Newly disclosed government documents have reignited a long long-standing conspiracy theory that somewhere and somehow the CIA was involved in the events that led up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy And Lee Harvey Oswald.
This time, the centre of attention for the conspiracy is CIA officer George Joannides. He operated under the alias “Howard Gleber” during the early 1960s. Documents suggest that Joannides was controlling an intelligence operation of anti-Castro groups of Cuban exiles.
Among these was Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE). During this surveillance, he came in contact with Lee Harvey Oswald, long before the assassination happened in Dallas.
Joannides had several responsibilities, including overseeing the psychological operations. He was apparently also managing propaganda efforts targeting Cuba. His position placed him in the vicinity of some important organizations. These set-ups would later interact publicly and combatively with Oswald, who was a self-proclaimed Marxist and one-time defector to the Soviet Union.
In August 1963, Oswald was handing out pro-Castro pamphlets in New Orleans and got into a street altercation. This confrontation was caught on camera and was later broadcast. This street fight was between Oswald and the members of the DRE. It was the very same group that Joannides funded and also directed through a covert CIA channel.
BREAKING:
🚨 The CIA just admitted that an agent specializing in Psychological Warfare, George Joannides, ran an Operation that was in contact with Lee Harvey Oswald before the Assassination of JFK
The disclosure was hidden within a batch of 40 documents concerning officer… pic.twitter.com/BYaPatUeET
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After this clash, Oswald got the camera time. In a televised debate, Oswald was portrayed as a dangerous communist sympathizer. This is believed to be the first step where Oswald was presented to the world as a dangerous, deranged man who would follow him even after he was accused of the assassination and later shot. During this altercation, it was Oswald against the group. This cemented his role as a lone gunman and would help corroborate the theory of a single gunman at the assassination site.
The incident occurred when there was an intense paranoia of the Cold War with Russia. Just a year prior, the Pentagon had released Operation Northwoods. It was a declassified plan proposing false attacks on American soil, which would then become a reason for military action against Cuba.
The American government and the CIA were extremely against the communist sentiments and had several plans to squash any such movement. Though Operation Northwood never took place, it showed the lengths CIA and other intelligence operatives were ready to go in order to keep the wave of anti communism going.
Dark Journalist reveals that the CIA has officially blocked the JFK records of their top Psychological Warfare Officer George Joannides in direct violation of Executive Order 14176!
Joannides was given the Career Intelligence Medal by CIA Official Bobby Inman who is connected… pic.twitter.com/25ghJ9id33
— Dark Journalist (@darkjournalist) May 21, 2025
Thinking from this context, CIA interactions with Oswald become more troubling.
After JFK’s assassination on November 22, 1963, Joannides came back into the picture in a very critical role; however, he remained hidden in the background.
He was appointed as the CIA’s liaison to the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the late 1970s. Joannides concealed his earlier involvement with Oswald through DRE. This omission was effectively an obstruction of congressional efforts to investigate potential intelligence failures or misconduct.
For many decades, the CIA maintained that Joannides was just a member of the committee and his role was peripheral. Something that has been proven to be untrue by their own newly released files.
CIA ADMITS CONTACT WITH OSWALD BEFORE JFK WAS ASSASSINATED BY PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OFFICER. A CIA Psychological Warfare Officer named, George Joannides, ran an operation that was in contact with Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination of JFK and also highly mimics the style… pic.twitter.com/NJB05bYvCZ
— The SCIF (@TheIntelSCIF) July 5, 2025
These disclosures are part of a broader effort mandated by the Kennedy Assassination
Records Collection Act. As more classified material is made public, new insights into the CIA’s activities during the early 1960s may emerge, possibly rewriting the historical consensus on Oswald’s motives and the intelligence community’s oversight in the lead-up to JFK’s death.
