The 2025 JFK files confirm that the CIA’s liaison to anti-Castro groups was hiding a direct link to Lee Harvey Oswald—and misled Congress about it.
🚪 The Handler No One Talked About
When the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) began investigating JFK’s murder in the late 1970s, the CIA assigned a man named George Joannides to serve as their liaison to the committee.
What no one knew at the time—what the CIA actively concealed—was that Joannides wasn’t just some bureaucrat.
He was the officer directly managing a group that had contact with Lee Harvey Oswald months before the assassination.
And in 2025, we finally got proof that his role was deliberately buried.
🕵️♂️ The Revelation: The DRE, Oswald, and Joannides
In 1963, Joannides was the CIA case officer handling the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE)—a Cuban exile group funded and directed by U.S. intelligence. This group was involved in anti-Castro propaganda, paramilitary ops, and disinformation campaigns.
Here’s what the 2025 files confirm:
- In August 1963, Oswald had a now-infamous street confrontation in New Orleans with members of the DRE.
- He was handing out pro-Castro “Fair Play for Cuba” pamphlets when a fight broke out.
- The incident was publicized in local media, and Oswald later appeared on a radio show alongside a DRE member.
What no one realized at the time:
The CIA was paying those DRE members.
And George Joannides was their handler.
📁 What the CIA Hid
When Congress reopened the JFK investigation in the 1970s, the CIA could have—and should have—disclosed Joannides’ involvement with the DRE.
Instead:
- They brought Joannides out of retirement to act as liaison, without revealing his prior connection.
- They didn’t tell the HSCA that he had managed the group Oswald clashed with.
- They refused to turn over internal files on the DRE’s CIA funding and activities.
The result? Congress was questioning a witness who was actually a key player in the story—and didn’t know it.
🧩 What the 2025 Files Reveal
- Joannides’ active role in managing the DRE’s budget, propaganda efforts, and field operations in 1963.
- His involvement in framing the DRE’s media response to the Oswald encounter.
- That internal CIA records about Joannides were deliberately withheld from investigators in the ’70s, and again during the 1990s JFK Records Review Board process.
These weren’t bureaucratic oversights. This was systematic suppression.
🚨 Why It Matters
If Oswald’s only connection to Cuban politics was his love of Castro, the official story holds. But these documents show something more complex:
- He interacted directly with a group run by the CIA—a group that publicly battled him in the press.
- The CIA then placed the man running that group in charge of shielding information from the government’s investigation.
And now, with the 2025 documents, that trail is undeniable.
🔚 Conclusion: The Puppetmaster in the Shadows
George Joannides isn’t a household name.
But in the shadows of the JFK assassination, he’s one of the most important players we were never supposed to know about.
His story raises a brutal question:
How can we ever trust an investigation when the people controlling the evidence were part of the story themselves?
The truth wasn’t hidden in plain sight—it was actively buried by the people paid to uncover it.
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