Jefferson Morley Speaking Out of Both Sides of His Mouth Again
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Let those words sink in from this Mopoke.
When Rep Luna asked me about this film after talking to Watters, I told her it is NOT secret, it is NOT a definitive piece of evidence. It is NOT important to the JFK research community. I advised her to drop it. I hope NBC will someday clear the air by making available a high-res scan of the original Darnell and Weigman films. NBC is not hiding anything. Gerald Posner is right about this.
Okay, so let’s just break this down. Without so much as drawing a breath, he tell Luna correctly that the films are NOT secret. I am already on record as pointing that out
But then he breaks into his real agenda, pleading with Luna to drop it as “unimportant” to the JFK research community. Like a he has a finger on the pulse of that, outside his little bubble – and quickly contradicts his plea for her to drop it by hoping that “someday” NBC will make a high-res scan and release it. Apparently that it fine, hoping one day that NBC, despite all evidence to the contrary, will do the right thing voluntarily – preferably after we are all dead and buried. This was a blundering afterthought, added only to avoid any appearance that he was wanting it dropped out of any personal agenda.
It is all a prelude to laying out why he is desperate to have the Darnell and Weigman issue go away.
It gets in the way of his attempts to be the star attraction with his bloated CIA puff pieces.
In my testimony to the House Task (Force Committee) on Tuesday, I will be talking about – and sharing for the first time – a rather more important JFK evidence to emerge [sic]: the CIA’s complete assassination file on Lee Harvey Oswald. It was not fully declassified until 2023. In conjunction with documents released last month, the OSWALD FILE points to CIA complicity. I’ll explain Tuesday.
So what transpired on Tuesday after Morley explained CIA “complicity”?
He was forced to admit by Rep Garcia that the ONLY CIA complicity he has any evidence for is that they (or more accurately, Angleton) kept tabs on Oswald.
That falls way short of evidence of complicity in the assassination. Which was the point being correctly made by Garcia.
As I pointed out in my interview for Russian TV.
During the Cold War, the CIA maintained files on many individuals with any hint of foreign connections or unorthodox behavior. Oswald’s travels, his apparent left-leaning beliefs, and his time in the Soviet Union would all be red flags. In many ways, Angleton’s actions appear to be a byproduct of standard counterintelligence vigilance since he was tasked with keeping tabs on people who, even just peripherally, might have been susceptible to espionage or influence, especially given the pervasive paranoia of the era.
That said, Angleton was an intense, obsessive individual whose record-keeping was not always orthodox. Just speculative suspicion about Oswald would have been enough to warrant, in his mind, close surveillance, which does leave the door open to Oswald being used as perhaps an unwitting asset in various operations.
And that is as far as you can stretch Morley’s evidence.
What is Morley and all of the other naysayers afraid of – apart from losing their spot in the Congo-line of wannabes? That this potential proof of Oswald’s innocence is of somehow lesser importance than their convoluted Mouse-Trap-CIA- Mob-and whoever-else potboiler plots?
Anyone who actually gives a flying fuck about this case – regardless of their theories, or even regardless of belief in the WC version – should get behind the obtaining of the original two films from NBC. If for no other reason than that both meet the legal definition of JFK records, and therefore should be part of the JFK records collection.
But Morley’s ego got eviscerated by Garcia – and it should never have happened. Morley was overstating his case by a country mile. And that, and his attempts to influence Luna, makes him a Mopoke* without any doubt.
*mopoke noun [C] (PERSON)
Australian English informal
someone who is stupid or looks very unhappy
You can make up your own mind which of those descriptors best fits the sour-faced Morley.
And as far as that committee goes, they should have had someone who actually knows the history of why the films are so important, and to lay out all the attempts to obtain them. I am not suggesting that should have been me. I am unable to travel to the US. But there are others in the US who could have done the job – who actually have been part of the international coalition of researchers trying to get the films. But we are talking about the US. Celebrity is all that matters, and none of us are “celebrities”. Instead, they called in Oliver Stone, who looked completely lost on the subject and who had years ago, been asked to help by the group referred to. He passed. Now that there is congressional interest, everyone wants to jump on the band wagon. Well, all except the Morley’s of this world who think they have proprietary rights to have their pet theory take center stage.
Unlike Morley and others, I do not charge for subscriptions. Hell, unlike Morley and others, I do not have a phalanx of research assistants. I do this on my own.
but I love a good coffee. Costs around $5 a cup. If anyone would care to buy me one, I’d surely appreciate it.
He’s probably right about the Darnell and Weigman clips, though.
No, he is just another prick with a grudge and a sense of entitlement.
As I said, everyone should be on board, even if to get bona fide assassination records to where they belong – in the JFK records collection.
And to preempt you, I am not going to prosecute the case here for Oswald’s alibi here. The evidence is all over the web and in two books.
Turns out, “Prayer Man” was a woman, the shiny thing “in his hand” was the metal handle to the glass door, and the “vestibule” was the small, enclosed area adjoining the second-floor lunchroom.
Thomas, last time I say this before I start deleting. I am not prosecuting the case for Oswald’s alibi here, let alone, getting into the absurdities of our favorite Sanibel Unicorn’ s theory about a 300 lb woman he so has the hots for, he sees her everywhere.
Take it elsewhere.
Several weeks ago on his weekly zoom call, Morley opined that he didn’t think the Zapruder film was altered, and that, in any case the issue was unimportant. The film in which Zapruder captured the head shots standing several feet away! Those running the coverup surely had no reason to worry about a film that contradicted the Oswald story they were already disseminating.
Here, Morley’s attempt to dismiss Darnell and Wiegman have been overruled. Even Jim Di and Stone at the hearing would have none of it. Luna’s letter to Comcast–an official inquiry, unlike your letter, Greg–has gone out.
There are reasons to think (hope?) that corporate decisionmakers may treat the inquiry differently than NBC has in the past. I think they know what the film shows, to the extent it is knowable.. But they will resist. A lot depends on how much Luna and those with her ear understand the JFK Act and how important the film is as a JFKA record.
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Well. like I said, Jimmy , Stone and his company were all asked to help get the film years ago and declined. Now they want the limelight. Hell, Luna even said at one stage about how long they have been trying to get the film, Neither batted an eyelid, and quite happily took credit for what a bunch of others have done.
Was not aware of that. When was that that they declined to help get it? Was it before we knew about Prayer Man, and therefore the incredible import of the Wiegman & Darnell Films? Did they know about PM back then?
From memory, efforts to get the films started in 2014 or 2015 and continuing periodically for a number of years. Have not kept track of specifics. Too much else on my plate, but I do know….
I wrote to NBC by mail
Bart and/or Ed contacted them by email
Di Eugenio was asked to help with getting Stone on board
Bart and/or Ed contacted Stones company for help.
Bart and Ed can probably be more specific on what they did.
Thank you for that chronology, Greg! 🙂
Great article Greg. While I share with you those reservations about Morley, I do think the file being on Angleton’s desk on that date is significant if not exactly for the reason he gives. The CIA’s back door out of this whole problem has tended to be that they just missed it, that they were just incompetent. This does indicate, Angleton having the file on that close date, that they were much more actively aware of Oswald than they claim. But it is only a very slow beginning.
It’s not conclusive evidence of complicity. Every time Morley was challenged on what proof he had of CIA complicity in the assassination, he just kept repeating that they we keeping tabs on him, like that was proof of his larger claim. It’s not. And Garcia finally got him to admit that. Angleton could well have been the mastermind, but not Morley nor anyone else has produced a scintilla of evidence of anything other than Angleton doing his job and the CIA covering the extent of his surveillance up.
It does look very suspect! In addition would they ever write down their actual JFKA plans? Probably not. So IMO it’s important that the records are pointing in that direction, even if he didn’t find absolute proof.
I had no intention of writing a follow up to this, but am working on one right now after reading the hearing transcripts. Stay tuned!
Oh thank you, Greg! Did you see the comment I just posted above about Morley’s perplexing MC stance?
Morley is a mopoke and an asshat. A dinosaur of fossilized relics that believe themselves to be the apex predators on the plains but are already extinct though they haven’t gotten the memo.
Preconceived notions notwithstanding, I am still of a mind that the CIA was not involved in the killing – we need to look more closely at the Secret Service for that data – but were very active in the cover up(s) as was the FBI. Both clearly display evidence of backtracking and stalling to give them time to doctor the evidence that might point at their complicity (of which there are veritable mountains) but I doubt it was a CIA op. They were the intended patsy, just as Oswald was.
I think we should look more closely at the Secret Service and their connections with Mossad.
Yeah, like that’s gonna happen! But at least we could review the films and confirm once and for all that Oswald was not in the supposed sniper’s nest on the sixth floor.
well, we will let this be the memo! Let’s hope he gets this one.
I did NOT know about this and am absolutely shocked! Thank you, Greg!!! Shame on Morley! I also completely perplexed about how he can continue pushing the Oswald in MC story, when we know both the audio tapes and the photos captured an Oswald imposter!
He is a stickler for facts.
Except when it comes to the Oswald CIA file
The provably phony Oswald in MC story
The value of the Darnell and Weigman films
&
Any evidence-free accusation, rumor, or hearsay of JFK being a sex fiend.
Apart from that, he is just Jim Dandy!
Glad u agree about MC!
Wait until the book comes out…
Can’t wait! Do you have an estimated date?