A House Oversight Committee task force has uncovered new documents that dispute the official CIA narrative that the agency had little to no knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963.
The federal government’s chief foreign intelligence agency has claimed for more than 60 years that it was not aware of or involved in the plot to murder the nation’s 35th president, but the new documents raise additional questions about the CIA’s transparency and veracity, according to The Washington Post.
According to the documents, in 1963, George Joannides, a Miami-based CIA agent, was helping to finance and oversee a group of Cuban students who were opposed to the rise of Fidel Castro. Despite the CIA’s prohibition on domestic espionage, Joannides’ clandestine assignment was to handle anti-Castro propaganda and break up pro-Castro groups.
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