The promised release of the Trump administration related to the Kennedy -murder It’s here and experts had time to go through them. The files did not give us evidence that anyone except Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president, but they revealed many previously unknown information about how the government and its spy agencies worked during the Cold War.
The files are a lot of information about the CIA trading company, including revelations about the so -called “family jewelry.” The CIA has done many illegal issues and is not supposed to work in the United States. A report on these illegal operations and how they worked from 1959 to 1973 was called “the family jewelry.” We’ve seen some of it before, and some of it with heavy edits. Thanks to this edition of files, we know much more.
Here are all the most interesting things we’ve seen this week in the JFK files.
Many of the files are just things that have been edited before. X -account @420Joke has saved a working list of files they have seen where you are deleted and it is fascinating thread. One previously edited file detailed how the CIA tried to train birds for domestic surveillance operations. “Birds have been trained and tested in the United States to carry small intelligences collecting packages such as hearing surveillance devices,” The file said.
A small thread of things that the government previously thought it was worth editing, starting from details about these home surveillance programs pic.twitter.com/rz0ymo0arf
– Rush (@420Joke) 19 March 2025
Steven Portnoy at ABC Audio found Internal CIA -MEMOM From 1966 on spies. “It recommends” a Certificate of Distinction “for a CIA official who led the technical division of the spy agency,” Portnoy said. “Previous editions of the same document contained edits striking sentences that described as this individual led a team that” devised and developed “the use of” fluoroscopic scan “and X-rays, which allowed the CIA to” detect hidden technical listening devices “for the first time.”
The Washington Post Headed round of its favorite revelations. In one of the nicest CIA operations the post found, the agency stained 800 bags of raw sugar shipped from Cuba to the Soviet Union. Why? To make it taste. This was in 1962.
“The pollution we used will give the sugar ineligible sickly bitter taste that no process will remove,” the CIA said. “Pollution is by no means dangerous for health, it is so strong for the state that it ruins the state of the consumer for food or drink for a considerable time.” The CIA said this damaged sugar will cost the Soviet Union between $ 350,000 and $ 400,000.
The post also detailed the massive amount of personal information that were uploaded in the files unedited. As the files have run out, numerous people have noticed that the social security numbers of living people are present in them. Depending on the post, the total number of social security numbers is over 400.
The files contained the social security numbers of spies, lawyers, lawmakers and former congressional employees. One of the people who was Christopher Pyle, a former military officer and informant who ended President Nixon’s list of President Nixon’s list Personal enemies. Pyle is very alive. “Good gentleman, government doing foolish things as usual,” He told the post when it contacted him.
An anonymous official of the White House told a poster that the people they do will receive free credit monitoring.
The most comprehensive and interesting breakdown of the JFK files take place at the National Security Archive (NSA), non -profit at George Washington University, who file and explores government secrets and documents. The NSA has the institutional knowledge and training to work with these documents as no other organization can and its work on the subject is the best I have seen so far.
Among the new files is CIA from 1961 Report of Inspector General About the murder of the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo. Thanks to these files we now know the names of the CIA officers, who were involved in the plot to kill Trujillo.
The NSA also emphasized a document from the “family jewelry”, which detailed CIA -counter -intelligent operations against allies in DC According to the file, CIA agents entered the French consulate and stole documents. It also suggested that former CIA chief John McCone had a treatment with the Vatican, which was inappropriate.
The self was written by agent Walter Elder and intended for then -CIA head of Walter Colby. “Finally, and this will reflect my environmental Western Protestant education,” Elder said in the self. “McCone’s treatment with the Vatican, including Pope John XXVIII and Pope Paul VI, could and could raise eyebrows in some barracks.”
Another fascinating order comes from a note to JFK on the day of his inauguration. White House assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said to his boss something annoying about the CIA. According to the assistant“47 percent of political officers serving in US embassies were CAS,” meaning they were spies. In the Paris embassy alone the CIA had 123 spies working as diplomats. “CIA Today has almost many people undercover abroad as[thestatedepartment-3900to3700″[ThisstatedePart-3900To3700″[laŜtataDepartemento-3900ĝis3700″[theStateDepartment—3900to3700”
There will definitely be more controversies and revelations as historians and scholars continue to work with the JFK files.
