WASHINGTON POST on Joannides Disclosures: Rogue CIA Officers Plotted to Kill JFK

[Michael T. Griffith]

Last week the Washington Post published an important article on the disclosures coming from the released Joannides files. The article, titled "The CIA Reveals More of Its Connections to Lee Harvey Oswald," includes an extensive quote from a former CIA counterintelligence officer who indicates the disclosures provide background support for the idea that rogue CIA officers conspired to kill Kennedy without the CIA's knowledge.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-cia-reveals-more-of-its-connections-to-lee-harvey-oswald/ar-AA1IyREF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=c50e76c3645849d29977990d78483d42&ei=38

EXCERPT:

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA counterintelligence officer who has delved deeply into the case,
said, “This looks a hell of a lot like a CIA operation.”

He said a plausible theory was rogue CIA officers created the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy,
unknown to the agency, and that “the CIA covered it up not because they were involved, but
because they were trying to hide the secrets of that period.” He said many in the CIA were angry
with Kennedy after he withdrew support for the agency’s Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961
as well as for his gradual move toward peace with the Soviet Union after the Cuban missile crisis
of 1962.

“The question is what was Joannides doing for the CIA monitoring Oswald?” Mowatt-Larssen said.
“The people who were orchestrating this had access to Joannides’s reporting. They used that to
monitor Oswald. His bona fides are being set up to be a lone gunman,” a cover story for other shooters.

[Jon Banks]

Last week the Washington Post published an important article on the disclosures coming from the released Joannides files. The article, titled "The CIA Reveals More of Its Connections to Lee Harvey Oswald," includes an extensive quote from a former CIA counterintelligence officer who indicates the disclosures provide background support for the idea that rogue CIA officers conspired to kill Kennedy without the CIA's knowledge.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-cia-reveals-more-of-its-connections-to-lee-harvey-oswald/ar-AA1IyREF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=c50e76c3645849d29977990d78483d42&ei=38

EXCERPT:

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA counterintelligence officer who has delved deeply into the case,
said, “This looks a hell of a lot like a CIA operation.”

He said a plausible theory was rogue CIA officers created the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy,
unknown to the agency, and that “the CIA covered it up not because they were involved, but
because they were trying to hide the secrets of that period.” He said many in the CIA were angry
with Kennedy after he withdrew support for the agency’s Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961
as well as for his gradual move toward peace with the Soviet Union after the Cuban missile crisis
of 1962.

“The question is what was Joannides doing for the CIA monitoring Oswald?” Mowatt-Larssen said.
“The people who were orchestrating this had access to Joannides’s reporting. They used that to
monitor Oswald. His bona fides are being set up to be a lone gunman,” a cover story for other shooters.

The most revealing fact about the Joannides revelations is that it proves that he was part of a deep cover, off-the books CIA operation.

The reason the ARRB rep for the CIA could find no information about. "Howard", the CIA handler for the DRE is because that name wasn't on the CIA's list of aliases for their known undercover agents. So Joannides' operation was kept secret even from most top level people at the CIA.

Also mentioned by the Post is the fact that 17 months of Joannides' personnel files are missing.

Whatever Joannides was doing, there appears to have been a great deal of secrecy around it, even within the CIA.

[Fred Litwin]

Off the books, my ass!

There is a memo from Lanusa to Joannides using his alias.

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/jefferson-morley-s-unbearable-lightness-of-being

[Jon Banks]

Off the books, my ass!

There is a memo from Lanusa to Joannides using his alias.

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/jefferson-morley-s-unbearable-lightness-of-being

From the Washington Post:

"In an interview, Harrelson also said Howard was not listed in the “registered alias” database of the CIA."

"Harrelson’s memo also noted that progress reports on Joannides’s Miami operation were missing for the 17 months he was there"


That sounds like "Off the books" to any objective person...