At Tuesday's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) spoke to "JFK" director Oliver Stone.
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00:00Mr. Morley, Mr. Stone, Mr. DiEugenio, I just want to say thank you for being here, taking
00:11time out of your day.
00:12And I want to apologize that not everyone on this hearing seems to want to use this
00:17time to its fullest extent.
00:20And so I want to start by saying thank you, Mr. Stone.
00:23Shortly after your film's release, the United States Congress passed the JFK assassination
00:29records collection act of 1992.
00:32And you did something that I don't know that I've done in my career.
00:36It passed unanimously.
00:39I want to give you an opportunity to talk about how it felt and the impact of having
00:45a movie that not only has spurred multiple hearings of Congress, but unanimously passed
00:52a bill through Congress.
00:54Sir, at the time, I was told that by many people who were involved, and they were very
01:03happy and thought that this was a great public duty.
01:09I didn't feel that way.
01:10I felt like I was being skewered the whole time in the media.
01:15And many people volunteered, important people volunteered, negative impressions that were
01:22not based, I don't think, on reality.
01:25People didn't even bother to see the film, for example, and were saying that he's got
01:28Lyndon Johnson and all that involved and blah, blah, blah, and he's got 55 different agencies
01:34involved.
01:35I mean, this is nonsense.
01:36I just want to say, on behalf of the American people, thank you for what you did.
01:41Because of your work, we now have documents like this one.
01:44Madam Chair, I'd like to re-enter into the record a CIA document that ends in number
01:4910056.
01:52Without objection, so ordered.
01:54In this document, it describes that, I mean, it dispels the narrative that when Oswald
01:59visited Mexico City, that he only met with Sylvia Duran.
02:05In fact, in this document, he met with a KGB official, remarkably, the individual by the
02:15name of Kostikoff was actually a member of KGB and Department 13.
02:23Because of your work, we now have this kind of evidence.
02:27He actually met with a member of the KGB who was part of the Wetworks, the assassination
02:33team.
02:34I also want to say thank you because of your work, we have another document that I want
02:39to enter into the record.
02:40This ends in 10191.
02:47Without objection, so ordered.
02:48In this document, we have a testimony that an individual named Francisco Tamayo, otherwise
02:55known as the El Mexicano, accompanied Lee Harvey Oswald into Mexico City for his meetings
03:03in both the Cuban Embassy and the Russian Embassy.
03:10Dr. Stone, I'm shocked that this narrative has only really been something that we've
03:16seen only in the last few years.
03:18You would think that the Warren Report would have reported the fact that Oswald had met
03:24with a KGB individual in the Department 13 of, you know, basically the assassination
03:31division, and that he was accompanied by an individual known as El Mexicano that later
03:37an FBI report indicated that this individual, El Mexicano, was captured in Venezuela for
03:45attempting to assassinate another individual.
03:50Mr. Morley, I want to ask you about Mr. Angleton.
03:55Who is Mr. Angleton?
03:57James Angleton was the chief of CIA counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974.
04:03In that period, he was one of the most influential men in the CIA, serving under one, two, three,
04:11four different directors.
04:13And what did he tell the Warren Commission in 1963 and 64?
04:18When the Warren Commission came asking Angleton for information about Oswald's visit to Mexico
04:24City, Angleton wrote a memo or told his aides that he wanted to, and this is a quote, wait
04:30out the commission.
04:32He did not cooperate, and like Richard Helms, they both basically fooled the Warren Commission
04:38and deceived them about what they knew about Oswald.
04:41And later, we now have, because of the work of Mr. Stone and others, we have Mr. Angleton's
04:48testimony that he gave to the assassination committee, the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
04:57What insights did we gain from that?
05:00This document was not fully declassified until March 18th, and in there, we learned
05:04for the first time that Angleton had lied to the House Select Committee when he testified
05:10in October 1978 in an office building about two blocks from here.
05:14And that was never known before until March 18th that he had done that, and that is one
05:21of the most significant revelations to come out of this.
05:24People will say, oh, well, there's nothing new here.
05:26No, there's something new here.
05:28The New York Times, the Washington Post have never reported that one of the top, that three
05:32top CIA officials lied to the JFK investigators.
05:36Yeah, and we, the fact that we have three CIA officials that lied to Congress for decades
05:44and that it took decades to get documents that should have been released that had very
05:50compelling information, and it took 60 years to get that information released is appalling,
05:56and that's why I want to say thank you to all of your work in helping to get this information
06:00released.
06:03I'd like to now recognize Mr. Crain for five minutes.
06:07Oh, sorry.
06:08You need us to consent without objection, so ordered.
06:10Yeah.
06:11So I have some more documents I want to enter into the record.
06:14Here's from the National Archives, a NARA letter dated 2017 that the CIA withheld docs
06:21regardless of the JFK Act.
06:24Without objection, so ordered.
06:26Another document from the archives that the Warren Commission did not have original classification
06:30authority.
06:31Without objection, so ordered.
06:32And then another document from the archives that the FBI's reasoning for redactions dated
06:372017 in the NARA letter.
06:40Without objection, so ordered.