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...
Document 194-10006-10315, released in the 2025 JFK files, is an internal State Department review from January 1964 outlining how Lee Harvey Oswald was able to return to the United States after defecting to the Soviet Union. What’s most telling is what the memo doesn’t...
Document 194-10006-10316, released in the 2025 JFK files, shows how the U.S. State Department carefully shaped the language used to explain how-and why-Lee Harvey Oswald was allowed back into the country. The memo doesn’t explore the facts. It focuses on how to...
