The JFK Files
A look at the 201 System.
I am glad the files have been released and mostly unredacted. But it is a slog. An endless hay stack looking for the needle. There is no keyword searching just files with numbers on them lacking context. I wish I had more to show and perhaps will in time. This search could go on all year.
One I did find interesting is a detailed 19 page document entitled The 201 System. As stated in the introduction it’s a system for identifying individuals of interest to the Operations Directorate. All data on this person is gathered for a 201 file. Lee H. Oswald was one of the those individuals.
Some Background on Oswald's SIG 201 File
There is good reason to believe that Oswald was a Cold War spy. Why? Because a former agent said so under oath to the HSCA in 1978. Ann Egerter worked under counter espionage chief James Angleton. In retirement at the time of her testimony, her words were so revealing it is amazing that it did not make a bigger impact in the public consciousness in regards to Oswald and the assassination.
Essentially, a SIG 201 file is opened on a CIA agent or asset in regards to a counter espionage investigation. Ann Egerter referred to SIG (Special Investigations Group) as, “the office that spied on spies.” A SIG 201 file was evidence and result of an internal investigation into one of the CIA’s own people. Egerter also asserted many different times that there was no other purpose for a SIG 201 file to be opened on an individual. That person would have to be a CIA employee in some capacity. Lee Oswald is in effect a CIA spy.
Oswald’s SIG 201 file was started the year following his alleged defection, in December 1960. Oddly, the name on the file is Lee Henry Oswald. However, Ann Egerter said in her HSCA testimony that it was Lee Harvey Oswald’s 201 file. An odd occurrence but perhaps a way to throw off investigators should the truth be revealed? Plausible denial? Also, all information on Oswald should have been filed under the Soviet Affairs division but was not. It was under direct control of James Angleton who was rabid in his pursuit of moles within the Agency. Researcher John Newman (Oswald and the CIA) believes Oswald was a special project under control of Angleton and may have been.
Senator Richard Schweiker who had seen the classified files said, “We don’t know what happened (in Dallas), but we do know Oswald had intelligence connections. Everywhere you look with him, there are the fingerprints of intelligence.”
More JFK file updates to follow as they become available.
201 File System
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2025/0318/104-10023-10087.pdf
Or download the PDF here. 2.2 megs
