Morning Joe had on Marc Caputo, an Axios reporter, about the CIA whistleblower who told Axios that he saw a secret document in which an agency official bragged about misleading congressional investigators about Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities in Mexico before President Kennedy was killed.
(Here is why I still write about this: The Kennedy assassination was the original sin of American fascism. Someone had Kennedy killed, and the coverup laid the groundwork for eternal conspiracy theories and mistrust of our government. Seems important!)
“It’s really an interesting story. The man’s name is Thomas Pearcy, and he was the CIA State Department historian, and his job was to research something called the Foreign Relations of the United States. It’s a series that the U.S. government puts out every year, and while in a CIA building and ordering up confidential and classified documents on Latin America, he was mistakenly given a document,” Caputo said.
“He was given a box and in the box was mistakenly included this document. It was a 40- or 50-page CIA inspector general’s report. And in there, these officers bragged that in 1978 they misled and sort of tricked a congressional investigator who was the head of the House committee probing the assassination of JFK.
“And he was sort of astonished. He kept it quiet for a while, and he just recently decided to go on record because he felt it was time.”
