{"id":2413950,"date":"2025-03-19T20:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jfk-files-section-on-would-be-whistleblower-who-was-found-dead-goes-viral-but-theres-a-catch\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:01:02","slug":"jfk-files-section-on-would-be-whistleblower-who-was-found-dead-goes-viral-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jfk-files-section-on-would-be-whistleblower-who-was-found-dead-goes-viral-but-theres-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"JFK Files: Section on Would-Be Whistleblower Who Was Found Dead Goes Viral &#8211; But There\u2019s a Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fjfk-files-section-on-would-be-whistleblower-who-was-found-dead-goes-viral-but-theres-a-catch%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=2413950&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 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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?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<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The release of Kennedy assassination files Tuesday stirred up a hornet&rsquo;s nest of social media speculation about a crime that changed history more than six decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>And one particular element &mdash; the tale of a would-be whistleblower with ties to the CIA &mdash; seemed to be gaining traction more than others.<\/p>\n<p>But while the story itself wasn&rsquo;t new, one element of it hadn&rsquo;t been public before.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Brooks, a reporter for Beltway-centric news organization The Hill, published a post about it to the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This document from the JFK files drop is going viral on conservative Twitter right now. But this part isn&rsquo;t new.<\/p>\n<p>The viral part is quoting a 1967 piece in Ramparts magazine. So, the Gary Underhill stuff has been out there for a while. The full memo provides information about&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DvLiuHF66Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/DvLiuHF66Q<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JNg7tGhWcs\">pic.twitter.com\/JNg7tGhWcs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Emily Brooks (@emilybrooksnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilybrooksnews\/status\/1902165072140759452?\">March 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Among the more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/jfk\/release-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1,000 files released<\/a> by the National Archives was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/files\/research\/jfk\/releases\/2025\/0318\/104-10170-10145.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one from July 1967<\/a> related to John Garrett &ldquo;Gary&rdquo; Underhill, a one-time journalist with ties to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence who claimed that the CIA was involved in the November 1963 assassination in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>In June 1967, Underhill&rsquo;s allegations were the subject of a report in Ramparts, a now-defunct magazine, which described how Underhill had left Washington &ldquo;in a hurry&rdquo; the day after President John Kennedy&rsquo;s death.<\/p>\n<p>He told friends, according to Ramparts, that &ldquo;a small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Underhill was found dead in his Washington, D.C., apartment in May 1964. His death was ruled a suicide, though there was plenty of reason to doubt that, according to Ramparts.<\/p>\n<p>Underhill was shot behind his left ear, an automatic pistol was on his left side, the magazine reported. But Underhill was right-handed.<\/p>\n<p>A suspicious death in a man who claimed to know the truth about Kennedy&rsquo;s death is enough to stoke suspicions &mdash; even if the facts of his case have been public for almost 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>But there is also a fresh element to the Underhill story from Tuesday&rsquo;s release.<\/p>\n<p>An Underhill associate cited in the Ramparts article was Samuel Cummings, the owner of Interarmco, an arms broker that was the source of the rifle Kennedy assassin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/newly-released-cia-documents-reveal-lee-harvey-oswalds-suspicious-meeting-just-jfk-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Harvey Oswald<\/a> purchased from retailer Klein&rsquo;s Sporting Goods.<\/p>\n<p>The now-deceased Cummings is almost legendary in the arms-market world. The first paragraph of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1998\/05\/05\/world\/samuel-cummings-71-trader-in-weapons-on-a-grand-scale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times obituary<\/a> in 1998 described him as &ldquo;the undisputed philosopher-king of the arms trade.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>What the newly released file reveals is that, in 1954, Cummings was the &ldquo;principal agent of the CIA-owned companies known as International Arms Company and Interarmco Ltd.&rdquo; (His Times obituary said he left the agency to take over the company.)<\/p>\n<p>He assumed sole ownership of the company in 1958, according to the file, paying with a promissory note of $100,000 (about $1.1 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usinflationcalculator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 dollars<\/a>), to be paid in four installments.<\/p>\n<p>But even after leaving the CIA&rsquo;s employ to run Interarmco, Cummings maintained contact with the CIA as an &ldquo;informant&rdquo; as well as contracting with the agency to &ldquo;dispose of arms,&rdquo; according to the file.<\/p>\n<p>So, the ultimate source of the gun used by Kennedy&rsquo;s assassin was a company formerly owned by the CIA and that was owned at the time of the assassination by a former CIA agent who had maintained ties to the intelligence agency, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jfks-nephew-goes-public-tucker-carlsons-insider-bombshell-cias-murder-uncle-successful-coup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has often been accused<\/a>&nbsp;in Kennedy&rsquo;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Like everything else associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fbi-finds-14000-new-pages-jfk-assassination-never-provided-1992-review-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennedy assassination<\/a>, the release of files has raised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/secret-service-agent-feet-jfk-assassination-breaks-silence-says-official-story-isnt-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ever more questions<\/a>. It also draws ever more attention. Tuesday&rsquo;s viral treatment of the Underhill story &mdash; a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1902151255474188526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on X<\/a> from conservative commentator Colin Rugg alone drew more than 2.5 million views &mdash; proves that.<\/p>\n<p>And with 1,182 files going public in two tranches, as <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/jfk-files-key-takeaways-learned-didnt\/story?id=119939692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a> reported, and more than 60,000 pages, there are almost certainly going to be more questions to come.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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