Before JFK's Death the CIA Compiled a 181-Page Dossier on Lee Harvey Oswald

AI-assisted analysts have identified at least 35 CIA officials who handled intelligence reports on the accused assassin while President Kennedy was alive

As part of his closing case to voters In the 2024 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised to release the last of the secret JFK assassination files, telling Joe Rogan (on a show viewed 51 million times), “I’m going to do it immediately, almost immediately, upon entering office.”

With leaders of the U.S. intelligence community now ferociously criticizing Trump’s nominees for top intelligence posts, the president-elect is “set for clash with CIA over JFK secret files.”

The disposition of the JFK files, now set by President Joe Biden’s June 2023 memo, will be determined by Trump, who could rescind and replace Biden’s order when he takes office in January. Trump aides recently told the New York Times, the president-elect plans “a series of executive orders on Day 1.”  

Two years ago, Trump raised expectations that the files would yield sensational revelations about President John F. Kennedy’s murder in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. “If they showed you what they showed me,” Trump told Andrew Napolitano, “you wouldn’t have released it either.” Likewise, Tucker Carlson claimed in December 2022 that a high-level source with access to the files told him the unseen material implicated the CIA.

But Trump downplayed such claims on Rogan’s podcast, saying, “I can’t tell you whether or not they’re going to find anything of interest.”

According to the National Archives, there are 3,648 assassination-related records in the government’s possession that still contain redactions, that is to say, blanked out passages.

Lee Harvey Oswald after his arrest for killing JFK, a crime that he denied comnitting.