Give Jeff Morley Credit On This One

[Benjamin Cole]

Jeff Morley has been perhaps playing dubious game of late, and telling the public that certain released files are of great moment, and that we have a "fact pattern" that says something, and often using loaded language when discussing certain documents or CIA procedures. 

Worse, appearing on the anti-Semitic crackpot Tucker Carlson's show, Morley dog-whistled up a storm that "Mossad" was a suspect in the JFKA, and was presently working to squelch release of certain files. Morley must have known what he as doing.

All that said, Morley has called a spade and spade on the release of the Russian dossier on the JFKA, and it indeed is a nothing-burger, or even worse than that.


Jefferson Morley

@jeffersonmorley

The JFK dossier has been prepared by Russian govt. officials to advance Russian foreign policy. Like it or not , it appears to be an authorized statement  of the Putin govt about the relevance of the JFK story for todays world.

@RepLuna has done a public service to obtain it.

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The JFKA research community is absolutely entitled to study as they wish, but the obsession with the CIA, to the exclusion of other suspects such as the KGB, G-2, US Army Intel, anti-Castro Cubans, Alpha 66, or even LBJ and the Mob, is more due to ideology than "fact patterns."

Caveat emptor, and draw your own conclusions.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Morley isn't, for me, saying that Putin's statement is a "nothing burger", something we can dismiss, a one day story. He says the statement shows "the relevance of the JFK story for todays world." If he believed the statement was nothing, that it was Putin only promoting his own interests (which it is, of course), then it would be just that, meaningless, of no consequence. But he's connecting the statement to the assassination (and the assassination to the statement) and from that arguing it shows the relevancy of the event for today, for us here now. It's not simply an event we can put alongside other major events like Pearl Harbor or 9/11. It's still with us (and not in Faulkner's sense of the "past isn't dead, it's not even past.")

Morley's trying again - as many Leftwing conspiracists (now joined with the MAGA Right like Luna et al.) have - to keep the assassination alive, to keep it in the news, to connect it to today. He's said numerous times that the country can't rest, can't move on, that American democracy can not be finished, until we uncover what happened. Oliver Stone has said this. Salandria, DiEugenio, others. It's why they obsess over it. I'll just note as an aside to Putin's statement that Morley's been, let's say, less than skeptical about Fabian Escalante's assassination claims over the years.

And for Morley and the others, what happened was "the CIA" killed JFK (for MAGA it was the "deep state"). And they - Angleton, Joannides, Harvey, the CIA villain du jour - need to be held accountable. Until that happens the assassination is, as Morley says with the Putin statement showing it, still relevant today.

[Benjamin Cole]

SMG--

You are correct that most JFKA researchers keep trying to tell us the JFKA is extremely relevant today---and then they cite James Douglass' book, and suggest we would have global peace today, except for the CIA-MIC-capitalist-globalists (and maybe Israel) murdered JFK.

In the other forum, I have cited any number of JFK speeches and written documents, and even recorded conversations with SV Ambassador Lodge, that show a very different JFK than that limned in the Douglass book.

Maybe I will post some of those here too.

[Tom Graves]

SMG--

You are correct that most JFKA researchers keep trying to tell us the JFKA is extremely relevant today---and then they cite James Douglass' book, and suggest we would have global peace today, except for the CIA-MIC-capitalist-globalists (and maybe Israel) murdered JFK.

In the other forum, I have cited any number of JJK speeches and written documents, and even recorded conversations with SV Ambassador Lodge, that show a very different JFK than that limned in the Douglass book.

Maybe I will post some of those here too.

It's relevant in that it's a good example of how the KGB has been taking advantage of the oodles and gobs of anomalies in many of our tragic events over the past sixty-six years (it started in 1959) in order to spread anti-government disinformation so that our body politic would become so confused, angry and/or apathetic that a relatively small percentage of eligible voters could eventually "elect" someone like The Traitorous Orange Bird (rhymes with "Xxxx") as our president.

That's why I say Russia won the Cold War.