Morley: The CIA’s Cover-Up of the JFK Assassination Began Immediately and Never Stopped

Jefferson Morley, a journalist with 30 years of researching the JFK assassination, highlights the CIA’s long-standing secrecy efforts since November 22, 1963, which continue today.

“They’ve been resisting full disclosure since the day President Kennedy died. That’s the day that the CIA’s lies began. CIA officials began lying about what they knew about Lee Harvey Oswald within hours of President Kennedy’s murder. And they’ve been obfuscating, lying, deceiving, covering up evading ever since.”

Morley’s work exposes how the CIA’s narrative about Oswald as a “lone nut” unravels under scrutiny. The agency’s immediate post-assassination actions—destroying files, withholding evidence, and misleading Congress—suggest a coordinated effort to control the story. This wasn’t just incompetence but a deliberate strategy to bury inconvenient truths.

But the cover-up goes deeper than spin. The CIA had years to monitor Oswald before Kennedy’s murder:

“The CIA had Lee Harvey Oswald under surveillance for four years. By November 21, 1963, they had compiled 180 pages of material on Oswald, his personal life, his political beliefs, his contact with a KGB officer, his arrest. They had all of that. At the time, Kennedy was leaving for Dallas. CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton knew that Oswald was in the Dallas area in the first week of November 1963.”

This bombshell raises urgent questions: Why did the CIA fail to flag Oswald as a threat? Why was this 180-page file hidden from the Warren Commission? Morley argues the agency’s silence wasn’t oversight—it was complicity. Angleton, the CIA’s shadowy counterintelligence chief, oversaw the Oswald file and later lied to Congress about its existence.

Perhaps most shocking is how the CIA still censors documents that could expose its motives. Take JFK’s own White House:

“One of the key documents that’s still redacted, unbelievably, in my view, is a memo that Arthur Schlesinger wrote to JFK after the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was very disillusioned with the CIA. He felt they were trying to dictate policy to him. And he talked about reorganizing the CIA in the words that are often quoted, breaking up the CIA and scattering it to the winds. In that memo to Kennedy, there is still almost an entire page redacted.”

Schlesinger’s memo isn’t just historical trivia. Its redactions suggest the CIA is still hiding JFK’s true stance toward the agency—a president who openly clashed with them over the Bay of Pigs fiasco and Cuban operations. Why censor criticism from 1961? Because it underscores a chilling reality: Kennedy’s push to rein in the CIA may have made him a target.

Morley’s findings paint a damning portrait of an agency that prioritizes self-preservation over truth. Sixty years later, the CIA’s grip on JFK’s files—and its refusal to fully comply with the 1992 JFK Records Act—proves one thing: the real story of Dallas isn’t just about a shooting. It’s about power, secrecy, and who gets to write history.

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