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The latest release of the JFK assassination files has an interesting document regarding Robert Maheu, a security contractor frequently used by the CIA that references the notorious "Family Jewels" list of grievances from senior CIA officers. The no.1 item on the list of things that these officers thought the CIA should never have been involved with has been redacted in its entirety since its release in 2007. It has long been speculated that Item No.1 is related to either UFOs /MJ-12 or the JFK assassination. Unfortunately, cross-references between CIA documents confirm Item 1 is NOT related to either of those subjects.

The first document, released on Dec 15, 2022, is a biographical overview of Maheu's career. We find the following reference to the "Family Jewels":

Robert Maheu biography (https://preview.redd.it/k385cgsgox8a1.png?width=858&format=png&auto=w…)

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/104-10121-1…

However, when we look at the Family Jewels list in its entirety, we find the “procurement of feminine companionship” entry indicated above missing completely from the list:

The \\"Family Jewels\\" list (https://preview.redd.it/b15zp0wjox8a1.png?width=423&format=png&auto=w…)

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001451843.pdf

The reports that constitute the CIA's "Family Jewels" were commissioned in 1973 by then CIA director James R. Schlesinger, in response to press accounts of CIA involvement in the Watergate scandal—in particular, support to the burglars, E. Howard Hunt and James McCord, both CIA veterans. On May 7, 1973, Schlesinger signed a directive commanding senior officers to compile a report of current or past CIA actions that may have fallen outside the agency's charter. The resulting report, which was in the form of a 693-page loose-leaf book of memos, was passed on to William Colby when he succeeded Schlesinger as Director of Central Intelligence in late 1973.

Therefore, the number 1 item on the list, compiled by CIA officers and outlining their disgust of some of the things CIA had been involved in between 1959 -1973, was the fact that the CIA had been involved in human trafficking. Amongst these was Operation HARPSTAR, where the CIA contracted Maheu to procure females for the visiting President of Indonesia, Sukarno.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/104-10122-1… page 3.

I was hoping that Item 1 was actually related to MJ-12 or the Kennedy assassination – I guess that these subjects were heavily compartmentalized and that few within CIA knew of their existence (or if they existed at all). Whilst abhorrent in their own right, the well-known connection between Jeffrey Epstein- Ghislaine Maxwell and the Intelligence Communities means the revelation of these activities was kind of a letdown.

Oh well, sorry to disappoint. At least we can strike one item of speculation from our CIA-UFO connection list.