Is there significance in the fact that the military intelligence file on Oswald disappeared?
What happened? Many people would see a far more sinister significance to the fact that the military destroyed a file of obvious historic significance. In 1972, largely as a result of the investigations into military intelligence activities in the United States, the Defense Department destroyed all of the military intelligence files that they had about American citizens and things in the United States, which was shocking from the point of view of the committee. This general order resulted in the destruction of historically very valuable files. Most disturbing was the destruction by the Army intelligence of Oswald’s Army intelligence file. The suspicion immediately was that this was part of a cover up. We interviewed all of the officers who were responsible for the order to destroy it, and while we have the testimony of these individuals, we do not have the file. Again, our ultimate conclusion was that in the United States, more often than not, the better explanation for government actio
