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Three years of following the JFK files, and I finally saw the shift
It started back in 2021 when I was digging through the Mary Ferrell Foundation archives for fun. At first, everything felt like noise - conflicting witness accounts, redacted memos, timeline gaps. But around month 14, I noticed a pattern in the CIA's internal memos about Oswald's Mexico City trip. The language changed from "possible contact" to "confirmed contact" in a way that didn't match the actual evidence. Last week, I cross-referenced those memos with the Warren Commission testimony, and there it was - a 4 month period in 1963 where the official story got retroactively patched. Has anyone else seen this kind of document shift in the State Department cables?
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adam_nguyen723d ago
Man my buddy saw the same thing in the State Dept cables last year and @cameron426 is spot on about that missing cable.
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cameron42624d ago
The Mary Ferrell archives are where I first noticed the "possible contact" to "confirmed contact" switch too, but in a different batch. I was looking at the Oswald 201 file from FBI HQ and found a memo dated November 29, 1963 that had a handwritten note in the margin saying "see CIA cable #1782 for updated status" - but that cable number doesn't exist in any release I can find. Did you check if the patch happened right after the Clay Shaw trial in 1969, because I found a State Department cable about Oswald's Mexico City visa that got a clean page inserted right around February of that year? The paper stock and typewriter font don't match the surrounding pages, but nobody talks about it.
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