Axios on JFK Facts: CIA Admits Agent Monitored Oswald Before JFK Assassination

Revelations in the release of a long-suppressed file of a Miami-based undercover officer in 1963

George Joannides, decorated CIA officer who served as chief of covert action operations in Miami in 1963. (Credit: Chad Nagle)

After more than a decade of resistance, the CIA on July 3 released portions of the personnel file of George Joannides, an undercover officer whose agents publicized accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, three months before the ass…