Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 239, and it's part three of our many series entitled

Oswald Goes to Mexico City.

So now that you've heard the government's initial version of the Mexico City story tell,

well, now you'll get to hear mine. We start today in this episode, part three. And this current

episode takes us through the initial travel portion of Oswald's story. That is the track to Mexico City.

And a cursory discussion of the concomitant events, the most important events that occurred during that week, starting on Monday, the 23rd of September.

Now, to be fair to the government, it's pretty clear that the FBI and the Warren Commission

did not know the depth of all the details that the CIA did about Mexico City. Much was covered up

by many at that moment. But let's face it, there wasn't much incentive to go deeper. The Lopez report, which was a product of the HSCA investigation, some 15 years after the Warren

Commission, was incremental.

Even then, the government fell short.

And later, Robert Blakey, chief counsel for the HSCA, would agree.

He would agree that the CIA blocked the efforts of the HSCA to get at all that the CIA knew.

And with hindsight clarity, Blakey would lament that had he known that the very man assigned to be the CIA liaison to the H.S.CA. George Joannidis, had he known

that he was more of a witness to Oswald's involvement than he was an objective liaison between the

H.SCA and the CIA, then the investigation itself would have taken on a different character, and

Joan Edis, at the very least, would have been subpoenaed as a witness.

Nevertheless, the CIA had a lot to hide in this aspect of the case, and hide it, they did.

At least it certainly seems that way. But that's only one aspect of the

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