Document 206-10001-10003, newly released in the 2025 JFK files, contains a short CIA memo from September 1962 about a Soviet national in Mexico City who raised quiet alarms by asking unusually specific questions about U.S. embassy operations. At the time, it seemed...
Document 194-10002-10187, from the 2025 JFK file release, contains a damning piece of paper: a brief 1961 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow stating it had “no objection” to Lee Harvey Oswald returning to the United States. At a time when Cold War paranoia ran high...
Document 180-10144-10240, part of the 2025 JFK file release, provides an inside look at how Soviet officials reacted in real time to President Kennedy’s assassination. Instead of gloating, they were terrified. Soviet sources feared that Lee Harvey Oswald’s ties...
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...
