Latest batch of JFK assassination documents show Kennedy's distrust of the CIA
The newly released tranche of documents on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy includes a memo that for decades helped fuel speculation that the CIA was somehow involved in the killing of the president.
The newly released tranche of documents on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy includes a memo that for decades helped fuel speculation that the CIA was somehow involved in the killing of the president.
Known as the Schlesinger Memo, the 15-page document, dated June 10, 1961, was written by JFK's aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. It warned Kennedy that the CIA was encroaching on his ability to direct foreign policy.
The memo's existence was not a secret, and it was made public earlier, but with large chunks of text blacked out for security reasons.
The entire unredacted memo was one of the thousands of now-declassified documents that the National Archives and Records Administration released Tuesday on orders from President Donald Trump. As of Wednesday afternoon, about 69,000 of the 80,000 documents that Trump promised to release have been posted online.
And if anybody was expecting to find proof in the memo that the CIA conspired with JFK’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, to kill Kennedy, they will not find it.
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