Conspiracy theorist and gadfly Jefferson Morley is promising a "major break" in the JFK assassination "story." But those who have been following him for some time knew he would eventually do this. He had to.
The "major break" will be announced at a press conference at the National Press Club in DC. The "break" evidently consists of witness statements (a staple in the relm of conspiracy "evidence") that there was "a covert operation that used Lee Harvey Oswald for intelligence purposes" which was approved by "senior agency officials." I say that the witness statements must be the proof of Morley's operation since the documents that he insists "tell" the "explosive" story remain unseen and Morley doesn't have any idea what they say.
Morley has been running around in recent years saying the CIA was complicit in the JFK murder after originally presenting himself as an agnostic who just wanted the truth. But when you make all of the noise that he has over the years, you must put up or shut up at some point. He certainly isn't the type to say, "Gee, I was wrong." Morley evidently believes that if he claims there is a smoking gun that Biden or a later President will be forced to act and release the records which relate to Morley's preferred villian CIA officer George Joannides.
But skeptics have appeared on the conspiracy side of the debate even before the alleged bombshell announcement. Joseph Backes, a prominent conspiracy researcher, is worried that Morley is "over selling" the records and building expectations "too much." Backes alludes to the diversion of opinion in recent years bewteen Morley and John Newman who believes that the primary conspirators were military people. Backes also sensibly says that he doesn't believe the theories of Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former CIA employee who will speak at the press conference.
Time will tell if Morley has solved the case or if his gambit will go down with Roscoe White as a bad hoax. But Morley has a backup plan. If the records are released and don't show what he says they do, he can simply say that the CIA destroyed the proof and his witnesses confirm that "fact."
Jeff Morley is at it again? He promised the same thing back in 2017 when there was a major document dump and nothing really earth-shaking came out. Most if not all of the dumps are the unreacted versions of previously released documents. I highly doubt he would find anything that would change the conclusion that Oswald did it,and did it alone.
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