In the first few hours, X was, of course lousy with fake news and memes.
But since then, nothing.
We live in an ADD, TikTok, Instagram Stories world.
So we have no right to be impatient.
Besides, after six decades, theSS Get it Fasthas has long since sailed.
For now the focus should be on “get it right.”
One of those real journos is Jefferson Morley.
He’s been at it for 30 something years.
Virtually every podcast or documentary I dive into on the subject uses him as a source.
Unfortunately that happens to be April 1st, but what can you do?
The universe has a dark, twisted sense of humor.
(At times like these I can’t believe how many assassination metaphors the English language has.)
–There probably will not be any smoking gun (I know, right?).
Morley suggests that instead, we look for “a fact pattern.”
Some consistent through line that you find across multiple documents from various sources.
–He’s found a fact pattern that keeps pointing back to the CIA’s involvement.
In the coverup, if not the assassination itself.
– One significant document that is now unredacted for the first time is from Kennedy advisor Arthur Schlesinger.
And essentially had no interest in carrying out JFK’s foreign policy, just their own.
–French President Charles de Gaulle barely survived an assassination himself.
He’s famous for an approach he called “A Wilderness of Mirrors.”
Here, Morley calls Angleton “a world historic figure.”
Why does he matter today?
Because Lee Harvey Oswald was an asset of hisfor four years.
–During that time, Oswald was under constant surveillance, no matter where he traveled to.
And at no point did top CIA officials not have his home address.
Morley says they have 42 documents and 180 pages of material on him.
All of which Angleton later denied.
Meaning he flat out lied about it.
In fact, he had Oswald’s file on his desk, and knew he was in Dallas.
And yet they denied knowing him.
–The clear implication is that JFK was in direct conflict with his intelligence agencies.
The major one had been tracking one particular crackpot closely at its highest levels.
They knew where he was on November 22, 1963.
And that’s the day he turned the Commander-in-Chief’s brains into salsa.
–Don’t take Morley’s word for it.
For certain, do not listen to some bloggers on a comedy/sports site.
Oswald was the one major loose thread, and it fell to Ruby to cut it off.
In front of the world.
Then whack the guy who was accused of pulling the trigger.
And not one of them was ever brought to justice.
And yet here we are.
We still don’t know for sure.
And they’ve only just begun to look.
Next Tuesday’s hearings ought to be great theater.
