Recently declassified CIA documents reveal the operational architecture of AMSANTA, a covert program that deployed Communist Party infiltrators across more than a dozen countries to penetrate Fidel Castro’s Cuba during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. The Assassination Records Review Board, which declassified millions of pages of JFK documents in the 1990s, released a handful of AMSANTA documents in 1999. The board never saw the entire AMSANTA file. The AMSANTA files became public after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna requested them from CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
JFK Facts Editor Jefferson Morley did a deep dive into the new AMSANTA files and found two memos disclosing — for what appears to be the first time — that CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover personally authorized an operation to penetrate a leftist organization, the Fair Pla…
