Jefferson Morley

Jefferson Morley is an American independent journalist and author. He has written a number of books about American history, particularly the history of the CIA and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Morley grew up in Minneapolis and attended Yale University.^[1] His grandfather is Felix Morley.^[2] He worked for The New Republic,^[3] and later as a Washington Post writer for 15 years.^[1][4] He has also written for Salon^[5] and The Intercept.^[6]

In 2007, he became the national editorial director of the Center for Independent Media.^[4] As of 2022, Morley was vice-president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation.^[7] He is the editor of the substack blog "JFK Facts".^[8] He was interviewed for the 2021 documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.^[9] In 2025 he testified at the first hearing of the House Oversight Committee's "Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets".^[10]

• Morley, Jefferson (2008). Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-700-61571-1.^[11]
• Stanley, Lawrence A.; Morley, Jefferson, eds. (1992). Rap: The Lyrics. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-014788-9.^[12]
• Morley, Jefferson (2012). Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-53337-9. OCLC 757466911.^[13][14]
• Morley, Jefferson (2017). The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-250-08061-5.^[15]
• Morley, Jefferson (2022). Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-250-27583-7.^[16]

• Appearances on C-SPAN