This week, the newly minted president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order authorizing the publication of classified records not yet published on the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
Given the imminent revelation of the details that are not yet known about the most famous assassination in history, there are four questions that the students of the case ask. be able to respond.
The Cuban murderer
One of the largest censored gaps in the National Archives records is found in an FBI file assembled on Herminio Diaz, a Cuban assassin believed to have killed 20 people and targeted political figures.
The file on Díaz begins in 1957 when he was involved in a plot to assassinate the president of Costa Rica. It has 30 pages, but there are still more than a dozen pages redacted.
Díaz was assassinated in 1966 when He was trying to kill Fidel Castro. He had entered the United States in the summer of 1963, shortly before JFK’s assassination, and it is known that the CIA had contact with him. He was granted political asylum and lived in Florida.
It is also known that Tony Cuestaanother man involved in Castro’s 1966 plot with Díaz, survived after attempting suicide with a hand grenade.
Cuesta then became friends with a fellow prisoner, Reinaldo Martínez Gómez. Decades later, Gómez made public that Cuesta told him that Díaz confessed to having been involved in the JFK assassination.
Gómez said he wanted to “get that out” before he died. Díaz’s well-known political coups also included the assassination of a top security official inside the Cuban consulate in Mexico in 1948. The question remains: What’s more than a dozen pages of redactions in your FBI file?
The secret memo on the CIA
Five months before JFK’s assassination, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.speechwriter and advisor to Kennedy, wrote a secret five-page memo titled: CIA reorganization.
It was written shortly after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and around the time Kennedy declared his intention to “split the CIA into a thousand pieces and spread it to the four winds.”
While part of the five-page memo has been released, a page and a half remains redacted. “The page is about why JFK was removed from the CIA, that’s very important,” he tells Daily Mail Jefferson Morley, a renowned expert on the JFK assassination who He has written three books about the CIA.
The blank section appears just before a discussion about the CIA and the “paramilitary war.” In the unredacted portions of the memo, Schlesinger suggests to President Kennedy that he dismantle the CIA.
The memo makes clear that the CIA was targeted during President Kennedy’s administration and gives substance to those who claim that the agency was involved in the murder.
In addition to preserving their own existence and power, some elements of the CIA were said to oppose what they considered a Kennedy weakness against communism.
When the redacted portion is released, it could bolster the theory that the CIA was involved or turned a blind eye to a plot to assassinate the president.
Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico
It is known that Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald he traveled to Mexico just weeks before the shooting to obtain visas for the Soviet Union and Cuba. However, of all the JFK files in the National Archives, the document with the most remaining blackouts concerns that trip.
The CIA kept Oswald under surveillance during the six-day visit. He was listening to conversations at the Soviet and Cuban embassies and recording his interactions with officials there.
Win Scottchief of the CIA station in Mexico City, later wrote that “all information relating to Lee Harvey Oswald was communicated immediately upon receipt” to CIA headquarters.
It included “the entire conversation that Oswald had from the Cuban Consulate with the Soviet Embassy.” A document of more than 70 pages detailing CIA operations in Mexico is included in the JFK files released so far.
But there are parts of it that are censored with numerous “Secret” marks. Those seeking the complete truth about what Oswald did in Mexico and Who might he have met there?they await the publication of the complete document.
Will this be the end of the mystery?
Trump’s order may not cover all records associated with the JFK assassination. There are many other records that They are not found in the National Archives.
According to author Jefferson Morley, the CIA still has “hundreds” of other records, and others are held by the Kennedy family.
And there are records of an interview with Jackie Kennedy in a private collection, in which she details her views on the lone gunman theory. “These documents must be part of the executive order,” Morley said.
“They should be public now, There is no legitimate national security information here,” he adds.
Other secret documents include CIA situation reports on Cuban exiles in Florida. Trump’s order gives the director of National Intelligence and the attorney general 15 days to develop a plan to release the remaining documents in the National Archives.
However, there is no deadline for his release, which Morley said means that “The matter can be postponed.”
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