The document is about Gary Underhill, a CIA special assignments operative who dropped a major bombshell the day after Kennedy's assassination. This wasn't some conspiracy theorist in a tin foil hat—Underhill was a World War II military intelligence veteran and former Life magazine photojournalist who was linked to high-ranking CIA officials.

On November 23, 1963, a clearly disturbed Underhill made a desperate journey from D.C. to New Jersey to warn friends about a "small clique within the CIA" being responsible for Kennedy's death. A memo with the subject line "Ramparts" (the name of a magazine that featured investigations of the CIA) notes that friends described him as "sober but badly shook."

This is quite telling for someone who was a "perfectly rational and objective person," as his friends described him. //

Less than six months later Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment. The coroner ruled it suicide. //

Underhill claimed Kennedy was about to “blow the whistle” on a corrupt CIA faction involved in “gun-running, narcotics, and other contraband.”

Although the friends had always known Underhill to be perfectly rational and objective, they at first didn't take his account seriously. “I think the main reason was,” explains one friend, “that we couldn't believe that the CIA could contain a corrupt element every bit as ruthless—and more efficient—as the mafia.”

Now, here’s where things get weird. Underhill was found dead months later with a bullet in the left side of his head.

The verdict of suicide in Underhill's death is by no means convincing. His body was found by a writing collaborator, Asher Brynes of the New Republic. He had been shot behind the left ear, and an automatic pistol was under his left side. Odd, says Brynes, because Underhill was right-handed. //

Pat W 48
4 hours ago
I always wondered about Jack Ruby killing Oswald while he was being transferred from the jail. Ruby was a night club owner deeply in debt to the Mafia bosses. Would a grown man with his lifestyle be so "heartbroken" by the death of the president waltz into an apparently unrestricted police area to kill the assassin?. I guess life in prison was preferable to the punishment of not following Mafia orders to shut up Oswald. I remember seeing it live on TV as my father, a NYC cop, jumped up and screamed "He's got a gun"!!!