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Classified JFK assassination files FINALLY released: Lee Harvey Oswald was in contact with member of KGB two months before shooting and CIA was told 'Russia was planning to pay hitman $100k to kill the president' a YEAR before he died
2021-12-17
Wednesday the announcement, herewith the results.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • More than 1,500 files were released by the National Archives at noon on Wednesday about JFK's assassination

  • They include memos by CIA officers in the immediate aftermath of the shooting on November 23, 1963

  • One details how Lee Harvey Oswald met with a KGB agent on September 29, 1963, in Mexico City

  • The documents also included previously sealed files on Operation Mongoose, the CIA's plan to destabilize the Cuban government and remove Fidel Castro from power

  • Unsealed files from the 1975 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities state that President Kennedy's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, was part of the secret National Security Council group overseeing Mongoose

  • Not all of the files will be released; the NSA is holding some back pending further review

  • The secrecy has fueled conspiracy theories about JFK's assassination

  • The President was killed in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas

  • Oswald denied shooting JFK in his interviews with police; he was killed two days later while being transported by police by a nightclub owner who shot him

  • Biden had promised to make the files public by October but he delayed, claiming COVID back logs stalled the release
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Posted by:Skidmark

#7  And roughly at the same time the Democrat party started leaning into communist ideology.
Posted by: ruprecht   2021-12-17 12:14  

#6   there may be actual people being protected.

The democratic party?
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-17 11:10  

#5  Sources and methods may still need protecting. What if we have a multi-generation source in Russia? Or a wire tap that's been undetected all this time?

A twenty-year-old then could still be alive today, so there may be actual people being protected.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-12-17 08:18  

#4  
My problem with all this is simple.

After 50+ years and numerous release delays, partial releases and reschedules.

PLUS: "Not all of the files will be released; the NSA is holding some back pending further review" An what still needs review (protected) after 50+ F'ing years of being sifter thru a .0001 micron filter a dozen times?

Now it raises the questions like:
How many people on Operation Mongoose met with odd or untimely deaths?

Whom had the KGB compromised in Congress/US Gov?

Were any of the US political elite steering families involved?

An what still needs review after 50+ F'ing years that has not been sifter thru a 1 micron filter a dozen times.

So how can we trust a damn thing now?Because, at this point even if they did release the real truth, over 1/2 of the readers would still question it.


Posted by: NN2N1   2021-12-17 05:33  

#3  Oswald to Moscow then to Havana then to Dallas was always enough for me.
Posted by: Grunter   2021-12-17 04:36  

#2  Not all of the files will be released; the NSA is holding some back pending further review

The NSA is still... "reviewing" after 60 years ?

Could it be that Oswald was no stranger to US authorities ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-12-17 03:49  

#1  This is consistent with what I have suspected for a long time. It always seemed to me that there was a cover-up, and that the best explanation was that we were afraid to publicly confront the USSR because the people might force action that could escalate to nuclear war.
Posted by: Glenmore   2021-12-17 01:38  

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