https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/a-case-study-in-redaction-the-cia-s-lifeat-file
A Case Study in Redaction: The CIA's LIFEAT File
Jefferson Morley believed that when this file was unredacted it would shed light on "what the CIA has always sought to hide: details of the CIA’s counterintelligence activities around Oswald." But when the files was recently released without the redactions, it showed nothing of the sort.
At this point it should be clear even to, I think, conspiracy believers that he's simply plucking out or selecting those bits of information, real or imagined, that he thinks - without evidence - support his view that Angleton was the mastermind behind the assassination. Although he reached that point long ago. It's sort of reverse engineering his conspiracy and then people have to disprove his claims. This is frankly Garrison-type reasoning although I think it's interesting that to my knowledge he's never discovered anything about Shaw or Ferrie being involved. The Garrisonites and the Morleyites are the Hatfields and the McCoys.
He had no idea what was in the LIFEAT file or what information the operation contained yet he stated with no qualification at all that it captured Oswald's trip to Mexico City. But it didn't. Well, at least he admits that Oswald went there; many conspiracy people still cling to the fable that Oswald never did ("Where's the CIA photos of him?" they complain; they reject all of the other evidence as faked or wrong yet they'll accept a CIA photo? I am skeptical).
Speaking of exaggeration: Win Scott's manuscript is, it seems to me at this point, utterly worthless on the Mexico City controversy. We now have all of the files on it and Scott's description of what happened is simply fiction. There's no evidence that the CIA was, as he claimed in the document, following Oswald around in his visit (Scott wrote that Oswald "was observed on all of his visits to each of the two communist embassies"; not true). Oswald simply popped up on their screen when he made a phone call to the Soviet Embassy inquiring about the status of his visa request. And that was on Tuesday, four days after he arrived. Scott's claim that they closely followed Oswald while down there is not supported by this 60 plus year old evidence.
