This Ex Cia Recruit Claims He Knows The Truth About The Kennedy Assassination

Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963. This date is seared into the mind of every conspiracy theorist around the world; the day when Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly squeezed the trigger and assassinated American president John F. Kennedy. For more than 50 years, the disgruntled and the suspicious have questioned the narrative presented by the Warren commission, which determined that Oswald was the lone gunman, and that his killer, Jack Ruby, also acted independently. Incumbent Republican president Donald Trump has now announced his intention to release classified government documents regarding the assassination; documents which could confirm the allegations made by an elderly Cuban man who claims he knows the truth. Former CIA recruit and anti-Castro insurgent Antonio Veciana has alleged that Kennedy's death was a hit ordered by military officials and intelligence agents at the highest echelons of power. In 1959, CIA agent David Atlee Phillips (also known as Maurice Bishop) recruited him to assassinate Castro personally, and in the 60s Veciana was the founder of CIA-backed Alpha 66, a guerrilla movement which aimed to depose the communist regime in Cuba. Thus, Veciana was privy to the agency's most clandestine operations in Latin America. Now 88 years old, Veciana claims that he witnessed a rendezvous between the top CIA operative and Lee Harvey Oswald, which suggests that Oswald was recruited to carry out the killing on the agency's behalf. "Maurice Bishop" apparently met Oswald and Veciana in Dallas in August/September 1963, and it was here that the assassination was apparently arranged. It would be easy to dismiss Veciana's claims were it not for the fact that there are other pieces of evidence that corroborate his statement. For example, in 2014 and 2015, a man named Wynne Johnson, who was 15 years old in 1963, uploaded three videos to YouTube alleging that he and a girlfriend witnessed the meeting between Veciana, Bishop and Oswald at the Southland Centre in Dallas. Johnson's account of the meeting matches Veciana's very neatly indeed. Furthermore, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which dedicated itself to a thorough investigation of the Kennedy assassination, forced Veciana to testify that he had indeed witnessed a meeting between Bishop and Oswald.

In a 1979 report, the HSCA determined that there was a probable conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy partially based on acoustic analysis of Dictabelt recordings of a motorcycle police officer's radio microphone at the scene of the incident. Furthermore, an investigation carried out by Gaeton Fonzi, one of the HSCA's congressional investigators, determined that Maurice Bishop was indeed David Atlee Philips after arranging a meeting between him and Veciana. Lastly, in Miami, in 1979 Veciana was shot by unknown gunmen in the head in a drive-by shooting, not long after the HSCA published their report which contradicted the Warren commission. Were these pro-Castro operatives? Or was the CIA tying up loose ends?

But why would the CIA have employed Oswald to shoot Kennedy? Veciana believes that hardliners within the military-industrial complex thought that Kennedy was too soft. His apathetic support of the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs Invasion, refusal to attack Cuba directly during the Missile Crisis, and his diplomatic relationship with USSR First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev convinced them that Kennedy had to be removed from power by use of lethal force. Five million pages worth of related intelligence regarding the incident have already been publicly released, and yet none of these have satiated the appetites of conspiracy theorists, who remain convinced of foul play. Veciana's testimony certainly is detailed, and if anyone would have insider knowledge of the dark and shady side of American espionage, it would be him. Trump's release of declassified documents may expose him as a whistleblower, or as a fraud. We will simply have to wait and see.

A decades-old video could shed new light on a conspiracy theory regarding the assassination of the late US president John F. Kennedy.

On November 22, 1963, the US was rocked with the new that Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, had been killed in front of crowds of people while waving to them from his open-topped car in Dallas, Texas.

Kennedy, 46, was shot once in the back, with the bullet exiting via his throat, and once in the head and was pronounced dead 20 minutes later at Parkland Hospital.

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the killing, however, he denied being the shooter, and was himself shot and killed just two days later.

John F. Kennedy pictured in his motorcade moments before he was fatally shot. Credit: Bettmann /Getty Images

Though Oswald was killed before he could be prosecuted, the Warren Commission report later concluded that Oswald acted alone and was responsible for the shocking killing.

Kennedy's death sparked a lot of conspiracy theories, with many questioning whether Oswald did in fact act alone to cause the level of injuries the president died from.

Kennedy's autopsy also raised questions about how one bullet could cause so much damage, leading many to believe there may have been multiple shots from more than one gunman.

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the killing but denied his involvement. Credit: Kypros/Getty Image

Footage of the fateful moment, taken by Orville Nix, an air conditioner repairman, which has not been seen since 1978 could hold the key to solving the mystery.

The grainy 8mm footage was taken from the grassy knoll where some witnesses believe the shots originated from.

Conspiracy theorists have also claimed a second gunman may have been hiding behind a fence on the knoll.

The footage was sent for analysis by a Los Angeles company and later fell under federal ownership, but they have claimed they no longer have it.

Nix died in 1972, and his son launched a legal battle to recover the footage - claiming it could be worth up to $900 million - which Nix's granddaughter, Linda Gayle Nix Jackson, has now picked up following her own father's passing.

The footage could hold the answers to the questions surrounding Kennedy's death, with Scott Watnik of Wilk Auslander LLP, acting on behalf of Nix Jackson, claiming advancements in technology could help the footage to be made clearer.

The shooter is believed to have been on a grassy knoll. Credit: Bettmann /Getty Images

He told the New York Post: "It’s really the only one that is known to have captured the grassy knoll area of Dealey Plaza right as the assassination occurs.

"If we subjected the camera-original film to optics technology of 2026, we can certainly capture details in the film that we never could have captured when … the committee had the film in 1978."

He added that the footage could support a 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations report that found Kennedy "was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy".

A federal judge has now ruled that legal proceedings to recover the film can go ahead, meaning the footage could soon see the light of day once more.

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President Donald Trump has opened up about who he thinks was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

At the time of the incident, President Donald Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Credit: Andrew Harnik / Getty

During his 2024 campaign, Trump vowed to prioritize transparency by declassifying files tied to the Kennedy assassination.

"As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents," he said at a massive 'Make America Great Again' rally at Washington, DC’s Capital One Arena.

He followed through with the promise in the very first week of his presidency, signing an executive order that triggered the release of 80,000 long-withheld documents.

The files - kept secret for decades due to their sensitive nature - were finally made public last week under the 78-year-old's direction.

JFK's assassination is one of the most controversial chapters in American history. Credit: Bettmann / Getty

John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, while riding through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. He was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald from a nearby building.

The shock of Kennedy’s death led to the formation of the Warren Commission, which ultimately concluded that Oswald acted alone. Still, public suspicion has lingered for decades.

The newly released files didn’t break any ground on that front. While the documents failed to reveal major new insights into the assassination itself, they did expose personal information, including the Social Security numbers of several individuals.

“I think the papers have turned out to be somewhat unspectacular and maybe that’s a good thing,” he said during an interview with Clay Travis from the conservative outlet OutKick over the weekend.

Trump “always” agreed with the official conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK but hinted the infamous assassin may have had help. Credit: Bettmann / Getty

During the interview, the President was asked whether he believed Oswald was responsible for Kennedy’s assassination, and said: “I do."

Trump continued: "I do and I’ve always felt that."

But, he also questioned the lingering suspicions around one of the most controversial chapters in American history by saying: “Of course, was he helped?”

Over the years, many have speculated that Oswald may have been aided by the Mafia, the CIA, the Cuban government, the KGB, or even elements within the U.S. government but official findings dispute those claims.

Trump’s push for transparency didn’t stop with the JFK files. He also signed an executive order instructing his administration to declassify documents tied to several major cases and historical events, including the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and the September 11 attacks.

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In many ways, the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro was a man of myth and mystery. For years, rumours have swirled about him; everything from the speculation that he slept with 35,000 women during his lifetime to his trying out for the New York Yankees baseball team before his entry into politics. But whilst separating fact from fiction can be challenging, one story stands out more than most - namely that there were more than 600 Fidel Castro assassination attempts, many of them orchestrated by the CIA. Ranging from the slightly creepy to the downright absurd, including a plot to plant a beautifully painted shell packed with explosives to tempt the diving enthusiast president, the slapstick gadgets of early James Bond films have nothing on the the CIA's assassination attempts. Castro governed as Cuba's Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 then as president from 1976 to 2008, having seized power in 1959 at the climax of the Cuban revolution. During this time, communist rebels led by Castro and Che Guevara rose up against the right-wing president Fulgencio Batista. In the early 1960s, with the Cold War looking increasingly warm, the presence of a communist ally of the Soviet Union only 100 miles from the US coast was considered a genuine threat to both US security and the impenetrability of the US's ideological sphere of influence. Much to the ire of successive US presidents, Castro’s famously charismatic leadership style meant that at the time he was portrayed as a Robin Hood figure and enjoyed widespread popularity on the island. With the US desperate for regime change, this mix of factors was to prove fatal - or at least, it was supposed to. Contrary to the United Nations Charter, which prohibits states to overthrow or change the political system of another state or its government, attempts to kill Castro started almost immediately after the Cuban revolution. Somewhat ironically, they became more intense and organised during the administration of John F Kennedy, who would of course be assassinated himself. Between 1960 to 2000 every US administration made some attempt on Castro’s life, peaking between 1969 to 1974, during the Nixon administration. Castro additionally became a target for Cuban exile groups, with many of their attempts also being backed by the CIA. [[heroimage||http://cdn.junglecreations.com/wp/junglecms/2017/09/GettyImages-627638146-min.jpg||Children stand in front of modern-day Castro propaganda]] Among the earliest attempts, and like in all good spy movies, there was a plan involving a beautiful femme fatale. Marita Lorenz, a German-born American and a lover of Castro’s in the late 1950s was recruited by the CIA to kill him in a Havana hotel room. Described by a retired FBI agent Frank Lundquist as a young woman who was visibly “in over her head” in her relationship with a man of such power, Lorenz had recently undergone an abortion ostensibly of Castro’s child, the circumstances around which are still disputed. Citing "handling personal matters" as her reason to see Castro, she set out on her mission using two capsules filled with poison provided by the CIA. However, all did not go to plan, as Lorenz explained in an interview with Vanity Fair: “I knew the minute I saw the outline of Havana I couldn’t do it.” Castro, having already twigged what was about to happen, also had other ideas: “He laid down on the bed and said ‘You can’t kill me. Nobody can kill me.’ And he kind of smiled and chewed on his cigar…. I felt deflated. He was so sure of me. He just grabbed me. We made love.” By Castro's own admission, the closest the US ever came to successfully assassinating him was with a chocolate milkshake poisoned with botulinum toxins, prepared by a trusted hotel worker who had secretly been working for the CIA. Arguably the most famous however, was in the form of the exploding Havana cigar, which was intended to be offered to the leader when he visited the United Nations in New York. The plot, which was revealed by a policeman in 1967, prompted Castro to pose gloatingly with a newspaper carrying the story whilst smoking a cigar. Not one to be deterred, he continued to smoke until 1985 when he decided cigars were bad for his health and quit. In their determination to do away with the Cuban statesman, America even took to outsourcing their dirty work to a very surprising group of hitmen. Whilst the American mafia may be commonly thought of as fundamentally at odds with a crime fighting institution such as the CIA, the release of a 702 page dossier known as The Family Jewels, compiled by the agency in 1973, revealed their collusion with the crime syndicate in multiple Fidel Castro assassination attempts. According to the document, which detailed illegal and inappropriate actions undertaken by the CIA, selected agents were, in 1960, asked to make contact with high-ranking “gangster elements” with the access to dispose of Castro, covering their tracks with the stories of unpaid gambling debts. After multiple aborted attempts, the partnership was cancelled in the aftermath of the failure of the Bay of Pigs incident in 1961. Aside from their many murderous attempts, the CIA also embarked upon a series of "character assassination" missions designed to discredit and embarrass their arch enemy. These included using poison to destroy his signature beard - he had once reportedly said that he would shave it off only when economic sanctions had been lifted - and spiking him with LSD ahead of a public speech to make him lose control. Having retired from public office in 2008 and all but disappeared from public life in later years, rumours of his death consistently swirled for some time before his actual death. Surely knowing the end was near, in August 2016 to mark his 90th birthday he released a column in Granma, a state run newspaper, mocking the US’s attempts on his life over the years: “I almost laughed at the Machiavellian plans of US presidents.” He passed away just three months later, on 26 November 2016, and whilst his real cause of death was never revealed by the Cuban government, it was no doubt less somewhat less exciting than the wild plans of CIA agents, with not an exploding cigar in sight. Featured illustration by Egarcigu

Following the assassination attempt of Donald Trump, conspiracy theorists have taken to social media to share an outrageous claim about one of the FBI's top agents.

An attempt on Trump's life took place in Pennsylvania. Credit: Trump Campaign Office/Handout/Anadolu/Getty

As widely reported, on June 13, Trump narrowly escaped a deadly assassination attempt when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire from the roof of a shed.

One shot grazed Trump's ear, causing it to bleed, while Corey Comperatore, who was sitting behind Trump, was fatally shot.

Two other attendees were seriously injured before Crooks was killed by an FBI sniper.

In the fallout of the event, some conspiracy theorists have become convinced that there was a former FBI agent sitting behind Trump when the shooting took place.

Numerous posts on X have been citing fake "reports" mistakenly naming Janeen DiGuiseppi as an attendee seated behind Trump when alleged shooter Thomas Crooks opened fire from a nearby warehouse rooftop.

One X account with 1.3 million followers also posted these rumors, with many comments seeming to believe them.

Footage from the incident shows an unidentified woman calmly pulling out her cellphone, seemingly to capture the unfolding events, as Trump is quickly surrounded by Secret Service agents and ushered off the stage.

This woman’s composed demeanor has led some conspiracy theorists to absurdly suggest she was involved in the crime and "giving the shooter instructions".

The FBI has now categorically denied these allegations in a statement to Times Union.

"The allegations circulating on social media about an FBI executive and the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, are categorically false," the agency declared.

Donald Trump raising his fist after surviving the assassination attempt. Credit: Jeff Swensen / Getty

The FBI statement continued: "To be clear, the person depicted is not her, and she did not attend the rally.

"The men and women of the FBI work tirelessly and selflessly to protect others every day, and false rumors and conspiracy theories targeting these dedicated public servants are reprehensible and irresponsible.

"They are also dangerous and often lead to threats against them and their families. The FBI will continue to work with our partners to hold accountable anyone who makes violent threats against them or any of our colleagues in law enforcement."

Snopes, a popular fact-checking website, also looked into the rumors and came to the conclusion that they were false.

Trump kissed Comperatore's helmet. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty

The site reads: "Efforts to identify the woman seen at the rally have been unsuccessful. Despite similarities in age and hair color between DiGuiseppi and the unidentified woman, the latter wore sunglasses and a baseball cap, and her facial features do not match DiGuiseppi's.

"Moreover, DiGuiseppi, who has held various positions due to her extensive career with the FBI, has never worked in Pennsylvania and had no apparent reason to attend the rally either personally or officially.

"The FBI was not involved in organizing the rally, although they took charge of the investigation following the shooting."

DiGuiseppi, an Air Force veteran who joined the FBI in 1999, departed Albany last summer for a promotion as the assistant director of the bureau’s Insider Threat Office in Washington, D.C.

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Following the devastating assassination attempt on Donald Trump, some social media users have convinced themselves of a circulating conspiracy theory.

The FBI is currently investigating the attempted assassination on former US president Donald Trump on Saturday (July 13).

Trump had been peaking in front of hundreds of supporters at a rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds in Pennsylvania, before cameras captured the moment shots rang out. The former president was bundled to the ground by security agents, before the Secret Service shot the assailant dead.

The FBI has since identified the gunman as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Crooks had positioned himself on the rooftop of a manufacturing plant just over 130 yards away Trump's stage. An AR-style rifle was later recovered by his body, reports say.

Trump miraculously survived the attack - suffering wound to his upper-right ear. Sadly, one male rally-goer was killed and another two men critically injured.

However, despite the witnesses, cameras, and tragic fallout from the shooting, there are some people who claim the entire thing was "staged".

Shortly after the footage started circulating on X, the word "Staged" also started trending.

The word "Staged" started trending shortly after the attack. Credit: X

Sharing photos of Trump defiantly raising his fist in the air following the shooting, one X user wrote: "Look at these pictures, tell me what you see....

"If this were truly an assassination attempt, do you think the Secret Service would allow an open, clear target like this?"

The continued: "You can try using that, "they had already neutralized the shooter" excuse, but how did they know there was only one shooter? It doesn't matter if the shooter was neutralized, you do not leave any portion of a former president of the United States' body as a wide open target in the off chance there's more than one shooter. IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN!!"

They added in a follow-up tweet: "Not saying the shooting was fake. I'm saying this whole thing was staged."

Another X user shared a video from a 2016 conference where Trump was rushed off a stage by security agents following concern that somebody in the audience had a gun. "If you don't think that shit was staged? Look at how fast they got trump outta there at just the mention of someone in the crowd having a gun in 2016. Then look at this goofy as s**t," they wrote.

Even actress Amanda Seales - who starred in HBO's series Insecure - shared a video branding the shooting staged, stating that the gunshots sounded "like popcorn" and that a "blood pellet" was used.

"That s**t was more staged than a Tyler Perry production of Madea Runs for President," she said.

And on Google, searches for 'Donald Trump Staged' have skyrocketed in the last two days, with more and more people using the platform to search for terms like "staged shooting" and "Donald Trump fake".

Google searches for 'Donald Trump Staged' have skyrocketed. Credit: Google

Despite the ludicrous conspiracies, the FBI has confirmed that the investigation into the shooting is ongoing, and sharing in a recent update that the "firearm used in the shooting was purchased legally."

The FBI has also confirmed that agents have searched the "shooter’s home and vehicle to collect additional evidence".

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