CIA Documents

The CIA was involved in a "benign cover-up" of the JFK Assassination. That involvement was even admitted to by then CIA Chief John McCone. The reason for the cover-up was never plainly given, but it was speculated that it had something to do with the CIA's clumsy "Operation Mongoose" attempts to kill Castro. But that's all it was, speculation. 

That speculation, however, is very inadequate in explaining why the CIA would have as much involvement in the control of information that it apparently had. What does explain the CIA's involvement in a "benign cover-up" far better than any hypothetical connection to "Operation Mongoose"? A cover-up of the Secret Service AR-15 "slam fire" accident! 

The CIA was undoubtedly extensively involved in a cover-up. That involvement included:
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1. Manipulation of news media, including and especially Life magazine, which had bought all rights to the Zapruder film (probably at the CIA's behest), and which enjoyed a cozy relationship with the CIA. See Carl Bernstein's article "The CIA and the Media" at https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977 See also the "CIA Dispatch" (below) instructing its assets how to deal with critics of the Warren Report. This is where the weaponization of the term "Conspiracy Theorist" got its start.
2. Alteration of the Zapruder film. See Doug Horne's article "The Two NPIC Zapruder Film Events: Signposts Pointing to the Film's Alteration" at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/05/douglas-p-horne/the-two-npic-zapruder-film-events-signposts-pointing-to-the-filmsalteration/
3. Alteration of autopsy X-rays and photographs. See the many articles of radiologist Dr. David Mantik at https://themantikview.org/ plus his books and videos. See also my own article on the "HSCA-Published X-Rays" at https://www.a-benign-conspiracy.com/hsca-published-x-rays.html
4. An "Agreement Between CIA and Secret Service" that was triggered by "the death of a President"--the only President whose death could activate such an agreement would have been Kennedy. (See below.)
5. Likely manipulation of other aspects of the investigation. For example, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was the institute whose photography professors "certified" the Oswald "Backyard" photographs. However, it was later learned that RIT had a cozy relationship with the CIA, with a number of administrators and professors on the CIA payroll. See, for example, https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/17/nyregion/school-s-cia-tie-faulted-in-review.html and  https://reporter.rit.edu/views/cap-and-dagger and https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP91-00587R000100010064-2.pdf . Given what we know now, can the RIT certification of the Oswald "Backyard" photographs be trusted? (And don't forget, RIT was the institute that tried to recruit graduating student Quentin Schwinn by showing him some JFK autopsy images that were different from what is publicly available.)

Some of the documents related to the CIA's involvement in the JFK Assassination, drawn from the CIA's "Reading Room" and other sources are presented below:

Excerpt from the October 04, 2015 Politico article

The original Robarge report on which the Politico article was based. From https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB493/docs/intell_ebb_026.PDF

The CIA Dispatch instructing its media assets how to deal with critics of the Warren Report. From https://ia800705.us.archive.org/30/items/COUNTERINGCRITICISMOFTHEWARRENREPORT/COUNTERING%20CRITICISM%20OF%20THE%20WARREN%20REPORT.pdf

Evidence of a Cooperative "Agreement Between CIA and Secret Service." From https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78-00300R000100090165-1.pdf