WASHINGTON–Credit unions received a mention in the massive trove of materials related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), although there is no tie to the grassy knoll.

The documents, released by the National Archives by order of President Trump, have long been awaited by historians, scholars, journalists and by those who are part of a cottage industry related the assassination and an almost countless number of conspiracy theories.

Included among all the memos related to CIA operations, such as break-ins at foreign embassies, proposals for paramilitary attacks on Chinese nuclear facilities, injections of a “contaminating agent” in Cuban sugar bound for the Soviet Union, coups and attempted coups, and relations with the Vatican was enough information to keep many of the people noted above busy for years. 

What has disappointed many, at least to date, is there are no “juicy revelations about the Kennedy assassination, as one scholar observed. 

To date, more than six-million documents related to the assassination have been released.

Where CUs Appear

Included in the most recent trove of several-thousand documents was a 1964 CIA Inspector General report on the workings of the agency’s station in Mexico City, which revealed the then  president of Mexico, had approved a joint surveillance operation against Soviets in Mexico during the heights of the Cold War.

“The memo also described a ‘highly successful project’ aimed at ‘rural and peasant targets,’ led by a Catholic priest who had created an extensive network of youth groups, credit unions, agricultural co-ops and study centers…’ to make sure people ‘don’t go on the Soviet path’.”