Week in Review: Joannides File Breaks News

The documents, the response, and the Epstein quagmire

Left: July 14 online edition of the Washington Post article. Right: July 15 print edition, with Joannides story on page 1A (Credit: Washington Post).

As the digital version of The Washington Post’s news story by Tom Jackman about the Joannides File came up online on Monday, JFK Facts editor Jefferson Morley posted a deeply detailed narrative on the revelations within it. Morley has been pursuing these documents for more than twenty years, with information requests leading to a lawsuit and lengthy negotiations with the CIA and the National Archives.

Thanks to the efforts of this year’s House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), the CIA’s personnel file on deceased undercover officer George Joannides is now open to the public.

The link to the file is within this article, but more important is Morley’s history and analysis of the facts within it, which confirm the previously denied role of a CIA officer in the surveillance of lefti…