From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babarro.

This is the Daily.

For the past three decades, when the U.S. government has released documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an overriding goal has been to dispel conspiracy theories.

But as my colleague, Julian Barnes explains, President Trump's motivation for releasing the latest

batch is far more complicated. Today, what we learned from those new documents

and why they may actually fuel even more conspiratorial thinking.

It's Thursday. March 27th.

Julian, you're the intelligence reporter for the Times.

So I'm curious what your relationship has been to arguably the biggest and most enduring conspiracy theory about the agency you cover.

That the CIA was behind the killing of the president.

The assassination of JFK.

Yeah, that one, yep.

Well, like all Americans, it's loomed really large for my entire life, right?

I mean, this is something that everybody talks about generation in, generation out.

I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the establishment.

That movie, JFK, came out when I was in college.

Please be seated.

In that movie, Oliver Stone posits that there is a dark conspiracy behind the Kennedy assassination.

Right.

President Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy that was planned in advance at the highest levels of our government,

and it was carried out by fanatical and disciplined cold warriors.

That it was the CIA that Oswald didn't act alone.

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