JFK declassified files: Did the Trump administration expose CIA’s top-secret espionage tactics in the name of ‘transparency’?

Trump administration’s decision to declassify thousands of documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy was meant to bring long-awaited transparency. Instead, it may have unintentionally exposed something else—the CIA’s covert surveillance tactics and espionage strategies during the Cold War.

While conspiracy theorists were hoping for definitive answers about whether assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or was part of a larger plot, the real bombshells lie in the documents detailing how the CIA spied on Soviet and Cuban embassies, recruited double agents, and tapped phone lines in foreign countries.

The CIA’s Secret Hunt for Double Agents

One of the most intriguing revelations from the JFK files is how the CIA attempted to recruit KGB agents from within the Soviet embassies in Mexico City. A memo included in the declassified documents describes how the agency saw immense value in turning enemy operatives into U.S. informants.

“I cannot help but feel that we are buying a great deal for our money in this project,” one CIA official wrote, suggesting that these double agents provided crucial intelligence.

This revelation is particularly striking given Oswald’s mysterious visits to both the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City just months before JFK’s assassination. Some researchers now believe these visits may have been part of a larger intelligence operation, with Oswald being monitored long before he fired the fatal shots in Dallas.

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