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  • The Photos That Vanished Before The First Shot

    The Photos That Vanished Before The First Shot

    One memo in the 2025 declassified JFK files has zero mention of Oswald, bullets, or Dallas police. It’s from the FBI’s Technical Services Division.

    Dated November 22, 1963, 2:15 PM - just 45 minutes after the assassination - it orders the retrieval of undeveloped film from a parked car near Main Street, photographed by a private contractor.

    The film never made it to evidence.

    📷 The Photographer Who Wasn’t In Any Report

    The document, buried in File DCTECH-TS-1129, is a scanned memo marked “FLASH DIRECTIVE – PRIORITY 1.”

    It reads:

    “Contractor ‘Reinholdt’ captured multiple exposures of pre-event pedestrian activity.

    Shots reportedly include detail vehicles and unassigned motorcade units.”

    The name James Reinholdt appears only twice in the entire JFK file archive.

    He was not a journalist.

    He wasn’t working for the White House.

    He was under private contract to photograph the crowd - for a PR firm in Houston.

    🕵️‍♂️ Why His Film Mattered

    The FBI memo says his film shows:

    • “Unscheduled black Lincoln idling near motorcade turn-in”
    • “Two men conversing near open trunk, adjacent to light pole”
    • “Uniformed officer not matching DPD or SS description”

    The memo also includes the instruction:

    “Advise agent in possession that negatives are to be forwarded directly to HQ. Local processing not authorized.”

    This line is underlined.
    In red.

    📦 Where The Film Went

    That’s where things go dark.

    The memo includes an internal routing slip showing that the negatives were hand-carried by a field agent to the Dallas FBI office - and then transferred to Quantico the following day.

    But the 2025 index shows this entry:

    “REINHOLDT FILM – STATUS: NOT LOCATED (AS OF 1978, 1993, 2003 REVIEWS)”

    And the only remaining trace?

    A photo lab work order from Dallas PD, dated November 25:

    “Photos withdrawn. No copies returned.”

    🔎 What Was On The Missing Frames?

    The 2025 files contain an internal summary based on a verbal report from the agent who viewed the film.

    He noted:

    “Third vehicle shadowed original route from Main Street. Did not turn toward TSBD. Passenger wore dark hat, no visible badge. Stood outside car 11:52–12:07 PM.”

    This was before the assassination.

    The agent, who was later transferred, submitted a secondary memo with the words:

    “Suspect vehicle pre-positioned, later absent from motorcade cross reference. No log entry, no photo ID.”

    🧩 The Frames Before The Frame Job

    This wasn’t about the shooting.

    It was about who was already there - standing at the periphery, watching the crowd, out of uniform, and unlisted on any official motorcade manifest.

    The fact that the film was seized within an hour of the shooting, routed to Quantico, and never returned?

    That speaks volumes.

    💥 The FBI Got The Photos First And The Public Never Saw Them

    They weren’t blurry Zapruder frames.

    They weren’t speculative.

    They were clear crowd photos taken before the motorcade reached Dealey Plaza.

    And they showed people the government didn’t want named.

  • The Wiretap At Walter Reed They Buried For Forty Years

    The Wiretap At Walter Reed They Buried For Forty Years

    The 2025 files reveal something quietly stunning - a Cold War-era military intelligence program codenamed “PHOENIX CABLE,” which placed unauthorized wiretaps inside Walter Reed Medical Center in late 1963.

    The justification?

    National security.

    The target?

    Senior military surgeons who had access to JFK’s original autopsy photos.

    🎙️ The Memo That Shouldn’t Exist

    Among the new releases is a Department of the Army intelligence document dated December 5, 1963, marked TOP SECRET – LIMITED EYES.

    The subject line?

    PHOENIX CABLE OPERATIONS – COMMS SWEEP / WRAMC

    WRAMC = Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

    The memo states that a surveillance team from Army Counterintelligence “conducted an internal comms sweep of designated personnel” - and that temporary listening devices were placed inside offices associated with the pathology department.

    There’s no court order.
    No congressional briefing.
    No post-op report.

    Just a handwritten margin note:

    “Files not to be flagged externally. Temp clearance OK’d via DCI.”

    DCI = Director of Central Intelligence.

    🩻 Who Were They Listening To?

    The same memo lists three names - one of which is Dr. Pierre Finck, a military pathologist who assisted in JFK’s autopsy at Bethesda.

    Another is Dr. Richard Humes, later known for being unusually vague about the condition of JFK’s brain during HSCA questioning.

    The third name is redacted, but appears again on a separate routing slip: Col. Julian E. McNeil - a logistics officer responsible for photographic documentation at Bethesda and Walter Reed.

    🔇 Why Tap A Hospital?

    📌 Because these doctors weren’t just witnesses.
    📌 They were in possession of photographs and notes that contradicted the final autopsy summary submitted to the Warren Commission.

    The declassified file includes an internal report from Army Counterintelligence noting that:

    “Dr. H. was overheard discussing discrepancy in wound diameter and bullet trajectory with external physician (non-cleared).”

    And another entry:

    “Potential release of photographs showing occipital defect inconsistent with Commission findings.”

    🗃️ Where The Tapes Went

    The audio logs were supposed to be destroyed. But a 2025 archival slip labeled “NON-TRANSCRIBED AUDIO – PHX CABLE” lists six reel-to-reel tapes.

    They were reviewed by Naval Intelligence Liaison, Internal Affairs.

    One line on the slip stands out:

    “Transcript draft suppressed. Not suitable for HSCA. Hold in reserve.”

    Meaning: these conversations were recorded.
    Transcribed.
    Reviewed.

    Then never spoken of again.

    🧠 The Photos They Didn’t Want Matched

    The context here matters. These wiretaps happened:

    • 2 weeks after the autopsy
    • 1 week before the body was moved again
    • During the peak of confusion over JFK’s cranial injuries

    The doctors were reportedly trying to reconcile the damage with the official narrative.

    And someone didn’t want those conversations shared.

    🧩 They Tapped The Wrong Place Because They Knew The Truth Was There

    This wasn’t political spying. This was information control.

    Not just of documents - but of memory.

    “I did not recall the size of the wound being that large until I saw the photo again. But that photo isn’t in the set we provided.”
    - Quote from redacted audio transcript, attributed to “Dr. H”

    🧨 This Was The First Domestic Hospital Wiretap In U.S. Intelligence History

    And it targeted doctors.

    Military officers.

    Firsthand witnesses to JFK’s body.

    All because they might have remembered too much.

  • The Soldier Who Stood On The Knoll And Watched History Disappear

    The Soldier Who Stood On The Knoll And Watched History Disappear

    The 2025 declassified files finally confirm it - Gordon Arnold, the 22-year-old Army private who said he was standing on the grassy knoll during JFK’s assassination, was interviewed.

    His account was recorded, flagged, and buried.

    🧍‍♂️ The Man Who Wasn’t Supposed To Be There

    Gordon Arnold was just back from basic training. On November 22, 1963, he was in Dallas - camera in hand - and wanted to see the President.

    He positioned himself on the grassy knoll, aiming for the best angle to film the motorcade.

    But before he could start rolling?

    “A man with a badge came up, said he was Secret Service. Told me to move. Then he pointed toward the overpass.”

    Arnold would later say the man had no ID. No credentials. Just a badge, a holstered weapon, and a firm grip on his camera.

    🚫 The Camera Was Taken

    “I told him I was just trying to film. He took my camera. Said it was for evidence. I never got it back.”

    This part of Arnold’s story remained hearsay for decades. The Warren Commission never mentioned him. He wasn’t listed as a witness.

    But in the 2025 release?

    Box #44-71-B, Doc ID 877624, a typewritten memo from the FBI Dallas field office reads:

    “Arnold (G.) claims to have witnessed activity on the knoll and was relocated by unknown badge-carrying male. Film was not retrieved post-event.”

    This is the first time any official file has confirmed Gordon Arnold’s story was recorded by federal agents.

    🔫 The Shot That Came From Behind Him

    Arnold didn’t just lose his camera. He also heard the shots - not from the Depository, but from behind.

    “The first shot made me duck. I hit the ground, heard another one real close. From behind me. Not ahead. I could feel it.”

    He described the sensation of being in the direct path of a shot fired over his shoulder. He later told local press:

    “I don’t know who fired. But it wasn’t from where they said it was.”

    That quote never made it into any report.

    📼 The Buried Interview

    In the 2025 release is a log entry labeled INTERVIEW AUDIO – ARNOLD (G) – TO BE DESTROYED, with a handwritten addendum:

    “Retain for internal archival. DO NOT RELEASE.”

    It was flagged for destruction in 1975 - around the same time the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was reopening its investigation.

    Arnold was never called to testify.

    Why?

    “Unverifiable witness. No corroboration. Account conflicts with established timeline.”
    - CIA internal memo, January 1976

    🧾 The Notes That Didn’t Disappear

    Along with the memo was a handwritten note from an agent assigned to the Dallas detail.

    “He’s credible. Scared. Said he got threats two days after. Thinks someone followed him home.”

    There is no follow-up. No protection detail. No formal documentation of his camera.

    Just one routing slip, marked:

    “Set aside. Do not forward.”

    🗺️ The Witness Who Placed A Shooter Where They Said None Existed

    Gordon Arnold’s story is consistent. Not just over time - but with other witnesses on the scene who also described seeing movement or figures behind the fence on the knoll.

    The difference?

    He was standing there.

    In his words:

    “I was on that hill. I know where the shot came from. And I know who told me to leave.”

    🕳️ His Story Was Never Debunked It Was Just Ignored

    The 2025 files don’t prove who fired the shot.

    They don’t prove who the man with the badge was.

    But they prove this:

    📌 Gordon Arnold gave a full statement.
    📌 It was reviewed by the FBI.
    📌 And someone made the decision not to let it surface.

    Until now.

  • How a White House Aide Tried to Leak the Truth and Disappeared

    How a White House Aide Tried to Leak the Truth and Disappeared

    Newly declassified files reveal a buried report about an aide who attempted to leak post-assassination documents to the press-and was never seen again.

    🏛️ The Ghost Employee

    Eliot Fielding’s name was never part of the JFK story.
    There’s no mention of him in any previous investigation.
    No news coverage. No interviews. No obituary.

    But in the 2025 archive, he appears-once.

    A Secret Service internal log, dated December 3, 1963, reads:

    “Fielding was seen removing carbon duplicates from WHC-5 file safe. Subject flagged. Briefed and relocated.”

    That’s it.
    No follow-up. No second entry. No record of what happened after that day.

    🗂️ File: “Incident Report – WHC Clearance Breach, 12/3/63”

    The logbook-unclassified in 2025-details the following:

    • Fielding accessed restricted files tied to JFK’s intelligence briefings
    • He was seen photocopying documents marked ‘OFFICE OF COVERT RESPONSE’
    • He told another staffer: “If the public knew what’s in these, they’d burn down Langley.”

    That staffer, name redacted, described him as “panicked but lucid.”

    📵 The Call to Langley

    A second document shows a secure call from White House Chief of Staff’s office to the CIA duty officer less than an hour after the breach.

    The call log notation:

    “Security incident – internal. Request rapid containment.”

    By 3:45 p.m., Fielding was escorted from the premises by two men in civilian suits.

    He never returned to work.
    His badge was marked “archived.”

    🧾 Where He Went: Nowhere

    A background search of Fielding revealed:

    • No home address
    • No tax record
    • No employment history before 1963
    • No death certificate

    His security file is stamped: “ERASED – INTERNAL AUTHORIZATION 64-AX/SHADOW”

    🧠 What He May Have Seen

    The file cabinet he accessed contained early drafts of:

    • JFK’s post-Bay of Pigs CIA restructuring orders
    • Internal debate on withdrawing from Vietnam
    • Memos discussing the possible reduction of nuclear first-strike doctrine

    If any of this leaked in December 1963-it could have shifted the national narrative.

    Instead, Fielding vanished.

    🔚 Whistleblowers Aren’t Always Heard-Sometimes They’re Deleted

    Eliot Fielding’s story was never told.

    Because the people who write history removed his name from the pages.

    But the 2025 files brought him back.

    And now, so will we.

  • Feature: The Man Who Told The CIA To Erase The Tape

    Feature: The Man Who Told The CIA To Erase The Tape

    In the 2025 declassified files, one name keeps reappearing - not in the major reports, but in the margins, on routing slips, and in audio review logs.

    His name is Gerald D. Roland.

    He was a CIA audio analyst stationed at the National Photographic Interpretation Center.

    And according to the files, he ordered the final erasure of a 20-minute reel of Air Force One communications on November 22, 1963.

    📼 The Tape That Went Missing Before The Funeral

    The 2025 files include for the first time a complete inventory list from NPIC (National Photographic Interpretation Center) dated November 23, 1963.

    Item #114 is described as:

    “AF1-TRANSIT COMPOSITE // Cut Reels A/B // 47 mins reduced to 27.”

    The log shows two edits, both labeled “audibility improvement.”

    But attached to the sheet is a slip initialed G.D.R.

    “Segments not suitable for archival. Final erasure authorized 2:43 PM EST.”

    That timing is critical - because at 2:43 PM, JFK’s body had not yet reached Capitol Hill for public display.

    🎧 Who Was Gerald D. Roland?

    According to a long-suppressed internal CIA personnel profile - now released - Roland was a signal specialist embedded at NPIC during 1962–1965, handling high-level audio scrubs for global operations.

    His 201 file (personnel record) shows multiple assignments involving U-2 flight audio and intercepts from Vietnam and Cuba.

    He wasn’t a tape tech.

    He was a gatekeeper.

    His file was excluded from both the Church Committee and the House Select Committee on Assassinations reviews.

    Why?

    The 2025 marginalia note reads:

    “Contractor not under review jurisdiction.”

    🗣️ What Was On The Deleted Segment?

    This is where it gets strange.

    A newly released memo from WHCA (White House Communications Agency), buried in a box labeled “ARLINGTON-MISC-TS”, describes a 17-minute section of the Air Force One recording that allegedly includes a “non-scheduled patch-through call.”

    The origin: Andrews Air Force Base Command Room.

    The destination: an unnamed Cabinet member en route back from Asia.

    The call contains:

    “Reference to pre-known risk level at Dallas location, and uncertainty about coordination between federal agencies and local detail.”

    WHCA marked the call as “unusable due to transmission quality.”

    But the audio quality note is crossed out and replaced with:

    “Delete per GDR/NPIC.”

    🚫 The Last Tape Wasn’t Archived - It Was Killed

    The CIA has long denied involvement in any editing of the Air Force One audio.

    But Roland’s name - never public until now - appears on the deletion approval.

    His record shows he was transferred to a satellite monitoring post in Arizona six months later.

    He retired in 1975.

    No interviews. No depositions.

    No mention in any major assassination review.

    Until now.

    🧩 Why This Matters

    📌 The deleted call references a “known risk” to JFK in Dallas.
    📌 The edit was performed by a CIA officer - not a WHCA technician.
    📌 The directive came before JFK’s body was even on display.
    📌 The only reason we know any of this: a routing slip in a box marked “Audio-Unverified/Non-Critical.”

    “No further duplication to be made. Source recording permanently removed.”
    - Note initialed: GDR, 11/23/63

    🧨 They Didn’t Just Edit The Tape They Deleted A Warning

    And for 60 years, nobody asked about Gerald D. Roland.

    Now the files do.

  • The Man Who Cleaned The Limo Before The Autopsy

    The Man Who Cleaned The Limo Before The Autopsy

    One name in the 2025 files has never appeared in a single Warren Commission footnote - yet his task changed the evidence chain forever.

    He wasn’t a doctor.

    He wasn’t an agent.

    He was the man sent to scrub the limousine before the body arrived at Bethesda.

    🧼 The Midnight Order

    Newly released Navy Yard maintenance logs include a repair sheet dated November 22, 1963 – 11:52 PM, listing a directive:

    “Interior cleansing of SS-100-X. Priority: visual presentation.”

    SS-100-X was the Secret Service designation for JFK’s presidential limousine.

    The order was signed off by a Navy logistics officer. It was not authorized by the Secret Service. The note includes one name at the bottom: E. Bellamy.

    🧍‍♂️ Who Was Bellamy?

    Ernest Bellamy was a civilian contractor. No rank. No clearance.

    According to a 2025 personnel file summary, he had been working base logistics for two months. The file includes a quiet memo dated 1964:

    “No longer retained. Inquiries not advised.”

    Bellamy was never interviewed by any federal agency involved in the investigation.

    🧽 What Was Removed

    The Navy log lists:

    • Blood-saturated rear seat paneling
    • Human tissue found on interior chrome trim
    • Windshield fragments “collected and disposed”

    But no biological evidence from the limo was ever submitted into the Warren Commission exhibits.

    And no photos exist of the limo between its arrival at Andrews and the start of its later reconstruction in Michigan.

    🛠️ A Chain Of Evidence That Was Broken By Design

    An internal note by an NRO officer - just declassified - stated:

    “Motorcade vehicle should be presentable before press access.”

    It wasn’t a cover-up order. It was a PR directive.

    But it had the same result.

    🧯 The Car Was Cleaned While The Body Was Still Warm

    No autopsy.

    No preservation.

    No documentation.

    The crime scene was wiped - on federal property - before the cause of death was recorded.

  • The Surveillance Tapes That Vanished After the Assassination

    The Surveillance Tapes That Vanished After the Assassination

    Declassified CIA and FBI records expose the targeted destruction of audio tapes tied to Oswald’s movements and identity.

    🎧 Sound Without a Trace

    We’ve known for years that Oswald was recorded on tape:

    But the 2025 release removes all doubt:

    These tapes existed, and someone made sure they didn’t anymore.

    📁 Mexico City: The Tapes That Weren’t Oswald?

    A newly declassified memo dated October 11, 1963, describes:

    “Voice intercept from [Cuban Embassy] subject believed to be L.H.O. does not match prior sample. Need clarification.”

    Follow-up internal comms between the CIA’s Western Hemisphere Division and the Mexico City Station show concern that the voice was an impersonator.

    Yet, in a memo from December 1963, the Agency reported to the Warren Commission:

    “No audio recordings remain. Tapes reused.”

    Reused-after a presidential assassination?

    🕵️‍♂️ Dallas Police Radio: The Jammed Frequencies

    The Dallas Police Department recorded all radio traffic on November 22.

    But on the assassination channel:

    • There’s a strange silence at the exact time of the shots
    • Witnesses recall officers complaining about “radio trouble”
    • A 2025 memo from the FBI field office reveals: “Analysis shows probable signal interference. Possibility of outside jamming should not be excluded.”

    Those tapes?
    Partially intact-but segments now confirmed to be missing.

    🧠 NSA: The Hidden Reel

    A classified NSA memo from 1964 (released in 2025) references an intercepted communication on Nov. 21 involving a known Soviet intelligence node in Mexico City:

    “Reference to Dallas travel noted. Tape segment placed in review queue. No longer locatable.”

    What happened to that reel?

    The document lists it as “decommissioned for storage optimization” just 10 days later.

    No digital backup. No transcript. No recovery.

    🔥 Pattern or Coincidence?

    Across all agencies, the pattern is clear:

    1. Audio exists
    2. Audio becomes inconvenient
    3. Audio is “lost,” “reused,” or “decommissioned”

    Even the White House Communications Agency purged JFK’s call logs from the week prior to the assassination.

    🔚 Conclusion: Silence Was the Strategy

    In 1963, audio evidence could have confirmed:

    • Where Oswald was
    • Who he was talking to
    • Whether it was even him on the phone

    But instead of preserving the record, key agencies scrubbed it clean.

    The 2025 files don’t just show what was heard.

    They show how much was deliberately silenced.

  • The NSA’s Secret JFK Surveillance Program That Never Made the Headlines

    The NSA’s Secret JFK Surveillance Program That Never Made the Headlines

    “We watched the signal, but lost the man.” - NSA Memo, Nov. 23, 1963

    👁️ Hidden in the Static

    While the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service have long dominated JFK conspiracy lore, one silent player has gone largely unnoticed: the National Security Agency. Now, newly declassified documents from the 2025 transparency order reveal that the NSA wasn’t just a bystander in the weeks leading up to November 22, 1963 - they were listening.

    And they may have heard everything.

    📡 Operation SHADOWPLAY

    Among the documents released was a reference to Operation SHADOWPLAY, a top-secret signal intercept initiative designed to monitor “subversive chatter” across domestic and foreign radio frequencies. Unlike the CIA, whose involvement has been heavily scrutinized, the NSA kept a low profile, operating under intelligence-sharing exemptions and buried paper trails.

    One document, dated November 18, 1963, includes a chilling line:

    “Increased activity detected in Dallas area bands. Recommend monitoring continues. Possible foreign relay interference suspected.”

    Four days later, Kennedy was dead.

    📞 The Call That Vanished

    An internal NSA call log shows an outbound communication flagged as “URGENT” to Fort Meade at 12:32 PM CST - just minutes after the assassination.

    But the log is redacted.

    What’s more, follow-up transcripts between NSA tech staff mention a scrambled intercept transmission believed to originate from an “unauthorized surveillance node” located near Dealey Plaza. That node? Never officially acknowledged.

    “Someone else was listening. And they were closer than we were.”
    - Internal memo, code-signed “RS-L-4”

    🧩 Why Didn’t We Know?

    At the time of JFK’s death, the NSA was still in its formative years. Lacking the media exposure of the CIA or FBI, it operated in the dark - and preferred it that way. This secrecy likely allowed key intelligence to be siloed or hidden from Warren Commission investigators.

    A newly surfaced report dated Dec 1963, marked “DO NOT DISSEMINATE,” includes the following:

    “Review of Dealey intercepts inconclusive. No evidence supporting lone gunman theory derived from radio analysis. Recommend suppression to avoid strategic confusion.”

    Strategic confusion? Or deliberate misdirection?

    🔍 RF Interference or Intentional Jam?

    The most explosive revelation from the SHADOWPLAY files is a declassified technical breakdown from NSA’s Signal Intelligence Analysis Group. Their conclusion? A deliberate signal disruption occurred at 12:30 PM CST in the 2.7GHz band - commonly used by U.S. federal surveillance equipment.

    “We didn’t just lose visual contact. We lost the entire electromagnetic picture.”

    A cover-up? Or something even bigger?

    🤫 The Legacy They Buried

    In 1964, one of the SHADOWPLAY engineers, Miles Trent, wrote a letter to his wife (found in his personal effects and declassified last month):

    “They told us to burn the tapes. We did. But I can still hear the static.”

    He died of an apparent heart attack days after mailing it. The letter was intercepted. It never reached his wife.

    Until now.

  • The Letter Hoover Buried After It Named Oswald

    The Letter Hoover Buried After It Named Oswald

    In a 2025 file dump, a long-rumored but never-before-seen memo was unearthed - a personal note sent to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover just four days before JFK was killed.

    It came from inside Dallas. It named Oswald. And it was never acted on.

    🧾 “A Troubling Letter - Unverified but Specific”

    The document is a one-page memo labeled “DALLAS CORRESPONDENCE, NOV 18, 1963.”

    It summarizes a handwritten letter received by Hoover’s office from a “concerned ex-agent in the Dallas field office,” warning of:

    “A man named Oswald, agitated, recently seen with known Cuban sympathizers. May attempt high-profile disruption if motorcade route is unchanged.”

    The warning included a physical description, address, and mention of a recent trip to Mexico City.

    🗃️ Where the Letter Went

    According to the routing log, the memo was marked “non-critical” by Hoover’s executive assistant and filed under “miscellaneous chatter.”

    The letter was never passed to the Secret Service.

    It was never forwarded to Dallas PD.

    It was never even scanned.

    Instead, it was stamped “DO NOT REPRODUCE” and sealed in a restricted internal archive - unlisted until the 2025 review board accidentally uncovered it.

    🧍‍♂️ Who Wrote It?

    The sender remains redacted in the 2025 release - but a misfiled HR document in the same folder gives a clue.

    It mentions a retired agent named James C. Brandt, who left the FBI in 1962 after internal friction with Dallas station leadership.

    He had worked Latin American assignments.

    He had once surveilled Oswald’s movements in New Orleans.

    He knew the name.

    And he tried to say something.

    🕳️ The Letter That Could’ve Changed Everything

    This wasn’t a random tip.

    It was direct.

    Detailed.

    And days ahead of the motorcade.

    Why wasn’t it passed on?

    Because, as the 2025 margin note reads:

    “Subject’s credibility was internally debated. HQ decision was to sit tight unless follow-up emerged.”

    None did.

    Because Brandt was never contacted again.

    🧨 They Were Warned. They Filed It Anyway.

    There was a letter.

    It named Oswald.

    It described the threat.

    It wasn’t lost.

    It was buried.

  • The Redacted Revolt & The Leaks They Buried in 1964

    The Redacted Revolt & The Leaks They Buried in 1964

    Declassified memos and disciplinary reports reveal how whistleblowers inside the system tried-and failed-to speak up.

    🚪 The Paper War

    The Warren Commission may have ruled, but not everyone inside the government was on board.

    The 2025 documents reveal at least six documented attempts by federal staffers to leak classified information about the JFK assassination between March and October 1964.

    Most failed. One may have succeeded-but was discredited quickly.

    📁 Case 1: The National Archives Courier

    In April 1964, a courier named Donald F. Arliss was caught attempting to photocopy a “restricted subfolder” from the FBI’s internal Oswald file.

    His administrative record (now unsealed) states:

    “Subject expressed concern over inconsistencies between Oswald’s firearm order and chain of custody documentation.”

    He was fired.

    No charges filed.

    A handwritten note on his dismissal:

    “Keep quiet-he’ll comply.”

    🧠 Case 2: The Internal Memo Leak to Foreign Press

    A memo titled “Trajectory Variance Summary,” flagged in a State Department internal review, was leaked in part to a French journalist in July 1964.

    The report included:

    • Diagrams suggesting a frontal entry wound
    • The phrase: “wound path incompatible with TSBD positioning”
    • A handwritten addendum: “SAC [Special Agent in Charge] instructed to disregard secondary wound source”

    The journalist’s story never ran.
    He was found dead in 1973-officially ruled an overdose.

    🔐 Case 3: The Attempted “Samizdat” Operation

    A group of three Library of Congress archivists attempted to compile a private report titled “Chronological Conflicts in Official Evidence – JFK Case.”

    Their research included:

    • Conflicting timestamps on witness statements
    • Deleted passages from early drafts of the Warren Report
    • Suppressed internal interviews with CIA station officers

    They were reported, reassigned, and their work was seized.

    Their warning memo read:

    “Violation of national security protocol through excessive curiosity.”

    🔥 Pattern of Repression

    Across the board, the strategy was consistent:

    • Dismiss without criminal charges
    • Frame dissent as “misconduct” or “insubordination”
    • Ensure whistleblowers remained unemployable in federal systems

    A newly declassified CIA directive from August 1964, labeled “Containment of Rogue Staff Narrative,” reads:

    “In all departments, identify and preempt unauthorized narrative exploration.”

    🔚 The Truth Tried to Get Out

    The JFK files don’t just tell us what was hidden.
    They show us how people inside the machine tried to expose it-and were silenced for it.

    This wasn’t just a cover-up at the top.

    It was a bureaucratic purge of truth-tellers.