Among the newly declassified 2025 JFK files is a CIA memo dated October 10, 1963, detailing Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City. The memo highlights concerns about Oswald’s intentions and suggests increased surveillance, but no...
Document 206-10001-10000, newly released as part of the 2025 JFK files, is just one page long. It outlines a suspicious disappearance: a Soviet defector scheduled to leave Mexico City who seemingly never did. The CIA flagged the irregularity. Then they closed the...
Document 206-10001-10000 doesn’t just tell the story of a missing Soviet defector-it captures a subtle intelligence failure in the most dangerous month of the Cold War. The Soviet’s unverified departure from Mexico City was recorded just days before the Cuban...
