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Declassified JFK File Confirms CIA Rejected ‘Lone Gunman’ Theory Weeks After JFK Assassination

A newly declassified CIA document, known as the “Donald Heath Memo,” confirms that the CIA, in the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, rejected the notion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

The 11-page document, authored by Donald Heath—a CIA officer assigned to the Miami Station during the early 1960s—details the agency’s intense investigative efforts following Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963.

The memo details how the CIA’s Miami Station was mobilized in the hours and days following the assassination to investigate possible links between the Cuban government, Cuban exiles, and the Kennedy killing.

Far from accepting the Warren Commission’s narrative of a lone shooter, the memo shows the agency actively probing a broader conspiracy.

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Declassified JFK Files: Transcript Reveals Israeli Scientists and US Experts May Have Played Roles in Transfer of Nuclear Intelligence to Israel

The newly declassified JFK file revealed that former CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton testified under oath in an executive session before the Church Committee in 1975 about deep intelligence ties between the United States and Israel.

The testimony, given in a top-secret executive session, was part of the Senate Select Committee’s broader investigation into intelligence operations.

Though much of the session was focused on Cold War espionage and Soviet defections, one line of questioning zeroed in on allegations that U.S. intelligence may have assisted Israel’s covert nuclear program.

Angleton, who served from the agency’s founding until late 1974, confirmed a formal, albeit unwritten, intelligence-sharing agreement between the CIA and Israeli operatives beginning in 1951, one reportedly brokered between Angleton and Reuven Shiloah, Israel’s first Mossad director, noting that the relationship operated on a fiduciary basis and avoided documentation.

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Deeply Intriguing Memo In JFK File Dump

I am indebted to fellow Substack author, Jon Fleetwood, for drawing my attention to a deeply intriguing memo that was part of the JFK files that were just dumped. Fleetwood’s piece on the memo is linked below.

The CIA memo, dated 19th July 1967, opens with a long quotation from an article published in Ramparts, June 1967.

As Fleetwood points out, though the Ramparts piece was already public:

…the newly released CIA files are significant because they confirm the Agency was aware of Underhill’s allegations at the time and considered them serious enough to document in an internal intelligence report.

The Ramparts piece and the CIA memo relate to a man named J. Garrett Underhill.

“J. Garrett Underhill had been an intelligence agent during World War II and was a recognized authority on limited warfare and small arms.

A researcher and writer on military affairs, he was on a first-name basis with many of the top brass in the Pentagon.

He was also on intimate terms with a number of high-ranking CIA officials—he was one of the Agency’s ‘un-people’ who perform special assignments.”

What is intriguing about the subject is the following:

“The day after the assassination, Gary Underhill left Washington in a hurry. Late in the evening he showed up at the home of friends in New Jersey. He was very agitated.

A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided, and he was afraid for his life and probably would have to leave the country.

Less than six months later Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment. The coroner ruled it suicide.”

Ah, yes, the D.C. coroner ruled it a suicide. I recently wrote a book about homicides staged to look like suicides. It is likely that many murderers have gotten away with this trick.

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This Might Be the Most Interesting Find in the JFK Files So Far

President Trump wasted no time delivering on his promise of transparency during his first week back in office, signing an executive order demanding full disclosure of files related to the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations. 

This week, the JFK files were released, and perhaps the unvarnished truth about this pivotal event in American history that the deep state has kept hidden for decades will be revealed.

“President Trump is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in a statement. “Today, per his direction, previously redacted JFK Assassination Files are being released to the public with no redactions.”

While the Warren Commission tried selling us the fairy tale that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, many Americans have rightfully questioned this conclusion, given the obvious discrepancy between Oswald’s position and the kill shot’s trajectory. 

It may take a while for experts and people with more time and patience than I do to cull through the documents, but one document that was part of the release has been getting a lot of attention on social media.

The document is about Gary Underhill, a CIA special assignments operative who dropped a major bombshell the day after Kennedy’s assassination. This wasn’t some conspiracy theorist in a tin foil hat—Underhill was a World War II military intelligence veteran and former Life magazine photojournalist who was linked to high-ranking CIA officials.

On November 23, 1963, a clearly disturbed Underhill made a desperate journey from D.C. to New Jersey to warn friends about a “small clique within the CIA” being responsible for Kennedy’s death. A memo with the subject line “Ramparts” (the name of a magazine that featured investigations of the CIA) notes that friends described him as “sober but badly shook.” 

This is quite telling for someone who was a “perfectly rational and objective person,” as his friends described him.

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Rep. Luna Says Newly Released JFK Files Reveal He Sought Russia’s Help on Rogue CIA Agents Before Assassination

Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), leading the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said that the latest declassified documents concerning President John F. Kennedy’s assassination suggest he sought assistance from the Soviet Union to address rogue elements within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prior to his untimely death.

The declassification of approximately 80,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination has reignited debates over the circumstances surrounding Kennedy’s death.

The first batch of the declassified files includes a 1967 memo detailing claims by former U.S. Army intelligence officer Gary Underhill, who alleged that a “small clique within the CIA” was involved in Kennedy’s assassination.

Underhill reportedly fled Washington, D.C., in a state of agitation the day after the assassination, expressing fears for his life and suggesting that the CIA clique was engaged in illicit activities, including gun-running and narcotics trafficking.

He believed Kennedy had discovered these operations and was killed before he could expose them. Underhill was found dead six months later under suspicious circumstances, with the coroner ruling it a suicide. ​

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The crucial JFK file that was not released and still remains secret

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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Let’s talk about…the JFK files released!

Last night Donald Trump’s administration released two-thousand files, totaling over 60,000 pages, pertaining to the assassination of President John F Kennedy.

You can read them all here.

The files are in seemingly no order, with no index or search system, so combing through them will take a while.

The National Archive press release claims these are “all records previously withheld for classification”, but that’s then admit that’s not technically true [emphasis added]:

In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released. The National Archives has partnered with agencies across the federal government to comply with the President’s directive in support of Executive Order 14176. As of March 18, 2025, the records are available to access either online at this page or in person, via hard copy or on analog media formats, at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. As the records continue to be digitized, they will be posted to this page.

This is only the digitized ones, the undigitized ones are all available as well, you just have to go to the national archives in Maryland to see them. They’ll put those on the internet too, just as soon as they’re done digitizing them. Honest

Of course, the process of “digitizing the records” and the weeks it’s expected to take “historians and experts” to go over the files keeps the narrative open. They can add new files as they see fit to steer the conversation.

So far the media coverage has been exactly as you’d expect, with a quasi-religious repetition of the Official Story best exemplified by the pathetically predictable New York Times, where Adam Nagourney headlines simply:

Here’s what to know. (Oswald still did it.)

Propaganda so laughable you wonder if they’re really trying…and perhaps they’re not.

Social media reactions have been as you’d expect, too.

Republicans claim this is a case of “promises made, promises kept”. Democrats claim there’s no new information here, it’s just the same files Biden released with parts unredacted.

As is usually the case, it’s likely neither is entirely correct.

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Author and JFK Expert Reveals a Critical JFK File That Was Not Released to the Public and Still Remains a Secret

Questions remain regarding the assassination of JFK even after President Trump fulfilled one of his long-standing political promises to release the files.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Donald Trump ordered the release of approximately 1,123 PDF files of previously classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, fulfilling a long-standing promise to declassify all remaining records.

These files, part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, are accessible online at the National Archives (JFK Release 2025) or in person at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

There were several highlights, especially concerning alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The files reveal Oswald was reportedly considered a “poor shot” during his target practice in the USSR, was under surveillance by the CIA 59 days before the assassination, and was a spy.

The files also show that former CIA agent Gary Underhill claimed the agency was responsible for JFK’s assassination. He was later found dead in what was ruled a “suicide.” More shockingly, a man named Sergy Czornonoh reportedly knew that Oswald would be killed after assassinating Kennedy and that legendary civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. would also be assassinated. Czornonoh also allegedly knew in advance that Kennedy would be killed in Dallas.

But there remain unanswered questions, particularly surrounding the CIA and the man who succeeded Kennedy as president following the assassination: Lyndon Baines Johnson.

James Johnston, author of “Murder, Inc.: The CIA under John F. Kennedy,” explained to the USA Today revealed that a crucial document exists but has not been turned over to the National Archives. This paper concerns the first one-on-one conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and CIA Director John McCone, which occurred after Johnson assumed power following JFK’s assassination.

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Here Are Some of the Biggest Bombshells Uncovered by Internet Sleuths in the Newly Released JFK Files

President Donald Trump ordered the release of approximately 1,123 PDF files of previously classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, fulfilling a long-standing promise to declassify all remaining records.

These files, part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, are accessible online at the National Archives (JFK Release 2025) or in person at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

Internet sleuths and researchers have been combing through these files, uncovering what they believe are significant revelations.

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