JFK Assassination: The
CIA/FBI Theory
Noel M. Cassidy C. Patrick N. Anna L.
Overview
Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President
John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a
motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown
Dallas, Texas.
Warren Commission, was established on November 29,
1963, by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate
the assassination.
The Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald
acted alone in the killing of President Kennedy and
the wounding of Texas Governor John Connally.
The Commission findings has been proven to be
controversial and have been challenged by later
studies.
THE MOTIVE
Motive
During the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy and the CIA disagreed
on the plans for invasion. Kennedy called off the
second air strike, upsetting the CIA, which in the
CIA’s opinion, was the cause of the failure. After the
failed coup, Kennedy fired some of the CIA’s
officials.
After the Bay of Pigs, The Kennedy Committee and the
CIA never worked well together again.
THE EVIDENCE
Evidence
• Kennedy and CIA Problems
• Assassination of Foreign Leaders and the Church Committee
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Church committee investigated illegal intelligence gathering of
the CIA, FBI, and NSA
Diem of Vietnam
Bay of Pigs
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Remarked that he wanted “to splinter the CIA into a
thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds”
Kennedy brothers firing Allen Dulles, Richard M. Bissell, and
Charles P. Cabell in November 1961
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Allen Dulles: head of the CIA. Later lobbied hard to be a part
of JFK’s assassination investigation
Richard M. Bissell: responsible for U-2 spy planes during
invasion
Charles P. Cabell: United States Air Force General and Deputy
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Evidence
• Arthur Knock, author of "The Intra-Administration War in
Vietnam” article in the New York Times on October 3rd,
1963
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Quotes a high ranking official in the government:
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“[t]he CIA's growth was likened to a malignancy” which this
“very high official was not even sure the White House could
control ... any longer. If the United States ever experiences [an
attempt at a coup to overthrow the government] it will come
from the CIA and not the Pentagon.” The “agency represents a
tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone”.
Meaning, that if anyone was to overthrow the government, it
would be from the CIA
Evidence
• The Three Tramps
• Three known CIA agents
police
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detained and questioned by the
E. Howard Hunt: CIA station chief who was involved in the
Bay of Pigs Invasion. Worked as one of Nixon’s Whitehouse
Plumbers
Frank Sturgis: also involved in Bay of Pigs and Plumbers.
Involved with Marita Lorenz in 1959, who identified him as a
gunman in the assassination
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Marita Lorenz was a German woman who had an affair with Fidel
Castro. She worked with the CIA in assassination attempts on
Castro's life
She was also involved with a group of anti-Cuban militants
including Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the assassination
Claims to have met Sturgis when she met Oswald, and drove
with the men to Dallas before flying back to Miami.
Marita now works for the FBI and lives in New York
Evidence
• The Three Tramps
• Three known CIA agents
police
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detained and questioned by the
Chauncey Holt: claimed to be a double agent of the CIA and
the Mafia
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Assignment was to give fake Secret Service credentials to people
in Dallas
Witnesses claim that there were multiple unidentified men in the
area claiming to be Secret Service
Evidence
• FBI Involvement
• Criticism of how the FBI conducted the investigation of
JFK’s murder
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The FBI was deficient in its sharing of information with other
agencies and departments
The FBI had investigated Oswald prior to the assassination to
determine whether Oswald was a threat to the public safety
The congressional Committee determined that the FBI failed
to adequately investigate a conspiracy for an assassination of
the President
CONCLUSION
Conclusion
• On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy
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was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald as he rode
in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas
The resentment of the Kennedy Committee and the
CIA towards each other led to the assassination of
the President
Proven through evidence, the assassination of the
President was organized in association with the CIA
and FBI. That evidence includes animosity between
JFK and the CIA in dealing with foreign policies,
JFK’s “humiliation” of certain CIA agents, and quotes
taken from witnesses in both the Kennedy
Committee and the CIA/FBI
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