The Oswald File: A Master Class

We're going to crowd-source and data mine the CIA's pre-assassination dossier on patsy/assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Join us.

As I explained in a post earlier this week, patsy/assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was surveilled by five top-secret code-named CIA operations in the four years before JFK was killed. You may know a lot about the JFK assassination story but you probably didn’t know that peculiar fact. I didn’t either until the latest JFK releases in which mainstream news platforms assured us there was no “smoking gun.”

You may have also heard one of the sturdiest cliche’s of JFK research: “Anything incriminating was destroyed by the CIA long ago.” The declassification of the agency’s pre-assassination file on Oswald provides convincing refutation of that outdated notion.

In fact, the complete pre-assassination Oswald file must be considered as a new JFK assassination record. It was not fully declassified until May 2023, when the Agency belatedly coughed up the name of Reuben Efron, a long deceased CIA operations officer who (the agency didn’t admit for 61 years) had been reading Lee Harvey Oswald’s mail in Langley while JFK worked in the Oval Office.

All told the CIA file contains 42 different reports on Oswald’s movements, foreign contacts, politics, and personal life from November 1959 to November 1963. While these documents have been declassified scattershot over the last 20 years, they have never been collected in one place, until now. I assembled the Oswald file from invaluable online archive of the Mary Ferrell Foundation. Taken as a whole, the Oswald file is one of the most important assassination-related documents to be released in recent years by Presidents Trump and Biden.

That’s why I’m teaching THE OSWALD FILE, a master class, on four consecutive Wednesdays, starting October 23 and running through November 13.

The Oswald file is actually quite incriminating about the CIA’s malfeasance in Kennedy’s assassination. You merely have to understand its contents in the context of the Cold War:

• Who at the CIA assembled this file on an itinerant ex-Marine in his early 20s;

• What top CIA officials thought of his defection to the Soviet Union and return to the United States two years later;

• What kinds of covert operations these CIA officers ran;

• How five code-named operations collected intelligence on Oswald’s travels, contacts and personal life; and

• What decisions top covert operations officers made about Oswald as he made his way to Dallas where JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963, supposedly by the man the clandestine service had been surveilling for four years.

The Oswald File is the story behind the JFK story.

The Oswald File: A Master Class

In four live sessions starting October 23, I will take participants in the course through the pre-assassination Oswald file and explain how this obscure itinerant leftist (who would deny killing JFK) became caught up in some of the most sensitive operations the CIA was running at the time.

Together we will learn how covert operations were organized and memorialized by the CIA. We will learn now to decipher CIA communications. We will crowd-source the documents in the Oswald file to extract new data and insights about the causes of the assassination. (And we’ll see if AI can’t help in the search for historical truth.)

If you understand the Oswald file, you will understand the causes of November 22, 1963 with new clarity. If you don’t, you won’t.

JFK Facts editor Jefferson Morley

How to Join the Class

Participants who enroll in THE OSWALD FILE Master Class will receive a copy of the pre-assassination Oswald file—not available anywhere else—and a free one year paid subscription to JFK Facts newsletter on Substack.

Paid and Founding subscribers to JFK Facts get a 20 percent discount on the enrollment fee, as well as the complete Oswald file. (Paid subscribers: watch your email for a discount coupon for course enrollment.)

Everybody is welcome, whatever your perspective on the JFK story. This class does not offer or defend any JFK conspiracy (or anti-conspiracy) theory. It is a fact-based, crowd-sourced, open-source investigation, with the goal of developing verifiable facts and insights about the events of November 1963.

Seating is limited. So sign up now.

The class is hosted by Fresh Learn, a learning management platform to which participants have full access to the course videos, group discussions, collaboration documents, and technical support.

For more information go here: The Oswald File: A Master Class.