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FOIA requests and the CIA money trail
Mon 28 Jul 2014, 7:12 amAnonymous
Hi all - I'm aware that there are plenty of successful and unsuccessful FOIA requests every year, around the JFK assassination and related bits of history - and I'm also aware the Jeff Morley's lawsuit about the Joannides information -

My question is about MONEY, though. Does anyone know how this actually works, and maybe could point me in a direction, for research?

I'm interested in the CIA's money trail during the JFK period. Briefly why - by example - the original allocation for anti-Castro activities was 17 million dollars. However there were 800 employees operating out of JM/WAVE at one point, and if you add in the contractor money and all the money for foreign bribes and stuff like that, you start looking at about 80 million per year, which of course is "way more than what's in the official budget".

So, I guess, a) has anyone tried to look at the "books" of someone like an E Howard Hunt (who was allegedly one of the CIA's "money men"), and b) are there any records of the CIA's use of money in the early Vietnam period, "just after" the JFK assassination?

'Cause y'know... the CIA has been funding its black ops with drug money since day one. There's plenty of documentation on that. Which is, in my opinion, why we see a bunch of dark clandestine types hanging around mob figures like Jack Ruby, and also why we see CIA types and near-CIA types (like Loran Hall and William Seymour) getting involved with drugs. Rose Cheramie tells the story of driving back from Miami with some Cuban types, supposedly with drugs for Jack Ruby - so now, what if that's true?

Maybe "that's" what they don't want to tell us - maybe the CIA was actually "funding" Jack Ruby to run all those drugs. So they could use the money for... other things.

How much of a window do we have into the "MONEY" angle on this thing? How about.... the Teamsters? Has anyone unraveled that whole (financial) mess, or is that still a big unknown? Teamsters owned Cabana Motel along with Doris Day, yes? And, my best understanding of all that is that Teamsters were loaning money to the Mob as part of a "laundering" operation - real money went out and fake money came in, which they'd then launder through "borderline" banks (of which there are many examples, including Phillip A Twombly in Fullerton CA).

So specifically, I don't suppose we can look through the Mafia books at this point, but what about the CIA books? Shouldn't all that be available to us through FOIA or something?
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