One year ago this week the Trump administration released 77,000
pages of records related to the JFK assassination. What have we learned
from this material?
JFK was trying to reform the CIA after its disastrous performance
during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Kennedy’s chosen vehicle for the
reform effort was the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
(PFIAB). Among PFIAB’s members was General James Doolittle, who had
served on the body during the Eisenhower administration, and headed
PFIAB’s CIA panel. Doolittle oversaw aerial reconnaissance programs for
PFIAB.
Doolittle was a substantial friend and safari partner of the
owner of the Texas School Book Depository building, David Harold Byrd,
of Dallas.
In June 1963 General Doolittle was tasked by PFIAB to find out
why Kennedy’s reforms of CIA were not being implemented. This inquiry
was pending when JFK was assassinated on November 22, allegedly from
shots fired from the book depository building.
Dan Alcorn
AARC President
