A CIA whistleblower, revealing his identity for the first time, tells Axios he saw a secret document in which an agency official bragged about misleading congressional investigators about Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico before President Kennedy was assassinated.

• "It's a blueprint of a cover-up, how to lie to Congress and the American people," former CIA-State Department historian Thomas L. Pearcy tells Axios.

Why it matters: Pearcy's description of the nearly 50-page document — a CIA inspector general's report — sheds new light on how intelligence agents routinely have covered up facts and records about Kennedy's slaying that still haven't been made public.

Driving the news: The 62nd anniversary of JFK's assassination is Saturday, and President Trump has pledged to disclose all records related to the tragedy in accordance with the JFK Records Act of 1992.

• A CIA spokesperson told Axios the agency would try to find the report Pearcy describes.

Zoom in: Pearcy, now a Latin America expert and history professor at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, told Axios he happened across the document — a CIA inspector general's report — in a secure CIA safe room in 2009 while researching Latin America policy as the joint historian for the CIA and State Department.

• The report, contained in a manila folder, was essentially a damage assessment by the agency to determine how much its reputation had been harmed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HCSA), which...

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