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Jun 5, 2022 · Richard Nixon and Richard Helms first met at a Capitol Hill briefing in 1956. Nixon, a former Navy lieutenant, was the young, ambitious and anxious vice president. ... The JFK assassination story ...
Jan 14, 2023 · A stunning, long-overlooked Nixon Watergate-era tape shows Richard Nixon warning CIA Director Richard Helms that he knows of CIA involvement in the murder of John F. Kennedy- “I know who shot ...
Nov 1, 2002 · Richard Helms, who died last week at age 89, was described by his biographer Thomas Powers as a “gentlemanly planner of assassinations.”. The epithet captured the essence of the former CIA ...
- Jefferson Morley
Richard Helms. Richard Helms was born in St Davids, Philadelphia, on 30th March, 1913. After graduating from Williams College, Massachusetts, he joined the United Press news agency and in 1936 was sent to Nazi Germany to cover the Berlin Olympic Games. On his return to the United States he joined the advertising department of the Indianapolis ...
- Overview
- 1) The KGB believed there was a well-organized conspiracy behind JFK’s assassination—possibly involving LBJ
- 2) But Oswald was overheard speaking to a KGB official just two months before the assassination
- 3) An alleged Cuban intelligence officer knew Oswald, and praised his shooting abilities
- 4) Someone phoned in a death threat on Oswald to the FBI the day before he was murdered
- 5) The U.S. government debated hiring gangsters to kill Fidel Castro, or paying Cuban assassins to do so
- 6) A mysterious man known as 'El Mexicano' (believed to be a Cuban rebel army captain) may have accompanied Oswald in Mexico City
- 7) LBJ used to go around saying JFK’s murder was payback for the U.S. killing of a Vietnamese president
- 8) The FBI warned Robert Kennedy about a book detailing his affair with Marilyn Monroe
- 9) Someone tipped off a London reporter about 'big news' in the United States 25 minutes before Kennedy was shot
Here are the 10 most revealing highlights from the 2,800 JFK assassination files declassified in October 2017.
On October 26, 2017, the National Archives made public more than 2,800 files relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, just hours before the deadline set for their final release by Congress in the 1992 JFK Records Collection Act. Here are some of the revelations they contained:
In December 1966, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover forwarded a memo to the White House that described the reaction of Soviet and Communist Party officials to Kennedy’s assassination. The memo stated that according to the FBI’s source, Communist officials believed there was a well-organized “ultraright” conspiracy behind the assassination.
Not only that, but: “Our source added that in the instructions from Moscow, it was indicated that…the KGB was in possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination.” For good measure, the Soviets claimed no connection with Oswald, who they considered a “neurotic maniac who was disloyal to his own country and everything else.”
The release of thousands of JFK-related documents has been more than enough to keep historians, journalists, assassination experts and conspiracy theorists occupied for a long time to come. From the massive array of handwritten notes, memos, interview transcripts and intelligence reports—many of them partly or entirely illegible—a few intriguing and surprising revelations emerged:
On September 28, 1963, the CIA intercepted a call Oswald made to the Russian embassy in Mexico City. On the call, he can be heard speaking in “broken Russian” to Consul Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikova, an “identified KGB officer,” according to the document.
The transcript of a 1967 cablegram recounted how a man named Angel Ronaldo Luis Salazar was interrogated at the Cuban embassy in Mexico City the year before by Ramiro Jesus Abreu Quintana, “an identified Cuban intelligence officer,” about Kennedy’s assassination. During the interrogation, Salazar claimed he remarked that Oswald must have been a goo...
In a document dated November 24, 1963, J. Edgar Hoover weighed in impassively on Jack Ruby’s fatal shooting of Oswald that day, stating: “There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead.” Hoover also recounted a call received by the FBI’s Dallas office from a man saying he was part of a committee formed to kill Oswald. According ...
At least two of the documents outline some of the Kennedy administration’s policy and actions toward Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. According to a 1975 document simply titled “CASTRO,” the CIA was involved in assassination plots against Castro as early as late 1959 and early 1960, even during preparations for the Bay of Pigs. In 1962, a proposal was put forward called “Operation Bounty,” which would create “a system of financial rewards…for killing or delivering alive known Communists.” As part of the operation, leaflets were to be distributed via air to Cuba, including one announcing “a .02¢ reward for the delivery of Castro.” The low amount was restricted to Castro himself, and was reportedly meant to “denigrate” the Cuban leader.
Another potential plan, according to another 1975 report, involved getting poison botulism pills to “organized crime figures,” who would then pass them to their Cuban contacts in the hopes of reaching someone close to Castro. The same document also includes an FBI memo stating that Robert Kennedy told the agency that the CIA had hired an intermediary to approach Mafia boss Sam Giancana offering to pay him to hire someone to kill Castro.
A CIA document containing handwritten notes indicated Oswald may have been accompanied in Mexico by a man dubbed “El Mexicano,” who is believed to have been a Cuban rebel army captain who later defected to the United States. Identified by another source as Francisco Rodriguez Tamayo, he was said in another newly released document to be the head of ...
In an April 1975 deposition at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Richard Helms (director of CIA under both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon) testified that Johnson claimed JFK was killed in retribution for the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, who was killed as part of a U.S.-backed coup earlier in 1963. “He certainly used to say that in the ear...
In July 1964, the FBI warned then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy, JFK’s younger brother, about a soon-to-be-published book that included juicy details about Kennedy’s intimate relationship with Marilyn Monroe. The book’s author, Robert A. Capell, claimed that when Monroe threatened to expose the relationship, Kennedy may have had something to do w...
In a memo dated November 26, 1963, FBI Deputy Director James Angleton recorded that British Security Service (MI5) had reported a call made to the Cambridge News on the evening of November 22. The caller told the paper’s senior reporter to “call the American Embassy in London for some big news,” before hanging up. By MI5’s calculations, Kennedy was...
- Sarah Pruitt
Nov 9, 2023 · The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 mandated that “all Government records related to ... Richard Helms, summoned the DRE’s young secretary-general, Luis ...
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 Helms and JFK Helms visited US President John F. Kennedy days before the November 22, 1963 assassination and was later given the responsibility of investigating accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and the CIA. CIA files uncovered in 1998 revealed what Helms sought to hide, Morley said.
