How the U.S. Enabled France’s Colonial Return to Vietnam
In 1945, as colonial empires crumbled, the U.S. made a pivotal choice: back Vietnamese independence - or let France return. Despite anti-colonial rhetoric, America sided with the latter. This is the untold beginning of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. "We have fully...
The Russian Visitor Who Asked One Too Many Questions
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...
"We Don’t Talk About Oswald": A State Department Memo That Dodged the Bullet
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:...
The Soviet Tip That Came Too Late
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...
