Week in Review: Who Was the FAA/CIA Collaborator Who Helped William Harvey?
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Following last week’s exclusive revealing 1960s CIA assassination chief William King Harvey’s trips undercover within the USA, JFK Facts contributor Jack Reid continued to investigate the origin of Harvey’s clandestine travel credentials. Harvey — America’s answer to James Bond — was a major FBI/CIA figure before and during the Kennedy administration who was famous for his love of liquor and hatred of the Kennedy brothers.
From his dive into newly released CIA documents and historical source material, Reid makes a reasoned answer to the question: Who at the FAA had an “existing arrangement” with the assassination chief involving fake credentials for travel in the United States?
Rep. Luna on the Harvey Story
On Monday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna joined JFK Facts editor Jefferson Morley in a press conference held online to explain what we have learned about the secret travels of the CIA assassination chief in late 1963. New files uncovered and interpreted by JFK researchers strengthen the emerging fact pattern that puts the CIA in the frame for its suspicious behavior before, during, and after the president’s murder.
All of Harvey’s travel records in 1963 are being sought by Rep. Luna, chair of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, which held two hearings on JFK assassination files earlier this year.
The news conference video can be seen on the JFK Facts YouTube channel. The JFK Facts YouTube editor is Ryan Carter.
A LIFE Editor’s Life
Peter Voskamp gave us more fascinating stories from Richard Billings, drawn from a lengthy 2008 interview before the ex-LIFE magazine editor passed away. Previously on JFK Facts, a Billings interview focused exclusively about his participation in Operation Tilt, a joint CIA-LIFE magazine operation in the summer of 1963.
This week Voskamp shared a much more expansive discussion about Billings’ wide-ranging travels in the JFK investigation — from Lee Harvey Oswald’s wife and mother appearing at his Dallas hotel room on the day of the assassination, to his interactions with Jim Garrison, his eventual role on the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), and his Mob-did-it book with HSCA lead counsel G. Robert Blakey.
Thursday Night Live
A reminder to our subscribers: The JFK Live podcast continues on Thursday evenings at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Chad Nagle and Lawrence Schnapf are the weekly hosts of this freewheeling (and civil) discussion, which is a big Zoom call, open to all. See the invite below.
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