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.