The 2025 JFK files confirm the CIA was listening when Oswald visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies weeks before the assassination. So why did they pretend they weren’t?
🚪 A Deadly Detour
In late September 1963-less than two months before JFK’s assassination-Lee Harvey Oswald traveled to Mexico City, a move that’s long puzzled investigators, historians, and intelligence analysts alike.
Why was he there?
Who did he meet?
And why did the CIA act like it didn’t matter?
Thanks to newly declassified documents from 2025, we now have clarity on a few chilling facts:
✅ The CIA had Oswald under audio and visual surveillance.
✅ His voice was recorded during calls to Soviet and Cuban officials.
✅ They knew exactly who he met-and pretended otherwise.
This wasn’t a case of missed intelligence.
This was intelligence that was buried.
🕵️♂️ The Revelation: Oswald Was Recorded in Mexico City
One of the most significant takeaways from the March 2025 document dump is a set of CIA cables confirming intercepts of Oswald’s phone calls and movements while he was in Mexico City.
During his trip:
- Oswald visited both the Cuban and Soviet embassies.
- He made at least two phone calls to the Soviet compound, reportedly attempting to secure a visa to Cuba via Moscow.
- He spoke to Valeriy Kostikov, a KGB officer believed to be involved in Department 13-the KGB’s assassination division.
That last point? It’s been discussed for decades. But now, with these files, it’s no longer just rumor-it’s on paper.
🎙️ The Tapes and the Cover Story
Here’s where things get strange.
The CIA had multiple surveillance operations in Mexico City, including wiretaps on embassy phones. These intercepts were tagged and analyzed-yet when the Warren Commission began asking questions in 1964, CIA officials told them the tapes had been erased or “recycled.”
But the new 2025 files show:
- Transcripts of Oswald’s actual phone calls were still in CIA archives after the assassination.
- A memo shows that CIA officers discussed Oswald’s voice print and compared it to other recordings.
- Multiple internal warnings were sent from Mexico City station to Langley, flagging the contact with Kostikov as highly sensitive.
So why the erasure narrative?
🧾 Because admitting they had the tapes would also admit they were closely monitoring a man who would go on to kill the president.
🧠 Why This Trip Mattered So Much
Oswald’s trip to Mexico was more than a casual detour. It was a dangerous cocktail of Cold War tension:
- He was trying to get into Cuba, potentially as a sympathizer or operative.
- He reached out to Soviet intelligence, specifically an assassination-linked officer.
- He made contact with multiple embassy officials, who likely reported on him to their home governments.
The CIA knew all of this before Dallas-and chose silence.
🧩 A Narrative That Keeps Shifting
For decades, the official U.S. position was:
“We didn’t know enough about Oswald. He wasn’t on our radar.”
But the Mexico City files-especially the intercepts and surveillance data-prove otherwise. The CIA had eyes (and ears) on him, flagged his behavior, and intentionally obfuscated the record.
Even internally, some agents were alarmed. One document released in 2025 quotes a CIA analyst writing:
“Why was the Mexico Station not ordered to report the contact with Kostikov to the Secret Service or FBI immediately?”
No one ever answered that question.
🔚 A Trip That Should Have Changed Everything
Oswald’s visit to Mexico City wasn’t some rogue vacation. It was a red-flagged, wiretapped, and highly scrutinized trip that should have changed the course of history-but instead became part of a cover-up.
The CIA had the intel.
They had the tapes.
And now, we have the proof.