Jefferson Morley's Latest William Harvey Nothingburger
- Fred Litwin
- 3 hours ago
- 8 min read
Hat tip: Robert Reynolds, the preeminent expert on the JFK assassination files, provided a lot of the research for this article.
And I was right.
The article on Morley's Substack says the following about this document:
The document about Harvey’s FAA credential reveals two new facts about his involvement in the events of 1963, neither known previously.
Harvey was authorized to travel undercover in the United States while he was serving as chief of the CIA station in Rome.
The CIA did not disclose this arrangement to Senate investigators in the 1970s.
Well, why wouldn't William Harvey travel within the United States? He only took up the post of Rome Chief of Station in June, 1963.
But how about the ridiculous headline -- "Did CIA Assassination Chief Bill Harvey Travel to Dallas under FAA Cover?" There is absolutely no basis for this in the memo above. This is a totally baseless claim, and it flies in the face of common sense. Robert Reynolds wonders "why would CIA register their officers' names with the FAA? Cover documents from the State Department or the Army HAD to be arranged with State and/or Army, because they asserted that the subject was employed by the State or Army."
Is Morley trying to say that Harvey was nominally an employee of the FAA? Was he supposed to be a pilot or ground crew?
So, what's really going on here?
Well, it may well involve Harvey's possession of a firearm. He was issued two CIA Firearms Credentials.
There is another possibility. FAA Credentials might have been necessary to transport classified material, although I really don't know the rules governing classified materials in 1963.
Morleys Substack also claims that "the CIA did not disclose this arrangement to Senate investigators in the 1970s." All of this material was in Bill Harvey's OS file and the file was shown to Dan Hardway of the HSCA, so at least House investigators knew about the memo:
We don't really know exactly what material Senate investigators saw, but anybody who checked Harvey's OS file would have seen that memo.
Morley's Substack article also makes the allegation that Harvey had multiple aliases of William Walker:
This response, the new documents show, was misleading: Harvey was approved to use the William Walker alias after he was reassigned in June 1963. On June 18, 1963, while Harvey was heading to Rome, the CIA’s Office of Security sent the Technical Services Division a request for not one, but two, separate aliases in the name of William Walker.
Harvey had an US. Army credential of William Walker for use in Task Force W (the CIA working group on Cuba affairs), and to be used within the domestic United States:
Harvey also had similar CIA credentials:
Harvey also had CIA credentials using the alias William Walker for "operational domestic contacts."
It shows that Harvey did not stop using the alias William Walker in June 1963, as the CIA claimed. In fact, the new documents show Harvey requested two new aliases that month, and that they were delivered six weeks later.
But Harvey did not request "two new aliases. The CIA provided Harvey with pocket identification of William Walker for two separate addresses. Indianapolis was Harvey's home town and his mother and other family members lived there. There also might have been a family connection to Detroit.
This is not really a new alias.
In any event, once again Morley has come up with another nothingburger.
More nothingburgers are on the way. Once these files reveal nothing, Morley will demand more files from the CIA and the FBI. How long Congresswoman Luna will keep going along with these requests remains to be seen.
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