JFK assassination files released, sending history buffs hunting for new clues

[Atomic Kid]

You say Oswald’s run in with the DRE was no biggie & just some local drama. Oswald wasn’t just some random dude. He tried to worm his way into the DRE, then flipped to passing out pro Castro leaflets, which led to a scuffle with Bringuier. This all went down while the CIA was deep in anti Castro ops. And Joannides was handling the DRE and later played gatekeeper with the HSCA without ever mentioning his role. That’s sketchy as hell like JFK historian Jefferson Morley pointed out.

It was no biggie. This was a breach of peace charge. New Orleans, a growing city, saw a large influx of Cuban exiles. Not as large as Miami but very prevalent nonetheless, they formed organizations active in anti-Castro efforts, preserving their culture and promoting economic ties with their former countrymen. It was also at that time a hotbed for civil rights activity. Canal Street in the downtown center of New Orleans was often the epicenter of this political activism. The Orleans police charged plenty of people with breach of peace. Oswald wrote a letter to the FPFC (Fair Play For Cuba) headquarters in New York asking permission to establish a chapter in New Orleans at his own expense. The FPFC quickly replied that it wouldn't be a good idea at this point, given the present high level of anti-Castro sentiment in New Orleans. Oswald wrote back that he was going to do it anyway. Oswald, at this time, was putting together a revolutionary resume, if you will, to impress upon the Cubans his support for their cause. In his view, a confrontation with anti-Castro elements, resulting in his arrest and the publicity that followed, would serve to bolster that effort. I believe that Oswald was already in the process of planning and saving up money to travel to Mexico City. And I would be adverse to describing Jefferson Morley as a "historian," as he has a definite career and financial interest in perpetuating JFK conspiracies

You’re saying Oswald wasn’t on the CIA’s radar, but if that’s true why all the secrecy? If this was just run of the mill, why lie to three major investigations? Those documents show the CIA wasn’t playing straight, which makes you wonder what else they didn’t tell us about Dallas.

So if this is all so irrelevant, why’d the CIA go to such lengths to bury it?

Oswald wasn't on the CIA's radar until his trip to Mexico City, where he visited the Russian embassy and the Cuban embassy multiple times. That is when he got their attention. Foreign intelligence surveillance was the CIA's main business. Domestic surveillance of people who may pose a threat to national security was the FBI's responsibility. The FBI was in charge of keeping watch over Oswald. If the CIA's foreign surveillance observes activities by an American citizen that may indicate possible national security concerns, then they should promptly inform the FBI of those activities. It appears that they did so because when James Hosty, the Dallas FBI office agent in charge of the Oswald case, confronted Oswald at the Dallas police station after JFK was shot, about his trip to the Russian and Cuban embassies in Mexico City, it was the first and only time during the Dallas police chief's interrogation Oswald lost his composure and became angered. The question is how quickly and efficiently the CIA conveyed this information. Was it done in a timely and urgent enough manner to possibly prevent this tragedy? There was a great amount of competition and rivalry between the CIA and the FBI under Hoover. Did a lack of cooperation and communication between the two due to this rivalry cause the ball to be dropped? If there were a cover-up, that's what it may have been about.