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Home Front: Politix
Thousands more secret JFK files including 'smoking-gun proof of a CIA operation involving Lee Harvey Oswald' are set to be released next week after President Biden delayed making them public
2022-12-09
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • JFK was shot dead during a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas 59 years ago

  • Yet more than 15,000 files on his death remain locked at the National Archives

  • A large batch of the files are expected to be revealed next week after the Biden administration was hit with a lawsuit demanding that all records be declassified
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Posted by:Skidmark

#26  You know, it's honestly clear to me that the CIA, FBI and other three letter agencies are not on the side of America. They should all be transferred to Alaska and the north sea at the old NORAD radar sites with no internet to ensure all their files (On paper) are correct. Never let anyone finish until they quit or retire. Complaints should automatically receive demotions.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-12-09 21:17  

#25  #22 Reads like Jeffrey Epstein.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-12-09 18:31  

#24  If the gov't can obfuscate, hide, and deny truth for another 5-10 years, no one will remember. Few appear to care much about the sordid event now.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-09 16:42  

#23  qui bono? lbj
Posted by: irish rage boy   2022-12-09 15:48  

#22  “I'm just a patsy.“ (before being shot while in police custody)

Lee Harvey Oswald
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959   2022-12-09 15:37  

#21  My wife's step-father drank Moxie. Named his dog Moxie also.

It's an "Interesting" taste for sure. I tried it a couple of times and the closest I can come to describing it is unsweetened, carbonated, bitter, Licorice soda. Not good at all. Right up there with horehound candy.
Posted by: AlanC   2022-12-09 14:50  

#20   Website contains many files about the JFK assassination.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-12-09 12:59  

#19  About all anyone can hope for is that they divulge something unintentionally.

Leaks are the rule that proves the exception.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-09 11:58  

#18  The next prexidential assassination will be as unexpected and shocking as any of them. It was never going to be Trump.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-09 11:57  

#17  Moxie is an acquired taste that I got used to in High School. The aftertaste I never got used to. It is a bad version of Dr Pepper. No reason to drink it other than as an affectation.

As for Kennedy files, this seems like the Charlie Brown football gig. About all anyone can hope for is that they divulge something unintentionally.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-09 11:57  

#16   #8, Trump didn't want to end up like JFK.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-12-09 11:55  

#15  Consider that case of Oswald's repatriation to the US and the re-issuance of a passport without the traditional investigation at DoS. What agency short-circuited that whole event? Research the Gill book and you find interesting hints.

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/what-did-otto-otepka-know-about-oswald-and-the-cia
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-12-09 11:47  

#14  
#11 'Oswald liked to drink Moxie',

Well, that would be a surprise - that shit was awful. My mother used to drink that crap because she knew us kids wouldn't. I think I used it a few times to clean pennies when I started a coin collection kit.
Posted by: Raj 2022-12-09 09:18


Raj,

You're the FIRST person I've ever actually run across who knows about the stuff! I gather it was an....um...acquired taste - can you describe it?

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-12-09 10:58  

#13  On just the mechanics of the shoot, I recommend this:

Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-09 09:49  

#12  If you're going for a conspiracy theory, I kind of like the one that says that known communist Oswald had enough of a link to Soviet agents to make the assassination suspicious, but nothing actionable. Rather than risk escalation (nukes can ruin your day), they hid the dubious stuff--a conspiracy to cover up junk. Sort of like keeping grand jury testimony secret.
But without information, I'll stick with Oswald the loner.
Posted by: James   2022-12-09 09:38  

#11   'Oswald liked to drink Moxie',

Well, that would be a surprise - that shit was awful. My mother used to drink that crap because she knew us kids wouldn't. I think I used it a few times to clean pennies when I started a coin collection kit.
Posted by: Raj   2022-12-09 09:18  

#10  This release will just start more speculation.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2022-12-09 09:04  

#9  Some of us older generation, remember JFK was openly discussing NOT doing a build up, and pulling out....

But there was a lot of $$$$ to be made by the Military Industrial Complex.

Plus, LBJ wife and/or family owned Braniff Airlines, that ferried a lot of troops in and out of Nam.

Plus, she/they were a primary stockholder in Bell Helicopter Textron.

I guess there are a lot of DC Swamp reasons the 1963+ findings still have never been completely released
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-09 08:27  

#8  From American Conservative:

Judge Andrew Napolitano recounting a phone call with Trump in December 2020, when Napolitano asked Trump why he hadn’t released the JFK files. Trump’s answer, if true, was cryptic: “Judge, if you saw what I saw, you would know why I can’t release them.”
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-12-09 08:21  

#7  If they are truly damning for the US government, they will never see the light of day.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-12-09 08:05  

#6  Just another old but interesting article from the Atlantic.

"I'll tell you something [about John Kennedy's murder] that will rock you," he said. "Kennedy was trying to get to Castro, but Castro got to him first."
~ LBJ

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-09 08:01  

#5  No assertions here, just an....An interesting story about a man named Ross Lester Crozier.

“I always thought he worked at Zenith Electronics”

Some things, they just never change.

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-09 07:34  

#4  Are these the same files the deep state Trump blocked from release?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-12-09 07:16  

#3  ...Oh, and one other thing - especially after the last few years, anyone who thinks the US Government is going to release documents that prove it knew anything about the assassination of a President simply hasn't been paying attention.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-12-09 06:18  

#2  
#1 Alright, let's cut to the chase shall we ?

Was Oswald, or had Oswald ever been, a US Intelligence Community source? Should be a simple YES or NO.



Posted by: Besoeker 2022-12-09 02:01


Beso,

Exactly. Every couple of years we get reports of 'smoking guns', which usually end up being something along the lines of 'Oswald liked to drink Moxie', or something like that.

I have always said, and still do, that if there's a smoking gun in there, it will be that it turns out that Oswald was making no secret of what he wanted to do, and a half dozen Alphabet Agencies had clues that, had they put them together, would have stopped him cold.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-12-09 06:16  

#1  Alright, let's cut to the chase shall we ?

Was Oswald, or had Oswald ever been, a US Intelligence Community source? Should be a simple YES or NO.



Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-09 02:01  

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