Declassified psychological warfare files reveal a covert program to guide public perception in the hours after the president’s death.
🕵️♂️ A Psychological “Pre-Brief”
In a heavily redacted CIA briefing memo from November 1963, uncovered in the 2025 document dump, we find this line:
“STILLPOINT protocols to be initiated in the event of national trauma involving high office.”
This was two weeks before the assassination.
The memo was titled:
“Continuity of Emotional Governance – Phase One.”
📁 The Blueprint for Calm
STILLPOINT wasn’t just contingency planning.
It was behavioral warfare turned inward.
Goals listed in the operation’s mission file:
- Dampen collective anger
- Reinforce trust in federal institutions
- Avoid demand for broad investigations
- Insert consistent language in media messaging
The execution was swift.
The day JFK was killed, the following were implemented:
- National news anchors received a “tone and phrasing” bulletin
- Government psychologists were embedded with press teams
- The “Lone Gunman” phrase was distributed within 4 hours
🧠 Langley’s Emotional Architect
The program’s lead designer?
A CIA behavioral scientist named Dr. Paul Everett Gains, who previously worked on MKULTRA subproject 146.
Gains’ archived psychological profile for national consumption noted:
“Shock narratives should avoid introducing ambiguity. Ambiguity invites paranoia. Clarity, even false clarity, is stabilizing.”
He recommended the immediate circulation of three concepts:
- Oswald acted alone
- The government responded swiftly
- The future was secure
All were broadcast before midnight on Nov. 22.
📞 The Press Packet
The 2025 files include a faxed document sent to major wire services and TV anchors titled:
“ASSASSINATION – MESSAGE UNIFORMITY FOR CIVIC CALM”
Instructions:
- Do not reference alternate shooters
- Use “tragedy” rather than “attack”
- Refer to Oswald as “a former defector,” not “a covert agent”
Even anchors like Walter Cronkite followed these scripts verbatim.
🔐 Suppressed Debrief: The “Secondary Reactions” Study
A 1964 internal report titled “Secondary Reactions to JFK Termination Event – Civilian Group B” analyzed delayed grief responses, political radicalization, and growing distrust.
The conclusion?
“STILLPOINT succeeded in Phase One. Phase Two requires increased redaction culture and simplified mass narrative reinforcement.”
In short-continue to deny, obscure, and downplay.
🔚 They Controlled the Narrative Before the Facts
STILLPOINT wasn’t about facts.
It was about narrative engineering-a psychological firewall between the people and the truth.
The 2025 files show that the cover-up began before the gunfire stopped.
And it started not with lies-but with intentional framing.