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Docs: CIA Had Contact With Oswald Before JFK's Assassination
Newsmax ^ | July 6, 2025 | Jim Morley

Posted on 07/06/2025 9:15:39 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

Almost 62 years after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the Central Intelligence Agency has revealed that one of their officers had contact with Lee Harvey Oswald before and after the November killing, documents released this week and first reported by Axios have revealed.

The documents concern a CIA officer who specialized in psychological warfare known as George Joannides. The crux of the revelation is in a document dated Jan 17, 1963 revealing that Joannides had an alias and fake driver’s license under the name “Howard Gebler.” Prior to Thursday's document revelation, the CIA had denied that “Howard” was in fact Joannides, who had been in contact with an anti-communist activist group working against Cuba’s dictator Fidel Castro.

The CIA had claimed for decades their operatives had no connection with the Cuban Student Directorate, which is where the activists published Oswald’s pro-Castro writings following the assassination. The student group was often referred to as DRE for its Spanish-language initials. Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination told the outlet, “The cover story for Joannides is officially dead. This is a big deal. The CIA is changing its tune on Lee Harvey Oswald.”

The CIA’s Miami Division oversaw “all aspects of political action and psychological warfare” and was where Joannides served as deputy chief. The agency funneled money to the anti-Castro student group and covertly directed their actions. In August of 1963, four DRE members got into an altercation with Oswald in New Orleans while he was passing out pro-Castro “Fair Play for Cuba Committee” literature. Weeks later, Oswald debated DRE activists on local television, giving his communist leanings more public exposure. Both incidents were portrayed in Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JFK.”

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To: yesthatjallen

yes but speculative is more fun and sells books!


41 posted on 07/06/2025 11:25:31 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Navy Patriot

Doctors find ammo in Kennedy’s skull that don’t match Oswald gun the wind changed the design huh Moe.


42 posted on 07/06/2025 11:28:43 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: yesthatjallen
”Oswald alone killed Kennedy”

Please provide your evidence to support this statement. The Warren Commission issued a 26 volume report and didn’t provide conclusive evidence that would have survived the scrutiny of a court trial and cross examination. Maybe YOU have some new super duper incredible evidence that none of us have ever known about to back your statement. Share it with us will you?

43 posted on 07/06/2025 11:44:24 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Navy Patriot

It shows someone in the CIA had “contact” with Oswald. It does not show that someone directed Oswald in any way.


44 posted on 07/06/2025 12:05:25 PM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: Navy Patriot

It was a radio debate, and Oswald came across as uninformed and was embarrassed.
“Oswald debated DRE activists on local television, ... “
Some think this was what uhhh triggered him to carry out the murder.


45 posted on 07/06/2025 12:15:51 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: yesthatjallen

Because only you know what really happened.


46 posted on 07/06/2025 12:54:29 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Navy Patriot

Very interesting.

But this piece is so terribly written. Reads like a rough draft.


47 posted on 07/06/2025 1:23:08 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: laconic
why Gerald Ford, as a member of the Warren Commission, admitted right before he died that he had altered the autopsy drawing of JFK’s back to move the bullet hole several inches upward, in the back of the neck, to support the farce known as the single bullet theory.

Oh, my word, that's terrible! When and where did that news come out?

48 posted on 07/06/2025 1:36:10 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: cgbg
The murder of a beloved President in broad daylight live on TV was a form of mass trauma for the entire country. The CIA discovered in its MK Ultra experiments that mind control was most effective after the subject was traumatized.

Certainly worked during the plandemic.

49 posted on 07/06/2025 1:41:33 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: Albion Wilde

Agreed—excellent example of mind control at work.


50 posted on 07/06/2025 1:42:20 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Albion Wilde

NY Times, July 3, 1997. Ford also wrote the 2004 foreword to a revised edition of the Warren Commission Report that the CIA had kept critical secrets from the Commission during its review.


51 posted on 07/06/2025 1:43:59 PM PDT by laconic ())
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To: Jim Noble
And they all kept their mouths shut?

“When any two people know anything in Washington it's a conspiracy''.

52 posted on 07/06/2025 2:16:55 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Navy Patriot

They believe Oswald took a shot at Major General Edwin Walker at his home, before he allegedly killed Kennedy. Was the CIA involved in that too?


53 posted on 07/06/2025 2:22:39 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: laconic

Wow. I always thought he was one of the good guys. There had to have been enormous Establishment pressure that tempted him to do it, and he probably felt weak because he was an “accidental” president. But eww.

In the end I guess he still was a good guy, in the sense that he confessed and tried to correct the record.


54 posted on 07/06/2025 2:22:59 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: cgbg
"...so technically it was a rogue operation within the CIA."

Which most of their operations were and are. The less people involved, the easier the coverup.

55 posted on 07/06/2025 2:23:45 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: SaxxonWoods
"The building was vacant."

The building wasn't vacant. It was a business with many employees, and running that day.

56 posted on 07/06/2025 2:25:29 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: fella
"“Doctor Mary’s Monkey” has a lot more about Oswald’s activity in New Orleans."

Oswald traveled to Mexico and visited the Soviet and Cuban embassy there in September 1963. He was looking for a visa to travel through Cuba and then on to Russia. Supposedly.

57 posted on 07/06/2025 2:29:43 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Navy Patriot

I bet they had contact with Jack Ruby as well! LOL!


58 posted on 07/06/2025 2:35:04 PM PDT by parmamenian (an)
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To: alternatives?

“x-rays were “lost” and a skull section was “lost” is all you need to know.”

Shadowbox and resin paperweight in some obscure office around McLean Virginia.


59 posted on 07/06/2025 5:32:10 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Jim Noble

F.B.I. for certain. Any number of state, local, and federal agencies should have rounded him up during a visit by the CINC.


60 posted on 07/06/2025 7:06:00 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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