Oliver Stone and Experts Demand Reopening of JFK Assassination Case

Call for Reinvestigation

• 🎬 Filmmaker Oliver Stone is urging Congress to reopen the JFK assassination case, testifying in Washington that Americans deserve the truth.
• 🏛️ He criticized the CIA for its secrecy, calling for a full investigation into the agency's "muddy footprints" and "fingerprints of intelligence all over Lee Harvey Oswald."
• 🔑 Stone asserts that secrecy is the enemy of democracy and that an uninformed public cannot make good decisions.

Unanswered Questions and CIA Complicity

• ❓ An expert panel highlighted unanswered questions regarding JFK's autopsy and the handling of Lee Harvey Oswald.
• 📰 Jefferson Morley, former Washington Post reporter, testified that top officials misled investigators, pointing to Richard Helms, James Angleton, and George Joanes as responsible or complicit in the president's death.
• 🕵️ Morley emphasized that asserting CIA culpability is a grave matter and called for fact-checkers to examine all evidence.

Decades of Reporting and the Oswald File

• 📝 Morley shared his three decades of reporting on the JFK story, detailing his investigative techniques learned at the Washington Post, such as "start with the cover up and proceed to the crime."
• 📄 He noted that in the spring of 2023, the CIA fully declassified its 198-page pre-assassination file on Lee Harvey Oswald for the first time.
• 🤷 Journalists who reviewed the file initially described it as evidence of incompetence or "cover your ass" behavior.

Angleton's Testimony and Lies Under Oath

• 🔍 A newly declassified transcript of James Angleton's 1978 testimony revealed he had lied under oath about his surveillance of Oswald's correspondence while Oswald lived in the Soviet Union.
• ⚠️ This revelation, withheld for half a century, confirmed Angleton as the third senior CIA officer known to have lied about their knowledge of Oswald prior to the assassination.
• ⚖️ Morley argues this pattern of misconduct, not incompetence, warrants the release of full CIA personnel files and explanations for the officials' lies.