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   New Docs Confirm Oswald Was in the Web Long Before Dallas   
      
   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.   
      
   The bottom line: “The cover story for Joannides is officially dead,” said   
   Jefferson Morley, an author and expert on the assassination. “This is a   
   big deal. The CIA is changing its tune on Lee Harvey Oswald.”   
      
   The information comes to light as part of President Trump’s order that the   
   government meet its obligations to disclose all documents under the JFK   
   Records Act of 1992.   
      
   Little was known of Joannides’ involvement in the case until disclosures   
   in 1998 under the records act. New disclosures of previously hidden   
   records keep adding slices of information to the story.   
      
   Zoom in: Joannides was the deputy chief of the CIA’s Miami branch,   
   overseeing “all aspects of political action and psychological warfare.”   
   That included covertly funding and directing the Cuban student group,   
   commonly referred to as DRE for its Spanish-language initials.   
      
   On Aug. 9, 1963, more than three months before Nov. 22 assassination, four   
   DRE operatives got into a scuffle with Oswald in New Orleans when he was   
   passing out pro-Castro “Fair Play for Cuba Committee” pamphlets. The   
   subsequent court hearing was covered by local news media.   
      
   On Aug. 21 , 1963, Oswald debated DRE activists on local TV, providing   
   more media attention to him as a communist.   
      
   After the assassination, DRE’s newsletter identified Oswald as a pro-   
   Castro communist, and the Miami Herald and Washington Post covered the   
   story.   
   A year before Oswald became known as pro-Castro, the Pentagon formulated a   
   plan called Operation Northwoods to stage a false-flag attack in the   
   United States, blame Cuba and then attack it.   
      
   Zoom out: The new documents don’t shed any additional light on Kennedy’s   
   shooting or settle the controversy over whether Oswald acted alone. Nor is   
   there any evidence showing why the CIA covered up Joannides’ ties to DRE.   
      
   All the records disclosed so far show how the CIA lied about financing or   
   being involved with DRE. That includes the agency’s interactions with the   
   Warren Commission (1964), the Church Committee (1975), the House Select   
   Committee on Assassinations (1977-78) and the Assassination Review Board   
   (until 1998).   
      
   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.   
      
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