Congress Stonewalling Itself: Before Chasing New Files, Luna Task Force Should Demand Access to Ones It Already Has
Maps, fuel receipts, and flight logs. These and more, which detailed Plumlee’s travels on 11/22/63 were introduced into the Congressional record many years ago. Yet, Anna Paulina Luna’s Congressional Committee Task Force is either unable or unwilling to retrieve them. This is not about the Executive Branch stonewalling the release of documents. It’s about a legislative branch committee not having access to documents in that branch’s possession.
The biggest unanswered question facing Representative Luna’s JFK Task Force may not be hidden in classified files. It may be sitting in congressional archives. That would mean Luna’s committee is either overlooking them or that someone destroyed them, which would indicate a much bigger problem to call attention to. Robert Tosh Plumlee provided those documents to various committees and staffers. Both he and his co-author Ralph Pezzullo are available to explain why this is so important.
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- Congress received Plumlee’s records decades ago; are they being ignored by Luna?
- Church Committee investigators obtained flight logs, maps, and receipts. Why isn’t Luna demanding them?
- Fensterwald received similar documents from Plumlee in 1980-81. Why isn’t Luna demanding them?
- Plumlee’s copies burned, but congressional copies reportedly survived.
- Gary Hart aide Bill Holen awaits contact from Luna’s Task Force.
For years, public attention has focused on documents withheld by intelligence agencies and the executive branch. But what if some of the most important leads were already provided directly to congressional investigators decades ago?
That’s the question raised by the experience of Tosh Plumlee.
During the Church Committee investigations in 1976, Plumlee provided congressional investigators with fuel receipts, flight logs, maps, and supporting documentation that he says corroborated his activities surrounding November 22, 1963. According to Plumlee, the materials supported his account of participating in a CIA-connected abort operation linked to events unfolding in Dallas that day.
Whether investigators ultimately find his claims credible is beside the point. The records were reportedly submitted. The witnesses were identified. The leads existed.
Yet there is little indication that the Luna Task Force has pursued those materials or the individuals who reviewed them.
The story becomes even more significant because Plumlee did not simply provide these records once. In 1980 and 1981, he again furnished many of the same documents to Senate investigator Bernard Fensterwald during an unrelated inquiry. Fensterwald, one of the most respected investigators of intelligence and assassination-related matters, was sufficiently interested in reviewing the materials and meeting with Plumlee.
Then, in August 1981, Plumlee’s home burned down, destroying his personal copies of the records. Here is Operation Mockingbird in the Flesh, a memo that shows the CIA as a client of a Denver television station that portrayed as paranoid.
That fact has often been cited as a dead end. It isn’t.
Multiple congressional investigators, Senate personnel, and government officials had already received copies years before the fire. The relevant question for today’s investigators is not whether the documents survived in Plumlee’s possession. It is whether copies remain within congressional files and why those records have not become a priority for review.
Equally important is the testimony of individuals who handled the materials firsthand.
One such witness is Bill Holen, a senior staff member for Senator Gary Hart who met with Plumlee on multiple occasions and reviewed aspects of his claims. Holen has made known his willingness to speak with investigators examining the JFK case. Yet according to Plumlee and others familiar with the matter, he has not been contacted by the Luna Task Force.
This is not a story about agencies refusing to release records.
It is a story about evidence, witnesses, and documentary material that were reportedly already presented to Congress decades ago.
If the purpose of the Task Force is to follow every credible lead, why not start with the leads Congress should already possess?
Authors Ralph Pezzullo and Tosh Plumlee are available to discuss the overlooked congressional paper trail, the witnesses still available to testify, and why some of the most important JFK evidence may not be hidden in secret archives at all—but in records Congress already received.
Relevant Article(s):
Opinion | Anna Paulina Luna Wants Everything Disclosed – The New York Times
OPTIONAL Q&A:
- Did the Church Committee receive documentary evidence from Tosh Plumlee that has never been fully examined by today’s JFK investigators?
- If fuel receipts, flight logs, and maps were provided to Congress in 1976, where are those records today?
- Why is the focus on newly released files when Congress may already possess evidence relevant to the assassination?
- What did Senate investigator Bernard Fensterwald conclude after reviewing materials provided by Plumlee in 1980 and 1981?
- How did Plumlee’s 1981 house fire affect the historical record, and what copies of those documents may still exist elsewhere?
- What role did Senator Gary Hart’s staff, including Bill Holen, play in reviewing Plumlee’s information?
- Why has Bill Holen reportedly not been contacted by the Luna Task Force despite his willingness to speak?
- Is the biggest obstacle to solving JFK’s murder missing documents—or overlooked witnesses and evidence already in congressional hands?
ABOUT RALPH PEZZULLO…
Pezzullo is a New York Times bestselling author, and award-winning playwright and screenwriter. He is also the host of the popular podcast “Heroes Behind Headlines,” which is ranked in the top 1% off all podcasts worldwide.
Born in New York City, he grew up in Mexico, Vietnam, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Nicaragua as the son of a US diplomat. His over 30 books published include New York Times bestsellers Jawbreaker (with former CIA operative Gary Berntsen), Inside SEAL Team Six (with Don Mann), Most Evil, Zero Footprint, Left of Boom and Ghost. His latest books, both released in 2025, are The Great Chinese Art Heist and Stolen Elections: Takedown of Democracies Worldwide.
ABOUT ROBERT “TOSH” PLUMLEE…
Robert “Tosh” Plumlee is a former contract pilot who claims to have participated in covert aviation operations connected to U.S. intelligence agencies beginning in the early 1950s.
According to his account, he flew missions throughout the Caribbean and Latin America involving weapons transfers, intelligence logistics, and clandestine operations targeting Cuba.
Plumlee has provided statements to investigators examining intelligence activities and the Kennedy assassination over several decades.
ABOUT DORY WILEY…
Dory A. Wiley has studied the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for more than 40 years and is one of Dallas’s foremost independent researchers on the subject. He has done extensive work on the claims made by Robert “Tosh” Plumlee and finds them to be largely unassailable. For the past decade he has hosted an annual JFK Assassination Symposium in Dallas, bringing together researchers, historians, and eyewitnesses to examine the evidence and pursue the historical record. He serves on the Board of the Dallas Historical Society, and the University of North Texas Library. Mr. Wiley is President & CEO of Commerce Street Holdings, LLC, and appears frequently on CNBC and Fox Business as a guest contributor on financial topics.
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