🚨🇺🇸JFK FILES: CHURCH COMMITTEE – INSIDE THE CIA’S COVERT KILL PROGRAMS (THREAD)
A newly declassified 19-page Church Committee report sheds light on covert CIA operations, including Operation Mongoose and ZRRIFLE—programs tied to espionage, sabotage, and assassination plots.
This thread will break down each section of the document, exposing what the U.S. government kept hidden for decades.
What was the CIA really up to?
Let’s dive in. ⬇
🧵1/ JFK FILES: CHURCH COMMITTEE – THE CLASSIFIED REPORT BEGINS
The document, dated June 25, 1975, was originally classified as “Top Secret” and postponed in full for decades under tight restrictions. It was reviewed multiple times, with the last known review occurring in 1999.
What was so sensitive that it remained locked away for nearly 50 years?
This report centers around William Harvey, a notorious CIA operative deeply involved in black ops during the Cold War.
His name is linked to ZRRIFLE, a covert assassination program, and Operation Mongoose, a mission to undermine Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
Harvey’s work was so secretive that even within the CIA, few knew the full extent of his operations. T
The Church Committee wanted answers.
🧵2/ JFK FILES: CHURCH COMMITTEE – WILLIAM HARVEY & COVERT KILL PROGRAMS
Who was William Harvey?
Harvey was a top CIA officer with a reputation for running covert missions with brutal efficiency.
His involvement in ZRRIFLE and Operation Mongoose made him a central figure in the U.S. government’s most classified Cold War plots.
🔎 ZRRIFLE: A top-secret CIA program focused on targeted assassinations. Details remain classified, but it involved using criminal operatives for high-risk missions.
🔎 Operation Mongoose: A broader effort to destabilize Cuba, including propaganda, economic sabotage, and multiple assassination attempts on Fidel Castro.
The Church Committee’s investigation into Harvey’s activities aimed to uncover just how far the CIA went in authorizing extrajudicial killings.
🧵3/ JFK FILES: CHURCH COMMITTEE – THE SECRETS REMAIN HIDDEN
Despite the release of this report, many details remain redacted under national security restrictions.
What we do know is that the Church Committee was investigating CIA-backed assassination plots and their potential connections to high-level government operations.
🔐 The report was classified as “Top Secret” under multiple restriction codes: 1B and 1C—designations used for sensitive intelligence operations.
🔐 It was stored in CCBOX 418, a secured archive for some of the most sensitive Church Committee records.
🔐 The final review before declassification happened in 1999, but large portions were still withheld.
What is still being hidden? And why?
🧵4/ JFK FILES: CHURCH COMMITTEE – WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
The Church Committee’s findings rocked Washington in the 1970s, exposing CIA abuses that led to new oversight laws.
But this 19-page report proves that even now, much of the truth remains buried.
With portions still redacted, the full scope of Operation Mongoose and ZRRIFLE is unknown.
Was William Harvey acting on his own? Or did his orders come from the highest levels of government?
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