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 180-10131-10325, released in the 2025 JFK files, contains firsthand commentary from Soviet officials responding to U.S. inquiries about Lee Harvey Oswald’s time in the USSR. The verdict from Moscow was firm: Oswald was isolated, distrusted, and ultimately...