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  • 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.