A “smoking-gun” JFK assassination file?
Don’t hold your breath
A colleague and friend, Jeff Morley - JFK Facts - believes that documents withheld by the CIA are a “smoking-gun proof of a CIA operation involving Lee Harvey Oswald.” Some news outlets have picked up his claim, which was laid out in detail at a morning press conference. “JFK Assassination Investigator Has Jarring New Claim About Oswald’s CIA Involvement,” was the Daily Beast headline.
The problem is that Morley has not seen the documents.
No one has.
It’s guesswork by anyone to claim they know what those files might reveal.
In fact, they are not even part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection at the National Archives. In its review of those documents, the CIA had concluded they were not “assassination-related” files and never sent them to the National Archives. Even if President Biden orders the release of all those files on December 15, the documents in which Morley is interested are not included.
Those files are still in CIA custody. Morley cites the CIA’s obfusca…
