Finally, The CIA Admits Covering Up JFK Assassination

The link in the above sensational article links to a "Politico report" as its source. That report is excerpted below.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/jfk-assassination-john-mccone-warren-commission-cia-213197?curator=MediaREDEF

But did McCone come close to perjury all those decades ago? Did the onetime Washington outsider in fact hide agency secrets that might still rewrite the history of the assassination? Even the CIA is now willing to raise these questions. Half a century after JFK’s death, in a once-secret report written in 2013 by the CIA’s top in-house historian and quietly declassified last fall, the spy agency acknowledges what others were convinced of long ago: that McCone and other senior CIA officials were “complicit” in keeping “incendiary” information from the Warren Commission.

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The most important information that McCone withheld from the commission in its 1964 investigation, the report found, was the existence, for years, of CIA plots to assassinate Castro, some of which put the CIA in cahoots with the Mafia. Without this information, the commission never even knew to ask the question of whether Oswald had accomplices in Cuba or elsewhere who wanted Kennedy dead in retaliation for the Castro plots.

While raising no question about the essential findings of the Warren Commission, including that Oswald was the gunman in Dallas, the 2013 report is important because it comes close to an official CIA acknowledgement—half a century after the fact—of impropriety in the agency’s dealings with the commission. The coverup by McCone and others may have been “benign,” in the report’s words, but it was a cover-up nonetheless, denying information to the commission that might have prompted a more aggressive investigation of Oswald’s potential Cuba ties.

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In a statement to POLITICO, the CIA said it decided to declassify the report “to highlight misconceptions about the CIA’s connection to JFK’s assassination,” including the still-popular conspiracy theory that the spy agency was somehow behind the assassination. (Articles in the CIA magazine are routinely declassified without fanfare after internal review.)

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The report identifies other tantalizing information that McCone did not reveal to the commission, including evidence that the CIA might somehow have been in communication with Oswald before 1963 and that the spy agency had secretly monitored Oswald’s mail after he attempted to defect to the Soviet Union in 1959.

Here’s hoping that the full truth of what happened in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day will very soon be common knowledge.

FAT CHANCE...

The full truth of what happened in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day will never be known.

Mainly because of the (deliberately?) botched autopsy.

Yet the author in his infinite knowledge is able to piece all of this vagueness together and state emphatically that: “Finally, The CIA Admits Covering Up JFK Assassination.”

Your gullibility and rush to judgment never ceases to amaze me…

" The only thing I believe is that LHO did not shoot Kennedy "

I agree with that.

Your gullibility to accept the official government narrative concerning any event no matter how implausible or ridiculous never ceases to amaze me.

I did not accept the government narrative, I merely stressed there two sides of the story and none of us know which is true. We should know that it is not intelligent to accept ONLY the side of the story the author presents.

Your narrow-minded agenda driven outlook makes you stupid to accept ONLY the information presented second hand by an author as truth is not surprising....not surprising at all.

Grow up....learn to think and act like an adult.

I did not accept the government narrative

Bullshit. You've bought into every single official government pronouncement that comes down the pike.

You're a fucking sheep, that's what sheep do.

Your warped logic continues to flourish.

yellow journalism

You bleating simpleton.

Mainly because of the (deliberately?) botched autopsy.

The only thing I believe is that LHO did not shoot Kennedy, and in fact did not shoot anybody on that day. --- jeremiad

I've heard that theory, but I think it's pretty well established that he was at both shooting scenes that day, -- So the odds are he was involved.

A valid autopsy would have proven that a single shot could have hit both JFK and Connelly. -- And given credence to the theory that Oswald could have made the shots.

But we'll never know.

...yellow journalism...

Yellow journalism has a notoriously bad reputation. Placing more importance on scandal-mongering and sensationalism than facts has condemned yellow journalism as bad journalism. And some professional journalists dispute whether it is a form of journalism at all.