Late yesterday, as expected, the National Archives released a further batch of documents relating to the investigation into the assassination President John F. Kennedy. A total of 2,891 documents were released which unfortunately, according to the National Archives, is not all of them. They state in their press release that the "President has allowed the temporary withholding of certain information that would harm national security, law enforcement, or foreign affairs". This temporary certification period will end on April 26th 2018. So without further ado lets take a look at what's been found so far:
British newspaper received anonymous tip off 25 mins before assassination:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32389606.pdf
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32352381.pdf
FBI warned Dallas PD of a threat to kill Oswald after the President's assassination. They wanted to convince the public that Oswald was the real assassin:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32263509.pdf
(Below is an easy to read version)
MR. J Edgar Hoover said as follows:
There is nothing farther on the Oswald case except that he is dead. Last night we received a call in our Dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill Oswald.
We at once notified the chief of police and he assured us Oswald would be given swiftest protection. THis morning we called the Chief of Police again warning of the possibility of some effort against Oswald and he again assured us adequate protection would be given. HOwever this was not done.
They brought him out of city jail and were taking him to the county jail when a man stepped out and shot him in the stomach. This man was arrested at once. He goes under the name of Jack Leon Ruby but his real name is Rubenstein. He runs two nightclubs in Dallas and has the reputation of being a homosexual. Immediately after the shooting, he *Oswald) was moved to parkland hospital and died about 35 min ago. We had an agent at the hospital in the hope that he might make some kind of a confession before he died but he did not do so.
Ruby says no one was associated with him and denies having made the telephone call to our Dallas office last night. He says he bought the gun about three years ago and that he guessed his grief over the killing of the president made him insane. That was a pretty smart move on his part because it might lay the foundation for a plea of insanity later.
I dispatched to dallas one of my top assistants in a hope that he might stop the Chief of Police and his staff from doing so damned much talking on television. They did not really have a case against Oswald until we gave them our information. We traced the weapon, we identified the handwriting, we identified the fingerprints on the brown bag. We were able to identify the bullets as coming from that gun. All the Dallas Police had was three witnesses who tentatively identified him as the man who shot the president and boarded a bus to go home shortly after the President was killed. He got on a bus to go home to get a shirt and the bus conductor tentatively identified him as the man who boarded the bus.
Oswald had been saying he wanted John Abt as his lawyer and Abit, with only that kind of evidence could have turned the case around i’m afraid. All the talking down there might have required a change of venue on the basis that Oswald could not have gotten a fair trial in Dallas. If they keep on talking, perhaps the same will be true of Ruby.
Chief of Police Carry I understand cannot control Capt. Fritz of the Homicide Squad who is giving much information to the press. Since we now think it involves the criminal code on a conspiracy charge under section 241 we want them to shut up. Furthermore i have ordered the evidence be secured by the police department. We sent more of the evidence back to them. We still have the bullets that were fired and will keep them.
The thing I am concerned about, and so is Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convice the public that Oswald is the real assassin. Mr. Katzenback thinks that the President might appoint a presidential Commission of three outstanding citizens to make a determination. I countered with ta suggestion that we make an investigative report to the Attorney General with pictures, laboratory work, etc. Then the Attorney General can make the report to the President and the President can decide whether to make it public. I felt this was better because there are several aspects which would complicate our foreign relations. For instance, Oswald made a phone call to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City which we intercepted. it was only about a visa, however, he also wrote a letter to the Soviet Embassy here in Washington, which we intercepted, read and resealed. This letter referred to the fact that the FBI had questioned his activities on the Fair Play to Cuba Committee and also asked about extension of his wife's visa. That letter from Oswald was addressed to the man in the Soviet Embassy who is in charge of assassination and similar activities on the part of the Soviet government. To have that drawn into a public hearing would muddy the waters internationally. To use all that would reveal our failure to carry out international courts (?) laws. And since this has nothing to do with proof that Oswald committed the murder, I made the suggestion to Mr. Katzenbach that instead of a Presidential Commission, we do it with a Justice Department report based on an FBI report.
Oswald having been killed today after our warning to the Dallas Police department, was inexcusable. It will allow, I am afraid, a lot of civil rights people to raise a lot of hell because he was handcuffed and had no weapon. There are bound to be some elements of our society who will holler their heads off that his civil rights were violated - which they were.
Oswald was overheard speaking in broken Russian to a KGB officer:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32341409.pdf
Intercepted phone call in Mexico City reveals Oswald spoke to ‘member of KGB assassination unit’:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32364160.pdf
Oswald was heard discussing someone/something called 'Big Bird':
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32262492.pdf
A claim that a Dallas cop called Officer Tippet was actually JFK's true killer:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32170661.pdf
The CIA plots to kill Fidel Castro, and Congo and Indonesian Prime Ministers:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32112745.pdf#page=58
FBI warned about Robert Kennedy's relationship with Marilyn Monroe:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32423593.pdf
President Lindon B. Johnson was in the KKK:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32129399.pdf
False Flag: Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32112987.pdf
Teamsters connection to Jack Ruby: "Now we've taken care of President Kennedy we'll have no trouble in taking over other things"
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32145682.pdf
KGB had evidence that Lindon B Johnson was responsible for the assassination of JFK and were worried that without a president the USA could launch missile attack:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32204484.pdf
Talk of a $100 bet JFK would be dead within 3 weeks:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32202557.pdf
FBI memo discusses Lee Harvey Oswald prior to assassination:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32197130.pdf
Fidel Castro denies involvement in assassination:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32272523.pdf
Cuba happy about assassination:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32394141.pdf
Operation Mongoose CIA explored "the possibility of producing crop failures by the introduction of biological agents which would appear to be of natural origin" in Cuba:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32105754.pdf
Potito: First bullet entered JFKs throat. Clearly shows 2 persons were involved with first shot being fired from the bridge across parkway in front of car:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32144493.pdf
Oswald correspondence with CPUSA (Communist Party USA) and FPCC Fair Play for Cuba Committee:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32123909.pdf
So far there is no smoking gun that proves without a doubt JFK's assassination was an inside job, and to be honest I suspect there never will be. According to these new finds it would appear the FBI are even unsure if Oswald was either a Cuban or Russian asset let alone a CIA hitman.
Finally as this wasn't the complete set of JFK documents Wikileaks has put out a $100,000 reward for anyone that can furnish them with the complete set.
