JFK Files Reveal CIA Spy With Odd Links to Oswald & UFOs

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CIA spy Reuben Efron‍

Two curious revelations are buried in a batch of more than 1,000 John F. Kennedy assassination files unsealed in mid-2023: first, that Reuben Efron - a lawyer working for the CIA - was monitoring Lee Harvey Oswald’s mail more than a year before Oswald’s death; and second, that an excerpt from a US Air Force cable cites Efron as one of three Americans who saw ‘flying saucers’ during a VIP trip to the Soviet Union in 1955.

Perhaps even more intriguing is that the CIA withheld Reuben Efron’s name from the unsealed JFK files for 30 years - even after Efron died at 82 in 1993. 

"They [the CIA] are not protecting the name of a living person. They're protecting the operational activity that he was engaged in, which was reading Lee Harvey Oswald’s mail," according to journalist Jefferson Morley, a guest on True Spies podcast The Oswald Project Part 1 & Part 2. "The CIA was running some kind of intelligence operation. We don't know exactly what, around Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, while President Kennedy was still alive."

Despite CIA protestations at the time, the spy agency - and Reuben - were watching Oswald closely in the months leading up to November 22, 1963, when gunfire pierced the calm of Dealey Plaza and President John F. Kennedy was shot dead.

“People in the CIA were far, far, far more interested in Lee Harvey Oswald than they ever told the Warren Commission,” Morley told True Spies.