JFK Assassination Papers Won't Reveal Anything
Incompetence killed JFK--not an American conspiracy
Some sampling of American federal government records related to the assassination of JFK, and its aftermath, are being declassified and released.
The probability of there being some smoking gun in these released documents is exactly zero. Too bad I don’t have time to dive in and examine them, but it’s just not worth the effort.
So, without the benefit of whatever’s in the recently released documents (or for that matter, any other documents that will be released in the future) here’s the likely truth of the JFK killing, the aftermath, and the decades-long cover-up:
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TL;DR version:
Oswald was an agent of the KGB. The killing was a KGB assassination operation. It was planned by the KGB. Various phases of the operation were carried out by KGB officers, Cuban and other foreign KGB proxies, American and other KGB agents.
The CIA and the FBI failed at their jobs. In the aftermath of the assassination American security agencies, mainly the CIA and the FBI, stonewalled, blocked, and impeded investigations into their failures.
The common misperception of the CIA and FBI blocking of information is that those agencies must therefore have been responsible for the assassination. Those agencies would rather the public believe the myth that they carried out a hyper-competent conspiracy and assassinated JFK. They’re hiding, instead, the mundane reality that their incompetence allowed a foreign conspiracy to kill JFK.
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Expanded Version
It's clear that the KGB was responsible for the plot that killed JFK. What other organization successfully assassinated multiple people throughout the world, from the 1920s to the 1970s, including North and South America? What other organization had a massive group of professionals with extensive experience in assassination and related operations, going back 40 years? Only the KGB. (Okay, yes, the Mossad, too. But they had no history of such operations in the Americas, nor expertise here.)
The CIA? A bunch of bumbling Ivy Leaguers pretending to be high-speed low-drag double-nought spies. They had trouble operating their way out of a paper bag. Global assassination operations? They dreamed of such, but bungled everything they tried. No way were they able to carry out an intricate assassination plot in full view of the American public. The CIA was a clown car of Ivy League posers. The reason that you don’t hear about their successes is because they had none. Secrecy conceals incompetence.
The CIA’s successes include the assassinations of the Diem brothers in Vietnam, at the Kennedy brothers’ request. If you’re floundering around looking for a template of Agency assassination, that’s the one you should examine. It was contemporaneous with the KGB’s assassination of JFK. The contrast between the professionalism of the KGB’s hit and the CIA’s atrocious amateurism is stark.
The CIA was responsible for counter-intelligence--that is, protecting against hostile espionage operations targeting the USA. Like an American military man, Oswald, defecting to the USSR, and then coming back as a trained and primed agent of the KGB. The FBI would have responsibility, too. But the CIA's foreign counter-intelligence responsibilities would cover Oswald's situation. What was Oswald’s situation?
Oswald, an American military vet, defected to the USSR. American military/intel defectors to the USSR were handled by the KGB. They belonged to the KGB. Depending on their cooperation and malleability, American defectors were provided with more or less of a comfortable life. The KGB was expert at enveloping its targets, on its home turf, in a bubble of absolute control.
Oswald assimilated, improved his Russian, took a Russian wife, and had a comfortable life in Russia. He was obviously trained and prepared for an operational role.
Suddenly, Oswald re-defected, and returned to the USA. His case would have belonged to the CIA. He was apparently handled for a minimal period. During this time it appears the Agency determined Oswald was not of interest, nor a threat. They kept a loose eye on him, maybe connected him with some society hangers-on who were on the payroll. Ostensibly they were keeping an eye on him. They failed quite miserably.
There are multiple cases of counter-intelligence abject failure during the same time period as Oswald, by James
Angleton's pitifully incompetent (incompetent at actual operations, but highly skilled at CYA and covering-up their ineptitude with excessive secrecy) apparatus. The Nosenko/Golitsyn affair is probably the most high-profile. But, there were many others. There do not appear to be any successes, at least of note or worthwhile. He was a paranoid, drunken, treacherous, traitorous incompetent boob.
Oswald appears to have maintained contact with KGB handlers during his time back in the USA. Reading between the operational lines, it would appear that the KGB's massive operational assassination apparatus conceived of the plan, and provided the full range of support needed to carry it out. Since the 1930s, around the globe, they had successfully conducted such operations--most notably against Trotsky and his followers, or those accused of being his followers.
Once the op was successful, but the patsy, Oswald captured, a communist hitman shot Oswald, in full view of the world.So, Oswald was back in the USA, carrying out some sort of KGB operation, maybe cover activities to justify his meeting KGB (or Cuban proxies) handlers. The CIA was bungling around him--with some sort of attempt to keep an eye on him. Nonetheless, Oswald was able to meet the KGB operators, get the weapon, receive the plan, and carry it out, successfully.
Oops! Right under their noses, CIA counter-intelligence (James Angleton) lets a known KGB asset assassinate the president.
That's why the cover-up began.
Clearly the deep state does not want these records to see the light of day.
That said, it’s very likely that the reason for this desire is probably the exact opposite of what Oliver Stone and his co-theorists imagine.
The CIA has a long history of incompetence and inability to actually carry out a complex covert operation.
During the Kennedy time-frame (post-WW2 to ’70), the CIA was enmeshed in insane, inept and incompetent operations—LSD, psychic distance visioning, 75 different whacky assassination plots against Castro, an internal witch-hunt of CI incompetence fueled by the psychotic James Angleton, and much, much more. Substantially all the agents the CIA recruited in East Germany were actually working for the Stasi. The same was true for Cubans recruited by the CIA—all were working for Cuban intel. At that time, there were virtually NO successful covert operations. ALL successes have been revealed already.
The dream of an omnipotent CIA staffed by masterminds calmly planning and implementing fiendishly clever, 5D chess plots around the world is just that–a dream. An example of the reality is the whole Watergate break-in debacle–planned and carried out by a team of crack ex-CIA operators, Hunt and company. The silliness of the whole plot, and the bungling implementation of it, should tell you all you need to know.
The belief that a super-secret, super-competent, super-compartmentalized domestic assassination squad could/would plan and implement the murder of an American president is ludicrous.
Also, at that time, the FBI was NOT the fake entrapment machine that it is today. They still investigated and targeted actual criminals (while sucking up personal secrets—real—of collateral targets). They did NOT regularly manipulate their targets. They gathered intel on the KGB, Martin King, the NAACP, the Communist Part, and more. But they were NOT operational manipulators (see today’s Jan 6 Insurrection for their current M.O.).
So it is very, very unlikely that there was an internal coup conspiracy to cover-up.
What is thousands of times more likely is that the cover-up is of the CIA’s (and FBI’s) incompetence and ball-dropping as regards foreign and/or criminal operatives that DID plan and carry-out the killing.
The evidence clearly has Oswald in the high building, with a rifle, that was fired and struck Kennedy.
Oswald was the shooter. So, the question is: did he do it alone?
The evidence is, again, quite clear, and this is what is being covered up: Oswald was a KGB asset. It could not be more clear. He defected to the USSR and then returned. He met KGB in Mexico City in the run-up to the killing. He was funded from somewhere. He was involved in communist/anti-US operations in the period before the killing. And much more.
The KGB’s counter-intelligence was excellent, especially on their own soil. Someone like Oswald was viewed with harsh suspicion, and would have been subject to intense debriefing, vetting, and constant surveillance while in the USSR. He would not have been allowed to re-defect without there being a plan for his further use. Had there been any doubts about him, they’d send him to Siberia and cold storage forever, and he’d never been allowed back to the USA. Once back in in the USA, like a sleeper agent, he would be ready for use as and when needed. What that need might be would depend on the needs at the time.
Oswald was back in the USA, carrying out some sort of KGB operation, maybe cover activities to justify his meeting KGB (or Cuban proxies) handlers. The CIA was bungling around him--with some sort of attempt to keep an eye on him. Nonetheless, Oswald was able to meet the KGB operators, get the weapon, receive the plan, and carry it out, successfully.
Oswald was an excellent operational choice for the KGB to use for the killing.
The KGB had a long and successful history of carrying out hundreds of covert assassinations around the world. They were pros. The only other intel service with as much experience and expertise in this art is the Mossad.
The cover-up was/is to delay the exposure of the CIA/FBI counter-intelligence incompetence in identifying, tracking, monitoring, and shutting down Oswald and the operation that supported him.
They are covering up their abject failure. How much more damaging can a failure be than to have it cost the life of the president? It does not get worse than that for a security bureaucracy.
They’d much rather deal with accusations of hyper-competence (FBI/CIA/Deep State pulled off a super-secret coup and decapitated the executive branch) than have to deal with exposure of their hyper-INCOMPETENCE.
The CIA's cover-up was all about CYA (cover their ass). They bungled again, and it was pretty serious. That's why they're still obfuscating, 62 years later, and making the simple complicated.
James Angleton, the long-time head of CIA counter-intelligence was a drunken buffoon, compromised by multiple foreign services--UK, Israel, and more. His facade of ultra-secrecy hid incompetence and fealty to hostile foreign powers. There were no super-duper operations--just complicated frauds and gyrations to hide his incompetence.
The entire cover-up after JFK was to hide incompetence and ineptness.
Keep dreaming of an uber-powerful CIA pulling strings around the world, arranging things just so. The real world may be too simple and clear for complicated minds unfamiliar with reality, but there it is.
Occam’s Razor. A competent professional covert action organization carried out a hit on a US president.
An incompetent counter-intelligence and national security organization, embarrassed at its abject failure(s) covered up the truth.
QED.
Ruby brings the mafia into the picture. What is your take on his involvement?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/03/ron-unz/how-israel-killed-the-kennedys/