JFK Files: Unredacted

YouTube Documentary | JFK Files: Unredacted

Written and Produced by
Bora Ömeroğlu

Brief

Write an emotionally engaging story about the newly released JFK Files.
Establish a unique voice for the video and the new YouTube channel.
Be accurate, specific, and bold.

Make a statement.

For more of my script work, click HERE

CHAPTER 1 — No Good Guys In Politics

Remember! There are no good guys in politics.

Government is a gang.
And the fate of a nation is far too important to be left up to free elections.

That’s why countries like the United States rely on career bureaucrats.
Lifetime keepers of the State who see it as their righteous mission to mislead, pressure, or even eliminate elected leaders.

And that’s how the war between John F. Kennedy and the CIA began.

1961, Washington DC. 

The U.S.-backed invasion of Bay of Pigs fails catastrophically.
Cuban forces crush the attack in three days.
American prestige shatters.
And Kennedy is furious. 

He feels misled—

Tricked by his own intelligence agency into approving a half-baked operation.
In fact, a setup, to drag the U.S. into a full-blown war.

Kennedy stands his ground!

And when the smoke clears, he delivers a line that marks the beginning of the end: 
He says: “Splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”

He isn’t speaking metaphorically.
This is a declaration of war.
One that’s heard loud and clear in Langley.

Next— Kennedy steps back.

He doesn’t rush, and starts planning.
He knows dismantling the CIA is not an easy task.
He needs a comprehensive plan.

So he brings in a scholar who is also a spy:
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Schlesinger is no stranger to intelligence.
He served in the OSS during World War II.

But now, Kennedy asks him for something no president has ever dared:

Write a blueprint to take the CIA apart.

Suppressed for decades — now unredacted.
Here is the explosive memo that dared to take on the CIA.

CHAPTER 2 — The Schlesinger Memo

June 30, 1961.

Title: CIA Reorganisation.
Tone: Measured.
Message: Brutal.

In it, Schlesinger warns, the CIA has become a rogue force.
Unaccountable, unsupervised, and untouchable.

An empire with its own rules.

Here’s what he writes word for word: Schlesinger Memo page 3—

“Today the CIA has its own political desks and military staff. “
“It has in effect its own foreign service.”
“It has its own combat forces, it even has its own air force.”

“The contemporary CIA possesses many of the characteristics of a state within a state.”

He then raises a blunt warning:

The CIA isn’t just running spies overseas, 
But by embedding Controlled American Sources under State cover, 
It’s hijacking U.S. foreign policy from the inside.

Schlesinger Memo Page 7—

“The CIA today has nearly as many people under official cover overseas as State,“
“And almost half of them are Controlled American Sources under State Department cover.”

Page 8 — “In the Paris Embassy, The CIA men doing overt political reporting outnumber those in the Embassy’s political section by 10-to-2.”

And then comes the punch:

“Sometimes the CIA mission chief has been in the country longer—“
“Has more money at his disposal,”
“And wields more influence than the Ambassador himself.”

This is it!

Not only CIA operatives are replacing the diplomats,
They are now outranking them.

The memo goes further and exposes deeper flaws. 

CIA officers, bypassing the State Department, are running their operations in secret.
It seems unthinkable but the U.S. government is being overridden by its own spy agency.

CHAPTER 3 — Schlesinger Offers A Solution

Schlesinger then offers a solution:

How to take back policy control.
He points to the British.

Page 12 — “Under the British system, clandestine collection is entrusted to the Secret Intelligence Service” — The UK’s equivalent of the CIA.

“The research, analysis and estimating function is located in the Foreign Office Research Department” — The equivalent of the U.S. State Department.

This is the blueprint:

Spies gather intel.
Diplomats shape policy.
The knives and the facts stay in separate hands.

Schlesinger concludes the memo with a dire warning:

“Clandestine activity can afford damned few visible errors, and the CIA has about used up its quota.”
Meaning: Another public disaster won’t just embarrass us, it will destroy America’s credibility.

CHAPTER 4 — Kennedy Receives The Memo

Kennedy receives the memo, and now, he’s ready to act.
No more discussions. No more warnings. 

He makes his first move—
And forces CIA Director Allen Dulles and his two deputies to resign.

It’s time to clear out the old guard.

Then he goes further.

He issues a National Security Action Memoranda— 
And strips the CIA of its paramilitary authority.

From now on, large covert operations fall under military command.
The Agency takes the back seat.

Kennedy’s actions are sharp and decisive.
But Langley isn’t used to taking orders, 
And it’s not about to start now.

This isn’t just pushback, it’s war.
And The CIA  has no intention of going quietly.

In the final section of his memo, Schlesinger writes:

“I would think the conclusion is that secret activities are permissible only as long as they do not corrupt the principles of our society—

And they must no longer be acceptable once their effect is to undermine those very principles.”

CHAPTER 5 — What Comes Next

Looking back on those reflections— feels like a reminder of a time when truth and decency still mattered.

But no more.

In a free society, the people know everything about those in power,
And those in power are accountable for every action they take in the name of the public.

The freedoms we inherited from the past don’t vanish overnight.
They’re erased piece by piece slowly, through secrecy, surveillance, and our silent compliance.

And if a free nation has no accountability…
That nation is no longer free at all.

What came next isn’t just a political conflict— It’s a war to define the next century.
A choice between liberty and the rule of the few.

The next chapter is written in blood.
And the consequences are darker than anyone could’ve ever imagined.

Next Chapter

How the CIA kept a secret surveillance file on Oswald? 
And how the FBI downgraded his threat level just three days before the assassination?

…

For more of my script work, please click HERE.