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Here is my obit for Blakey that includes two private emails he sent me:

MTG--

Thanks for a thoughtful review of Robert Blakey, with whom I traded a few e-mails, and for who I wrote one op-ed (regarding opening the JFK Records). 

Blakey was gentlemanly, intelligent, and skeptical--in all directions.

Within the JFKA research community, there is often a stance that anyone who is not 100% a full-blown CT'er, or a 100% LNT'er, is wrong and braindead (as both sides will affirm endlessly).

I suspect a very small JFKAC. But I recognize it is only a suspicion, not a fact.

Blakey was reserved, conservative, and would not leap to conclusions. He disappointed some CT'ers and LNT'ers.

As you point out, Blakey was appalled at the use of the CIA's use of Joannides to put the kibosh on the HSCA look-see into MC, NO and other matters.

That use of Joannides might also have obscured LHO connections to G-2.

As long as the U.S. Government still officially denies that the UFO sightings and even the UFO photos and video footage are not extraterrestrial aircraft, most WC apologists will come up with their usual lame excuses for dismissing this evidence as "mistaken" or "hoaxes," even though dozens of former government officials, government contractors, and military personnel, some of them quite senior in rank, have now come forward and acknowledged that UFOs exist and that the UFOs most certainly are not experimental U.S. Government/Russian/Chinese aircraft.

I worked in military intelligence for decades. These UFOs exhibit capabilities that are far beyond U.S./Russian/Chinese capabilities. The recently released Navy footage of a UFO totally debunks the notion that we're talking about classified experimental aircraft.

During my time in the military, I knew two air traffic controllers back in the 1980s and 1990s who told me they tracked UFOs traveling at speeds and doing maneuvers that vastly, drastically exceeded the capabilities of our most advanced fighter jets. One of the air recon flights that I supported in the 1980s encountered a UFO over the Mediterranean Sea. I personally talked to some of the intel operatives on that flight (since I held the same Top Secret clearance that they held), and they confirmed that they saw the UFO with their own eyes and that it outmaneuvered their recon jet like it was a horse-drawn buggy trying to deal with an Indy 500 race car.

I believe that as long as debunkers and those who recognize the legitimacy of the phenomenon persist in limiting their thinking and the discussion to "ET craft," the discussion will go nowhere. "ET craft" cannot possibly be the full explanation unless earth is the Disneyland of the universe or a single alien civilization is generating fleets of holographic "craft" or something of that sort. "ET craft" just doesn't fit the phenomenon in its totality.

A few weeks ago, G. Robert Blakey, the former chief counsel of the HSCA, passed away. For years, the majority of WC skeptics condemned Blakey as "a sellout," "a CIA whitewasher," "a cover-up operative," etc. That began to change when Blakey realized and admitted in 2014 how severely he had been misled by the CIA during the HSCA investigation, and when Blakey then released a statement titled “The HSCA and the CIA: The View from the Top,” which Blakey presented at the 2014 Assassination Archives and Research Center conference.

I have long been a Blakey defender, arguing that, for all his faults, Blakey did an enormous amount of good to advance our knowledge of the assassination and to reframe the debate. It was a very big deal, a historic moment, when the HSCA formally concluded that JFK was killed by a conspiracy, that there were two gunmen and four shots, that there was a grassy knoll shot, that the first hit on JFK came at around Z190 (when the sixth-floor gunman's view of JFK would have been obstructed by the oak tree), that Ruby lied about how and why he shot Oswald, that there was movement in the sixth-floor window within two minutes after the shooting at a time when Oswald could not have been in the window, that Ruby's numerous phone calls to Mafia contacts in the weeks before the assassination could not all be explained as labor-related calls, that Silvio Odio's account was credible, that Ruby had significant Mafia ties, that JFK's back wound was nearly 2 inches lower than where the autopsy doctors placed it and that the wound was tunneled upward, that the WC failed to follow-up on leads that indicated conspiracy, etc., etc. 

Jefferson Morley wrote the following about Blakey's passing in a recent blog post:

Bob Blakey was a central, sometimes controversial, figure in the second official investigation of JFK’s murder, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA).

Jim DiEugenio’s sensitive obituary in Kennedys and King traces the learning curve of the organized crime prosecutor who served as HSCA chief counsel in 1978 and wrote the Committee’s final report. That report found that Kennedy “in all likelihood” was killed by conspirators who could not be identified.

The Washington Post obituary illuminates how and why the deception of CIA officer George Joannides caused Blakey to change his mind about who was responsible for the assassination.

The New York Times obituary is misleading because it is outdated. It omits the Joannides story and its influence on Blakey, despite the fact that Times reporter Scott Shane reported on the CIA’s “cagey” Oswald story back in 2009.

James DiEugenio, a longtime Blakey critic who softened his attitude toward Blakey after Blakey changed his mind about the CIA's potential role in the JFK's death, wrote a largely favorable article to mark Blakey's passing:

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/g-robert-blakey-1936-2026

Here is Blakey's 2014 statement:

https://share.google/LYbp2pCKzILMLxv0C

Most of the historic ARRB disclosures from HSCA sealed records would never have happened had it not been for G. Robert Blakey. It was Blakey who authorized the collection of those records and who ensured they were preserved for future release.

https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/32101-the-once-and-future-education-forum-quo-vadis/

Even the staunch CT'ers at Education Forum-JFKA have turned on William Niedernut, the anti-Semitic, hardcore CT-max martinet censorian who somehow (inexplicably) became the sole active "moderator"  at the now-floundering EF-JFKA.

Going full volume 10, crank-crackpot, Niedernut doubles down on his narrative that Mossad (with accomplice US President George Bush) perped the 9/11 atrocity, proven by some Israelis purportedly seen "dancing" atop a van and viewing the disaster, way back when.

Niedernut believes his easily disproven, demented narrative of the WTC attack is a "fact."

What does 9/11 have to do with the JFKA anyway. Nothing, except in the fevered minds of of the nutcases now running and populating the EF-JFKA. 

BTW, a tip of the hat to Duncan MacRae, who runs JFK Assassination Forum and incurs none of the self-inflicted wounds that define the EF-JFKA.

Refugees from EF-JFKA: Please join this forum. LN'er and CT'ers participate, and sometimes even in a collegial manner. No unnecessary censorship.

There is one thread for OT commentary.

Simple, and it works.

Part of the problem is that the forum owner and founder, John Simkin, is a 9/11 Truther and thus seems hesitant to do anything about Niederhut. Simkin was made aware that Niederhut has imposed an 8-month suspension on me, but has done nothing about it. I, too, have encouraged the sane EF members to ditch the EF and come to this forum.

A major problem with the pro-conspiracy JFKA research community is that we allow ourselves to be portrayed as fringe, unserious, and even unhinged when we approvingly quote or include people such as James Fetzer in our discussions. Fetzer has been included in a current email chain among leading JFKA researchers.

Fetzer claims that U.S. intelligence and the Mossad were responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Even worse, and incredibly, he claims that no airliners or hijackers were involved in any of the attacks, that Flight 93 did not exist, and that guided missiles and/or explosives were used to destroy the buildings and create the appearance of a plane crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. That is absolute and obscene crazy talk, and we should be repudiating this sick nonsense in the loudest, clearest terms, not quoting its spokesmen or including them in our dialogues.

To further put himself on the loony fringe of the spectrum, Fetzer has also said that America and Israel "have become the greatest threats to freedom and democracy ever known, not only in the Middle East but throughout the world." He has even praised Russia and has portrayed the murderous, terrorist-sponsoring regime in Iran as a "beacon of light in comparison to the United States." In one interview, Fetzer said that "Russia and Iran are now providing leadership for the world community. May they prosper and endure!" Iran has murdered tens of thousands of its own citizens, in addition to being the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, and Russia has murdered tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens in its brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Fetzer's sick views put him far to the left of even the likes of Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders.