{"id":2394781,"date":"2025-01-24T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bestselling-author-says-jfk-files-could-embarrass-cia-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T17:06:56","slug":"bestselling-author-says-jfk-files-could-embarrass-cia-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bestselling-author-says-jfk-files-could-embarrass-cia-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling author says JFK files could embarrass CIA &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbestselling-author-says-jfk-files-could-embarrass-cia-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2394781&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Bestselling author\u200b Gerald Posner, known for\u2062 his \u200cbook on the assassination\u2063 of John F. Kennedy (JFK),\u2064 stated\u200d that \u200cthe \u200bupcoming release of JFK files may be &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; for the \u2062CIA.\u200c He emphasized that while he believes Lee Harvey\u2062 Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy, the released documents could reveal the CIA&#8217;s failure to act \u2063on critical information they \u200dpossessed\u2064 about Oswald. Posner highlighted that Oswald\u200d had\u2064 shown erratic behavior before the assassination and\u2062 that the CIA was monitoring him\u2064 but\u2062 did \u200bnot communicate vital details to the FBI \u2063when he \u200breturned to \u2062the U.S. He compared this\u2063 oversight to \u2063intelligence \u200bfailures \u2062leading up to the 9\/11 attacks. Posner \u200cremains open to his\u200c theory being\u200d proven\u2062 wrong,\u200d but he\u200c suspects\u200d that the files may support his assertion that various conspiratorial actors, including the Mafia and foreign powers, had motives against Kennedy,\u2064 though they where\u2064 not \u200cdirectly \u200cinvolved in the assassination plot. President Donald Trump,who\u200c ordered the release of the files,acknowledged the significance of this moment,noting \u200cthe public&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-michigan-demands-1200-for-china-documents\/\" title=\"University of Michigan Demands ,200 for China Documents\">long wait<\/a> for openness \u200don these matters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Bestselling author says JFK files could embarrass CIA<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1948168\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">bestselling author<\/a> behind one of the most recognized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">books<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jfk-assassination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">assassination<\/a> of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">John F. Kennedy<\/a> said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3298927\/trump-declassifies-government-files-jfk-rfk-mlk-assassinations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">release<\/a> of the Kennedy files could be &ldquo;embarrassing&rdquo; for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">CIA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I think that we could actually find the files that are very embarrassing to the CIA and one of the reasons they&rsquo;ve held on to these for so long,&rdquo; Gerald Posner, the author of <em>Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK<\/em>, told Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Fox and Friends<\/em> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>There was no grand intergovernmental conspiracy, and Oswald acted alone, according to Posner. However, the release of the documents by President Donald Trump could show that the CIA failed to act with the information they had, he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2771502&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=4c341f5fbcb7bd1705bf8dd49499e1d0\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Lee Harvey Oswald, the fellow who shoots the president, ends up going to Mexico City only six weeks before he kills Kennedy. He wants to get down to Havana, to Cuba, because he wants to join the Castro Revolution, but he&rsquo;s rejected by the Soviets and the Cubans,&rdquo; Posner said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the CIA was surveying him. They knew what he was doing. They knew he was unhinged, that he had taken out a pistol and slammed it on the table at the Soviet mission.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The CIA knew all this, but the agency failed to tell the FBI when Oswald came back to the United States, according to the author. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the same type of thing that happened on 9\/11, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schoolhouse-rock-forgot-to-teach-kids-about-the-admin-state\/\" title=\"&#039;Schoolhouse Rock&#039; Forgot To Teach Kids About The Admin State\">agencies don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t talk to each other,&rdquo; Posner said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve suspected this for a long time. Maybe the evidence of it is inside these files.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Posner said he believes his theory will end up being true, but he is open to being wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I used to think it was the Mafia involved because Jack Ruby, who looks like he&rsquo;s out of central casting for a Mafia figure, ends up killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the arrested assassin, only two days after he&rsquo;s arrested, in police custody,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Of course, you have to think that looks like a silencing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You go into this suspicious, but, in the end, I think there were conspiracies: The mob, maybe Castro, maybe the KGB, they wanted Kennedy dead, but Oswald got there before any of them. He wasn&rsquo;t part of a plot.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When he ordered the release of the files on Thursday, Trump spoke to the importance of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a big one, huh?&rdquo; the president said in the Oval Office. &ldquo;A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades, and everything will be revealed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1948168\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1948168\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bestselling author claims JFK files may embarrass CIA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":2394782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP24326581086551-scaled-1024x705.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49156,7362,32690,39393,32076],"class_list":["post-2394781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bestselling-author","tag-cia","tag-government-transparency","tag-jfk-files","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP24326581086551-scaled-1024x705.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394785,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394781\/revisions\/2394785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}