Addendum i - 17 Dec 2022:
As I was reading through my article again, I noticed this one — a particularly creepy non-release — using Section 6(1)c of the JFK Act as the excuse for not unredacting certain sections of documents:
e. February 1962 Defense Department Northwoods plan for a "false-flag" operation to stage a violent incident in U.S. and blame it on Cuba (NARA Record Number: 202-10002-10104).
The idea of a false flag operation was definitely raised - here is my article.
Addendum ii - 18 Dec 2022 - why do people think the CIA was involved?
The new release, as far as my cursory examination goes, contains no more information supporting the idea that the CIA was involved.
The death bed confession of CIA asset Antonio Veciano, founder of the Cuban exile group Alpha 66, that his CIA handler, Maurice Bishop, had in fact been CIA operative David Atlee Phillips, whom he had inadvertently seen meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald just two months before JFK was assassinated.
This Independent article about Veciano is very interesting:
An excerpt:
As Fonzi relates in his breathless, page-turning account The Last Investigation, Veciana unburdened himself to Fonzi, revealing that his CIA handler went by the code name of Maurice Bishop. He had even witnessed an extraordinary meeting in Dallas in September 1963, two months before the assassination of President Kennedy.
Veciana had turned up early for the meeting with Bishop at the towering Southland Centre. He saw Bishop with a pale young man, who was introduced as Lee – although this man did not utter a single word. It was only two months later that he recognised the television and newspaper pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald – the alleged assassin – as the man he had met with Bishop.
Veciana realised it would be prudent not to speak of what he had seen. Throughout this revelatory conversation, Fonzi tried hard to act nonchalant – but he later admitted that in his mind he fell off his chair. Veciana was essentially confirming long-held suspicions directly linking the CIA to the JFK assassination.
Fonzi now dedicated his mission to unmasking the true identity of Maurice Bishop, enlisting a professional police artist to sketch a portrait of Bishop based on Veciana’s description. By chance, one of Fonzi’s committee colleagues, Senator Richard Schweiker, suggested that the picture had an unerring resemblance to CIA operative David Atlee Phillips, who had been running anti-Castro operations and would later rise to the illustrious position of the CIA’s head of the Western Hemisphere division. Fonzi eventually arranged a surprise meeting in an attempt to confirm this. He took Veciana along to a meeting of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers – a lobbying group Phillips had founded after retiring in 1975.
When confronted, Phillips denied any knowledge of having ever met Veciana, in spite of his high-profile status as the leader of a major Cuban exile group. In turn, Veciana denied that Bishop was Phillips – but their body language betrayed a different story. Veciana could not take his eyes off Phillips, whilst Phillips was nervous and shaken. The HSCA compelled both Phillips and Veciana to testify.
Veciana already suspected Bishop as being behind the trumped-up charges which landed him in jail on bogus narcotics charges, in order to curtail the former’s unsanctioned operations. Fonzi would eventually resolve that Veciana was using the HSCA in an effort to protect himself from the CIA, making it clear that he was capable of damaging exposures.
The final HSCA report, published in 1979, would conclude that there was a probable conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy partially based on acoustic analysis of Dictabelt recordings revealing two gunmen. This contradicted the Warren Commission version of a lone gunman, but did not confirm the identity of any supposed conspirators.
A few months later, Veciana was shot in the head and left for dead – but somehow survived. He remains unsure of the perpetrators, but was aware that he was now a liability in the aftermath of the HSCA investigation. However, he also suspected that Castro’s G2 intelligence was working its way through a hit-list of state enemies.
Addendum iii - 18 Dec 2022 - George Joannides release
George Joannides is the CIA operative who had been meeting with the DRE Cuban student group, when Oswald was involved in them, three months before the assassination.
The only release in the new documents concerning George Joannides as far as I can tell is his fitness reports: a fairly contemptuous response, one feels.
Addendum iv - 18 Dec 2022:
The Mary Ferrell Foundation believes the CIA records concerning Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities in the Cuban exile community three months before the assassination are crucial to understanding exactly what the CIA involvement was.
The 1979 HSCA report, publicly released in 1992 after the JFK act, contains some very interesting accounts by those who claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald where and when he was not present according to the official accounts; the story of Silvia Odio is particularly suggestive, reprinted below, and seems to describe a genuine encounter with Oswald when he was supposed to be in Mexico.
The HSCA report concluded there was a second gunman and that there was a conspiracy involved in the assassination; however it rules out the FBI, CIA, Cuban government, and the USSR.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1212#relPageId=1