blast from the past
As reported this morning on the front pages of newspapers in a town near you, the CIA released (”declassified”) a censored document called the Family Jewels, consisting of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency’s charter. Declassified 34 years later as a result of a Freedom Of Information (FOI) request, you can read it for yourself at the CIA’s FOIA Electronic Reading Room.
After reading the portion about John Roselli (a Mafioso recruited by the agency to murder Castro), further research led me to some interesting material about the Kennedy Assasination. Along the way I learned more about the following men: James Files; Mark Lane; and E. Howard Hunt (the Watergate break-in organizer). For instance, I learned that William F. Buckley Jr. worked with Hunt at the CIA’s Mexico City office in 1950. More interesting than that, however, I arrived at a plausible motive for the CIA to kill President Kennedy: because they were pissed off at him for failing to overturn the Castro regime. Aha!