Will Trump Continue The Central Intelligence Agencys Cover-Up In The John F. Kennedy Assassination? By Jacob G. Hornberger
(2017-08-01 at 14:54:33 )

Will Trump Continue the Central Intelligence Agencys Cover-Up in the John F. Kennedy Assassination? by Jacob G. Hornberger

Last week, the National Archives suddenly released a batch of long-secret official records relating to the John F. Kennedy assassination. This was surprising because the official release date for all the John F. Kennedy-assassination records, as mandated by law, is coming this October. The still-secret records amount to tens of thousands of pages of documents, many of which are records of the Central Intelligence Agency, the super-secret federal agency that has specialized in the art of assassination, cover-up of assassination, and regime change practically since its inception in 1947.

Of course, the obvious question arises: Why are there still Central Intelligence Agency records relating to the Kennedy assassination being kept secret?

After all, the assassination occurred more than 50 years ago. By any standard of reasonableness, the Central Intelligence Agency should have released everything at least 25 years ago - that is, during the 1990s, when the John F. Kennedy Records Act mandated the release of such documents and when the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) was enforcing the law.

It turns out that when the John F. Kennedy Records Act was being written, someone in Congress - perhaps one of the Central Intelligence Agencys friends or assets - slipped a provision into the law permitting the Central Intelligence Agency and other agencies another 25 years in which to keep their John F. Kennedy-assassination records secret. At the time, that must have felt like a long time for the Central Intelligence Agency to continue keeping things under wraps.

But those 25 years are now expiring. The gig is finally up. With one possible exception: The Central Intelligence Agency can request President Trump to continue the secrecy on grounds of "national security." If the president grants the request, the secrecy continues. If it does not, the secrecy finally comes to an end, at least with respect to the Central Intelligence Agencys records that have been in the custody of the National Archives for the past 25 years.

Will the Central Intelligence Agency seek another secrecy extension? Will the agency tell President Trump that "national security" will be threatened if the American people are permitted to see its 54-year-old records?

I do not have any doubts about it, and I have been saying that for several months now. Thus, I was struck by a sentence in an op-ed that appeared in the Washington Post last week about the National Archives partial release of records last week. The op-ed, authored by historians Larry J. Sabato and Philip Shenon, is entitled, "President Trump, Give Us the Full Story on the JFK Assassination". It calls on President Trump to strike "a blow for transparency" by refusing to grant any request for continued secrecy by the Central Intelligence Agency and any other federal agency with respect to their John F. Kennedy-assassination-related records.

Here is the sentence in the op-ed that struck me: "Congressional and other government officials have warned us in confidence in recent weeks that at least two federal agencies will make formal appeals to the White House to block the release of some of the files."

Just as I and others have been predicting for several months. Of course, there will be those who will cry "National security, Jacob!" or simply chalk it up to the Central Intelligence Agencys customary penchant for secrecy.

But there is another explanation, a much more likely one: to continue the Central Intelligence Agencys cover-up of one of the most sophisticated and cunning assassinations in history.

Do the still-secret records contain a videotaped confession by Central Intelligence Agency officials stating that they orchestrated the assassination of President Kennedy to protect "national security," just as they orchestrated regime-change operations in Cuba, Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Brazil, Congo, Chile, and elsewhere to protect "national security"?

Of course not.

Will they contain even any acknowledgement that they did so?

Of course not.

Long ago, when the Central Intelligence Agency first began specializing in state-sponsored assassinations and cover-ups, one of its cardinal rules was: Never put assassination plans into writing.

But the Central Intelligence Agency knows that the still-secret records will provide further bits of circumstantial evidence that further fill in the overall mosaic of what happened.

That is why they are going to ask Trump to continue the secrecy - to prevent assassination researchers from getting their hands on those additional pieces of circumstantial evidence.

Think about a giant jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces. At one puts the puzzle together, he gets to a point where he has a basic idea of what the picture looks like even if he still does not have all the pieces to the puzzle inserted.

That is where we are with the Kennedy assassination, in large part because of the massive release of records that the ARRB succeeded in securing in the 1990s. Do not forget: The original plan had called for secrecy for 75 years after the assassination. As a result of Oliver Stones movie JFK, that plan was short-circuited by mandating a release of records earlier than expected.

Was information secured by the ARRB important?

Well, just consider the sworn testimony of Saundra Spencer before the ARRB. She was a Navy photography expert who worked closely with the White House on sensitive and secret documents. It would be virtually impossible to find a more credible witness than Saundra Spencer. On the weekend of assassination, she was asked, on a top-secret basis, to develop the autopsy photographs of the presidents body.

Yet , when the ARRB showed her the official autopsy photographs in the official records in the 1990s, she stated directly and unequivocally that those were not the photographs she developed.

Was she contradicted by United States officials, including those in the Pentagon, Navy, or Central Intelligence Agency? Nope. Do you not know that if they had felt Spencer was lying or mistaken, they would have rushed over to the offices of the ARRB and said so? They did not. They remained prudently silent in the face of her incriminating testimony.

It is important to keep in mind that they had succeeded in keeping Saundra Spencers version of the events secret for more than 30 years. That secrecy came to an end in the 1990s with her sworn testimony before the ARRB.

There was much more than that, as set forth in my ebook " The Kennedy Autopsy". One thing is clear about Kennedys autopsy: There were shenanigans that are consistent with only one thesis: cover-up.

Until the 1990s, they had also been able to keep secret the nature and depth of the war that the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon were waging against Kennedy for doing what Arbenz in Guatemala had done and what Allende in Chile would do (and what Trump promised to do): reach out to Russia and the rest of the Soviet Union in a spirit of peace and friendship and in an effort to establish normal relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.

For the full story on that, see FFFs ebooks "JFKs War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated" by Douglas Horne (who served on the staff of the ARRB) and "Regime Change: The Kennedy Assassination by Jacob Hornberger".

The Central Intelligence Agency was able to keep whatever it wanted still secret for some two decades after the ARRB went out of existence. When someone has engaged in wrongdoing, does it not stand to reason that he will keep the most incriminating evidence secret for as long as he can?

There is little doubt that the Central Intelligence Agencys official records still due to be released by October are going to fill out more of the John F. Kennedy assassination mosaic.

That is why it is a virtual certainty that the Central Intelligence Agency is going to ask Trump to continue the secrecy and, thus, its cover-up.

Will Trump grant it? At this point, it is impossible to say.

But one thing is for sure: If the United States national-security establishment succeeds in getting the United States into a war with North Korea, Iran, Russia, China, or some other nation, it is a virtual certainty that Trump will give the Central Intelligence Agency whatever extension of time it wants for continued secrecy and cover-up in the John F. Kennedy assassination.

That is because he will feel dependent on them to prevail in the war and because there will not be much public outcry over continued secrecy in the John F. Kennedy assassination in the midst of massive death and destruction from one of the Pentagons and Central Intelligence Agencys forever wars for "national security."

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!