Docs Confirm Lee Harvey Oswald Was Recruited by CIA Months Before JFK Assassination
Bombshell CIA documents, declassified this week under President Trump’s JFK disclosure push, confirm that Lee Harvey Oswald was recruited by a high-level CIA psychological warfare operative, George Joannides, months before assassinating President Kennedy. The 1963 memo exposes the agency’s covert contact with Oswald, fueling long-standing suspicions of CIA involvement in the assassination.
Released Thursday, the memo details Joannides, a deputy chief of the CIA’s Miami branch, being assigned a covert identity as “Howard Mark Gebler,” complete with a fake address and driver’s license. This revelation, part of a broader effort to unveil hidden truths about JFK’s death, intensifies questions about the CIA’s role and the extent of their manipulation of Oswald leading up to the tragic event.
Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA.
CIA-financed operatives had direct contact with JFK’s assassin before the killing, according to documents declassified yesterday.
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Infowars.com reports: Axios explains: “Until Thursday, the agency had denied that Joannides was known as ‘Howard,’ the case officer name for the CIA contact who worked with activists from an anti-communist group opposed to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro called the Cuban Student Directorate [DRE],” a group covertly funded and directed by Joannides’ CIA branch.
Members of the DRE confronted Oswald on August 9, 1963, as he handed out pro-Castro pamphlets in New Orleans, just months before the Nov. 22 assassination.
Oswald also debated DRE activists later that month, reinforcing his image as a Communist sympathizer – a year and a half after the Pentagon’s proposed false flag plan, Operation Northwoods, which aimed to blame acts of terror on the Castro regime in order to justify a military overthrow of Cuba. That plan, which President John F. Kennedy ultimately rejected, followed the CIA’s botched Bay of Pigs invasion just one year prior.
Later, Joannides and others inside the CIA helped conceal his role, slow-walking document requests, misdirecting congressional investigators and running “covert ops” intended to undermine investigations.
The bombshell document comes as previous releases have already shown the CIA lied under oath when questioned about the DRE during previous congressional testimony, Axios reports:
“All the records disclosed so far show how the CIA lied about financing or being involved with DRE. That includes the agency’s interactions with the Warren Commission (1964), the Church Committee (1975), the House Select Committee on Assassinations (1977-78) and the Assassination Review Board (until 1998).”
Axios notes while the memo blows Joannides’ cover, “The new documents don’t shed any additional light on Kennedy’s shooting or settle the controversy over whether Oswald acted alone. Nor is there any evidence showing why the CIA covered up Joannides’ ties to DRE.”
The document release, shedding light on the CIA’s long-suspected hidden hand in the assassination, was celebrated as a victory in transparency for the Trump administration, including by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) who chairs the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets.
If you haven’t seen the headlines this morning, news broke of the Task Force’s success in securing documents from the CIA that reveal a decades long secret.
Thank you to @CIADirector Ratcliffe for the transparency, without him this could not have been done, as well as the hard… https://t.co/GWHXflonEp — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) July 5, 2025
