Prison Planet.com » CIA is accused of pouring cold water on legal efforts to force it to reveal the contact one of its spies had with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before JFK’s murder

Daily Mail
March 20, 2018

A former Washington Post Reporter who is suing the CIA to release data relating to the assassination of President Kennedy has taken court action to recover legal fees. 

Lawyers for Jefferson Morley told the the appeals court in Washington that his bills have climbed to more than $500,000.

Morley is trying to force the government to pay his legal fees and to get the CIA to reveal files relating deceased CIA agent George Joannides.  He has accused the agency of dragging its feet over the release.

Morley believes Joannides may have had contact with suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the shooting and later when he served as the CIA’s liaison officer for a JFK assassination investigation in the 1970s.

President Trump in October ordered the remaining files on the assassination to released. Some 2,800 files were released at the time but the President announced 300 were being held back at the request of the FBI and CIA so they could be redacted further.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 8:24 am






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