by Marc Caputo at Axios
A CIA whistleblower, revealing his identity for the first time, tells Axios he saw a secret document in which an agency official bragged about misleading congressional investigators about Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities in Mexico before President Kennedy was assassinated.
- “It’s a blueprint of a cover-up, how to lie to Congress and the American people,” former CIA-State Department historian Thomas L. Pearcy tells Axios.
Why it matters: Pearcy’s description of the nearly 50-page document — a CIA inspector general’s report — sheds new light on how intelligence agents routinely have covered up facts and records about Kennedy’s slaying that still haven’t been made public.
Driving the news: The 62nd anniversary of JFK’s assassination is Saturday, and President Trump has pledged to disclose all records related to the tragedy in accordance with the JFK Records Act of 1992.
- A CIA spokesperson said the agency “is committed to full transparency” and has made extra efforts to produce JFK records during the Trump administration, which was just made aware of the documents Pearcy referenced.
Zoom in: Pearcy, now a Latin America expert and history professor at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania,…
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