- COPA helped get the JFK Act passed
- Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board
- 10 Recommendations of the ARRB Board Final Report
- Some releases have been postponed until 2017
- The Board was appointed the same day Case Closed was published
- Bill Davy (BOR #4) and Jim DiEugenio have worked with releases
- Bolsters Garrison’s conclusions, Shaw’s CIA connections, etc.
- Destiny Betrayed: (DiEugenio 1992), Let Justice Be Done: (Davy 1999)
- Oswald In Mexico City, John Newman’s Oswald and the CIA: (1995)
- Peter Dale Scott’s Deep Politics II: (1995)
- Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act (10/10/2000)
- CIA’s secret history of U.S. relationship with General Reinhard Gehlen (Released 02/04/2005)
- Jennifer Harbury 1998 testimony, Human Rights Information Act
- Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Warren Commission,
- Church Committee, House Select Committee files released
- As well as FBI, CIA, Secret Service,
- Foreign Intelligence Advisory Files
- Executive Order 12958 – Classified National Security Information
- Executive Order 13142 – Amendment To Executive Order 12958
- Defense Intelligence Agency, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Office of Naval Intelligence, Army Intelligence
- This was a military coup d’etat in Dallas
- Those files remain buried, those agencies refused to comply
- JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X, Walter Reuther, the Reagan shooting
- COPA, national conferences, regional meetings
- Commemorated the June 10, 1963 American University Speech
- Over 6000,000 MLK records locked up until 2038
- FOIA request for Army Intel MLK surveillance records and photos
- After Action Report, Civil Disorder Operation: LANTERN SPIKE
- COPA v. Department of Defense on King Files (05/14/2001)
- COPA v. Department of Defense FOIA appeal lost (05/27/2001)
- Judge Joe Brown starting testing the MLK rifle (BOR #30)
- Assassinations are the Rosetta Stone of the National Security State
- The JCS were quite active that day, especially General Curtis LeMay
- Monday after the assassination, reversed Vietnam withdrawal order
- Instead projected a 10 year war with 50,000 American dead
- Mary Cooley Judge, JCS Manpower Analyst, projection of 11/25/63
- The military uses 65-80% of the total energy resource pie
- It took 3.5 billion gallons of oil to carry out the Gulf War
- GOP, the Gas Oil Plutonium Party
- 65% of the tax dollar pays for past and future wars
- The Military/Industrial complex rose to power with the JFK Assassination
- Bay of Pigs, Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive (03/23/2001)
- They planned for the operation to fail, to force Kennedy’s hand
- Jack Ruby ran guns to Castro under CIA operations
- Operation Mongoose, undercover domestic CIA/Mob assassination capability
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