In the wake of several Kennedy and King family members recently signing a petition to reopen investigations into the political assassinations of the 1960s, I posted this story on Medium regarding what is for me the most disturbing fact of the JFK case that cannot be denied.
Richard Helms, deputy director of plans for the CIA during the JFK years who later served as CIA director in the late ’60s and early ’70s, repeatedly lied under oath to the two major federal investigations into the assassination: as the CIA’s liaison to the Warren Commission in 1964 and again to the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 as a retired CIA official.
What did he lie about?
That he and the agency had provided all the material evidence they could about the assassination to federal investigators when he had deep personal knowledge that was untrue (and that internal CIA records now demonstrate was untrue).
Make of it what you will. It’s not a conspiracy theory — it’s a fact from the current historical record.
I realize I’m in the minority of modern liberals who still care about this case (or JFK himself for that matter), and I know there’s been a ton of confusing nonsense and speculation for decades that makes everyone throw up their hands in disgust.
But we shouldn’t allow the vast amount of BS trivialize disturbing findings in the historical record.
For if a high official in the security agency of another country was provably dissembling under oath to investigations into the assassination of the head of state, would we dismiss it? Or would we take it seriously and support the right of the citizenry to know the truth and nothing but the truth?