© UnknownFormer US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy • James Jesus Angleton
For more than six decades, the official story of John F. Kennedy's murder has been defined as much by what the government buried as by what it reluctantly disclosed. Yet among the thousands of newly declassified records, one thread stands out for the extraordinary lengths taken to obscure it: the quiet, complicated overlap between CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton's secret Israeli channels and the agency's surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald in the years before the assassination.
This is the part of the record that successive investigations tiptoed around, redacted into oblivion, or ignored altogether. Why?
Why were references to Israel, its operatives, its cities, even its name, blacked out of Church Committee transcripts and presidential commission files for generations?
Why did the government cloak the identities of Angleton's Israeli contacts with such obsessive care that even today, many pages remain hollowed out by heavy black ink?
The newly opened files sharpen the puzzle. They reveal that Angleton, already notorious for his shadow-world methods,
ran a covert Israeli liaison network parallel to official CIA chains of command, precisely at the time he controlled the sensitive
201 surveillance file on Lee Harvey Oswald. That file, kept under tight compartmentalisation, was fed in part by
Reuben Efron, the Counterintelligence Staff officer assigned to monitor Oswald's correspondence. Efron's own background, his Zionist affiliations, his time in Israel, and his curious, unacknowledged presence at Marina Oswald's Warren Commission questioning
raise further questions about why this corner of the story remained sealed off for so long.
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