Eric Budison
The murder of President John F. Kennedy remains one of the most decisive moments in the history of our nation. Last disclosure Through the Central Intelligence Agency associated with this tragic event, disturbing questions that require sedate, double -sided control – no more delays, and not more obscurement, and certainly not a greater secret. The American nation really deserves.
Due to our Republic, Republicans and Democrats must be united in the belief that the responsibility, transparency and law of public opinion to know bias – especially when it comes to the actions of our intelligence agencies.
It is in this spirit that I call on the renovated congress supervision in the CIA proceedings in relation to KennedyMurder, and especially the service of agency agency information directly before and from that tragic day.
Almost 62 years have passed since JFK was killed, but the murder remains a current and essential story because She lied for six decades About what he knew in the years, months, weeks and days preceding November 22, 1963.
Last year, thanks to the executive ordinance of President Donald Trump, the task group of the House Supervisory Committee chaired Rep. Anna Paulina Lunaand persistent investigative reports by journalists such as Tom Jackman in The Washington Post and Jefferson Morley in JFK factsWe saw a breakthrough in the publication of documents that were unnecessarily hidden for decades.
Due to this pressure on government agencies, to follow President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Act of 1992, additional documents that were suppressed were now fully issued.
One of the apparitions in novel disclosures is that CIA officer George Joannides was confirmed as an previously unidentified officer of the case known from the nickname “Howard”, who in the early 1960s supervised the group of exile sponsored by the CIA in Miami. “Howard” supervised operations involving the accused killer Lee Harvey Oswald and the director of the Anti-Castro Group Revolucionario Estudiantil in the summer and autumn of 1963. This body introduction is as amazing. He places Oswald in direct contact with surgery under the CIA supervision and financed a few months before he allegedly killed the president. For decades, the CIA denied, disregarded or rejected this link.
Equally disturbing is the role of the CIA in the assignment of Joannides – the same officer who supervised the activities of Revolucionario Estudiantil in 1963 – as an agency connector for the House selection committee regarding the killings in the behind schedule seventies, without revealing this gross conflict of interests. The double role of Joannides, both the key character in the studied events, and years later the CIA guard to congress investigators is a stunning violation of trust. Lack of disclosure of the agency raises sedate questions about hindering justice and institutional integrity.
In July 1981, shortly after his work, Congress Stonewalling, CIA awarded Joannides with a career intelligence medal. A note about the quotation accompanying the prize – until recently in terms of secrets – special that Joannides received honor partly for his task from 1978 as a liaison body to the House selection committee. According to the public statements of the highest researcher of the Dan Hardway committee, the main role of Joannides in this position was to limit congress access to key files. The CIA praised Joannides’ effort as “outstanding” and described Liaison’s entry as “an unusual special task.” Recorded officials for hindering the congress – a crime – conduct further congress investigation.
This is not a conspiracy theory. These are documented facts – confirmed by the CIA itself. And yet thousands of pages related to the murder remain edited or suspended. This is unacceptable.
Congress has a constitutional responsibility, and the CIA, like every agency in our government, must be responsible for the people. We cannot allow a secret to culture to replace the law of public opinion to know the full history, how and why the sitting president was murdered.
That is why I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the transition to the support of the renovated investigation into the service of this CIA case, including additional interrogations and the full issue of all other JFK murder documents. I would also support the rules to make sure that the JFK Act of 1992 and the executive order of Trump will be fully observed.
Although Kennedy’s murder took place over six decades ago, it remains an essential and timely problem due to the behavior of the CIA in the years since then. The murder changed the course of America’s history. Covering the facts related to this undermines our democracy and public faith in the government.
To be clear, I think that the CIA plays an essential role in the protection of the United States during the law of law. But the enduring suppression of the agency’s truth regarding the murder of the president requires responsibility. We owe it to the American nation. We owe this story. We owe it to our constitutional system. And above all, we are guilty of the memory of President John F. Kennedy.
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Rep. Eric Budison, R-Mo., Is a member of the Task group of the House Supervisory Committee on the Federal Secrets Department.
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