63. James Jesus Angleton was one of the CIA's first officers. He joined the agency in 1947 after serving with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and quickly rose to become chief of the counterintelligence division. Angleton became obsessed with finding spies after a Russian defector, Anatoliy Golitsyn, told him that the KGB had managed to infiltrate the CIA. His zealous hunt for moles alienated many of his co-workers. Angleton resigned from the agency in 1975.

64. John M. Whitten, "First Draft of Initial Report on GPFLOOR Case," Record Group 263, Box 17, Folder "OSW10:V10B," Archives II, College Park, Maryland; Jefferson Morley, Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008), 192; Kurtz, JFK Assassination Debates, 19192; "1996 Release: Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City ('Lopez Report')," 8788, History Matters,

http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/lopezrpt/html/LopezRpt_0101a.htm

[accessed May 11, 2011].

65. Morley, Our Man in Mexico, 19299, and "What Jane Roman Said: A Retired CIA Officer Speaks Candidly About Lee Harvey Oswald," History Matters,

http://www.history-matters.com/essays/frameup/WhatJaneRomanSaid/WhatJaneRomanSaid_1.htm

[accessed May 13, 2011].

66. Jefferson Morley, "Ray Rocca: 'There Was An Earlier Cable,'" JFK Facts, January 10, 2013,

http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/quote/ray-rocca-there-was-an-earlier-cable/

[accessed January 11, 2013].

67. Jefferson Morley, "January 7, 1963: Under U.S. Government Eyes, Oswald Goes to Work," JFK Facts, January 7, 2013,

http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/on-this-date/jan-7-1963-under-u-s-government-eyes-oswald-goes-to-work/

[accessed January 11, 2013].

68. Antonio Veciana Blanch, the founder of an anti-Castro group with CIA ties, told the HSCA that a Langley operative named "Maurice Bishop" introduced him to Oswald in September 1963. Some conspiracy theorists believe that Bishop was actually David Atlee Phillips, a CIA agent deeply involved in anti-Castro operations. Phillips denied the accusation and even filed libel suits against publications that tried to link him to the Kennedy assassination. See Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993), and the David Atlee Phillips Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. However, Larry Hancock, author of Someone Would Have Talked (Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer Productions and Publications, 2010) says that prior to his death, Phillips told an HSCA investigator that JFK was probably killed in a conspiracy involving rogue intelligence officers.

69. According to Morley, who has long investigated the CIA's links to 11/22, Joannides gave the go-ahead to DRE on 11/22/63 to link Oswald to Castro, which caused the Cuban dictator to put his forces on alert and go on the air that evening to deny any connection to Oswald. U.S. newspapers accepted the DRE story and headlined Oswald's Castro connection. This might well have triggered a war had anything come out to substantiate a connection between Oswald and Castro agents. Joannides's efforts with DRE resulted in the disbanding of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, the best-known pro-Castro group in the United States, in December 1963. See Will Lissner, "Pro-Castro Group Disbanding," New York Times, December 28, 1963. Morley theorizes that the underlying goal of implicating the Cuban government in the assassination might have been to prompt an invasion of Cuba or another response that would have resulted in the overthrow of Castro. These actions, however, were undercut by both the Kennedy family and the Warren Commission. Neither the family nor the Warren Report fingered Castro. By using psychological warfare, however, Morley argues that the CIA still accomplished one of its primary goals: the destruction of the FPCC.

70. There is no precise record of what President Johnson said to the CIA on this subject, but as journalist Jefferson Morley suggests, one can "infer" that Johnson expressed his fears about a connection between Oswald and the Communists to the CIA: "[LBJ] spoke with [CIA Director] McCone on the morning of 11/24/63 to find out more about [Oswald] in [Mexico City]. The Katzenbach memo [authored by Justice Department official Nicholas Katzenbach] written later that day after [Oswald] was dead reflects White House determination to quash all conspiracy talk. But did LBJ say that to McCone? That can't be proven. As the week went on LBJ got more updates from CIA but I don't think he ever ordered them not to look into certain things. Remember that he could be confident CIA info would not become public unless he chose to. He wanted to know everything they knew." E-mail from Jefferson Morley, October 11, 2011.

71. Telephone interview with Jefferson Morley, April 18, 2011; Jefferson Morley, "The George Joannides Coverup," May 19, 2005, JFK Lancer website, President John Kennedy, Latest News and Research,

http://www.jfklancer.com/morley.html

[accessed May 12, 2011].

72. Telephone interview with Jefferson Morley, April 18, 2011. Morley was apparently the one who informed Blakey many years later of the CIA's deceit. "They fucked you," Morley says he told Blakey. Telephone interview with Robert Blakey, July 8, 2011. In a follow-up interview, Blakey said the CIA "had a duty" to disclose that Joannides had once worked with DRE since the agency agreed not to withhold anything from the HSCA. Follow-up telephone interview with Robert Blakey, August 10, 2011. See also Jefferson Morley, "Morley v. CIA: JFK at Issue in Federal Court Next Week," JFK Facts, February 18, 2013,

http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/morley-v-cia-jfk-at-issue-in-federal-court-next-week/#more-3023

[accessed February 18, 2013].

73. Telephone interview with Jefferson Morley, April 18, 2011; Jefferson Morley, "Revelation 1963," Miami New Times, April 12, 2001,

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2001-04-12/news/revelation-19-63/

[accessed August 4, 2011]. See also David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (New York: Free Press, 2007), and Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History (Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer Productions and Publications, 2003).

74. George Lardner, Jr., "No Closer to Cracking the Kennedy Case: Meeting Yields Few Answers on Assassination," Washington Post, November 21, 2005.

75. "Former HSCA Chief Counsel on CIA Obstruction," JFK Facts, March 23, 2013,

http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/quote/former-hsca-chief-counsel-on-cia-obstruction/#more-3171

[accessed March 28, 2013].

76. Morley, "Morley v. CIA,"

http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/morley-v-cia-jfk-at-issue-in-federal-court-next-week/#more-3023

[accessed February 18, 2013].

77. Historian David M. Barrett's excellent study of CIA explores the agency's complicated relationship with Congress during the height of the Cold War. See The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006).

78. In 1975, Senator Frank Church held widely publicized Senate hearings into possible abuses by the CIA. The reports from these hearings can be found on the Assassination Archives and Research Center website:

http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/contents/church/contents_church_reports.htm

[accessed July 28, 2011].

79. Harry Truman, "Limit CIA Role to Intelligence," Washington Post, December 22, 1963.

80. The CIA's unwillingness, or perhaps inability, to shed light on another strange story raises additional questions about the agency's links to 11/22. In 1977 an assassination researcher, Mary Ferrell, discovered a CIA document (dated April 1, 1964) that included a request from the French government for help in finding a French terrorist named Jean Souetre. According to the document, Souetre-a member of the Organisation de l'armee secrete (OAS), a right-wing organization responsible for plotting several assassination attempts against French president Charles de Gaulle-had been in Forth Worth, Texas, during JFK's visit and "[w]ithin forty-eight hours of Kennedy's death ... was picked up by U.S. authorities in Texas" and "expelled from the United States." There is no official record of who apprehended Souetre or which agency handled his deportation proceedings. Souetre denied involvement during a 1983 interview with a reporter, but suggested that a former French intelligence agent named Michel Mertz may have been in Fort Worth using his (Souetre's) name as an alias. Souetre occasionally used Mertz's name as an alias, as well as the name Michel Roux. Oddly enough, the real Michel Roux had been in Forth Worth on 11/22 visiting friends. For more information on this tangled tale, see Peter Kross, JFK: The French Connection (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2012), Brad O'Leary and L. E. Seymour, Triangle of Death: The Shocking Truth About the Role of South Vietnam and the French Mafia in the Assassination of JFK (Nashville, TN: WND Books, 2003), and Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation Into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (New York: Henry Holt, 1985), 41419.

81. According to Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann, the CIA "claim[ed] the tapes of Oswald's calls were erased shortly after his visits, and before JFK's assassination" (Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2009), 214). But President Johnson's postassassination conversation with J. Edgar Hoover disproves this. See "Telephone Conversation between the President and J. Edgar Hoover, 23 November 1963," Mary Ferrell Foundation website,