JFK ASSASSINATION

The Plot Thickens -- On Tuesday, journalist and author Jefferson Morley will hold an important news conference at the Washington Press Club. Morley, who has battled with the CIA for many years over the agency's refusal to release JFK documents mandated for public release by federal law, will reveal what is contained in 44 of those suppressed pages. According to these documents, accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was acting under the supervision of the CIA when he handed out pro-Castro literature on the streets of New Orleans in the summer of 1963.

This is explosive information -- and no wonder the CIA hid it from the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and the Assassination Review Board. At the very least, these hidden pages reveal that the spy agency lied when it claimed it had no prior knowledge of Oswald's suspicious activities before JFK's assassination. Potentially the documents reveal something even more disturbing -- what Oswald's mother and others claimed all along: he was a U.S. intelligence agent

I believe that Oswald was what he shouted out to the press after his arrest: he was a "patsy." A former espionage infiltrator in the Soviet Union, the young man was then set up by the CIA to take the fall for the Kennedy assassination.

The Trump administration was required by the JFK Records Act -- signed by President Bill Clinton -- to release all remaining government documents relating to President Kennedy in October 2017. But Trump caved to pressure from the CIA and kicked the can to President Biden, who is equally awed by the national security establishment.

The Tuesday press conference might be the last major effort to get President Biden to abide by the law and release the documents that belong to the American people.

Let's see how widely the media -- which has long been part of the coverup, as I've observed -- covers the event. And even more important, let's see if the Biden White House finally does the right thing.

By the way, Morley will be joined at the press conference by Judge John Tunheim, who presided over the Assassination Review Board, and former CIA agent Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, who believes the JFK assassination was a "rogue" agency operation. There was nothing rogue about it, as many more intrepid researchers have demonstrated. This was a high-level national security job. Because President Kennedy was working to end their dangerous but lucrative racket -- the Cold War.

Oswald and the CIA... I watched the Jefferson Morley press conference this morning. And I strongly support the lawsuit that was filed by him and the Mary Ferrell Foundation. After nearly 60 years, the American people have a right to the documents that have been illegally blocked by the CIA and FBI, in blatant violation the 1992 JFK Records Act. President Biden can compel the security agencies to abde by the law and fully release the Kennedy documents. Will he?

According to a recent poll highlighted at today's press conference, a stunning 71% of the U.S. electorate wants full disclosure of the Kennedy documents. As the pollster pointed out, this is an overwhelming majority of people in a very divided nation. Will President Biden listen to the will of the people -- or to the CIA?

As Jefferson Morley observed at the news conference, many of the documents illegally locked away by the CIA relate to the spy agency's mysterious relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald. According to Morley, the CIA was running a covert operation against the pro-Castro movement in the U.S., using Oswald to disrupt the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans, the leading group calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict with Cuba, a flashpoint in the Cold War.

After Oswald was framed for the assassination of the president, the CIA succeeded beyond its wildest dreams, shutting down the once influential Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

Morley pointed out that at least 44 documents withheld by the CIA relate to George Joannides, the CIA agent put in charge of the anti-Castro movement in the U.S. by Richard Helms, the number two man who later took over the agency. Joannides was later brought out of retirement by the CIA to serve as its coverup man with the House Select Committee on Assassinations. His covert role was to make sure the committee never got the full information about its agents and the Kennedy assassination. If he had known about Joannides's background, HSCA chief counsel G. Robert Blakey later said, he would've prosecuted him.

What is the CIA still hiding, Morley asked -- the question on all of our minds? Probably that Lee Harvey Oswald was a low-level U.S. intelligence operative, inserted into the Soviet Union as a double agent -- and later brought back to the U.S. with remarkable ease after supposedly renouncing his citizenship, portrayed as a Communist agent, and framed for the assassination of President Kennedy.

Helms lied (again) to Congress when he testified that the CIA had "probably minimal" knowledge of "the lone gunman" who allegedly took the president's life. As Senator Richard Schweiker famously said, "the fingerprints of U.S. intelligence" were all over Oswald. The CIA even read his mail, as Morley pointed out.

Two small but important footnotes about the ongoing Kennedy coverup were also revealed at today's press conference:

-- The CIA is not alone -- NBC, which officially stands by the disgraced Warren Report, still locks away the papers of Walter Sheridan, the Robert F. Kennedy investigator who briefly worked for the TV network. This is part of the ongoing corporate media coverup of the crime.

-- The John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, which is controlled by the National Archives NOT the Kennedy family, still locks away some of the RFK papers. As I've noted before, the Kennedy Library is the enemy of truth about the assassination. Library officials have tried to block me and other historians who have tried to get to the bottom of JFK's murder.

As a U.S. citizen, you have a right to your own history. Demand it!