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Jefferson Morley's Unbearable Lightness of Being
Now that the entire personnel file of George Joannides has been released, Jefferson Morley has now published his unified theory of nothingness.
There is nothing there. The only thing we have found out in over twenty years is that Joannides used the alias of Howard Gebler.
This is both disappointing and simply wrong. I don't understand how you can make these statements given the information in the released files.
For decades, the CIA, along with WC apologists, insisted, swore up and down, that the CIA had no interest whatsoever in Oswald before the assassination. Now we know that the CIA had a very intense interest in Oswald, and that the CIA was even reading Oswald's mail in the weeks before the assassination. This is a sea-state change in our knowledge of the case and is hardly a "nothing burger."
We also now know that Joannides brazenly misled the HSCA and did all he could to sabotage the HSCA's investigation into Oswald, the CIA, and the anti-Castro Cubans. How you can describe this as a "nothing burger" is hard to understand.
Through CIA officer Barry Harrelson's memo, the CIA disavowed any knowledge of a CIA agent in Miami in 1963 who used the alias Howard. The CIA memo asserted that “knowledgeable sources” at the CIA concluded Howard was not a real person.
Morley knew this was false. He filed a Freedom of Information Act request, which turned into a lawsuit covered by the New York Times and Fox News, and which went on for 15 years until Brett Kavanaugh killed it. All that time, the CIA kept insisting they didn’t know anything about any CIA officer using the alias of Howard in Miami. Your camp uncritically took the CIA's word on that said claimed there was no reason to doubt the CIA's version of the events of 1963.
The release of the Joannides file, however, has exposed the CIA's denial as false. Harrelson now acknowledges that his 1998 memo, sent to a civilian review board tasked with declassifying JFK files, was false. People tell big lies for a reason. Agencies tell big lies for a reason.
The CIA has acknowledged, for the first time in six decades, that Joannides used the alias Howard Gebler and knew of his actions in late 1963, that he ran an illegal operation via his agents in the Cuban Student Directorate (DRE) to confront and denounce Oswald’s chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) in August 1963, and that his agents had contact with Oswald--three months before JFK’s assassination.
This proves that Joannides sanctioned the Directorate’s public efforts in September 1963 to recruit assassins to kill Castro. The Directorate planted an article in a popular men’s magazine sold nationwide that offered a $10 million dollar reward “to person or persons who, with the help of the DRE, will assassinate Fidel Castro.” Joannides submitted an implausible denial for the file and the matter was forgotten, but now we know the truth.
Not only did Joannides run an off-the-books operation illegally targeting U.S. dissidents (the FPCC) for disruption, and not only did his agents have contact with Oswald, but the DRE, which he handled, planted an ad in a national publication to recruit assassins to kill Castro.
This information was unknown until the Joannides records were released earlier this month. It is hard to understand how you can call all of this a "nothing burger."
