{"id":4960,"date":"2025-01-28T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2025-01-28T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:16:00","slug":"cia-israel-and-conspiracy-theories-what-to-expect-from-the-jfk-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"CIA, Israel and conspiracy theories: What to expect from the JFK files"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of records about the US president\u2019s assassination in 1963 still remain classified<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has ordered the declassification of all remaining records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Almost 5,000 documents are still veiled in secrecy.<\/p>\n

Kennedy was killed in November 1963, while visiting Dallas, Texas. A congressional commission chaired by Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren concluded in 1964 that \u201clone gunman\u201d<\/em> Lee Harvey Oswald was to blame. The CIA coined the pejorative term \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d<\/em> to describe alternate scenarios regarding JFK\u2019s death, which has not stopped many Americans from doubting the Warren Commission\u2019s conclusions.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s order also applies to the remaining classified records about the 1968 assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights campaigner Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n

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Trump orders release of JFK, RFK and MLK files<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How many documents are there?<\/h2>\n

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) says it has declassified 99% of some 320,000 documents related to the JFK assassination, as required by a law passed by Congress in 1992. The final deadline for declassification was October 2017, but the US intelligence community claimed it needed more time to review and redact the records.<\/p>\n

According to multiple estimates, 2,140 documents remain fully or partially redacted, while another 2,500 records have been kept secret for other reasons, such as court orders or donor restrictions.<\/p>\n

What is in the secret files?<\/h2>\n

One item of particular interest is a June 1961 memorandum written by White House adviser Arthur Schlesinger, outlining how JFK could accomplish his goal of \u201csplintering the Agency [CIA] into a thousand pieces and scattering it to the winds.\u201d<\/em> One page is redacted in full, while two more have partial redactions. Kennedy was frustrated with the CIA after the botched invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April that year.<\/p>\n

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1. Partial redactions on page 8 and 10 and the full redaction of page 9 from the June 1961 memo written by White House adviser Arthur Schlesinger to Kennedy on how the president could best accomplish his goal of \u201csplintering the Agency [the CIA] into a thousand pieces and\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/nbTOcvmfAd<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mel (@Villgecrazylady) January 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another partially redacted record is the transcript of the testimony that CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton gave to the Church Committee in January 1976. Some scholars believe Angleton had lied to Congress about Israel obtaining nuclear weapons in the 1960s \u2013 something the Jewish State has neither confirmed nor denied.<\/p>\n

Other potentially revealing records relate to CIA surveillance activities in Mexico in the early 1960s, when Oswald visited the country, and the work of a CIA officer with Cuban exiles in Miami that intersected with Oswald.<\/p>\n

What can be expected of the revelations?<\/h2>\n

Historians and researchers that have spoken to major US outlets seem to agree that there will be no \u201csmoking gun\u201d<\/em> in the remaining documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be some puzzle pieces that will be put back in that will tell a more robust and rich story,\u201d<\/em> Tom Samoluk, a board member of the JFK Library Foundation, has told CNN.<\/p>\n

Journalist Gerald Posner has warned that \u201canybody waiting for a smoking gun that\u2019s going to turn this case upside down will be sorely disappointed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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JFK\u2019s grandson slams Trump\u2019s order to release assassination files<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kennedy\u2019s nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has lauded the declassification as a step against the \u201c60-year strategy of lies and secrecy, disinformation, censorship, and defamation\u201d<\/em> used by the intelligence agencies to suppress \u201ctroubling facts\u201d<\/em> about the JFK assassination. He claimed that this \u201cprovided the playbook for a series of subsequent crises \u2013 the MLK and RFK assassinations, Vietnam, 9\/11, the Iraq war and COVID \u2013 that have each accelerated the subversion of our exemplary democracy by the Military\/Medical Industrial Complex.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

RFK Jr. has said that he believes there is \u201coverwhelming evidence\u201d<\/em> tying the CIA to the assassination of both his uncle and his father.<\/p>\n

When can we expect the release?<\/h2>\n

Trump\u2019s executive order gave the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General 45 days to review the records and \u201cpresent a plan\u201d<\/em> for their full and complete release. Both offices are currently held by acting officials, as the Senate still needs to confirm Pam Bondi as the attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard as the DNI.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping this is going to be a mechanical plan,\u201d<\/em> Larry Schnapf, a New York-based attorney who has sued the government to compel the release of JFK files, told ABC News. If the government opts for a \u201csubstantive\u201d<\/em> review, going document-by-document, \u201cit\u2019s going to be a while,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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