Newly declassified documents reveal that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had direct contact with Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, prior to the 1963 assassination. The CIA tacitly admitted for the first time in nearly 62 years that George Joannides, an officer specializing in psychological warfare, ran an operation that interacted with Oswald months before the killing. Joannides, who used the alias Howard Gebler, oversaw a covert anti-Castro group known as the DRE, which engaged with Oswald in 1963. This disclosure contradicts decades of CIA denials and official narratives that claimed little to no knowledge of Oswald's activities before the assassination. The newly released files, uncovered by a House Oversight Committee task force, also show that the CIA monitored Oswald for several years and that multiple CIA employees handled records related to him from 1959 to 1963. The revelations have fueled renewed scrutiny of the CIA's role and alleged cover-up in the JFK assassination, challenging the long-standing lone gunman theory. The documents indicate that Joannides was not only involved in the covert operation but was also sent to run the CIA's investigation into the assassination, raising questions about conflicts of interest and transparency. These findings have been described as a pattern of CIA malfeasance rather than definitive proof of conspiracy, but they underscore the agency's extensive surveillance and interaction with Oswald prior to the historic event.