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JFK Files Reveal New Depths Of CIA Incompetence

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Newly declassified documents related to John F. Kennedy’s assassination shed additional light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, in the weeks leading up to JFK’s death.

Documents reveal that the CIA tapped the phones at Cuban and Soviet diplomatic facilities in Mexico City, according to journalist Steven Portnoy. Oswald traveled there multiple times to meet with officials just weeks prior to the assassination. It was previously known that the CIA was aware of Oswald’s travels — a fact they withheld from the Warren Commission — but details about CIA wiretapping were classified until Tuesday.

“The docs dropped last night add more specifics about the CIA’s operations, namely in Mexico City, where Oswald met with Cuban and Soviet Officials in Sept. 1963,” he said. “These docs reveal how the CIA tapped phones of the Cuban and Soviet diplomatic facilities, information that had been classified until now.”

Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963.

Oswald lived in the USSR from October 1959 to June 1962. Soviet spies, however, did not want him in the country permanently, particularly after his suicide attempt, according to a previously released CIA document. His trips to the embassy in Mexico City were allegedly to try to obtain a visa to return to the USSR, documents show.

The newly-released documents also reveal how a JFK advisor issued a warning to Kennedy about the CIA’s influence over foreign policy. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., JFK’s nephew, previously discussed how his uncle was “at war” with his military and intelligence community over his desire to keep the U.S. out of regime-change wars.

Jefferson Morley, a JFK assassination expert, noted that one memo from Arthur Schlesinger Jr. told JFK that “CIA encroachment on the traditional functions of state” affected his ability to direct foreign policy without the CIA’s influence.

Schlesinger was a historian and served as Special Assistant to JFK from 1961 to 1963, according to his biography in Foreign Affairs.

Schlesinger argued that the “CIA has, in effect, ‘made’ policy in many parts of the world.”

In another letter from Schlesinger, he called the agency a “state within a state.”

“The contemporary CIA possesses many of the characteristics of a state within a state,” he wrote.

Another previously redacted memo was released Tuesday without redactions. It demonstrated that a CIA source, Samuel Cummings, owned the International Armament Corp, and Intercarmo. Interarmco reportedly was a supplier for the sporting goods store at which Oswald allegedly purchased the firearm used to kill JFK.

Cummings was the largest private weapons dealer in the world, and he sold arms to Cuba’s Fidel Castro, among others, The Washington Post reported in 1981. A lawsuit by Armco Steel forced him to change Interarmco to Interarms, the outlet noted.

“These items were to remain the property of the CIA, and their cost was to be returned to the Agency after they were sold,” the CIA document revealed.

Morley revealed that he reached out to the CIA regarding the popular “Who Killed JFK?” podcast the week prior to the March 18 document release. Morley said a spokesperson called him and spoke to him off the record on March 18 and then sent him a statement.

“The notion that CIA was involved in the death of John F. Kennedy is absolutely false,” the statement read.

On Monday, President Trump said “80,000 pages” of documents would be released. Over 60,000 pages and more than 2,000 files were published Tuesday night.

Trump signed an executive order in January mandating the declassification of the assassination files of JFK, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Eireann Van Natta

Intellegence state reporter.

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Trump Administration Releases JFK Assassination Files

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The Trump administration released 80,000 pages of previously classified President John. F Kennedy assassination files late Tuesday.

President Trump signed an executive order in January directing Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard to present him with a plan on releasing the files within 15 days.

The order also directed the AG and DNI to present a plan within 45 days to release the assassination files of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Then, Trump unexpectedly announced Monday that the files would be released the following day, unredacted. They were released Tuesday around 6 p.m., some appearing to be at least partially redacted. However, some redacted files that had previously been redacted now appear to be unsealed.

“We are announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files,” Trump said yesterday. “So people have been waiting for decades for this, and I’ve reached out to my people.”

Trump said on Monday he doesn’t believe there would be redactions in the approximately 80,000 pages of documents.

“We have a tremendous amount of paper and a lot of reading,” Trump said. “I don’t believe we are going to redact anything. I said ‘just don’t redact it, you can’t redact it.’”

The National Archives in 2017 released nearly 3,000 records concerning the JFK assassination.

The FBI discovered an additional 2,400 records related to JFK in February. The bureau said they were “previously unrecognized” as pertaining to the JFK assassination.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is still in the process of releasing the Jeffrey Epstein Files.

Backlash circulated online when the first phase of files was distributed to conservative influencers through binders and reportedly contained few revelations. Bondi accused the FBI Field Office in New York of deliberately hiding thousands of pages of Epstein files in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel on Feb. 27. She demanded the bureau deliver the “full and complete Epstein files” to her office by 8 a.m. on Feb. 28.

Bondi said she received a “truckload” of files from the FBI in New York but did not give a timeline as to when she would release those to the public.

As of publication, those Epstein files have yet to be released.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese in March that DNI Gabbard and the DOJ are “working…diligently” to release the Epstein and JFK files.

Leavitt stated during the briefing that she also does not have a timeline for the release of the Epstein documents.

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Eireann Van Natta

Intelligence state reporter.

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59 Years Ago Today, This Young Couple Was Waiting to See the President

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Going through a box of memorabilia from family and friends recently, I found two letters. (The story you’re about to read is true; the names have been changed to protect the innocent.) On the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, a young married professional in Dallas wrote to his parents. After discussing some recently purchased furniture, he added off-handedly:

In about three hours from now the President and his party will pass in front of our office. It is raining and the city is out with street washers washing it off and people out in the rain picking up paper. It is really comical. Laura has a Doctor’s appointment this morning and then she is coming by here and we are going to lunch. Aaron is going to meet us for lunch. Laura wants to go over to the Trade Mart for lunch so that she can see Jackie. I don’t know how much we will be able to see but I guess we will go over.

If it had kept raining, the 35th president of the United States would not have been riding in an open car. But the skies cleared up, and the program went on as planned.

This young man followed up with another letter on Nov. 23, 1963:

Dear Mother and Dad:

I am sure that you as well as we and the rest of the country find it hard to believe what happened yesterday.

Laura and I had gone to the Marriott Motel across from the Trade Mart to have a sandwich before going over to the Trade Mart to hear Kennedy. We had just paid the check and were walking out when we saw the two Presidential limousines pass the front of the Trade Mart. This was the route that they were to take and he was to enter the side door of the Trade Mart. I told Laura that they certainly were going pretty fast. We actually could not tell what had happened or if anything was wrong.

We went into the Trade Mart and most of the people were seated for the banquet. A friend of mine came up to me and told me the President had been shot. As most people would have thought we took it as a joke. We began to tell that he was serious and then someone came up with a radio. The people in the banquet area still had not heard the news and they were still playing music. We had been informed by a policeman that we would not be able to leave until the President left. I told Laura at the time that this was the time to get out before they announced it to the crowd. We got out and headed for the car.

There is more. Read the rest here.

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ROBERT SPENCER

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VIDEO: Kennedy and Reagan — Communism Sucks . . . Must be Destroyed!

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Please watch this short video where Tom Trento reaches back into American history to have President John Kennedy and President Ronald Reagan teach the Democrat party that they have abandoned our Constitutional Republic and whole-hardheartedly embraced a Marxist, anti-capitalist, anti-God, political philosophy.

ALL Patriotic Americans, E PLURIBUS UNUM – must come together and DESTROY Marxism! The future of America – LIGHTS OFF or LIGHTS ON – will be determined on November 3, 2020.

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Allen West: Remember when presidents stood up to Russia?

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Thirty-five years ago I was finishing up my senior year of high school and heading to my first year at the University of Tennessee. Something also happened that year — the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and began the 10 year Soviet-Afghan War. If anyone had told me in 1979 that one day, 26 years later, I would be landing at the Kabul Airport in Afghanistan, I would have thought them crazy. However, history does indeed repeat itself for those who fail to learn from it.

So here we are in 2014 with a weak president, just as 35 years ago, watching another invasion. Once again we have a president who has diminished our military capacity. Once again we have a president who is limiting our energy security advancement in favor of radical environmentalists.

There are so many parallels between the tenures of presidents Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama some postulate this is what a second Carter presidency would have resembled.

This past week, President Obama was in Europe displaying his failure to comprehend strategic level geopolitics. Europe has always been a battleground between East and West, between liberty and tyranny. The difference now is that we do not have resolute leadership such as President John F. Kennedy who went to West Berlin and stated, “Ich bin ein Berliner” meaning to say he was a citizen of Berlin (not a “Berliner” jelly-filled doughnut). And young Kennedy was indeed challenged by the brutish belligerence of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev by way of the Cuban missile crisis. Yet he stood his ground.

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Years later it would be another American president, Ronald Reagan, standing at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin demanding, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” And indeed the wall did. It was Reagan who clearly defined his Cold War strategy, “We win; they lose.”

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So when our current president makes weak, stumbling, incoherent statements such as, “this is not some zero-sum game” referring to Ukraine and Russia, he evidences his ignorance and cowardice to belligerents worldwide — and worse, to our allies. It is a zero-sum game and as Kennedy stated in his 1961 inaugural address:

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. This much we pledge —- and more.

To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do—for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder….We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

And so we sit back and watch history all over again as weakness becomes the enticing elixir drunk by dictators, autocrats, theocrats, and despots. There is only one way to meet evil: head on. It is not about being a “warmonger” but rather a guardian of liberty and freedom — and a guardian of the republic for which we stand.

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EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared on AllenBWest.com.