Zapruder Film Thread Quotes Incorrect Luna Release

It would appear that some researchers are unaware of the facts regarding the Anna Paulina Luna news release of July 14, 2025 more than a year and several debunking articles later. A thread on the Education Forum, one of several related to what conspiracy researchers see as major developments regarding Zapruder film alteration, mentions Luna's incorrect and self-serving proclamation. This quote is from Keven Hofeling:

In July 2025 the House Task Force secured Joannides’s full personnel file, confirming that he was the DRE’s case officer and that he later misled Congress ...

What is the truth? And what are the gaffes in Luna's release? First, her release hyperbolically claims:

The long-awaited release of CIA officer George Joannides’ full personnel file— secured by the Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets— has shattered decades of secrecy surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This historic disclosure marks a seismic shift in what the American people now know about their own government’s role in the events of November 22, 1963.

This, as we will see, is nonsense.

Luna continues:

George Joannides was a covert CIA officer in 1963 who ran psychological-warfare operations in Miami. He directed and funded a Cuban exile group called the DRE— which had direct contact with Lee Harvey Oswald just months before President Kennedy was assassinated.

But as I have pointed out numerous times, the individuals that Oswald had contact with (most notably Carlos Bringuier) were New Orleans delegates distinct and seperate from the Miami-based group that Joannides ran and which received CIA funding. There is no evidence that the New Orleans delegation received a penny from the CIA and Bringuier always denied that they did. And though the Miami DRE did receive a report from Bringuier on his Oswald encounters, nothing in the Joannides file proves that he ever met Oswald or even was aware of him before the assassination. Morley has admitted as much in his various writings (see link above).

The Luna release continues:

For decades, the CIA denied having any relevant connection. But newly released files confirm Joannides was the DRE’s case officer and reveal that he later misled Congress, hiding the CIA’s ties to both the group and Oswald. This new evidence confirms a long-running effort to cover up the truth, completely undermining the CIA’s official story.

This is completely wrong. It has been public knowledge since 1998 when ARRB researcher Michelle Combs reviewed the Joannides personnel file that he was the DRE case officer. And who was the person who made this knowledge known to the general public? Jefferson Morley in his well-known 2001 piece Revelation 19.63. You would think Morley could have mentioned this to Luna before she embarrassed herself.

As far as misleading Congress, the file again says nothing on this topic. Thus far, no documentation has surfaced to support the claims of HSCA boss Robert Blakey that his "request [for the identity of the DRE case officer] was directed to George Joannides." Working with JFK file expert Robert Reynolds I looked into this and related matters last year. We found that Blakey's statements evolved over the years. As for former HSCA staffer Dan Hardway (who has made similar remarks about Joannides) in his statement to the Luna Committee, Hardway never said that he made a "direct request" as Morley claimed. Indeed, Hardway admitted that he "did little, if any, research that I recall into the [DRE]." So, obviously, he would have no reason to ask Joannides about a DRE case officer especially considering that his area of study for the HSCA was Oswald and Mexico City.

The one new revelation in the file was completely ommitted by Luna. That was the fact that Joannides used the alias "Howard Gebler" as shown by a driver's license he obtained in that name. But even that was not a complete surprise since it was known that the DRE addressed correspondence to "Howard" as Morley reported years ago. So, it was always understood that Joannides may have been "Howard."

Summing up, Luna's "historic disclosure" was nothing of the sort. And the real relevance of the Joannides file release was the fact that it disproved Morley's long-held theory of an "Oswald Operation." When the committee report authored by Morley comes out hopefully it will not take years to untangle the mess.

See Fred Litwin's piece for more about Morley and the Joannides file.