And in that moment, Harry Truman sat down and wrote that the CIA had gone rogue. He didn’t mention Kennedy by name. He didn’t have to. The message was clear. This is what happens when an intelligence agency becomes an operational force. When it runs cloak and dagger operations instead of gathering information, when it stops serving the president and starts making policy.

If you want to understand why the founder of the CIA published a warning about his own creation exactly 30 days after JFK was killed and why that warning was immediately suppressed, hit that like button because this wasn’t an opinion piece. This was a confession and possibly an accusation. Independence, Missouri, December 21st, 1963. Harry Truman, 79 years old, sat at his desk.

Nine days earlier, he’d begun sketching notes in handwriting. What he wanted to say, what needed to be said. Documents in the Truman Library show that 9 days after Kennedy was assassinated, Truman sketched out in handwritten notes what he wanted to say in the op-ed. One note stood out. The CIA had worked as he intended, only when I had control.

The article he produced was measured careful but devastating. I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our central intelligence agency. He explained what he’d intended when he created the CIA in 1947, an intelligence arm of the president, a coordinator of information from various agencies, raw data, unfiltered, delivered directly to the commander-in-chief so he could make informed decisions.

not an operational force, not a policy-making body, not a shadow government, but that’s what it had become. Truman wrote that he had been concerned for some time about how the agency had transformed. It wasn’t gathering intelligence anymore. It was running operations, overthrowing governments, conducting assassinations, operating in peace time like a wartime espionage organization.

And it was doing all of this without proper presidential oversight. The key passage, the one that would haunt Alan Dulles for months. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that we need to correct it. The article appeared in the Washington Post on December 22nd, 1963, page A1.

Then something strange happened. The Washington Post published the op-ed in its early edition on December 22nd, 1963, but immediately excised it from later editions. Gone, removed, disappeared from later printings of the same day’s paper. According to available information, it was not carried in later editions that day, nor commented on editorially, nor picked up by any other major newspaper, nor mentioned on any national radio or TV broadcast.

The Milwaukee Journal ran it. The Chicago Sun Times reprinted it on January 18th, 1964. But the major media, the networks, the newspapers of record, the news broadcasts ignored it completely. How does that happen? Here’s the founder of the CIA, one of the most respected figures in American politics, warning the nation one month after a presidential assassination that the intelligence agency has become a rogue operation. and the media buried it.

How can it be that a statement of such obvious significance by a widely respected former president is virtually unknown to the public? The article asked, “Can editors of all major newspapers, magazines, and news broadcasts have really been unaware of its existence?” The more likely answer, deliberate suppression.

At key editorial decision points, the story was killed. But one person read it and he wasn’t happy about it. Alan Dulles had been CIA director from 1953 to 1961. 8 years running covert operations under Eisenhower, overthrowing governments. Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, planning the invasion of Cuba. His specialty regime change.

When Kennedy took office, Dulles expected business as usual. The Bay of Pigs invasion was already in motion, planned under Eisenhower, ready to execute. All Kennedy had to do was approve US military support when the Cuban exiles landed. But Kennedy asked questions. He wanted details. He was skeptical.

And when the invasion failed in April 1961, Kennedy refused to send in American forces to rescue it. He let it fail. Then he fired Dulles. Kennedy made it clear he would not approve the use of US air and ground support to save the operation. Dulles was furious. This wasn’t how presidents were supposed to behave.

Presidents weren’t supposed to question the CIA. They were supposed to trust it, follow its guidance, approve its operations. Kennedy didn’t. And in November 1961, Kennedy told a reporter he wanted to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds. Two years later, Kennedy was dead. And Dulles, the director Kennedy had fired, was appointed to the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination.

Now, here was Harry Truman writing in the Washington Post that the CIA had become a dangerous operational force conducting cloak and dagger operations in peace time. Dulles needed to shut this down. January 7th, 1964, Dulles wrote to Truman an eight-page letter expressing how deeply disturbed he was by the article.

Dulles tried everything. He wrote to Truman’s attorney, hoping he could convince the former president to retract his statements. He sent his own letter trying to implicate Truman himself in CIA covert operations. Truman didn’t budge, so Dulles went to Missouri in April, arranging to meet face tof face with Truman at his presidential library.

After exchanging a few minutes of small talk about the old days, Dulles mounted his assault on Truman, employing his usual mix of sweet talk and arm twisting. April 17th, 1964. 30 minutes oneon-one. Dulles trying to get the 79year-old former president to take it back. Hell no, said Harry. Truman refused to retract anything, but Dulles had a solution.

If he couldn’t change Truman’s mind, he’d change the record. Four days later, in a formal memorandum of conversation for his old buddy Lawrence Houston, CIA general counsel from 1947 to 1973, Dulles fabricated a private retraction for Truman, claiming that Truman told him the Washington Post article was all wrong and that Truman seemed quite astounded at it. A complete lie.

manufactured for the CIA files, ready to be pulled out if anyone ever questioned whether Truman really believed the CIA had gone rogue. How do we know it was fabricated? Because Truman didn’t change his tune. In a June 10th, 1964 letter to the managing editor of Look Magazine, for example, Truman restated his critique of covert action, emphasizing that he never intended the CIA to get involved in strange activities.

Truman stood by every word, but in CIA files said a fabricated memo claiming he’d retracted it all. Why would Dulles do this? In early 1964, Dulles was feeling a lot of heat from many who were suggesting the CIA might have been involved somehow in the Kennedy assassination. Columnists were asking how the truth could ever be reached with Alan Dulles as de facto head of the Warren Commission.

Think about the position Dulles was in. He’d been fired by Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He’d spent his career overthrowing foreign governments. He specialized in covert operations and regime change. He had motive. Kennedy had humiliated him and threatened to dismantle his agency. And now he was investigating Kennedy’s murder.

Journalists were starting to ask questions. How could the man Kennedy fired investigate his assassination? How could the head of an intelligence agency that specialized in political assassinations be trusted to determine if that agency was involved? Dulles had good reason to fear that Truman’s limited edition Washington Post op-ed of December 22nd, 1963 might garner unwanted attention and raise troublesome questions about covert action, including assassination.

If Truman’s article gained traction, people might start asking, “What exactly were these cloak and dagger operations the CIA was running? What were these strange activities Truman warned about? Did they include political assassinations? And if the CIA was capable of overthrowing foreign governments, assassinating foreign leaders, conducting covert regime change operations around the world, why wouldn’t it be capable of removing a president who threatened to destroy it? Dulles would have wanted to be in position to dig out of Larry Houston’s

files the Truman retraction in the hope that this would nip any serious questioning in the bud. So he created one, a fabricated memo saying Truman had disavowed the article. Insurance against anyone taking Truman’s warning seriously. What did Truman actually believe in private? He was even more explicit than in his published article.

After the Bay of Pigs, Truman told writer Merl Miller his regrets about creating the CIA. I think it was a mistake. And if I’d known what was going to happen, I never would have done it. Eisenhower never paid any attention to it and it got out of hand. It’s become a government all of its own and all secret.

That’s a very dangerous thing in a democratic society. Truman’s first CIA director, Admiral Sydney Sour, shared his concerns. 5 days after the op-ed appeared, retired Admiral Sydney Sour, whom Truman had appointed to lead his first central intelligence group, sent a dear boss letter applauding Truman’s outspokenenness and blaming Dulles for making the CIA a different animal than the one I tried to set up for you.

Even the men who’d helped build the agency agreed it had become something monstrous. In Truman’s view, the transformation began when Eisenhower appointed Alan Dulles as director in 1953. Dulles’s forte was overthrowing governments in current parliament’s regime change and he was quite good at it. With coups in Iran 1953 and Guatemala 1954 under his belt, Dulles was riding high by the late50s and moved Cuba to the top of his to-do list.

Under Dulles, the CIA stopped being an intelligence agency. It became an operational force, a shadow government, a tool for regime change that operated beyond presidential control. And when Kennedy tried to reassert control when he refused to be mousetrapped into supporting the Bay of Pigs when he fired Dulles when he threatened to splinter the CIA, he signed his death warrant.

At least that’s what the timing of Truman’s article suggests. Truman’s article appeared on December 22nd, just 30 days after JFK’s murder. The country was still reeling in shock. Rumors were rampant about possible conspiracies, foreign and domestic. Truman was not a reckless or irresponsible man.

So why publish this article at this moment? If Truman simply wanted to critique CIA overreach, he could have waited, written a memoir, published an essay in a foreign policy journal, done it quietly, diplomatically, without the explosive timing. But he didn’t wait. He published it exactly 1 month after Dallas. It would at least border on irresponsibility for him to release his article for publication so soon after Kennedy’s death, unless he was trying to warn the public implicitly and obliquely since it must have occurred to him, as

it did to many others, that the agency he’d created might have been involved. The article never mentions Kennedy, but it didn’t need to. Everyone reading it in December 1963 knew what Truman was saying. The CIA has become dangerous. It operates beyond presidential control. It conducts operations that undermine American values.

It has been diverted from its original assignment and now functions as a rogue operation. And one month ago, a president who threatened to destroy it was killed. The message was clear. The warning was explicit, but almost no one heard it. The Warren Commission with Alan Dulles as its de facto leader concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Three shots from the book depository. No conspiracy, no CIA involvement. Dulles controlled the investigation. He controlled the narrative. He had access to all CIA files and could determine what the commission saw and didn’t see. He could steer the inquiry away from uncomfortable questions. Andy had that fabricated memo from his meeting with Truman, ready to produce if anyone pointed to Truman’s article as evidence that even the CIA’s founder suspected his agency of foul play.

The truth was buried under classification, redaction, and suppression. Documents sealed for decades, evidence destroyed, witnesses dead or intimidated. And Truman’s warning, published in the most prominent newspaper in America exactly one month after the assassination, vanished from public consciousness as if it had never existed.

Did Harry Truman believe the CIA killed John F. Kennedy? He never said it directly. He couldn’t. To publicly accuse the intelligence agency of assassinating a president would have required evidence he didn’t have access to. It would have torn the country apart. It would have been irresponsible without proof.

But the timing speaks volumes. The content speaks volumes. The suppression speaks volumes. When Kennedy himself was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963, it must have occurred to Truman, as it did to many others, that the disgraced Dulles and his unrepentant associates might not be above conspiring to get rid of a president they felt was soft on communism and get even for their Bay of Pigs fiasco.

9 days after the assassination, Truman started writing. 30 days after he published a former president warning America that the CIA, the agency he’d created, had become an operational force conducting cloak and dagger peaceime operations and casting a shadow over American democracy. And the man he was warning about, Alan Dulles, was investigating the murder.

So ask yourself, was this a coincidence? a retired president randomly deciding to critique the CIA one month after Kennedy was killed. Or was this a warning carefully worded, deliberately timed, coded as much as Truman dared that the agency had gone rogue and the president had paid the price? Let us know in the comments because when the founder of the CIA publishes an article warning about cloak and dagger operations exactly 30 days after a president is assassinated and that article is immediately suppressed and the CIA director who was fired by the

murdered president fabricates a retraction and investigates the crime. You don’t need a conspiracy theory. You just need to read what’s in front of you. If you think the truth deserves to be heard, hit that like button and subscribe. Remember, warnings don’t come with proof. They come before the proof is buried.

December 22nd, 1963. Independence, Missouri. Exactly one month after John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, the Washington Post published an op-ed that should have stopped the nation cold. The headline, limit CIA role to intelligence. The author, Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, the man who created the CIA in 1947.

This wasn’t a retired politician offering nostalgic reflections. This was the founder of America’s most powerful intelligence agency writing one month after a presidential assassination that the CIA had become something dangerous, something he never intended, something that was casting a shadow over our historic position.

The timing was impossible to ignore. 30 days after Kennedy’s murder, while the country grieved, while the new administration prepared to sell the lone gunman story, while evidence was being destroyed, witnesses were dying. And Alan Dulles, the CIA director Kennedy had fired, was appointed to investigate the assassination.

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