JFK Files propose CIA involvement, multiple assassins

Just as people began to wonder if it would happen at all, the Trump administration uploaded thousands of files related to the assassination of JFK to the National Archives Tuesday evening.

President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 during the day. A subsequent Warren Commission report from the US government, prompted by President Lyndon B. Johnson and released 10 months after the incident, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a poor shot on a rattling foreign rifle, had done the job, and that he alone had done it.

However, the American public overwhelmingly rejected the theory, especially after the video of Abraham Zapruder surfaced. Previously declassified documents revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station manager provided instructions to agents on how to persuade more people of the Warren Committee's unconvincing conclusions.

Official version

The propaganda version of JFK's assassination is based on the premise that one bullet was fired from behind, slamming the president into the back of his head, leaving his armpits and attacking Texas Governor John Connally, who was sitting in the front seat. However, Zapruder's film clearly shows that the bullet hit a JFK from the front, whipping his head back. There are many other situations where you don't trust the propaganda version of what happened that day. A second government investigation established skeptics and ultimately contradicted the Warren Commission's whitewashing report. In 1979, the House Select Committee resumed the JFK incident. The committee ultimately concluded that JFK was “probably assassinated as a result of the plot,” but that could not pinpoint who was behind it.

Regarding one of the most dramatic events in American history, the most pressing question that has arisen over the past 60 years is not whether Oswald actually did it, but who actually did it, and why? This has become the subject of endless research, speculation, and piles of books and articles.

Among the experts, the main suspects of JFK's murder are the CIA, the Mafia, then President Lyndon Johnson, and the Soviets far behind. Many JFK assassination buffs believe that the murder was likely carried out not only by one of these suspects, but by a combination of them.

“Small Creek in the CIA”

The files that we pay a lot of attention after the document dump on March 18, 2025 are those that point to the CIA. The subject of the document, “Ramparts: John Garrett Underhill Jr., Samuel George Cummings, and Intermco,” dated July 19, 1967, focuses on former US Army intelligence officers who told a friend that “a small creek within the CIA is responsible for the assassination.”

The day after the assassination, the memo said, an upset Underhill quickly left Washington, telling his friend that he was afraid of his life and that he probably had to leave the country. Friends visited by Underhill said that the CIA faction who committed the act was carrying out a drug racket running a favorable gun. They were also manipulating politics for their own purposes. JFK thought he had learned this and was planning to take action.

According to this file, Underhill was the intelligence agency during World War II, and was powers on limited wars and small arms. He was the base of his first name, “in intimate terms with many high-ranking CIA staff” at the Pentagon. He was someone who did special missions for Inter. Less than six months after his desperate encounter with a friend, he was shot dead. The coroner ruled it as a suicide, but as the File says, the verdict was “never persuasive.”

His body was discovered by Asher Brynes, a writer of the New Republic. He was shot behind his left ear, and an automatic pistol was located below the left side. Oddly, Underhill was right-handed, says Brins. Brines believes the pistol is equipped with a silencer, and the apartment resident could not recall hearing the shot.

Cubans say multiple assassins

At least two files suggest that the assassination of JFK was carried out by multiple assassins.

One of these files is based on data related to the Uruguay Parliament Building, Montevideo. This file appears to contain information collected by a source code named FGFork/86 (f/86) in the 90s.

The L1 was originally from Cuba, documents show. L1 said he personally saw Cuban leader Fidel Castro explaining “Why couldn't one assassin kill Kennedy?” The report said Castro ordered the crime to be re-enacted by his best shooters. L1 said three groups carried out the assassination of JFK.

One group of Cubans, one group of “Mafiosos” and a third group of mercenaries. The third group included a man with a Greek name.

Another file reinforces the notion that, despite its shortness, the Cubans undoubtedly believed there were multiple assassins. From the documentation:

On November 27th, Cuba's official Reuben (Suarez) spoke about the assassination of Kennedy with another Cuban official posted in Managua of Maria (Lopez). Lopez claimed that Brigadier General Fabian (Escalante) font from the Ministry of Interior is handling the issue and that there is information that can actively identify Kennedy's assassin.

Isn't Oswald a KGB agent?

The November 1991 document contains information suggesting that Oswald was not a spy for the Soviet intelligence agency, KGB.

In 1991, a KGB official named Nikonov reviewed “Oswald's Five Thick Files” and confidently concluded that “Oswald is an agent not controlled by the KGB.” During his time in Soviet Russia, the KGB looked at him carefully. This file suggests that Oswald did not make a good spy:

From the description of Oswald in the File (Nikonov), everyone doubted that Oswald could control him. …He commented that Oswald had a stormy relationship with his Soviet wife.

We may never know the whole truth

Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett said Tuesday in a conversation with Benny Johnson before the new files were released that he doesn't believe the world knows the whole truth no matter what is released.

He said that most of the CIA and FBI ranks and files members are good patriots, but “their bosses are criminals.”

Roger Stone then joined Johnson. Stone, who worked for the Richard Nixon administration, wrote the book “The Man,” which killed Kennedy. He believes that the assassination was called “Lynchpin” by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson of the CIA, Big Texas Oil, Mafia and JFK.

LBJ's motivation

Stone believes LBJ has the biggest motivation, as it led to the investigation of Robert Jean “Bobby” Baker and Billy Sol Estes. Baker is an LBJ advisor and resigned after sorting out his sexual favors in exchange for bribery allegations and votes and government contracts. Sol Estes was a convicted convict and sentenced to prison for fraud. When he was released from prison in 2020, Sol Estes told the Robertson County Grand Ju judge that Agriculture Department employee Henry Marshall was killed on orders by then-President Johnson. Marshall's death initially committed suicide, but in 2021 a state judge ordered the official cause to be changed to murder.

Stone also said his former boss, Nixon, believes LBJ is behind the murder. He asked the president, “Who killed Kennedy?” Nixon then said:

Lyndon and I both wanted to be president. The difference is that I wasn't interested in killing it.

CIA connection

As for the CIA, Stone believes he is upset with how JFK handled the pig Bayes disaster and the Cuban missile crisis. American media told the public that JFK would face Nikita Kurshchev until he turned around until he pushed his tail between his legs and brought the missile back to Russia. What really happened, however, was the president agreeing to remove American missiles from Italy and Türkiye, which angered the CIA.

Regarding Cuba, several researchers argue that JFK for its desire to subvert Castro is a major turning point for the Intel community. David Talbott, his book, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of the Secret Government of America, makes this accurate claim.

Despite the declaration of solidarity with Cuba's “freedom warriors,” it was clear that Kennedy was not serious about overthrowing the Havana administration. This marked a fateful turning point when the rabies CIA-sponsored activity that was aiming to Castro shifted its focus to Kennedy. When Kennedy eliminated the US campaign against Havana, the violent anti-Castro network of spooks, political extremists, paramilitary adventurers and assassins went underground. Conspiracies in asylum activities like Miami, New Orleans and Dallas became vicious in the spring and early summer of 1963.