> I offer this as an opportunity for both sides of the JFK assassination
> question to debate and speculate on why there are files and information
> relating to the assassination under lock and key. I remember a full page
> ad in what I believe was the NYTimes asking for the TOTAL RELEASE OF ALL
> RECORDS and Professor McAdams signed that request. That aside, speculate
> on why these files are still not available.
>
> Which files are we most in need of that are unavailable? I know some have
> been released but whar are the "top 10 or 20" files we need to see?
>
> Possibilities for not releasing information:
>
> 1) Oswald alone shot the President but he had some ties to CIA/FBI
> personnel in some way and this would prove embarrasing.
>
> 2) The CIA and Kennedy were at such odds they decided he had to go for a
> number of reasons from the extreme (he was actually a double agent of the
> the communists) to he was just too left and Vietnam offered too many
> opportunities for strategic containment and potentially cultivation of
> reserves like rubber. So capitalists offed him (see Oliver Stone).
>
> 3) Johson did it, they know it (see Barr McClelland's book) and that has
> to be delayed to be released.
>
> 4) Oswald did it all by himself, he was a flake, a Communist wannabe but
> the files need to be locked because other sources would be compromised,
> such as agents, networks, etc., many of whom may still be alive.
>
> 5) After the Bay of Pigs, a CIA operation, anti Castro Cubans combined
> with the Mob and outlaw elements of the CIA decided JFK's withholding of
> air support was a treasonable offense but instead they shot him and
> somehow this is documented in the locked files.
>
> 6) Or.... fire away.