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-JEFFERSON MORLEY
FROM HIS ARTICLE:
MISSING FROM THE NEW JFK FILES:
BATCH OF CIA RECORDS ON LEE HARVEY OSWALD
THE HANDLING OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION SHOWS THAT HE WAS A FIGURE OF DEEP AND CONSTANT INTEREST TO ANGLETON AND HIS STAFF IN THE FOUR YEARS BEFORE JFK WAS KILLED. SO CONSPIRACY THEORIES NOTWITHSTANDING, OSWALD'S CIA SECURITY FILE IS HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT. AS I SHOW IN MY FORTHCOMING BIOGRAPHY OF ANGLETON, THE OPENING OF OSWALD'S OFFICE OF SECURITY FILE IN DECEMBER 1959 WAS AN UNUSUAL DEVIATION FROM STANDARD CIA PROCEDURES, AS PRESCRIBED IN AGENCY DIRECTIVES, REQUIRED AGENCY PERSON NEL TO IMMEDIATELY OPEN A PERSONALITY FILE (IN GOVERNMENT LINGO, A "201" FILE) ON A MILITARY DEFECTOR LIKE OSWALD. YET THE CIA'S 201 FILE ON OSWALD WAS NOT OPENED UNTIL A YEAR LATER, IN DECEMBER 1960. DURING THAT YEAR, THE OS FILE WAS CONTROLLED BY BETTY EGERTER, AN AIDE TO ANGLETON.
...OSWALD'S APPEARANCE IN THE SOVIET UNION WAS AS A PARTICIPANT IN THE AGENCY'S "FALSE DEFECTOR" PROGRAM, IN WHICH HE WAS JOINED BY SEVERAL OTHER YOUNG MEN, WHOSE FILES CAN BE FOUND IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. THERE IS NO DOCUMENT THAT NAMES A "FALSE DEFECTOR PROGRAM" BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN SUCH A PROGRAM DID NOT EXIST, AND THERE ARE COPIOUS FILES ABOUT THE VARIOUS PARTICIPANTS. JAMES ANGLETON RAN THAT PROGRAM.
-JOAN MELLON
FROM HER ARTICLE:
WHO WAS LEE HARVEY OSWALD?
THE WECHT INSTITUTE, DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY
PITTSBURG, PA OCTOBER 5, 2008
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