Tim Fattig

“The purpose of a system is what it does.” Outstanding overview of what it is we’re talking about when we talk about the JFK “files”— in fact, the decades-long shuffle towards transparency, and a not entirely successful one— some great work here by @timgproject from the @CipheredPast pod. youtu.be/TTnKh4EXQ_g

@MisguidedPats @GOPoversight Absolutely. There’s an NGO for just about anything, it seems.

@timfattig @GOPoversight I stand corrected. It was a product of congressional hearings that preceded the formal committee. Thanks. Still irks me that this continues today with those IRBs and all anyone wants to talk about is LSD experiments in the 1960s

The @GOPoversight hearings did fail, but that is a functional feature, not a bug, of the political oversight process. The Church Committee and HSCA hearings didn’t yield any meaningful legislation or send any of their respective bad guys to jail. Senator Church got a boost out of it; so did Senator Schweiker. Will @RepLuna see a comparable benefit? Time will tell.

Technically the NRA predates the Church Committee by a year, but the years-long struggle over the Belmont Report shows it was compromised and politicized just as badly as anything released by Church. The final document is interesting for what it contains as well as for what it omits. hhs.gov/ohrp/regulatio…

Actually, the church committee hearings did yield the National Research Act which on its face was a really good law. However, as I reveal in my book, it (IRBs) was IMMEDIATELY infiltrated by the CIA as evidenced by my CIA mom’s 17 year membership on a University of Texas IRB established by the act. She was an original member and served until 1992. Not actually illegal BUT violating the CIA charter and because of a technicality in the “rules,” any human research funded as a “classified DOD project, could only be reviewed by board members with security clearance…. which of course only my mom had. So, for 17 years she was sole gatekeeper for classified DOD experiments on humans at the University. Of course this goes on other places too and apparently nobody cares.

@ReEvoluCafeOrch @GOPoversight For folks like us, that is absolutely true. No teaching opportunity should be seen as “less than.” That said, for many folks, “free the files” elicits the same cynicism that it does in the Epstein case— because they sense, correctly, so far, that that’s as far as it will go.

@timfattig @GOPoversight All true Tim, but "Church" opened a lot of eyes and minds that were closed. Every journey and struggle is made of small steps and an occasional leap. It is 22,820 days from 11-22-1963. The journey remains, and thank you for taking part in the effort.

@timgproject Partisanship also gets in the way. It does. We are not supposed to say that, but it does.

The JFK case is “easy” until you realize the can of worms you open. If you don’t believe me then ask the veterans who have put their life into this.

@yung_coxey Tied with this guy for second place.

@timfattig Runner-up:

The truth died with this guy. We’re left tilting at shadows now (maybe forever) because of 100 or 200 words left unsaid.

@timgproject If George de Mohrenschildt ever did have a 30-pieces-of-silver moment, it was probably getting the “letter” from DCI George H.W. Bush that had all the warmth and nuance of an unsigned Christmas card.

I think that De Mohernschildt was haunted until his life ended. He knew that Oswald innocent. God has a way with all of us if we choose to go the wrong direction.

Terrific research and analysis from the always reliable Larry Hancock and Chad Nagle over at JFK Facts. What did Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman say about the assassination and how does it impact the SBT? jfkfacts.substack.com/p/new-jfk-file…

@SomebunnyULuv A genuinely profound religious experience, Indian food, and the best company imaginable.

Died on this date, 1987, Washington, D.C. “My Help Cometh From the Lord.”

@GSkulduggery C’mon, EVERYONE has high-placed pals in the oil industry and national politics, and can call up the local CIA chief to vet who is and isn’t “safe” to talk to! …right?

@timfattig Strategic placement of envelopes, enveloping a different person. Sure would be crazy if his "friend" that housed and got him employment was able to have private lunches with dulles during the Warren commish. Then thought he was being wiretapped so went to a bush about it.

Hey, they did their best back in the day…

@timgproject @RogueKite @mcarmystrong @DeedlesTomes @CipheredPast Strong lineup, especially @mcarmystrong !

Our next slate of guests are trend setters for fighting for the truth and we’re excited. @RogueKite @mcarmystrong @DeedlesTomes plus many more to come. Cheers to the truth fighters. @CipheredPast

Among the Church Committee’s files are some remarkably good insights on “Jim Braden” and his connections to both the Dixie mob and the dominating industries of the South and Southeast. Here we see the committee connecting “Braden” to networks utilized by Jack Ruby and David Ferrie. archives.gov/files/research…

@timfattig @Rfk4POTUS For anyone who cares to look.

MURDER MOST FOUL: THE MYSTERY OF THE DAL-TEX BUILDING By M.C. Armstrong In November of 2025, Lynn D. Berry, a new living witness to the JFK assassination, broke his silence. I interviewed Berry and recorded his live testimony at the JFK Historical Group's conference. Berry, a mortician and a veteran of the Vietnam War, reported seeing a bullet mark on the south curb of Elm Street, which is a consequential observation that threatens to shatter the lone gunman theory. But Berry also disclosed that he witnessed a gunman emerging from the Dal-Tex Building, an under-investigated site in Dealey Plaza. Berry told me that he believes the kill teams were situated in the Texas School Book Depository, on the Grassy Knoll, and in the Dal-Tex Building. Berry's observations and eyewitness account raises a troubling question about a famous photograph taken on 11/22/63. The photo below, captured by AP photographer James "Ike" Altgens, is iconic but controversial. JFK researcher Larry Rivera has written extensively about Altgens6 and the fact that it is not intact. Like with the Zapruder film, there is evidence of revision. All of Altgens' photos were immediately confiscated at the Dallas News Building on 11/22/63 when Altgens arrived to have his film processed and sent out over the @AP wire. Altgens6, when first released to the public, was both vertically and horizontally cropped. The horizontal crop removed a crucial street level image of a "man in the doorway" of the Texas School Book Depository who may have been Lee Harvey Oswald. However, very little attention has been paid to the fact of the vertical crop and the way it erases the upper floors of the Dal-Tex Building, a site where, that day, a suspect named Jim Braden was arrested and then quickly released by the police. Why isn't there more conversation about Braden and the Dal-Tex Building, @geraldposner? What happened to the original photograph of Ike Altgens? In Rivera's words, "[T]he top portion had been cropped to remove the upper parts of the fire escape of the Dal-Tex Building in the background. To this day it is unknown how far up the original photograph reached." For what it’s worth, @KenBurns, the third floor of the Dal-Tex Building hosted a business called the Dallas Uranium and Oil Company, which was owned by Johnson crony, Morris Jaffe, the wealthy investor who purchased all of the corrupt agricultural assets of Billie Sol Estes after Estes went to prison in 1963. The Texas School Book Depository was owned by Lyndon Johnson's friend, D.H. Byrd, and the third floor of the Dal-Tex Building (where Zapruder worked and where Berry encountered a gunman) was owned by yet another Johnson ally, Morris Jaffe. When will we be hearing an interview with Lynn D. Berry, @TuckerCarlson? #JFK

@CWeinert211691 @timgproject Ducking autocorrect. 🤣

@timfattig @timgproject John McCone... But absolutely.

The FBI’s spy on the Warren Commission: this December 1963 memo by high-level FBI official Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, gives some insight into how Congressman and Warren Commission member Gerald Ford was persuaded to “keep [the FBI] thoroughly advised as to the activities of the Commission.” Ford’s biggest area of concern, DeLoach told another FBI official, was finding out from CIA director John McCain about the rumors emanating from Mexico City that linked Lee Harvey Oswald to various, unnamed Cubans: “Ford stated this excited him greatly inasmuch as it definitely tended to show there was an international connection involved in the assassination of the President.” archives.gov/files/research…