President Trump’s release last month of “long-secret documents” on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy revealed that “three top CIA officials lied” to investigators about the agency’s awareness of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, according to dogged researchers who have studied the tragedy for decades.
Jefferson Morley — an independent journalist and author whose foundation runs the largest online database of JFK records — testified to members of the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets that the files made public March 18 show the spooks “fooled the Warren Commission.”
Among the documents were nine critical memos on James Jesus Angleton, longtime chief of the CIA’s counterintelligence department, who was one of the trio that obfuscated the agency’s actions before both the 1964 presidential commission and congressional investigators.
Morley, 66, noted that Angleton ran a vast mail interception program out of a New York post office — and then lied about having targeted Oswald as part of the program when questioned by the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Oswald’s letters were intercepted at Angleton’s direction beginning in November 1959, weeks after the future assassin had defected to the Soviet Union.
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