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(NewsNation) — A missing memorandum documenting a speech betwixt President Lyndon B. Johnson and CIA Director John McCone days aft President John F. Kennedy's assassination could incorporate important accusation that was ne'er submitted to the National Archives, according to an author.
James H. Johnston, writer of "Murder, Inc., the CIA nether John F. Kennedy," told NewsNation that the memorandum was written pursuing a backstage hour-long speech betwixt Johnson and McCone astatine Johnson's residence six days aft Kennedy's assassination.
His comments travel aft the remaining classified files on the assassination of Kennedy were released Tuesday connected the National Archives website.
"John McCone ever wrote a memorandum for the grounds of immoderate speech helium had with the president," Johnston said Wednesday connected NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports." "And that memorandum was not fixed implicit to the National Archives and is not available."
JFK memo reportedly discussed Cuba and Castro aft assassination
According to Johnston, State Department historians viewed the papers successful 1997 and noted the speech included treatment astir Cuba and "how they were going to get escaped of Castro." The afloat contents of this speech stay chartless to the public.
President John F. Kennedy gestures with unfastened manus during dedication ceremonies astatine the Nashville Avenue Wharf successful New Orleans, May 4, 1962. (AP Photo/BS)
The limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races toward the infirmary seconds aft helium was shot, Nov. 22, 1963, successful Dallas. (AP Photo/Justin Newman, File)
American President John F. Kennedy talks with American tv quality shaper Fred Friendly successful the White House during the filming a televised interrogation entitled 'After Two Years: A Conversation with the President,' successful Washington D.C., connected Dec. 16, 1962. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
An undated representation released by RR Auction shows location movie footage of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway to the infirmary aft helium was fatally wounded connected Nov. 22, 1963. (RR Auction via AP, File)
Gerald Posner, investigative writer and writer of "Case Closed, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK," acknowledged the papers mightiness beryllium but questioned its relevance to knowing the assassination.
"If determination was a ample conspiracy to termination the president, the grounds of it is not going to beryllium recovered successful the merchandise of files from the National Archives," Posner said, suggesting immoderate genuinely incriminating documents would person been retained oregon destroyed alternatively than archived.
Both authors discussed Lee Harvey Oswald's sojourn to Mexico City six weeks earlier the assassination, wherever helium visited Soviet and Cuban embassies. Posner questioned wherefore the CIA, which had monitored Oswald since his 1959 defection to the Soviet Union, didn't alert the FBI astir his concerning behaviour pursuing this trip.
Johnston noted that during this Mexico City visit, Oswald reportedly met with a KGB operative known for assassination operations, though helium didn't suggest this straight connected to Kennedy's assassination.
