Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is threatening to subpoena the CIA after a whistleblower alleged the agency removed sensitive JFK assassination and MKUltra-related files that were being reviewed for possible declassification.
Luna, who chairs the House Task Force on Declassification, issued the warning Wednesday during an appearance on NewsNation, saying Congress had already requested the documents and accusing the intelligence agency of obstructing oversight efforts.
“The reason why this is troubling, A) 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,” Luna said. “So, these are allegedly those documents that apparently never existed.”
The controversy erupted after testimony from whistleblower James Erdman III, who alleged during a Senate hearing Tuesday that the CIA reclaimed documents tied to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the infamous MKUltra mind-control program while the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was reviewing them for release.
According to Luna, the files had been requested by Congress as part of an ongoing transparency push ordered by President Donald Trump. She warned that if the records are not turned over voluntarily, lawmakers could move quickly with subpoenas and contempt proceedings.
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna
The CIA has not publicly commented in detail on the allegations. However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence pushed back on reports that CIA agents “raided” DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard’s office to retrieve documents.
“This is false – the CIA did not raid the DNI’s office,” ODNI press secretary Olivia Coleman said in a statement posted to X.
Luna has spent months pushing for hearings tied to long-secret government programs and political assassinations. Last month, she announced a congressional hearing focused on MKUltra, the CIA program launched during the Cold War that involved controversial experiments using LSD, hypnosis, and other psychological techniques on unwitting subjects.
The MKUltra program became public during the 1970s Church Committee investigation into intelligence abuses, though many records were destroyed years earlier under orders from then-CIA Director Richard Helms. Surviving files later revealed experiments involving drugs, psychological torture, and behavior-control techniques carried out on both willing and unwitting participants.
The latest allegations have already sparked outrage among Trump allies and transparency advocates, who argue the federal government has spent decades concealing politically explosive records connected to the JFK assassination and intelligence community misconduct.
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