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It turns out that the CIA paid a visit to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and took with it 40 boxes of documents relating to the Kennedy assassination that were awaiting declassification. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not understand why the CIA would intervene and direct attention towards itself.
“This is another inexplicable move by the CIA that is difficult to view without considering it sinister — because it is illegal,” RFK told The Post in Iowa, where he was promoting the “Make America Healthy Again” legislation.
First came reports that the CIA had raided Gabbard’s offices, then this was denied, but it is now confirmed that the CIA had paid a visit.
“I mean, under the JFK Assassination Records Act, they were required to release all of that stuff,” he continued, referring to the 1992 “John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act”, which set 2025 as the final deadline for the release of the documents. President Trump signed an executive order a few days after returning to office, demanding an end to the “endless delays” in the release.
The law exists, but it may appear that the CIA does whatever it wants.
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna and James Comer now wish to pressure the CIA into returning the documents.
Former CIA agent James Erdman last week gave a sensational testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, in which he claimed that the CIA had retrieved 40 boxes of assassination documents from Gabbard’s office, which according to him “were under review for declassification”.
Erdman said they contained documents from the CIA’s formerly secret MK-Ultra programme, dating back to the 1950s and 1970s — when the agency carried out experiments involving mind control and the alteration of human behaviour.
RFK Jr. told a podcaster in 2024 that the CIA “was directly involved in the murder of my uncle, and in the 60-year cover-up”, while speaking about MK-Ultra.
“MK” stands for mind control, and the CIA had these programmes at Fort Detrick [the Army’s laboratories in Maryland], but also at 220 universities across the country, he told The Shawn Ryan Show in 2024. His office did not state whether his latest comments had anything to do with MK-Ultra.
Luna visited CIA headquarters in Langley last week, the agency confirmed, after she had posted stern messages on X concerning the assassination documents.
“The CIA has 24 hours to return the documents to Tulsi Gabbard’s office, otherwise I will move to issue a subpoena,” she wrote on 13 May. Luna and Comer subsequently wrote to CIA Director John Ratcliffe requesting that he preserve the assassination and MK-Ultra documents.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/23/us-news/rfk-jr-blasts-cia-for-reportedly-seizing-uncle-jfks-assassination-records/