Crucial information was missing from the JFK assassination files released by the Trump administration on Tuesday, according to an expert.
The transcript of the first conversation between president Lyndon Johnson and CIA Director John McCone after the 1963 assassination has still not been released to the public, author James Johnston told USA Today.
The document could help answer questions about any possible involvement from Cuba in the Kennedy’s killing, since the president had famously tried to use the CIA to kill communist dictator Fidel Castro.
McCone has previously been accused of keeping ‘incendiary’ information from the Warren Commission that probed the assassination, as reported by Politico.
The sensitive information revolved around the existence of plots to assassinate Castro, which put the CIA ‘in cahoots with the mafia.’
Without this information, the Warren Commission never looked at whether Oswald could have had accomplices in Cuba or elsewhere who wanted JFK dead as retaliation for trying to kill Castro.
McCone’s cover-up was claimed to be ‘benign’ because he and other top CIA officials wanted the commission to focus on Lee Harvey Oswald, who they truly believed acted as a lone shooter.
More than 63,000 pages of records related to the 1963 assassination of president Kennedy were released Tuesday following an order by President Donald Trump, many without the redactions that had confounded historians for years and helped fuel conspiracy theories.
The US National Archives and Records Administration posted to its website roughly 2,200 files containing the documents.
They included typewritten reports and handwritten notes spanning decades, including details of a top CIA agent who claimed the deep state was responsible, Oswald being a ‘poor shot’ and that Secret Service had been warned Kennedy would be killed in August, three months before the murder.
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