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The slice of documents newly published on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy includes a note which helped for decades to fuel the speculation that the CIA was somehow involved in the murder of the president.
Known as the Schlesinger MemoThe 15 -page document, dated June 10, 1961, was written by the help of JFK, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., he warned Kennedy that the CIA Empi was on his ability to lead foreign policy.
The existence of the memo was not a secret, and it was made public earlier, but with large pieces of text blackened for security reasons.
The entire unspescaped note was one of the thousands of documents now dilapidated that the National Archives and Records Administration Released Tuesday On President Donald Trump’s orders. On Wednesday afternoon, around 69,000 of the 80,000 documents that Trump promised to publish were published online.
And if someone expected to find proof in the memo that the CIA conspired with the assassin of JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, to kill Kennedy, he will not find him.
The information that the government had mentioned was linked to CIA staff, including the specific number of CIA agents stationed at the United States Embassy in Paris and how they “sought to monopolize contacts with certain French political figures”, as well as the number of CIA sources in countries like Austria and Chile.
Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post journalist who directs the “JFK Facts blog » And put pressure on the government for decades to publish the files, has not been discouraged.
“There is a sensational story here that people have to know,” said Morley In an MSNBC interview. “It is not a burner, as people will tell you. There is an incredibly interesting and pregnant story in these JFK files.”
The service note and other documents are more proof that Kennedy deserved the CIA deeply, who had Oswald under surveillance long before Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963, said Morley.
“We obtained a memo yesterday on Kennedy’s plans to reorganize the CIA, and a large part of this note had been expurred before,” said Morley. “We now understand why Kennedy deserved the CIA and a distrust, for of course, who was returned by CIA officers who did not like his liberal policies.”
Below President John F. Kennedy ACTS ACT collection of 1992All documents related to the assassination were supposed to have been published by 2017, when Trump was the first time.
Trump then released certain documents, but also gave the intelligence agencies for more time to assess the remaining files.
It was not until December 2022 that President Joe Biden released more than 13,000 recordings After Mary Ferrell FoundationThe largest non -profit framework of the country of JFK assassination files, continued the administration to make them public.
Morley, who is affiliated with the foundation, said that in all documents “we see a new window on pre-assassination surveillance of the CIA of Lee Harvey Oswald.”
The late James Jesus Angleton, one of the founding members of the CIA, had put Oswald under surveillance from November 1959 and “monitored his policy, his personal life, his foreign travel, his contacts,” said Morley.
Angleton had a 180 -page file “on Oswald on his desk a week before Kennedy went to Dallas” in November 1963, said Morley, citing government documents that had been published earlier.
“So what this story raises is the question: was the CIA incredibly, excruciatingly, incompetent with regard to Lee Harvey Oswald, or Angleton really direct an operation involving Oswald?” Said Morley. “We do not have the answer to this question because there are still relevant files to go out. For example, a file from another CIA officer who was involved in the pre-assassination surveillance of Oswald is still kept secret. This is an excellent start to the beginning.”
