Week in Review: Joannides File Released, Occam's Razor Debated
'This is a big deal. The CIA is changing its tune on Lee Harvey Oswald,' Jefferson Morley said of newly released documents regarding CIA officer Joannides
Declassified Documents on George Joannides
On July 3, the CIA released records regarding deceased CIA officer George E. Joannides in response to requests from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, chair of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. The documents released can be found in the agency’s FOIA reading room and more usably at the Mary Ferrell Foundation’s “Documents related to CIA Officer George Joannides.”
Records regarding Joannides were originally sought by JFK Facts’ editor Jefferson Morley in a Freedom of Information Act request of July 4, 2003. Twenty-two years later, after a series of requests and a lawsuit (Jefferson Morley v Central Intelligence Agency, Civil Action No. 1.03CV02545), the Joannides file created by the agency is open. Are there more documents that have not been declassified and released?
Axios was the first media organization to report on the release, in a story by Marc Caputo headlined “CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal.”
For the first time since President Kennedy's assassination nearly 62 years ago, the CIA has tacitly admitted that an officer specializing in psychological warfare ran an operation that came into contact with Lee Harvey Oswald before the Dallas killing.
Morley followed up on the Axios story, announcing that JFK Facts will publish a detailed report later this week about what the file does (and does not) tell us about the causes of JFK’s assassination. Watch for the report on JFK Facts.
Occam’s Razor Redux
Writing on Nicholas Nalli’s response to JFK Facts’ June 23 story, “From the New JFK Files: What the Medical Evidence Tells Us,” Morley continued a debate on how to think logically about JFK's assassination, and how important it is to factor in recently released evidence.
To put it another way, the JFK revelations of recent years — the Oswald file and the forthcoming Joannides file — now force defenders of the official story to reluctantly state a fact they never mentioned before, a fact unknown to historians and journalists, a fact denied by the CIA and major news organizations, a once controversial proposition that is now no longer a subject of dispute.
In the weeks before Kennedy was killed, Lee Harvey Oswald was well known to senior CIA undercover officers opposed to JFK’s policies.
JFK in the Movies: Part 5
The penultimate piece of Chad Nagle’s series exploring portrayals of the JFK assassination in the movies brought us into the 2000s. It included reflections on four obscure independent films that questioned the official history but never gained much traction at the box office. One of them was even taken out of circulation by its producer-director, never to reappear. I have not seen most of these, and now I am intrigued.
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Thanks for the suggestions, but I’m going with this one.
In re "Occam's Razor Redux", I reiterate:
Previously Jefferson Morley had reported that "Nicholas Nalli has posted a thoughtful response to my piece, 'From the New JFK Files: What the Medical Evidence Tells Us,' on Fred Litwin’s blog. Its mild tone is a balm in these disputatious times."
Balderdash!
Mr. Nalli is just a bargain basement Renatus Hartogs for our time. Via a delivery system comprised of disinformation expressed in pseudo-intellectual babble, he attempts to defend the LN lie by application of the Principle of Parsimony.
The essence of Mr. Nalli's argument: a simple lie trumps a complex truth.
A deftly planned and executed intelligence operation that includes a bodyguard of fabricated "evidence" presented via arguments from authority turns William of Occam's celebrated razor into a dullened blade with all the cutting power of a plastic dinner knife.
If Mr. Nalli does not already comprehend this most basic reality, then his analyses of any intel-related phenomena must be considered fatally flawed even as they justly come under suspicion of being wittingly delivered components of the prevarication at hand.
Understand that the foundational goal of the JFK assassination cover-up is not to convince, but to control -- to create, refine, and preserve paralyzing, justice-denying doubt that extends beyond the matter of the Dallas action into the entirety of the culture.
The likes of Mr. Nalli and his mouthpiece, the evil clown Mr. Litwin, are assigned to encourage polite debate so that the illusion of a level playing field for their LN lie and the conspiracy truth may be preserved.
They and their fellow sappers must be exposed and excoriated for what in my informed, Constitutionally-protected opinion they amount to -- accessories after the fact to regicide.
By your leave, kind Sir Jeffrey. Pull out that monogrammed hanky you've inserted up your sleeve and shove it down their filth-spewing throats.
No disputation intended, of course.
Here are foundational conclusions that provide essential guidance for thinking about the JFK assassination.
We are investigating what I've termed a "solved unsolved crime."
Anyone with reasonable access to the evidence who does not conclude that JFK was killed by criminal conspirators is cognitively impaired and/or complicit complicit in the crime.
Endless regurgitations of long-established proofs of conspiracy serve only to preserve and enhance the cover-up.
The identities of the killers at the Sponsor, Facilitator, and Mechanic levels of the conspiracy (categories described in the Evica-Drago Conspiracy Model) remain, at best, unclear.
Unless the research community can identify its ultimate goal, it will continue to plan a route without a destination.
I submit that our goal must be to define and effect justice for JFK and the untold millions collaterally damaged by his assassins.