Next week’s deadline to release all U.S. files on the Nov. 22, 1963 JFK Assassination raise more smoking guns on what happened on the fateful day in Dallas when the 35th president of the United States was gunned down in Dealey Plaza. Of all the most pertinent facts about the assassination was a government cover-up of FBI and CIA files, claiming they would be sealed by the government for 100 years. So whatever volumes have been written since 1963, they have all been missing key government documents withheld from the public for whatever reason. JFK assassination expert, author of JFK Facts, journalist/author Jefferson Morely said that a new smoking gun document about assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was ready for release soon by the CIA. Morley claims the new CIA document shows that Oswald worked for the CIA in Dallas days before the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination.
What’s significant about the new finding are the government’s elaborate attempt through the Warren Commission to identify Oswald as the lone assassin, without any conspiracy with any domestic or foreign group. Warren Commission’s Report, released Sept. 24, 1964, was supposed to be the final word on the JFK assassination, reassuring the public that the U.S. government was not involved in the assassination. “We’re talking about smoking-gun proof of a CIA operation involving Lee Harvey Oswald,” said jounalist/author Jefferson Morley. Whatever the new CIA documents linking Oswald to the CIA, it won’t answer all the questions, especially of why the CIA hit on JFK. What the document shows is that the 888-page definitive Warren Commission Report, signed off by former Supreme Court Justice and California Gov. Earl Warren, as pure governemt fiction.
Over the last 60 years, the Warren Commission was discredited by every respected JFK assassination researcher, knowing that a conspiracy with many moving parts was involved in the assassination. Whether Oswald was the trigger man or not, the fact that he worked for the CIA is more than a smoking gun, it’s a revelation for generations of JFK assassinations researchers. Oswald’s history, in terms of his defection to the Soviet Union, eventual return to the States with his Russian wife, but now proof that he worked for the CIA could not be more significant in terms to showing CIA involvement in the assassination. CIA Director John A. McCone in 1963 could not have been more withholding of key documents to she light on the most controversial assassination in U.S. history. Kennedy was a beloved president with his assassination horrifying the nation.
Releasing 1,500 JFK documents under the 1992 JFK Records Act Dec. 21, 2021, documents show that Lee Harvey Oswald traveled to Mexico City weeks before the assassination to meet at the Soviet Embassy. What Oswald wanted from the Soviet embassy was never clear but he did meet with Consul Valery Vladimirovich, a KGB officer involved with “sabotage an assassination.” But if it’s true that Oswald worked for the CIA, he was trying to get a visa to flee to the Soviet Union after the assassination. Whatever loose ends exist in Oswald’s story, it certainly doesn’t match the 888-page Warren Commission Report that tried to put to rest the assassination. Oswald’s confirmed involvement with the CIA proves, if nothing else, that the vaunted U.S. spy agency was involved in the assassination. CIA still holds 44 documents from CIA Agent George Joannides involved in anti-Castro groups.
Judge John R. Turnheim, a federal judge in Minnesota, told the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a nonprofit JFK assassination group, that the release of new CIA documents show Oswald worked for the agency. Turnheim, who served on the Assassination Records Review Board, said “it’s time to release all of the files.” With a JFK Records Act deadline set for next week to release of all government files, there’s renewed interest to see what’s in the new docs. Certainly Oswald working for the CIA would contradict that Warren Commission Report, proving that the government was actively involved in the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination. How Oswald fits into any CIA, FBI or any other conspiracy isn’t known. Certainly knowing that Oswald, who was shot dead Nov. 24, 1963 in the basement of the Dallas Police Department suggests the government didn’t want him talking to the press.
If Morely and others are correct that the CIA holds documents proving that Oswald worked for the agency, the agency has a lot of explaining to do. Whether Oswald was a double-agent, working for the CIA, KGB or Cuban Secret Service, is anyone’s guess. What’s known on the face that Oswald likely pulled the trigger of the rifle that killed JFK in Dealey Plaza, Dallas. All the talk about the “Grassy Knoll,” or other possible assassins have never been proven. If Oswald pulled the trigger and worked for the CIA, the government has a lot of explaining to do. JFK was involved in authorizing the assassination of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. It’s entirely possible that the Soviet Union or Cuba paid Oswald to assassinate Kennedy, with plans for Oswald to flee to Mexico City to board a flight to Moscow. Any documents showing Oswald worked for the CIA would be a major finding.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
