This might be a little off topic, but I think a new book that came out this month warrants some attention. Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post writer, has written an excellent new book on the JFK assassination: Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA. Although the topic of the book is ostensibly a biography of Winston Scott, the legendary CIA station chief in Mexico City, it contains a number of nuggets of interest to JFK assassination researchers.
A brief recap is in order. Oswald visited Mexico City in late September/early October 1963 (remember JFK was killed the following November). The purpose of his visit was to obtain a visa to travel to the Soviet Union via Cuba. There is evidence that Oswald, while in Mexico passed through several CIA surveillance programs that had bugged the Soviet and Cuban embassies. When Win Scott attempted to get more information about Oswald from CIA headquarters he was met with obfuscation and outright lies from his superiors. In a nutshell, I think Morley is suggesting that Oswald might have been a low-level CIA contact officer working as part of a counter-intelligence operation run by Jim Angleton. What I love about Morley is that he sticks to the facts and always admits when he does not have evidence to prove things. Since the CIA covered-up so much of what they knew about Oswald most of the time you can only take educated guesses anyway.
I am probably not doing Morley’s thesis justice but thought I would take a crack at it anyway.
Since the mainstream press seems to have made up their mind about this topic I think we have an obligation to keep this story alive. If anyone knows anyone working at Stewart’s Daily Show please tell them to invite Morley on to discuss his book. It will help let the public know that the JFK assassination is far from being solved and 40 years later the CIA continues to stonewall those who demand accountability.
More on Morley:
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