World-famous illusionist Uri Geller has claimed the CIA employed him to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Just days before secret documents concerning the shooting are due to be released, the Israeli magician and self-proclaimed psychic said he was hired by a CIA agent in Mexico to find out whether shooter Lee Harvey Oswald had any accomplices.
President Kennedy was murdered in 1963 after being shot in the head by Oswald while riding in a motorcade in Texas. A huge number of official documents were classified top secret and never released to the public, prompting a variety of conspiracy theories.
Incumbent president Donald Trump recently confirmed that he will open around 3,000 "long-blocked" files concerning the murder to the general public.
Now Mr Geller, 70, claims he was drawn into the investigation by the CIA in an attempt to find out if Oswald had any outside backers - such as the KGB or the Mafia - and even met first lady Jackie Kennedy to brief her on his findings.
Writing in a Facebook post on Sunday, he said: "The assignment took me in the early 1970s, inter alia, to Mexico City, to the Russian Embassy, where Oswald had travelled shortly before he shot the American president.
"I was able to shed some light on organisations he may have been in contact with, but these did not include any US agencies, [such as] the Mafia or Lyndon Johnson [as some speculate].
"I also met Jackie Kennedy at her apartment in New York...I relayed these findings to her, since she was absolutely determined to discover the truth. She and I stayed in touch, and I still have correspondence from her."
Mr Geller went on to speculate as to whether or not he will be mentioned in the upcoming information dump. He said that if his name was redacted "[he] will never be able to reveal what [he] discovered because it is quite shocking."
Earlier this year, it was revealed Geller had been the subject of a number of CIA experiments in 1973. The agency sought to establish the validity of his "telepathic" abilities.
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President Trump revealed at the weekend that he doesn't plan to block the scheduled release of thousands of top secret files on the assassination.
He wrote in a Saturday morning tweet: "Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK files to be opened."
The National Archives has until Thursday to disclose the remaining files.
