Editing Warren Commission (section)

== CIA "benign cover-up" ==
{{Main|CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory}}
According to a report by the CIA Chief Historian David Robarge (which was released to the public in 2014), CIA Director [[John A. McCone|McCone]] was complicit in a [[Central Intelligence Agency]] "benign cover-up" by withholding information from the Warren Commission.<ref name="politico2014">{{cite web |last1=Shenon |first1=Philip |title=Yes, the CIA Director Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up |url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/jfk-assassination-john-mccone-warren-commission-cia-213197 |website=POLITICO Magazine |access-date=24 September 2020 |language=en |date=6 October 2014}}</ref> According to this report, CIA officers had been instructed to give only "passive, reactive, and selective" assistance to the commission, to keep the commission focused on "what the Agency believed at the time was the 'best truth' — that Lee Harvey Oswald, for as yet undetermined motives, had acted alone in killing John Kennedy." The CIA may have also covered up evidence of being in communication with Oswald before 1963, according to the 2014 report findings.<ref name="politico2014" />

Also withheld were earlier CIA plots, involving CIA links with the Mafia, to assassinate Cuban president [[Fidel Castro]], which might have been considered to provide a motive to assassinate Kennedy. The report concluded, "In the long term, the decision of John McCone and Agency leaders in 1964 not to disclose information about CIA's anti-Castro schemes might have done more to undermine the credibility of the Commission than anything else that happened while it was conducting its investigation."<ref name="politico2014" /><ref name=cia-2013>{{cite journal |url=http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB493/docs/intell_ebb_026.PDF |title=DCI John McCone and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy |author=David Robarge |journal=[[Studies in Intelligence]] |date=September 2013 |volume=57 |issue=3 |publisher=CIA |id=C06185413 |pages=7–13, 20 |access-date=8 October 2015}}</ref>