CIA Strikes Again, Seizing Boxes of JFK and MKUltra Files
America’s top spy agency is making headlines for allegedly going rogue — again. A member of Congress and a CIA employee accused the clandestine agency this week of seizing dozens of boxes with classified documents that were slated to be declassified in accordance with a presidential executive order.
“Internal Coup”
On Wednesday, Florida Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna published a social media post endorsing a report that the CIA seized dozens of boxes of classified information about the John F. Kennedy assassination and MKUltra, the agency’s mind-control program. “The CIA has 24 hours to return the documents to [Director of National Intelligence (DNI)] Tulsi Gabbard’s office or else I will make a motion to issue a subpoena,” Luna posted. “These documents have been requested by Congress.”
Luna told NewsNation that there was “an internal coup” at the CIA. She said what happened was especially troubling given that President Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying the rest of the JFK files. As far as the MKUltra documents the agency is being accused of seizing sometime during the second Trump tenure, those were not even supposed to exist. Luna was referring to the widely believed narrative that then-CIA Director Richard Helms ordered in 1973 the destruction of most MKUltra records.
NewsNation reported that the CIA marched into the National Reconnaissance Office in the middle of the night and took files under the jurisdiction of Gabbard.
Not a “Raid”
The NewsNation anchor emphasized that the CIA did not conduct a “raid,” and that the non-raid didn’t happen the day Luna published the news on social media, because of attempts to discredit the entire story on the basis of those two errors being widely reported. DNI spokesperson Olivia Coleman called a clip by Fox News’ Jesse Watters show, which broadcast the headline “CIA Raids Tulsi’s Office, Seizes Docs,” false. “The CIA did not raid the DNI’s office,” Coleman tweeted. Fox has since removed the clip from X.
Included in the 500-plus responses to Coleman’s post is a comment by Utah’s Republican Senator Mike Lee. “It’s immaterial whether those documents were in [Gabbard’s] personal office,” Lee said. “If those documents were taken away from her custody by CIA as she was preparing to declassify them, that’s a problem.”
Luna also addressed the attempt to discredit the story, saying on social media:
I am noticing a few large accounts stating falsely that I claimed there was a raid on Tulsi Gabbard’s office by the CIA. This is completely false. There is no clip or statement that exists. Why is there an orchestrated push for this narrative? Not one account can post a clip of me saying that cause it never happened. When Congress is notified of conflicting narratives from different agencies, i.e., the CIA and [DNI], it is our job to follow through to ensure documents are preserved and not destroyed. This is not an issue with [CIA Director John] Ratcliffe or Gabbard. For people to act like the CIA doesn’t have a history of destroying documents is BIZARO-WORLD.
On Wednesday, Luna sent a “preservation notice” to Ratcliffe asking on behalf of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that his agency preserve “all existing and future records and materials related to” the JFK assassination and MKUltra. She says the committee has the authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time.” Moreover, Luna adds, the committee has the power “to require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and documents as it considers necessary.”
Whistleblower Corroboration
Luna’s allegations of CIA misbehavior were corroborated by CIA whistleblower James Erdman, who testified on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security Committee. He said the CIA took 40 boxes of JFK and MKUltra files “being processed for declassification.”
In his opening statement, Erdman went through a list of recent illegal behavior by the CIA. He provided details on how the CIA refused to comply with an investigation by the Director‘s Initiatives Group (DIG). The DIG is a special task force established by Gabbard in 2025 to carry out high-priority projects and executive orders (EOs) from the Trump administration. According to Erdman:
The CIA did not comply with lawful oversight during the DIG’s investigation. The behavior significantly impacted Director Gabbard’s implementation of several EOs issued during this administration. … The CIA refused to provide information necessary to understand why analytical standards at the CIA were violated. The CIA illegally monitored the computer and phone usage of DIG personnel, their investigations, and contact with whistleblowers. These were Americans being spied upon illegally while executing duties directed by the president and under the authority of the director of national intelligence.
He went on to say that the CIA fired a contractor the day after he met with the DIG.
The CIA and Covid
Erdman is a decorated operations officer. He has led investigations into Covid-19 origins and UFOs. On Wednesday, he articulated bombshell allegations that ties the CIA to Covid-era propaganda and tyranny. In his testimony, he said the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci, intentionally worked to torpedo a 2021 CIA plan to publicly announce that Covid-19 leaked from a lab. Erdman said Covid public health policy would’ve been “very different had the American public been made aware that a virus from a lab in China was going to serve as the foundation for emergency use authorization mRNA products being mandated by the former administration.”
According to Erdman, the CIA punished the analysts who supported the lab-leak hypothesis:
CIA analysts were not bribed. The analysts that supported the 2023 lab-leak conclusion took every administrative measure available to them to address their deep concerns regarding the analytic integrity of their finished intelligence. CIA managers retaliated against them for their refusal to agree with management’s middle-of-the-night anonymous rewrite of the analysis, which changed the assessment to a non-call judgment.
Committee Chair Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has been gunning for Fauci for years, confirmed a strong connection between the former director of NIAID, America’s catastrophic and tyrannical response to Covid-19, and the intelligence community. He said Fauci, the face the of response, was more than he appeared. “For years, Dr. Fauci was not merely a public health official,” said Paul. “He had a long-standing relationship with the national-security and intelligence apparatus on biological threats, dangerous pathogens, classified life-sciences researches, pandemic preparedness, and Covid origins.” Paul said there are documents proving Fauci was repeatedly brought into national-security discussions “far beyond ordinary public health messaging.”
The takeaway, according to Erdman, is that the “legislative and executive branches will continue to be misinformed” if the rogue behavior of the CIA is not addressed. Ironically, the agency was created to be an elite information agency. Instead, it has devolved into an elite and rogue vehicle of subversion.
JFK and the CIA
JFK is said to have had plans to “splinter the C.I.A. into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds” after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The mainstream narrative is that there’s no proof he actually said this. But his nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is convinced he said it — as is a member of the mainstream media. In 1966, The New York Times published a five-part series on the CIA. The first article, titled, “C.I.A.: Maker of Policy, or Tool?,” reported that JFK did indeed say he wanted to destroy the agency. As it is today, the agency’s rogue behavior had already been recognized as a problem by the the ’60s.
JFK, of course, was assassinated in 1963. His brother, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968 while running a very promising campaign for president. One of the theories is that at the center of RFK’s assassination was not Sirhan Sirhan, but the CIA. Lisa Pease’s book A Lie Too Big to Fail proposes that Sirhan was hypnotized by the CIA into firing blanks while the real killer, a CIA contractor named Robert Maheu, slayed RFK. The reason the CIA may have wanted to kill RFK is because, as president, he would press the agency for information on his brother’s murder.
Among the top suspects to this day, especially in the JFK assassination, is the CIA. Could that be why the agency is illegally snatching up documents related to an event that happened 62 years ago?
