JFK Assassination: A CIA Hit?
A trove of JFK files is due to be released today (Tuesday), with over 80,000 files in all.
Many speculate that this will be the final nail in the coffin regarding exactly who killed JFK. JFK’s assassination is one of the most debated and mysterious events in American history, sparking widespread speculation and conspiracy theories about who was truly responsible.
For over six decades, the public has questioned the official narrative—established by the Warren Commission in 1964—that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Now, for the first time since it happened, we will see how the CIA was involved in one of the first major hit operations involving a sitting President of the United States of America. Trump announced on March 17 that he would release all of the files on March 18.
What also makes his assassination so unusual is that there is a very significant Mandela Effect associated with his death as well.
Join us, Ben Chasteen and Rob Counts, on this Edge of Wonder live as we reveal the shocking truths.
Obviously, we have not read all 80,000 pages of documents. In fact, late into the night, only 1,200 documents out of the trove of 80,000 documents had been uploaded. So the process will continue Wednesday, perhaps even longer.
Early reports don’t mention a specific document that delivers a blanket indictment against the CIA. The closest thing: A report about a WWII military officer, John Garrett Underhill Jr., who maintained connections with the CIA. The Edge of Wonder covers Underhill in its video above.
Garrett served five years as the military correspondent for Life Magazine. After the assassination, he claimed the CIA was responsible. In fact, he nervously traveled from Washington D.C. to New York City, telling friends he needed to leave the country because his life was in danger. His assertion: The CIA was running a gun/drug trafficking operation in Southeast Asia. Garrett said Kennedy found out about it, and the CIA took out Kennedy before he could “blow the whistle.”
Six months later, Underhill was found dead at his D.C. home with a bullet wound behind his left ear, in what was ruled a suicide. Whatever specific details he knew were now gone!Still, there is certainly peripheral evidence within this tranche suggesting the CIA was culpable, or at the minimum, failed to keep a watchful eye out to protect Kennedy. We will delve into as much as we can in the days and weeks to come.
Below is the Underhill certificate of death filed by the Washington D.C. Department of Public Health. One oddity: He was supposedly right-handed, yet the death certificate claims he “shot self in head (behind left ear) with automatic pistol.” Not exactly an easy feat, to say the least!
Underhill’s mother was Louisa Wingate. Her father, George Wood Wingate, was a co-founder of the National Rife Association of America in 1871, and later served as the NRA president. He was a friend of Teddy Roosevelt, and encouraged President Roosevelt to join the NRA.
