Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is turning up the heat on the CIA after explosive whistleblower allegations claimed the agency quietly removed sensitive JFK assassination and MKUltra files that were under review for possible declassification. And naturally, the intelligence community is acting shocked that anyone would dare question them. Because when has the CIA ever been accused of hiding documents from the American public? Oh right, constantly.
Luna, who chairs the House Task Force on Declassification, appeared on NewsNation Wednesday and made it clear she is prepared to subpoena the agency if the records are not handed over voluntarily. That is not political theater either. Congress had already requested the files as part of President Trump’s executive order directing the full declassification of JFK assassination records.
“The reason why this is troubling,” Luna said, “there was an executive order that the president directed the full declassification of JFK, but then also to the MK-Ultra files famously the CIA said that all documents were released and other documents had been destroyed. So, these are allegedly those documents that apparently never existed.”
That statement alone should set off alarm bells all over Washington. Americans have been told for decades that key MKUltra documents were destroyed long ago. Now suddenly there are allegations that files tied to both MKUltra and JFK were sitting inside the intelligence bureaucracy all along. Amazing how government records have a habit of reappearing whenever Congress starts poking around.
The controversy exploded after whistleblower James Erdman III testified during a Senate hearing that the CIA reclaimed the records while the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was reviewing them for release. According to the allegations, these files were effectively pulled back before the public or lawmakers could see what was inside.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence attempted damage control almost immediately. ODNI press secretary Olivia Coleman posted on X that reports claiming the CIA “raided” Tulsi Gabbard’s office were false. Technically, maybe nobody rappelled through the ceiling wearing night-vision goggles. But that carefully worded denial does not actually answer the bigger question everyone is asking: were documents removed or not?
Luna has spent months pushing aggressively for transparency surrounding political assassinations and secret intelligence operations. She recently announced hearings focused specifically on MKUltra, the infamous CIA program that conducted disturbing experiments involving LSD, hypnosis, psychological torture, and behavior modification techniques on both willing and unwilling participants during the Cold War.
The MKUltra scandal became public during the Church Committee investigations in the 1970s, though many records had already been destroyed under orders from former CIA Director Richard Helms. Convenient timing, as always.
Now, decades later, Americans are once again hearing that there may be hidden records connected to one of the most scrutinized assassinations in history and one of the darkest intelligence programs ever exposed. Luna’s warning about subpoenas and contempt proceedings signals that at least some lawmakers are no longer willing to accept the standard “trust us” routine from the intelligence agencies.
And frankly, after sixty years of secrecy, contradictions, and disappearing files, nobody should blame the public for being skeptical.
UPDATE:
This is false – the CIA did not raid the DNI’s office. https://t.co/vZOEqzeK4M
— Olivia Coleman (@DNIspox) May 14, 2026
Clarification: Took documents that ODNI has jurisdiction over. Also, this did not happen today & was not a “raid” however it did take place and we are just being made aware of it based on reporting etc. https://t.co/erYzUWDZVQ
— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) May 14, 2026
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