[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Clash Report [@clashreport](/creator/twitter/clashreport) on x 619.8K followers Created: 2025-07-14 20:10:19 UTC CIA’s Ties to Lee Harvey Oswald Revealed in Newly Released Documents Newly unearthed records reveal the CIA had deeper knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald before President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination than it long claimed. Declassified documents confirm that CIA officer George Joannides—known to anti-Castro Cubans only as “Howard”—was secretly managing a Miami-based Cuban exile group, the DRE, which had direct contact with Oswald months before the assassination. The CIA had denied any such connection for decades. The DRE, funded and guided by Joannides, confronted Oswald in New Orleans after he promoted pro-Castro views. Oswald later reached out, offering to help the group, possibly as a mole against his own pro-Castro network. A recently released CIA personnel file shows Joannides held a fake D.C. driver’s license under the name “Howard Mark Gebler,” confirming suspicions long held by researchers that “Howard” and Joannides were the same person. “This confirms much of what the public already speculated: the CIA was lying and there was a cover-up,” said Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who leads a House task force probing federal secrecy in the JFK case. Joannides later served as the CIA liaison to the 1978 House committee investigating the assassination—without disclosing his past role managing the DRE. Committee staff say he obstructed their work. Source: WaPo  XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [oswald](/topic/oswald) [Post Link](https://x.com/clashreport/status/1944851978519265347)
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CIA’s Ties to Lee Harvey Oswald Revealed in Newly Released Documents
Newly unearthed records reveal the CIA had deeper knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald before President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination than it long claimed.
Declassified documents confirm that CIA officer George Joannides—known to anti-Castro Cubans only as “Howard”—was secretly managing a Miami-based Cuban exile group, the DRE, which had direct contact with Oswald months before the assassination. The CIA had denied any such connection for decades.
The DRE, funded and guided by Joannides, confronted Oswald in New Orleans after he promoted pro-Castro views. Oswald later reached out, offering to help the group, possibly as a mole against his own pro-Castro network.
A recently released CIA personnel file shows Joannides held a fake D.C. driver’s license under the name “Howard Mark Gebler,” confirming suspicions long held by researchers that “Howard” and Joannides were the same person.
“This confirms much of what the public already speculated: the CIA was lying and there was a cover-up,” said Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who leads a House task force probing federal secrecy in the JFK case.
Joannides later served as the CIA liaison to the 1978 House committee investigating the assassination—without disclosing his past role managing the DRE. Committee staff say he obstructed their work.
Source: WaPo
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