The publication of all the files relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred in November 1963, resembles the 10 dollars buffet of the Golden Corral channel, these restaurants found along the highways. There is everything, it makes no sense, no taste but we still want to tighten up and, above all, everyone seems frustrated when I got out of the table.
The declassification, this week, of some 80,000 documents on the National Archives site will delight conspirators and the most candid of the experts. The conspiracy theorists have thus thrown themselves on the few leaves where the name of Israel is mentioned. These are contextualization sheets and it is public notoriety that Kennedy has always opposed the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the Hebrew state. The most eccentric-and often the most anti-Semitic-will therefore see the hand of Mossad while those who, for decades, incriminate Lyndon B. Johnson, vice-president and successor to JFK, will learn nothing new … For the moment in any case! Because it will take weeks or even months for all these scannings to be combed.
We learn that the deceased president wanted “Flee the CIA into a thousand pieces and disperse them in the wind”
What does these thousands of papers therefore remember, often illegible or barely decipherable? “A large discharge, very often impenetrable”to use the words used in the New York Times by David J. GARROW, historian and specialist in intelligence agencies. Above all, they have completed millions of pages already published since the 1990s. The official thesis according to which Lee Harvey Oswald – and still today defended by his widow Marina, still alive – was an isolated shooter is good. One of the files thus contains the letter from a Russian who claimed to have warned American officials in August 1963 that OSWALD was preparing to kill the president … Another document indicates that Lee Harvey Oswald was a poor shooter, a fact abundantly taken up in the film JFK of Oliver Stone released in 1993.
Certainly, it is a question of tensions between Kennedy and the CIA. We learn that the deceased president wanted “Flee the CIA into a thousand pieces and disperse them in the wind”. But not what, materially, drawing a conspiracy of American information, Soviets or Cubans against the Democrat.
The frustration that the publication of these archives has been able to have followed by that, three weeks ago, “Epstein documents”named after this American billionaire at the head of a sex trafficking network involving minors. His suicide in prison in 2019 had caused many conspiracy theories. However, nothing in what has been revealed by the Ministry of Justice is new.
When I got to power, Donald Trump had promised a “Total transparency” On these cases that fascinate America. Even if it means disappointing those waiting for scoops. Enough to feed conspiracy theories for a long time.
