From the New JFK Files, the Untold Story of Angleton and Oswald
Nine documents about the legendary counterintelligence chief James Angleton expose his 'deeply deceptive' actions concerning the patsy/assassin
The latest of the JFK assassination files, released by President Donald Trump last week, yielded 13 newly declassified documents about CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton. These long-secret records, along with others released with less fanfare in recent years, implicate the legendary spymaster more deeply in the intelligence failure represented by the murder of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.
These unexpurgated FBI and CIA memoranda complicate the comforting narrative that the liberal president was killed by a “lone nut” who murdered for reasons known only to himself and denied committing the crime, supposedly because he was guilty of it.
The new JFK files tell a different story. They show that Lee Harvey Oswald, far from being an isolated so…
