House Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna.