Trump drops 10,000 pages of RFK assassination files, exposing puzzling early death reports



Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that the Trump administration had released 10,000 new pages regarding the 1968 assassination of Democratic Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (N.Y.).

The long-since classified investigation documents were released as part of President Donald Trump's January 23 executive order directing the declassification of files on the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy, and Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

'In my view, these documents provide the background to more questions than answers.'

"The Executive Order establishes the policy that, more than 50 years after these assassinations, the victims' families and the American people deserve the truth," read a White House fact sheet on the action.

During an April 10 Cabinet meeting, Gabbard told Trump she had "over 100 people working around the clock" scanning the relevant files.

"These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades. They have never been scanned or seen before," she said.

Trump asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. how he felt about the news that the files on his father and uncle would be released in the coming days.

Kennedy responded, "I'm very gratified."

"I'm very grateful to you, Mr. President," he added.

On Friday morning, Gabbard told Fox News that the first batch of newly released files related to the government's investigation and "questions and theories that were being posed" concerning Sen. Kennedy's assassination.

The documents revealed that State Department cables were reporting on Kennedy’s death before it actually occurred.

Gabbard explained that the cables “showed different countries were sending messages to each other around Senator Kennedy’s assassination, saying that he had been assassinated, but that was before he was actually killed.”

"In my view, these documents provide the background to more questions than answers," Gabbard added.

"We're obviously not stopping here," she said. "We sent people out to hunt through different warehouses at the FBI and CIA, knowing there are likely other documents that have not yet been turned over to National Archives."

Gabbard noted that the second release would include more than 50,000 additional pages on the senator's assassination.

Kennedy Jr. responded to the document release, stating, "Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government."

"I commend President Trump for his courage and his commitment to transparency," he added. "I'm grateful also to Tulsi Gabbard for her dogged efforts to root out and declassify these documents."

A White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "Nearly six decades have passed since the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and these historic files have been hidden from the American people all this time — until now."

"In the name of maximum transparency, President Trump has released over 10,000 pages of the RFK files with more to come," the spokesperson continued. "There has never been a more transparent president in the history of our country than President Donald J. Trump. Another promise made and promise kept."

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CIA backs dire wolf revival: Colossal CEO details fight against China’s superhuman agenda



Ben Lamm is the co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company that just resurrected the dire wolf after 10,000-13,000 years of extinction using DNA harvesting and gene editing technologies. The company is currently working on bringing back the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dodo bird.

Lamm recently joined Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” to explain the why behind this mad science operation, including the terrifying reason the CIA has a stake in the company.

The primary reason for the existence of Colossal Biosciences, Lamm says, is fighting the decline of biodiversity.

“We're going to lose up to 50% of biodiversity between now and 2050, and so we need new tools in the fight, right? We think it's better to have a de-extinction tool kit and not need it than not have a de-extinction tool kit and need it,” he says.

The resurrection of the dire wolf was specifically ignited because “there's not enough going on with wolf conservation.”

But Glenn makes a good point: Bringing back the dire wolf isn’t really conservation. It’s “[introducing] a species that's been gone for 10,000 years.”

Lamm says there’s no reason for concern, though.

“They are on a secure, expansive ecological preserve in the north, and if they ever go back into the wild, it will be in collaboration with the government as well as some of the tribes, and they would go back on secure private land, so they aren't going to be wilding dire wolves,” he explains.

However, Colossal Biosciences is also “building technology to save animals.”

“We were actually able to clone four red wolves with more genetic diversity than the existing 15 that are still left in the wild,” Lamm tells Glenn.

Even if the company is able to save existing species from extinction, there’s still the concern of the CIA funding such efforts. Why would an agency charged with ensuring national security be interested in gene editing technologies?

It’s because other countries, including “our adversaries,” are already in the biotech race, Lamm explains.

That’s something Glenn understands. He’s long preached about the importance of America staying ahead of China in the race to develop artificial intelligence for the purpose of national security.

But this is even bigger than AI. China is “trying to breed smarter humans, stronger humans” in order to have superior “fighters,” says Glenn, calling it “the stuff of Nazi movies.”

Lamm agrees, adding that China has admitted “the Beijing Genomics Institute is sequencing as many humans as possible. They used COVID as this ruse to pull in as many samples as possible, sequencing them, and then they said, ‘We're looking for the genes that make the smartest people, and we are going to engineer people.’”

While Colossal Biosciences “doesn’t do anything with humans,” it is developing technologies “that have applications to humans.”

“We are understanding from a 72,000-year-old skull what made a dire wolf bigger and stronger. … It had a bigger jaw and stronger muscles and denser bones. We can now understand that with our technologies and engineer that into its closest living relative, being the grey wolf, right? And so think about that same type of data applied to humans,” Lamm explains, noting that the “secretary of the interior just endorsed [Colossal Biosciences’] work.

Like artificial intelligence, “America has to lead in synthetic biology,” he says.

“Do you believe that the genetic editing tech that you are helping to design is going to be transferred to humans?” Glenn asks candidly.

“I do think that a lot of our technologies will be beneficial long-term to helping cure inherited disease states in humans,” says Lamm.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Report: Trump Admin Ousts Official Who Shepherded Biden’s Military Covid Jab Mandate

A federal official instrumental in advancing the Biden administration’s military Covid shot mandate has been fired, according to a new report. On Tuesday, Breitbart News’ Kristina Wong reported claims from an unnamed source that Terry Adirim, who previously worked at the Pentagon as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, “was recently fired” from a […]

Dire wolves resurrected from extinction! Bet you can't guess who wrote the check ...



Thirteen thousand years ago, dire wolves, the supersized, majestic canines made popular by HBO’s “Game of Thrones” series, went extinct. But thanks to modern technology, they’re now alive and well. Or so says Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company responsible for the groundbreaking achievement.

The firm claims that ancient DNA and genetic engineering are what’s behind this technological breakthrough. Now three puppies — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, who were born via surrogacy by a generic gray wolf — are capturing the world’s attention.

Should we be excited or skeptical?

Glenn Beck says we should be quaking in our boots — but not because giant wolves might prowl the streets. It’s who’s funding Colossal Biosciences that should scare us.

“One of the investors that is really excited about just pouring money into Colossal Biosciences is the CIA,” says Glenn.

“First of all, they’ve got a budget to invest in companies? Sounds like a bad idea,” he chides.

Why would the CIA invest in a biotech company? What does gene editing have to do with foreign intelligence and national security?

Apparently a lot.

“They believe that they could CRISPR their way into bioengineering resilient organisms — you know like spy drones that are animals [or] enhancing human capabilities,” says Glenn.

“Picture a bioengineered animal, say a dire wolf, with tweaked senses used for surveillance or tracking in remote areas where drones might fail,” he adds.

Another reason for the CIA’s interest is the possibility of “ecological and geopolitical leverage.”

“Imagine reintroducing a species to destabilize a rival nation's agriculture or environment — say flooding a region with engineered pests or altering food chains,” says Glenn.

Reason number three is “biosecurity and threat assessment.”

Glenn explains that “if adversaries develop gene editing for hostile purposes — in other words a weaponized pathogen or super soldiers — the CIA needs to stay ahead.”

“Investing in Colossal gives them a front-row seat to cutting-edge biotech, letting them study its limits and vulnerabilities. They're not just funding it, they're learning how to defend against it or wield it themselves if necessary.”

So basically, it’s gain-of-function research but with dire wolves and wooly mammoths.

“If you weren't convinced the CIA is out of control, you might want to share this with your friends,” says Glenn.

To hear more about the CIA’s relationship with Colossal Biosciences, watch the episode above.

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Bus crash or big lie? Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s wild tale unraveled



Virginia Giuffre is not only an Australian-American advocate for sex trafficking victims but a survivor of sex trafficking at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.

Now, she’s made headlines again after claiming to have been hit by a school bus at 110 km/hr in Western Australia, leaving her with kidney failure and told by doctors that she had four days to live.

Her claims were written in a dramatic Instagram post that featured a photo of her bruised face as she was lying in a hospital bed.


“I won’t bore anyone with the details, but I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km as we were slowing for a turn that no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can,” Giuffre wrote in the post.

“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology. I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time, but you know what they say about wishes,” she finished.

Since the post, she has now claimed via a family spokesperson that the Instagram post had been mistakenly posted to her public Instagram and was meant to be on her private Facebook page.

The bus driver has since come out to say the accident was blown out of proportion and that it was a “minor collision.” West Australian police have also confirmed there were “no reported injuries” following the incident.

Giueffre’s claims have understandably ignited a firestorm online.

“She said she had four days to live, people started all this speculation online, all kinds of conspiracies, ‘It was a CIA hit, it was an FBI hit, Clinton hit, Jeffrey Esptein’s still alive and he tried to kill her,’” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments, skeptical of Giuffre’s story.

“That was a pretty sloppy hit if you just left it alone like that,” he adds.

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Is the Signal chat leak a CIA spy-op or deep-state SABOTAGE?



The Trump administration is denying incompetence following the “accidental” inclusion of a journalist in a secure group chat among high-ranking officials — but not everyone is convinced there isn’t far more to the story than we’re being told.

“Complete and total CIA op,” Jason Buttrill, chief writer and researcher for Glenn Beck, tells Sara Gonzales on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“It was right before the Trump administration started dropping bombs in Yemen. Then they were accused by the Atlantic of leaking war plans, which sounds very, very, very serious,” Gonzales says. “They said this was an accidental leak to Goldberg, who is, of course, TDS, or one of the biggest opposition journalists to the administration.”


“This is like the biggest stroke of luck in the history of strikes of luck for an opposition journalist ever,” Buttrill says. “Their initial reaction was ‘this is not legit’ or ‘we were being spoofed’ or something like that. But the moment they saw the bombs started falling, all other speculation just dropped.”

“This was not a mistake,” he continues, noting that conservatives are now trying to claim that it’s possible Goldberg was under the wrong name and that’s how he gained access to the chat.

“Somebody would have had to have done that,” he says, adding that “Signal has an interesting funding history.”

“I think they were called ‘The Open Whisper’ something, but they got millions of dollars from a government organization. That government organization has ties, or it’s underneath, Radio Free Asia. Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe, those are CIA Cold War weapons from the Cold War. Direct ties and manipulation with the CIA,” Buttrill continues.

“We investigated ourselves and found that we don’t do that any more,” Gonzales chimes in, joking.

“And now, the luckiest strike in the history of lucky strikes happens to one of the biggest opposition journalists, where he’s like, ‘Oh, I just got added in, I have no idea, the contact was changed,’” Buttrill mocks, adding, “This is not a mistake; this is the deep state at work.”

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Trump’s JFK Files Release Is About Restoring Americans’ Trust In Government

The release of the JFK files was never about solving a conspiracy. It was about ushering in a new era of government transparency.

I called out the CIA on X — and then my account disappeared



Some say the Central Intelligence Agency is the world’s leading cause of “coincidences.”

This might be another one. Just as the government released thousands of JFK assassination files, I — a former CIA officer turned whistleblower — was suddenly blocked from posting reform proposals on social media.

The experience showed just how powerful X has become in the fight against deep-state corruption. Americans want their country back from those who have taken control.

I post regularly on X, sharing updates on CIA activity and government corruption. My account has 125,000 followers and delivers unfiltered information without paid promotion.

After 17 years in the CIA, including high-level assignments across multiple global stations, I know how the agency operates — and how often it violates the U.S. Constitution without consequence.

Since I began publicly exposing CIA corruption in 2010, I have created documents and posted videos about CIA misconduct. My computer crashes frequently — twice in the past four months — destroying all my data. Even my backup account on Carbonite failed to save this information. Recently, “someone” accessed my primary computer through the router and specifically targeted and corrupted only the files and videos related to the CIA, rendering them inaccessible.

My account on X has been a quick and protected way to get this information to Americans. In my book, “Twilight of the Shadow Government: How Transparency Will Kill the Deep State,” written with my courageous co-author Kent Heckenlively, we reveal the CIA’s criminal and unconstitutional operations for everyone to see. “Light dispels darkness,” as so many have observed. In the book, Kent and I lay out 12 steps that must be taken to reform the CIA.

Two weeks ago, on my X account, I spelled out 13 additional radical steps to reform the CIA and end its tyranny of secrecy once and for all. I posted each step back-to-back. These reforms are lethal to the CIA’s control over all three branches of our elected government — and the fear of reprisal against anyone who challenges its power.

Maybe it was the 13th step that annoyed the agency the most: “Legally indict and charge CIA officials who engage in a criminal conspiracy to silence whistleblowers, block information from Congress, or violate U.S. and constitutional law.” It just wouldn’t be the same old CIA any more if they couldn’t lie to Congress or our duly elected president.

The day after I posted the 13 steps, I received a warning from X stating I had violated its guidelines and was being suspended for multiple copyright violations. I was unable to log in and access my account. Four attempts to appeal the suspension resulted in a boilerplate response instructing me to log in to my account for further information.

Of course, I was unable to log in to do so.

What’s more, I could not follow any other X users or post comments on their pages. It was an endless loop of blockages. This occurred just as 80,000 pages of JFK assassination documents were released — a critical moment. I had prepared evidentiary posts indicating the CIA was involved in the murder of President John F. Kennedy. My position as a CIA officer who had worked in all four agency directorates — as well as being the only one to publicly challenge the state secrets privilege and publish a book about the history of the CIA without the agency's approval — made me unique among commentators.

Finally, I contacted my dear friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who has reached the same conclusion regarding the CIA's culpability in the murder of his uncle — spelling out what had just happened. Since he is extremely busy with his new Cabinet post at Health and Human Services, I was unsure whether I would receive an answer.

Within a matter of hours, I received a text back from Bobby. He advised me that he had passed my text to James Musk — Elon’s cousin and an X executive. James responded immediately. After researching the matter, James advised me that X had not suspended @kevin_shipp. Some entity — perhaps the CIA? — had created a fraudulent @kevin_shipp account, which caused an override of the true account and sent me a fictitious X community guidelines violation along with multiple copyright violation claims on the 13 steps to CIA reform.

James uncovered this malicious attack in just under two hours. Following his guidance on how to regain access to the real account, @kevin_shipp was back up, and all 13 steps were there and open for comments.

What a relief to see my first post go live again — just one word: “Test.” My co-author quickly shared the story on X, paying to boost the post. It reached 1.6 million people.

The experience showed just how powerful X has become in the fight against deep-state corruption. Americans want their country back from those who have taken control.

Watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and James Musk respond so swiftly and boldly to a targeted attack on my account was inspiring and reassuring. That night, I slept peacefully, knowing I wasn’t alone in standing up for our republic.

This fight isn’t mine alone — it belongs to all of us. And with people like Kennedy and Musk stepping up, we’re finally pushing back.

The Kennedy assassination isn’t history — it’s a warning



Ben Shapiro recently asked, “Does it really matter who shot John F. Kennedy?” My answer is “yes and no.” If the question concerns whether finding out who shot Kennedy is the most pressing issue facing our country, I concur with Shapiro that the answer is clearly “no.”

But the release of 80,000 previously unseen documents isn’t just about who killed JFK. It’s about a long-standing pattern of deception, manipulation, and lawlessness from the highest levels of government — and that is one of the most pressing issues facing our country today.

The moment we stop asking questions is the moment when bad actors within our institutions know they can get away with corruption.

For over 60 years, the official narrative surrounding Kennedy’s assassination has been that Lee Harvey Oswald pulled off a near-impossible series of shots. The improbability of his success is heightened by puzzling facts, such as KGB reports that Oswald was a horrible marksman coupled with his subpar rifle.

This is the story we’ve been told to accept without question. But what we now know raises deeply troubling questions about what really happened and, more importantly, why the government is so determined to keep the whole truth from us.

Cracks in the narrative

The recent document release didn’t give us a smoking gun, but it did confirm a pattern of CIA malfeasance that should alarm every American.

We now have solid evidence that the CIA was running illegal domestic espionage operations — including spying on Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential nominee in 1964. If the intelligence agencies were willing to illegally surveil a major political figure back then, what do you think they’re capable of now?

The unchecked power of our intelligence agencies did not begin or end with the Kennedy assassination — it is a systemic issue that continues to this day.

For decades, the intelligence community has fought transparency at every turn. Each time a president promises to release the complete JFK files, the CIA steps in to block key documents.

The most recent example came under President Biden, when CIA Director William Burns personally urged the White House to keep certain records classified. Burns, notably, was one of several government officials who met with Jeffrey Epstein — three times.

The same agency now citing “national security” concerns over files from the 1960s is the same one tied to Epstein. That connection alone should raise serious questions for every American.

Corruption beyond JFK

This pattern of deception extends far beyond the Kennedy assassination.

We’ve seen it in Benghazi, where Americans died, and the truth was buried under bureaucratic stonewalling. We saw it in the aftermath of 9/11, when former FBI agents alleged that the CIA was running an illegal domestic spy ring and even attempted to recruit two of the hijackers before the attack. And we’ve seen it in the blatant weaponization of intelligence agencies against political opponents — from the Russia collusion hoax to the unprecedented persecution of a sitting and former president.

In recent memory, critical evidence regarding the truth of what happened on January 6 — including text messages from Kamala Harris’ Secret Service detail — mysteriously disappeared. Or COVID-19, where intelligence agencies, including Britain’s MI6, have now admitted it was "beyond reasonable doubt" that the virus was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And yet for years, anyone who dared suggest such a possibility was smeared as a conspiracy theorist.

Always ask questions

Asking questions — whether it be about JFK’s assassination, Benghazi, COVID-19, or any other “conspiracy theory” — is critical. The moment we stop is the moment when bad actors within our institutions know they can get away with corruption. Rebuilding trust in our institutions begins with asking the right questions and identifying the infection to provide the proper remedy.

The intelligence community has operated with impunity for decades because we, the American people, have been conditioned to accept its narratives without question. The JFK files are not just about a 62-year-old assassination; they are a case study in how deep-state corruption endures and evolves.

If the CIA had nothing to hide, why is the agency still hiding it?

We need to rebuild trust in our institutions — not through blind faith but through real accountability.

America’s founders didn’t place their trust in government officials. They trusted the system of checks and balances designed to limit power. Those safeguards have eroded, but they can be restored.

We don’t need to believe in bureaucrats. We need a system that exposes the truth, prosecutes wrongdoing, and applies justice equally. Until that happens, public distrust will grow — and for good reason.

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Glenn Beck investigates JFK files, reveals chilling taped confession that alleges LBJ plot in assassination



Amateur sleuths, politicos, and others hoping to glean new insights from the latest trove of unredacted John F. Kennedy files were likely frustrated if they dove into the archives in search of names that might satisfy the lingering questions of who — if not Lee Harvey Oswald — actually assassinated the president and who else may have been involved in the murder plot.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck underscored in his "Glenn TV" Wednesday Night Special that while the JFK files are disappointing if approached with questions of who, questions about what — "What has been going down? What are they trying to protect? What is the source of most of this mess?" — yield illuminating answers.

Beck and his team, aided in part by artificial intelligence, parsed through the JFK files with the "what?" type of questions in mind, testing long-standing theories, highlighting patterns of institutional abuse, and identifying the significance of certain previously unreleased files.

Over the course of the special, Beck zeroed in on what-centric documents that should put to bed any remaining doubts that the CIA is (or at least until recently has been) an unchecked, meddlesome, and dangerous organization willing to interfere in American elections, businesses, and media reports.

Going beyond the archives, Beck handily demonstrated with a replica of the rifle Oswald supposedly used in 1963, along with the appropriate "CIA bullets," that the single-shooter narrative is plausible. Beck also spoke to Shane Stevens, the grandson of Billie Sol Estes — a Texas businessman with alleged ties to Lyndon B. Johnson — about an expert-authenticated recording in which an alleged associate of LBJ accused him of hiring a hit man to take out Kennedy.

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While the audio recording and Stevens' commentary fuel more who-questions, Beck made clear that the contents of the JFK files, the substance of which is not always readily apparent, nevertheless reveal much about the intelligence community of Kennedy's time — one that proved capable of routine wrongdoing, was familiar with Oswald, and grew more brazen in the months following the president's slaying — as well as the practices they wanted to keep hidden.

Off the reservation

Beck covered a lot of ground in his Wednesday special, discussing, for instance:

  • new evidence of the bad blood between JFK and the CIA that was brought to a boil after the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco;
  • the parallels between Kennedy's counter-moves against the CIA in the early 1960s and President Donald Trump's moves against the U.S. Agency for International Development in recent months;
  • indications that the CIA was tracking Lee Harvey Oswald from the moment he departed the Soviet Union;
  • the agency's connections to the establishment that sold Oswald the rifle that shot Kennedy, as well as to the ammunition used in the assassination;
  • the CIA's infiltration of the American media and businesses and its apparent attempted wiretap of then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; and
  • former CIA asset John Garrett Underhill Jr.'s allegation that elements of the agency killed the sitting president because he caught wind that they were "carrying on a lucrative racket in gun-running, narcotics and other contraband, and manipulating political intrigue" for their own ends.

Beck also touched on the CIA's surveillance of Barry Goldwater, citing it as another damning example of precisely how "out of control" the agency had become around the time of Kennedy's assassination.

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President Donald Trump was hardly the first Republican whose presidential campaign was infiltrated by politically motivated elements of the deep state on behalf of an incumbent Democratic president.

Barry Goldwater, a major general in the Air Force Reserve who long served as a senator for Arizona, was similarly surveilled when he ran for president against Lyndon Johnson following the Kennedy assassination. Whereas the FBI spied on Trump, in Goldwater's case, the CIA, which is prohibited by law from operating stateside, did most of the legwork.

Much has been said and written about the CIA's infiltration of Goldwater's 1964 campaign. The agency's infiltration of the Goldwater campaign has been public knowledge for roughly 50 years.

Everette Howard Hunt Jr., a 20-year veteran of the CIA who was a major agency player in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and ended up serving prison time for his role in the Watergate burglary, told Senate investigators in 1973 that he directed a spying campaign on Goldwater's 1964 campaign.

According to Hunt, the instructions concerning this espionage came down from his CIA superiors and in turn allegedly came "down from the White House." Hunt told investigators that he "dispatched a couple of people to the Goldwater headquarters to see what was going on."

The spies apparently obtained advance campaign schedules, news releases, and "any other information they could get," said Hunt. This information ultimately made its way up the chain at the CIA, including to a superior allegedly stationed at the Johnson White House.

In the special, Beck highlighted a 46-page document consisting of numerous memos — some marked "secret" and written by Scott Dudley Breckinridge Jr., the former deputy inspector general of the CIA — regarding Hunt.

'The audio sounds convincing.'

Breckinridge noted in a Dec. 20, 1973, memo marked "secret" that agency files showed that during the fall of 1964, when Hunt "was alleged to have been engaged in surveillance activities of Barry Goldwater," Hunt was in the CIA's Directorate of Operations, which is also known as the Clandestine Service.

"Our files showed Hunt was in DO Division ... and in August 1964 was assigned to the Washington field office," wrote Breckinridge.

Again, the what was telling: the CIA was running clandestine operations in the nation's capital with the apparent aim of keeping Johnson in power.

Haunting tape

In a portion of the special, Beck explored the theory of Lyndon B. Johnson's involvement with the assassination with former Nixon administration staffer Roger Stone. Beck proved more willing to entertain this particular theory on account of a haunting audiotape played in full for BlazeTV subscribers and in excerpted form on YouTube.

In January, Alex Jones of Infowars hosted Shane Stevens and played never-heard-before digital audio of Clifton Carter, the former executive director of the Democratic National Committee and an apparently close associate of LBJ, claiming in conversation with Stevens' grandfather, convicted fraudster Billie Sol Estes, that Johnson hired a man named Malcolm "Mac" Wallace to kill JFK.

"The audio sounds convincing," said Beck. "I didn't want to take anyone's word for it."

'I do believe it helps confirm the LBJ and Mac Wallace involvement.'

In addition to speaking directly to Shane Stevens about the audio and listening to the actual analog tape live, Beck indicated that his team "had a JFK assassination expert examine the original tape," whose input left him "convinced that it is an authentic recording."

Dory Wiley, JFK assassination expert and CEO of Commerce Street Holdings LLC, told the program in a statement, "I've known about these tapes for years. Estes made several copies and gave them to some of his closest friends."

"I believe them to be genuine," continued Wiley. "The voices sound like the Billie Sol Estes and Cliff Carter from other sources I have heard."

Wiley added, "I believe them to be correctly dated and recorded at the time Shane has declared, and I believe the accusations. This does not mean there wasn't involvement by the CIA, the Secret Service, FBI, Mafia, or others, but I do believe it helps confirm the LBJ and Mac Wallace involvement."

Clifton Carter appears to say in the audio, "Well, Sol, it's been a pretty touch-and-go situation. Lyndon and I have had quite a few unpleasant words here lately over the deal that he hired Mac Wallace to assassinate the president."

"It's been hectic in every way, but we've lived through it this far and I guess we'll continue to do so," Carter appears to say. "Lyndon should have never issued that order to Mac. But we've had our differences and I'm true blue to Lyndon, as I've always been and tried to carry out every order that he's ever given me. But this is one I'll probably never be able to forget."

When pressed about his delay in releasing the audio, Stevens told Beck his grandfather tried on more than one occasion to "release the truth" but came to fear for his life.

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