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U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim says the Central Intelligence Agency “probably misled” a panel he led in the 1990s seeking documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. That’s because the CIA didn’t tell Tunheim that its liaison to a panel that preceded his Assassination Records Review Board had been involved with anti-Castro Cubans in Miami who tangled with Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
The New York Times reported Tunheim’s remarks in a front-page story Saturday on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by Minneapolis-born journalist Jefferson Morley, formerly an editor at the Washington Post and past national editorial director for the Center for Independent Media, the Minnesota Independent’s nonprofit parent.
After years of pressing the CIA to release its records, Morley got an appeals court earlier this year to force the agency to ‘fess up to George Joannides’ role as case officer in Miami at the time of Kennedy assassination. But the CIA still has nearly 300 documents about Joannides it won’t reveal, citing “grave” national security concerns.
Tunheim told the Times he may ask the CIA for redacted versions of the documents even if Morley is ultimately stymied by the Washington, D.C., federal court.
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Comment posted October 19, 2009 @ 12:11 pm
It was all a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. Three simple shots.
If the people who pulled this off were powerful monsters THEN, what do you think they are after all this time? Are they not even MORE powerful now?
The truth will never be revealed. Just like 9/11.
Comment posted October 19, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
Good for the judge!
But it was a ’70s House committee that Joannides “helped”–not Tunheim’s 1990s board.
Comment posted October 19, 2009 @ 10:14 pm
More important than WHO killed JFK is the question WHY was he killed? James Douglass’ book JFK and The Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters addresses these questions. I recommend it to you.
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 8:19 am
It becomes much more moot for me when the truth is that the who and the why both clamor that it was better for us NOT to know for “national security” reasons.
I believe who is JUST as important as why. Do you not believe that the who was greatly rewarded for their work in those years?
It silenced my generation, and kept us silent, in turmoil, and maleable. JFK, MLK, Bobby, and others were permanently “shut up” by those who feared the now dead movement that was taking place.
Comment posted October 20, 2009 @ 8:32 am
Thank you for the correction, Don Folsum. Indeed, Joannides died in 1990 so he couldn’t have had a role with Tunheim’s panel. I’ve changed the post to reflect your correction.
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