JFK Files

Files released.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/oct/26/jfk-files-released-assassination-documents-conspiracy-theories


Interestingly, the scope is much broader than JFK.

Cheerful Spring

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Files released.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/oct/26/jfk-files-released-assassination-documents-conspiracy-theories


Interestingly, the scope is much broader than JFK.

Not all got released and the secrecy keeps going. Six months till the blackened pages get released if at all, no conspiracy? It take days for people to find useful information. Each file has thousands of documents.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32113033.pdf

Nixon thought the CIA had assassinated President Diem in Vietnam, and LBJ used to think JFK was assassinated in retaliation for it.

Interesting reading for sure and some other stuff about the Minute Men. It reads like research for a spy novel.

And check the last few lines of that file.. Cliffhanger.

gitzy16v

What would actually happen if any of the conspiracy was true?
Does it really matter?
There is another conspiracy over in Vegas,maybe try crack that one instead.

gitzy16v

gitzy16v wrote: »

What would actually happen if any of the conspiracy was true?
Does it really matter?
There is another conspiracy over in Vegas,maybe try crack that one instead.

Yeah, I know. I hated history is school as well. Why do people even care about stuff that doesn't matter.

gitzy16v

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yeah, I know. I hated history is school as well. Why do people even care about stuff that doesn't matter.

I was really hoping for an answer to my first question.
Admittedly I love a good conspiracy but just wondered what would happen if the conspiracy was true.
Would anything actually change?

gitzy16v

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yeah, I know. I hated history is school as well. Why do people even care about stuff that doesn't matter.

Btw...i loved history in school.One of my favourite subjects.

Cheerful Spring

Trump 'unhappy' with government redactions to JFK files

He was unhappy with the level of redactions," a White House official said, adding that Trump believed the agencies were "not meeting the spirit of the law."
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement Thursday night that Trump "has demanded unprecedented transparency from the agencies and directed them to minimize redactions without delay."
Trump's final decision came at the end of a months-long review of the remaining 3,100 classified records relating to the Kennedy assassination, during which tensions flared between intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the National Archives and Records Administration over what information should be withheld from the public.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/trump-unhappy-with-government-redactions-to-jfk-files/index.html?sr=twCNN102617trump-unhappy-with-government-redactions-to-jfk-files0920PMVODtop

It so evident they are covering up still 50 years later. You have people on this site excusing this behaviour and believing it's ok like dumb sheeple.

Cheerful Spring

gitzy16v wrote: »

What would actually happen if any of the conspiracy was true?
Does it really matter?
There is another conspiracy over in Vegas,maybe try crack that one instead.

Yes it matters. There is a small chance a coup took place and secret government took charge, maybe?

Arghus

Did someone type the word sheeple...LOL.

dr.fuzzenstein

Arghus wrote: »

Did someone type the word sheeple...LOL.

As soon as that word appears you know you can safely discount any input by that poster as junk.

So they were warned about Oswald before the attack. But the Soviet Union saw him as being neurotic and feared there was a conspiracy. The Dallas police were warned about the threat to Oswald's life but decided not to act.

The Guardian live blog - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/oct/26/jfk-files-released-assassination-documents-conspiracy-theories - has since wrapped up.

branie2

We can be thankful that Father Ted wasn't mentioned

branie2

branie2 wrote: »

We can be thankful that Father Ted wasn't mentioned

What I love most about this is that Fr. Dougal liked this post. Sure he would've been implicated too, so makes sense :pac:

The Nal

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

Skeptics have tried and every time have not be able to replicate the magic bullet shot.

Based on 5.6 seconds which was wrong. He had 10 or 11 seconds in reality. Easy.

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

A bullet would suffer severe deformities after it hit the skin, then ribs, the wrist and finally the thigh of Connolly.

Not true. Posted this earlier in the thread, from from 22.30.

Nothing in the files anyway as expected. 54 years later and still not a shred of evidence, never mind anything approaching proof of a conspiracy of any kind.

It was Oswald.

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

Oswald was hanging out with Cuban exile groups who were planning and staging and getting ready to take out Castro. The CIA funded those groups. Oswald either way was involved with the CIA- secret war against Castro.

Oswald was pro Castro. Big league. The name he bought the guns under - Alek Hidell - was based on "Fidel". He was only "hanging out" with the exile group to infiltrate them and report back to the Fair Play for Cuba guys to try impress them. When the exiles saw him handing out pro Castro literature on the streets they realised what he was at, there was a fight and they all got arrested.

The Fair Play for Cuba Committee didn't want his help. He bragged about having lots of members in his chapter in New Orleans but he was the only member. He was delusional.

Heres a link to the letter he wrote to them and the letter they wrote back advising against opening an office in New Orleans.

Nothing was going his way. He couldn't get back to Russia or into Cuba, he had an awful job, no money, his wife had left him and his politics weren't gaining any notice.

Cheerful Spring

A few surprises found ( below) and will only fuel the conspiracy further. The CIA and FBI redacting information about the JFK killing should be a wake up call for people, but some just prefer to be sheeple instead.

This one is interesting someone seems to have known ahead of time Oswald ( and maybe others) had planned to killed Kennedy?
London reporter received anonymous tip before JFK assassination
Memo from FBI director to Dep. CIA Director James Angleton, dated 11/26/63: A cable from the London CIA station four days after Kennedy's assassination told of a UK reporter, from the Cambridge News, who, on Nov. 22, 1963, had received anonymous tip to call the U.S. embassy "for some big news." Twenty-five minutes later, British Security Services MI-5 calculated, Kennedy was shot. The reporter had a solid reputation and said he had never before received a call of this kind.

Oswald's killer was already on FBI's surveillance radar:

The caller says he is on committee and there task was to kill Oswald. So he is part of a plot to kill Oswald and there is a wider conspiracy?
The FBI warned of a death threat to Oswald: A report directed by then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the FBI received a call at its Dallas office There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead," says the Nov. 24, 1963 document originally marked "secret." "Last night, we received a call in our Dallas office from a man ... in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill Oswald."

"We at once notified the chief of police and he assured us Oswald would be given sufficient protection. This morning we called the chief of police again warning of the possibility of some effort against Oswald and he again assured us adequate protection would be given. However, this was not done."


Some Soviet Union Leaders felt it was a Ultra right coup and the KGB had found their own evidence Lyndon Johnson was involved. I guess the next question is where can we find this evidence today?

The KGB's chief officer in New York City, Boris Ivanov, described Kennedy's death as a "problem" for his agency. Ivanov also told his agents that he believed that a conspiracy had been involved in Kennedy's assassination,

Huexotzingo

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

A few surprises found ( below) and will only fuel the conspiracy further. The CIA and FBI redacting information about the JFK killing should be a wake up for people, but some just prefer to be sheeple instead.

The Russian angle is interesting. It was often thought that the assassination was a Cuba/Russia backed plan, but the files seem to suggest that this wasn't true. The Soviet Leader seemed to really respect JFK and even wanted to do a joint USSR/USA Space mission. Then LBJ came along, who they didn't trust, and that went to 'eck. They rang out bells to mourn his passing. Cuba also immediately said they had nothing to do with it.

If anyone is interested, there's a great AskReddit thread over on Reddit, in which people discuss the most interesting aspects they've seen.

This post about Dorothy Kilgallen is really curious:

I was always interested in the case of Dorothy Kilgallen, a well known investigative journalist at the time (Had her column in over 200 newspapers). She was the only person who had interviewed Jack Ruby, twice I believe.
She was highly influential, and was friendly with JFK and upper-class New York society (For example she had a friendship and feud with Frank Sinatra). She was a daily panelist on the hit TV show at the time "What's my Line", and was known for her celebrity-attended parties. She was on the show live, hours before her death. Be aware there is tons of hearsay when this is discussed, but it is still fascinating.
She went full force into the JFK investigation, not believing Oswald acted alone, publicly stating that in her column. She allegedly carried a file around with her at all times, and told her close friend she was "going to release the largest story of the century, and blow the entire JFK case sky-high". Eventually she expressed fear for her life to her closest friends, became more paranoid and had bought a gun, which was out of her character. When in New Orleans investigating a contact, she had apparently told her assistant to go back to NYC and tell no one, in a frantic panic.
She was soon to submit her findings, but in 1965 she was found dead after having an affair with a much younger man who came out of nowhere. Her files were missing, and she was found by her hairdresser in a bedroom she never slept in, with clothes she would never wear to bed, reading a book she had finished and disliked, wearing glasses when she didn't need them for reading. Her case was closed as barbiturates and alcohol. NYC actually reopened an investigation into her death in 2016 due to a book published recently, but closed it in September this year with no evidence of foul play.
I looked up her name out of curiosity, and there appears to be an entire file named "DOROTHY KILGALLEN", by Richard Nixon, it appears to still be classified for reasons of national security...
In another declassified document it just reads at the end "She has no idea as to how DOROTHY KILGALLEN came into possession of a copy of the deposition"

MadYaker

The Russians sh!t themselves when JFK died because they thought it was a coup and they were going to get nuked


Trump has given the CIA and the FBI 180 days to justify to him why these further files should be kept classified and if they can't satisfy him he's going to release them.

Cheerful Spring

MadYaker wrote: »

The Russians sh!t themselves when JFK died because they thought it was a coup and they were going to get nuked


Trump has given the CIA and the FBI 180 days to justify to him why these further files should be kept classified and if they can't satisfy him he's going to release them.

Too late. Files are going to be redacted and blackened and some will never see release.

FBI allege the KGB was in possession of data [B proof that would show]President Johnson was responsible for the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy.[/B]

This could be a false story, but imagine somewhere in a soviet archive they have evidence of a conspiracy and just got forgotten over time . When a empire collapses you lose track.

Cheerful Spring

Former Deputy Assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka withholding many of the JFK files “stinks to high heaven,” and that Donald Trump had nothing to do with it.

2,800 records relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy were released by the National Archives yesterday, but more have been held back and will be reviewed during a 180-day period. According to Trump confidant Roger Stone, CIA director Mike Pompeo is responsible for the documents being kept secret.

Gorka said it was “fake news” that Trump had any role in ‘covering-up’ the release of the documents, telling Fox News host Lou Dobbs, “This is nothing to do with President Trump, this is the FBI and the CIA requesting to redact some of the documents.”
To hell with them, I mean that seriously, to hell with them,” responded Dobbs, asking, “Why should we or the president or any administration put up” with intelligence agencies keeping the documents secret for so long.

“There’s only two reasons you would do that redaction right now, the reasons are you protect active operations or you protect sources and methods – neither of those can be true 50 years later – so what is it? Something embarrassing,” remarked Gorka, adding, “It really stinks to high heaven.”

According to reports, Trump is apparently furious that the remaining documents were not released.

tomwaterford

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

According to reports, Trump is apparently furious that the remaining documents were not released.

Was under impression he could overrule the fbI and CIA?

Cheerful Spring

New Statement from Trump. He knows the CIA and FBI will remove everything that links them to a conspiracy.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/923876612013248512

Cheerful Spring

tomwaterford wrote: »

Was under impression he could overrule the fbI and CIA?

He can, but the intelligence agencies would likely revolt if they don't get their own way. Trump is not stupid. The CIA is not a group you mess around with.

It's a pity Trump didn't say something silly on his Twitter. This story would have had everyone in the world clamoring over it.

Pronto63

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

A few surprises found ( below) and will only fuel the conspiracy further. The CIA and FBI redacting information about the JFK killing should be a wake up call for people, but some just prefer to be sheeple instead.

This one is interesting someone seems to have known ahead of time Oswald ( and maybe others) had planned to killed Kennedy?
London reporter received anonymous tip before JFK assassination
Memo from FBI director to Dep. CIA Director James Angleton, dated 11/26/63: A cable from the London CIA station four days after Kennedy's assassination told of a UK reporter, from the Cambridge News, who, on Nov. 22, 1963, had received anonymous tip to call the U.S. embassy "for some big news." Twenty-five minutes later, British Security Services MI-5 calculated, Kennedy was shot. The reporter had a solid reputation and said he had never before received a call of this kind.




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The Cambridge News!!

C'mon can you not do better if you're going to leak such a sensational story. No offence to the readers of this fine journal of course.

Cheerful Spring

Pronto63 wrote: »

The Cambridge News!!

C'mon can you not do better if you're going to leak such a sensational story. No offence to the readers of this fine journal of course.

What wrong with the source it's the 60's UK?

Cheerful Spring

MSN has this on their site. Several people, the number is very specific!

The KGB had ‘data’ indicating Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy, according to a top secret memo sent to the White House by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

The 1966 FBI note - forwarded to Johnson’s aide Marvin Watson - quoted a Russian mole as reporting that Moscow believed JFK’s murder was a ‘well-organised conspiracy on the part of the ‘ultraright’ in the United States to effect a ‘coup.’

‘They seemed convinced that the assassination was not the deed of one man, but it arose out of a carefully planned campaign in which several people played a part,’ says the memo.

Cheerful Spring

The FBI wrote that on November 25, 1963, Colonel Boris Ivanov, the Soviet spy chief in New York, ordered KGB agents to launch an urgent investigation into then President Johnson’s background.

Nearly two years later, the note continues, the same US intelligence source said that instructions came through from KGB headquarters in Moscow, dated September 16, 1965, saying that ‘now’ the KGB was ‘in possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy.

‘KGB headquarters indicated that in view of this information, it was necessary for the Soviet Government to know the existing personal relationship between President Johnson and the Kennedy family, particularly that between President Johnson and Robert and ‘Ted’ Kennedy.’

Amazing the CIA and FBI missed this and let this through to be read. Just imagine what they are hiding in the other files they kept back?

Pelvis

Are the files available to the general public? If so, where?