Here is an excerpt from a transcript: (38:10)
Jefferson Morley: Then there's a second document that I came across in the Angleton collection, the Angleton documents that were declassified, and this was Angleton's testimony to the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978.
So the first testimony he gave was in 1975, he was still being called by congressional investigators three years later in 1978. And in 1978 he was asked two questions. He was asked the question: was Oswald ever the subject of a CIA project? And Angleton, speaking under oath, says, "no."
The next question is, do you know a man named Reuben Efron? And Angleton says, "yes." Do you know what his job was? Mail intercept, okay. So Angleton's answers to the second and third question definitively show that his answer to the first question was false. He obviously did know that this man, Reuben Efron, was involved in mail surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald. He was under oath and he lied about it.
How do we know that? Well, there was no way to know that until April 2023, okay, sixty years after Kennedy's assassination. The CIA declassified a memo and said that a man named Reuben Efron was in charge of a CIA project of mail surveillance, and that Efron had read a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, and he had forwarded it to one of Angleton's aides in June 1962.
So that's where we now can say, with confidence, that Angleton lied to congressional investigators about what he knew about the surveillance of Oswald.
Again, some people consider that a nothing burger. I don't. I think that it's significant.
Goldsmith was asking about a card found in Oswald's 201 file, which included the words "CI PROJECT/RE. This was reported in detail here. CI PROJECT referred to HTLINGUAL, and RE were the initials of an employee who translated the document.
If you follow the questioning, it is most probable that the question, "was Oswald ever the subject of any CIA project," really "was Oswald ever the subject of a CI project." And in the last section, the line "Mr. Goldsmith.. It could be, it is probably a mail intercept" was spoken by Angleton.
Goldsmith clearly knew who Reuben Efron was.
So, Reuben Efron worked on HTLINGUAL, and Oswald was on the watch list, but does this prove that Angleton was lying about Oswald not being the "subject of any CIA project."? Or CI Project? Unless anybody on the watch list is considered to be the subject of a counterintelligence operation.
Morley's logic just escapes me.
Reuben Efron learned of Lee Harvey Oswald's impending return to the United States in a 1962 Washington Post article. He then searched the HTLINGUAL files and found a Marguerite Oswald letter to her son, and then wrote a memo to his superiors about what he had found:
Efron wasn't monitoring Oswald. He was just noticed the news item about Oswald and thought there might be something in the HTLINGUAL files. He was right.
To Morley, the so-called disclosure of Reuben Efron's name reinforces his view that there was some sort of undisclosed CIA operation surrounding Oswald. The truth may simply be that Oswald just happened to bump into a variety of sensitive but unrelated operations: surveillance of the Russian and Cuban embassies in Mexico City; opening of mail (not just his) to and from the Soviet Union; anti-Fair Play for Cuba Committee activities (not just against him) by the DRE; coverage of the mail of the Russian embassy in Washington D.C.; and even (back in 1960) the FBI's monitoring of 'funds transmitted to residents of Russia.' The sensitivity of all of these could easily make a lone-gunman assassination look conspiratorial.
It's just a matter of time before another supposed discovery will, once again, confirm to Morley that there was a supposed "Oswald operation."
Do all roads lead to Rome? In Morley's case, all the evidence, no matter how thin, leads to an Oswald operation.
Coming up: The Heath memo once again.
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