Intriguing details in JFK files – but no bombshell
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Cuban and Russian spies, false leads, strippers, bizarre CIA murder plots and a furious FBI director.
Newly released secret records are full of intriguing F. Kennedy.
But Kennedy scholars say the thousands of documents do not appear to contain any bombshell rev shocked the world.
President Donald Trump ordered the release on records but held back other “sensitive” documents under pressure from the CIA and FBI.
That last-minute decision left many Kennedy historians frustrated – and provided more fuel for the thriving conspiracy industry around the shooting of the charismatic 46-year-old president in Dallas, Texas.
Philip Shenon, author of “A Cruel of the Kennedy Assassination.”
investigated Kennedy’s murder, de former Marine Corps sharpshooter – acted alone but that conclusion has failed to quell years of speculation
Hundreds of books and movies “JFK” have examined scores of con Cold War rivals the Soviet Union or
While the records released on Thursday by the National Archives
Trump gave the CIA, FBI and other agencies six months – until April 26, 2018 – to make their case should not be made public.
- “carefully released.”
- - names and addresses of any men
Gerald Posner, author of “Case
- “interesting tidbits.”
then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover - cusable” failure of Dallas police to
- - ing moved to a county jail.
Hoover goes on to add that the FBI had hoped to obtain a confession to “convince the public that
early days of Kennedy’s presidency the CIA offered $150,000 to ItalianAmerican mob boss Sam Giancana to organize the killing of Castro.
Giancana in return sought the CIA’s help to place a listening device in the room of his mistress – a Las