The committee, Chaired by Louis Stokes of Ohio was on track to rubber stamp the Warren Commission report until acoustic evidence confirmed there were four shots fired. This brought them to the obvious conclusion that there was some sort of conspiracy.

They came to the conclusion that the Soviet government was not involved, and neither was the Cuban government. They also found that neither any anti-Castro group nor any form of organized crime were involved. And, of course, that the Secret Service, CIA and FBI had nothing to do with the Kennedy Assassination.

An honest man, after later revelations came to light, Robert Blakey, the chief counsel of the committee had this to say:

...I no longer believe that we were able to conduct an appropriate investigation of the [Central Intelligence] Agency and its relationship to Oswald.... We now know that the Agency withheld from the Warren Commission the CIA–Mafia plots to kill Castro. Had the commission known of the plots, it would have followed a different path in its investigation. The Agency unilaterally deprived the commission of a chance to obtain the full truth, which will now never be known. Significantly, the Warren Commission's conclusion that the agencies of the government co-operated with it is, in retrospect, not the truth. We also now know that the Agency set up a process that could only have been designed to frustrate the ability of the committee in 1976–79 to obtain any information that might adversely affect the Agency. Many have told me that the culture of the Agency is one of prevarication and dissimulation and that you cannot trust it or its people. Period. End of story. I am now in that camp.