Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don’t yet point to conspiracies
- A memo released by President Donald Trump claims Gary Underhill believed a 'small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination' of John F. Kennedy.
- Underhill's accusations remain unproven, and he was found dead in what was ruled a suicide six months later.
- The recent release of JFK assassination files may not support existing conspiracy theories, as none disproved that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
- Historians hope these documents will reveal more about Oswald's activities and what the CIA knew before the assassination.
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From CIA criticism to royal scandals and Israel: What we found in Kennedy files
More than a week after the US government released tens of thousands of documents related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination, historians and online platforms have begun publishing significant findings from these declassified records. President Donald Trump ordered the release of over 60,000 documents via presidential executive order, prompting researchers to meticulously examine them in search of meaningful information that might illumi…
JFK files: It's not about who killed him, but what the CIA hid
Many were disappointed by the recent release of the JFK files, frustrated by the apparent lack of answers to decades-old questions. The problem? They’re asking the wrong question.Everyone wants a "who"—a smoking gun, someone to blame. It’s understandable; Americans crave justice for a slain president, to hold the culprits of one of the 20th century’s greatest crimes accountable. But the real answer isn’t a "who"—it’s a "what." That "what" is the…
Rarely in the history of a superpower has a single person proposed the dissolution of the powerful secret services. In 1961, a historian dared to do so, bringing the CIA to the brink of dissolution.
The declassification of more than 63,000 documents about the assassination of President Kennedy reveals succinct details about the actions of the American secret services during the Cold War. The findings include years of investigation into possible Cuban involvement, plans to assassinate Fidel Castro, phone calls at the U.S. embassy in Canberra, and the CIA's collaboration with India to escape the Dalai Lama. The disclosure, ordered by Trump, d…
JFK files released sixty years later.
This is my quick summary of the JFK assassination document release. The biggest revalation is that CIA's Angleton was almost certainly using Oswald in some type of operation, but definite proof that he was under close scrutiny by Angleton himself over 4 years. Jefferson Morely explains that we now have a clear fact pattern that did not exist prior to this release. Another important revelation is the story of CIA office Gary Underhill, who told …
JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?
When the final, declassified records from the John F. Kennedy assassination files were posted on the National Archives’ website last week, the first document researchers and reporters searched for was White House adviser Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s June 1961 memorandum to the president titled “CIA Reorganization.” ABC News led its initial coverage on the release of the JFK papers with that document, quoting Schlesinger’s now unredacted, dramatic, s…
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