Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Why Is the Establishment Ignoring the Recently Declassified JFK Files?
The American Conservative ^ | November 28, 2025 | Harrison Berger

Posted on 12/04/2025 8:09:27 AM PST by Angelino97

Overshadowed by the recent revelations in the Epstein files, the 62nd anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination came and went with little notice. Yet new documents relating to that still-unsolved murder—released only recently by the Trump administration—deserve far more scrutiny than they have received from corporate media.

From the moment the latest batch of disclosures emerged this past March, the Democratic Party and their allies in corporate media assumed their familiar role as CIA stenographers, either overlooking—or outright refusing to look at—what more than 60,000 documents revealed.

At an April 1 House hearing, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)—illustrating the Democratic Party’s loyalty to the U.S. security state—confidently insisted that the JFK files “show no evidence of a CIA conspiracy,” and complained that even hearing testimony from Oliver Stone, Jefferson Morley, and Jim DiEugenio amounted to “platform[ing] conspiracy theories.”

The New York Times’ Julian Barnes echoed the Democratic congresswoman nearly word for word, announcing definitively that “the CIA did not kill JFK…Oswald acted alone,” despite the sheer volume of documents that no reporter could have seriously reviewed in such a short span of time. Speed-readers Lalee Ibssa and Diana Paulsen of ABC News likewise asserted that, by calling for Congress to reopen the investigation into Kennedy’s assassination, filmmaker Oliver Stone was “reviv[ing] unfounded conspiracy theories.”

But despite committed insistence from Democrats and their corporate media allies, the Trump administration’s JFK disclosures, along with troves of previously released files, do in fact suggest a CIA conspiracy. We have ample documentation from unsealed congressional records of who worked hard to cover it up—among them a consortium of CIA officials who systematically lied to the Warren Commission, misleading the public investigation about the prime suspect in the president’s murder, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Perhaps the main architect of that cover-up was the CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton, who, despite being the counterintelligence chief presiding over what was supposedly the worst intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor, wound up deeply involved in the CIA’s official investigation into the assassination.

Though Angleton insisted that the agency was inattentive to Oswald and unaware of the purpose of his activities leading up to Dallas, it has since been disclosed through unclassified JFK assassination records that Angleton personally maintained a classified 201 intelligence/surveillance file on Oswald for the four years preceding Kennedy’s assassination, strictly controlling which officials inside the CIA were permitted to see it through compartmentalization.

Angleton’s deceptions to investigators are so numerous that 60 years later they are still being uncovered; in one notable instance only revealed this year, Angleton committed perjury before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, claiming he knew almost nothing about Lee Harvey Oswald before the shooting. In another, Angleton concealed the fact that Oswald had visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City—a visit the CIA publicly claimed it only discovered after the assassination.

As Jefferson Morley, author of The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton, explained, the counter-intelligence chief “preferred to wait out the Warren Commission rather than explain the CIA’s knowledge of and interest in Oswald’s visit to the Cuban consulate” in Mexico.

Though Angleton left the CIA in disgrace, dismissed by many colleagues as a paranoid obsessive, his legacy has been consistently venerated by Israel’s intelligence services. In his memoir, the former director of the Mossad, Meir Amit, famously described James Angleton as “the biggest Zionist of the lot,” adding that “his total identification with Israel was an extraordinary asset for us.”

As Morley writes, “Angleton’s loyalty to Israel betrayed US policy on an epic scale,” probably allowing the Israelis to build a nuclear bomb using stolen materials from the U.S.-based Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) facility at a time when it was the expressed policy of the U.S. government to prevent Israel from acquiring one.

"Angleton had regular professional and personal contact with at least six men aware of Israel’s secret plan to build a bomb. From Asher Ben Natan to Amos de Shalit to Isser Harel to Meir Amit to Moshe Dayan to Yval Ne’eman, his friends were involved in the building of Israel’s nuclear arsenal. If he learned anything of the secret program at Dimona, he reported very little of it. If he didn’t ask questions about Israel’s actions, he wasn’t doing his job. Instead of supporting U.S. nuclear security policy, he ignored it."

Among the most sensitive questions revived by the Trump administration’s releases is whether Israel may have had a role in or foreknowledge of the plot against Kennedy, who spent his final months battling the Israeli government over its nuclear program, its lobby power in the U.S., and the resettlement of Palestinians from the land the Israelis had expelled them from.

The mere suggestion that Israel may have been involved in Kennedy’s assassination, much more so than allegations against the CIA, produces the swiftest denunciations from across the establishment. When podcaster Theo Von made the allegation against Israel on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, for example, Israel loyalists like Amit Segal rapidly denounced the claim as a “blood libel” and “antisemitic.” CyberWell, an Israeli-helmed censorship outfit staffed by former Israeli intelligence officials that partners with every major social-media platform, has likewise labeled the allegation an antisemitic conspiracy theory and worked with those platforms to censor it from the internet.

The intensity with which critics denounce anyone who raises the question mirrors the vigor with which the government spent decades scrubbing any trace of the connection from its own files. For decades, dozens of references to “Israel,” “Tel Aviv,” and even the identities of Angleton’s Israeli operatives were blacked out of congressional testimony, including the Church Committee records.

In his 1975 Church Committee testimony, now available with many of the old redactions removed, Angleton confirms that during the CIA’s “Cuban business”—the covert campaign of sabotage and assassination plots against Castro run through Bill Harvey and Task Force W—he arranged for an Israeli intelligence officer in Havana to act as Harvey’s secret channel. According to Angleton, this “Israeli man” sent reports from Havana to Tel Aviv, from where they were passed directly to Angleton and then to Harvey.

This setup kept some of the agency’s most sensitive operations outside the normal CIA chain of command. A now-missing page of that same testimony uncovered by Aaron Good shows Angleton downplaying any need to brief CIA Director John McCone about his Israeli liaison, even while admitting that “what they were doing was enormous.”

Good also highlights how Angleton’s Israeli channel intersected with Lee Harvey Oswald. The Counterintelligence Staff officer assigned to read Oswald’s mail and collect it for the 201 surveillance file that Angleton maintained before the assassination was Reuben Efron—a committed Zionist who had lived in Israel, published on espionage in a World Zionist Organization–affiliated journal, and, as Jefferson Morley notes, sat in on Marina Oswald’s Warren Commission interview with no official role listed.

At the very moment a U.S. president was seeking to restrict Israel’s nuclear ambitions and limit the political power of its lobby in Washington, the CIA official in control of the Oswald file was secretly sharing intelligence channels, assassination communications, and off-the-books operatives with Israel—and lying to both Congress and potentially some of his own CIA colleagues about it.

The government spent 60 years redacting those facts and Americans have a right to know why.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dumbingdownfr; jfk; multiplenicks; randpaulsucks; trollfarm

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-77 next last

1 posted on 12/04/2025 8:09:27 AM PST by Angelino97
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Angelino97

It doesn’t say Trump did it.


2 posted on 12/04/2025 8:10:10 AM PST by for-q-clinton (ui)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Angelino97

Simple answer: If it doesn’t fit the leftist media agenda, then it isn’t news. Does anyone notice how quiet they’ve been about the Epstein files lately after all the pre-release noise?


3 posted on 12/04/2025 8:12:55 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Angelino97

Because everybody loves a conspiracy.


4 posted on 12/04/2025 8:13:41 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Angelino97

The JFK assassination planning, execution and decades long coverup has the Angleton “touch”.

The Counterintelligence Chief of the CIA was a master of ridiculously complex plots, schemes and propaganda.


5 posted on 12/04/2025 8:14:10 AM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jim W N

Conspiracies are exactly what intelligence agencies do.

Lol.


6 posted on 12/04/2025 8:14:52 AM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Angelino97

Look...It’s 60 years later....What would we learn that would change the fact that Kennedy was killed and so was his killer.


7 posted on 12/04/2025 8:16:27 AM PST by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sacajaweau

If you believe Oswald was the assassin then you have a lot to learn—even sixty years later.

He was a patsy—just like he said he was.

The fact that you don’t know that means the coverup remains in place—and has been successful.


8 posted on 12/04/2025 8:17:50 AM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: cgbg

“Gov’t Intelligence” - an oxymoron...


9 posted on 12/04/2025 8:18:37 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Jim W N

Classification, compartmentalization, “need to know”, secrecy—that is the stuff of “conspiracies”—and official government policy for every government around the world.

“Conspiracy” is a felony in almost every jurisdiction on the planet.

Amazing stuff for something that does not and cannot exist.

Lol.


10 posted on 12/04/2025 8:21:11 AM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Vigilanteman
Simple answer: If it doesn’t fit the leftist media agenda, then it isn’t news.

Yep! And my Tagline says it with every post.

11 posted on 12/04/2025 8:21:19 AM PST by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: cgbg
If you believe Oswald was the assassin then you have a lot to learn—even sixty years later.

I believe that Oswald was the sole and only assassin. It has been 60 years, yet no one has given us the name of the Real Killer.

12 posted on 12/04/2025 8:30:06 AM PST by Fiji Hill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: for-q-clinton

Task Force W should not be confused with Group W in “Alice’s Restaurant.”


13 posted on 12/04/2025 8:31:38 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Sacajaweau

How do you know the killer was killed? JFK’s family hired two doctors to do an autopsy and both concluded he was shot 3 times. Once from rear, twice in front.


14 posted on 12/04/2025 8:35:43 AM PST by alternatives?
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: cgbg

5 minutes in ‘The Snipers Nest’
Confirmed that Oswald
Was The Patsy.


15 posted on 12/04/2025 8:36:18 AM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: cgbg

Like I said...it doesn’t matter. Kennedy and Oswald are still dead.


16 posted on 12/04/2025 8:36:35 AM PST by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Angelino97

” Why Is the Establishment Ignoring the Recently Declassified JFK Files?”

The Establishment is a little bit busy right now trying to !GET! Trump.


17 posted on 12/04/2025 8:36:48 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fiji Hill
But Rob (Meathead) Reiner, in an interview with the Nation Magazine, some months ago, is preparing to give us a list of FOUR gunmen who were part of the assassination team.
18 posted on 12/04/2025 8:37:00 AM PST by Maine Mariner
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: cgbg

Even ABC recently had a Kennedy 2 hour show, and took the angle of the wounds in Connally and Kennedy backwards to the sniper’s nest. Oswald was up on the 6th floor working alone.


19 posted on 12/04/2025 8:39:34 AM PST by mfish13 ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Fiji Hill; cgbg

“no one has given us the name of the Real Killer.”

JFK’s family hired two doctors to do an autopsy and both concluded he was shot 3 times. Once from rear, twice in front. So you need two names?


20 posted on 12/04/2025 8:39:51 AM PST by alternatives?
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-77 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson