LTE to NY Review of Books on Kennedy assassination

[eridani]

Astonishing that Gerald Posner, a Warren Commission true believer, and Oliver Stone both signed this.

New York Review of Books Volume LII Number 13 August 11, 2005 (not yet available online)

To the Editors:

It is disappointing to learn that the Central Intelligence Agency filed motions in federal court in May 2005 to block disclosure of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy forty-one years ago.

In response to the journalist Jefferson Morley's lawsuit brought under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA is seeking to prevent release of records about a deceased CIA operations officer named George E. Joannides.

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As published authors of divergent views on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we say the agency's position is spurious and untenable. Its continuing noncompliance with the JFK Records Act does no service to the public. It defies the will of Congress. It obscures the public record on a subject of enduring national interest. It encourages conspiracy mongering. And it undermines public confidence in the intelligence community at a time when collective security requires the opposite.

We insist the CIA observe the spirit of the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Act by immediately releasing all relevant records on the activities of George Joannides and any records at all that include his name or relate in any way to the assassination story-as prescribed by the JFK Records Act. The law and common sense require it.


G. Robert Blakey, former general counsel, House Select Committee on Assassinations; Jefferson Morley, journalist; Scott Arm¬strong, founder, National Security Archive; Vincent Bugliosi, author and former prose¬cutor; Don DeLillo, author of Libra; David Kaiser, Naval War College; Norman Mailer, author of Oswald's Talei]; Gerald Posner, author of Case ClosedNot in Your Lifetime; Robbyn Swan; Oliver Stone, director of JFK; George Lardner Jr., journalist; and thirteen others

[wli]

1. hmm? The Assassination Records Act said it was to release in 2017

I'll probably be dead by then, but if that is true, maybe the "fight" so to speak should be to push to make the date sooner.