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 194-10002-10187, 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, captures a rare and immediate reaction from Soviet officials following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Sent by an informant who met directly with Soviet embassy staff, the report reveals a...
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...
