JFK FILES: The CIA Knew About Oswald And Did NOTHING?!

After six decades of government stonewalling, the National Archives has finally coughed up another 80,000 pages of previously classified documents on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. And lo and behold, the files confirm what everyone who is not a hopeless sheep suspected from the get-go: that the CIA was tracking Lee Harvey Oswald like a hawk before Nov. 22, 1963.

The newly released records provide details about Oswald’s suspicious little sojourn through Mexico City, where he visited the Soviet Embassy just weeks before Kennedy got killed in Dallas. According to intelligence reports, Oswald sought to secure a visa and had meetings with at least one K.G.B. agent, Valeriy Kostikov, who the C.I.A. identified as being with that agency’s 13th Department, which the C.I.A. said was involved in sabotage and assassinations. That must have been the kind of meeting that should have sent up flares, but rather than doing so it sounds as though the CIA just went laissez faire about what happened next.

It is worth noting that this claim regarding Kostikov has been disputed. A declassified memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1964 stated that the bureau’s files did not provide sufficient information to corroborate the CIA’s determination of Kostikov’s alleged role in the K.G.B.’s assassination operations. So in other words, the intelligence community itself was a bit unclear about what to make of Oswald’s interactions with Soviet officials. But the crucial fact remains that the CIA was watching him.

For decades, the official story has been that Oswald was a lone nut with a rifle ordered through the mail. But if that is the case, why do the files show the CIA intercepting his calls, tracking his movements and monitoring him abroad? Were they all too busy planning coups in Latin America to bother stopping a guy they already knew was bad news? Or were they letting it happen because Kennedy had made it painfully clear he was done playing ball with the Deep State?

This isn’t some fringe theory scrawled on a corkboard with red string. The files confirm that the CIA was actively monitoring Oswald. The intelligence community had their guy in their sights, knew he was talking to Soviet operatives, and still shrugged when he waltzed into Dealey Plaza. At best, that’s a spectacular failure of intelligence. At worst, well, you can do the math.

Kennedy had already earned enmity among the powerful. He was infuriated by the Bay of Pigs, openly hated J. Edgar Hoover, and wanted to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” That sort of talk doesn’t sit well with people in Washington. If anything, the files released this week prove that the official story is full of more holes than used bag of swiss cheese.

Of course, don’t expect the mainstream media to dive too deep into this. They’re too busy dismissing anyone who raises an eyebrow at these revelations as a tinfoil-hat-wearing basement dweller while pretending it’s totally normal that our government tracked a future presidential assassin and did absolutely nothing about it. Does it remind you of any recent events involving assassination attempts?

The real question isn’t whether the CIA knew something—it’s how much more will we find in the mountain of documents released today.

Let’s be clear: with 80,000 pages just dumped into the public domain, it will take weeks, if not months, to dig through everything. Who knows what’s still buried in the fine print? The story isn’t over—it’s just beginning.

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