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CIA & JFK: The Secret Assassination Files Kindle Edition

by Jefferson Morley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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As the editor of JFKFacts.org, a website devoted to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Jefferson Morley is asked, “So who killed JFK? What’s your theory?”

Morley, a former reporter for the Washington Post and author of Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA, invariably disappoints. “I don’t know. It’s too early to tell.”

Fifty-plus years after JFK’s death, this answer is laughable but serious. The JFK story remains unsettled well into the 21st century, no matter what the various conspiracy and anti-conspiracy theorists may proclaim. Indeed, the complex reality of how a president of the United States came to be gunned down on a sunny day, and no one lost his liberty — or his job — continues to live and grow in popular memory.

This is a book that reveals deceit and deception on the part of the CIA relating to the Kennedy assassination and why the CIA should reveal to the American people what it is still keeping secret.

Employing his investigative reporting skills through interviews and examination of long-secret records, Morley reveals that the CIA was closely monitoring the movements of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the months preceding the assassination of President Kennedy.

Questions naturally arise: Did the CIA suspect that Oswald was up to no good? Or was its surveillance part of a CIA scheme to frame Oswald for the assassination of President Kennedy? Why did the CIA keep its surveillance secret from the Warren Commission?

Morley also reveals a close relationship between the CIA and an American anti-Castro group that began advertising Oswald’s connections to communism and the Soviet Union immediately after the assassination?

That raises questions: Why didn’t the CIA reveal that relationship to official agencies investigating the assassination of President Kennedy? Why did a federal judge and the chief counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations accuse the CIA of deceit and deception?

The U.S. government retains almost 3,600 assassination-related records, consisting of tens of thousands of pages that have never been seen by the public. More than 1,100 of these records are held by the CIA.

What is in those secret files? What do they reveal about JFK’s death? Why has the CIA been so reluctant to release them? And when will they finally be revealed to the public? Will they answer the disturbing questions that the revelations in this book raise?
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01FIGY89Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Future of Freedom Foundatiokn (June 10, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 10, 2016
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Jefferson Morley's latest book, SCORPIONS' DANCE: The President, The Spymaster, and Watergate is an "eye opening investigation" (Publishers Weekly) about "the corrosive impact of intelligence covert action on individuals and on democracy itself." (Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, former CIA operations officer)

"The lens is the relationship between President Nixon and Richard Helms, CIA Director through all but a few months of the Nixon presidency,' notes former U.S. Senator Gary Hart.

"Morley has captured, in all its surreal conspiratorial glory, the last sinister tango of a pair of wicked Richards," says John Aloysius Farrell, author of Richard Nixon: The Life. "A riveting story that will make you chuckle and shiver."

Morley's other books include:

THE GHOST: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton ("The best book ever written about the strangest spy who ever lived”--Tim Weiner, best-selling author.)

OUR MAN IN MEXICO: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA; (“A compelling page turner about a fascinating figure”—Jorge Casteneda, former foreign minister of Mexico.)

SNOW-STORM IN AUGUST: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Riot of 1835 (“History so fresh it feels alive”—David Mariniss, best-selling author.)

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Customers find the book well-written, easy to read, and a quick read. They appreciate the scholarly content, which provides an interesting insight into the JFK assassination. Readers also mention the book is hard to put down and is unbiased.

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Customers find the book well-written, easy to read, and quick. They also say it's a great read with well-researched information.

"A very easy, quick read and loaded with well-researched info showing the CIA still hasn't come clean on the assassination...." Read more

"...The book is well written, a good read for a afternoon. It did I must admit leave me with questions. So overall a three star." Read more

"Thoughtful, well-written and not a screed; but, there was little to justify its production and even its slender length...." Read more

"An OK read. Just a "what if" scenario, if CIA files related to the assassination are released. Well written style, easy to read." Read more

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"...not the, then assuredly one of the few truly knowledgeable, honest, unbiased and integral researchers of the JFK coup de’etat whom history will..." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read and quick. They appreciate the author's ability to simplify the complexities of the events.

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Barnabas O'Collins
5.0 out of 5 stars More ammo to show the CIA is still withholding info and their role in the assassination
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2016
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A very easy, quick read and loaded with well-researched info showing the CIA still hasn't come clean on the assassination. Perjury, lies and a "oh crap!" moment highlight the info. Mr. Morley states up front this book isn't to say who it was or why, but you know that it wasn't as the Warren Commission said it was.

A must read for anyone interested in the deception attached to the JFK assassination.
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ShopperInTexas
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2018
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This book provides an interesting insight into the JFK assassination. This book might even open your eyes on this polarizing subject.
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Bingo
3.0 out of 5 stars A lot of words that said nothing
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023
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I did not learn anything new on the JFK assassination. The CIA will not disclose anything that will tell the truth on the assassination because there were people in high places involved in this murder. How high? As high as you want to reach. Nothing new was in the book. It was a rehash of old theories. The people involved are probably dead. However, you will never convince me Oswald happen to get a job at just the right place, bought a rifle that was second rate at best, picked the exact place to shoot from, fired 3 rounds at that distance and had a planned escape route. I just do not think he was that smart.
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Singman
5.0 out of 5 stars More Relevant Today Than The Day It Was Published
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2017
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Just finished this superb read on the JFK Assassination. Even though it's a year after the book was published, it's as relevant as ever. Mainly because we know how Trump caved into the intelligence agencies and held back thousands of pages from a law that had been signed 25 yeas ago by the very President who was photographed at the scene of the crime! People wake up! This author nails it. Did you ever wonder what the intelligence agencies are still hiding after 50 + years? This writer lays it out right off the bat, in the first chapter. There is much more extremely important information uncovered in this book, but it would be a disservice not to mention the George Joannides story. Because of his involvement in leading the DRE resistance, George knew where all the skeletons were buried relating to Lee Harvey Oswald. Years later during the late 70's, the CIA brought George out of retirement to be the conduit of information between the CIA and the HSCA. That folks is how you keep a cover up going, by letting the man who knows where all the skeletons are buried, controlling all the information that is given to the House investigators of the assassination. If you want the most current information regarding the JFK Assassination, read this book!
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Jonesy
2.0 out of 5 stars A skeptic's review
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2016
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A careful researcher should read this account with a healthy degree of skepticism. As a longtime reader of jfkfacts.com and after consulting multiple sources concerning the mystery of JFK's death, I find Jefferson Morley's take in this book to be somewhat mystifying. He has stated that he wants to uncover the truth about the assassination and has no opinion about who perpetrated the crime, but he certainly purports a theory in this account.

Assumption !: That Oswald killed the President. In this, he ignores all the ballistic and autopsy evidence that JFK was killed by a bullet from the front that could not have come from a shooter in the Texas School Book Depository.

Assumption 2: That Oswald had pro-Castro politics. All of Oswald's "friends" in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 were anti-Castro and/or had intelligence ties. Examples: George DeMohrenschildt and Guy Banister. There is much evidence that Oswald was a patsy set up by the CIA to appear to be pro-Castro so that JFK's assassination could be blamed on Castro to provoke a US invasion of Cuba and realize the agency's long term goal of overthrowing him.

Assumption 3: That the failure to pinpoint Oswald as a danger was an innocent "intelligence failure." Yes, the CIA certainly knew about Oswald before the assassination because he was most likely a low-level CIA or ONI agent! This was not an "intelligence failure" but instead proves the CIA's complicity in the murder. Morley seems to be stating here that if the CIA had just been informed, they could have prevented the assassination, ignoring that other shooters had to have been involved. Does this mean that Morley believes the much-discredited single-bullet theory? Evidence: Tony Veciana, an anti-castro Cuban working with the CIA, admitted that he had seen his handler, "Maurice Bishop" (David Atlee Phillips) talk with Oswald before the assassination.

Finally, Morley leaves out vital information that clearly points to Oswald's intelligence ties in his Mexico City trip. Morley states that there are pictures of Oswald visiting the Cuban and Soviet embassies and tapes of his voice, but Hoover himself declared the Oswald was impersonated in Mexico City. The photos are not of Oswald. Furthermore, the phone conversations attributed to Oswald were in "broken Russian" when, in fact, Oswald spoke perfect Russian.

In summary, please read Morley's book carefully and consult other sources before you reach any conclusions. Some of my best sources: Breach of Trust by Gerald McKnight; JFK and the Unspeakable by Jim Douglass; Destiny Betrayed, 2nd Edition by Jim DiEugenio; The Last Investigation by Gaeton Fonzi; Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott; The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot; JFK: A Conspiracy of Silence by Dr. Charles A Crenshaw. All of these sources are available here on Amazon. In-depth Interviews with these authors are available on YouTube. Useful sites on the internet about JFK's death include maryferrell.org, jfklancer.com and ctka.net.
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DA
5.0 out of 5 stars These are the facts. Accept them or continue to turn a blind eye to the truth
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2016
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The difficulty is that America wants a 15 minute soundbite or overview; And then wants to remember it for another 30 minutes and move on. That is not the case with the JFK assassination by LBJ etal. Just like the exoneration of the Captain of the Indianapolis, the facts and not the speculation comes after we have moved onto the latest celebrity news. For those of us who love the JFK legacy and the potential of the "finished product" he was building for America, this is was an outright tragedy, and needs full explanation. You see a good portion of it here. You cannot read it without understanding that there truly is a behind the scenes government and be worried. I am not a big conspiracy follower and have found most to be bogus. But this helps prove the assassination was staged and carefully covered up.
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Ellery
4.0 out of 5 stars You will figure out who killed JFK
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2020
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Read this work carefully and you will have an epiphany as to how it all went down and who was behind it. Those that deny it are either involved in still covering it up or just really ignorant.
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Robert Esquivel
4.0 out of 5 stars IT AIN'T OVER TILL IT'S OVER...
Reviewed in Mexico on October 20, 2019
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Maybe the government will fess up someday... I seriously doubt it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Should be read by anyone wondering why America is the way it is now.
Reviewed in Canada on July 8, 2016
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This book is the result of recent releases of pertinent files. Nothing in it changed my previous conclusions, only reinforced them. An unspoken conspiracy between the CIA, the Mafia, and Eisenhower's 'Military industrial Complex." Kennedy's assassination, resulted in a 'regime change' and his brother's death only reinforced that. It would have to be someone missing a circuit upstairs who would think otherwise.

While the 'people' were in love with the Kennedy's, this was not shared by the CIA, the Mafia, the Cuban element and those who would gain from a war in Viet Nam (Bell Helicopters built thousands of Hueys) and General Dynamics made a pretty penny too.
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Rod Wright
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great read!
Reviewed in Australia on August 29, 2016
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Thanks to Jefferson Morley for a great read, and to Alan Dale for putting me on to it. Eye opening stuff!
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Sweetestmoondust
4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting book on the assassination of JFK
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2021
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A insightful and informative book. It certainly is thought provoking insight into an historic event. Something I have found fascinating.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Morley the best!
Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2018
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Excellent ! Morley is the best on the file! Now read The Ghost a clinical case study that’s riveting re cia and Angleton -wow
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