Tinfoil hat wearers can thank AI for declassification of JFK docs AI has been a "game changer" for the intelligence community, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who noted two key applications of the technology for classified government work at the Amazon Web Services DC Summit on Tuesday. First, remember that big dump of previously classified files related to …
Within the first three years (November 1963 - November 1966):
Lee Harvey Oswald: Duh.
Jack Ruby: The man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald. He died of cancer (specifically, lung cancer that spread aggressively) in January 1967, just over three years after the assassination. Conspiracy theories often suggest he was intentionally silenced, though medical records support his diagnosis. Ruby was visited by a former doctor involved in MKULTRA and developed sudden insanity before the visit was over.
Lee Bowers: A railroad tower operator who had a clear view of the "grassy knoll" area. He reported seeing suspicious activity there shortly before the assassination. He died in a single-car accident in August 1966, hitting a concrete abutment. Conspiracy theorists question the circumstances of the crash, while official reports cited alcohol and poor driving conditions.
Rose Cheramie: A drug addict and prostitute who claimed to have overheard a conversation about the JFK assassination plot days before it happened, involving people she knew. She died in an apparent hit-and-run accident in September 1965. Her credibility was highly questioned by investigators due to her drug use.
Dorothy Kilgallen: A prominent investigative journalist who claimed to have interviewed Jack Ruby privately and to have information that would "break the case wide open." She died in November 1965 from an apparent overdose of alcohol and barbiturates. Her death is often cited as suspicious by conspiracy theorists, suggesting foul play.
Gary Underhill: A former CIA agent who reportedly told friends he had knowledge of a conspiracy involving the assassination. He died from a gunshot wound to the head in May 1964, ruled a suicide. Conspiracy theorists frequently argue it was not suicide.
Hank Killam: A drifter who briefly stayed at the same rooming house as Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas and left town shortly after the assassination. He was found dead in March 1964, officially from suicide by strangulation.
Mary Pinchot Meyer: A Washington D.C. socialite, artist, and confirmed mistress of President John F. Kennedy. She was murdered on October 12, 1964, less than a year after JFK's assassination, shot twice at close range while walking along the C&O Canal towpath. Conspiracy theories highlight the timing of her death, the professional nature of the shooting, her ties to the CIA (as the ex-wife of a high-ranking official, Cord Meyer), and especially the controversial seizure of her personal diary by CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton immediately after her death. While a suspect was arrested and tried, he was acquitted, and the murder remains officially unsolved, fueling speculation that she was silenced due to information she possessed. Official investigations have not found a link between her death and the assassination.
Others, just before the "House Select Committee on Assassinations" began:
George de Mohrenschildt: A Russian émigré oil geologist who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas in 1962-1963 and provided extensive testimony to the Warren Commission. He died on March 29, 1977, from a shotgun wound to the head, officially ruled a suicide. Conspiracy theorists find his death highly suspicious as it occurred on the very day he was scheduled to be interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), implying he was silenced before he could reveal critical information.
David Ferrie: A former airline pilot and anti-communist activist from New Orleans, who was a central figure in Jim Garrison's controversial JFK assassination investigation and had connections to Lee Harvey Oswald from their Civil Air Patrol days. He died on February 22, 1967 (just over three years after the assassination), officially from a brain aneurysm. Conspiracy theorists highlight the timing of his death, just as Garrison's investigation intensified and Ferrie faced public scrutiny, often citing Garrison's belief that Ferrie was murdered and the alleged discovery of two suicide notes.
William C. Sullivan: A high-ranking former Assistant Director of the FBI, who had overseen the FBI's domestic intelligence operations and had a strained relationship with J. Edgar Hoover. He died on November 9, 1977, from a gunshot wound in a hunting accident, ruled a tragic mistake by another hunter. His death is often cited by conspiracy theorists as suspicious because it occurred just days before he was scheduled to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), suggesting he may have been about to reveal damaging information about the FBI's handling of the assassination investigation.
Sam Giancana: A powerful mob boss of the Chicago Outfit, linked to CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. He was found murdered on June 19, 1975, shot multiple times in his home. Conspiracy theorists argue he was silenced just before he was scheduled to appear before the Senate's Church Committee, which was investigating CIA activities, to prevent him from revealing details about Mafia-CIA ties that might have implicated him or others in the JFK assassination. His murder remains unsolved.
Wouldn't this be expected?
Most of the named eyewitnesses are probably members of the secret service, police, etc they'll be at higher risk of death-in-the-line-of-duty and under more strain. And the stress of seeing the President shot when they were supposed to be protecting him, the constant barrage of conspiracy talk for decades over somewhere they were present for- that can't be good for ones' health. We should expect this group to have a higher-than-average death rate.
Plus Dallas was rich in 1963 meaning the death rate can be expected to be lower than the national average.
So even if the security people were dying at the US average for 1963 (9.6 deaths per 1000 people) that would seem quite significantly higher than the inhabitants of Dallas. Which would be prime conspiracy-theorist fodder.
I wonder if that's where this came from. I'm really interested to see what your citation reveals now.
"Gabbard said, she wants to build partnerships with tech giants like AWS and focus "on buying and purchasing solutions wherever we can, so that our workforce can focus on the things that we are very good at, and have exclusive responsibilities to fulfill.""
In other words, outsourcing US National Security to organizations run by citizens of India. What could possibly go wrong?
Given that it wasn't even smart enough to redact social security numbers of still living people mentioned in the JFK files!
Plus it didn't reveal any new information at all. The conspiracy theorists are still going to claim that some stuff is being held back even if everything really was released, so I don't know what the point was other than Trump mentioning during the campaign he would do it.
Now do the full Epstein release. Funny how Trump is somehow shy about that, I wonder why that could be?
Hey at least we know Marilyn Monroe was actually assassinated, it wasn't suicide, right? Nevermind she was on drugs, had not done a movie in ages and as far as we know had all the signs of being suicidal.
And nevermind that her fame was mostly based on her looks and like everyone who lives long enough, she was getting old.
Not to mention all her failed relationships and heartbreaks.
Yup it totally was "THEM" waiting until she took her sleeping pills and throwing her in the sea so she drowned.
So the AI bots are being fed all the USA secrets? I can't see any potential failings in that. No doubt the data vaults will never get hacked, and no one will be able to work out how to game the bot to make it talk. It will certainly save a bit of time when the robots take over the world
"I want to get us away from having the government trying to build tech solutions for itself, because it's really not what the government is best at doing," she said.
big mistake outsourcing your smarts to third parties with different priorities to yours.
yes the big tech vendors and outsourcers already have deep ties into the agencies already but look what happened with Snowden.
IIRC he worked for an outsourcer.
not passing judgement on his actions, just that that is more of a risk when things are outsourced.
Very true. It amazes me that any gubbermint - of whatever persuasion - thinks it's clever to put national security information into the hands of third parties.
However, the biggest risk remains the people rather than the tech. Witness various strike plans being shared in a Signal group. I don't wish to name an individual but Pete Hegseth will know who I'm talking about. In-house ultra-secured systems, double-tripple encrypted cloud with bells on or simply stuffed down the back of a toilet in someone's washroom: all count for nothing when you have someone who goes around shooting their mouth off.
Knock me over with a feather. Who'd'a thunk it?
The only real surprise there, was that it wasn't "CIA set up visiting foreign dignitaries with female companionship."
Obvious the CIA wasn't sufficiently munificent or adept† in recruiting the requisite standard of "companion."
Perhaps at that time they might have consulted Profumo, Mss Keeler & MRD and Stephen Ward as I don't think Jeffrey Epstein was yet in that line of business.
Cockup or conspiracy?
Contemporary US politics pretty much excludes the latter.
Any actual attempt at conspiracy would ineluctably result in such a massive cockup that would ultimately obscure and render irrelevant any evidence of the original effete conspiracy.
† probably also reasonable to discover which side of target's bread he likes buttered before sending a woman on a man's job. ;)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
Netanyahu asks and Trump gives out a full and unconditional pardon to one of the worst and most unrepentant traitors in US History, a traitor who was spying for Israel no less, where Israel eagerly supported Pollard, bulk copied tens of thousands of highly classified documents, tried to exfiltrate Pollard, refused to hand over his handler and instead promoted him publicly, wilfully obstructed the us investigation, lied for over a decade about their full involvement and only partially cooperated when the threat of total military aid cessation was levied.
Given the above -are people SURE that the current regime aren't just assets of Israel? Note how cosy cosy Israel is with Russia despite seemingly being a US ally...
It gives the impression that Israel "has" something on politicians in the west given how they ALL seem deathly afraid of Israel, something far above and beyond invoking the constant Israeli mentions of the Holocaust /.blood libel / anti Semitism whenever even legitimate criticism of Israeli policies or conduct is made....
It stinks frankly
(this is a criticism of the govt of Israel and NOT of Jewish people as a whole, the fact I have to make that clear, shows how pernicious and poisonous the rhetoric of Israel is - Christians don't lose their minds over criticism of the Italian/French/British govts, neither do Muslims freak out over criticisms of the Iranian,. Saudi,. Iraqi,.Kuwaiti etc govts, yet ANY criticism of Israel is jumped on immediately and called out as anti Semitism or worse...)
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