JUST IN: Chilling JFK Files Reveal Agent Who Blew Whistle On CIA’s Involvement Committed ‘Suicide’ Months Later

President Donald Trump’s promised release of the JFK assassination files kicked off a flurry of conversation about one set of documents that describes the mysterious circumstances surrounding the supposed suicide of a former CIA agent who accused his agency of orchestrating the shooting.

Within more than 1,100 newly released pages was the story of Gary Underhill, a former agent who fled to a friend’s New Jersey home hours after President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed during a Dallas, Texas parade. Within hours, authorities had arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a disgraced former Marine with Soviet connections whom they concluded was the lone gunman.

According to new documents, Underhill was struck with panic as he told his friend how he believed the CIA was involved in the shooting but framed Oswald.

“The day after the assassination, Gary Underhill left Washington in a hurry. Late in the evening he showed up at the home of friends in New Jersey. He was very agitated,” reads an excerpt. “A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided, and he was afraid for his life and probably would have to leave the country.”

Six months after their encounter, Underhill was found shot dead inside his Washington, D.C. apartment. Investigators ruled his death a suicide by firearm.

“The friends whom Underhill visited say he was sober but badly shook. They say he attributed the Kennedy murder to a CIA clique which was carrying on a lucrative racket in gun-running, narcotics and other contraband. and manipulating political intrigue to serve its own ends,” the document goes on. “Kennedy supposedly got wind that something was going on and was killed before he could ‘blow the whistle on it.'”

“Although the friends had always known Underhill to be perfectly rational and objective, they at first didn’t take his account seriously. ‘I think the main reason was,’ explains the husband, ‘that we couldn’t believe that the CIA could contain a corrupt element every bit as ruthless–and more efficient–as the mafia.'”

Investigators write that the determination that Underhill committed suicide was “unconvincing” due to the nature of his gunshot wound.

“His body was found by a writing collaborator, Asher Brynes of the New Republic. He had been shot behind the left car, and an automatic pistol was under his left side. Odd, says Brynes, because Underhill was right-handed,” the author states. They speculate that a silencer may have been used because “occupants of the apartment building could not recall hearing a shot.”

Reporters raced on Wednesday to churn through the raft of documents released by Trump. ABC7 Chicago reported that some files, citing transcripts of wiretaps, linked mob bosses and rogue CIA agents to efforts to train Cuban militiamen while some of the city’s mobsters were alleged to be reacting to then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s clampdown on their illegal activities.