Oliver Stone TESTIFIES – Demands JFK Files Release

The CIA is still hiding JFK assassination files 60 years later, and now Oliver Stone is demanding answers from Congress.

At a Glance

  • Director Oliver Stone testified before Congress, calling for a new investigation into JFK’s assassination and the release of all classified CIA documents
  • Despite the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act requiring full disclosure, thousands of documents remain classified under “national security” claims
  • The House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets questioned the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
  • Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is leading legislative efforts to force the release of all remaining JFK files
  • Stone and researcher Jim DiEugenio argue that delays in releasing unredacted records have deliberately hindered the truth about the assassination

Stone Confronts Congress: “Can We Trust Our Government?”

Six decades after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and we’re still being drip-fed documents that should have been released years ago. Award-winning director Oliver Stone appeared before the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets last week, demanding a new congressional investigation into Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. 

Stone, who directed the controversial 1991 film “JFK,” didn’t mince words when addressing the government’s ongoing stonewalling of critical information, particularly from the CIA. His testimony underscores the absurdity of a government agency believing it answers to no one – not Congress, not the President, and certainly not the American people.

“Can we return to a world where we can trust our government to level with us, the people for which this government exists?” Stone pointedly asked Congress. It’s a reasonable question that should resonate with every American who values transparency, yet sixty years of obfuscation suggests our intelligence agencies believe they operate above the law. 

The task force, chaired by Republicans who questioned the Warren Commission’s “lone gunman” conclusion, represents the first serious congressional interest in this case in decades – much to the chagrin of Democrats like Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who dismissively remarked: “What I find funny about this hearing is that the Republicans are here relitigating whether CIA agents lied 60 years ago.” 

The Cover-Up Continues: CIA’s Six-Decade Stonewall

When the Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act passed in 1992 – largely due to the public outcry following Stone’s “JFK” film – it required the full release of all assassination records by 2017. Yet here we are in 2024, still waiting. While 80,000 pages of Kennedy files were released on March 18, many key documents remain classified. 

Stone noted the absurdity of the situation, explaining how the CIA consistently uses “national security” as a catch-all excuse to bury the truth. “Although mandated by law from the Central Intelligence Agency, which operated and still operates as a taxpayer-funded intelligence agency that arrogantly considered itself outside our laws, they say things like, ‘We will get back to you on that,’ and they never do,” Stone testified.

“This is a question of national security, and it just keeps getting delayed and kicked around”, says Oliver Stone.

The last formal congressional investigation into Kennedy’s assassination concluded in 1978, suggesting a “probable conspiracy” but conveniently clearing all the usual suspects – the Soviet Union, Cuba, organized crime, the CIA, and the FBI. How convenient. Meanwhile, the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Oswald acted alone, firing from the Texas School Book Depository, remains the official narrative despite mountains of contradictory evidence. One must wonder: if the lone gunman theory is so rock-solid, why is the government still hiding documents sixty years later? What possible “national security” concern could these historical records present today?

Fighting for Transparency: The Push to Release All JFK Files

Researcher Jim DiEugenio, who collaborated with Stone on “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass,” has spent decades investigating the assassination. His book “JFK: The Evidence Today” meticulously dismantles the mainstream narrative and reveals how Hollywood and the media have consistently gotten the Kennedy assassination wrong. DiEugenio highlighted how even when presidents order disclosure, the intelligence community finds ways to resist. “Instead of declassifying everything like he [Trump] said he wanted to do, he ended up delaying it, alright? And he even delayed it into the Biden administration,” DiEugenio explained in a Fox News interview alongside Stone. 

One bright spot in this decades-long battle for transparency is Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who DiEugenio commended for her legislative efforts to access all JFK assassination documents. This fight isn’t about conspiracy theories – it’s about fundamental principles of government accountability. The American people have a right to know what their government is hiding and why it continues to shield certain agencies from scrutiny six decades after an event that changed the nation forever. If we can’t get honest answers about events from 60 years ago, what hope do we have of transparency about anything happening today?

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