Fact Check on the Joannides File

SpyTalk formula for covering the JFK files: Deny the obvious, ignore the eyewitnesses, and impugn the witnesses

The release of the personnel file of undercover CIA officer George Joannides, as covered by the Washington Post, has shifted the burden of proof in the discussion of JFK’s assassination from the critics of the official story to defenders of the official theory of a “lone gunman.”

Those of us who have exposed the CIA’s cover story that George Joannides did not exist in 1963 are no longer obliged to concoct conspiracy theories to explain the Agency’s false statements about Lee Harvey Oswald. Those false statements are now a matter of record. It’s up to the defenders of the CIA and the official story of a “lone gunman” to explain the malfeasance that has been revealed.

“Nonsense,” snort Mike Isikoff and Gus Russo of SpyTalk. To sustain their argument that the Joannides file is merely a “sleight of hand,” they resort to all-too familiar tactics.