How The CIA's First Investigation Into The JFK Assassination Was Aborted (The John Whitten Story)

I have many interests beyond the stock market and investing and am going to start to do Youtube videos and interviews about them too.

I spoke with Carmine Savastano, who runs the blog TPAKK.COM, and has researched and written about the JFK assassination, looking at many of the recently declassified files.

In this interview Carmine discussed the story of John Whitten and how he led the CIA's first aborted investigation into the JFK assassination.

Carmine Savastano writes, "The Central Intelligence Agency was tasked with supporting officials investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The first person delegated to lead this effort used the professional alias John Scelso but his supervisory position was short lived. He wanted to dispel stories that some officials wanted to believe and sought more information about Lee Harvey Oswald than other superiors desired. Despite claims his short inquiry lacked quality, the Agency sought him for testimony before congressional investigators nearly a decade after he retired. The alias John Scelso protected his identity for decades until his true name was revealed by a congressional act to declassify files."

His name was John Whitten and in this interview Carmine told his story.

Read Carmine's article on Whitten here:

1. C.A.A. Savastano, A Life Declassified:

https://www.tpaak.com/tpaak-blog/2026/10/18/a-life-declassified

More sources:

2. C.A.A. Savastano, Primary Evidence Collections, The Castro Assassination Plots":
https://www.tpaak.com/cia-castro-plots

3. C.A.A. Savastano, How the Stories of these Cold War Defectors Reveal the Intelligence Abyss:
https://www.tpaak.com/tpaak-blog/2023/3/12/defectors-moles-and-the-intelligence-abyss

For a video about Judy Baker and her claims go here:

Judyth Vary Baker Says She Was Lee Harvey Oswald's Girlfriend, But Was She?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHv-v9O8BM4

-Mike