A renowned JFK assassination expert predicted that the release of classified files related to the president’s death may be set to ’embarrass’ the CIA. 

Author Gerald Posner, who wrote noted biography on the assassination ‘Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK’, said President Trump’s release of the files could send shockwaves through the agency. 

‘I think that we could actually find the files that are very embarrassing to the CIA and one of the reasons they’ve held on to these for so long,’ he told Fox News. 

Posner rejects conspiracy theories that anyone besides Oswald killed Kennedy, but posits that the CIA was responsible for letting the known Soviet sympathizer and unhinged veteran slip through the net. 

‘Lee Harvey Oswald, the fellow who shoots the president, ends up going to Mexico City only six weeks before he kills Kennedy,’ he said. 

‘He wants to get down to Havana, to Cuba, because he wants to join the Castro Revolution, but he’s rejected by the Soviets and the Cubans… I think the CIA was surveying him. 

‘They knew what he was doing. They knew he was unhinged, that he had taken out a pistol and slammed it on the table at the Soviet mission.’ 

Posner claims the CIA understood the threat Oswald posed but failed to tell the FBI when he re-entered the United States, equating the oversight to ‘the same type of thing as on 9/11, when the agencies don’t talk to each other.’ 

A renowned JFK assassination expert predicted that the release of classified files related to the president’s death may be set to ’embarrass’ the CIA

While the expert, Gerald Posner, rejects conspiracy theories that anyone besides Lee Harvey Oswald (pictured) killed Kennedy, but posits that the CIA was responsible for letting the known Soviet sympathizer and unhinged veteran slip through the net

Posner said this week that he has long suspected the CIA was partially responsible for Kennedy’s assassination being allowed to happen, but was eager to see the classified files release to see if his theory is correct. 

‘I used to think it was the Mafia involved because Jack Ruby, who looks like he’s out of central casting for a Mafia figure, ends up killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the arrested assassin, only two days after he’s arrested in police custody,’ he continued. 

‘Of course, you have to think that looks like a silencing.

‘You go into this suspicious, but, in the end, I think there were conspiracies: The mob, maybe Castro, maybe the KGB, they wanted Kennedy dead, but Oswald got there before any of them. He wasn’t part of a plot.’ 

In a separate interview with the New York Post, Posner said even if the perpetrators of the assassinations of JFK as well as Martin Luther King Jr. – who’s classified files will also be released by Trump – are not disputed, the files will likely reveal ‘fascinating’ new details. 

‘One of the things that I find if I talk to just people on the street… the minute that the Kennedy assassination comes up, nine times out of 10, they know a little bit about it: ‘What about those documents? What are they hiding?” he said. 

‘That’s the theory: ‘You’re holding onto these secret files for 60 years. You must be hiding something.” 

President Trump signed executive orders this week that will release long-classified files related to the assassinations of JFK, his brother RFK and Martin Luther King Jr. 

Gerald Posner (pictured) said while the documents’ release is likely to reveal ‘fascinating’ details, the public should not get their hopes up for a ‘smoking gun’ that will reveal different killers 

However, Posner said he the public shouldn’t get their hopes up for a ‘smoking gun’ to reveal a different killer. 

‘I think people are looking for something bigger, a gotcha moment, a smoking-gun document, ‘Here’s how we killed JFK,” he continued. 

‘It’s not going to be in there because it doesn’t exist.’ 

When Trump signed executive orders this week that will release the files, he noted that ‘a lot of people have been waiting for this for a long time.’ 

The executive order directs his Director of National Intelligence to put together a plan within 15 days for the full release of documents about the JFK assassination, with Martin Luther King Jr.’s files also set to be released within 45 days.  

Conspiracies have swirled for decades claiming JFK’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was not a lone actor and was working with Soviets or Cubans – or even the U.S. CIA

The executive order, obtained by DailyMail.com, said: ‘More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events.

‘Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.’

He made a similar promise in his first term but gave way to the CIA and FBI who argued that some documents should be kept from the public for fear they would reveal national security secrets. 

Trump teased his plan during his Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday evening.

‘I’m going to release them immediately,’ he said.

‘We’re going to see the information. We are looking at it right now.’