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Notice: Central Intelligence Agency admits to “benign cover-up” in J.F.K. assassination

Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission was created to determine the cause of Kennedy’s death and the motivation behind his assassination.

The Commission was made up of high-ranking figures in U.S. government, including future President Gerald Ford, then-president of the World Bank John J. McCloy, and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Allen Dulles.[1]

Kennedy had actually fired Dulles in 1961 for the Bay of Pigs, a failed military landing by the United States in Cuba which Dulles had played a major part in planning, and had insisted Kennedy approve. Kennedy was so enraged with the failure, it’s claimed he said he would, “splinter the C.I.A. into a million pieces and scatter it to the winds.”[2]

The Warren Commission interviewed members of the Secret Service, F.B.I., and C.I.A. during its investigation[3]. CIA officers were instructed by Director John McCone to give, “passive, reactive, and selective” answers to investigators[4].

This conscious omission[5] of information became known as a “benign cover-up”. According to agency reports, it was done to focus, “on what the Agency believed at the time was the ‘best truth’: that Lee Harvey Oswald, for as yet undetermined motives, had acted alone in killing John Kennedy.”[6]

After a year of investigation, the Warren Commission concluded the President had been shot and killed by a magic bullet.

[1] https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report

[2] https://gizmodo.com/the-story-behind-that-jfk-quote-about-destroying-the-ci-1793151211

[3] https://www.govinfo.gov/features/warren-commission-report-and-hearings

[4] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB493/docs/intell_ebb_026.PDF

[5] 18 U.S. Code § 1512 (c)(1)-(2) Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant

“(c) Whoever corruptly—

(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or

(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.”

[6] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB493/docs/intell_ebb_026.PDF