JFK Files Disappoint - Here's The Real Story

Kennedy opposed a war machine that continues to this day

• The narrative is always that some insignificant gnat exterminated a giant

(3,300 words of just over a quarter hour of your company.)

Mar 19, 2025

Another promise of revelation. Another let-down.

The announcement of "all the files" is becoming a ritual denial, as if the powers that be are rubbing our noses in it: "You don't get to know why we do what we do."

In this article we'll parse some of the more common whodunnits and some less common explanations or consequences of the public execution of president John F Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

I listened to a great example of citizen journalism overnight. Diligent Denizen began with Mark Lane's documentary Rush to Judgement, which remains one of the best "fly on the wall" examples because it consists mostly of witness testimony without commentary.

Rush to Judgement was completed in 1967 only five years after the assassination.

Then as the files were released members of the Diligent Denizen Twitter/X Space did their best to comb through some of the tens of thousand of items which of course are not indexed — or at least the government did not release its own indices.

The same was the case with the Warren Commission on the assassination which completed its hearings and published its report in less than a year.

Sylvia Meagher indexed the 888 pages of the report and the twenty-six volumes of documents. Without her efforts the historians, and some more nefarious myth spinners, would have had a tougher time confronting the government narrative.

Despite the release of the JFK files we have no way of knowing what documents remain under wraps.

The knowables include, first and foremost, that the official narrative of the Warren commission is a crock.

Second, that many forces were ranged against JFK and that it is facile, even fatuous, to pick just one of these.

Thrice doomed

As when something goes wrong in the cockpit, a pilot may cope with one, even two problems; a public figure may confront two enemies, but it is the third that emerges from left field to doom him.

Dealing with the first, the Warren commission. Its very membership list exposes the cover-up; but why should the average John or Jane recognise those names unless they are already acquainted with the career of Allen Dulles and John J McCloy?

To those acquainted with their role as functionaries of the Rockefellers, the junior partner in the Anglo-American establishment, they trigger bonfires and alarums. Dulles and McCloy were among the lawyers and bankers who built up the Third Reich so that they could, as ever, profit from both sides of the war and influence the outcomes.

That is your Warren Commission.

John Kennedy's father had been ambassador to Britain in the lead-up to WWII and young JFK had seen how the sausage is made. If you wish to know how things work — which many don't and we must respect their desire for a quiet life — you should take the official narrative and reverse it.

Remember those cautionary tales for children that were popular until recent times, above all the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Well, just upturn the story. You will discover if it works or if something different is afoot. That's an article for another day.

JFK we are told was a libertine. He was all about sex — a man whose war injury meant he had to wear a brace to support his back, which is why his body did not collapse but sat there as they used him like target practice.

But he knew how the banking power had manufactured WWII and that means he also knew who had established Israel and why, for the two are inextricably linked.

Tally the foe

JDK's multiple enemies include the mob, and key players like Florida don Santo Trafficante, who was the most powerful in Cuba under Fulgencio Batista, after Meyer Lansky.

TL;DR version is that JFK messed up the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by failing to authorise air support. It is becoming clear that JFK was fully supportive of the Cuba invasion, and that the CIA obstructed its success.

There are official narratives and sub-narratives, in case the lone gunman does not convince. To lead a people successfully you must control not only the official mythology but also the alternative versions available to the opposition.

Remember that while consuming "alternative" media.

One sub-narrative is that Allen Dulles, first head of the CIA, resented JFK for sabotaging the Cuba invasion. In return JFK threaten to break the CIA into a thousand pieces. And so the conspiracy goes, Dulles and the military complex had JFK assassinated.

Castro Greta

Cuba's dictator Batista had protected the mob. But when he was overthrown in 1959, the forces supporting the opposition were backed by the U.S. State Department, specifically the Fourth Floor where the Latin American officers had their desks.

Forces within the State Department wanted Batista out, and withheld arms, while promoting a young, photogenic counter-cultural star named Fidel Castro, whom The New York Times had been promoting since 1948 when Castro was a 22 year-old leading an early Color Revolution ™ in Bogota, Colombia.

Think of him as an early Greta.

If the U.S. wanted Castro in; what to make of the narrative that the CIA was trying to get him out four years later? And the narrative that JFK obstructed the effort, which the record suggests he did not.

Citizen Kane

We are, my friends, in the presence of narrative.

The grand hall, the Xanadu of Citizen Kane, representing the power of the press in the epic film by Orson Welles based on William Hearst's press empire and his castle La Cuesta Encantada in San Simeon, California.

Hearst manipulated the U.S. public into supporting the Spanish-American war.

Great powers plan. The key variable that matters is how early they begin their plans, and how late we are to wake up to them. Let's catch up.

The CIA installed Castro. Some later president, JFK or another, would be pitted against him. That president would be executed publicly, to be blamed on Cubans — maybe the supporters of Castro or the enemies of Castro claiming the president had failed to contain the island communist.

Surprisingly the island communist had been installed, according to Earl T Smith, ambassador to Cuba from 1957-59, by the CIA itself.

See Stanley Monteith's interview with ambassador Earl T Smith, conducted I think in 1980. [1]

Whose mob?

Cuba's dictator Fulgencio Batista had failed and would be expelled by Fidel Castro. Who would lose?

The leading figure was Meyer Lansky, effectively the U.S. bootlegging arm of Canada's Seagram and its owner Samuel Bronfman. [2]

To control the profits from any product you must make it illegal. That goes for drugs or alcohol.

Cuba was the offshore gambling den controlled by the same interests that would established Las Vegas.

Lansky began to show interest in Vegas in 1946, just a decade before Castro would expropriate his interests in Havana.

Shut down Havana and you get Las Vegas. Remove the Italian competition in Latin Havana and get Lansky's The Sands in Paradise, Nevada.

Think bringing the business back to America.

To this day the story is so sensitive that the press is still covering up. [3]

This level of nuance, complexity and dirty doings is the world that JFK understood as a result of his father Joseph knowing the mob, being allegedly also a bootlegger during Prohibition, but also having been ambassador to Britain from 1938 to late 1940.

The CIA admits in its official history that it allied with the mob. It claims this only began in WWII in the ports of New York, in which the CIA's predecessor the Office for Strategic Services used the Italian mafia to ensure there was no German sabotage.