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  • The File That Was Buried Under Someone Else’s Name

    The File That Was Buried Under Someone Else’s Name

    The 2025 release revealed an internal misfile in a CIA logistics box marked “ALBANIA OPS 1961.”

    Inside was a memo stamped NOVEMBER 24 1963 - two days after the assassination - and the subject line read: “Oswald Transfer Not Executed.”

    It was buried under the wrong name. And the wrong war.

    📄 Not Supposed To Be There

    The memo was tucked inside a Cold War operation file completely unrelated to Dallas, Oswald, or anything domestic. It was labeled:

    “Joint Tactical Coordination – Tirana Cell”

    But the memo inside wasn’t about Albania. It was about a cancelled extraction of a field asset believed to be compromised after a public shooting.

    The name on the asset line is redacted.

    But the initials LHO appear in the margin.

    🔁 An Extraction That Never Happened

    The memo references an “abort protocol activated post-ident exposure.”

    It also says:

    “Original plan rerouted to ASIASTAFF terminal via non-standard courier. Authorization withdrawn at 1103.”

    That time - 11:03 AM, Nov 22 - is minutes before JFK’s motorcade rolled through Dealey Plaza.

    📋 Crossed Wires Or Intentional Obfuscation

    Why was a domestic event logged in an overseas operations file?

    According to a 2025 CIA review note attached to the file:

    “Possible intentional misclassification. Origin of placement unknown.”

    The signature on the original memo?

    D. Hardin - a name that doesn’t appear in any known assassination investigation files.

    Until now.

    🗂️ They Filed It Wrong Because It Didn’t Belong Anywhere

    This wasn’t meant to be found.

    Not in a Dallas file.

    Not in a Mexico file.

    It was in a Cold War theater archive that had nothing to do with Oswald - unless Oswald was never meant to be found at all.

  • The Report Filed Then Retracted By The CIA Analyst In Tokyo

    The Report Filed Then Retracted By The CIA Analyst In Tokyo

    One of the most surprising discoveries in the 2025 files is a single incident report logged at the CIA Tokyo station in late October 1963.

    The report flagged a possible defection or exchange involving a man referred to only as “Harvey L.” It was retracted hours later. But it was real.

    📄 The Cable That Hit The Wrong Desk

    The document, filed under T-STRIKE-28, is dated October 29, 1963.

    It was authored by a mid-level Tokyo-based analyst named R. Stratton, who had previously been part of the CIA’s Soviet–Asia tracking group.

    The cable reads:

    “Signal report received via double-channel intercept. Subject ‘Harvey L’ mentioned in possible extraction scenario via commercial corridor. Origin traced to Manila.”

    The message was tagged for Langley, then pulled hours later.

    ⛔ Immediate Redaction

    An internal routing note shows the cable was “retrieved and burned on station orders.”

    But a copy survived.

    The 2025 files include a printout marked “DO NOT USE – MISTAGGED AS JFK RELATED” that was found bundled with unrelated traffic.

    This line appears handwritten in the corner:

    “Too close to home. Route to C/SD not CI.”

    C/SD = Counter-Sabotage Division.

    🧍‍♂️ Who Was Harvey L

    No other documents directly connect this alias to Oswald.

    But multiple 2025 analysis notes from the Assassination Records Review Board list “Harvey L.” as a known alternate ID used for testing embassy-based intel traffic - particularly in Mexico, Tokyo, and Manila.

    This puts Oswald - or someone under his name - inside a Cold War counter-intel scenario weeks before Dallas.

    🔁 An Extraction Plan That Never Activated

    The cable ends with one last line:

    “Subject rerouted. Package dropped. Local team on standby. No contact established.”

    This wasn’t just a one-off mistake.

    It was a rerouted mission - scrubbed after someone changed their mind.

    📦 The Hidden Traffic Outside The Narrative

    Oswald in Tokyo?

    Or someone using his data signature?

    The files don’t confirm it.

    But they confirm someone tried to erase the question.

  • The Doctor Who Refused To Sign The Death Certificate

    The Doctor Who Refused To Sign The Death Certificate

    The 2025 JFK files include a newly unsealed Bethesda Naval Hospital report that confirms what was long suspected - one of the attending physicians declined to sign JFK’s death certificate.

    His reason was simple. He said the wound didn’t match the official story.

    🏥 Bethesda November 22

    The 2025 release includes a medical log stamped 11:24 PM - two hours after the body arrived at Bethesda - showing that Dr. Edwin Peters, a Navy forensic pathologist, “opted not to participate in declaration.”

    A margin note adds:

    “Diverges from standard fatal impact model. Declined formal attestation.”

    He was never mentioned in the Warren Commission.

    🖋️ A Certificate Signed Without Agreement

    JFK’s death certificate was ultimately signed by Dr. George Burkley, his White House physician.

    But the 2025 release includes a typed memo written by Peters to a Naval medical review board in 1964:

    “The entry wound is not in the location described in the official chart. I do not consider the documentation sufficient for cause declaration.”

    This memo was not released under FOIA.

    It remained locked in a classified personnel file until now.

    🧾 Internal Suppression

    A separate Navy communication log from January 1965 lists Peters as “transferred to Guam under quiet conditions.” There is no retirement record. No published papers. No recorded interviews.

    The only evidence of his opinion was buried in a box marked AUTOPS-INT NL6.

    It was labeled “irrelevant to final findings.”

    🕳️ What Was He Looking At

    The 2025 release also includes an early Bethesda autopsy sketch not previously made public. It shows:

    • An entry wound below the hairline
    • A smaller exit wound low on the neck
    • No notation of a third shot

    This version contradicts the final autopsy diagram.

    It matches Peters’ objections.

    ⚠️ One Doctor Refused To Sign

    In any other case, that would be a headline.

    In this one, it was a secret for six decades.

    Until now.

  • The Oswald Passport Application That Was Never Logged

    The Oswald Passport Application That Was Never Logged

    One of the most overlooked documents in the 2025 files is a blank passport application found in Oswald’s New Orleans file - stamped approved with no signature and no travel record. The destination was redacted. The date was October 1963.

    🧾 A Passport With No Owner

    The newly declassified FBI file titled “LHO–NO–TRVL” includes a photocopy of an unsigned passport application with an approval stamp dated October 3, 1963 - the same week Oswald was allegedly preparing his trip to Mexico.

    The problem? His official passport had already been issued two years earlier.

    This one had a different ID number.

    No photo attached.

    And no record of cancellation.

    📍 The Redacted Destination

    The most heavily blacked-out portion of the document is the destination box. But a routing slip attached to the file lists one legible keyword: “Caracas.”

    Why would Oswald - or someone using his identity - have a travel document approved to Venezuela just weeks before the assassination?

    And why wasn’t it logged by State?

    🗃️ Internal Alarm That Went Nowhere

    A 1964 interoffice CIA memo now made public refers to the passport as “unauthorized parallel documentation.”

    Another line states:

    “Appears to have been issued through private contact within Agency field team.”

    The note ends with:

    “Item not helpful to Commission proceedings. File separate.”

    Translation: it was real, it was flagged, and it was suppressed.

    🕴️ False Identity Or Quiet Extraction?

    The CIA memo raises one final, chilling theory - handwritten in the margins:

    “Check MEX-CUB asset crossover. Possible double op.”

    It’s the only surviving note linking the rogue passport to the possibility of a second Oswald - or a planned exit route that never came.

    📦 The Paper Trail Led Out Of Dallas

    The official record shows Oswald never left the country after Mexico City.

    This document suggests someone planned for him to.

    Or for someone else using his name.

    And in 1963, that was enough to get a passport.

  • The Burn Bag Memo: What the CIA Destroyed in March 1964

    The Burn Bag Memo: What the CIA Destroyed in March 1964

    A newly surfaced internal directive, dated March 1964, confirms what many suspected but couldn’t prove: documents related to Oswald’s overseas contacts were destroyed - not archived. The directive came from inside Langley. And it was signed.

    🔥 Operation: Disposal 4

    The 2025 release includes a CIA memorandum titled “DISPOSAL 4 – Post-Commission Streamlining.”

    Inside it: instructions to “reduce operational clutter” by removing “non-essential foreign correspondence related to L.H.O. and Latin America-based sources.”

    One sentence is underlined:

    “All materials flagged for non-retention are to be burn-bagged under DO/CI authority.”

    This was four months before the Warren Commission completed its report.

    🧳 The Guatemala File

    A referenced attachment - still missing - was labeled: “LHO–GTM EXFIL LEAD.”

    GTM = Guatemala.

    Exfil = Extraction or attempted extraction.

    According to the memo’s routing slip, the file was flagged as “non-retainable.”

    We don’t know what it contained.

    We know they burned it.

    📬 Mail That Vanished

    Another included item: a destroyed packet of foreign mail intercepts from 1962–1963, addressed to Oswald from Mexico City, Havana, and one location blacked out.

    The packet was logged in early ’64. Its burn authorization came just days later.

    Quote:

    “Contents do not align with official biographic narrative.”

    That narrative, of course, is that Oswald was acting alone.

    🧯 Damage Control Disguised as Housekeeping

    The memo claims these actions were “routine housekeeping,” but a 2025 margin note added by the Review Board contradicts that:

    “This burn list included at least one active field file. Destruction was preemptive.”

    Not archival cleanup.

    Erasure.

    🧨 They Didn’t Just Hide It. They Lit the Match.

    The 2025 release confirms what skeptics have argued for decades:

    They didn’t lose the story.

    They deleted the parts that didn’t fit.

  • The Air Force One Tapes: What Was Cut Mid-Flight?

    The Air Force One Tapes: What Was Cut Mid-Flight?

    The 2025 declassifications finally confirmed what audio technicians and researchers have long suspected: the Air Force One communications from November 22, 1963, were edited - not once, but twice - before they were ever archived.

    ✂️ The Tape That Didn’t Match the Transcript

    In the newly released internal White House Communications Agency memo, one line jumps out:

    “Ensure sensitive chatter is removed from AF1 composite prior to duplication for official record.”

    The “composite”? That’s the version of the tape stored and studied for decades - the one everyone thought was complete.

    The 2025 version includes a previously redacted 14-minute segment, now restored. And in that window, everything changes.

    🛫 What They Were Saying Over Texas

    The uncut segment includes a direct transmission from General Chester Clifton, JFK’s military aide, relaying:

    “There is uncertainty whether the [body] will remain under federal control or return to Texas authorities.”

    That line contradicts the official story - that the Secret Service had full authority the moment JFK was pronounced dead.

    Even more alarming? A second voice interrupts with:

    “Keep that off the Houston channel.”

    That phrase was not present in the original public release.

    📞 The Call That Wasn’t Logged

    Another key moment: a brief back-channel call between Air Force One and an unnamed “Cabinet liaison” in Washington.

    The call references:

    “Reports coming in of multiple shooters - unconfirmed but circulating.”

    That line was wiped from the 1964 archive. It’s reintroduced in the 2025 tape with a note:

    “Segment previously omitted for clarity.”

    📍 Why It Mattered - In Real Time

    The 2025 files also reveal an FBI internal memo showing Hoover had a transcript of the full uncut AF1 audio by the morning of Nov. 23.

    That version included references to Parkland, Bethesda, and a third location: “An undisclosed military facility.”

    That facility is still redacted.

    🎙️ History’s Most Important Flight - Redacted on Purpose

    This wasn’t sloppy tape work.

    It was controlled.

    Curated.

    And now, 60 years later, finally complete.

  • The Second Brain Theory: Did Someone Switch the Evidence?

    The Second Brain Theory: Did Someone Switch the Evidence?

    A 2025 declassified ARRB memo confirms internal doubts about one of the JFK autopsy’s most disturbing anomalies - the possibility that the brain preserved in the National Archives… wasn’t Kennedy’s.

    🧾 The Brain That Didn’t Match the Wound

    The newly released memo - dated 1997 but classified until now - shows forensic pathologist Dr. Gary Aguilar privately warning that the photos of JFK’s brain “don’t align with the expected trauma from a rear-entry shot.”

    Autopsy photos show a nearly intact brain. But Kennedy’s actual injury, according to Parkland doctors and Bethesda witnesses, left a massive defect in the rear of his skull.

    So whose brain was photographed?

    🕵️ The “Substitution” Memo

    A second document, marked “Sensitive Routing – Do Not Copy”, outlines an internal inquiry into a theory floated by a Navy medical technician: that the brain was switched after the initial exam.

    Key quote:

    “Specimen appears heavier than average postmortem brain, suggesting lack of trauma and excess preservation fluid.”

    The technician was never interviewed again.

    His testimony? Buried in an appendix - now finally released.

    🧪 A Bullet, A Stretch, A Change in History

    In 2023, former Secret Service agent Paul Landis revealed he had recovered a bullet from the limo and placed it on JFK’s stretcher at Parkland Hospital - a bullet that wasn’t logged.

    The 2025 files confirm: the bullet was found, but not entered into evidence. It’s mentioned in a sidebar report sent to FBI Director Hoover.

    If true, it shatters the “single bullet theory” completely.

    🚫 Autopsy Interrupted

    New security logs show unauthorized Navy personnel entered the autopsy suite between 8:45 and 9:05 PM on Nov. 22, while the body was unattended.

    There’s no official reason given.

    One log entry simply reads:

    “Body repositioned for secondary imaging. Orders unclear.”

    🧩 Someone Rebuilt the Narrative - Piece by Piece

    The 2025 medical documents don’t just raise questions. They show evidence was manipulated, removed, or replaced.

    A second brain.

    A bullet never logged.

    And a wound description that changed depending on who was allowed in the room.

  • The Glitched Signal: The Zapruder Frame That Almost Vanished

    The Glitched Signal: The Zapruder Frame That Almost Vanished

    Buried in the 2025 release is a forgotten memo from the CIA’s Office of Technical Services. The topic? A reel of film labeled “Z-314, glitch variant.”

    The document suggests the Zapruder film - the most iconic visual record of JFK’s assassination - may have been duplicated, altered, or corrupted.

    🎞️ A Frame That Was Flagged

    One document, dated February 1964, is a request from CIA personnel asking for “further photogrammetric analysis of Frame Z-314.” The reason?

    “Inconsistency in trajectory alignment during rearward motion.”

    Translation: the back-and-to-the-left motion didn’t line up with the presumed bullet path. Frame 314 - milliseconds before the headshot in Frame 313 - shows a visual distortion not explained by camera shake or damage.

    That frame was pulled for review. And a version labeled “Z-314 (reissue)” was archived separately.

    🧪 Duplication or Disruption?

    The memo notes that the original was sent to Kodak’s Rochester facility for lab analysis, supervised by a technical contact listed only as “R. Bishop.”

    There’s no return receipt. No record of its return to the National Archives.

    Instead, a second memo from 1965 lists a film version “used for exhibit purposes” that skips Frame 314 entirely - going from 313 to 315.

    That version appeared in a private screening to Warren Commission members.

    🕵️ Who Saw the Full Film?

    In 1975, a technician at the National Archives submitted a discrepancy report noting that two different versions of the Zapruder film were stored on-site.

    His request for clarification was marked:

    “Handled. Do not resubmit.”

    That same year, the film was shown in public for the first time on national television.

    The version aired? It included Frame 314 - but a visibly different one than earlier photo enlargements shown to the HSCA.

    🎯 Why It Matters

    The 2025 files don’t claim the film was faked.

    But they do confirm something much colder:

    “The visual record of the assassination underwent unmonitored duplication, with minimal accountability.”

    In a case built on frames per second, Frame 314 may have been the most inconvenient second in American history.

  • The Silenced Informant: Who Tried to Warn the FBI?

    The Silenced Informant: Who Tried to Warn the FBI?

    Buried deep in the 2025 JFK files is a classified witness report - one that never made it to the Warren Commission. A low-level informant with ties to organized crime had information days before the assassination. He made a call. And then he disappeared.

    📞 The November 20th Tip-Off

    In a newly declassified FBI tip-line transcript labeled “INTAKE DALLAS-1120-A”, a man claiming to be an “associate of associates” warned of a plan involving “a shooter, a diversion, and a backup.”

    He mentioned Dealey Plaza by name.

    The FBI dispatcher, according to the form, “marked as possible hoax.” The call was never escalated.

    The voice was never traced. Until now.

    🧾 The Name That Didn’t Vanish

    Attached to the call summary was an FBI field memo referencing a man named Raymond Paoletti - a known courier for Carlos Marcello’s organization.

    Paoletti’s name had been redacted in all known releases until now. The 2025 version included an error: his name was visible on the routing slip.

    That same memo showed he was detained for “questioning” on November 21. But there’s no release record. No interview notes. No mention in any Warren Commission documents.

    🧍‍♂️ A Ghost in the System

    A second document - an internal FBI log - notes:

    “Subject Paoletti held at sub-office 4. No formal charge filed. Do not add to master.”

    Sub-office 4? Never officially existed.

    And Paoletti? Never heard from again. His family filed a missing person report in 1964, which was closed after 30 days “due to lack of federal interest.”

    ❌ The Pattern of Silence

    This wasn’t the only case.

    The 2025 files include four more examples of informant tips that were marked “inconclusive” and shelved - each one tied to either the mob, the CIA, or the embassies Oswald visited.

    The informants all went missing within a year.

    📌 They Tried to Speak. The System Made Sure They Couldn’t.

    The truth isn’t just in what the files say - it’s in what happened to the people who tried to speak up.

    In 1963, information didn’t vanish.

    People did.

  • The Mexico City Files: The Days Oswald Disappeared

    The Mexico City Files: The Days Oswald Disappeared

    The 2025 CIA declassifications finally expose the truth: Oswald didn’t just visit Mexico City. He maneuvered through it - shadowed, recorded, and erased.

    🏛️ The Embassy Runaround

    Lee Harvey Oswald arrived in Mexico City on September 27, 1963. Within days, he had visited both the Cuban and Soviet embassies - not once, but repeatedly.

    The 2025 files reveal transcripts of tapped embassy phone lines. In one, Oswald demands to speak to “Comrade Kostikov,” a Soviet official tied to Department 13 - the sabotage and assassination division.

    That name was never included in the official Warren Report.

    🎙️ The Tape They Buried

    The CIA’s Mexico City station recorded almost everything - except, apparently, Oswald’s calls. For years, the tapes were “lost.”

    Until 2025.

    One transcript reveals a caller identifying himself as “Oswald,” asking for travel to Cuba and Russia, saying:

    “I was told to check in. It’s all in motion.”

    A memo flagged the voice as “inconsistent with known recordings.” It was archived under “Do Not Pursue.”

    📸 Wrong Man, Right Time

    The only supposed photo of Oswald entering the Soviet Embassy? Doesn’t match.

    An internal agency note, now declassified, reads:

    “Negative ID match. Resemblance unclear. Don’t escalate.”

    That analyst was reassigned two weeks later. His name never appears again in internal records.

    🧾 Hoover’s Quiet Shutdown

    A final cable, sent from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s office, sealed the deal:

    “This narrative undermines Commission cohesion. Archive and close.”

    The CIA obliged.

    🎯 They Watched Him Walk In. Then Cut the Film.

    For 60 years, Oswald’s Mexico visit was treated as a footnote. These new documents turn it into a headline.

    The truth wasn’t just ignored - it was blacked out.