Raymond wrote:
> On Mar 2, 11:02?pm, Anthony Marsh <anthony_ma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> thaliac...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> > On Mar 1, 11:55 pm, Raymond <Bluerhy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> CIA Lawyers to Face JFK Questions
>> >> By Jefferson Morley 02/26/2008 12:41PM
>>
>> >> The Central Intelligence Agency will quietly defend its refusal to
>> >> release a batch of top-secret files related to the assassination of
>> >> President John F. Kennedy in a Wa****ngton courtroom tomorrow.
>>
>> >> Amid all the headlines about the discovery of a cache of previously
>> >> unknown JFK material in Dallas, agency lawyers will make their firs=
t
>> >> response to a court order to explain the secrecy surrounding a care=
er
>> >> CIA undercover officer allegedly involved in the events that led th=
at
>> >> to the murder of the president on Nov. 22, 1963.
>>
>> >> For four years, the agency has been battling in federal court to bl=
ock
>> >> my Freedom of Information Act request seeking disclosure of the sec=
ret
>> >> operations of a deceased CIA officer named George Joannides. He is =
a
>> >> shadowy figure in the complex story of JFK's assassination. At the
>> >> time of the Dallas tragedy, Joannides was serving as chief of the
>> >> CIA's Miami-based "psychological warfare" operations against Cuban
>> >> leader Fidel Castro. In December, a three-judge panel in the D.C.
>> >> Court of Appeals threw out the many of the agency's decades-old cla=
ims
>> >> of secrecy around Joannides.
>>
>> >> Circuit Judge Judith Rogers and two colleagues ordered the CIA to
>> >> search its operational files for more material on Joannides. They a=
lso
>> >> ordered the agency to explain why 17 re****ts on Joannides' secret
>> >> operations in 1962, 1963 and 1964, are missing from CIA archives. I=
n
>> >> legal briefs, agency officials have claimed that more than 30
>> >> do***ents about Joannides's actions in the 1960s and 1970s cannot b=
e
>> >> made public in any form--for reasons of "national security."
>>
>> >> Joannides' curious connection to the JFK assassination story was
>> >> unknown until 2001. Declassified CIA records revealed that Joannide=
s
>> >> had guided and monitored a Cuban exile student group that publicly
>> >> denounced the pro-Castro activities of Lee Harvey Oswald in August
>> >> 1963. Three months later, Oswald shot Kennedy dead from an office
>> >> buildings. Joannides' agents in Cuban Miami shaped the first day pr=
ess
>> >> coverage of JFK's assassination by generating evidence of Oswald's
>> >> sup****t for Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
>>
>> >> The Joannides files could shed light on the question of whether CIA
>> >> officers overlooked, underestimated or manipulated Oswald as he mad=
e
>> >> his way to Dallas.
>>
>> >> The disputed files could prove more significant to the JFK case tha=
n
>> >> the much-publicized files of Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade, m=
ade
>> >> public last week. Those files mostly concern Wade's case against Ja=
ck
>> >> Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who murdered Oswald in police cust=
ody
>> >> before he could be brought to trial. Thanks to the Dallas Morning
>> >> News, the Wade files can now be viewed online.
>>
>> >> By contrast, the complete Joannides file has never been public. Wha=
t
>> >> remains unknown is the extent of Joannides' control over his agents=
in
>> >> the Cuban exile community who sought to link Oswald to Fidel Castro=
..
>> >> The day after JFK was killed the Cuban communist leader scorned the
>> >> re****ts that Oswald was a sup****ter of his revolution and suggested
>> >> that the CIA was behind the charge. The available records show that
>> >> Castro was right: CIA funds did help publicize the allegation.
>>
>> >> Joannides, who received a CIA medal in 1981, was never questioned b=
y
>> >> JFK assassination investigators. A resident of Potomac, Md,, he die=
d
>> >> in 1990. His Wa****ngton Post obituary described him as a "Defense
>> >> Department Lawyer."
>>
>> >> To date, all efforts to pierce the veil of secrecy around Joannides=
'
>> >> actions in 1963 have been thwarted. The agency has ignored an open
>> >> letter from two dozen leading JFK scholars calling on the CIA to
>> >> release the records.Last year, the National Archives requested acce=
ss
>> >> to the records without success. And the agency's public affairs
>> >> officers agency refuse to answer any questions about Joannides.
>>
>> >> "Joannides' service as case officer of the Cuban exile group which
>> >> dealt with Oswald make his files highly relevant and in need of pub=
lic
>> >> release," said Rex Bradford, senior analyst at MaryFerrell.org, the
>> >> largest online archive of declasssified JFK assassination records.
>> >> "The files are clearly within the scope of the JFK Records Act whic=
h
>> >> remains in effect despite the CIA's failure to recognize the fact."
>>
>> >> The JFK Records Act, passed in 1992 after Oliver Stone's controvers=
ial
>> >> movie, mandates the "immediate" public release of all JFK-related
>> >> records.
>>
>> >> Judge Richard Leon will preside over the hearing in the DC Federal
>> >> Courthouse on Wednesday morning.
>>
>> >> (The Fund for Investigative Journalism provided sup****t for the
>> >> re****ting in this article. A fuller account of Joannides' role in t=
he
>> >> events of 1963 is found in my forthcoming book "Our Man in Mexico:
>> >> Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA," now available on
>> >> Amazon.com. I have also written about Joannides for Playboy.com. Se=
e
>> >> "The Man Who Didn't Talk.")
>>
>> > What does the CIA site as their reason to their opposition to the
>> > files being released?
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> THE GEORGE BUSH CONNECTION
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> In this day and age when some people can not even name the president
> of the United States, it is not the least bit surprising that most
> have no knowledge of George Bush's possible connections to the
> Kennedy
> assassination. The relation****p has its roots in Bush's "former"
> employment with the CIA. As CIA agents have been quoted in the past,
> you never really leave the Agency.
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> THE CIA DID IT!
> Many researchers place the blame for the murder of John F. Kennedy on
> the CIA. The easiest way to clear the mafia or other non-governmental
The CIA _IS_ the mob!=20
http://powderburns.org/indictment.html
KINGPIN INDICTMENT OF GEORGE H. W. BUSH
The following is adapted from a draft indictment of George Bush prepared =
by
former DEA agent Celerino Castillo and the editors of Executive
Intelligence Review. All the evidence contained in this draft indictment
has been thoroughly do***ented. Most of it has been taken either from th=
e
Kerry Re****t of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, or the Final Repo=
rt
on Iran-Contra.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
__________________________________
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
vs.
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH
INDICTMENT
Racketeering 18 USC =A7 1961et seq.
Conspiracy to Im****t Narcotics 21 USC =A7=A7 952 & 963
Continuing Criminal Enterprise 21 USC =A7 848
Conspiracy To Obstruct Justice 18 USC =A7 1503
Conspiracy To Obstruct Congress 18 USC =A7 1505=20
See also:
Connection between Meyer Lansky (Majer Suchowli?ski) and Zionist Movement
http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=3D6620&id2=3D64=
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However much I may wor****p personality-powerful individual personality in
statesmen, inventors, artists, philosophers, or leaders, as well as the
collective personality of a historic group of human beings, which we call=
a
nation--however much I may wor****p personality, I do not regret its
disappearance. Whoever can, will, and must perish, let him perish. But th=
e
distinctive nationality of Jews neither can, will, nor must be destroyed =
~
Theodor Herzl, Father of Political Zionism
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