Deeply Intriguing Memo in JFK File Dump
I am indebted to fellow Substack author, Jon Fleetwood, for drawing my attention to a deeply intriguing memo that was part of the JFK files that were just dumped. Fleetwood’s piece on the memo is linked below.
The CIA memo, dated 19th July 1967, opens with a long quotation from an article published in Ramparts, June 1967.
As Fleetwood points out, though the Ramparts piece was already public:
…the newly released CIA files are significant because they confirm the Agency was aware of Underhill’s allegations at the time and considered them serious enough to document in an internal intelligence report.
The Ramparts piece and the CIA memo relate to a man named J. Garrett Underhill.
“J. Garrett Underhill had been an intelligence agent during World War II and was a recognized authority on limited warfare and small arms.
A researcher and writer on military affairs, he was on a first-name basis with many of the top brass in the Pentagon.
He was also on intimate terms with a number of high-ranking CIA officials—he was one of the Agency’s ‘un-people’ who perform special assignments.”
What is intriguing about the subject is the following:
“The day after the assassination, Gary Underhill left Washington in a hurry. Late in the evening he showed up at the home of friends in New Jersey. He was very agitated.
A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided, and he was afraid for his life and probably would have to leave the country.
Less than six months later Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment. The coroner ruled it suicide.”
Ah, yes, the D.C. coroner ruled it a suicide. I recently wrote a book about homicides staged to look like suicides
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