Margot Williams
Research Editor at The Intercept
Researcher, reporter, factchecker, librarian. @TheIntercept & @ICIJorg New at Mastodon: @[email protected]
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
jfkfacts.substack.com | Jefferson Morley |Margot Williams
Perhaps the single most significant new document to emerge from the new JFK assassination files in the past two years is the material that CIA counterintelligence officers compiled on Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Yes, the newly declassified 1961 memo that Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote to JFK about reorganizing the CIA exposed deep divisions between the White House and the clandestine service that persisted to the end of JFK’s presidency.
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1 month ago |
jfkfacts.substack.com | Margot Williams
It’s not an exaggeration to state that this week was one of the best in decades for JFK assassination researchers. It was a marathon that must have been as chaotic for the National Archives staffers who spent days and nights declassifying and scanning documents as it has been for people in the JFK research community and the media, first awaiting their release and then speed-reading through them.
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2 months ago |
jfkfacts.substack.com | Margot Williams
A photograph from Warren Commission exhibits shows the open limousine that carried President and Mrs. Kennedy through downtown Dallas. Gov. John Connally and his wife, Nellie, sat in front of them. (Credit: National Archives, RG 272)As we anticipate the (no-longer forbidden) fruits of President Donald Trump’s Jan. 23 Execut…
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Jan 19, 2025 |
jfkfacts.substack.com | Margot Williams
The confirmation hearing on a new Trump-era director of the Central Intelligence Agency was among the first in the new 119th Congress. In the run-up to former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe’s confirmation hearing for head of the CIA, Chad Nagle’s Where Does Trump’s CIA Pick Stand on the JFK Files? laid out the nominee’s background and the issues related to his confirmation. Among them are the declassification of files relating to the JFK assassination.
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Jan 12, 2025 |
margotwilliams.substack.com | Margot Williams
I have some — well, many — Google Alerts set up to follow topics in Google News. I regularly go into my Alerts page to manage, i.e., delete alerts that no longer interest me. But what I don’t do, unfortunately, is manage those longstanding old alerts for news I want to follow every day. Resolved: I need to do this to comply with my 2025 New Year resolutions to make my email feed more manageable. The problem I can fix with my alert query is to perfect the search itself to be more specific.
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RT @jeffersonmorley: CIA spymaster James Angleton compiled a 198 page dossier on Oswald, 1959-63. On 11/15/63, he received an FBI report o…
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