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- 0:06Speaker 1: This is Random Research Ramblings with Rob. Bring your notes,
- 0:12Speaker 1: your doubts, and your least favorite footnotes. The file says
- 0:17Speaker 1: one thing. The headline says three. Somebody sold certainty for
- 0:20Speaker 1: a subscription fee. JFK missing pages. Convenient alibi. A polished
- 0:24Speaker 1: little theory with a hole the size of Dallas skies.
- 0:26Speaker 1: I'm not here for sacred cows or credential parade. I'm
- 0:29Speaker 1: here for the claims that collapse when the questions get made.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Stream of consciousness, facts in the cricket stack. If the
- 0:34Speaker 1: evidence walks out, I'm dragging the argument back. Random research
- 0:38Speaker 1: ramblings with Rob. Pull the thread till the whole false
- 0:41Speaker 1: story comes undone. Random research ramblings with Rob. No padded conclusions,
- 0:45Speaker 1: no damage control, just questions and smoke. Conspiracies, history, rabbit
- 0:48Speaker 1: holes and scorched earth reviews of dishonest researchers selling certainty
- 0:51Speaker 1: as news.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Random research. Research Ramblings with Rob.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Let's investigate the investigation.
- 1:11Speaker 2: What's up, everybody? Welcome in. Welcome in to another exciting
- 1:14Speaker 2: edition of the....
- 1:17Speaker 1: Well.
- 1:18Speaker 2: Random Research Ramblings with Rob, a division of the Lone
- 1:21Speaker 2: Gumman Podcast. I'll get it right one of these days. Anyway,
- 1:25Speaker 2: welcome in, folks. I hope everybody is having a wonderful
- 1:29Speaker 2: weekend out there. I know I am. And tonight, I
- 1:38Speaker 2: want to point out some things to you about dishonest research.
- 1:44Speaker 2: There's a difference between The kooky, Ralph Sinque-esque horse shit research. Right?
- 1:57Speaker 2: It's just so ridiculous. It can't be real. And if
- 2:01Speaker 2: it is real, then that person is just a bona
- 2:06Speaker 2: fide idiot. Like, I just can't wrap my head around it.
- 2:14Speaker 2: You know, and then there's the dishonesty around the JFK
- 2:22Speaker 2: research community when it comes to dishonest witnesses. Like James Files,
- 2:32Speaker 2: Judith Baker, Beverly Oliver just passed, rest in peace. But
- 2:38Speaker 2: a fraud nonetheless. And then you have dishonest research where
- 2:49Speaker 2: Things are knowingly put out there that just aren't true.
- 3:02Speaker 2: Then you have another vein of dishonest research, and that
- 3:08Speaker 2: is the folks that think they're doing something right, but
- 3:12Speaker 2: they're really getting something wrong. And what really hurts that case...
- 3:19Speaker 2: is when these people... are in... very premier positions... due
- 3:29Speaker 2: to their connections... they are put up on a pedestal....
- 3:35Speaker 1: And....
- 3:37Speaker 2: Given exclusive access to things... that the rest of us
- 3:42Speaker 2: just don't get. Some of these people... in the JFK
- 3:51Speaker 2: research community, have such inflated egos, it's almost laughable. And
- 4:01Speaker 2: how dare, how dare anybody question what they say? They're
- 4:06Speaker 2: supposed authorities on the case. So most of the time,
- 4:13Speaker 2: they glide by, unchecked, except for some of the more
- 4:21Speaker 2: notorious lone nutters with with balls I'll give them that
- 4:25Speaker 2: you know it's hard to check these people now I'm
- 4:32Speaker 2: gonna show you some examples this evening about what I'm
- 4:36Speaker 2: talking about so let's start here and this is a
- 4:48Speaker 2: place This is a statement of Jefferson Morley, an independent
- 5:01Speaker 2: journalist and author to the House Task Force on Classification.
- 5:10Speaker 2: Let me make this a little bigger. Maybe a little bigger.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Oh no, there we go. So we can skip down
- 5:23Speaker 2: through here. to this part. As I peruse this story,
- 5:27Speaker 2: I practice the tried and true techniques that I learned
- 5:30Speaker 2: at the Post. And he's referencing the Washington Post. And
- 5:34Speaker 2: the story that he's referencing was his first article that
- 5:38Speaker 2: he ever wrote on the role of CIA in the
- 5:40Speaker 2: events that led to the assassination. It was published in
- 5:44Speaker 2: the Washington Post 30 years ago this week. Now already,
- 5:49Speaker 2: he's being a little facetious. Heh. It wasn't actually in
- 5:57Speaker 2: the Washington Post. It was in Outlook, which is a
- 6:02Speaker 2: sequestered section of the Washington Post. It wasn't like it
- 6:07Speaker 2: was first, second page, even back page thing. He says,
- 6:14Speaker 2: as I pursued this story, I practiced the tried and
- 6:17Speaker 2: true techniques of a dogged journalist that he is that
- 6:20Speaker 2: he learned at the Post. He knocks on doors. He
- 6:22Speaker 2: gets two sources. He follows the money. Start with the
- 6:26Speaker 2: cover-up and proceed to the crime. And always ask the question,
- 6:29Speaker 2: what did they know and when did they know it?
- 6:32Speaker 2: And he says, my research and reporting simply did not
- 6:34Speaker 2: give me a clear answer to the question of who
- 6:36Speaker 2: killed JFK. What was clear over time is a new
- 6:40Speaker 2: fact pattern. In the spring of 2023, the CIA fully
- 6:43Speaker 2: declassified for the first time its pre-assassination file on Lee
- 6:48Speaker 2: Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin who denied killing the president
- 6:52Speaker 2: and was killed himself in police custody before he could
- 6:54Speaker 2: defend himself. And he brought a copy of the CIA's
- 6:59Speaker 2: pre-assassination file on Lee Harvey Oswald and submitted it for
- 7:02Speaker 2: the record. It's 198 pages. And he talks about in
- 7:08Speaker 2: the fall of 63, November 63, this file was held
- 7:12Speaker 2: in the office of James Angleton, counterintelligence chief at CIA
- 7:16Speaker 2: headquarters in Langley, not five miles from the White House
- 7:18Speaker 2: where President Kennedy lived and worked. To be sure, the
- 7:23Speaker 2: declassified file was not a smoking gun. I showed it
- 7:26Speaker 2: to journalists whose judgment I trust and they just simply shrugged.
- 7:30Speaker 2: They said, this is evidence of incompetence. Cover your ass,
- 7:33Speaker 2: they said. I did not quite believe that, but I
- 7:36Speaker 2: could not prove them wrong until March 18th. And that
- 7:40Speaker 2: was the day that the National Archives began posting long
- 7:43Speaker 2: secret JFK assassination records that had been withheld from the
- 7:46Speaker 2: public view for decades. I started by looking at nine
- 7:51Speaker 2: declassified documents about Mr. Angleton. He was the man who
- 7:54Speaker 2: compiled the file, the Oswald file. And when I came
- 7:57Speaker 2: to a long secret transcript of Angleton's testimony to the
- 8:00Speaker 2: House Select Committee in 78, my reservations about passing judgment
- 8:05Speaker 2: on the responsibility vanished. One newly declassified passage showed that
- 8:09Speaker 2: Angleton had lied under oath about a surveillance of Oswald's
- 8:12Speaker 2: correspondence while he lived in the Soviet Union from 1959
- 8:16Speaker 2: to 62. And that, for me, was a tipping point. Now, folks...
- 8:28Speaker 2: Of course, the CIA would be monitoring the mail of
- 8:34Speaker 2: a former U.S. Marine who was trying to defect to
- 8:39Speaker 2: the USSR at the time, who while there ends up
- 8:44Speaker 2: marrying a Russian woman. Of course they're going to read
- 8:48Speaker 2: his mail coming into the United States. And the Russians
- 8:52Speaker 2: probably were reading it going out of the United States.
- 8:55Speaker 2: And anything going to him from the United States, was
- 8:58Speaker 2: probably read by the United States, and anything coming in
- 9:02Speaker 2: to him was probably read by the Russians. Those poor
- 9:05Speaker 2: envelopes were getting steamed open and sealed back more than
- 9:09Speaker 2: I don't know what. But, it's not a great revelation, okay?
- 9:20Speaker 2: It's just not. It's something that you would expect the
- 9:23Speaker 2: CIA to do, or the NSA, or whoever was doing it.
- 9:27Speaker 2: It's to be expected. To be expected.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Okay?
- 9:35Speaker 2: Now, let's move on to Jefferson Morley's first ever foray
- 9:51Speaker 2: into the JFK assassination. And that was The interview with
- 9:58Speaker 2: former CIA... employee Jane Roman and he approached this interview
- 10:08Speaker 2: a certain way with Jane Roman and explained to her
- 10:13Speaker 2: uh kind of vaguely, about what it was going to
- 10:22Speaker 2: be about to get her to agree to the interview.
- 10:28Speaker 2: And at this point, Jane Roman is a very elderly woman, okay?
- 10:35Speaker 2: As you'll see here in a minute from her writing.
- 10:38Speaker 2: But she agreed to do the interview, and Jefferson Morley
- 10:45Speaker 2: brought along Somebody who is a former intelligence analyst for
- 10:52Speaker 2: the NSA. A guy by the name of John Newman
- 10:55Speaker 2: who was writing a book about Oswald and the CIA.
- 11:02Speaker 2: And they did their little interview. It was a very
- 11:08Speaker 2: gotcha style interview. Guerrilla tactics, if you will. And she
- 11:15Speaker 2: basically said, Morley got in the door. They sat down
- 11:21Speaker 2: and pretty much didn't say anything. It was Newman who
- 11:25Speaker 2: had all the questions. Which I believe. Morley's just sitting
- 11:32Speaker 2: back writing everything down. I believe he tape recorded the thing.
- 11:40Speaker 2: There is transcripts of it out there. I don't know
- 11:42Speaker 2: about the actual audio though. Make of that what you will. Now,
- 11:54Speaker 2: shortly after this article was published in the Outlook section
- 12:02Speaker 2: of the paper, it had a very sensational headline, if
- 12:11Speaker 2: you will. And Let us take a look at that.
- 12:24Speaker 2: I think this is the right thing.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Yes.
- 12:29Speaker 2: All right, so after the article comes out, Jane Roman
- 12:32Speaker 2: gets pissed. I mean, she was pissed after the interview.
- 12:39Speaker 2: She felt like she had been had. She had gotten
- 12:43Speaker 2: put in a very compromising situation, a very uncomfortable situation.
- 12:47Speaker 2: So she decided to write a letter to the editor. Now,
- 12:53Speaker 2: she never sent a letter, and she'll explain that in
- 12:56Speaker 2: a minute when we get to her letter to the ARRB.
- 13:00Speaker 2: But this is the letter that she penned to the
- 13:04Speaker 2: Washington Post, but she never sent it. And there's a
- 13:06Speaker 2: reason she never sent it, but we'll get there, I promise.
- 13:10Speaker 2: She says, to the editor, in the April 2nd Outlook
- 13:13Speaker 2: section of your paper, an article appeared headlined, The Oswald File,
- 13:17Speaker 2: Tales of the Routing Slips Six Weeks Before JFK's Murder.
- 13:21Speaker 2: The CIA didn't tell all that it knew. Some weeks prior,
- 13:26Speaker 2: I had been contacted by an editor of Outlook who
- 13:30Speaker 2: informed me of yet another presidential committee set up to
- 13:35Speaker 2: quell the new speculations generated by the Oliver Stone movie, JFK. Now,
- 13:40Speaker 2: let me pause here. So, the way Morley framed this
- 13:42Speaker 2: to her is that there was a new committee being
- 14:15Speaker 2: set up, the Assassination Records and Review Board, to review
- 14:19Speaker 2: records of the CIA, and there was something that only
- 14:23Speaker 2: she could help with. So she acquiesced. It says, My
- 14:29Speaker 2: husband and I had made an absolute decision never to
- 14:33Speaker 2: submit to interviews by authors or journalists since the results
- 14:38Speaker 2: inevitably were twisted, contorted, or downright untrue in an effort
- 14:43Speaker 2: to cater to the prurient obsession of the American people
- 14:52Speaker 2: with sensationalist presentations of tragedies and intelligence operations. I bitterly
- 14:59Speaker 2: regret having breached this decision in my belief. in the
- 15:07Speaker 2: reliability and good sense of your paper. I was shown
- 15:14Speaker 2: a summary of an October 8th, 1963 cable from our
- 15:20Speaker 2: Mexico City station reporting the visit of a man giving
- 15:23Speaker 2: his name as Oswald to the Soviet Embassy in Cuban Consulate. There,
- 15:28Speaker 2: I'm not sure what that word is, requesting a visa
- 15:35Speaker 2: for Headquarters replied with a summary of information based on
- 15:40Speaker 2: State Department reports regarding their contacts with Oswald in Moscow
- 15:46Speaker 2: and his return to the U.S. The FBI information was
- 15:53Speaker 2: included and it was stated that something maybe that latest
- 16:04Speaker 2: information HT lingual information was a state report of May, 1962.
- 16:10Speaker 2: That would be a reference to the mail reading program.
- 16:16Speaker 2: It did not help prepare. I did not help prepare
- 16:18Speaker 2: this cable. I reviewed it in, in a draft and
- 16:21Speaker 2: coordinated its release. The Mexico city station cable report and
- 16:26Speaker 2: the possible identification was disseminated October 10th to state FBI
- 16:33Speaker 2: and Navy and excuse me, Oswald was an ex-Marine, in
- 16:38Speaker 2: Washington and Mexico Station was directed to pass it to
- 16:42Speaker 2: their Mexico representatives, including the INS. I bitterly regret this decision.
- 16:50Speaker 2: At the interview, which was tape recorded by both men,
- 16:53Speaker 2: the Outlook editor spoke hardly a word. The interview was
- 16:57Speaker 2: done by Mr. Newman, who is writing a book on
- 17:00Speaker 2: Oswald and the CIA. His approach can best be described
- 17:04Speaker 2: as belligerent and confrontational. I later told the editor that
- 17:08Speaker 2: it appeared to me that he had set up this
- 17:10Speaker 2: interview in order that Mr. Newman could ask his questions
- 17:14Speaker 2: of me. The whole situation appeared to me to be
- 17:17Speaker 2: making a monstrous mountain out of a molehill. Which is,
- 17:22Speaker 2: as you can tell from Jefferson Morley's career path, is
- 17:28Speaker 2: what he does best. My statements have been seriously contorted,
- 17:32Speaker 2: taken out of context, or at best misinterpreted. I asked
- 17:38Speaker 2: for a copy of the statements made by me which
- 17:40Speaker 2: were to be placed in the article prior to publication
- 17:48Speaker 2: which I understood was agreed on. This was never done
- 17:56Speaker 2: for the record. I have never heard or read any
- 18:01Speaker 2: information that there was any CIA relationship, direct or indirect,
- 18:05Speaker 2: with Oswald. The Warren Commission, a body of distinguished, honorable,
- 18:09Speaker 2: and knowledgeable men, reached this conclusion, as did the three
- 18:13Speaker 2: other government commissions or committees set up in later years.
- 18:18Speaker 2: The CIA contributed wholeheartedly in all of these investigations. I
- 18:23Speaker 2: do not recall saying that the withholding of FBI information
- 18:27Speaker 2: from CIA Mexico Station was deliberate, nor do I believe it.
- 18:32Speaker 2: My explanation would be that the two FBI reports of
- 18:36Speaker 2: October 1963 mentioned in the Outlook article as initialed by
- 18:42Speaker 2: me went through extensive routing and would not have reached
- 18:45Speaker 2: Oswald's dossier in Central Registry and been available to the
- 18:49Speaker 2: desk officer who prepared and drafted the reply to the
- 18:52Speaker 2: Mexican station cable. I had nothing to do with the
- 18:58Speaker 2: preparation of drafting. I signed off on it as a
- 19:02Speaker 2: matter of routine, coordination, and review. The FBI reports in
- 19:07Speaker 2: any case would not have added anything to significant value
- 19:10Speaker 2: to the situation in Mexico City, and the cable was
- 19:13Speaker 2: a summary of pertinent facts. There was no particular reason
- 19:17Speaker 2: for the withholding... For the withholding... The Outlook article that
- 19:29Speaker 2: I can imagine says March 1, the CIA explanation. The FBI,
- 19:36Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of a cluster here. But let's
- 19:40Speaker 2: jump into some where I can actually read it. The
- 19:43Speaker 2: station request focused on the status of Oswald's citizenship and
- 19:49Speaker 2: therefore denouncing draws on State Department information. I never saw
- 19:57Speaker 2: the incoming cable from Mexico Station, so I was in
- 19:59Speaker 2: no position to verify it. And frankly, I don't recall
- 20:02Speaker 2: having been informed of this explanation in this in this form.
- 20:07Speaker 2: The quotation of my saying, quote, this may or may
- 20:09Speaker 2: not be true was either taken out of context or contorted.
- 20:14Speaker 2: I certainly would not have impugned the veracity of another
- 20:16Speaker 2: CIA official. Naturally, Oswald or both the CIA and the
- 20:22Speaker 2: FBI was a subject of great interest to both the
- 20:27Speaker 2: CIA or Oswald was of great interest to both the
- 20:30Speaker 2: CIA and the FBI even before the assassination. And She says, naturally,
- 20:37Speaker 2: Oswald was the subject of great interest to both the
- 20:41Speaker 2: CIA and the FBI, even before the assassination. And, again,
- 20:51Speaker 2: you can understand why. You have a former Marine defecting
- 20:57Speaker 2: to the Soviet Union. That would definitely draw the interest
- 21:02Speaker 2: of the FBI and the CIA. Now, of course, you
- 21:06Speaker 2: could say, well, the CIA is behind it. You know,
- 21:09Speaker 2: it's Operation whatever the fuck. And, you know, Oswald is
- 21:12Speaker 2: a false defector. Now, we know the CIA did have
- 21:15Speaker 2: a false defector program. Yet we have no records proving
- 21:22Speaker 2: that he was in one. Pre-assassination. So was he? Well,
- 21:34Speaker 2: that's an argument that we'll have until the end of time.
- 21:36Speaker 2: But back to Ms. Jane Roman's letter. CIA would have
- 21:46Speaker 2: explored every available asset abroad to establish his motives and activities.
- 21:51Speaker 2: Some of this investigation may have been operationally sensitive and
- 21:55Speaker 2: therefore held closely. On a need-to-know basis, I have absolutely
- 22:01Speaker 2: no personal knowledge of this, The fact is publicly known
- 22:05Speaker 2: now that Oswald was a big headache to the Soviets
- 22:07Speaker 2: who finally placed him as a metal worker in Minsk
- 22:12Speaker 2: and were happy to return him to the States, complete
- 22:15Speaker 2: with a Soviet wife, a most unusual occurrence as some
- 22:20Speaker 2: Americans know, to their sorrow, speaks for itself. In my opinion,
- 22:25Speaker 2: he was a complete sociopath, if not, in fact, a psychopath.
- 22:31Speaker 2: The sub-headline, On the Outlook article, six weeks before JFK's murder,
- 22:35Speaker 2: the CIA didn't tell all that it knew, is sensationally misleading.
- 22:41Speaker 2: The information in the cable from Mexico Station was disseminated
- 22:45Speaker 2: to the state, FBI, INS, and Navy, and to their
- 22:55Speaker 2: representatives in Mexico City. The Soviets, Castro, the Mafia, and
- 22:59Speaker 2: President Johnson have all been publicly suspected of having been
- 23:02Speaker 2: behind the assassination, and the article stated that the JFK
- 23:06Speaker 2: film suggested that Kennedy was murdered because he was resisting
- 23:11Speaker 2: escalation of the Vietnam War. Mr. Newman was an advisor
- 23:15Speaker 2: to Oliver Stone. Are the military then to be considered
- 23:20Speaker 2: the next subject? I apologize to all my former CIA
- 23:24Speaker 2: colleagues and those presently Concerned for my much regretted involvement
- 23:32Speaker 2: in this most flagrantly ridiculous and incorrect article. Okay. So
- 23:40Speaker 2: there you have it. Now, again, she wrote this letter,
- 23:44Speaker 2: never sent it. There's a reason she never sent it,
- 23:47Speaker 2: but we'll get there. Now, just from reading this, does
- 23:50Speaker 2: this sound like a woman who was tricked? into giving
- 23:57Speaker 2: an interview and then ambushed by former military analyst who
- 24:03Speaker 2: was writing a conspiracy book about Oswald and the CIA.
- 24:08Speaker 2: Or does this sound like a, a very hardened woman
- 24:14Speaker 2: covering the tracks of the CIA still into her elderly age, uh,
- 24:20Speaker 2: and protecting secrets and, um, thinking that the interview was
- 24:26Speaker 2: going to go a certain way, yet it actually went
- 24:28Speaker 2: another way. So she got upset and was apologizing to
- 24:34Speaker 2: her CIA colleagues for even giving the interview. Of course,
- 24:42Speaker 2: whatever mindset you have, whatever you believe is how you're
- 24:47Speaker 2: going to take this. And I can't... your choice for
- 24:55Speaker 2: either one. Now, let's go check out what she told
- 25:01Speaker 2: the ARRB. Now, the article and the letter that she
- 25:06Speaker 2: just wrote to the Outlook happens in 1995. Okay? This
- 25:13Speaker 2: letter is from 1996. And it's to Mr. Jeremy Gunn
- 25:18Speaker 2: of the ARRB. Dear Mr. Gunn, I am sorry you
- 25:23Speaker 2: had such a difficulty in locating me, and it's a
- 25:26Speaker 2: wonder that your letter ever did reach me, since it's
- 25:28Speaker 2: a weird and wonderful combination of two of my addresses.
- 25:33Speaker 2: I have never received the other copy of the letter,
- 25:35Speaker 2: which I assume was sent to 3211 Newark Street in D.C.
- 25:40Speaker 2: The above address in Stockbridge is my summer address, and
- 25:44Speaker 2: I will be here until the middle of October. As
- 25:47Speaker 2: of April 30th, I sold the Newark Street house. My
- 25:51Speaker 2: permanent legal address is now 9707 Old Georgetown Road, apartment
- 25:56Speaker 2: 120 in Bethesda, Maryland. Here's the phone number. Neither number
- 26:03Speaker 2: is unlisted, but the listing is in the name of
- 26:07Speaker 2: Howard Roman, who is my deceased husband, now deceased husband.
- 26:12Speaker 2: The DC number would refer you to the Maryland number.
- 26:17Speaker 2: I would, of course, be more than happy to assist
- 26:19Speaker 2: you in any way, and recognize that it is your
- 26:25Speaker 2: mission to cover any leads available to you. I do, however,
- 26:29Speaker 2: feel that I can add absolutely nothing of value to
- 26:33Speaker 2: the information already available to you. It would be extremely
- 26:37Speaker 2: difficult and expensive for me to get to Washington at
- 26:39Speaker 2: this point. I also feel it would be a great
- 26:42Speaker 2: waste of your board's time and energy to meet with
- 26:44Speaker 2: me here. I also travel a great deal visiting my
- 26:48Speaker 2: New England relatives and friends. I am more than happy
- 26:51Speaker 2: to get together upon my return to Bethesda in October
- 26:55Speaker 2: if you still feel that that would be necessary. I
- 26:58Speaker 2: understand that your board was established to put to rest
- 27:01Speaker 2: once and for all all of the rumors, plots, conspiracies, etc.
- 27:05Speaker 2: as sparked by the Oliver Stone movie, JFK, and various
- 27:08Speaker 2: other financially lucrative books and articles. What a blessing that
- 27:13Speaker 2: would be. As far as I'm concerned, the Warren Commission
- 27:15Speaker 2: did a thorough and accurate job. Okay. Okay. I assume
- 27:20Speaker 2: that you are aware that I was interviewed last winter
- 27:23Speaker 2: by an editor from the op-ed page of the Washington
- 27:26Speaker 2: Post against my better judgment. The article published was sensationalist, scurrilous, tandem...
- 27:38Speaker 2: I don't even know what that word is. Words taken
- 27:41Speaker 2: out of context, implications of CIA duplicity and involvement. I
- 27:46Speaker 2: was so upset I wrote a letter to the Post
- 27:48Speaker 2: right off, but It was much too long to send,
- 27:52Speaker 2: and I couldn't seem to write a short enough one.
- 27:58Speaker 2: At the advice of my colleagues, I checked in with
- 28:00Speaker 2: the public affairs officer of CIA. He was very soothing
- 28:04Speaker 2: and said that anyone who knew me would realize what happened,
- 28:07Speaker 2: and the whole thing would soon sink into oblivion, which
- 28:11Speaker 2: it then did. Soon did. The editor was accompanied by
- 28:16Speaker 2: a man who was writing a book on Lee Harvey
- 28:18Speaker 2: Oswald and left me with a copy of his previous
- 28:20Speaker 2: book called Vietnam and JFK, which I didn't read, except
- 28:24Speaker 2: for the cover which said the author, whose name I
- 28:26Speaker 2: can't recall, had been an advisor to Oliver Stone on
- 28:30Speaker 2: the JFK movie. Good luck with your tasks. Sincerely yours,
- 28:33Speaker 2: Jane Roman. And she cc'd somebody at the CIA, a Mr.
- 28:40Speaker 2: John Pereira of the Historical Review Group. Interesting. I assume
- 28:51Speaker 2: they did end up talking to her, which is how
- 28:53Speaker 2: they got a hold of her unsent letter to the
- 29:00Speaker 2: Washington Post from the prior year that we just read through. Now,
- 29:05Speaker 2: I don't know what to make of this. You know,
- 29:08Speaker 2: I can sympathize with Jane Roman. in being tricked into
- 29:18Speaker 2: an interview and then ambushed by, cause I know how
- 29:21Speaker 2: Newman is. Uh, it can be very gruff and assertive and, and,
- 29:27Speaker 2: you know, she's sitting in an apartment with these two guys.
- 29:32Speaker 2: One's not saying nothing. And the other one's just questioning her.
- 29:34Speaker 2: Like he knows very intricate structures of the CIA intelligence and,
- 29:40Speaker 2: can figure out document routings and this and that and
- 29:43Speaker 2: the other and she's just not prepared for that at
- 29:45Speaker 2: all and it doesn't necessarily mean that anything okay but
- 29:56Speaker 2: it's just an example of of how Jefferson Morley's career
- 30:02Speaker 2: in the JFK industry started. To me, it's a little sus.
- 30:10Speaker 2: Just saying. But let us move on here. I gotta
- 30:18Speaker 2: stop this one. And let's see. Is it over here?
- 30:35Speaker 2: It is not over here.
- 30:39Speaker 1: Ah ha.
- 30:48Speaker 2: So let's move on in time a little bit. We
- 30:51Speaker 2: all know about the whole Joe and Needy's thing with
- 30:55Speaker 2: Morley and how he's been on this thing for All
- 30:58Speaker 2: these years. Chasing ghosts. And. We've talked here. On the show.
- 31:06Speaker 2: About making mountains out of molehills. Which Jane Roman just.
- 31:11Speaker 2: Accused him of. Or serving up some nothing burgers. You know.
- 31:16Speaker 2: He's been accused of doing that in the past as well.
- 31:19Speaker 2: For good reason.
- 31:21Speaker 1: But.
- 31:24Speaker 2: Let's go back. And talk about the Joe Enides thing.
- 31:27Speaker 2: For a little bit. Because. Morley has really placed a
- 31:34Speaker 2: lot of scrutiny on Joe and Edie's. And I think
- 31:37Speaker 2: me and Doug did a pretty masterful job, and Joe,
- 31:44Speaker 2: by laying out exactly how Joe and Edie's was used
- 31:54Speaker 2: and came to be used by the CIA and at
- 31:58Speaker 2: the time of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. And
- 32:04Speaker 2: if you go back and watch through that, we got
- 32:07Speaker 2: the documents, we got everything. I mean, by the time
- 32:12Speaker 2: of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Joe Anides, by
- 32:18Speaker 2: all accounts, had done a somewhat wonderful service in the CIA. Okay?
- 32:25Speaker 1: Okay.
- 32:28Speaker 2: Many, many, many, many, many years. And he was topped
- 32:31Speaker 2: out on his salary. And we have the documents basically
- 32:37Speaker 2: saying that, you know, here's a list of these guys.
- 32:42Speaker 2: They're topped out their salary. We kind of need to
- 32:45Speaker 2: put them out to pasture, if you know what I mean. Like,
- 32:49Speaker 2: they need to retire. Okay? Because we don't want to
- 32:52Speaker 2: keep paying their salary for what they're doing. And, uh,
- 32:57Speaker 2: Joe and Edie's had some health problems, and they set
- 33:03Speaker 2: up a retirement date for him, but he didn't want
- 33:11Speaker 2: to retire until a certain date, but they needed something
- 33:14Speaker 2: for him to do. And they were paying him very handsomely,
- 33:19Speaker 2: and he didn't want to sit around the house. And,
- 33:25Speaker 2: of course, they're not going to put him back in
- 33:26Speaker 2: the field, right? So they give him a pretty cush gig,
- 33:31Speaker 2: which is liaisoning between the CIA and the people at
- 33:35Speaker 2: the House Select Committee on assassinations. You know, it's a
- 33:40Speaker 2: good old man job, right? Now, was he honest in
- 33:47Speaker 2: his prior things and associations? No, he wasn't. But again,
- 33:54Speaker 2: at that time, he didn't need to be. At that time,
- 34:03Speaker 2: they didn't have the documentation about who exactly Joe Anides
- 34:08Speaker 2: was in 1963 and what he was in charge of
- 34:11Speaker 2: doing then. It turns out that he was overseeing several
- 34:24Speaker 2: of these anti-Castro Cuban groups based out of Miami. Because
- 34:31Speaker 2: they were getting a little unruly. And out of control. And.
- 34:37Speaker 2: They basically put him down there. To try to. Wrangle in.
- 34:43Speaker 2: What these groups were doing. And. They inserted. Bringier in there.
- 34:50Speaker 2: Replacing Ross Crozier. As the handler. To such entities as
- 34:56Speaker 2: the DRE.
- 34:56Speaker 1: And. And.
- 35:00Speaker 2: As 1963 progresses, they are putting more of a chokehold
- 35:10Speaker 2: on the DRE as far as their funding and what
- 35:14Speaker 2: they are allowed to do. They basically want to pay
- 35:18Speaker 2: them to sit back and shut up, do propaganda only.
- 35:21Speaker 2: There will be no more military operations against Cuba or Castro.
- 35:26Speaker 2: You guys just sit over here, take your money, and
- 35:29Speaker 2: shut up. Stop doing the most. If you want to
- 35:34Speaker 2: still do propaganda, great. But that's all you're doing. And
- 35:39Speaker 2: then eventually the money started dwindling towards the end of 1963.
- 35:45Speaker 2: So as that was coming to a halt, things were
- 35:52Speaker 2: not going good between the DRE and the CIA. And
- 35:56Speaker 2: then the Kennedy assassination happens. And things fall apart quickly
- 36:01Speaker 2: after that. Joe Nides is removed as their handler. They
- 36:08Speaker 2: are defunded by the CIA. And then they end up
- 36:13Speaker 2: dissolving to a shadow of what they were. And being
- 36:16Speaker 2: totally kaput by like 66. But the thing with... With
- 36:27Speaker 2: Morley and his assertions. About how important Joe Anides was
- 36:32Speaker 2: to the DRE. And how important Brunier was to the DRE. And.
- 36:40Speaker 2: The way they spoke between each other. And when they did.
- 36:46Speaker 2: Is a little bit of a problem. Now there is.
- 36:51Speaker 2: Some drama that goes along with this as well. Because supposedly. Supposedly.
- 36:58Speaker 2: Morley represented a phone conversation that he had with Brunier
- 37:04Speaker 2: as being an interview with Carlos Brunier. Which is a problem.
- 37:13Speaker 2: But let's take a look at this little piece right here.
- 37:15Speaker 1: Oh, sorry.
- 37:19Speaker 2: Might help if I did this first. Here we go.
- 37:24Speaker 2: Morley never interviewed me, Brunier said. He contacted me over
- 37:28Speaker 2: the phone, and initially we agreed to an interview here
- 37:31Speaker 2: at my house. When I checked his credentials and found
- 37:35Speaker 2: the inaccuracies that he had written about me, I called
- 37:38Speaker 2: back and canceled the interview. He persisted, claiming he'd already
- 37:43Speaker 2: bought a plane ticket to come here, and I told
- 37:46Speaker 2: him that, look, this area is a very nice place,
- 37:49Speaker 2: and he can enjoy a vacation here. but that I
- 37:52Speaker 2: would not allow him to put a foot inside my house.
- 37:56Speaker 2: We discussed his allegation that the CIA was giving me $ 25, 000
- 38:01Speaker 2: a month in 1963 at a time when I was
- 38:05Speaker 2: working at Casa Roca as a co-manager with a salary
- 38:08Speaker 2: of $ 60 a week and living with my wife and
- 38:13Speaker 2: four children in a low-income apartment of the New Orleans
- 38:17Speaker 2: Housing Authority. He backed up then stating that the money
- 38:20Speaker 2: was maybe going to the Miami office and then from
- 38:24Speaker 2: there trickling down to me. I told him I never
- 38:27Speaker 2: got a penny from the Miami office. He says I
- 38:31Speaker 2: was a delegate of the Miami central office from where
- 38:35Speaker 2: I received mail communication. Maybe I visited that office one
- 38:40Speaker 2: or two times while I had been vacationing in Miami.
- 38:45Speaker 2: I never met George Ioannidis. nor any other non-Cuban persons
- 38:51Speaker 2: during those couple of visits to the Miami office. I
- 38:54Speaker 2: wrote to Mr. Morley and said that his comment that
- 38:57Speaker 2: I had suggested that he had lied about interviewing Brunier
- 39:01Speaker 2: was false. I merely reported Morley's claim and Brunier's response
- 39:06Speaker 2: and made no judgment regarding the accuracy of either statement. So, again,
- 39:17Speaker 2: What do we have here? We have Jefferson Morley claiming
- 39:22Speaker 2: that he had interviewed Carlos Bernier when he actually didn't.
- 39:25Speaker 2: He was making all kinds of accusations. right? And much
- 39:32Speaker 2: like I surmised some years ago that Carlos Bernier was
- 39:40Speaker 2: not getting any money from the DRE leaders in Miami.
- 39:45Speaker 2: As I said before, my guess is those guys... were
- 39:49Speaker 2: keeping most of the money for themselves. The DRE was
- 39:54Speaker 2: a big organization, multi-country, multi-state organization. They were not sharing
- 40:01Speaker 2: the wealth out of Miami. These guys who were the
- 40:06Speaker 2: shot callers for the DRE were keeping all the money
- 40:09Speaker 2: for themselves. Now, sure, they would fund some things with
- 40:12Speaker 2: some propaganda money. They wanted to do things like buy
- 40:16Speaker 2: boats and weapons and go try to kill Castro, but
- 40:19Speaker 2: the CIA wouldn't let him. But they still were giving
- 40:24Speaker 2: them $ 25, 000 to $ 50, 000 a month, which is a lot
- 40:28Speaker 2: of money in 1963. So that's interesting. But again, do
- 40:37Speaker 2: we have pure honesty out of Morley about what he's
- 40:45Speaker 2: reporting on? Doesn't sound like it. Now, let's go to
- 40:56Speaker 2: something else he's been talking about here. And this would
- 41:01Speaker 2: be the old Bill Harvey FFA travel document from April 10, 1963. Attention, Mr.
- 41:13Speaker 2: Charles Niles, subject William K. Harvey. This is, of course,
- 41:18Speaker 2: to the Security Division of the Federal Aviation Agency, a.k.a.
- 41:22Speaker 2: the FAA. Dear Sir, in accordance with existing arrangements made
- 41:26Speaker 2: with the Federal Aviation Agency and to confirm our oral notification,
- 41:31Speaker 2: it is requested that your files reflect the above-named individual,
- 41:35Speaker 2: William K. Harvey, an employee of this agency, as having
- 41:39Speaker 2: been issued Federal Aviation Agency credential... Number 4883 on 2
- 41:45Speaker 2: January 1963. In the event of an inquiry, this information
- 41:51Speaker 2: may be released to verify the authenticity of this credential. Sincerely,
- 41:57Speaker 2: Nicholas Zubon, Chief of the Building Security Branch of the
- 42:01Speaker 2: Office of Security. Okay.
- 42:07Speaker 1: Okay.
- 42:10Speaker 2: Well, what does this mean exactly? And Morley has attributed
- 42:17Speaker 2: a lot of meaning to this one very simple document.
- 42:24Speaker 2: And we're going to take a look and see what
- 42:27Speaker 2: he thinks this document tells us. Here we go. The
- 42:44Speaker 2: document about Harvey's FAA credential reveals two new facts about
- 42:47Speaker 2: his involvement in the events of 63, neither known previously. One,
- 42:52Speaker 2: that Harvey was authorized to travel undercover in the United
- 42:56Speaker 2: States while he was serving as chief of the CIA
- 42:59Speaker 2: station in Rome. The CIA did not disclose this arrangement
- 43:04Speaker 2: to Senate investigators in the 70s. Alright, so let's break
- 43:08Speaker 2: them two down first. Did the document that I showed
- 43:13Speaker 2: you previously ever say anything about William Harvey being able
- 43:17Speaker 2: to travel undercover in the United States? No, it did not.
- 43:29Speaker 2: And very simply, okay, very simply, I would point you
- 43:37Speaker 2: in the direction of Very simple logic. This is 1963.
- 43:47Speaker 2: This is the days before. Bomb sniffing dogs. And metal detectors. And.
- 43:55Speaker 2: A whole lot of other security procedures. At airports and
- 43:59Speaker 2: aboard airplanes. They did not search luggage. They didn't search
- 44:04Speaker 2: your briefcase. They didn't search your purse. They didn't search
- 44:07Speaker 2: your person.
- 44:09Speaker 1: So.
- 44:18Speaker 2: I would point you towards the whole D.B. Cooper analogy here,
- 44:25Speaker 2: which occurred actually 10 years, almost 10 years after the
- 44:30Speaker 2: Kennedy assassination. You could travel in the United States, anywhere
- 44:38Speaker 2: you wanted, under any alias you chose. All Bill Harvey
- 44:46Speaker 2: had to do is walk up to the counter, buy
- 44:48Speaker 2: an airplane ticket, and write Dan Cooper on there as
- 44:53Speaker 2: the person who's buying the ticket, pay with cash, and
- 44:56Speaker 2: get on the plane. And nobody would ever know that
- 44:59Speaker 2: William K. Harvey, who wrote a false name down on
- 45:06Speaker 2: the ticket as Dan Cooper, nobody would be any the wiser.
- 45:14Speaker 2: So why does he need a piece of paper from
- 45:17Speaker 2: the FAA that would authorize him to travel under a
- 45:22Speaker 2: false name? It doesn't make any sense. In 1963, Bill
- 45:29Speaker 2: Harvey could have walked into any airport in the United States.
- 45:32Speaker 2: They wouldn't know who the hell he was. You didn't
- 45:36Speaker 2: have to show an ID. You didn't have to show
- 45:37Speaker 2: a driver's license. You didn't have to show a passport.
- 45:44Speaker 2: You could go in there, pay money for the ticket,
- 45:47Speaker 2: write any name you want down and fly anywhere you
- 45:49Speaker 2: want with a weapon in your belt line, in a
- 45:53Speaker 2: shoulder hostel, in your briefcase, in your luggage, whatever. Remember,
- 45:59Speaker 2: in 1971 or two, whenever D.B. Cooper did his thing,
- 46:03Speaker 2: he allegedly brought a bomb on the plane in a
- 46:07Speaker 2: briefcase that they didn't check. And he wrote down a
- 46:10Speaker 2: false name when he bought the ticket. So, this whole
- 46:18Speaker 2: thing about this document being some great relevatory thing really
- 46:24Speaker 2: doesn't mean much to me. But let's get back to it.
- 46:31Speaker 2: Maybe I can be swayed. Maybe not. The document does
- 46:38Speaker 2: not prove that Harvey traveled to Dallas in November 1963.
- 46:42Speaker 2: as the State Department official said, but it does show
- 46:44Speaker 2: that contrary to previous CIA statements, the assassination chief was
- 46:49Speaker 2: authorized to travel domestically. Okay. He was authorized to travel domestically. Okay. Whoop-a-dee-doo. Whoop-a-dee-dippity-doo.
- 47:09Speaker 2: Anybody is authorized to travel domestically. You don't have to
- 47:14Speaker 2: be a CIA assassination chief to be authorized to travel domestically.
- 47:21Speaker 1: Wow.
- 47:24Speaker 2: And just out of curiosity, I am going to check
- 47:31Speaker 2: something real quick. Because I had something pop into my
- 47:36Speaker 2: brain here. With his career... Trying to see exactly when...
- 47:49Speaker 2: He was sent... To Italy. He was eventually reassigned to
- 47:55Speaker 2: Rome as station chief in 1963. Following a punitive administration post.
- 48:03Speaker 2: And I believe that happened in June of 1963. So again.
- 48:13Speaker 2: Here at the bottom, you have Morley asking the question,
- 48:17Speaker 2: and what exactly were the duties of the Rome station
- 48:19Speaker 2: chief that required U.S. travel in late 63? Well, if
- 48:24Speaker 2: you go back to the document in question, where did
- 48:31Speaker 2: it go? Let me swap back here. because if you
- 48:43Speaker 2: look at things, if you look at this document again,
- 48:49Speaker 2: there's a date on the bottom that he was issued
- 48:54Speaker 2: Federal Aviation Agency credential 4883 on 2 January 63. Right?
- 48:58Speaker 2: This is before he was This is before he was
- 49:11Speaker 2: made the station chief in Rome, Italy. This is before
- 49:16Speaker 2: they had announced that he was going to be sent
- 49:20Speaker 2: to Rome to be the station chief in Italy. Okay.
- 49:27Speaker 2: This letter is right around the time where they decided
- 49:31Speaker 2: that they were going to send him to Rome, Italy.
- 49:35Speaker 2: It's also the same day that allegedly Oswald shot at
- 49:38Speaker 2: General Walker. April 10th, 1963. And I believe he was
- 49:43Speaker 2: actually sent to Rome in June or July of 63. So, again,
- 49:51Speaker 2: nothing about Morley's assertions about how important this document is
- 49:55Speaker 2: make any sense to me whatsoever. Now, I know I'm
- 49:59Speaker 2: not the smartest knife in the drawer, or the sharpest
- 50:01Speaker 2: knife in the drawer, but if somebody can explain this
- 50:07Speaker 2: to me better... the meaning of this, I'm all for it.
- 50:15Speaker 2: To me, this is a giant nothing burger. A giant
- 50:22Speaker 2: nothing burger. And just from this one small document, he
- 50:25Speaker 2: asked this question. Why did the CIA want the FAA
- 50:29Speaker 2: to backstop the cover story of its assassination chief as
- 50:32Speaker 2: he traveled within the United States? I.
- 50:40Speaker 2: He's attributing a lot of things that we just can't.
- 50:44Speaker 2: He's making a bridge too far to me. He's basing
- 50:50Speaker 2: the fact that Harvey allegedly traveled to Dallas in November
- 50:54Speaker 2: of 63, but he can't back it up and he
- 50:58Speaker 2: can't prove it. To me, it's all a bridge too far.
- 51:08Speaker 2: I just can't put a lot of stock into it.
- 51:14Speaker 2: But that to me is, and I didn't even get
- 51:20Speaker 2: to the whole Russian thing, but you see what I'm
- 51:26Speaker 2: saying when it comes to, I just don't understand how
- 51:30Speaker 2: some folks in this industry get their bona fides I
- 51:37Speaker 2: guess it is who you know, and maybe it's who
- 51:41Speaker 2: you blow. Insert joke here. I don't know. But, you know,
- 51:57Speaker 2: to be the guy, the professional looking and acting guy
- 52:02Speaker 2: with all the right bona fides, To go on mainstream
- 52:08Speaker 2: media and do these interviews and be talking to Luna's
- 52:13Speaker 2: task force and all this and that. And ask and
- 52:17Speaker 2: get whatever you want out of them. Fantastic. Good for you.
- 52:21Speaker 2: Good on you. But just know, there's people out here watching.
- 52:29Speaker 2: And there's people out here pointing certain things out. Some
- 52:36Speaker 2: things aren't just above board anymore. And when somebody claims
- 52:42Speaker 2: to have made a great research discovery, very rarely does
- 52:51Speaker 2: it ever pan out or matriculate into something that is
- 52:57Speaker 2: truly a great discovery. It's often... nothing burger or it
- 53:07Speaker 2: turns out to be or it's something that is misinterpreted
- 53:12Speaker 2: contorted as Jane Roman accused Jefferson Morley and John Newman
- 53:19Speaker 2: of doing to what she told them so is that
- 53:24Speaker 2: the key I mean we're all on the same side
- 53:28Speaker 2: of the thing here and you know there's supposed to
- 53:32Speaker 2: be a lot more important people than me out there
- 53:34Speaker 2: interpreting these documents And analyzing these documents. And that's the
- 53:38Speaker 2: best you can do.
- 53:43Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 53:45Speaker 2: I don't like it. And I ain't buying it. So. Anyway.
- 53:54Speaker 2: That's it for this one. Hope you enjoyed the little rambling.
- 54:00Speaker 2: It's just been something that's on my mind lately. as
- 54:04Speaker 2: Morley is on his hiatus, writing his paper for the
- 54:08Speaker 2: task force. And, you know, pretty soon we'll have everything,
- 54:13Speaker 2: Joe Anides and William Harvey's travel documents, and Jefferson Morley
- 54:18Speaker 2: will solve the case. And we can all just stop
- 54:21Speaker 2: what we're doing and move on. Allegedly. But until then,
- 54:29Speaker 2: keep tuning in to the Lone Gummin' podcast, Keep tuning
- 54:33Speaker 2: in to some Random Research Ramblings. And we'll see you
- 54:37Speaker 2: next time. Peace out. Random Research Ramblings. We rock. Random
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