From the JFK Files, CIA Secrets of a Long Dead Poet

The Agency hides the story of a woman who helped in the JFK cover-up

Eunice Odio, communist poet of interest to the CIA (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Among the JFK files still kept secret by the U.S. government are key documents of obvious relevance to the JFK assassination story.

There’s a 1961 White House memo about JFK’s plans for reorganizing the CIA after the CIA’s failed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba that left Kennedy wanting the splinter the Agency into a thousand pieces. The CIA has censored five entire pages —apparently about CIA operations in Latin America — that remain hidden from public view 63 years later.

The personnel file of Miami covert action chief George Joannides contains 44 documents about his cover and intelligence methods while handling agents who had repeated contact with accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1963. These administrative memos are “denied in full” six decades later.

And certain passages in the plans for Operation Northwoods, the Pentagon’s notorious top-secret false flag scheme to provoke a U.S. invasion of Cuba in 1963, are still blacked out.

But the biggest single biggest redaction in the 3,400-plus secret JFK files that I have ever seen concerns a virtually unknown character in the JFK story: a Costa Rican poet who died penniless in Mexico City 50 years ago.

Which begs the question: Why would the CIA be hiding her secrets?