Lee Harvey Oswald: handled by George Joannides, CIA psy ops agent
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"CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal"
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/05/cia-agent-oswald-kennedy-assassination
For the first time since President Kennedy's assassination nearly 62 years ago, the CIA has tacitly admitted that an officer specializing in psychological warfare ran an operation that came into contact with Lee Harvey Oswald before the Dallas killing.
Why it matters: The disclosure Thursday — nestled in a batch of 40 documents concerning officer George Joannides — indicates the CIA lied for decades about his role in the Kennedy case before and after the assassination, according to experts on JFK's slaying.
The linchpin document: A Jan. 17, 1963, CIA memo showing Joannides was directed to have an alias and fake driver's license bearing the name "Howard Gebler."
Until Thursday, the agency had denied that Joannides was known as "Howard," the case officer name for the CIA contact who worked with activists from an anti-communist group opposed to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro called the Cuban Student Directorate.
For decades, the agency also falsely said it had nothing to do with the student group, which was instrumental in having Oswald's pro-Castro stances published soon after the shooting.
There's more. I try to explain.
What we got above, is: Documents which prove that CIA & Joannides were behind story line, "Oswald is commie! That's why he shot JFK! Let's re-invade Cuba!"
That proves
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CIA manipulates media
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CIA always knew & tracked Oswald
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CIA lied..... 60+ years.....in denying 1 & 2
Even if you believe theory of "lone gunman", "Oswald shot JFK" - that much
is bad for CIA.
But there's more!
Joannides was on key 1978 committee of Congress. Sabotaged it for CIA.
The intrigue: Joannides didn't just have knowledge of Oswald before the assassination — afterward he played a central role in deceiving the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
At the time, the CIA appointed Joannides to be its liaison with the committee. But he and the agency hid the fact that he was involved with DRE and therefore the Kennedy case, slow-walked the CIA's production of records, and lied.
The committee's chief counsel, Robert Blakey, testified in 2014 that he asked Joannides about "Howard" and DRE, and that "Joannides assured me that they could find no record of any such officer assigned to DRE, but that he would keep looking," Blakey said.
A former committee investigator, Dan Hardway, testified before a House Oversight committee last month that Joannides was running a "covert operation" to undermine the congressional probe into the assassination.
Two years after stonewalling the committee, Joannides was awarded the Career Intelligence Medal by the CIA in 1981. He died in 1990.
But there's more!
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"lone gunman" theory is long debunked
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who were other gunmen? Who directed their movements?
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some find evidence, that Oswald saw himself as double agent, loyal American, maybe even right-wing
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under that evidence, Oswald handlers were Guy Banister of FBI & George Joannides of CIA who TOLD Oswald what double-agent-y, commie things he should do next
Uh-huh.
After JFK shot, Oswald said "I am only a patsy" - then was shot, before he could say more.
Follow-on to prior threads.
https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/67129/back-when-libs-hated-cia-deep-state-jfk-memo
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Wiki - which for 50th time, is lib- & CIA-run - but likes to keep appearance of being factual - admits to minimum-basic story here.
George Joannides was a CIA officer known for his role in psychological warfare and for overseeing operations involving Cuban exiles, particularly the Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil (DRE), which had contact with Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Recent documents reveal that the CIA had previously concealed Joannides' involvement and interactions with Oswald, leading to significant controversy regarding the agency's transparency in the investigation of Kennedy's assassination.
In 1978, the CIA summoned Joannides to serve as the agency's liaison to the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), with him focusing on events surrounding the death of President Kennedy. Washington Post reporter Jefferson Morley wrote: "The spy withheld information about his own actions in 1963 from the congressional investigators he was supposed to be assisting. It wasn't until 2001, 38 years after Kennedy's death, that Joannides' support for the Cuban exiles, who clashed with Oswald and monitored him, came to light."
More to come - tho it might take awhile.