In document 194-10006-10318, released as part of the 2025 JFK files, a short but pointed message from a State Department official lays down one clear instruction regarding Lee Harvey Oswald: do not speak to the press. Written after JFK’s assassination, the directive...
In document 194-10007-10417, released as part of the 2025 JFK files, a memo between CIA officials discusses limiting access to sensitive Oswald-related material-not for reasons of classification, but because of potential “misinterpretation.” The subtext is...
Buried in a single-page CIA field memo released in the 2025 JFK file 206-10001-10005 is a chilling fragment: a possible Cuban intelligence network operating in Florida in 1963, targeting political groups and avoiding federal detection. At the center of it-an...
In the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Soviet officials scrambled to issue reassurances that they had no hand in the killing. Document 180-10144-10240, released in the 2025 JFK files, captures this moment of Cold War panic. The Soviet...
