Lee Harvey Oswald was a trained CIA operative — and his American spymasters covered it up after he assassinated President John F. Kennedy!
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“I have reviewed hundreds of thousands of JFK-assassination documents over my 50-year career as a forensics expert, and it is my firm opinion the McCone-Rowley memo is authentic,” Jaffe, author of upcoming JFK assassination book “Chain of Evidence,” told The ENQUIRER.
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That long-suspected yet never-proved revelation has finally been verified through a bombshell, smoking-gun memo obtained by
The National ENQUIRER. The memo was written by then-CIA director
John McCone to
James J. Rowley (left to right), then head of the Secret Service.
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Dated March 3, 1964, it bears the subject heading, “Central Intelligence Report on the Assassination of John Kennedy.” In it, McCone noted he’s writing to Rowley regarding “Lee Oswald’s activities and assignments on behalf of this agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation."
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“Oswald subject was trained by this agency, under cover of Naval Intelligence, for Soviet assignments," the memo noted. “During preliminary training in 1957, subject was active in aerial reconnaissance of mainland China and maintained a security clearance up to the ‘confidential’ level.”
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McCone’s memo was provided to The ENQUIRER by
Stephen Jaffe, who worked with New Orleans District Attorney
Jim Garrison (left) on the only investigation that led to charges in Kennedy’s Nov. 22, 1963 murder in Dallas, Texas.
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“The tone of secrecy is typical of how agency directors
worked to suppress the truth about Kennedy’s assassination," he observed. "The way Oswald is referred to also rings true. The fact that they call him ‘Oswald subject’ – that’s agency-speak!”
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The memo has emerged as the National Archives prepared to release thousands of pages of previously classified documents pertaining to the
Warren Commission’s assassination investigation. But the McCone-Rowley memo will likely not be part of that document dump.
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That's because McCone, shown here with JFK and his CIA predecessor,
Allen Dulles, feared the
incriminating information would be leaked! “I recommend that unless the [Warren] Commission makes a specific request for specific information contained herein, that this information not be volunteered,” he wrote.
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“This agency has reason to assume that some junior Commission staff members may be potential sources of leaks to the news media or to other agencies; due to the highly sensitive nature of the enclosed material, it would certainly be in the national interest to withhold it as this time.”
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McCone, shown here briefing
President Lyndon B. Johnson, said he feared leaking the information “would lead the media to erroneously claim this agency,
and perhaps others, were directly involved in the Dallas action.” Shockingly, the memo spelled out Oswald’s training by the CIA in detail.
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Oswald enlisted in the Marines on Oct. 24, 1956, and was posted to Naval Air Facility Atsugi, near Tokyo, where the CIA also had a super-secret facility. “Subject received additional indoctrination at our own Camp Peary site,” McCone wrote, referring to a Virginia military base.
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He added that Oswald “participated in a few relatively minor assignments until arrangements were made for his entry into the Soviet Union in September of 1959.” Historians have long asserted that Oswald, who met and married Muscovite
Marina Puraskova (right) in 1961,
defected to the USSR — although McCone’s letter proves it was all part of a CIA plot!
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“While in the Soviet Union, he was on special assignment in the area of Minsk. It would not be advantageous at this time to divulge the specifics of that assignment,” he wrote. That’s when Oswald may have been flipped by Soviet spies, according to McCone.
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“Speculation ... is that Oswald subject became unstable following surgery April 1, 1961, in the Minsk Hospital,” McCone wrote. “He may have been chemically or electronically ‘controlled’ ... a sleeper agent.”
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“It is my understanding,” he wrote, “Mr. Hoover has certain sensitive information within his agency, which has [been] transferred to his own personal files for safekeeping; he concurs that no material should be voluntarily given to the Commission which
might affect the status of field operatives or their safety.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
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“I have reviewed hundreds of thousands of JFK-assassination documents over my 50-year career as a forensics expert, and it is my firm opinion the McCone-Rowley memo is authentic,” Jaffe, author of upcoming JFK assassination book “Chain of Evidence,” told The ENQUIRER.
Photo credit: Getty Images
That long-suspected yet never-proved revelation has finally been verified through a bombshell, smoking-gun memo obtained by
The National ENQUIRER. The memo was written by then-CIA director
John McCone to
James J. Rowley (left to right), then head of the Secret Service.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Dated March 3, 1964, it bears the subject heading, “Central Intelligence Report on the Assassination of John Kennedy.” In it, McCone noted he’s writing to Rowley regarding “Lee Oswald’s activities and assignments on behalf of this agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation."
Photo credit: Getty Images
“Oswald subject was trained by this agency, under cover of Naval Intelligence, for Soviet assignments," the memo noted. “During preliminary training in 1957, subject was active in aerial reconnaissance of mainland China and maintained a security clearance up to the ‘confidential’ level.”
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McCone’s memo was provided to The ENQUIRER by
Stephen Jaffe, who worked with New Orleans District Attorney
Jim Garrison (left) on the only investigation that led to charges in Kennedy’s Nov. 22, 1963 murder in Dallas, Texas.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“The tone of secrecy is typical of how agency directors
worked to suppress the truth about Kennedy’s assassination," he observed. "The way Oswald is referred to also rings true. The fact that they call him ‘Oswald subject’ – that’s agency-speak!”
Photo credit: Getty Images
The memo has emerged as the National Archives prepared to release thousands of pages of previously classified documents pertaining to the
Warren Commission’s assassination investigation. But the McCone-Rowley memo will likely not be part of that document dump.
Photo credit: Getty Images
That's because McCone, shown here with JFK and his CIA predecessor,
Allen Dulles, feared the
incriminating information would be leaked! “I recommend that unless the [Warren] Commission makes a specific request for specific information contained herein, that this information not be volunteered,” he wrote.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“This agency has reason to assume that some junior Commission staff members may be potential sources of leaks to the news media or to other agencies; due to the highly sensitive nature of the enclosed material, it would certainly be in the national interest to withhold it as this time.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
McCone, shown here briefing
President Lyndon B. Johnson, said he feared leaking the information “would lead the media to erroneously claim this agency,
and perhaps others, were directly involved in the Dallas action.” Shockingly, the memo spelled out Oswald’s training by the CIA in detail.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Oswald enlisted in the Marines on Oct. 24, 1956, and was posted to Naval Air Facility Atsugi, near Tokyo, where the CIA also had a super-secret facility. “Subject received additional indoctrination at our own Camp Peary site,” McCone wrote, referring to a Virginia military base.
Photo credit: Getty Images
He added that Oswald “participated in a few relatively minor assignments until arrangements were made for his entry into the Soviet Union in September of 1959.” Historians have long asserted that Oswald, who met and married Muscovite
Marina Puraskova (right) in 1961,
defected to the USSR — although McCone’s letter proves it was all part of a CIA plot!
Photo credit: Getty Images
“While in the Soviet Union, he was on special assignment in the area of Minsk. It would not be advantageous at this time to divulge the specifics of that assignment,” he wrote. That’s when Oswald may have been flipped by Soviet spies, according to McCone.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“Speculation ... is that Oswald subject became unstable following surgery April 1, 1961, in the Minsk Hospital,” McCone wrote. “He may have been chemically or electronically ‘controlled’ ... a sleeper agent.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
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“It is my understanding,” he wrote, “Mr. Hoover has certain sensitive information within his agency, which has [been] transferred to his own personal files for safekeeping; he concurs that no material should be voluntarily given to the Commission which
might affect the status of field operatives or their safety.”
Photo credit: Getty Images