
By
Sophie McAdam Suspicions that the CIA covered up
JFK’s murder have finally been confirmed, according to an explosive Politico
report
out this week. Fifty-two years after the President’s death,
declassified documents show that the CIA were in communication with
alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK’s murder in 1963, and they
were monitoring his mail since 1959.
Not only that but John
McCone, who was Chief of the CIA at the time, allegedly hid evidence
from the Warren Commission, set up by Lyndon Johnson to investigate
JFK’s assassination. The spymaster and other senior CIA officials are
accused of withholding ‘incendiary’ information from the commission and
therefore perverting the course of justice. The CIA has admitted this.
The Politico report is based on evidence given by CIA historian David
Robarge. He has claimed the cover-up was intended to keep the Commission
focused 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.” McCone directed the CIA to provide only
“passive, reactive and selective” assistance to the Warren Commission,
meaning the investigation was severely compromised and did not follow up
any other leads which may have been crucial in the search for truth......