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In reply to the discussion: Jimmy Hoffa disappeared 40 years ago today [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)9. We should seek answers to CIA role in HSCAJFK probe - where Jimmy Hoffa was scheduled to testify
Investigators say files could prove interference

Eddie Lopez was the investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
By Bryan Bender
Boston Globe, Oct. 15, 2014
WASHINGTON It was nearly four decades ago that Eddie Lopez was hired by a congressional committee to reinvestigate the 1963 murder of President John F. Kennedy, a role that had him digging through top secret documents at the CIA.
In the end, the House Select Committee on Assassinations reported in 1978 that it believed the assassination was probably the result of a conspiracy, although it couldnt prove that, and its conclusions are disputed by many researchers.
But now Lopez is seeking answers to a lingering question: Could still-classified records reveal, as he and some of his fellow investigators have long alleged, that the CIA interfered with the congressional investigation and placed the committee staff under surveillance?
SNIP...
It was time to fight one last time to ascertain what happened to JFK and to our investigation into his assassination, Lopez, who is now the chief counsel for a school district in Rochester, N.Y., said in an interview. He is joined in the effort by two other former investigators, researcher Dan Hardway and G. Robert Blakey, the panels staff director.
Lopez, 58, charges that the CIA actively stymied the probe and monitored the committee staff members as they pursued leads about the events leading up to the assassination.
CONTINUED...
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/10/15/decades-later-seeking-shed-light-cia-conduct-congressional-inquiry-jfk-assassination/dUf8qawsBQWfM2kxm7w7DM/story.html
PS: Must've missed this story when it came out, as it wasn't in my local paper. Thought DU might be interested, seeing how CIA and the Secret Government are still lying to the American people, still spying on the American people, and still making a killing off war. What else they're doing to the American people, I can't guess.
PPS: What Ed Lopez's partner, Dan Hardway, told me and a college museum full of folks a year ago.
PPPS: Sorry you don't understand why this is important or you do understand and work to ridicule me for pointing it out, Dr Hobbitstein. Either way, your post doesn't say much for you.

Eddie Lopez was the investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
By Bryan Bender
Boston Globe, Oct. 15, 2014
WASHINGTON It was nearly four decades ago that Eddie Lopez was hired by a congressional committee to reinvestigate the 1963 murder of President John F. Kennedy, a role that had him digging through top secret documents at the CIA.
In the end, the House Select Committee on Assassinations reported in 1978 that it believed the assassination was probably the result of a conspiracy, although it couldnt prove that, and its conclusions are disputed by many researchers.
But now Lopez is seeking answers to a lingering question: Could still-classified records reveal, as he and some of his fellow investigators have long alleged, that the CIA interfered with the congressional investigation and placed the committee staff under surveillance?
SNIP...
It was time to fight one last time to ascertain what happened to JFK and to our investigation into his assassination, Lopez, who is now the chief counsel for a school district in Rochester, N.Y., said in an interview. He is joined in the effort by two other former investigators, researcher Dan Hardway and G. Robert Blakey, the panels staff director.
Lopez, 58, charges that the CIA actively stymied the probe and monitored the committee staff members as they pursued leads about the events leading up to the assassination.
CONTINUED...
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/10/15/decades-later-seeking-shed-light-cia-conduct-congressional-inquiry-jfk-assassination/dUf8qawsBQWfM2kxm7w7DM/story.html
PS: Must've missed this story when it came out, as it wasn't in my local paper. Thought DU might be interested, seeing how CIA and the Secret Government are still lying to the American people, still spying on the American people, and still making a killing off war. What else they're doing to the American people, I can't guess.
PPS: What Ed Lopez's partner, Dan Hardway, told me and a college museum full of folks a year ago.
PPPS: Sorry you don't understand why this is important or you do understand and work to ridicule me for pointing it out, Dr Hobbitstein. Either way, your post doesn't say much for you.
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"That is not because of one American family. It is the legacy of the nation."
Ghost in the Machine
Jul 2015
#44
Be that as it may... (are we quoting "My Cousin Vinnie"??)... ummmm, yes, it does...
Ghost in the Machine
Jul 2015
#54
Why do you have to defend Bush and Cheney, zappaman? Don't you know about the BFEE?
Octafish
Aug 2015
#133
Shouldn't you provide 47 irrelevant links to show he ignored what you wrote? :)
LanternWaste
Aug 2015
#141
Did you read the article? It failed to mention Bush or the Mafia-CIA plots to kill Castro.
Octafish
Jul 2015
#4
We should seek answers to CIA role in HSCAJFK probe - where Jimmy Hoffa was scheduled to testify
Octafish
Jul 2015
#9
If you wait long enough, it will always come back to Poppy Bush in Dallas...
SidDithers
Aug 2015
#78
Are you one of the Flock that came over to DU from the Amazing Randi's J-REF forum?
Octafish
Aug 2015
#111
Not quite. Apart from my threads, I wouldn't interact with you or the Tag Team.
Octafish
Aug 2015
#109
hoffa is buried under a crop circle somewhere. the BFEE, themselves secret pawns of the greys, were
dionysus
Aug 2015
#153
he's still alive...I thought everyone knew that? Did the intertubes make people stupid?
snooper2
Jul 2015
#8
I think we all know the CIA used chemtrails to force JFK to authorize the operation.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#32
Now you're going to make me go look at the joint committee records on assassination plots
BainsBane
Jul 2015
#37
They defend the BFEE, that reallys says it all and they cannot hide it or care to.
Rex
Aug 2015
#137
Sam Giancana, the Mafia chief and CIA go-to, DIED WHILE UNDER WITNESS PROTECTION.
Octafish
Jul 2015
#35
They are sad little people, best to just ignore them and be amused by their trolling imo.
Rex
Aug 2015
#136
This history is why I never denigrate people with labels like ''Conspiracy Theorist.''
Octafish
Jul 2015
#40
K&R My dad was a lifelong Teamster member. Elizabeth Cheney was just a little girl when Hoffa van-
bobthedrummer
Jul 2015
#36
K&R!! I remember this, and I was only 12 when it happened, but coming from a STRONG UNION FAMILY
Ghost in the Machine
Jul 2015
#46
Creeping closer to 53! Next February... so I can still say "next year" for now!
Ghost in the Machine
Jul 2015
#48
Assume you're talking to a guy who doesn't have a lot of spare time on his hands...
Act_of_Reparation
Aug 2015
#155
Too much of a Star Wars geek. Midly amusing at parties. Octa, you don't think Cass has
msanthrope
Aug 2015
#104
I don't know. Just the fact we have to entertain such an idea shows how low our democracy has sunk.
Octafish
Aug 2015
#108
Nixon’s Bay of Pigs Secrets..the interlocking connections between CIA , anti- Castro Cubans, the mob
Ichingcarpenter
Aug 2015
#127