Donald Trump’s January 23 Executive Order to declassify the assassination files of President John F. Kennedy have raised public expectations that at long last a smoking gun document might reveal a deep state conspiracy. After studying the case for 35 years and having reviewed the documents already unsealed, I do not expect to find evidence of an Oliver Stone-styled conspiracy. There is, however, a lingering question that could reshape how history judges the case: was the president’s murder preventable?
It was revealed after 9/11 that the CIA had known about two Saudi terrorists living in California but had not shared the information with the FBI until a month before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. By then it was too late to find them. Both Saudis ended up on the 9/11 terror planes.
Did something similar happen in the JFK assassination?
It is more than a hypothetical question because 23-year-old Lee Oswald went to the Soviet and Cuban diplomatic missions in Mexico…
