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...
Document 194-10007-10426, released in the 2025 JFK files, includes a 1964 State Department memo that appears designed to distance the Department from any responsibility in the Lee Harvey Oswald case. The tone isn’t investigatory-it’s protective. The message is clear:...
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...
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...
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...