Newly released CIA cables and FBI memos reveal how America's intelligence agencies prioritized protecting their operations over discovering the truth about Kennedy's assassination. Within hours of Dallas, CIA stations worldwide received instructions to sanitize records connecting to Oswald, while the FBI actively managed the Warren Commission investigation to avoid exposing anti-Castro operations and organized crime connections. Interagency rivalries between CIA and FBI created competing cover-up efforts, each protecting their own secrets. The declassified files show systematic deception that extended through congressional investigations in the seventies. This intelligence secrecy established precedents for government deception that fueled decades of public mistrust, proving that institutional self-preservation took precedence over democratic accountability and the American people's right to truth.

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