Here’s All the Most Interesting Stuff We Saw in the JFK Files This Week

The Trump administration’s promised release of files related to the Kennedy assassination are here and experts have had time to go through them. The files didn’t give us evidence that anyone other than Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president, but they have revealed a wealth of previously unknown information about how the government and its spy agencies operated during the Cold War. The files are a wealth of information about the CIA’s tradecraft, including revelations about the so-called “Family Jewels.” The CIA has done a lot of illegal stuff and isn’t supposed to operate inside the United States. A report about these illegal operations and how they functioned from 1959 to 1973 was called “The Family Jewels.” We’ve seen some of it before, and some of it with heavy redactions. Thanks to this release of files, we know a lot more. Here’s all the most interesting stuff we’ve seen this week in the JFK files. A lot of what’s in the files is just stuff that was previously redacted. X accou ... Read full article.