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The wait is over! Trump releases JFK files and here are the shocking highlights

March 19, 2025 | | Print Article

Released late Tuesday, the JFK files contain a slate of damning revelations that could potentially change the whole narrative surrounding former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

For example, one document from the JFK files features a passage from a left-wing political magazine, written in 1967, about a CIA informant named John Garrett Underhill Jr., aka Gary Underhill.

“The day after the assassination [of JFK], Gary Underhill left Washington in a hurry,” the passage reads. “Late in the evening, he showed up at the home of a friend in New Jersey. He was very agitated.”

“A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided, and he was afraid for his life and probably would have to leave the country. Less than six months later Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment. The coroner ruled it a suicide,” the passage continues.

Another document shows that the Cuban Consul in Chile believed the CIA assassinated Kennedy so that the U.S. federal government could resume an assault on Cuba.

“On 22 November, Jose Toha, vice president of the Chilean Cuban Cultural Institute and director of the pro-Castro leftist press Ultima Hora, informed Pedro Martinez Pirez, charge of the Cuban Embassy in Santiago, that Kennedy had been assassinated,” the document reads.

“Martinez commented that … if the Yankees or CIA assassinated Kennedy to resume the assault on Cuba, then a third World War would start. He said things are very clear and there is no doubt that they assassinated him,” the document continues.

Speaking of Cuba, another document shows that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro feared that JFK’s assassination would lead to a change in the United States policy toward his nation.

“Fidel Castro was very upset over the change in the United States administration brought about by President Kennedy’s assassination,” the document reads. “The top Cuban leadership was sure President Kennedy would not invade Cuba and they were convinced that the policy of his administration for economic blockade and internal subversion against Cuba would not overthrow the regime.”

The JFK files also show that historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. once wrote to Kennedy warning him about the growing and increasingly secretive power of the CIA.

“If ‘fighting fire with fire’ means contracting the freedoms traditionally enjoyed by Americans in order to give more freedom to [the] CIA, no one seriously wishes to do that,” he wrote.

“Yet I do not feel that we have tried rigorously to think through the limits which the maintenance of an open society places on secret activity. Until this is done, the CIA’s role will not be clearly defined and understood. The problem which must be faced is: what sort of secret activity is consistent with the preservation of a free social order?” he added.

And finally, one document in the JFK files mentions Lee Harvey Oswald, the man suspected to have assassinated Kennedy.

“Embassy press office advised COS at reception last night that local UPI reporter is about to file a story based on local research and an interview with a retired Marine officer who claimed to be Lee Harvey Oswald’s commander in Japan that Oswald was recruited by CIA while stationed with the Marines in Japan in the 1950s,” the document reads.

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