CIA's Role in JFK Assassination: Missing Documents and LBJ's Call

Missing LBJ-CIA Conversation

• 📌 A memorandum of a conversation between President Lyndon B. Johnson and CIA Director John McCone, written six days after JFK's assassination, is not in the National Archives.
• 💬 The known details of this conversation indicate they discussed Cuba and plans to remove Castro.
• 🕵️ The document was reportedly seen by State Department historians in 1997 but has never been released publicly.

Oswald Surveillance and CIA Knowledge

• 🔍 The CIA had an open file on Lee Harvey Oswald since his defection to the Soviet Union in 1959.
• ⚠️ Questions arise about what the CIA learned during Oswald's Mexico City trip six weeks before the assassination, specifically his visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies.
• ❓ It is questioned whether the CIA realized Oswald's unhinged behavior and why this information was not shared with the FBI upon his return to the US.
• 🤝 One speaker suggests Oswald met with a KGB assassin during his Mexico City trip.

Conspiracy and Evidence

• 🚫 It is believed that if a large conspiracy existed to kill the president, the evidence would not be found in the released National Archives files.
• 🗑️ Conspirators would have either kept or destroyed incriminating evidence, rather than submitting it to the Archives.
• 💡 The CIA's actions regarding Oswald could indicate either incompetence or complicity in not preventing the assassination.