The 2025 JFK files reveal how George Joannides wasn’t just managing anti-Castro agents-he was managing the truth.
🚪 The Gatekeeper
In 1978, when Congress reopened the JFK assassination investigation under the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), the CIA assigned a retired officer to act as its liaison: George Joannides.
What no one on the Committee knew at the time-but what the 2025 files now confirm-is that Joannides was far from an objective helper.
He was a key actor in the story they were investigating.
And worse: he was there to make sure they never found out.
🕵️♂️ Joannides and the DRE: A Hidden Relationship
As detailed in earlier posts, Joannides was the CIA case officer for the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE)-a militant anti-Castro exile group.
The 2025 records now fully confirm that:
- Joannides coordinated with the DRE during the exact months Oswald had contact with them.
- He approved their propaganda budget, managed their media ops, and reviewed communications involving Oswald.
- He continued to oversee DRE activities well after the assassination-while the narrative was being formed.
But when he was recalled to work with the HSCA, none of that was disclosed.
📁 The Deception: What He Withheld
The 2025 documents confirm that Joannides:
- Withheld internal CIA documents about his own involvement with the DRE.
- Refused to provide full access to the CIA’s operational files on Oswald’s connections to Cuban exile groups.
- Helped the Agency construct a limited-access document protocol, keeping sensitive materials off the table.
One newly unsealed memo shows CIA leadership noting:
“Joannides is best suited for the HSCA role due to his operational knowledge and ability to deflect inquiries without compromising legacy assets.”
In other words: He knew what to hide and how to hide it.
💣 The Cover-Up Gets Reinforced
Joannides’ stonewalling during the HSCA wasn’t an accident-it was strategy.
According to the 2025 release, CIA attorneys and senior operations officers met multiple times in the late 1970s to coordinate the information flow to Congress.
Key tactics included:
- Redirecting document requests to dead ends.
- Claiming “national security” for basic operational details.
- Rewriting internal memos before releasing them to investigators.
All of this was done under the direction of Joannides-and it worked.
The HSCA final report did not uncover his past role with the DRE, because it was intentionally hidden.
🧩 Why It Changes the Game
The picture that emerges from the 2025 documents is this:
- George Joannides wasn’t just connected to Oswald’s pre-assassination timeline.
- He was placed in a position to control the story afterward.
- And the CIA chose him specifically because of that connection, not despite it.
That’s no longer a theory. That’s a matter of record.
🔚 Conclusion: The Handler Was Also the Editor
The 2025 release doesn’t just show how evidence was buried. It shows who buried it-and how the government allowed it to happen, twice:
- First, when Joannides ran covert ops tied to Oswald.
- Then, when he was allowed to block access to the very files that could have exposed that connection.
George Joannides didn’t just manage a Cuban exile group.
He managed the limits of what we were allowed to know.