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  • Inside the CIA’s First 24 Hours After JFK Was Shot

    Inside the CIA’s First 24 Hours After JFK Was Shot

    Newly released communications show confusion, cover-your-ass tactics, and an immediate effort to manage the narrative.

    🚪 Before the Public Knew, the CIA Was Already Moving

    At 12:30 p.m. CST on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. By 1:00 p.m., the CIA’s internal communication networks were already lighting up.

    The 2025 files give us a rare window into those first 24 hours-and it’s not what we were told.

    These weren’t confused patriots trying to figure out what happened.
    These were bureaucrats scrambling to control what would be seen, said, and remembered.

    📁 Key Messages from Langley

    A cable from CIA HQ to all stations, timestamped 1:42 p.m. CST (barely an hour after JFK’s death), states:

    “Situation developing rapidly. Await instruction. Recommend precautionary alignment of all press-related personnel.”

    Translation: Get your stories straight-fast.

    Another message from Western Hemisphere Division to Mexico City:

    “Subject ‘Lee Oswald’ may be focal point. Begin compiling public-safe narrative. Restrict independent communication with press.”

    That’s before the suspect was even officially named.

    📞 The Oswald Panic

    At 2:15 p.m., an internal cable marked “Priority” included:

    • A request for immediate retrieval of Oswald’s Mexico City tapes
    • Instructions to “verify asset handling and remove extraneous documentation”
    • A directive to coordinate with FBI on “consistent interpretation for investigative partners”

    By 4:00 p.m., the narrative was taking shape-even as the public was still watching live news reports.

    🧠 “Information Control” Begins

    A memo from the Office of Security, written around 5:30 p.m., is titled:

    “Initial Press Risk Management – Assassination Narrative Guidance”

    It included:

    • Talking point suggestions for media assets
    • Warnings against speculation involving Cuba or Soviet contacts
    • Suggested phrase: “This appears to be the act of a disturbed individual, not part of a broader threat.”

    Sound familiar?

    🕵️‍♂️ The Directive to Sanitize

    One of the most striking finds in the 2025 release: a midnight cable from CIA’s Inspector General’s office, sent to internal legal counsel:

    “Recommend compartmentalized documentation strategy moving forward. Assassination-related references in CI files must be evaluated for relevance and retained under restricted clearance.”

    In other words: clean house, fast.

    🔚 They Weren’t Just Reacting. They Were Controlling.

    The CIA wasn’t waiting for clarity.

    They were creating the frame in real time-not just for the public, but for investigators who hadn’t even begun their work.

    The 2025 files show that what happened after the shooting may have been just as important as what happened before it.

    Because in those first hours, truth took a back seat to control.

  • How the CIA Infiltrated the JFK Investigation & Uncovered a Mole

    How the CIA Infiltrated the JFK Investigation & Uncovered a Mole

    The 2025 declassified files reveal that the CIA didn’t just cooperate with the HSCA-they embedded a handler to steer it.

    🚪 Watching the Watchers

    In 1976, after public pressure reignited interest in JFK’s assassination, Congress formed the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) to investigate new leads.

    The public believed this committee would be independent.
    What they didn’t know was that the CIA was already inside the room.

    The newly released files from 2025 confirm:
    George Joannides, a senior CIA officer with ties to anti-Castro exile groups, was quietly placed as the Agency’s liaison to the committee-without revealing his past.

    🕵️‍♂️ George Joannides: The Ghost in the Records

    In 1963, Joannides was the case officer for the DRE (Directorate of Revolutionary Exiles)-the same anti-Castro group that had contact with Oswald in New Orleans.

    But in 1978, when the HSCA began digging into Oswald’s Cuban ties, guess who was sent to “assist” the investigation?

    George. Joannides.

    The committee was never told of his past involvement with the very groups they were probing.

    📁 The 2025 Files Reveal the Deception

    A series of memos and internal CIA routing slips now declassified show:

    • Joannides’ appointment was intentionally crafted to limit the HSCA’s access to sensitive files
    • He was given “selective disclosure” instructions
    • A legal memorandum from CIA counsel reads: “Joannides has operational familiarity with the areas under HSCA inquiry. This can be used to our procedural advantage.”

    📞 Misdirection in Real Time

    The HSCA investigators asked Joannides directly whether any CIA officers had connections to the Cuban exile groups in 1963.

    His answer, according to a 2025 transcript:

    “Not to my knowledge.”

    Which, the new files confirm, was an outright lie.

    🔥 Why It Matters

    The HSCA ultimately concluded there may have been a conspiracy in JFK’s assassination-but the full truth was always out of reach.

    Now we know why.

    One of the CIA’s own was infiltrating the investigation from within, redirecting the flow of information and protecting key operations from exposure.

    🔚 Controlled from Within

    The 2025 documents don’t just prove the CIA hid information from Congress.

    They show that Congress was manipulated in real time-by someone who knew exactly what to hide and how to do it.

    The watchdog was compromised.

    The truth, once again, was managed-not revealed.

  • How the CIA Tracked Oswald Before November 22

    How the CIA Tracked Oswald Before November 22

    The 2025 files confirm the CIA had eyes on Lee Harvey Oswald long before Dealey Plaza-and chose not to intervene.

    🚪 The Man They Claimed Not to Know

    For decades, the official narrative implied Oswald was a lone actor-barely on the radar of federal agencies.

    But the newly released 2025 files destroy that idea completely.

    The CIA wasn’t just aware of Oswald before JFK was shot.
    They had been tracking him since 1959-and closely monitoring him for months before the assassination.

    📁 Oswald’s “Marked” Status Since His Soviet Defection

    When Oswald defected to the USSR in 1959, the CIA opened a 201 file-a personal dossier used to track potentially sensitive individuals.

    The 2025 documents reveal:

    • The file remained active through his return to the U.S. in 1962
    • Oswald was flagged for repeated “watchlist events,” including correspondence with embassies and political groups
    • One memo from 1963 reads: “Subject exhibits continued instability and elevated threat posture.”

    So why wasn’t he stopped?

    🕵️‍♂️ The Mexico City Surveillance Gap

    The CIA ran heavy surveillance on the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City, where Oswald visited just weeks before the assassination.

    The new files include:

    • Transcripts of Oswald’s calls to both embassies
    • A memo titled “Subject attempts contact with known hostile agents”
    • A photo surveillance report noting: “Subject present. Identity believed confirmed.”

    The CIA knew where he was, who he talked to, and what he wanted.
    Still, no action was taken.

    🔥 A Decision Not to Act

    The most revealing piece? A November 9, 1963 cable from CIA HQ to its Mexico City station:

    “No further active measures to be taken. Monitor passively. Do not escalate.”

    Why did they pull back?
    The document doesn’t say.

    But other cables reference concerns over “operational conflicts” and the need to “avoid entanglement with domestic political fallout.”

    🧩 The Pattern: Watching, Not Preventing

    The CIA had:

    • A detailed file on Oswald
    • Surveillance of his embassy visits
    • Intercepts of his phone calls
    • Psychological profiles showing instability
    • Reports that he had access to weapons and radical groups

    And yet, they never intervened.

    🔚 From Tracker to Spectator

    The CIA didn’t lose Oswald.

    They didn’t ignore him.

    They just chose not to act.

    The 2025 files make it clear:

    Oswald was watched. Documented. Understood. And ultimately-allowed to move freely toward Dallas.

  • How Allies Were Briefed Before the Public

    How Allies Were Briefed Before the Public

    Declassified cables show that several allied intelligence agencies were informed about Oswald-and the official version-within hours of JFK’s death.

    🚨 Word Spreads Too Fast

    The U.S. government struggled to form a narrative in the wake of the assassination.

    And yet, new 2025 files show that foreign intelligence partners were being briefed on Oswald’s profile-before the FBI or Warren Commission had finalized it.

    The story was being shaped, globally, within hours.

    📁 UK: MI6 Got the Memo Early

    A cable from CIA London Station to Langley, timestamped Nov. 23, 1963 – 04:08 GMT, reads:

    “Have informed SIS [MI6] of suspect’s prior defection, Mexico City contacts, Cuba linkage. Request formal alignment with public narrative once defined.”

    The shocking part?

    The Warren Commission wasn’t even formed yet.

    An MI6 memo, declassified in tandem with U.S. files, notes:

    “US position appears firm re: lone gunman theory. No deviation suggested.”

    That was 16 hours after the shooting.

    📞 Mossad Cable: “Oswald Being Contained”

    A CIA-Mossad liaison report dated Nov. 24-before Oswald was even dead-includes:

    “Oswald believed to have acted alone. Narrative containment advised. Local media exposure discouraged.”

    What’s “narrative containment” doing in a foreign intelligence brief?

    Clearly, the goal wasn’t just clarity-it was control.

    🧠 West Germany: Concern Over Oswald’s Stasi Shadow

    Files from CIA’s Frankfurt base reveal West German intel had long been concerned with Oswald’s potential contact with Soviet-backed operatives in Berlin.

    A November 25 communique from the BND (German Federal Intelligence) asks bluntly:

    “Was he handled or simply unstable? Request access to intercept logs.”

    The CIA response?

    “Logs unavailable. Situation under consolidation.”

    “Consolidation”-not “investigation.”

    🔥 Why the Rush to Coordinate?

    The 2025 documents make it clear:

    • There was an international messaging campaign
    • It prioritized speed over certainty
    • It established the lone gunman theory before any independent probe

    A CIA memo to the State Department sums it up:

    “Public calm depends on global cohesion. Allies must reinforce narrative consistency.”

    🔚 Not Just an American Cover-Up

    The JFK assassination wasn’t just a national trauma-it was a geopolitical crisis.

    And the story told to the American people?
    It was already being delivered to allies before the autopsy was even complete.

    The 2025 files show: the cover-up wasn’t internal.

    It was international policy.

  • What Ruby Knew: The Silence That Spoke Volumes

    What Ruby Knew: The Silence That Spoke Volumes

    The 2025 files reveal new details about Jack Ruby’s connections, movements, and possible motive for silencing Oswald.

    🚪 The Man Who Killed the Answer

    On November 24, 1963, Jack Ruby fired a single shot that forever changed the course of the JFK investigation. By killing Lee Harvey Oswald on live television, he killed the only person who could have testified to the truth-whatever that truth was.

    For decades, Ruby was written off as a “grief-stricken patriot.”
    The 2025 documents now paint a far more complicated picture.

    🕵️‍♂️ Ruby’s Criminal Ties: No Longer Deniable

    Previously redacted FBI records, now public, show:

    • Ruby was in regular contact with known Mafia figures in Chicago, New Orleans, and Dallas
    • He was identified in a 1959 FBI report as an “associate with access to syndicate operations across state lines”
    • A 1962 CIA memo links Ruby to a list of “low-tier assets” with potential use in Cuban exile operations

    Ruby was not a nobody. He was connected-and watched.

    📁 The Timeline That Doesn’t Add Up

    According to 2025 files:

    • Ruby was at the Dallas Morning News office early the morning of the assassination, asking questions about JFK’s motorcade route
    • He gained access to the DPD basement through a side entrance, previously marked “secured”
    • He made two long-distance calls in the hours before Oswald’s transfer-one to Chicago, one to Miami-neither number has ever been traced to a known associate

    A note from a federal marshal dated November 24 reads:

    “Ruby acted too calmly for someone supposedly unplanned. The timing was near perfect.”

    🧠 What Did Ruby Say After the Fact?

    While in custody, Ruby’s mental state deteriorated-some say naturally, others say deliberately. But before that, he gave multiple statements suggesting he had deeper knowledge:

    • “There’s a lot more to this than you’ll ever know.”
    • “They’ll never let the truth come out. It has to do with higher-ups.”
    • “My motive wasn’t what they said it was. I was afraid.”

    The 2025 release includes a psychiatric evaluation from 1965, previously sealed, which concluded:

    “Patient expresses credible paranoia of being silenced by federal actors. Claims involvement in broader operation but fears consequences of disclosure.”

    🧩 Why Ruby’s Role Still Matters

    Ruby is the linchpin.

    If he was sent to kill Oswald, then the assassination was not the end of a story-it was the beginning of a cover-up.

    The 2025 documents don’t say outright that Ruby was part of a plot.

    But they remove all doubt that he was connected, coordinated, and protected-until he wasn’t.

    🔚 The Silencer Wasn’t Silent

    Jack Ruby didn’t kill Oswald because he was emotional.

    He killed him because someone wanted a witness removed.

    And now, decades later, the 2025 files confirm:

    Whatever Ruby knew, it was dangerous enough that he had to take it to the grave.

  • What Did Dallas Know? Inside the Local Response to JFK’s Assassination

    What Did Dallas Know? Inside the Local Response to JFK’s Assassination

    The 2025 files reveal how the Dallas Police Department became a pawn in a much bigger game-and how local truth was overridden by federal narrative.

    🚪 The First Responders to History

    On November 22, 1963, the Dallas Police Department (DPD) went from routine security duty to front-page crisis management in a matter of minutes.

    But according to the 2025 declassified files, what followed wasn’t just chaos-it was containment.

    The federal government moved in fast, took over the narrative, and in the process, suppressed or redirected crucial local leads.

    📁 The Lee Harvey Oswald Interrogation Blackout

    Oswald was in DPD custody for nearly 48 hours before he was shot by Jack Ruby.

    During that time:

    • He was interrogated multiple times
    • No audio or video recordings were made
    • No complete transcripts of what he said exist

    The 2025 files reveal that the CIA and FBI were both present for portions of these sessions. One memo, now unredacted, states:

    “Encourage minimal documentation. Limit open communication with press. Ensure alignment of questioning with established narrative.”

    In other words: steer, don’t record.

    🔫 The Jack Ruby Connection

    Jack Ruby-a local nightclub owner with underworld connections-walked into the basement of DPD headquarters and shot Oswald on live TV. That’s not just a breach of protocol. That’s a total collapse.

    2025 documents include:

    • An FBI note from 1962 identifying Ruby as a “low-level informant with access to organized crime figures in Chicago and Dallas”
    • A warning from a DPD officer, 24 hours before the shooting, that “Jack Ruby is bragging he has information about Oswald”
    • A memo stating that the Secret Service requested a change to Oswald’s transfer route 30 minutes prior-with no explanation

    🕵️‍♂️ Federal Pressure and Media Management

    The files also reveal how federal agencies directed the DPD’s messaging:

    • CIA personnel advised on press releases
    • The FBI vetted which DPD officers could speak publicly
    • A DPD officer’s early statement that “Oswald may have had help” was flagged in a CIA cable as “inflammatory and non-aligned”

    The officer was never interviewed again.

    🧩 The Bigger Picture: Control, Not Clarity

    Dallas law enforcement was overwhelmed. But more than that, they were quickly placed under the thumb of federal agencies that had everything to lose if the case spun out of control.

    The 2025 files suggest that:

    • DPD leads were shut down
    • Witnesses were redirected
    • Internal inconsistencies were quietly buried

    🔚 The City That Wasn’t Allowed to Investigate

    The Dallas Police Department didn’t botch the JFK case.

    They were sidelined from it-by agencies that had already decided what the ending should be.

    What was lost in the process?

    Maybe the truth.

    Maybe justice.

    But definitely: trust.

  • The CIA’s Safety Net Around the JFK Assassination

    The CIA’s Safety Net Around the JFK Assassination

    What the 2025 files reveal about how key figures stayed protected-by design, not accident.

    🚪 A System Built to Protect Itself

    “Plausible deniability” isn’t just a political phrase-it was CIA doctrine, built into covert operations to ensure that the people calling the shots could never be held directly responsible.

    The 2025 declassified JFK files don’t show top officials ordering a hit.
    What they show is something more sophisticated:

    A layered structure of compartmentalization, deniable channels, off-the-books players, and missing documentation-all crafted so that the truth could exist without ever being provable.

    🕵️‍♂️ The Doctrine in Practice

    A 1962 CIA memo uncovered in the 2025 release outlines the Agency’s guidelines for black ops:

    • Use of “cut-outs” (intermediaries) for sensitive tasks
    • Never put operational directives in writing when avoidable
    • “Maintain distance between planners and field assets in event of blowback”

    This policy was not theoretical. It was applied.

    📁 How It Played Out Around JFK

    The files show:

    • Oswald’s interactions with anti-Castro Cubans in New Orleans were handled by CIA-funded groups, but the money trail was routed through third-party accounts
    • George Joannides managed Cuban exile groups that clashed with Oswald-but never reported it up the chain, giving Langley “clean hands”
    • Key surveillance on Oswald in Mexico was done via wiretaps and field officers, with headquarters receiving summarized intel, not raw logs

    All of this allowed senior leadership to say, “We didn’t know.”

    Technically true.
    Deliberately structured to be so.

    🔥 The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Confirm” System

    Another phrase that appears in internal communications:

    “Confirmable ignorance”

    This referred to the practice of ensuring that no one too high up in the chain would be formally briefed on red-flag details-so they could later testify, under oath, that they didn’t know.

    The 2025 files include a summary of testimony prep memos given to officials ahead of the Warren Commission and HSCA hearings. The recurring advice?

    “Avoid stating conclusions. Emphasize lack of actionable intel. Do not speculate.”

    🧩 Why This Still Matters

    If the entire intelligence apparatus is built to produce deniability instead of clarity, how can the truth ever be found?

    The JFK story isn’t just about Oswald.

    It’s about how a system can be designed to know everything-while appearing to know nothing.

    🔚 Built to Obscure

    “Plausible deniability” didn’t just protect the guilty.

    It made accountability impossible by architecture.

    The 2025 files show it wasn’t that the truth got lost.

    It was never allowed to be documented in the first place.

  • The Man Who Turned Down The Transfer To Dallas

    The Man Who Turned Down The Transfer To Dallas

    One line in a newly declassified Secret Service staffing memo stood out to the 2025 review board - a single refusal dated ten days before the assassination.

    The agent in question was offered a one-week temporary reassignment to JFK’s Texas detail.

    He declined.

    The reason he gave is still partially redacted.

    🧾 A Name That Was Never Listed In Testimony

    The memo, labeled REASSIGN/SS/TX/1183, was issued from the Secret Service’s Personnel Division on November 11, 1963.

    It shows that Special Agent Loren Paxton was contacted about filling in for a retiring advance man in Dallas from November 18–23.

    His response:

    “Unfit for field duty on current rotation. Decline for personal security reasons.”

    That phrasing triggered a security board review in 1964.

    It was sealed until now.

    🚫 Security Reasons

    The 2025 release includes a second document - a formal incident debrief conducted with Paxton in 1966.

    One line is blacked out.

    But the surrounding lines suggest this:

    “There was chatter about Johnson not traveling, that the trip might not happen. Then it changed all at once.”

    Paxton indicated that “multiple field team agents” had “concerns about the Dallas structure” but were told to proceed regardless.

    🧍‍♂️ Why It Matters

    Paxton wasn’t a flake.

    He was a respected advance team lead with 14 years of motorcade duty. He helped coordinate routes for trips in Caracas, Chicago, and Berlin.

    His file includes a note from his supervisor:

    “Paxton does not decline without reason. He has a background for sniffing out instability.”

    📂 A Quiet Pattern Of Refusals

    The 2025 files now show that three other agents were offered temporary Dallas duty in early November.

    Two transferred.

    One took sick leave.

    Only Paxton filed a written objection.

    Only Paxton referenced “security inconsistencies.”

    Only Paxton is missing from every internal JFK Secret Service report until now.

    📎 He Was Asked To Be There He Said No

    And the file sat sealed for six decades in a cabinet marked “HR Non-Essential.”

    Until now, no one ever asked why.

    Now we don’t have to.

  • The CIA Whistleblowers Who Tried to Talk About JFK

    The CIA Whistleblowers Who Tried to Talk About JFK

    The 2025 files expose how agents who raised questions about Oswald, surveillance failures, and internal manipulation were silenced, reassigned-or worse.

    🚪 When Silence Is Strategy

    The CIA has always had enemies on the outside-but after JFK’s assassination, it also had a growing number of skeptics on the inside. Some agents and analysts couldn’t shake the feeling that things didn’t add up. That files were altered. That narratives were being pre-written.

    The 2025 JFK declassifications finally confirm:

    Those who spoke up inside the CIA were swiftly neutralized-not by violence, but by reassignment, censorship, or career destruction.

    🧠 The Dissenters

    Among the key internal voices flagged in the files:

    • John Whitten – CIA officer initially tasked with investigating Oswald post-assassination. When he discovered that Oswald had contact with anti-Castro groups funded by the Agency, he requested expanded access to files-and was immediately removed from the case.
    • Ray Rocca – Deputy to Angleton, Rocca is shown in the files raising doubts about how the Agency handled Oswald’s Mexico City activity. In a memo dated Dec. 1963, he warned: “There is more to this than we are telling even ourselves.”
    • An anonymous analyst flagged in a 1964 cable for questioning the “recycling” of surveillance tapes that captured Oswald’s voice. That analyst’s notes were removed from circulation and reassigned to a non-sensitive post.

    📁 What the 2025 Files Confirm

    Previously redacted memos now confirm:

    • Multiple agents filed internal communications raising red flags about the Agency’s narrative on Oswald
    • Several of those communications were never logged officially
    • A 1965 internal report titled “Information Control Post-Assassination” includes a list of officers “with concerning interpretations of internal evidence”

    One line from that report reads:

    “Information management is essential not only externally, but internally. Overanalysis undermines confidence in authorized conclusions.”

    Translation: Don’t ask questions.

    🧩 What It Tells Us About the Institution

    These weren’t leaks to journalists.
    These were memos, cables, and sit-downs between CIA employees trying to understand why the Oswald file didn’t make sense, or why key documents had been altered, or why Angleton was overriding requests for information.

    Rather than follow up, the Agency:

    • Shut down internal inquiries
    • Labeled questioners as “operationally compromised”
    • Created a culture of don’t look, don’t ask, don’t tell

    🔚 Conclusion: The Internal Firewall

    The CIA didn’t need to silence the public-it silenced its own.

    The 2025 files make it clear: the truth wasn’t just kept from Congress. It was kept from employees who might’ve found it first.

    That’s not just a failure of oversight.

    That’s an institution defending itself from its own conscience.

  • How the CIA’s Master of Deception Controlled the JFK Narrative

    How the CIA’s Master of Deception Controlled the JFK Narrative

    The 2025 files confirm that the Agency’s top counterintelligence chief was the gatekeeper of Oswald’s file-and the architect of what was hidden from the world.

    🚪 The Shadow Man

    You don’t hear James Jesus Angleton’s name as often as Allen Dulles or J. Edgar Hoover. But if the JFK assassination has a true puppet master behind the curtain, Angleton may be it.

    As the CIA’s chief of counterintelligence for over 20 years, Angleton controlled the flow of internal information, handled “sensitive” files, and oversaw programs meant to mislead foreign operatives-and sometimes, the American people.

    The 2025 files finally confirm what many researchers have long suspected:

    He personally managed the Oswald file-and lied about it.

    🕵️‍♂️ The Oswald File: Controlled at the Top

    According to declassified CIA memos:

    • Oswald’s “201 File” (a personal intelligence dossier) was maintained within Angleton’s CI/SIG (Counterintelligence Special Investigations Group)-a compartmentalized unit that required special clearance.
    • Multiple CIA staff flagged Oswald as a risk, yet updates to his file were intentionally delayed or never passed along to other agencies.
    • Angleton testified to Congress in 1978 that Oswald wasn’t considered a serious subject of interest. The 2025 files show that he reviewed-and edited-those very assessments.

    In other words, he knew. And he covered it.

    📁 How Angleton Blocked the Truth

    The new records detail how Angleton:

    • Withheld internal memos from the FBI and Warren Commission that referenced Oswald’s Soviet and Cuban contacts
    • Coordinated with CIA legal to sanitize documents before they were submitted to Congress
    • Labeled specific cables as “Operational Debris” to justify destruction or archiving

    One note, dated weeks after the assassination, reads:

    “Recommend aggressive minimization. The subject’s activities intersect with ongoing programs.”

    Translation: bury it.

    🎭 The Bigger Picture: Disinformation as Strategy

    Angleton didn’t just cover up Oswald’s past. He helped build a framework inside the Agency for deception, fragmentation, and narrative management:

    • He developed CIA policy around “limited hangouts”-releasing partial truths to mask deeper operations
    • He pushed for media assets to discredit skeptics and shape early narratives around “lone gunman” theory
    • He helped establish the idea that not even Congress could be trusted with sensitive counterintelligence data

    The 2025 files show Angleton wasn’t rogue-he was policy.

    🧩 What It Means Now

    Angleton’s fingerprints are on every major contradiction in the JFK case:

    • Why Oswald’s file seemed incomplete
    • Why the Warren Commission never saw key cables
    • Why the CIA’s own people were kept in the dark

    He didn’t need to pull the trigger.
    He just had to control the story.

    🔚 The Spider at the Center

    James Jesus Angleton built an empire of secrecy inside the CIA-and JFK’s assassination may have been its finest hour.

    The 2025 documents don’t just tell us what Angleton did.

    They show us what happens when the person tasked with finding the truth is the one hiding it.