Last weekend, on December 15, the United States National Archives released a total of 13,173 documents related to the assassination of former President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, after President Joe Biden issued an executive order, adding to the nearly 1,500 files released last year past, most concerning Harvey Lee Oswald, who was the prime suspect in the assassination of the former president.
Regarding the declassification of the aforementioned files, Joe Biden mentioned that some of them will be kept to protect the integrity and stability of intelligence and law enforcement operations, as well as to maintain the well-being of the armed forces. In this way, a total of 97% of the files related to the Kennedy assassination are declassified, where 3% remain a mystery.
Among the files, information about the interception of communications between Lee Harvey Oswald and the embassy of the Soviet Union (now Russia) in Mexico by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the weeks before the assassination, revealed a series of conversations. that Oswald had with the Soviets, with the help of the office of former Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos, but without the knowledge of Mexican security or intelligence officials.
In the aforementioned conversations, dated October 1963, Oswald consulted with a member of Soviet embassy security about the status of a telegram that an official from the Asian giant had promised to send to Washington on behalf of Kennedy’s assassin. As a result of said conversation, reports were released and sent to the FBI, the State Department, and the US Navy. However, later, the CIA through a report states that it does not know what actions have been taken by the Bureau of Intelligence (FBI).
There are still a number of documents without declassification, given that the risk that the disclosure of the missing files would imply for national security would be too high. There are a number of agencies that have sensitive information, according to President Biden, and the official in charge of the National Archives recommended that all documents not be released to the public.
Today we spoke with someone who had access to the still-hidden JFK files and is intimately familiar with their contents. We asked this person directly: was the CIA involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Here’s the answer: “The answer is yes. I believe they were involved.” pic.twitter.com/3EURZcsaR2
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 16, 2022
The law signed in 1992 that required all government documents related to JFK’s assassination to be released by October 26, 2017, was sometimes delayed because of the risk it would represent to the security of the United States. Former President Donald Trump in 2017 released a series of files related to the assassination, but like this series of files, he made it clear that they would not be fully disclosed for the aforementioned reasons.
However, Biden commissioned archivist Debra Wall to conduct an investigation to determine whether the files could be made public in their entirety in the future. Also, the National Archives stated that it is working together with the Department of Justice to analyze which documents are those that would be suitable for disclosure and which will be kept by the government. According to official sources, the next disclosure of documents will be in June next year.
The Biden administration has been sued by the Mary Ferrell Foundation, which claims that the management has illegally extended the deadline for the disclosure of the files and has asked the current government to provide reliable evidence of the reasons for which these delays were made.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 during a visit to Dallas, Texas, where he was shot in his convertible by three shots to the head. He was later transferred to Parkland Hospital where he would die at 1 am
At that time, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and identified as the sole suspect and material perpetrator of the attack. Oswald was a former U.S. Marine with behavioral problems who later defected to the Soviet Union in 1959. After being detained for two days, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas businessman who was not related to Oswald and would to die two years later.
For many years, the Kennedy assassination was the subject of numerous conspiracy theories regarding Oswald’s involvement in the attack, whether he received any help, whether the federal government or even the CIA were involved, or whether it was an attack by the Soviet Union using Oswald . as a sleeper agent after he visited the Soviet Union for a while and returned with his Russian-born wife and their two children.
In 1963, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson created the “Warren Commission” to investigate the Kennedy assassination and those involved. The commission was chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren and also consisted of Senators Richard Russell Jr. and John Sherman Cooper, Representatives Hale Boggs and Gerald Ford, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and World Bank President John McCloy. . In 1964, the Warren Commission determined that Oswald himself had fired the three shots that killed the president in November 1963.
However, much of the public never expressed confidence in the Commission’s 1964 determination that Oswald had acted alone, based on various facts such as the angle of fire, the number of shots fired, the time it took to reload and re-run. , and even Ruby’s role in the subsequent assassination of Oswald, leaving more intrigue than certainty.
With information from The Right Daily
