Newly Released JFK Documents Hint at Possible CIA Foreknowledge of Oswald
25 March 2025 · Uncategorized ·
Source: · https://technews.tw/2025/03/19/national-archives-john-f-kennedy/
The National Archives of America recently released the final batch of files related to former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, marking sixty years since his death and despite persistent conspiracy theories surrounding it.
(Source：Cecil Stoughton, White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Following an order from then-President Donald Trump in January 2017, the FBI uncovered thousands of additional documents pertaining to Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. After careful review by Department of Justice lawyers, a digital version of the first batch was uploaded late at night onto the National Archives website. In total, over 80,000 records will be made public.
These files include previously classified memorandums—available as PDFs—offering insight into the atmosphere of fear that characterized US-Soviet relations shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. Many documents detail investigators’ efforts to understand assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's experiences in Russia and his movements leading up to Kennedy’s shooting on November 22, 1963.
While many consider Oswald to be the sole gunman responsible for President Kennedy’s death—a conclusion consistently reaffirmed by both the Department of Justice and other federal agencies over decades—polls indicate that a significant portion of Americans still subscribe to conspiracy theories surrounding his assassination. Experts believe these newly disclosed files are unlikely to alter established facts regarding Oswald's shooting from a book depository window as Kennedy’s motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza.
Scholars specializing in President Kennedy suggest the remaining documents held by the National Archives are improbable sources of explosive revelations and will likely not diminish existing conspiracy theories. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of former US president John F. Kennedy, has publicly stated his belief that the CIA was involved in his uncle’s death; however, the agency maintains this accusation is baseless.
The files may reveal more about what the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) knew regarding Oswald than previously disclosed. Questions remain concerning a visit by Oswald six weeks before the assassination when he traveled to Mexico City and visited both Soviet and Cuban embassies. Oswald defected to Russia in 1959, returned to America in 1962, and was fatally shot on November 24th of that year—two days after Kennedy’s murder—by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while being transferred from jail.
A declassified document released in December 2022 detailed a mission report by an ex-KGB officer who served within Russia's intelligence agency (the KGB). According to this individual, the KGB absorbed him upon his defection but lost contact with Oswald when he returned due to depression and homesickness; he never assigned Oswald a mission to kill President Kennedy.
The release of these documents is mandated by an act passed by the US Congress on October 26th, 1992, which requires that all unredacted assassination records held in the National Archives be made public after twenty-five years.
(Source：Cecil Stoughton, White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Following an order from then-President Donald Trump in January 2017, the FBI uncovered thousands of additional documents pertaining to Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. After careful review by Department of Justice lawyers, a digital version of the first batch was uploaded late at night onto the National Archives website. In total, over 80,000 records will be made public.
These files include previously classified memorandums—available as PDFs—offering insight into the atmosphere of fear that characterized US-Soviet relations shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. Many documents detail investigators’ efforts to understand assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's experiences in Russia and his movements leading up to Kennedy’s shooting on November 22, 1963.
While many consider Oswald to be the sole gunman responsible for President Kennedy’s death—a conclusion consistently reaffirmed by both the Department of Justice and other federal agencies over decades—polls indicate that a significant portion of Americans still subscribe to conspiracy theories surrounding his assassination. Experts believe these newly disclosed files are unlikely to alter established facts regarding Oswald's shooting from a book depository window as Kennedy’s motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza.
Scholars specializing in President Kennedy suggest the remaining documents held by the National Archives are improbable sources of explosive revelations and will likely not diminish existing conspiracy theories. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of former US president John F. Kennedy, has publicly stated his belief that the CIA was involved in his uncle’s death; however, the agency maintains this accusation is baseless.
The files may reveal more about what the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) knew regarding Oswald than previously disclosed. Questions remain concerning a visit by Oswald six weeks before the assassination when he traveled to Mexico City and visited both Soviet and Cuban embassies. Oswald defected to Russia in 1959, returned to America in 1962, and was fatally shot on November 24th of that year—two days after Kennedy’s murder—by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while being transferred from jail.
A declassified document released in December 2022 detailed a mission report by an ex-KGB officer who served within Russia's intelligence agency (the KGB). According to this individual, the KGB absorbed him upon his defection but lost contact with Oswald when he returned due to depression and homesickness; he never assigned Oswald a mission to kill President Kennedy.
The release of these documents is mandated by an act passed by the US Congress on October 26th, 1992, which requires that all unredacted assassination records held in the National Archives be made public after twenty-five years.