JFK Files: CIA Surveilled Oswald Beginning in 1959

The counterintelligence chief of the CIA had placed Lee Harvey Oswald under mail surveillance in 1959, four years before he killed President John F. Kennedy, indicating “negligence,” or worse, “complicity,” in JFK’s assassination, according to a researcher.

Journalist and assassination researcher Jefferson Morley, citing documents recently declassified by President Donald Trump, said that James Jesus Angleton put Oswald under mail surveillance for “possible approach” by the CIA as a contact or source.

Morley wrote that the newly released docs “complicate the comforting narrative that the liberal president was killed by a ‘lone nut’ who murdered for reasons known only to himself.”