Scoop: Secret CIA report boasted about tricking Congress in JFK probe, whistleblower says

"Zoom in: Pearcy, now a Latin America expert and history professor at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, told Axios he happened across the document - a CIA inspector general's report - in a secure CIA safe room in 2009 while researching Latin America policy as the joint historian for the CIA and State Department. The report, contained in a manila folder, was essentially"

"The report included memo from a CIA official who boasted on Aug. 23, 1978, about how he and two others from the agency had misled Robert Blakey, the chief counsel for the HSCA. Blakey wanted to see the agency's three-volume series of investigative files from the CIA's Mexico City Station, which Oswald visited before he allegedly killed JFK, officials say. Between the lines: The memo, Pearcy said, documented how CIA officers gave Blakey duplicates of the original books that removed documents"

"Because the books were so "sanitized," Pearcy said, Blakey had no questions after thumbing through each of them for 20 to 30 minutes. In a memo, CIA officer Martin Hawkins seemed to denigrate Blakey as "incurious" for not asking questions, Pearcy recalled. While in the CIA building in 2009, Pearcy said, he briefly walked into a small room set aside largely for JFK records and saw a gray film canister labeled either 'Oswald in Mexico' or 'Oswald in Mexico City.'"

A CIA inspector general's report was discovered in a secure CIA safe room in 2009 and functioned as a damage assessment of harm from the House Select Committee on Assassinations. The report contained a memo in which a CIA official boasted in 1978 that he and colleagues had misled Robert Blakey, the HSCA chief counsel, by providing sanitized duplicate volumes of investigative files from the CIA's Mexico City Station related to Lee Harvey Oswald. The sanitized duplicates omitted documents the agency did not want disclosed. A gray film canister labeled about Oswald in Mexico City was also observed. A CIA spokesperson said the agency would try to locate the report, and President Trump pledged to release all remaining JFK-related records under the JFK Records Act.

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