The Reuben Efron Story, Once Again!
- Fred Litwin
- 12 minutes ago
- 8 min read
Jefferson Morley's Substack JFK Facts keeps on repeating certain stories which makes me think he is running out of material on the assassination.
As I have shown earlier, Efron is not "the man who read Lee Harvey Oswald's mail."
Morley Claim. --Â Â The CIA was reading Oswald's mail.
Fact. -- True, but the focus on Oswald as a target is misleading. The CIA ran a program called HT-Lingual which intercepted some mail going to and coming from the Soviet Union. On November 9, 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald's name was added to the watch list because of his defection to the Soviet Union. The Church Committee estimated that 75% of the letters that were opened were chosen at random, not because the name was on the watch list. The program intercepted a letter from Marguerite Oswald to her son and that was it. After the assassination, additional items of potential relevance to the assassination investigation were recovered from the HT-Lingual files, but those additional items did not include any correspondence to or from Oswald himself.Â
Morley Claim. --Â This new document shows that Reuben Efron read Oswald's mail for 20 months.
Fact. -- All the document shows is that Efron read Marguerite Oswald's letter to Lee Harvey Oswald (perhaps for the first time) after learning of his impending return in a 1962 Washington Post article. It is not clear where Morley's "20 months" comes from. The dates he cited cover less than 14 months.
Paul Hoch sent me an email with a very good question about Nagle's article. Does not Efron's forward of Marguerite Oswald's letter (when Oswald's return was in the news) argue against the claim that they read Oswald's mail for years? If they had actually been reading Oswald's mail for years, wouldn't this letter have been shared with someone like Ann Egerter, a member of Angleton's counterintelligence staff and a member of its Special Intelligence Group, much earlier?
Nagle also repeats that claim that Efron's name was only just released:
It is astonishing that the CIA would conceal Efron’s identity for so long, even if it had something incriminating or embarrassing to hide. After all, as noted, Efron and his wife had no children, which meant inquiring JFK researchers couldn’t come calling on any direct next of kin for information after the couple were dead.
But that is just not true:
Morley Claim. --Â This was the first time that "the CIA had ever disclosed that Efron read Oswald's mail and that he was a CIA employee."
Fact. -- Efron's name was released in 2017 in this testimony before the HSCA, In fact, James Angleton was asked about Efron during his HSCA testimony. Here is another document which was made public in 1998, which shows that Efron translated and circulated a post-assassination (1964) letter from Marina Oswald. In addition, John Newman mentioned Efron (as Ephron) in his 2017 book Countdown to Darkness.Â
And this conclusion from Nagle is just plain ridiculous:
When the CIA finally admitted publicly that Efron worked for its counterintelligence chief a year and a half before the assassination — monitoring the man who would be accused of single-handedly conceiving and carrying out the crime — researchers began to wonder more and more about what kind of relationship Reuben Efron had, if any, to JFK’s murder.
But as I have shown, Reuben Efron wasn't monitoring Oswald, and just what kind of relationship could he have had "to JFK's murder."
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