Morley: Major Break Coming in the JFK Assassination Story

[Jon Banks]

New files can be viewed here

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2022

[Tom Scully]

Fayid file, for sake of comparison,

With redactions,

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=37068#relPageId=3&search=fayid

Today's release,

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/104-10166-10278.pdf

[Jon Banks]

The files that Morley and others want declassified still haven't been declassified

"They Released All the Records We Needed to See--Except the Records We Needed to See"
https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/they-released-all-the-records-we?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=auto_share&r=l459


Miami Herald - Did the CIA use Cuban exiles in plot involving Oswald? Questions remain as Biden withholds JFK records
https://apple.news/Ama_VnmFaRRigosToO00a7Q

Some Cuban exiles who were part of this history were also hoping a full disclosure of Joannides’ record would help them understand what role, if any, they played in this alleged conspiracy.

Jose Antonio Lanuza, 83, a former member of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil, or Revolutionary Student Directorate, a Cuban exile anti-Castro organization active in the 1960s, told the Herald he was hoping the remaining documents would confirm a long-held suspicion that he, and other Directorate members, were used by Joannides, the organization’s case handler in Miami, to create and later spread the fake narrative that Oswald was a pro-Castro sympathizer, providing a handy motive for the assassination.

“I think [the CIA] built this legend,” Lanuza said. “Why? Because when it became known that he had killed Kennedy, an idiot named José Antonio Lanuza, that’s me, suddenly his memory would tell him, hey, I know this guy, this is Castro sympathizer.”

Lanuza, who was based in Miami at the time, said he gathered all the evidence he had about Oswald that Bringuier had forwarded to him (a Navy manual Oswald handed as proof of his credentials, the radio show recording and a handwritten letter by Oswald offering his services, which is now lost) to make the case to Luis Fernandez Rocha, the Directorate top secretary, that Oswald was an agent for Castro.

Rocha, who is now deceased, contacted the organization’s CIA handler, a man named “Howard” whom researchers later identified as Joannides. The CIA agent had one instruction: “Don’t give the press anything; wait an hour.”

“I did not wait for the hour. At exactly 50 minutes, I was sitting with two phones calling journalists,” Lanuza recalled. “I left them a message saying: President John Kennedy was assassinated by a pro-Castro agent in the United States, a member of Fair Play for Cuba. And I spent more than two hours on the phone.”

Other members of the Directorate repeated that message publicly at the time.