Crucial JFK Assassination Document Missing: Author James H. Johnston on LBJ & CIA Director McCone

Missing JFK Assassination Document

• 💡 Author James H. Johnston claims a crucial memorandum of record from a conversation between LBJ and CIA Director John McCone after JFK's assassination was never given to the National Archives.
• 📌 This document, written by McCone, is believed to exist because State Department historians referenced it in 1997, but it remains unavailable.
• 🎯 Johnston suggests the conversation, held six days after the assassination, likely involved President Johnson asking about plans to remove Fidel Castro from Cuba.

Potential Implications of the Missing Document

• 🧠 The existence of this memorandum could either support or undermine conspiracy theories regarding Cuba's or the CIA's involvement in JFK's assassination.
• 🔍 Gerald Pner, author of "Case Closed," acknowledges the potential significance but questions whether the document would offer direct evidence about the assassination itself.
• ⚠️ Both Johnston and Pner agree that evidence of a large conspiracy is unlikely to be found in released National Archives files, as conspirators would have likely retained or destroyed such proof.

CIA's Role and Oswald's Surveillance

• 🕵️ Pner suggests that the CIA was likely aware of Lee Harvey Oswald since his defection in 1959, given his public presence.
• ⚠️ The critical question is what the CIA learned during Oswald's Mexico City trip six weeks before the assassination, particularly regarding his interactions with Soviet and Cuban embassies.
• ❓ Pner questions why the CIA did not alert the FBI about Oswald's unhinged behavior upon his return to the US, which might have made the assassination preventable.
• ✈️ Johnston also highlights Oswald's meeting with a KGB assassin during his Mexico City trip as another noteworthy, though potentially irrelevant, detail.