UPDATE: RFK Jr. walked back his comments on the matter, slamming the New York Post’s Geoff Earle for what he called “false” assertions. After giving comment to the reporter, “We checked on the veracity of the reporter’s assertions and determined the story was false,” RFK said.
“We promptly informed Mr. Earle that his claims were not credible. The NY Post chose to publish the story anyway — apparently it was too good a story to allow facts to get in the way. Now let’s see if they correct their story.”
After my interview with @GeoffEarle of the @nypost, we immediately investigated claims he made that the CIA had repossessed JFK files from ODNI. We checked on the veracity of the reporter’s assertions and determined the story was false. We promptly informed Mr. Earle that his… https://t.co/d92Sie6m5K
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) May 23, 2026
It is unclear what assertions Earle made, but the allegations of CIA malfeasance and sworn testimony about the CIA repossessing files from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have not been thoroughly debunked.
Original story:
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blasted the CIA this week as reports suggest that the agency is blocking the release of files related to his uncle, President John F. Kennedy’s, assassination.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the CIA faces accusations of Stonewalling Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s office and impeding investigations into public scandals, including the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination files, which were ordered to be released by Trump.
CIA whistleblower James Erdman III, a career CIA Operations Officer, testified to several key points in a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing regarding the CIA's "refusal to comply with lawful oversight" and “documented efforts to circumvent oversight.”
This included the bombshell assertion that "the CIA also took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MKUltra files being processed for declassification by DNI Gabbard.”
WATCH:
Following Erdman's testimony, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) fired off a preservation letter to the CIA, demanding that all existing and future records related to the taken items be preserved.
Luna went on to report on X that she was visiting the CIA headquarters to examine the files in question with Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO).
Heading to the CIA with Rep. Burlison to see the files in question taken from ODNI.
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) May 14, 2026
Kennedy commended Congress's efforts to get to the bottom of the files, telling the New York Post he's "grateful to them for doing that.”
“I don’t even know if you need Congress, but I’m glad that Congress responded,” he said.
He further slammed the CIA, describing their actions as "inexplicable," potentially "sinister," and "illegal."
Per the New York Post:
“This is yet another inexplicable move by the CIA that it’s hard to put a face on it that’s not sinister – because it’s illegal,” RFK told The Post in Iowa where he was promoting Make America Healthy Again legislation.
“I mean, the JFK assassination document act said they had to release all of that stuff,” he continued, referencing the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which set a final records release date of 2025. President Trump signed an executive order days after retaking office calling for an end to the “endless delays” in the release.
He came up empty when asked for the reasons behind the CIA’s decades-long resistance to document releases.
“I don’t know. I mean, obviously, there’s something that they feel like that they don’t want the public to read,” he said. “It’s very strange.”
Still, the CIA and the White House have denied that files were seized from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Gabbard announced her resignation as Director of National Intelligence on Friday, citing her husband's rare form of bone cancer. Still, questions are swirling about whether the feud between ODNI and the CIA led to her departure.
This is a developing story.
