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In case you didn't: https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1644379485574135811?s=20

The information about LHO making multiple trips to Cuba is, of course, false. As with many docs and issues in the case people with ulterior motives are flooding law enforcement with misinformation and disinformation trying to achieve their own personal, ideological goals. Some want the U.S. to go to war with Cuba. Some of this information about LHO making multiple trips to Cuba come from sources the FBI trusts like informants and other government agencies. So, it wasn't vetted against travel records. It's given out within hours of the assassination. It also has a false story that LHO met 2 policemen with a few blocks of the TSBD and shot at one of them and killed one. This is someone trying to make a narrative from incomplete information about Officer Tippit's death who has no knowledge of the events. One wonders what paralysis affected the second policeman in this story. Another item is a telephone operator overhearing a conversation between someone in the Woodner apartments and a man in Texas. One assumes the telephone operator at the Woodner apartments could be an FBI informant. That would be a good place to have one. The Woodner apartments, aka the Woodner Hotel, is where Jimmy Hoffa lived.

FBI releases heavily redacted Ivanka Trump file - https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rRIdgx38yix8/v0

Ask a silly question - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62251#relPageId=96

See - What is the RIF #? Is this doc online somewhere? I don't see it at MFF. Thanks.

I was informed in an email this morning from Bart Kamp that Casey Quinlan was injured in an automobile accident. Casey sustained two broken ribs and a back injury. Bart says two cars were racing each other and one of them slammed into the back of Casey's car. So, please pray for him and wish him a speedy recovery. Thank you, Joe

No. He didn't. He was never a suspect in it until after the assassination, and not until he was long dead too. Original DPD files describe a very different bullet casing, steel jacketed, not copper. All this was ignored, buried, and covered up. Claiming LHO shot at Walker is a story, a fiction, to make it seem LHO couldn't tell the difference in the political ideologies between JFK and Walker. This then made LHO a non-political assassin and thus solved the quandary of LHO having no apparent motive to kill JFK. That was a problem for investigators for a longtime.

A video of Donald R Heath, Jr. - Donald R Heath, Jr. Joe

Okay, folks learn about Donald R Heath, Jr. Here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_R._Heath Also latest released version of 104-10103-10024 - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=223159#relPageId=1 Joe

Jeff Morley announced on his substack site JFK Facts that the MFF people have replied to the DOJ motion to dismiss. I can't post the .pdf here so I can only refer you to JFK Facts on substack site. Odd that it's not on the MFF site yet. Hopefully, it will be soon. Joe

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This RIF, dated 2/10/95 says it has 253 pages - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=50676#relPageId=91&search=COLLECTION_OF RIF PAGES FROM OSWALD 201 FILE, VOLUME 14 This RIF dated 4/10/96 says it has only 1 page. - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=109791#relPageId=1 Guess which one the NARA Excel database uses? Yes, the 1 page one. This was a CIA bulky, Vol. 54. I presume of LHO's 201 file. Was the 1995 RIF referring to the totality of Vol. 54, only for all of those documents to get their own 1993 numbers and then RIF numbers? This is Volume 54 today. And this is Volume 54B. If not, where did those 252 pages go? This is hardly the first example of a difference in a RIF page for one RIF number changing over time that I've seen but this one stuck out a little. Even if you try to catalogue everything ( like I am ) you'll have to account for the changes in the RIF form over time too. As Sam Kinison would say, "UGGGGHHHHHH!" Joe

This was posted on Twitter. I don't think this doc exists in the JFK Records Collection at NARA. See - https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75B00380R000800140020-0.pdf Joe

Have people seen this? https://transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov/2023/01/24/registration-open-for-pidb-public-meeting-and-co-sponsored-conference-on-americas-secrets-classified-information-and-our-democracy-january-26-27-in-austin-texas/ Joe

See - https://www.foiaadvisor.com/home/2023/1/24/foia-news-2022-annual-foia-reports

Thanks for posting this.

From Jeff Morley Roger Stone mangles the story of a key Oval Office confrontation between Nixon and CIA director Helms about JFK's assassination. Stone reports that Nixon told Helms, "I know who shot John." Not true. I know because I broke the story in my book.... https://rogerstone.substack.com/p/nixon-threatened-to-reveal-the-cias

What the House Judicial Obstruction Committee is really all about. From Keith Olbermann's Countdown podcast 1/9/23 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/id1633301179?i=1000593088552 Insurrection. No, not the one in Brazil, the one here still in full flower two years and three days after the Trump slobs were beaten back and this time the combatants will include, not the Proud Boys, but the Holman rule and the Linder letter. It starts today when the Taliban 20 forces its combination Speaker of the House and hostage, Kevin McCarthy, to pass a House rules package dressed up in patriotic persiflage but actually designed merely to keep the insurrectionists from being prosecuted. The 2023 battle will be less mob rule and more Robert's rules of order but it will again take place at the Capitol. The House rules for the 118th Congress will establish something to be airily called The Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Justice Department or something stupid like that when in fact it should be called The House Obstruction of Justice Subcommittee. This subcommittee will give itself the right to review "ongoing criminal investigations," which is a nice way of saying insurrectionists serving in the House like Gym Jordan and Matt Gaetz, and Perry, and Greene, and Gosar, to say nothing of Trump, or anybody else being investigated for their complicity in the January 6th coup attempt they will be able to use a congressional subcommittee to stop those investigations OF THEMSELVES. Or, at least they think so. Gaetz and Jordan, who are behind this, are trying to dress it up as some kind of protection for political free speech, and rights this and first amendment that when in fact it is an attempt by Jordan and Gaetz to keep Jordan and Gaetz OUT OF JAIL. The problem with clever but lazy fanatics like Jordan and Gaetz is that they only read the headlines. They will hit the Department of Justice with demands for testimony, for evidence, of hearings, for witnesses and the Department of Justice will be able to tell Gaetz and Jordan TO SHOVE IT UP THEIR BASE. A deputy assistant attorney general will write to Chairman Jordan or Chairman Gaetz a note, dry as toast, invoking the Linder letter and Attorney General Robert Jackson and presuming they get a grown up to read it aloud to them Gaetz and Jordan will be in for a big surprise. On January 27th, 2000, which is so long ago but the day I turned 41, Assistant Attorney General Robert Raven wrote to the House Chair on the Subcommittee on Rules, Congressman John Linder about this exact precise subject. No, not only can't Congress have, or see, or ask, or demand anything about ongoing criminal investigations but that that has been the policy of the United States government whether run by Democrats or Republicans since about 1900. Raven quoted Robert H Jackson, FDR's attorney general in 1941 citing something like forty years worth of precedence at that point in 1941. Jackson wrote that all investigative reports are confidential documents of the executive department of the government to aid in the duty laid upon the President by the Constitution to take care that the laws be faithfully executed and that congressional or public access to them would not be in the public interest. Raven also pointed out in 2000 what should be obvious to anybody not quite as stupid and slovenly as Gym Jordan and Matt Gaetz, he quoted one assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, Charles J Cooper who had written, "providing a congressional committee with confidential information about active criminal investigations would place the congress in a position to exert pressure or attempt to influence the prosecution of criminal cases." The author of that quote, Charles J Cooper was the assistant attorney general under Ronald Reagan. If a congressional committee is fully apprised of all details of an investigation as the investigation proceeds, wrote a deputy counsel to the president, Edward L Morgan, there is a substantial danger that congressional pressures will influence the course of the investigation. And that Mr. Morgan was deputy counsel to Richard Nixon. It is an open and shut bright red line. Gaetz and Jordan and their Speaker hostage McCarthy are not the first yahoos who tried to save their own skins by pretending they have the right to review anything going on in the Department of Justice and given where the Republican Insurrectionist Party is going they will not be the last. However, DOJ will refuse. Completely. The House will then vote to find Merrick Garland or somebody else at DOJ in contempt and demand they be prosecuted for that contempt and that's when Jordan and Gaetz will realize that the only branch of law enforcement which can actually do that is the Department of Justice. Gaetz and Jordan will then be surprised as hell when the Department of Justice declines to prosecute the Department of Justice. Presumably, the insurrectionists will be able to fundraise off this brouhaha, ha, ha, ha, and get the Republican umbrage machine to fire up and get Tucker "Jiminy Glick" Carlson to make some more vague threats of violence against somebody but the bottom line is they will not get to review the Special Counsel's case against Trump. Nor stop it. Nor review or stop the DOJ's case against Gaetz for sex trafficking, or anything else. So, when hands are rung later today about the House subcommittee on the deep state won't let Matt Gaetz Venmo payments for underage girls or the House Subcommittee to get Trump off the hook and blame it all on Pelosi just remember the Linder letter, and look forward to watching Gaetz and Jordan squirm. The Linder letter's evil twin is called the Holman rule and I'm a little bit more worried about the Holman rule. What I want to hear at the appropriate moment is that the the Justice Department has not merely completed funding the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith for the next two years but has already paid his salary, all other salaries, all foreseeable expenses and all unforeseeable expenses for everybody involved in the special counsel's office for the next two years. Because, of course, Kevin McCarthy, gave away the store to become Speaker of the House until, like Thursday of next week or whenever they over throw him, and part of the store he gave away is the attempt to reinstitute the Holman rule. The Holman rule is another vestige of the 19th century, like the Supreme Court clerical error declaring that corporations are people with which the Fascists can now try to strangle the 21st century. The Holman rule is something somebody told Marjorie Taylor Greene about. And that idiot actually remembered it. Two words in consecutive order, nice job Marge! Marge treats this as if it were an incantation from a Harry Potter book rather than what it actually was. The Holman rule was congress trying to get a handle on out of control political patronage appointments to the civil service during the presidency of Ulysses S Grant. Essentially the House could vote to eliminate the salary of any federal employee one at a time if need be. Over the decades congress has not done much that justifies the cost of the oil with which to fry it in hell but give credit where credit is due here, we have not seen many corrupt political patronage appointments by President Grant or his lackeys recently. This one worked. Even the House recognized that this was kind of an old deal in 1895. They killed the Holman rule in 1895. It came back from the dead in 1911. It was the basis for a House bill unsuccessfully directed at 39 victims of the Red Scare in the 40's. It died again in 1983. And then it was resuscitated by the Republicans when they took the House in 2017. Congressman Ron DeSantis tried to use the Holman rule to punish his political enemies, and failed. Paul Gosar tried it, and failed. And most Republicans recoiled at what amounts to employment terrorism within the government, and a line item veto within the government, and most importantly revoking budget items after the budget had been approved. Even Republicans don't like the Holman rule. The Democrats killed it again when they took power in 2019. But what Marjorie trailer park Greene has been promising since the middle of last year was to get the Holman rule reinstated and use it to fire or to least cut the salary of anybody investigating or prosecuting Trump. It is corruption to cover up sedition. It is probably not constitutional based on a ruling in that red scare case in the 40's because as the court then noted it is a bill of attainder and section 9, article 1 of the constitution prohibits bills of attainder. To translate, and God I remember this from 7th grade Social Studies, thank you Mrs. Rice, a bill of attainder is a legislature, NOT A COURT, declaring somebody guilty of something and punishing them without a trial. Legal in the England of the 1700's, NOT legal in the United States of any year, decade, or day. So, if Greene gets the Fascists to pass a Holman rule action to cut Jack Smith's salary, or Merrick Garland's salary, or the salaries of everybody at the FBI it probably would not hold up in court. On the other hand it could create yet more red tape and time delay to hold up the prosecution of Trump. So, the prophylactic solution to this anti-democracy, anti-constitutional, anti-law effort by Representative Cavewoman would be make sure everybody in special counsel Smith's office is already paid through 2024. Don't spend it all in one place. And then tell Marge to shove the Holman rule up her district. So, the main attempt to protect Trump, and Gaetz, and Jordan, and Greene, and whoever placed the Jan 5th pipe bombs, and that I mention the pipe bomber right after I mention Greene is just a coincidence. The main attempt will fail. The secondary attempt may fail of its own weight, and if it doesn't it can be headed off at the pass. This leaves the Democrats and the administration more time to deal with what they should have precluded while they still had the majority the Republican terrorist plan to refuse to raise the debt ceiling, cause this country to default on its debts, and then, you know, crash the world economy.

I discovered something new, well, new to me anyway. RIF#124-90151-10021. This is how dirty the KGB would play. Norman R. Runnion was a UPI reporter. He was interviewed by FBI agent Tolled Jacobson, Jr. on 10/15/62. "It is noted that in discussing BARSUKOV, (RUNNION) laughingly remarked that if the U. S. Government were to make a case against BARSUKOV and have him expelled from the U. S., such action would no doubt result in the expulsion of an American reporter from Moscow. In this connection, reference was made to recent expulsion of American diplomats [from the Soviet Union, apparently on a retaliatory basis. "In this connections it appears, probable that RUNNION has in mind the interests of UPI with regard to possible expulsion of some one of its representatives from the USSR. This probability will be borne in mind in the event of further interviews with RUNNION "Also in the course of conversation, he remarked that a (UPI) newspaperwoman named ALINE WOSBY at one time was stationed in Moscow. He said that on one occasion while stationed there, Miss MOSBY was found unconscious and partially disrobed in a gutter. He said she was jailed over-night at that time and the incident was mentioned in "Izvestia". BUNNION said it was his understanding that upon her release the following day Miss MOSBY was examined at the American. Embassy and it was determined that she had been drugged. He said she had been charged with drunkenness although she did not drink. RUNNION said that this episode was considered an attempt by the Russians to place UPI at a disadvantage, so that in the event UPI should in the future incur the displeasure of the Soviet Government, they could concoct a similar incident and have Miss MOSBY expelled from the USSR with resultant publicity. He said that to avoid such an eventuality, UPI transferred Miss MOSBY to another post, thus terminating her career in Moscow." So, did this incident with Mosby happen before she interviewed Oswald? Joe

Okay, so this document is not relevant to the topic of this thread I started, but I want to give the RIF#144-10001-10107. The one I'm referencing does not look exactly like the one Steve Thomas posted but it's a copy of the same document and a little easier to read.

JFK Files on Twitter posted this doc. https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/jfk/jfk00161.pdf Calling it - NSA-JFK00161. I'm not finding this at MFF.

Have people looked at this? National Security Agency / Central Security Service John F Kennedy Assassination Every one of these have to be checked against what is available at MFF to see if they're there and if there what the proper RIF number is.

See - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=190776#relPageId=1 Again, I'm reposting interesting docs that JFK Files -@FilesJFK puts up non Twitter. Watch this space - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Shushkevich Joe