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  • 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.

  • Who Killed MLK? What the 2025 Files Say About James Earl Ray-and What They Don’t

    Who Killed MLK? What the 2025 Files Say About James Earl Ray-and What They Don’t

    He confessed, then recanted. Was James Earl Ray a lone racist drifter-or a pawn in something larger?

    🚪 A Convenient Ending

    When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray was named, captured, and convicted within weeks. He confessed. He was sentenced. And that was that.

    Except it wasn’t.

    The 2025 declassified files suggest that what we’ve been told for 55 years may be incomplete-or entirely misleading.

    🧠 Who Was James Earl Ray?

    Officially:
    A small-time criminal, racist loner, and escaped convict who pulled off the assassination of the most heavily surveilled Black leader in America… with no help.

    Unofficially:
    According to multiple documents in the 2025 release, Ray may have been:

    • Under surveillance himself in the months before the assassination
    • In contact with unknown intermediaries who paid for his travel and weapons
    • Possibly connected to figures previously under CIA or Army Intelligence scrutiny

    📁 What the New Files Show

    The 2025 batch includes:

    • An FBI memo from 1968 titled “Operation Lantern Spike”, mentioning monitoring of “target suspects converging on Memphis” two days before MLK was shot-Ray’s name is included in a redacted list
    • CIA cables from Mexico City noting Ray’s attempts to travel to Rhodesia using a false passport, and asking whether to flag the State Department-they didn’t
    • A Department of Justice internal note from 1979: “Ray’s movements between April 1–4 remain unverified. Surveillance inconsistencies unresolved.”

    🔍 Ray’s Confession-and Retraction

    James Earl Ray pled guilty to avoid the death penalty. Days later, he publicly recanted and claimed he had been manipulated by a mysterious figure he called “Raoul.”

    The new files don’t confirm Raoul’s identity-but they do reveal:

    • The FBI had at least two open case files on men matching Raoul’s description operating in Canada and New Orleans in early 1968
    • One memo recommended deeper investigation into Raoul’s possible role as a handler or financier-it was marked “Not a priority” and shelved
    • Polygraph results from Ray’s 1977 re-test were “inconclusive with signs of stress, but not deception”-a detail never previously released

    🧩 The Bigger Picture: Why It Matters

    If James Earl Ray wasn’t acting alone, or was directed by someone else, then:

    • The official story was manufactured for closure, not accuracy
    • Potential co-conspirators were either ignored or protected
    • The assassination may have been tactically convenient to multiple institutions that viewed MLK as a destabilizing force

    This isn’t about rewriting history.
    It’s about finally reading the pages we weren’t allowed to see.

    🔚 An Open Case Wearing a Closed Verdict

    Ray died in prison in 1998. The government always maintained he acted alone.

    But in 2025, the documents say otherwise. Not overtly. But subtly, in the things they redact, contradict, and almost-almost-admit.

    So ask yourself:

    If they really believed Ray acted alone… why keep these files sealed for six decades?