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What the Warren Commission was not told
What the Church Committee (1976) and a CIA historian (2013) say the CIA and the FBI left out of their dealings with the Warren Commission in 1964.
- Dates
- Dec 1963 – Sep 1964
According to Church Committee
- involved Central Intelligence Agency
- involved Federal Bureau of Investigation
- involved Allen Dulles
According to David Robarge
- involved Allen Dulles
- involved Central Intelligence Agency
- involved John McCone
Connections 9
involved
- Central Intelligence Agency Did not tell the Commission about its plots to kill Castro According to Church Committee Primary record 1
- Federal Bureau of Investigation Did not tell the Commission it had disciplined 17 staff over the Oswald case According to Church Committee Primary record 1
- Allen Dulles Commission member and former CIA director who, the Committee says, “presumably knew” of the earlier plots According to Church Committee Primary record 1
- Allen Dulles Advised CIA officers on what his fellow commissioners would ask, in Robarge’s account According to David Robarge Primary record 2
- John McCone With Helms, assured the Commission that Oswald had no tie to the CIA; the House committee says it then dropped the matter Primary record 3
- Richard Helms Corroborated McCone’s assurances to the Commission Primary record 3
- Warren Commission Was not told Primary record 1
- Central Intelligence Agency Gave the Commission help that its historian David Robarge calls “passive, reactive, and selective” According to David Robarge Primary record 2
- John McCone Had “a place in a ‘benign cover-up’” in Robarge’s words, limited to keeping the Castro plots and Cuba operations off the Commission’s agenda According to David Robarge Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- Dec 1963 – Sep 1964 What the Warren Commission was not told
Proof 3 sources
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Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies, U.S. Senate, 1976.
Primary record
Archived copy
Neither the CIA nor the FBI told the Warren Commission about the CIA attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.
As a result of these deficiencies seventeen FBI personnel, including one Assistant Director, were disciplined. The fact that the FBI felt there were investigative deficiencies and the disciplinary actions it took were never publicly disclosed by the Bureau or communicated to the Warren Commission.
Allen Dulles, former Director of Central Intelligence, was a member of the Warren Commission and presumably knew about CIA plots during his tenure with the Agency, although he probably was unaware of the AMLASH operation.
None of the testimony or documents received by the Warren Commission mentioned the CIA assassination plots.
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Death of a President: DCI John McCone and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Central Intelligence Agency, Studies in Intelligence, 2013.
Primary record
Dulles did, however, advise Agency officers of the questions his fellow commissioners most likely would ask.
passive, reactive, and selective.
McCone did have a place in a "benign cover-up,"
the only one that existed was the conspiracy to kill Castro and then keep that effort secret after November 22nd.
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Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives: Part I, Section C (findings and the investigation of possible conspirators), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 1979.
Primary record
McCone's testimony was corroborated by Deputy Director Richard M. Helms.
The record reflects that once these assurances had been received, no further efforts were made by the Warren Commission to pursue the matter.
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