[Ben Holmes]

In October of 2017, current law will force the release of all the rest of the files currently classified... Will we actually see devastating new proof of a conspiracy?

Not likely... although I've already predicted that nothing that is released will support the Warren Commission's theory. The reason why we won't see devastating new revelations is simple:

 

Quote:Mr. Goldsmith. To your knowledge, would any records at CIA Headquarters document that Oswald was a CIA agent?
Mr. Wilcott. I believe they would at one time. Whether they are there now or not is hard to say.
Mr. Goldsmith. Do you have any personal knowledge that any records at CIA Headquarters were ever destroyed?
Mr. Wilcott. No.
Mr. Goldsmith. Do you have any knowledge of any record of the CIA at the XXXXXXXX Station ever being destroyed out of the ordinary course of business, not as a matter of routine?
Mr. Wilcott. Yes.
Mr. Goldsmith. To your personal knowledge, CIA records XXXXXXXXXX were destroyed?
Mr. Wilcott. Destroyed or changed.
Mr. Goldsmith. Could you give an example of that?
Mr. Wilcott. Yes. Let us say, for instance, that there was a certain project going on, and the project was one that became known that this project was being carried out -- and we call it "flaps," -- and the Case Officer in charge might get word that somebody from headquarters was coming to review the files to investigate the flap. Well, they would go through the files and take out anything that they thought was, say, indicative of how this flap occurred and change the files.
For instance, in accounting, when we had our audits, for instance, in most of the audits, he would call up some body -- let's say in China Branch -- and say "I know you were having problems with this, would you like to look it over before the auditors come?", and they might look it over and retype the accounting for funds for their project and, you know, make changes that they might think were in their interest to do.
Mr. Goldsmith. Did you ever actually Xerox records being destroyed or changed?
Mr. Wilcott. Yes, I did.
Mr. Goldsmith. And have you just described one of those instances to us?
Mr. Wilcott. Yes.

I'm sure intelligent readers can see the obvious.

Anything that indicts the CIA directly will have long ago been scrubbed from the files.