A newly surfaced internal directive, dated March 1964, confirms what many suspected but couldn’t prove: documents related to Oswald’s overseas contacts were destroyed - not archived. The directive came from inside Langley. And it was signed.
🔥 Operation: Disposal 4
The 2025 release includes a CIA memorandum titled "DISPOSAL 4 – Post-Commission Streamlining."
Inside it: instructions to "reduce operational clutter" by removing "non-essential foreign correspondence related to L.H.O. and Latin America-based sources."
One sentence is underlined:
"All materials flagged for non-retention are to be burn-bagged under DO/CI authority."
This was four months before the Warren Commission completed its report.
🧳 The Guatemala File
A referenced attachment - still missing - was labeled: "LHO–GTM EXFIL LEAD."
GTM = Guatemala.
Exfil = Extraction or attempted extraction.
According to the memo’s routing slip, the file was flagged as "non-retainable."
We don’t know what it contained.
We know they burned it.
📬 Mail That Vanished
Another included item: a destroyed packet of foreign mail intercepts from 1962–1963, addressed to Oswald from Mexico City, Havana, and one location blacked out.
The packet was logged in early ’64. Its burn authorization came just days later.
Quote:
"Contents do not align with official biographic narrative."
That narrative, of course, is that Oswald was acting alone.
🧯 Damage Control Disguised as Housekeeping
The memo claims these actions were "routine housekeeping," but a 2025 margin note added by the Review Board contradicts that:
"This burn list included at least one active field file. Destruction was preemptive."
Not archival cleanup.
Erasure.
🧨 They Didn’t Just Hide It. They Lit the Match.
The 2025 release confirms what skeptics have argued for decades:
They didn’t lose the story.
They deleted the parts that didn’t fit.
