"Oswald Had No Friends Here": The KGB’s Unsolicited Denial

In the weeks following JFK’s assassination, Soviet officials scrambled to shape the narrative. Document 180-10144-10133, newly released in the 2025 JFK files, captures an urgent and defensive communication: the KGB emphatically insisted that Lee Harvey Oswald was not...
The Soviet Tip That Came Too Late

The Soviet Tip That Came Too Late

Document 180-10144-10130, released in the 2025 JFK files, reveals a chilling moment from the days after President Kennedy’s assassination: a Soviet source, known to the FBI, claimed Oswald was a patsy-and that the assassination was "not the work of one man." But the...
The Call To The Soviet Embassy That Made Langley Flinch

The Call To The Soviet Embassy That Made Langley Flinch

In document 206-10001-10014, declassified in March 2025, the CIA confirms it was operating a "passive intercept device" on a direct phone line to the Soviet Mission to the UN in New York City. What wasn’t expected? That the call logged on November 19, 1963 - just...
How a Moscow Cable Tried to Rewrite the Oswald Narrative

How a Moscow Cable Tried to Rewrite the Oswald Narrative

Document 194-10002-10189, released in the 2025 JFK files, is a 1963 diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Sent shortly after President Kennedy’s assassination, the cable wasn’t an inquiry, warning, or investigation. It was a defense. A carefully worded...