At 9:20 p.m. on Friday, November 22, the FBI instructed all FBI field offices to “immediately contact all informants, security, racial and criminal, as well as other sources for information bearing on assassination of President Kennedy. All offices immediately establish whereabouts of bombing suspects, all known Klan and hate group members, and known racial extremists.”
Less than two hours later, at 11 p.m. the FBI sent a second message to its field offices, stating, “The Bureau is conducting an investigation to determine who is responsible for the assassination. You are therefore instructed to follow and resolve all allegations pertaining to the assassination. This matter is of utmost urgency.”
At 11:20 a.m. on Saturday, November 23, barely twelve hours after the second message of November 22, the FBI told its personnel to completely disregard the previous day’s messages and go back to what they were doing before the assassination.
The FBI sent a message to all FBI field offices stating, “Lee Harvey Oswald has been developed as the principal suspect in the assassination of President Kennedy . . . . All offices should resume normal contacts with informants and other sources.”
A memorandum to Assistant FBI Director Cartha DeLoach states, “The basic investigation showing how the assassination occurred was substantially completed by November 26, 1963,” and all FBI actions after that date were to “further verify the information developed up to November 26, 1963.”
The Warren Commission subsequently instructed the FBI and the Secret Service to send all their information to the CIA. An internal Warren Commission document states that on March 12, 1964, the CIA confirmed that “the FBI and the Secret Service were continuing to forward materials to the CIA as the Commission had previously requested.”
On January 23, 1964, as the CIA’s cover-up plan proceeded, “The Warren Commission began requesting information from the CIA.”
The Church Committee reported that the Warren Commission staff “was given access to CIA files on the assassination, including material obtained from sensitive sources and methods.” The CIA gave the Warren Commission “all significant information CIA investigators had.”
On April 6, 1964, a CIA cable made reference to “three members of Warren Commission legal staff” who would be going to Mexico as part of the investigation, and it states, “All have studied our reports in detail.”
CIA Director John McCone made it clear that the CIA handled the Warren Commission investigation. He sent a letter to his cover-up man, Nicholas Katzenbach, in February 1965 stating that CIA operatives were in “close contact” with Warren Commission General Counsel Lee Rankin and the Warren Commission staff “throughout the existence of the President’s Commission.”
McCone’s letter also states that CIA personnel “were instructed by me to cooperate fully with the President’s Commission and to withhold nothing from its scrutiny.”
A 1971 CIA memorandum confirms that “CIA did not withhold any information from the Warren Commission.” CIA Director John McCone and Deputy Director for Plans Richard Helms “extended to the Commission full access to the Agency’s most sensitive information and the sources and methods involved.”
Raymond G. Rocca, Chief of Research & Analysis in the CIA’s Counterintelligence division, wrote a Memorandum in 1975 marked “Eyes Only” in which he stated that the CIA’s “line of reporting” to the Warren Commission had “multiple” levels. Rocca also stated that “on sensitive matters of concern,” Deputy Director for Plans Richard Helms and the CIA’s Soviet Russia Chief, David Murphy, “dealt directly with the Commission.”
A CIA memorandum concerning a March 12 meeting that Helms and unnamed CIA “staff officers” had with the Warren Commission staff states, “The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the current status of the CIA contribution to the work of the Warren Commission.”
The Warren Commission lavished praise on the CIA just two months after it began “requesting information from the CIA.” Raymond G. Rocca had a meeting with a Warren Commission staff member on March 27, 1963, after which Rocca wrote a Memorandum stating that the staff member had told him, “The Agency handling of the information in the Oswald case was unique among what the Commission had found had happened in every other agency.”
Rocca wrote that the Warren Commission staff member “stated flatly that no Federal component, except CIA, had been able to show the Commission hard documentation which indicated there had been immediate action on field reported information by headquarters, and full interaction by headquarters with the field on file trace data and instructions for follow-up.”
Another CIA memorandum shows that on April 16, 1964, four weeks before CIA Director John McCone’s testimony, Chief Justice Earl Warren and another Warren Commission member, Senator John Sherman Cooper, met with McCone at CIA Headquarters.
McCone and Deputy Director for Plans Richard Helms testified before the Warren Commission on May 14, 1964, forty-eight days after the Warren Commission staff member praised the CIA for being so helpful, and Helms wrote a chronology of other meetings that he and an unidentified CIA official had with the Warren Commission.
Helms stated he met with the Warren Commission twice in January, twice in March, and again on June 24.
Helms wrote that the chronology of meetings “does not include the score of telephone calls I had with Mr. Rankin and the Commission staff.”
In addition to all the high-level meetings and the “multiple” levels of contact, the House Select Committee on Assassinations reported that the CIA provided the Warren Commission with “twelve full-time and part-time professionals. They also provided secretarial and clerical assistance.”
The CIA easily controlled the WC investigation.
The JFK assassination was part of the CIA’s quest to control the government. No surprise that they controlled the investigation.
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