The bestselling author behind one of the most recognized books on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy said the release of the Kennedy files could be “embarrassing” for the CIA.
“I think that we could actually find the files that are very embarrassing to the CIA and one of the reasons they’ve held on to these for so long,” Gerald Posner, the author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, told Fox News’s Fox and Friends on Friday.
There was no grand intergovernmental conspiracy, and Oswald acted alone, according to Posner. However, the release of the documents by President Donald Trump could show that the CIA failed to act with the information they had, he said.
“Lee Harvey Oswald, the fellow who shoots the president, ends up going to Mexico City only six weeks before he kills Kennedy. He wants to get down to Havana, to Cuba, because he wants to join the Castro Revolution, but he’s rejected by the Soviets and the Cubans,” Posner said.
“I think the CIA was surveying him. They knew what he was doing. They knew he was unhinged, that he had taken out a pistol and slammed it on the table at the Soviet mission.”
The CIA knew all this, but the agency failed to tell the FBI when Oswald came back to the United States, according to the author.
“It’s the same type of thing that happened on 9/11, when the agencies don’t talk to each other,” Posner said. “I’ve suspected this for a long time. Maybe the evidence of it is inside these files.”
Posner said he believes his theory will end up being true, but he is open to being wrong.
“I used to think it was the Mafia involved because Jack Ruby, who looks like he’s out of central casting for a Mafia figure, ends up killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the arrested assassin, only two days after he’s arrested, in police custody,” he said. “Of course, you have to think that looks like a silencing.”
“You go into this suspicious, but, in the end, I think there were conspiracies: The mob, maybe Castro, maybe the KGB, they wanted Kennedy dead, but Oswald got there before any of them. He wasn’t part of a plot.”
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When he ordered the release of the files on Thursday, Trump spoke to the importance of the moment.
“That’s a big one, huh?” the president said in the Oval Office. “A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades, and everything will be revealed.”
