“After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1993, it seemed that the CIA was desperate to accept the version of events proposed by the FBI, the president’s personal guard and other parts of the government,” Philip Chenon and Larry J. Sabato report to Politico. - According to the official story, an insane renegade and self-proclaimed Marxist named Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president in Dallas with his $ 21 mail-order rifle, and there was no evidence of a conspiracy, foreign or domestic. Of course, the CIA leadership told the Warren Commission - the independent commission that investigated the murder - that there was no evidence of a conspiracy that could throw intelligence off the trail."
“However, the thousands of pages of long-classified documents pertaining to the assassination released by the National Archives last week show that several years after Kennedy's assassination, some CIA officials began to internally question the veracity of the official story. The agency never made this alarm public,”the article says.
In particular, CIA officers were worried that the FBI, the President's personal guard and the Warren Commission did not study Oswald's interactions with foreign agents, including diplomats and spies from Cuba and the USSR.
“CIA documents also contain seductive evidence of a chain of events in late 1963 explaining a motive for Kennedy’s assassination that had not previously been established with certainty - namely, that he could have become angry when he read a detailed article in his New Orleans city newspaper in September that that his character Castro is slated for assassination by the Kennedy administration. According to this theory, Oswald, who was trained in rifle shooting in the Marine Corps, tried to avenge Castro - to kill Kennedy before the American President kills the Cuban leader,”the article says.
“If this were confirmed, a terrible question for the CIA would arise: is it possible that the assassination of Kennedy was a direct or indirect consequence of the conspiracies of this special service to assassinate Castro? It would eventually be admitted that the CIA (sometimes in cahoots with the Mafia) tried repeatedly to assassinate Castro throughout Kennedy's presidency. The CIA's arsenal of weapons to assassinate Castro includes a diving suit infected with a fungus, a poisoned hypodermic needle hidden in a pen, and even an explosive cigar. The Warren Commission, which has never been informed of the CIA conspiracies, has most often avoided questions about Oswald's motives, in addition to indicating in its final report that he expressed "hatred of American society," the report goes on.
"None of the files released last week dispute the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald killed Kennedy with shots from his hiding place on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, Dallas - a conclusion confirmed by 21st century criminological analysis." and also that there was no reliable evidence of a second arrow, the authors point out. “However, the new documents again raise the question of why the CIA, so skeptical about many of the commission's other conclusions by the 1970s, never admitted these doubts to subsequent government investigators - or the public. Documents published decades ago show that CIA and FBI officials have repeatedly misled - and often outright deceived - Chief Justice Warren and his commission, possiblyto hide evidence that these agencies had screwed up surveillance of Oswald prior to the assassination of the president. In addition, there are indications that the CIA was trying to prevent the commission from coming across evidence that could reveal the agency's conspiracies to assassinate Castro and other foreign leaders."
“According to documents released last week, the CIA in the 1970s was alarmed to realize that no one had really worked through the circumstances of the most mysterious chapter in Oswald's life - a apparently self-funded six-day trip to Mexico City that began in late September. 1963, two months before the murder. The reason for this trip was never determined with certainty, although he told his wife Marina that he wanted a visa that would allow him to cross over to Cuba. Before that, he tried to defect to the Soviet Union,”the article says.
Among the documents released is a 75-page CIA memo that “offers a detailed version of the chain of events that led to Oswald's assassination of Kennedy, namely that Oswald, who lived in his hometown of New Orleans for most of 1963, may have inspired the assassination of the President if - which seems possible - on Monday 9 September I read an article in a local newspaper that said the United States was aiming to kill Castro,”the authors report.
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Philip Chenon, Larry J. Sabato