Credit: Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News
| Published March 21, 2025
In a significant development, newly declassified documents have shed light on the CIA’s internal deliberations following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. An 11-page memo, authored by CIA officer Donald Heath, reveals that the agency did not immediately accept the “lone gunman” theory attributing the assassination solely to Lee Harvey Oswald. Instead, the CIA’s Miami Station was promptly mobilized to investigate potential links between the Cuban government, Cuban exiles, and the assassination.
Heath’s memo details directives issued to case officers to engage their assets for leads possibly connecting Castro’s Cuba or the Cuban exile community to Kennedy’s murder. Specific instructions were given to query agents on suspicious activities, such as disappearances of Cuban exiles before or after the assassination, requests for substantial resources during the fall of 1963, and identification of individuals capable of orchestrating such an operation.
This proactive stance by the CIA indicates that, contrary to the conclusions of the Warren Commission—which posited that Oswald acted alone—the agency was exploring the possibility of a broader conspiracy involving foreign entities. The activation of rapid intelligence-gathering mechanisms underscores the seriousness with which the CIA approached these leads.
The release of these documents adds a new dimension to the ongoing discourse surrounding JFK’s assassination, highlighting the complexities and uncertainties that characterized the immediate aftermath of that pivotal event.
You can read the memo below:
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