Trump chooses to declassify the latest documents on JFK’s death, that’s why it makes it so much salivate

International – Promised, this time, it’s the right one. As of the evening of his inauguration, Donald Trump indicated under the Hourras that he was going to “declassify” the documents of the American administration, before joining the gesture to the floor this Thursday, January 23. Those concerning the death of Martin Luther King, Senator Robert Kennedy, but also of the American president whose murder is the subject of the wildest theories: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, assassinated in public in 1963.

And if more than 600 pounds already written on the subject were not enough to quench the thirst of the public, in the United States but also in the world, it is because everything has not been revealed. Despite a 1995 law forcing the declassification of archives within 25 years to follow. Despite the opening of the public of tens of thousands of documents from Joe Biden. Despite, too, the promise remained uninformed by Donald Trump in 2016 already.

Arrested at the last moment by the CIA

At the time of his first mandate, the billionaire had indeed assured that he would take care of making all the missing documents available, these thousands of sheets which for eager biographers as acute conspirators, are a grail. But what is it?

THE “ Kennedy assassination files “Are all documents created or obtained by any American administration or body of government used within the framework of the federal investigation into the death of the Democratic President. Interviews, speeches, simple internet note … in total all the same 5 million pages recorded, then sealed.

In 1992, the “JFK Records Act” forced the administration to identify, then release the entire file to the general public within 25 years. What brings us in 2017, where – what a chance for fans of mystery – it is Donald Trump, who is president. And man hastens to explain that he will open the archives. All archives.

What he does … almost. That year and the next one, tens of thousands of documents are declassified, but at the last moment the president decides to keep a tiny party secret. More than 53,000 files are made available on the sites of the national archives. But Trump’s own admission, the FBI and the CIA convinced him to leave a certain number in the shadows.

There would be, in these famous prohibited papers, “A potentially irreversible danger” For national security, recognized the magnate. It was also, almost at the right word, the justification of Joe Biden after he, in turn, declassified in 2023 several thousand documents, but once again, not all. Nearly 5000 files remain, all or in part, censored. Sometimes only the names are cavilated, other times it is the whole sheet that is inaccessible. Still missed …

The best for the end

But what are these few sheets (or rather sheets of sheets) remaining? A priori, in terms of quantity, it is indeed a drop in the ocean of “jfk papers”. The national archives thus estimate that there are 1 % remaining to be revealed to the public, throughout the file. Inevitably, the 1 % most explosive. Logically, the spinal cord of a file which, for the moment, has not confirmed the slightest plot.

Let’s start with the most crisp, which supports this thesis: the archives that are preparing to land in the public domain are all retained by the FBI, the American federal police, or by the CIA, therefore the secret services , and not by other agencies or the White House itself. This would tend to prove that the two agencies do not want their role in the death of JFK to be completely clarified.

Among the documents from the secret services, it is also that connoisseurs are impatiently awaiting: the “Georges Joannides” file. This is the name found, in several partially cavited documents, of a CIA agent. During a long (and necessarily troubled) career, he had in 1963 the burden of a destabilization operation in Cuba. So far, nothing surprising, the United States seeking at the time to overthrow the new master of the country, Fidel Castro.

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The mysterious Georges Joannides agent.

But if the mysterious Georges Joannides interests so much, it is for another part of his CV. According to an NGO bringing together several specialists in the JFK affair, and several independent investigations, the documents already available shows that four months before the assassination of the American president, Joannides met Lee Harvey Oswald, the mortal shooting author.

For the skeptics of official history, Joannides was even the recruiter of Oswald, then manipulated to commit his crime … and the agency’s silence on the role of his employee has hardly helped to dispel this theory. Several times, public calls to lift the veil on the Georges Joannides archives have also been launched without success.

The signature of Donald Trump should therefore lift the veil on his real involvement, therefore of the agency … or more certainly still, still leave a taste of unfinished.

Archives that make “pschitt”?

One of the first of them is the minnesota judge John R. Tunheim. In the 1990s, he played a central role in the JFK archives ranking before they were declassified. The lawyer is therefore one of the rare public figures to have seen, without restriction, the famous archives. However, from 2017, he explained to Associated Press that classified documents were simply “not relevant”, and that this was the reason why they remained hidden from the public.

A cold shower on the interest of the famous 1 %, especially since many experts in the subject are of the same opinion. This is the case of Gerald Posner, author of a book on the case, who considers that all those who expect a « smoking gun » (irrefutable proof) on any conspiracy will be disappointed.

According to them and a large part of the connoisseurs, the papers still not revealed are because they involve other cases. Past manipulations of the CIA to which it does not want to return, elements allowing to identify agents or their family … or even plots of information that will not give an answer, but will open the door to new eccentric theories .

What if the mystery was rather in what these archives will not say? As pointed out in 2023 an exciting investigation of New York Magazine On the JFK archives, there are many examples where the CIA has destroyed compromising documents itself, especially those relating to famous assassinations.

In the case of Joannides, for example, there is a strong presumption that essential evidence of its activity at the CIA has been destroyed. The track therefore stops net and in this case, “everything” declassifying will not change anything. The remaining documents are no longer the missing piece to the truth, but only to that which has not been taken care to erase.

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