CBS: Government releases JFK assassination documents -- live blog

[TomSea]

Excerpt:

CBS News October 26, 2017, 6:25 PM
Government releases JFK assassination documents -- live blog

JFK files live updates:

1960 document discusses "sex parties": One new FBI document discusses a "high-priced Hollywood call girl" and friend of Los Angeles private detective Fred Otash, who had "convicted of horse race fixing." The woman in question contacted members of the FBI's Los Angeles field office to tell them that Otash had asked about her "participation in sex parties" that included then-Senator John Kennedy, his brother-in-law Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr. She also told agents that she knew of no such sex parties.

Otash later implied to the FBI that "Confidential" magazine was "looking for dirt on Kennedy or Lawford" that it could use before the 1960 election.

Castro denies involvement in Kennedy assassination: One of the documents discusses a 1978 trip to Cuba by members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which was formed in 1976 to investigate the killings of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 3rd, 1978, the document says that the members met with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, "who assured the Committee that neither he nor his government had any involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy." 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-releases-jfk-assassination-documents-live-blog/

Some wild stuff already coming in, nothing earthshaking about the assassination itself.

[DemolitionMan]

I wonder how much of the reports are redacted

[mountaineer]

Soviets thought LBJ behind Kennedy assassination: document
New York Daily News
CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
Oct 27th 2017 7:36AM

Soviet spies believed that President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the death of the John F. Kennedy, according to an FBI document.

Sources told the American agency that officials in the U.S.S.R. “believed there was some well-organized conspiracy on the part of the ‘ultraright’” that led to the 1963 assassination, with later claims that there was evidence to show the vice president’s involvement.   ...   Rest of story

[mountaineer]

BREAKING: Trump Releases 3,000 Docs On JFK Assassination, Keeps Hundreds Secret
Cue the conspiracy theorists.
By Michael J. Knowles
October 26, 2017

Citing "potentially irreversible harm to our Nation's security," President Trump delayed the release of hundreds of files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, while the National Archives released 2,981 documents in accordance with the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which required that all assassination records be fully disclosed and available no later than 25 years after the enactment of the act.

According to the White House, the FBI and CIA made numerous requests to withhold some of the files, in violation of the 1992 law. Adding to the confusion, the decision comes just one day after President Trump tweeted, "The long anticipated release of the #JFKFiles will take place tomorrow. So interesting!"   ... More at Daily Wire

[mountaineer]

Hoover on JFK assassination: Need something to “convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin”
Ed Morrissey
Posted at 8:41 am on October 27, 2017

...     Scholars and other experts have repeatedly said it’s unlikely that there’s anything groundbreaking in the documents. But as journalists and historians pored through the enormous database of material Thursday night and Friday morning, some interesting nuggets were turning up, among them Hoover’s Nov. 24 memo.   ...

    Referring to Nicholas Katzenbach, the deputy attorney general at the time, Hoover dictated: “The thing I am concerned about, and so is Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.”   ...

More at HotAir

[mountaineer]

From the CBS live blog:

London reporter received anonymous tip before JFK assassination
Memo from FBI director to Dep. CIA Director James Angleton, dated 11/26/63: A cable from the London CIA station four days after Kennedy's assassination told of a UK reporter, from the Cambridge News, who, on Nov. 22, 1963, had received anonymous tip to call the U.S. embassy "for some big news." Twenty-five minutes later, British Security Services MI-5 calculated, Kennedy was shot. The reporter had a solid reputation and said he had never before received a call of this kind.