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  • Fact Check: Mentions of Israel Were NOT 'The Only Thing' CIA Has Requested To Be Redacted In JFK Files

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    Did the Central Intelligence Agency in 1978 only request to black out mentions of Israel when journalists and historians sought to read documents about investigations into President John F. Kennedy's assassination? No, that's not true: The CIA wanted other things to be redacted, too, as seen in other files from the JFK collection. According to the agency's website, it generally…

    • Mar 19, 2025
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: Mentions of Israel Were NOT 'The Only Thing' CIA Has Requested To Be Redacted In JFK Files More Items
  • Fact Check: FAKE Document Does NOT Show Rafael Cruz's Involvement In Assassination Of JFK

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    Does a genuine U.S. government document show that Rafael Cruz, Sen. Ted Cruz's father, was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? No, that's not true: The document is fake. The real record contains a report from Swiss police regarding Lee Harvey Oswald's plan to study at a school in Switzerland. The document appeared in a post (archived…

    • Jan 24, 2025
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: FAKE Document Does NOT Show Rafael Cruz's Involvement In Assassination Of JFK Forged Record
  • Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Release Statement Ordering Dallas Police To Prepare To Make Arrest Over JFK's Assassination

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    Did President-elect Donald Trump release a statement ordering the Dallas police to prepare to make an arrest over John F. Kennedy's assassination? No, that's not true: The image that mimics a Trump/Vance Transition press release is fake. A search of Trump's Truth Social account did not find any matching statement. There are no credible news reports of him ordering the…

    • Nov 27, 2024
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Release Statement Ordering Dallas Police To Prepare To Make Arrest Over JFK's Assassination Fake Memo
  • Fact Check: 'CIA Document' Does NOT Explain How The 'World Is Going To End'

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    Does a declassified "CIA document" prove that the intelligence agency knows "how the world is going to end"? No, that's not true: The "document" is an excerpt from a book, "The Adam and Eve Story: The History of Cataclysms." It was not written by the CIA, but by the writer Chan Thomas. An online book database shows that it has…

    • May 22, 2023
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: 'CIA Document' Does NOT Explain How The 'World Is Going To End' Book Excerpt
  • Fact Check: John F. Kennedy's Secret Service Driver Did NOT Kill Former President

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    Did the driver for John F. Kennedy, Secret Service Agent William Greer, turn around and shoot the former president when JFK was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963? No, that's not true: A video posted on social media that makes this claim provides no supporting evidence beyond its grainy images. There also is no proof elsewhere that Greer played a…

    • Jan 30, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: John F. Kennedy's Secret Service Driver Did NOT Kill Former President Lacking Proof
  • Fact Check: CIA Did NOT Say It Killed President John F. Kennedy

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    Did the Central Intelligence Agency say it killed former President John F. Kennedy? No, that's not true: A video posted on Facebook that makes this claim provides no supporting evidence. There is no evidence elsewhere that the CIA has ever said it played a role in the 1963 slaying of Kennedy. The claim appeared in a post and video on…

    • Jan 10, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: CIA Did NOT Say It Killed President John F. Kennedy No Admission
  • Fact Check: CIA Did NOT Create Term 'Conspiracy Theorist' After JFK Assassination

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    Did the Central Intelligence Agency come up with the term "conspiracy theorist" to discredit the views of those casting doubts on the results of the official investigation into the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy? No, that's not true: Archival materials show that the term was in use before November 22, 1963, when the 35th president of the United States…

    • Jan 5, 2023
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: CIA Did NOT Create Term 'Conspiracy Theorist' After JFK Assassination Existed Before
  • Fact Check: George HW Bush Was NOT CIA Director In 1963 When John F. Kennedy Was Assassinated

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    Was the assassination of then-President John F. Kennedy in 1963 an "INSIDE JOB BY THE THEN CIA DIRECTOR GEORGE H.W. BUSH"? No, that's not true: This conspiracy theory is based on a factual inaccuracy. Bush was not the director of the CIA on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Bush would eventually…

    • Jul 26, 2022
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: George HW Bush Was NOT CIA Director In 1963 When John F. Kennedy Was Assassinated Wrong Director
  • Fact Check: Former President Kennedy Did NOT Give Speech About Slavery Plot 7 Days Before His Assassination

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    Did former President John F. Kennedy give a speech seven days before he was assassinated about a plot to enslave every man, woman and child? No, that's not true: According to the communications manager at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, it is a common question that the organization "has found no truth to." No other source has…

    • Apr 5, 2022
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Former President Kennedy Did NOT Give Speech About Slavery Plot 7 Days Before His Assassination Fact Check: Former President Kennedy Did NOT Give Speech About Slavery Plot 7 Days Before His Assassination No Such Speech
  • Fact Check: 'Out Of Shadows' Film Does NOT Prove Satanic Child Rapists Control Government, Hollywood, And A D.C. Pizza Parlor

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    Does the film "Out of Shadows" prove a child-raping satanic cult controls the U.S. government and Hollywood, and operated out of a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor? No, that's not true: The film declares that the lid came off in a leading Democrat's leaked emails, in which "pizza" is used as secret code for child sex. But the filmmakers provide nothing…

    • Apr 19, 2021
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: 'Out Of Shadows' Film Does NOT Prove Satanic Child Rapists Control Government, Hollywood, And A D.C. Pizza Parlor No Smoking Gun
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