Monday, October 30, 2017

Secret Service Protective Research File

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US Secret Service Protective Research Section Files

By William Kelly

There are many interesting and significant records released in the October 26 batch, and while different documents have been getting mainstream media attention, the release of the Secret Service Protective Research files reviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) are especially significant.

As Phil Melanson describes in his book "The Secret Service" (2002, Carrroll and Graff), “The Service’s Protective Research data bank is crammed with files on groups, organizations, people and past event and incidents, all of them indexed and cross indexed. What most Americans don’t know is that a simple call or email from someone with a personal ax to grind can land virtually anyone on the Watch List. Many thousands of citizens – most of them harmless – are on file as having been checked out for one reason or another a potential threat, and each year the file swells with several thousand new names....”

“The system is, as the Service describes it, is ‘primarily directed towards identifying dangerous individuals.’ There are over fifty thousand Americans in the Protective Research files, ostensibly because of some actual threat or some problem or characteristic that makes them potentially dangerous. Cross-checked against lists of employees at the hotels and airports where protectees appear the group is constantly monitored. When the president is on the road, the file is whittled down to identify dangerous people in the specific areas that he will visit. Dubbed the ‘Trip File,’ it may contain as many as a hundred names…In their advance work, agents try to learn whether these individuals are still in the area; whether they are in jail, hospitalized, or at liberty; and what their current condition is, which usually means seeking to interview them. Sometimes, if a red flag of some sort goes up in the interview, a few people will actually be detained for the duration of the president’s visit.”

“A second and more menacing list of names is prepared for each trip: These are the individuals in the area who are considered to be definitely dangerous, as opposed to potentially dangerous…”

Former Secret Service Agent Gerald Blaine, in his book “The Kennedy Detail” (Gallary Books, 2010, p.59) writes: “The first stop before any advance was always the PRS. Located in the Executive Office Building, next door to the White House, the PRS office were the nerve center for tracking threat cases. Any time there was a threat made against the president’s life – whether it was a written letter, a phone call, details gathered from an informant, field investigation, or an unstable person trying to get inside the Northwest Gate of the White House – an investigative report was initiated and a case file number is issued. A PRS agent would type the report on carbon paper so there would be multiple copies, noting the threat maker’s name, last known address, a synopsis of the threats made, a description of the person, and their medical history, if known. Cases are analyzed and categorized according to the seriousness of the threat.”

“The records room of the PRS office contained row and rows of gray metal four-drawer file cabinets that held thousands of threat suspect files, organized by case number. There were smaller file cabinets where index cards of each suspect were organized both geographically and alphabetically. The cards were cross-referenced to the case files. Thus if you knew either the name of the suspect or their last known location you go to the small index drawers, locate the card, which would have a case number on it, then go to the large filing cabinets to get the master file.”


(p.76) “…Win Lawson had checked PRS for threat suspect in Texas, specifically in the Dallas area, and had been pleasantly surprised to find that there weren’t any.”

Melanson: "Dubbed the 'Trip File,' it may contain as many as a hundred names." 

Rather than “pleasantly surprised,” Lawson was more likely incredulous, as everyone knew that UN ambassador Adlai Stevenson was attacked and beaten with posters by demonstrators in Dallas a few weeks before and the President and his staff were repeatedly warned not to come to Dallas because of the fever of hate.

As Melanson wrote, “In the weeks before Kennedy arrived in Dallas, the Service did make a special effort to identify the individuals who had fomented a near-riot by throwing rocks during the Adlai Stevenson incident. Agents worked with the Dallas police, who found an informant willing to identify the ring-leader of the demonstration by viewing television film of the incident; then the Secret Service made still pictures of these ringleader and distributed the images to agents and police who would be stationed at Love Field and at the Trade Mart. None of these troublemaker was ever spotted before or during the Kennedy visit.”

The late Phil Melanson, a good friend and colleague, did not have access to this PRS file, as a number of these troublemakers were identified at the Trade Mart and indeed arrested. They hailed from Grand Prairie, where a local policeman was recruited to go undercover and infiltrate their group, and did so.

Former TV reporter and later Mayor of Dallas Wes Wise told me that he assisted the police and Secret Service in reviewing news film of the Stevenson incident and helped isolate the troublemakers on the film, so they could make still portraits of them that were distributed to police and agents in the security detail at the Trade Mart, photos that are not in the JFK collection at the NARA, as they should be. Now, thanks to the release of this file, we have their names. 

In addition, shortly after the assassination, a Secret Service agent at the Trade Mart identified one of the suspects as John Martin from rural northern Louisiana (not Jack “Scruggs” Martin), but rather a young college student who was considered one of the first suspects in the assassination, and he called the John Rice, Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Secret Service office. Rice was contacted at the Special Investigations office at an Air Force Base in northern Louisiana, and instructed to go to John Martin’s hometown to do a background check, which he did. When he was finished he was told it wasn’t relevant as Lee Harvey Oswald was in custody.

This PRS file is important not only for identifying those “troublemakers,” but because it indicates there were some individuals from Texas who were in the files, not shared with Lawson, including James Parrott, who the file indicates, was identified on November 21, the day before George H.W. Bush visited Dallas and dropped a dime on Parrott, identifying him as a potential suspect in the assassination, as detailed in Russ Baker’s “Family of Secrets.”

Another odd aspect of this file, besides listing Cuban and Puerto Rican terrorists, mental cases, gate crashers and drunks, it includes Milteer, Nagell, Hemming, Echevarria, Bosch, Vallee, Oswald, JFK himself, Ruby, Oswald’s mother and family and close friends like Ruth and Michael Paine and George and Jeanne deMohrenschildt.

This is one "Smoking File." 

These records are from the index cards - we should FOIA the main files of key suspects.

docid-32241845.pdf

US Secret Service Protective Research Service File
180-10065-10379
HSCA
USSS
413 Pages

Secret Service Protective Cases established period covering March-December 1963

HSCA comment:  “In reviewing  the 413 computer print out on Protective Research cases set up during the time period between March and December, 1963, it became evident that the Secret Service paid some attention to foreign assassinations. Case #401 on Thelma Estella King was referred to the Service by the CIA on 3/8/63. Ms. King was alleged to be involved in an assassination plot against JFK and the President of Panama during a meeting in that country….However, it is questionable as to why the Diem brothers’ assassination was not given a case number. Review of the files showed no mention, whatsoever, of the assassination occurring in Vietnam prior to the planned Chicago trip of Kennedy on November 2, 1963.”

SAMPLES of 413 Cases listed in this file: 

INDIVIDUALS LISTED BY PROTECTIVE RESEARCH

Name of individual: PEREZ-VEGA, VIRGILIO
Reason for PRS interest: FBI referred subject to USSS in 1963 describing him as a pro-Castro Puerto Rican, in possession of an automatic pistol and a knowledge of how to make bombs. Admits to being Secretary in July 26 movement. Left 1961 since he did not like members.
Degree of threat: 
Organizations to which individual belongs:  Puerto Rican Nationalist PRN; Member of July 26 Movement in Washington D.C.
Nationalist Group: Puerto Rican
Date Called to Secret Service attention: 12-16-63
Referred by other agency: FBI
Action taken: Put under observation. Showed no interest in President during inaugural, 1965. SA interviewed subject during surveillance on 1/19/65 and subject voiced no animosities towards President. Considered not dangerous 2/24/67. Has continued writing letter to political figures.
Location: Silver Springs, Md.

Name of individual: HEMMING, GERALD PATRICK
Reason for PRS interest: Not given – looks like result of JFK assassination and Hemmings association with Cuban elements. 4/61 part in Anti-Catro rev. activity, est. anti-CP legionnaires, set up training camp in Fl. Everglades. 7/61 headed Interpen. In 1963 made derogatory remarks about US govt. and suspected of being a Cuban agent. 7/70 involved in plan to effect warfare between US-Cuba by having defecting Cuban military personnel fire missile at USN Base Guantanamo Bay getting US into military takeover.
Organizations to which individual belongs: mercenary
Date Called to Secret Service attention: 12/5/63
Action taken: It does not look like S.S. has taken any action. Hemming is under investigation by ATF and DEA for weapons and drug violations since 1/77. Information on this subject has probably been obtained from other agencies.
Last location: Opalocka, Fl.

Name of individual: ECHEVARRIA, HOMER S.
Reason for PRS interet: Nov. 1963, informant advised Chicago office that subject was a member of anti-Castro Cuban group. Subject allegedly approached informant to provide machine guns for Cuba rev. 11//21/63 subject allegedly told informant “We now have plenty of money - - our new backers are Jews – as soon as ‘we’ or ‘they’ take care of Kennedy….” Subject expressed favorable attitude toward LBJ.
Action taken: Investigation by Chicago office did not disclose any violations under our jurisdiction and check-ups never initiated. Subject not interviewed.

Name of individual: BOCH-AVILA, ORLANDO
Reason for PRS interest: subject head of MIRR in Miami reportedly planned to picket Pres. 11/18/63 with Cuban fighter widows. Dec. 1963 arrested possession of bombs – planning air raid on Castro. Involved in bombing of homes of wealthy Cubans in Miami area for extortion. Extensive files on this man – most dealing with the 70’s. No mention of his plan to attack AF1. Kissinger plot is mentioned.
Action taken: S.S. kept tabs – considered him dangerous
Last location: Caracas, Venezuela  ’78

Name of individual: ALEX, NICHOLAS H.
Reason for PRS interest: 1963 telegram to Pres. Attempted to visit Pres at hotel 10-30-63
-mild mental case. No diagnosis.
Action taken: Interviewed 5/5/64. Deemed not dangerous
Last location: Haverford, Pa. ‘75

Name of individual: TONE, JOHN
Reason for PRS interet: 5/63 WH visitor who said he had no friends in the world. President was only place he could get help.
Schizophrenic-paranoid type - Black
Date called to Secret Service attention: 5/10/63
Action taken: Committed from WH, 5/63 and confined until 2/64. Had been arrested in past for carrying a pistol and had cut a man up badly.
Location of subject lat: Dallas, Tx. ‘66

Name of Individual: VALLEE, THOMAS ARTHUR
Reason for PRS interest: 10-30-63 subj was reported by confidential source to have made critical remarks re JFK adm. Subj alleges to be a member of JBS and previously hospitalized in VA hosp as schizo Not considered dangerous. Owns rifle and member of a gun club. Interviewed ’63 and ’66 In ’68 interview spoke irrationally
Danger of threat: 3 (out of 3)
Organizations to which individual belongs: John Birch Society
Action taken: SA interviewed him 10-30-63. No mention of danger. Does show that he was arrested 11/2/63 for traffic and CCW. Apparently from reports, Vallee was not dangerous. In 11/26/68 interview, SA did not consider him to be of further protective interest. No interest in protectees was shown. QI’s ’63 to ’68 Attempt to locate him in re to Brezhnev’s visit proved negative.
Last location: Houston ’71

[p.173]
Name of individual: PARROTT, JAMES MILTON
Reason for PRS interest: 11/21/63 info rec’d that subj stated in ’61 “If I had a chance to kill him, I would” referring to JFK. Since then appeared to various high officials about communism, etc.  Came to S.S. HQ complaining about SS.
Degree of threat: 2 (out of 3)
Organizations to which individual belongs: John Birch Society – Minuteman – Freedom of Action Society
Date called to Secret Service attention: 11/21/63
Action taken: Interviewed 1/28/64 and subj denied above statement. QI’s initiated; discont. 5/6/70. Deemed not of protective interest. S.S. kept tabs of doings, however.
Last location: Jacinto City, Tx. ’77

Name of individual: NANCE, ERNEST ROSCOE
Reason for PRS interest:  11-19-63 Austin P.D. reported that suspect had called them and said he’d throw a bomb in LBJ’s face.
Degree of threat: 2   (out of 3)
Alcoholic
Date called to Secret Service attention: 11/21/63
Action taken:
Interviewed 11/25/63. Cooperative. Dislikes the Pres. Was drunk when call was made.
Last location: Austin ‘69

Name of individual: OSWALD, LEE HARVEY
Reason for PRS interest: 11/22/63 killed JFK
Date called to Secret Service attention: 11/22/63

Name of individual: KENNEDY, JOHN F.
Reason for PRS interest: ASSASSINATED

Name of individual: RUBY, JACK LEON
Reason for PRS interest: 11/24/63 subject killed JFK assassin

Name of individual: OSWALD, MARGUERITE CLEAVERIE
Reason for PRS interest: OSWALD, ROBERT LEE (JR)
PIC, JOHN EDWARD
DEMOHRENSCHILDT, GEORGE
DEMOHRENSCHILDT, JEANNE
PAINE, MICHAEL RALPH
PAINE, RUTH HYDE
LANE MARK

Name of individual: MCLARRY, RUSSELL WENCE
Reason for PRS interest: 11/21/63 prior to visit of JFK to Dallas subj said, “I will be waiting with my high power rifle for the president.”
Date called to Secret Service attention: 11/22/63
Action taken: Interviewed 12/17/63; said he probably did make such a statement; that if he did it was a joke. He was not sorry he said it and was glad JFK was dead. Antagonistic. Arreted 12/19/63 under 871. Brought before a Grand Jury. Last interviewed 9/67; expressed no dislike for the Preident. Appeared rational.
Last location: Arlington, Tx ‘67

Name of individual: NAGELL, RICHARD CASE
Reason for PRS interest: 11/21/63 subject wrote the FBI and requested to speak to the S.S. about an urgent matter. Subject confined in jail after attempting to rob a bank and firing shots.
Degree of threat: 3 (of 3) (in jail)
Paranoid.
Action taken: 1/3/64 SA interviewed subject who claims he knew LHO and wife socially and did not want to be associated with Oswald’s crime. 6/9/64 subj sentenced to 10 years for robbery. 11/8/67 SA determined subject no longer of protective interest. Check of file shows no substantiation for his remark that he knew the Oswalds. Marina was shown his photo and claimed to have never seen him. In late 60’s went to Europe and caused scene. Has Oswald fixation but not of protective interest.
Last location: Manhattan Beach, CA ’74

Name of individual: JOINTER, GARY DWAYNE
Reason for PRS interest: Arrested 11/22/63 while picketing Trade Mart in Dallas. After assassination. In company of 4 others
Degree of threat: 3 (of 3)
Organizations: Indignant White Citizen’ Council
Date called to Secret Service attention: 11/21/63
#343 JOINTER, RAYMOND LEE
GUINN, GENE AUDRA
JOINTER, ROY EUGENE
Location of subject last: Grand Prairie ’63

#364 Name of individual: MILTEER, JOSEPH ADAMS
Reason for PRS interest: Subject on 11/9/63 is alleged to have said that plans were in the making to kill JFK, and further to kill Martin Luther King. He was reportedly jubilant over the death of the President, but on interview by FBI 11/27/63, he denied all above statement or knowledge of same. Considered to be an outspoken segregationist.
Degree of threat: 2 (of 3)
Organizations: Affiliated with: Constitution party of the US, KKK, The White Citizen’s Council and the Congress of Freedom
Action taken: SA’s conducting background and QI’s do not feel that he is a danger to protectees.


341
Name of individual: JOINER, BOBBY SAVELLE
Reason for PRS interest:  Arrested with Gene Audra , Gary Dwayne Joiner, Raymond Lee Joiner and Roy Eugene Joiner immediately after the assassination while picketing the Trade Mart in Dallas. FBI reported that he tried to get Roy Joiner to shoot JFK
Degree of threat: 2 (of 3)
Organizations: Indignant White Citizen’s council
Date called to Secret Service attention: 11/21/63
Action taken: Interviewed by FBI on 6/8/64. Feels strongly against integration. Denied any involvement with assassination. Claimed he held Pres. In high regard. Has been arrested several times, once shot boy with pellet gun.

Location of subject last: Grand Prairie, Tx ‘66

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Summary of Events thus Far

Summary of Events thus Far

On October 26, 1992 President George H. W. Bush signed into law the JFK Act of 1992 that was unanimously passed by Congress requiring all of the government’s records on the assassination of President Kennedy be released to the public at the JFK Collection at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).  At the same time the President released a signing statement that maintained the President’s authority to nominate members of the Review Board, receive reports and to continually withhold records after 25 years.

That law is supposed to be enforced by Congressional Oversight Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, who did nothing.

New bill introduced into Congress:

October 4, 2017 - In the 115th Congress 1st Session: Rep. Walter Jones and Sen. Charles Grassley introduced H. Res 556 and S. Res. 281 that calls on President Trump to insist on “full public release” of hundreds of thousands of pages of JFK assassination documents and to “reject any claims for the continued postponement of…those records.”

On October 21, 2017 - President Bush tweeted:  “Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified  JFK FILES to be opened,” which received 213,262 likes and 71,146 retweets.

On October 25, 2017 - while visiting Dallas, Trump tweeted: “The long anticipated release of the JFKFiles will be released tomorrow. So interesting!

On October 26, 2017 - Trump wrote in a memo: “I have no choice – today – but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation’s security.”

On October 26, 2017 - President Trump issued a Memorandum:

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

SUBJECT: Temporary Certification for Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

The American public expects -- and deserves -- its Government to provide as much access as possible to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records (records) so that the people may finally be fully informed about all aspects of this pivotal event. Therefore, I am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted. At the same time, executive departments and agencies (agencies) have proposed to me that certain information should continue to be redacted because of national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns. I have no choice --today -- but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our Nation's security.

To further address these concerns, I am also ordering agencies to re-review each and every one of those redactions over the next 180 days. At the end of that period, I will order the public disclosure of any information that the agencies cannot demonstrate meets the statutory standard for continued postponement of disclosure under section 5(g)(2)(D) of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 U.S.C. 2107 note) (the "Act").

Accordingly, by the authority vested in me as President and Commander in Chief by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby certify that all information within records that agencies have proposed for continued postponement under section 5(g)(2)(D) of the Act must be temporarily withheld from full public disclosure until no later than April 26, 2018, to allow sufficient time to determine whether such information warrants continued postponement under the Act. This temporary withholding from full public disclosure is necessary to protect against harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.

I hereby direct all agencies that have proposed postponement of full disclosure to review the information subject to this certification and identify as much as possible that may be publicly disclosed without harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations.

Any agency that seeks to request further postponement beyond this temporary certification shall adhere to the findings of the Act, which state, among other things, that "only in the rarest cases is there any legitimate need for continued protection of such records." The need for continued protection can only have grown weaker with the passage of time since the Congress made this finding. Accordingly, each agency head should be extremely circumspect in recommending any further postponement of full disclosure of records. Any agency that seeks further postponement shall, no later than March 12, 2018, report to the Archivist of the United States (Archivist) on the specific information within particular records that meets the standard for continued postponement under section 5(g)(2)(D) of the Act. Thereafter, the Archivist shall recommend to me, no later than March 26, 2018, whether the specific information within particular records identified by agencies warrants continued withholding from public disclosure after April 26, 2018.

The Archivist is hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

DONALD J. TRUMP

On October 26, 2017 - at the very last moment and after extreme pressure from intelligence officials, the NARA issued a Press Release.

Press Release ·Thursday, October 26, 2017 Washington, DC


President Orders Release of All Remaining Section 5 Records and More Precise Review for Remaining Redactions within Six Months.

The National Archives today released 2,891 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that are subject to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (JFK Act). These records are available for download online.

The President has also ordered that all remaining records governed by section 5 of the JFK Act be released, and thus additional records will be released subject to redactions recommended by the executive offices and agencies.  NARA will process these records for release as soon as possible on a rolling basis.

Based on requests from executive offices and agencies the President has allowed the temporary withholding of certain information that would harm national security, law enforcement, or foreign affairs.  The President also ordered agencies to re-review their proposed redactions and  only redact information in the rarest of circumstances where its withholding “is made necessary by an identifiable harm to military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations; and the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.”  These instructions will allow the National Archives to release as much information as possible by the end of the temporary certification period on April 26, 2018.

The National Archives previously released 3,810 related records on July 24, 2017, including 441 records previously withheld in their entirety and 3,369 records previously withheld in part. More information about this release is available online. In addition, the National Archives is also releasing to the public the unclassified electronic records of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), including 52,387 emails and 16,627 files from the ARRB drives.

On October 27, 2017 Trump tweeted: “JFK Files are being carefully released. In the end there will be great transparency. It’s my hope to get just about everything to the public!”

Later on October 27, 2017, Trump tweeted: “After strict consultation with General Kelly, the CIA and other Agencies, I will be releasing ALL JFK files other than the names and addresses of any mentioned person who is still living. I am doing this for reasons of full disclosure, transparency and in order to put any and all conspiracy theories to rest.”

On Saturday October 28,, 2017, 7pm, Trump tweeted: "JFK Files are released, long ahead of schedule!" (Sic) 

New JFK Assassination Calendar Dates

Thursday and Friday, November 16-17, 2017 – Texas v. Lee Harvey Oswald – a review of the evidence today. CAPA and Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas.

Friday and Saturday, November 17-18 , 2017 – November in Dallas Conference (JFK Lancer) and Fifth Annual JFK Conference at Crown Plaza Hotel.

Wednesday, November 22, 2017 - Dealey Plaza ceremony, Dallas, Texas.

Sunday March 11 - Saturday March 17, 2018 – Sunshine Week 

Monday, March 12, 2018 – Agencies must tell Archivist what record they want withheld or redacted and why.

Monday, March 26 - 2018 – Archivist of the United States (AOTUS) recommends to the president what records should remain withheld or released redacted.

Thursday, April 26, 2018 – President of the United States decides if any records will be withheld or released with redactions.

By The Numbers

54 – Years since the Assassination

25 – Years since the passage of the JFK Act of 1992

100 - Year since John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917

6 months – 180 Days – Until Trump decides to release or not

4 million – The number of docs said to be released in full

31,354 – The number of docs said to be withheld in part (according to NARA via WWW) 

2,745 – Reported to be the number of docs withheld in full (according to NARA via WWW)

3,147 – Records withheld in full as reported by the JFK Act

3,603 – The number of docs listed withheld in full (per FOIA request of Michael Ravnitzky)

2,839 – Number of docs released in part on Oct. 26

1,295 - Number of docs to be withheld in part forever (considered exempt as tax and Grand Jury records)

547 - Number of docs to be withheld in full (considered exempt as tax and Grand Jury records) 

425 – The number of docs released in full on July 24, 2017

300 – The number of docs the Mainstream Media falsely reports as still withheld in full

90% - The percentage of documents still withheld in part (redacted)

52 – The number of docs released in full on October 10, 2017

2% - The percentage of the 2839 documents withheld in full that have been released

(Many thanks for Rex Bradford, Ramon Herrera and Russ Baker for assembling these number)

TASKS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED

1-      Review what records have been released, summarize them and prioritize them.

2-      Compare the list of record withheld to records released thus far to isolate and identify what’s still being withheld and their subject matter.

3-      Identify destroyed, missing and JFK Assassination record that should be in the JFK Collection at the NARA but aren’t, as requested by Judge Tunheim.

4-      Prepare and hold a Congressional Briefing in Congress to educate interested Congressmen and their staff about the JFK Act and the issues we present, a Briefing that WE control, so the primary expert witnesses are Jim Lesar, Dan Alcorn, John Newman, Judge Tunheim, and Oliver Stone and not Posner, Holland, Shenon and Sabato. And get it on CSPAN live.

5-      Prepare and hold a mini-conference and press conference at National Press Club in DC during Sunshine Week March 11-17 to educate and promote the media and public.

6-      Prepare a civil suit against Gerald Ferraro (AOTU) and NARA for failure to adhere to the law – the JFK Act in getting the record released by Oct. 26, 2017, for failure to publish an index and guide to the JFK Collection as prescribed by the law, for permitting key records and evidence to be stolen and destroyed (or sold on ebay) and for not seeking out those records that should be included in the JFK Collection that are not (ie. Richard Sprague’s HSCA files).

7-      Edit and Publish the most significant record that have been released, articles and conference presentations by CAPA Advisory Board member and list those records not yet released, their subject matter and significance.

8-      Prepare a book to be assembled of the best of the last of the record to be released in April 2018, and an anthology of articles and conference presentations explaining their significance.



Saturday, October 28, 2017

New Key JFK Assassination Calendar Dates and Numbers

New JFK Assassination Calendar Dates


Sunday March 11 - Saturday March 17, 2018 – Sunshine Week begins.

Monday, March 12, 2018 – Agencies must tell the Archivist of the US (AOTUS) David Ferriero what Records they want continually withheld or redacted and why.

Monday, March 26 - 2018 – Archivist of the United States (AOTUS) recommends to the president what records should remain withheld or released redacted.

Thursday, April 26, 2018 – President of the United States  decides if any records will be withheld or released with redactions. 


By The Numbers

54 – Years since the Assassination

25 – Years since the passage of the JFK Act of 1992

100 - Year since John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917

6 months – 180 Days – Until Trump decides to release or not

4 million – The number of docs said to be released in full

31,354 – The number of docs said to be withheld in part (according to NARA via WWW) 

2,745 – Reported to be the number of docs withheld in full (according to NARA via WWW)

3,147 – Records withheld in full as reported by the JFK Act

3,603 – The number of docs listed withheld in full (per FOIA request of Michael Ravnitzky)

2839 – Number of docs released in part on Oct. 26

1,295 - Number of docs to be withheld in part forever (considered exempt as tax and Grand Jury records)

547 - Number of docs to be withheld in full forever (considered exempt as tax and Grand Jury records) 

425 – The number of docs released in full on July 24, 2017

300 – The number of docs the Mainstream Media falsely reports as still withheld in full

90% - The percentage of documents still withheld in part (redacted)

52 – The number of docs released in full on October 10, 2017

2% - The percentage of the 2839 documents withheld in full that have been released


(Many thanks for Rex Bradford and Ramon Herrera for assembling these number)




Friday, October 27, 2017

Further Information Gets 180 Days of Continued Cover-Up

FURTHER INFORMATION - By William Kelly

Ken Kesey called his electric cool aide LSD acid bus "Further" that he used to travel cross country from San Francisco to the East Coast to spread the news and educate people to the benefits of the drugs along the way. and meet fellow LSD guru Timothy Leary.

Now, upon "further information," as President Trump's pre-October 26 Tweet gave him the slippery loophole to get out of actually doing what he promised and releasing the remaining withheld records on the assassination of President Kennedy.

Trump never had the power to actually release the records, only to withhold them, and that he did, at the very last minute, as the clock ticked towards the end of the Thursday business day and he was - how ironic - in Dallas to raise money for the GOP ($2600 a plate/$30,000 a photo op), and was preoccupied with the Opiate drug epidemic that also dominated the news.

They only had 25 years to review the records and request the continued postponement of those that would damage national security today - something that the former chairman of the Assassinations Records Revice Board Federal Judge John Tunheim said was no longer a factor in this different world a half century after the crime.

But the CIA, under their director and the military brass, as the clock ticked away, went to the mat and arm arm wrestled the Donald and convinced him to continue the withholding of some 300 documents in full, for 180 days - six months, with new deadlines set in March and April 2018.

Only the President has the power to do that, and after saying he wasn't going to do it, Trump did a full 360 degrees.

Considering Peter Dale Scott's "negative template" thesis that the missing and withheld records are the most significant, then these 300 documents are the crown jewels in the government's attic, and with the list of withheld records compared to what has been released we should be able to isolate those 300 to identify their RIF, agency of origin and subject matter.

We know the documents we were most interested in aren't among those released, including the records on John Rosselli, William Harvey, George Joannides, James Jesus Angleton and E. Howard Hunt, giving us good reason to speculate on what they are trying to keep hidden.

So what they had 25 years to do now must get done in six months time, and on the plus side, it creates doubt in the public mind and those in the media, and gives us an additional six months to get our act together, and keep the media and news interest going.

Towards that end I preparing to devote considerable time over the next six months to these issues. 

Monday, October 23, 2017

Subject to Further Information - Trump Tweets on JFK Records

Trumps Tweet on the JFK Assassination Records - By William Kelly
President Trump tweeted that "subject to further information," he will not interfere with the scheduled release of the remaining sealed records on the assassination of President Kennedy according to the JFK Act of 1992.
The JFK Act requires the government release all of the remaining sealed records on the assassination of President Kennedy by Thursday, October 26, 2017, 25 years after the JFK Act was signed by President G. H. W. Bush.
According to the JFK Act of 1992 it "remains in effect" until the Archivist of the United States informs the President, Congress and the citizens of the United States that the last remaining government record on the assassination of President Kennedy has been released to the public.
If he does that on October 26th, it will be a lie because the CIA and other government agencies are stonewalling, destroying and illegally withholding records that supports the generally held belief that one man alone was not responsible for the murder and there was a conspiracy that the government and agencies will find embarrassing to their organizations.
A quarter-of-a-century - twenty-five years ago the JFK Act was unanimously passed by Congress and was reluctantly signed by President G. H. W. Bush, contingent upon adapting the objections in his signing statement.

[http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2017/10/president-bushs-signing-statement-of.html ]
When was the last time Congress did anything unanimously?
This is an issue that everyone agrees on, except the guilty and those intelligence officials and military officers who want to protect their "means and methods," - the "crafts of intelligence" as Allen Dulles called it, the very covert intelligence operational techniques that were used to kill the president and allowed those who did it to get away with it.
With the passage of the act in 1992 the mainstream media turned to attorney Gerald Posner and professor John McAdams, who proclaimed the files are free and there was no conspiracy. Now, even after Posner has been exposed as a serial plagiarist and McAdams has been fired for misconduct, they are still being called on to provide quotes and soundbites for the mainstream media, as Posner has done in the New York Post article that also included my comments.

[http://nypost.com/2017/10/21/whats-inside-the-secret-jfk-assassination-files/ ]
But today the new media darlings are journalist Philip Shenon and academian Larry Sabato, who continue to propagate the false myth that JFK was killed by one man alone, though Shenon tries to promote the discredited original covrer-story that the lone wolf assassin was encouraged by Castro Cuban Commies.
They recently wrote in Politico that the upcoming massive data dump of thousands of records will be a logistical fiasco and only encourage conspiracy theorists, when in fact, as researchers have done with the tens of thousands of records already released, they will be systematically reviewed, reformatted, read, categorized and prioritized in a reasonable fashion.
As Ramon Herera reformatted the original list of withheld records, the Black Vault organized the July data dump batch and Mary Ferrell has posted many of them over the years, the real researchers aren't overwhelmed and confused as Shenon would have you believe.
In fact, the real researchers - Peter Dale Scott, John Newman, Bill Simpich, Rex Bradford, Malcolm Blunt and dozens of others, don't have a conspiracy theory to promote but are simply searching for the truth. They are united in their belief that there was a distinct cover-up after the fact and what happened at Dealey Plaza was not just a conspiracy, but a more specific covert intelligence operation, and the withheld records are the missing pieces to the puzzle that is nearly complete.
But where are the real journalists and reporters writing news stories and feature articles on this subject? Why do we keep hearing from Posner, McAdams, Shenon and Sabaato, parroting the same old fake news - one man alone, no conspiracy, Cubans encouraged him and there's so many documents they will only promote chaos and silly conspiracies?
Why won't they call the real researchers to promote the truth as we know it today - that one man alone wasn't responsible, that the MO - modus operandi was that of a covert intelligence operation, that it was connected to CIA Cuban operations, and the records reflect that the government knew that all along.
The conspiracy that emerges from the files is an intentionally convoluted affair but not that complicated.
Rather than a plot, it was a plan - a CIA contingency plan to kill Fidel Castro in an ambush with high powered rifles as he rode in an open jeep, a plan that was redirected to JFK at Dealey Plaza.
Regardless of Lee Harvey Oswald's role of lone gunman or self-proclaimed patsy, this covert intelligence operation was designed to deceive by the planting of false evidence to blame the murder on Castro, a dis-information scheme that failed. It is the part of the plan that gives us a window into the operation that succeeded in killing the President and protecting the actual sponsors.
That's what the withheld and newly released files will tell us - they are the "subjects of further information" that will fill in the pieces to the puzzle of Dealey Plaza.
But we won't be able to see the full puzzle until that day comes when the Archivist of the United States tells the President, Congress and the American people that the last government record on the assassination of President Kennedy has been released.
That day will come, but it won't come this Thursday, October 26, 2017, and it may not come, as Earl Warren said, in our lifetime, but it will come one day, and with all the cards and pieces of the puzzle on the table, those still alive can put it together and will know the full truth.