Pittsburgh, January 7 (RHC)-- It is ironic that two events coincide at this time, with an opening of diplomatic relations with Cuba by President Barack Obama and the U.S. Senate debating the need for increased oversight of the CIA given its out-of-control torture of individuals at Guantanamo, according to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday.

The newspaper editorial says that some believe President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 51 years ago as a result of his efforts to establish a dialogue with former Cuban President Fidel Castro to normalize relations between the two countries following the Cuban missile crisis. Groups within the CIA were tasked with the assignment to assassinate Fidel Castro, and certain people from this group despised Kennedy for not sending in air support during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Individuals associated with the CIA are alleged to have been implicated in his assassination and also the 1968 murder of his brother, Robert Kennedy.

The editorial in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says it's time to have full disclosure of CIA records of the Kennedy assassination.

Russ Baker, author of “Family of Secrets,” calls on supporters of President Obama to write to the president, calling for release of 50,000 pages of CIA documents related to JFK’s assassination. “I’m not sure that Obama worries or needs to worry about being assassinated, but I do think he will have some trepidation about crossing an entrenched CIA bureaucracy that is intent on keeping JFK assassination secrets in the name of “national security,” Baker said in an interview in 2013.