Watching Oswald: The CIA's [Redacted] FEAT File

A new file illuminates what the CIA seeks to hide in 2023.

A CIA surveillance post in Mexico City as captured by a Cuban counterintelligence operation.

While President Biden and the CIA slammed the door on full JFK disclosure on June 30, a CIA surveillance file released with heavy redactions that same day tells a tale the clandestine service does not want you to know, a story about CIA counterintelligence and Lee Harvey Oswald.

Like the story of “The 17 Month Gap,” the story of a surveillance operation known as LIFEAT illuminates what the CIA wants to hide the most as the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy assassination approaches later this year: counterintelligence operations around the suspected assassin who claimed he was “a patsy” before being killed in police custody.

Here’s the heavily redacted LIFEAT file as it was recently released.

As with the revelations in “The Heath Memo,” it helps to know how the CIA ran covert operations in 1963, and how to read a CIA document today.

After Lee Oswald and his wife Marina returned to the United States from the Soviet Union in June 1962, the CIA’s Counterintelligence Staff monitored his movements.