Overview

• A January 1963 CIA memo orders George Joannides to assume the name “Howard Gebler” and carry a counterfeit driver’s license
• As Miami station deputy chief, Joannides secretly funded and directed the Cuban Student Directorate in psychological warfare against Castro
• On August 9, 1963, four DRE operatives working for Joannides scuffled with Lee Harvey Oswald during a pro-Castro pamphlet distribution in New Orleans
• Serving as CIA liaison to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Joannides concealed his DRE involvement and impeded the production of agency records
• Lawmakers are intensifying oversight of thousands of still-withheld JFK Records Act files after the CIA conceded decades of institutional deception