“… nyone about the Kennedy case without my being present - which was violated from the word 'go' by Angleton, who dealt with the FBI and the Warren Commission and (Warren Commission member and former CIA Director Alien) Dulles himself. ... Angleton ignored Helms’ orders. I tried to get Helms to …”
“… ovar Page 2 ammunition. A Soviet defector, Yuri Nosenko, was known to have told investigators that Lee Harvey Oswald - identified by the Warren Commission as Kennedy's assassin - was not a Soviet agent. But Scelso said: "I later heard that Nosenko was discovered to have been dissembling, not …”
“… tains an index or inventory of its reports and determine whether the IG's office prepared a report on the handling of Oswald. CIA-IR-11 Warren Commission critics. We are asking that CIA determine whether it possesses any files or records on Warren Commission critics Edward J. Epstein, Josi …”
“… ng categories contain examples of information that are considered to be within the JFK review. (U) A. JFK Assassination Investigations: Warren Commission, 1963-64 James Garrison, New Orleans DA, 1966-68 Rockefeller Commission,* 1975; Church Committee (Senate) ,* 1975-76 House Select Commi …”
“… cated sixteen boxes of Lee Oswald's 201 file and a number of loose folders mainly from Mexico Station records that were collected for the Warren Commission. b. Before the ARRB was appointed by the President, John Pereira, Chief, Historical Review Group/Center for the 1 Study of Intelligence, …”
“either, the Warren Commission or HSCA investigations; and the product of CIA internal-, reviews of ‘ programs and operations. Those parts of these materials which are …”
“… rom Mexico City [CIA-IR-15] Possible Foreign Source for Oswald Records [CIA-IR-05] Possible IG reports re Oswald [CIA-IR-10] Files on Warren Commission Critics [CIA-IR-11] S. Breckenridge Files [CIA-IR-14] Other Responses Due 0 Intelligence Community Staff Records [CIA-8] Interagenc …”
“… no discrete files of Mr. Angletori had been identified under the JFK Act. Since Mr. Angleton was involved in the CIA's assistance to the Warren Commission, we request that CIA's statement regarding Mr. Angleton's files (i.e., CIA's response to CIA-IR-04) be attached to the Final Declaration. …”
“… to provide input] d.) Attach CIA’s statement on James Angleton’s files, especially the fact that Angleton was involved in assisting the Warren Commission but no files have been found on this activity. [DO/IRO to provide input] e.) Verify that all relevant materials from Win Scott’s files …”
“… dy Kennedy Assassination JFK Assassination Presidential Threats Threats to U.S. President GPFLOOR GPIDEAL Assassination Attempts ) Warren Commission HSCA House Select Committee on Assassinations )”
“… ught together in one place in 1978 the principal documents retrieved over the course of years from earlier investigations, including the Warren Commission, the Rockefeller Commission, and the Church Committee. The Warren Commission in 1963 and 1964 was the first major review of the JFK Assa …”
“… still further documentation. The HSCA ultimately brought together within its broad scope of investigation many of the documents from the Warren Commission, the Rockefeller Commission and the Church Committee. This collection ultimately became the "HSCA sequestered collection," which altoget …”
“… the approximately 26,000 pages currently in this file consists of documents collected immediately after the .assassination and during the Warren Commission investigation. Included are a large number of third agency documents, primarily from the FBI. Other major additions to the Oswald 201 fi …”
“… ch are considered central to the Oswald/JFK assassination history and the ensuing investigations. A. JFK Assassination Investigations; Warren Commission, 1963-64 James Garrison, New Orleans District Attorney, 1966-68 Rockefeller Commission, 1975 (JFK assassination & CIA anti-Cuban plots a …”
“… s of Lee Harvey Oswald's 201 file and a number of loose folders, mainly from Mexico City Station records that had been collected for the Warren Commission. In October 1993, following enactment of the JFK Act but prior to the President's appointment of the Board, CIA's Historical Review Gro …”
“… threats, threats to U.S. President, attempt (or attempted), or the crypt GPIDEAL. Post-1978 information related to the following terms: Warren Commission, House Select Committee on Assassinations, HSCA, Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina Oswald, Jack Ruby, or GPFLOOR. 2 . SF T”
“Commission in the events in Mexico City surrounding the time of the assassin ation (as shown by the fact that they are contained in the Warren Commission materials). It would not have been normal practice at the time for the Agency to keep these records in this form. Thus, other than the ma …”
“… ination if CIA IG DCI/IRO COMPLETE maintains an index of reports and determine if one was done on handling of Oswald maters. CIA-IR-11 Warren Commission critics DO, DA COMPLETE (Does CIA maintain files or records on specified critics -other than press clippings?) CIA-IR-12 Contacts with …”
“… categories contain examples of information that are considered to be within the JFK review. (U) A. JFK Assassination Investigations: Warren Commission, 1963-64 James Garrison, New Orleans DA, 1966-68 Rockefeller Commission, * 1975;• Church Committee (Senate),* 1975-76 House Select Comm …”
“… Bush and found no documentation indicating that Mr. Bush had an affiliation with CIA during the 1963 time period. Attachment 7 CIA-IR-11 Warren Commission Critics The Offices of Security, Human Resource Management and Information Management were tasked with records searches on Edward Epstei …”
“… son FROM: JFK Luella Amarta t Officer Associate Information Review Officer, EDA SUBJ ECT : C1A-1R-11 - ARRE Request tor Search on Warren Commission Critics (DA/IRO No. 21) 1. This is with reference to your 2 February 1993 memorandum (Tab A) and our subsequent telephone conversation o …”
“… prior that appear to have been missed by the searches through 1978. We did locate one set of tapes which we know was made available to the Warren Commission but was not included in the HSCA sequestered collection. . We also found one file that was only partially included in the HSCA sequestered …”
“… es. . any pro-Castro groups, . . or anti-Castro groups; B. names and affiliations of all CIA personnel responsible for liaison with the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, . . .; C. all manuals, handbooks, guides”
“… search determined the Agency has no record of any association with George Herbert Walker Bush during the 1963 time period." CIA-IR-11 - Warren Commission critics (Does CIA maintain files or records on specified critics - other than press clippings?) (U) The DO provided an unclassified res …”
“… n of President John F. Kennedy, that was created or made available for use by, obtained by, or otherwise came into the possession of the Warren Commission, the Rockefeller Commission, the Church Commission, the Pike Commission, the House Assassination Committee, the Library of Congress, the …”
“… Jay Epstein, The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend (1992) (hereinafter Epstein, Trilogy] (trilogy examining the Warren Commission Report, the investigation conducted by New Orleans : District Attorney Jim Garrison, and the life of Lee Harvey Oswald) ; Robert J. Grode …”
“Oswald did not act alone); Mark Lane, Rush to Judgment (1966) (arguing that the Warren Commission admitted hearsay and ignored important evidence); David S. Lifton, Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. …”
“… sprudence" and that "society is distinctly ambivalent about the benefits of increased knowledge"). - - • •- -End Footnotes- - - I. The Warren Commission The Warren Commission and its report stand at the center of almost all Kennedy conspiracy theories. n15 A year after the assassination, …”
“… sination of President Kennedy, Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (1964) [hereinafter Warren Commission Report]. nl6. The members of the Warren Commission were Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senator Richard B. Russell, Senator John Sherman Coop …”
“… -Footnotes- •• - .n22. See Posner, supra note 6, at 412-19 (describing the "network of amateur sleuths" who checked the accuracy of the Warren Commission Report and challenged , its conclusions). n23. Harold Weisberg, Whitewash (1965) (stating that the Warren Commission did not consider a …”
“… a note 24, at 2-3 (finding that "evidence that established [Jack Ruby's] criminal ties has been repeatedly suppressed or distorted by the Warren Commission"); Summers, supra note 25; Lane; supra note 6, at 378 ("The Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kenned …”
“… n38. See id. at 452. n39. See id. at 287, 314-1S, 324-25, 368-69, 447-49. - - -End Footnotes- - • - . Under such circumstances, the Warren Commission's Report would have been, subjected to reevaluation even if it had been compiled perfectly. Furthermore, i because the Warren Commission …”
“… isberg, Whitewash II: The FBI-Secret Service Coverup 125 (1996) (concluding that "the FBI and the Secret Service are not innocent" in the Warren Commission investigation).”
“Warren Commission had a field day. n50 The Commission’s conclusion that a foreign government lacked a sufficient motive to murder the President now crumble …”
“… - - - - -Footnotes- n52. See Holland, supra note 18, at 52. n53. See id. at 56-57. n54. See id. at 57. nS5. See id. at 56; see also Warren Commission Report, supra note 15, at 290-92 (finding that Oswald purportedly distributed pamphlets on behalf of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, bu …”
“13-00000 APR 04 ‘97 10:03AM P. 12/44 PAGE 12 i. 56 Md. L. Rev. 1, *11 - Footnotes - - n57. See Warren Commission Report, supra note 15, at 19 ("President Kennedy was first struck by a bullet which entered at the back of his neck and exited through th …”
“… he so-called "magic bullet" or "single bullet" theory -has been the subject of intense debate. See, e.g., Edward Jay Epstein, Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth 115-26 (1966) (criticizing the single bullet theory as based on a "misinterpretation" of ballistics testim …”
“… ncluding that findings from Kennedy's autopsy conflicted with the single bullet theory) ; Sylvia Meagher, Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report 27-35, 137, 167-70, 461 (1967) (concluding that the single bullet theory is weak because, of the three d …”
“… cal evidence, and, therefore, it "failed to establish the number of shots ... scientifically"). - - - - -End Footnotes- - • Fifth, the Warren Commission Report all 888 pages of it was the work of lawyers, who not only dominated the Commission, but also its staff, the true authors of the Re …”
“… o have i been able to establish meaningful relationships with other people. He was perpetually discontented with the world around him. warren Commission Report, supra note 15, at 423. n67. See, e.g., Marrs, supra note 46, at 91-112 (examining Oswald’s life and concluding that he was a spy …”
“… ation suffered as well. n71 ■ - - - -Footnotes- n68. In 1966 a public opinion poll revealed that Americans doubted the findings of the Warren Commission by a margin of three to five. The public's response is recounted in Meagher, supra note 62, at 463. n69. See, e.g., Lane, supra note 6 ( …”
“… d underworld figures and anti-Castro Cubans in a plot to kill Castro. See id. ... - - -End Footnotes- - - The most powerful of the post-Warren Commission inquiries was that made by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) , which in 1976 reopened the investigation that had been s …”
“… o be in question, held that the Committee could not rule out a conspiracy to kill the President. n82 This finding directly challenged the Warren Commission. n83 For example, the HSCA believed that advanced acoustical techniques demonstrated that there had been more than one shooter in Dealey …”
“… the FBI began a massive and intense investigative effort"); Epstein, Trilogy, supra note 6, at 29 (describing Congress's formation of the Warren Commission less”
“… 6 Md. L. Rev. 1, *28 nl7s. See O'Leary, supra note 174, at A1. - -End Footnotes- The value of confidential FBI and CIA sources to the Warren Commission's work is underscored by the documents released thus far by the Board. For example, Exhibit Four is a letter dated June 17, 1964 from FBI …”
“have publicly stated that they have no connection with the CIA. However, a full understanding of the intelligence base upon which the Warren Commission and the intelligence community as a whole assessed the Kennedy assassination depends on a thorough accounting of such connections. Moreov …”
“… 1, 1993, Book World, at X4, available in LEXIS, News Library, Wpost File (arguing that Posner "rarely strays from paths staked out by the Warren Commission" and that the "book ultimately becomes an all-too-transparent brief for the prosecution"); Jonathan Kwitny, Bad News: Your Mother Killed J …”
“release of the Warren Commission Report. n205 As Exhibit Nine makes clear, the CIA used its substantial resources to just that end. n206 - - - - - -Footnotes- n202. T …”
“… conspirator"). n204. See id. (advising that in discussing assassination with "politicians and editors," CIA personnel point out that the Warren Commission "made as thorough an investigation as humanly possible"). n205. See id. n206. See id. (noting that the American public's belief that O …”
“have managed to convey a broadly held view that the Warren Commission failed and that the government knows more than it is telling. n213 We should stand in awe of their capacity to explain the assassination …”