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http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/5-decades-later-some-JFK-probe-files-still-sealed-.htmlFive decades after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot and long after official inquiries ended, thousands of pages of investigative documents remain withheld from public view. The contents of these files are partially known and intriguing and conspiracy buffs are not the only ones seeking to open them for a closer look.
Some serious researchers believe the off-limits files could shed valuable new light on nagging mysteries of the assassination including what U.S. intelligence agencies knew about accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before Nov. 22, 1963.
It turns out that several hundred of the still-classified pages concern a deceased CIA agent, George Joannides, whose activities just before the assassination and, fascinatingly, during a government investigation years later, have tantalized researchers for years.
"This is not about conspiracy, this is about transparency," said Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post reporter and author embroiled in a decade-long lawsuit against the CIA, seeking release of the closed documents. "I think the CIA should obey the law. I don't think most people think that's a crazy idea."
Morley's effort has been joined by others, including G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel for a House investigation into the JFK assassination in the 1970s. But so far, the Joannides files and thousands more pages primarily from the CIA remain off-limits at a National Archives center in College Park, Md.
olddots
(10,237 posts)that makes sense , wait for everyone who cares to be dead .
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)held accoutable dies.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)nothing to hide, nothing to cover up, then why keep them sealed ... but release them as an unfortunate part of American history and a historic record there of ...
zbdent
(35,392 posts)Probably to keep Daddy's involvement in Nixon's "retaliation" for the 1960 election out of the press ...
former9thward
(31,804 posts)Warren Commission sealed files for 75 years and then in 1979 the House Select Committee on Assassinations which found that a conspiracy had taken place sealed their files for 50 years (2029).
juajen
(8,515 posts)We were supposed to "know all" in 50 years. Most people I talked to saw this as a suggestion that LBJ was involved and/or the CIA. The Warren Commission report was seen as bogus by many, and I was not a democrat at this time. My husband I both were republicans. I still believe that LBJ was involved.
David Krout
(423 posts)It's National Security.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)get a hold of! It all gets so ridiculous after awhile.
zappaman
(20,605 posts)Surely, the people responsible wrote it down in a memo!!!
Or even just a friendly note.
"Hey Bob!
Going to Dallas next week to assassinate the President.
Please keep this under you hat since I could get in big trouble.
See you Monday for cards.
Best to you and your family."
burnodo
(2,017 posts)or aren't you curious? Or, are you just one of those who trusts the government completely "zappa"man?
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)or else he'd be implicated.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)They are still giving us bullshit. IMO
90-percent
(6,828 posts)I thin James Clapper is advocating release of all CIA Files pertaining to the JFK Assassination. He's a servant of the people that believes democracy needs transparency in government to thrive.
-jim