Newly declassified CIA and OMB records uncover covert funds used to contain, discredit, and bury the truth behind the assassination.
💰 No Oversight, No Accountability
Most Americans don’t realize that in 1963, a large portion of U.S. intelligence spending operated under what was called “non-itemized emergency defense authorization.”
The 2025 records finally reveal what some of that money paid for after November 22:
- Media influence
- Witness suppression
- International coordination
- Psychological operations
- Controlled leaks and counter-narratives
This wasn’t just a cover-up-it was a funded campaign.
📁 File Ref: “Project PALISADE – Discretionary Allocation Dockets”
In a March 1964 CIA finance memo, Project PALISADE is described as:
“An umbrella designation for post-event narrative stabilization and information sanitation regarding domestic Executive Termination Incident (ETI-63).”
Total budget noted:
$4.36 million - untraceable, off-ledger, approved directly through National Security Action Memorandum 276-B.
That memo was not available publicly until January 2025.
🗞️ Media Management: Paid Influence
CIA records show a $600,000 budget line item for “independent press correspondence development.”
Translated:
Paying journalists to reinforce the lone gunman theory.
One cable from the CIA’s Domestic Contact Division notes:
“AP, UPI, and CBS onboard with simplified trajectory. NYT requires soft leverage-drafting response letter from ‘concerned citizen group.’”
Another expense: $40,000 to “develop and maintain private photographic archive for press distribution.”
This archive omitted certain images and enhanced others.
🧠 Psychological Reinforcement Programs
Operation STILLPOINT (covered in Part 38) wasn’t cheap.
- $300k went to the Office of Research and Development (ORD) for “mass trauma response narrative profiling”
- $92k spent on “televised grief consistency” media scripting (including anchor talking points)
- $120k disbursed to an unnamed ad agency to design memorial framing campaigns-encouraging reflection over inquiry
🚨 Witness Neutralization Fund
Perhaps most disturbing:
A CIA memo dated June 1964, titled “WPTX Disbursement Oversight,” details:
- $75k spent on relocation services for “uncooperative Dealey Plaza observers”
- $40k marked for “legal diversion strategies in peripheral homicide cases”
- Multiple entries coded as “C4R” – Classified Containment, Civilian
None of these were officially acknowledged until now.
🔚 The Truth Wasn’t Hidden for Free
What the 2025 files make brutally clear is this:
The cover-up had a budget.
It was designed, resourced, and operationalized.
Millions were spent not to investigate the truth-but to erase it.
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