'A Government within a Government': Jeff Morley on Newly Declassified JFK Files on Bill Harvey

'A government within a government': Newly Declassified JFK Assassination files - FOX 10 Phoenix Summary:

- 0:00-0:49 - Fox 10 hosts introduce Jefferson Morley, investigative journalist and foremost JFK assassination expert, to discuss new findings released this week from declassified documents

- 0:49-2:17 - New travel records reveal Bill Harvey (chief of CIA's assassination program in 1963 and "bitter enemies" with Kennedy brothers) secretly obtained credential to travel covertly within United States in late 1963 despite being stationed in Rome; colleague reported seeing him on plane to Dallas in November 1963

- 2:17-2:52 - Follow-up story coming on how Harvey obtained credential - appears to have had "very high-level source within Kennedy's government at the FAA" helping him; shows his intentions toward President Kennedy remain "an open question"

- 2:52-3:37 - Harvey headed CIA's "ZR Rifle" assassination program started in 1960 to assassinate Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders; hated Kennedy for two reasons: felt JFK abandoned CIA-trained brigade in failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, humiliating the agency

- 3:37-4:38 - During 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, CIA and Pentagon leaders wanted to invade Cuba but Kennedy negotiated peaceful settlement - they felt he "chickened out again"; Harvey got into screaming match with Robert Kennedy during crisis, cursed him out in White House meeting; Kennedy brothers told CIA "get rid of this guy, we never want to see him again" - he was transferred to Rome but didn't stay there

- 5:32-6:58 - James Angleton, Harvey's "very good friend," was CIA chief of counterintelligence who also handled assassination operations; his actions were "almost completely invisible even to the rest of the CIA" - counterintelligence staff was "a CIA within the CIA" with "tremendous autonomy" and zero congressional oversight

- 6:58-7:40 - New document released this year (thanks to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna) shows Angleton was vetting assassins to kill Castro in fall of 1963, including Cuban hitman named Diaz - "off the books activities never known until now"; new JFK files provide "unprecedented look at a government within a government"

- 7:40-8:25 - Emerging fact pattern from past couple years is "completely incompatible with the lone gunman story" which was "never particularly credible and even less credible now"; better explanation is "president was ambushed by enemies in his own government"

- 8:25-9:10 - Many political insiders didn't believe official story at the time: President Truman called for abolition of CIA one month after Kennedy killed; President Johnson didn't believe lone gunman story his own commission created; Fidel Castro, Charles de Gaulle, John Kerry, Joe Califano all rejected official story - "they had good reason not to believe it"

- 9:34-10:41 - FAA never implicated in JFK story before - only when redaction came off CIA document this year did it reveal FAA was used in "creating cover arrangements for Harvey"; another government agency involved from "very highest levels of FAA"; Harvey was "traveling covertly in United States in defiance of White House with high-level help in late 1963"

- 11:01-12:29 - CIA wanted to keep this story "secret forever"; under Biden and CIA in 2023, position was "you have no right to see this information"; new CIA Director John Ratcliffe has "much more accommodating" attitude, saying "we're not invested in the past" and will make records of historical interest public

- 13:00-14:45 - All documents released this year under Trump's order were supposed to be released in October 2017 per JFK Records Act (1992 law requiring all files public within 25 years); CIA Director Mike Pompeo came to Trump and got "four more years of secrecy" - Trump "kicked the can down the road" to October 2021

- 14:45-15:51 - Biden went along with CIA in 2023 as "institutionalist type," allowing them to keep documents "secret indefinitely"; CIA's plan was to keep "several thousand documents" secret forever with Biden's approval - until 2024 election changed everything

- 15:51-16:36 - Trump embarrassed in 2024 because close supporters (Tucker Carlson, Andrew Napolitano, Roger Stone) called him out for not releasing records first time; when RFK Jr. made releasing JFK records part of his campaign then joined Trump in August 2024, Trump got back on board promising to release all records, repeating on Joe Rogan podcast in campaign's "home stretch"

- 17:04-18:27 - No single document spells everything out due to "plausible deniability and compartmentalization" of CIA operations; covert operations designed to be "secret from conception to eternity" with plausible deniability built into every step - "ability of government to say we had nothing to do with that"

- 18:38-19:21 - "Virtually certain now" Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone; he "might have been firing a gun but was not the intellectual author of Kennedy's death"; something else going on "probably involving high-level people within Kennedy's administration"; NBC footage may show Oswald on ground floor when motorcade passed (not on 6th floor firing), but original film footage "can't be found" by NBC

- 21:45-23:37 - Warren Commission's story that "Oswald came out of nowhere" is "utterly and completely false"; James Angleton had been "collecting and monitoring Oswald's movements for four years" by November 1963, collecting at least 42 different documents: 13 FBI reports, 12 State Department reports, 11 CIA memoranda - "they were reading Oswald's mail"

- 23:37-24:42 - Oswald was "not lone in sense he was unobserved by CIA" - he was "monitored constantly by CIA from 1959 to 1963"; Morley's team at JFKfacts on Substack looking at new records "not to prove or disprove conspiracy theory but to fill out pattern of what actually happened" - believes we could have "totally different picture in a year" or "might take 10 years"
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Anchor Brian Webb and Executive Producer Trenton Hooker are joined on Fox 10 Talks by Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post reporter and investigative journalist, about newly declassified documents that reveal the chilling extent of internal government hostility toward President John F. Kennedy just before his assassination, fundamentally undermining the official "lone gunman" narrative by exposing that Bill Harvey, the head of the CIA's assassination program who was a bitter enemy of the Kennedy brothers, secretly obtained credentials to travel covertly within the US in late 1963.

The newly released files also expose a "government within a government" operating inside the CIA, particularly around Harvey and his close friend James Jesus Angleton, who was actively vetting assassins and had secretly monitored Lee Harvey Oswald for four years, thus completely dismantling the official claim that Oswald was an isolated "lone nut" who came out of nowhere.

This ongoing declassification effort is filling out a fact pattern that strongly suggests the president was "ambushed by enemies in his own government," with evidence that Harvey secured high-level assistance from the FAA for his secret travel, pushing investigators closer to a definitive explanation for the assassination.
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