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🗓️ 22 December 2022
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Last week, the Biden administration declassified a trove of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. While this action brings the government closer to the full disclosure of relevant files mandated by a 1992 law, it still keeps the most sensitive records secret. Jefferson Morley, author and editor of the "JFK Facts" Substack, joins Ryan Grim to discuss the latest disclosures.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Ryan Grimm. |
| 0:06.2 | The CIA has long claimed that it had no contact with Lee Harvey Oswald before President |
| 0:10.9 | Kennedy's assassination. |
| 0:12.4 | And for nearly as long, the public has just not believed them. |
| 0:16.0 | Over the years, voluminous evidence has emerged that shows Oswald very much on the CIA's |
| 0:20.3 | radar and new documents released last week cast even more doubt on the agency's unbelievable |
| 0:25.4 | claim. |
| 0:26.4 | President John F. Kennedy assassination records collection act passed in 1992. |
| 0:31.2 | Directed the National Archives to make public all records relating to the assassination |
| 0:34.6 | by 2017, but that year came and went without the full release of those documents. |
| 0:39.7 | And while the Biden administration has kept up the slow release of JFK-related files, |
| 0:43.5 | they continue to drag their feet on full compliance with the law, all of which prompts |
| 0:47.6 | the question, almost 60 years later, what do they still have hidden? |
| 0:51.6 | The continued concealment of the documents is drawing criticism from the right, too. |
| 0:55.6 | Here's Tucker Carlson this week, who said that he had spoken to a confidential source |
| 0:59.1 | with direct access to the undisclosed documents and that those documents include a bombshell. |
| 1:04.3 | We spoke to someone who had access to these still-hidden CIA documents, a person who was |
| 1:08.4 | deeply familiar with what they contain. |
| 1:11.3 | We asked this person directly, did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, |
| 1:16.4 | an American president? |
| 1:18.1 | And here's the reply we received verbatim, quote, the answer is yes. |
| 1:23.0 | I believe they were involved. |
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