As Trump and his minions take a wrecking ball to the American economy and social contract, he may have done one thing right. He has issued an executive order to release documents on the political assassinations (JFK, RFK, and MLK) as well as the attack on 9/11. While this is very welcome news for the thousands of dedicated researchers who have studied these events for several decades, the order lacks specifics. Interested parties such as Jefferson Morley's JFK facts, the Mary Farrell foundation, Jim DiEugneio's Kennedys and King website, Len Osanic's fabulous site Black Op Radio (and others) are working diligently to achieve an acceptable outcome. More than 70% of the population support this on a bipartisan basis. Our country yearns for transparency.

This is a quote from DiEugenio's substack. “On January 23rd, President Donald Trump came forward and finally made good on a promise he made many years ago, back in 2017. At that time he said he was looking forward to declassifying the last of the classified John F. Kennedy assassination documents. And, in fact, by law that is what he should have done. Because the originating legislation, the John F. Kennedy Records Collection Act, stated that all records that had been deferred should be declassified by October 2017. The only person who could stop it was the president.”

From Congressman Cohen's website: “President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection of 1992, also known as the “JFK Act,” required releasing these documents. It gave federal agencies a twenty-five-year timeline to process and release the documents, if not subject to an exemption, by October 26, 2017. Despite several extensions, many documents remain secret. Thirty years after the passage of the JFK Act and seven years after the statutory deadline, it is deeply frustrating that the public cannot access the complete set.”

The uninitiated might say that there will be nothing revealed because now, same say, they will destroy the documents. However, it is too late for destruction. Most of the 30,000 documents are known to researchers by title or document number. Many more documents have redaction that should be removed by Trumps order. While Trump attacks his enemies foreign and domestic, myself and many others are hopeful to finally get the documents that were promised as a result of the Assassination Records Review Board (AARB) which was formed in 1992. The AARB allowed some records to be withheld but expected a continuous review process, and the final deadline was 2017. However, both Trump and Biden failed to comply with a law passed by Congress and not subject to executive branch interpretation. Biden's ridiculous decision basically put off release forever, as he left the decision in the hands of the very agencies that have resisted for so long.

The good news is that a bipartisan group of Congressmen (Reps. Steve Cohen, David Schweikert, and Tim Burchett) have sent a letter to Trump with strong and practical suggestions about how to make sure we get all of the assassination-related records that are now out of public view.

Researchers have identified several important files. One high priority file is the Joannides files. Jefferson Morley of JFK Facts sued for these documents in 2003 under FOIA act but has been not been successful, as the CIA continues to resist full disclosure. From JFKfacts website/substack:

We are talking about the personnel file of a deceased CIA officer named George Joannides He was a career CIA officer who, as documents first made public in 1998 show, served as chief of CIA covert operations in Miami in November 1963. He carried out secret missions for the man who sent him there, CIA Deputy Director Richard Helms.

Joannides’ personnel file, now held in CIA archives in the Washington D.C. area, contains 44 classified documents about his “intelligence methods” (tradecraft) and his “cover”(false identities) in 1963-64 when his paid agents were involved in the surveillance of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, an ex-Marine with a penchant for left-wing politics.”

Lee Harvey Oswald's tax records were classified by the Warren Commission, since they would show his source of income. The AARB was able to review this information but was unable to release it to the public. Researchers have suspected income from the CIA, the FBI (as an informant), and the Office of Naval Intelligence.

William King Harvey was the CIA officer in responsible for assassinations. Below is the introduction to an article by Jefferson Morley: Researches have long suspect that Harvey traveled from his post in Rome to Dallas the weekend of the assassination. His travel records would shed light on his activities before and after Kennedy was murdered.

“William King Harvey, a corpulent and formidable undercover operations officer for the CIA from 1947 to 1967, is a plausible suspect in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Why? Because of his specialty in assassination and his hatred of the Kennedys, both of which are well-documented.

In the early years of the CIA, Harvey was regarded as one of its top operatives. As chief of the Berlin base in the 1950s, he was known for an audacious operation that tunneled into Soviet-occupied Berlin and intercepted all Russian military communications.

As chief of the CIA’s notorious ZR-RIFLE assassination program in the 1960s, Harvey enlisted his mobster friend Johnny Rosselli to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

His widow C.G. Harvey said in a JFK Facts exclusive interview that her husband hated John and Robert Kennedy and “loved” Rosselli.”

Another sought after document is this report on Sandalio Herminio Diaz Garcia. To quote JFKfacts again:

“As FBI director, Patel would be in a position to order the release of one key FBI file sought by JFK researchers: a heavily redacted 30-page report on Sandalio Herminio Diaz Garcia, an anti-Castro Cuban hit man described by the FBI as a “rather daring action-type Cuban” who was killed on an assassination mission in Cuba in May 1966.”

Conclusion: Trump may or may not follow through, but he has challenged government secrecy in a way that no other manager of Empire has ever done. Three bipartisan Congressman have submitted a letter which spells out how this should be accomplished. Four organizations (below) are named that are working on this issue. Among the many known documents that are at issue, I have named four (John Joannides, Bill Harvey, Sandalio Herminio Diaz Garcia, and Lee Oswald's tax records. There are many more specific documents at issue here.

Interested readers can follow this issue at Jefferson Morley's JFK facts, the Mary Farrell foundation, Jim DiEugneio's Kennedys and King website, and/or Len Osanic's fabulous site Black Op Radio.