CIA Brags About Misleading Congress Since '78—Classic Oswald Edition

KEY POINTS

•Thomas L. Pearcy, former CIA and State Department historian, found a 2009 CIA report bragging about deceiving Congress.
•The 1978 memo by CIA officer Martin Hawkins admitted giving sanitized files about Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City visit to Robert Blakey of the HSCA.
•Blakey browsed the edited three-volume series so quickly he raised no questions, frustrating CIA officials who called him 'incurious.'
•The CIA denies possessing photos or films of Oswald in Mexico, despite references to 2,300 photos and Hasselblad cameras in the report.

In 2009, Thomas L. Pearcy, a CIA-State Department history duo and part-time Latin America expert at Slippery Rock University, accidentally stumbled on a CIA safe-room document proving the agency wasn’t just sort of fibbing—they bragged about outright hoodwinking Congress in 1978. The boastful CIA official Martin Hawkins took pride in handing over 'sanitized' three-volume files on Lee Harvey Oswald’s Mexico City stint to House Select Committee chief Robert Blakey, who blinked through them in 20 minutes without a single question—earning the label 'incurious.' Alongside hidden gray film canisters cheekily labeled 'Oswald in Mexico City' and references to thousands of photos the CIA denies having, this memo cements decades of cover-ups the JFK Records Act still hasn’t fully remedied. Meanwhile, Trump tried to fix the mess by ordering mass disclosures, while Biden observers mop up leftover whistleblower worries about 'unauthorized classified leaks.' So it turns out, the CIA’s secret recipe for lying to Congress includes 2300 photos, three-man deceit squads, and a dash of deadpan arrogance worthy of its own conspiracy sitcom.

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Nothing screams competent spy agency like openly bragging about fooling Congress decades ago—3 volumes, no questions, and zero accountability. We’re all just terrible drivers of our own lives and apparently the CIA’s honesty fuel.

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