JFK -Antattat: Newly published files raise more questions than answers

On March 18, 2025, the Trump administration filled a long-term campaign promise to publish about 80,000 pages of classified documents in connection with the murder of President John F Kennedy from 1963. The move, which was announced as “maximum transparency” by the director of the National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, has again lit out of America in America.
Among the documents, a line has attracted considerable attention: “A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination attempt.” Attributed to the intelligence -asset Gary Underhill In a newly not edited file, this explosive claim has again supported the central intelligence agency in the spotlight from Conspiracy theories This has been working around the JFK attack for over six decades.
The JFK attack and the shadow of the CIA
The murder of John F Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, remains a crucial moment in American history, not only for his tragedy, but also for the ongoing doubts that she sowed through the official story.
The public skepticism of President Lyndon B., however, has never subsided. Opinion surveys over the decades show that the majority of Americans – often over 60% – affected the murder to a conspiracy, with the CIA often thrown as the main suspect.

The potential participation of the CIA was a recurring topic in conspiracy theories, which was heated by the hidden operations of the agency during the Cold War. At the time of Kennedy's death, the CIA was deeply involved in anti -communist efforts, including the actions to murder the Cuban leader Fidel Castro and the monitoring of domestic dissidents. Kennedy's own, lively relationship with the agency added such stories plausibility.
Over the years, critics such as Jim Garrison, James Douglass and Mark Lane have argued that the CIA, possibly in connection with the military-industrial complex or organized crime, organized Kennedy's death to preserve tensions of the Cold War or thwart its movements towards the détent with the sovination and cuba.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's secretary for health and human services and the son of Robert Kennedy and Nephew of John F Kennedy, claimed that the CIA was involved in the murder of his uncle, an allegations that the agency describes as unfounded.
Underhill's claim in the published files unpack
The Newly published files Add CIA memos, FBI reports and not yet recognized records.
Gary Underhill, who was identified as a CIA secret service in the approved documents, reported that shortly after Kennedy's death, the explanation “A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the murder”. According to the file, Underhill described this group as “a corrupt element that is so ruthless and efficient – as a mafia”. As a military journalist with connections to the intelligence community, under the assault, under the assassination attempt from Washington, DC, for fear of his life to have fled, only around 1964 that some consider some of them to be suspicious – a single shot for the head as suicide. His claim that has now not been edited for the first time agrees with many years of theories, but raises critical questions about their credibility and meaning.
First, the context of Underhill's claim in the files is the key. The document does not present it as an official CIA assessment, but as a recorded explanation of a person with insider knowledge that is probably collected during the debriefing or examinations according to the organization. The proximity of Underhill to the agency gives his words, but his role as a capital-Sogar A high-ranking officer-he may not be able to prove any access to final proof.
Second, the expression “a small clique” implies more of a rogue faction than an agency, a nuance that complicated the narrative. This corresponds to the theories presented by some researchers that argue that certain CIA officers, such as those who are involved in anti-Castro operations, may have had motives to destroy Kennedy.
According to a Reuters report, however, a first review of the documents did not result in any deviations from the main count.
Fredrik Logevall, professor of Harvard history history and author of “JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century 1917-56” suggested that the new files could provide an additional context.
“It is valuable to get all the documentation out in an ideally in an untried form. But I do not expect dramatic new revelations that change in a fundamental way what our understanding of the event is,” he told Reuters.
Historians like Fredrik Logevall warn against “dramatic new revelations that understand the event” and found that such claims often reflect personal speculation and not documented evidence.
(With entries from agencies)