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    Jefferson Morley discusses his new book Morley v. CIA: My Unfinished JFK Investigation

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    The national-security establishment’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy was one of the pivotal events in our lifetime, and it continues to have an adverse impact on American life today. This conference will be oriented toward people who are not well-versed in the assassination and who wish to gain a deeper understanding of it.

    The conference will present an easy-to-understand introduction to what happened and why. Consider it a primer on the Kennedy assassination. Attendees will learn about President Kennedy’s foreign policy and how it was so different from that of both his predecessors and successors — and why the Pentagon and the CIA considered it to be such a grave threat to national security. Attendees will also learn about the fraudulent nature of the autopsy that the national-security establishment performed on the president’s body on the evening of the assassination and how it leads to an understanding of the assassination itself.

    The conference will consist of a weekly series of online presentations by various speakers, beginning Wednesday evening, March 3, and continue every Wednesday evening through April 21. By the time it is over, participants will have a good grasp of what happened on that fateful day in November 1963 and why it is so critically important today.

    Admission: Free.

    For more information about the speakers and registration, please visit the conference website.

     

     
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    Jefferson Morley discusses his new book Morley v. CIA: My Unfinished JFK Investigation

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    Last Wed.'s presentation by John Newman was very good.  He showed how the military told JFK that the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) were performing well against the Viet Cong, because they (Landsdale, Lenmitzer, Krulak, etc) felt that JFK was more likely not to end America's commitment to South Vietnam with this untrue positive picture .  Meanwhile, through a back- channel to LBJ the military was telling the truth- it would take a lot more American troops to turn the communists back .  Newman also showed how badly JFK felt about the Diem assassination. I liked the last page the best- Newman believes (as of last Wed.) that the murder of JFK in Dallas was  a coup.

    For Jim DiEugenio- JFK's quote on the CIA confirmed

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    Matt Novak wrote this in Gizmoda in 2017: " 

    So how did we start to attribute this phrase to JFK and his attitudes toward the CIA? The first attribution of this quote to President Kennedy comes from a story in the April 25, 1966 edition of the New York Times. Notably, this was almost three years after Kennedy’s death:

    Former President Truman, whose Administration established the C.I.A. in 1947, said in 1963 that by then he saw “something about the way the C.I.A. has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic positions, and I feel that we need to correct it.”

    And President Kennedy, as the enormity of the Bay of Pigs disaster came home to him, said to one of the highest officials of his Administration that he “wanted to splinter the C.I.A. in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”

    So did Kennedy say it? Possibly. The only attribution we have is an anonymous source from the Kennedy administration by a New York Times reporter three years after Kennedy was assassinated. I’ve found no record that pre-dates 1966. It’s not exactly like he said it in a public speech or even to a reporter directly.

    The Truman quote comes from a December 22, 1963 article by former president Harry Truman himself in the Washington Post, published just a month after JFK’s assassination and has been used as fodder for conspiracy theorists who think that the CIA killed Kennedy.

    Kennedy was clearly frustrated with the CIA after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. But as far as verifying a quote is concerned, this one from JFK isn’t rock solid. For all we know, this anonymous official was using his own words (leaning on a common phrase, of course) to relay the emotion that Kennedy was trying to convey at the time.

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