The National Archives just released more than 2,800 previously classified records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, sparking a feeding frenzy among historians and conspiracy theorists alike.
As reported, among the earliest revelations to emerge from the newly released files were CIA notes on an intercepted telephone call on September 28, 1963, from Lee Harvey Oswald to a KGB agent in Mexico City, and evidence that the FBI’s Dallas office received a threat on Oswald’s life on November 23, 1963, the night before Jack Ruby shot him, from a man saying he was a “member of a committee organized to kill Oswald.”
The records were made public under the 1992 John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which mandated that all material housed at the National Archives about the assassination be made public by October 26, 2017, which is the 25th anniversary of the act. But last-minute concerns by U.S. national security and intelligence agencies led President Donald Trump to block the release of thousands of the remaining files just hours before the deadline.
The bulk of the massive collection has been available to the public—either in full or redacted form—already. But tens of thousands of documents had remained classified, presumably because they contained highly sensitive information that the CIA, FBI or other agencies thought might damage national security.
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What’s in the Newly Declassified JFK Assassination Documents?
Part of a file, dated April 5, 1964, details efforts to trace Lee Harvey Oswald’s travel from Mexico City back to the United States.
1) Of the documents that were originally set to be released, some 3,100 had never been seen by the public before. Though few experts expected the final batch of files to offer up a “smoking gun” proving Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in killing Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the last batch of files were expected to provide more insight into exactly how much U.S. national security agencies knew about Oswald before the assassination, and how much information the CIA and FBI withheld from the official investigation into the assassination, which concluded in 1964.
2) Many of the most anticipated remaining files relate to a trip Oswald took to Mexico City in September 1963, just two months before he shot Kennedy. During his visit, Oswald went to the Cuban embassy and met with officials in his attempt to get a visa to travel to Cuba, and then on to the Soviet Union.
3) Many of the files originally set for release reportedly come from the CIA office in Mexico City, and may reveal whether U.S. operatives there knew of Oswald’s plan to kill Kennedy (which he reportedly talked openly about during his trip) and how much they may have withheld from CIA headquarters in Washington.
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What the Experts Say:
Gerald Posner, an expert on the Kennedy assassination and author of the book Cold Case, speculated that the revelations contained in the latest batch of files might prove embarrassing to some prominent figures: “There may be people who were informing to the CIA at the time who have moved on to careers in politics and business, and the revelation that they were informing will be embarrassing to them.”
Posner also believes the files may contain intriguing items unrelated to the assassination, including a handwritten letter from Jackie Kennedy about her husband’s funeral and a previously classified letter from J. Edgar Hoover.
Philip Shenon, author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination, wrote in Politico that the new batch of files also contains a transcript of a 1976 interview by congressional investigators of James Jesus Angleton, director of counterintelligence for the CIA in 1963 and the main conduit of information between the agency and the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination.
Lee Harvey Oswald distributes Hands Off Cuba flyers on the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana. This photograph was used in the Kennedy assassination investigation.
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Will These Newly Declassified Documents Fuel More Conspiracy Theories?
Despite the commission’s official conclusion in 1964 that Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy, many people have held fast to the belief that more than one person had to be involved. (It certainly didn’t help that Oswald never stood trial for the crime, having been shot to death by Jack Ruby two days after Kennedy’s assassination.)
Speculation about Oswald’s activities on his Mexico trip have long fueled one of the most popular JFK-related conspiracy theories, which argues that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro plotted to assassinate Kennedy as revenge for the Bay of Pigs invasion. In the 1970s, revelations that the Kennedy administration made various attempts to assassinate Castro fueled the idea that Castro acted first against Kennedy.
In addition to Castro, potential conspirators have included the CIA, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Mafia, the KGB or some malicious combination thereof. The success of Oliver Stone’s film “JFK,” which suggested a vast government conspiracy was behind the assassination, helped motivate the U.S. Congress to enact the Records Collection Act in 1992. By its terms, all material related to the assassination would be housed in a single collection at the National Archives.
The interior of the Presidential limousine after the Kennedy assassination.
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How Many Files About JFK’s Assassination Have Been Declassified?
Of the total library of files—which encompasses some 5 million pages—88 percent has been open and available to the public since the late 1990s, according to the National Archives. An additional 11 percent had been released in redacted form, with sensitive portions excised.
As the October 2017 deadline approached, the Archives released a batch of material in July, including a total of 3,810 documents. Some 441 had been withheld in full until that point, and 3,369 previously released in redacted form. Among the released information were 17 audio files of interviews conducted with a KGB officer, Yuri Nosenko. Nosenko, who defected to the United States in early 1964, claimed to have been in charge of a file the KGB kept on Oswald during the time he lived in the Soviet Union (1959-62).
The 1992 law specified that only the president of the United States could choose to block the release of the remaining records past the October deadline. On October 21, President Trump announced via Twitter that he planned to allow their release, reportedly against the advice of some national security agencies. The day before the release, he teased the “long-anticipated” release of the JFK files on Twitter again, calling it “So interesting!”
But as the end of the deadline day approached, President Trump issued a memo stating that while he ordered “that the veil of history finally be lifted,” he would block the release of some of the remaining JFK files pending an additional six months of review. Trump’s decision came after U.S. intelligence and national security agencies made last-minute recommendations that certain material be redacted. “I have no choice—today—but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our Nation’s security,” the memo read.
Instead of the full cache of remaining files, the National Archives posted 2,891 records online on the evening of October 26. In accordance with President Trump’s order, the Archives said it would process the additional records (subject to the recommended redactions) for release on a rolling basis going forward.
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On October 26, the National Archives made public more than 2,800 files relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, just hours before the deadline set for their final release by Congress in the 1992 JFK Records Collection Act.
President Donald Trump announced he was blocking the immediate release of some 300 files, citing concerns from U.S. intelligence and national security agencies. Pending a six-month review, the archives will release the final batch of files, with redactions, on a rolling basis.
Despite the last-minute action by President Trump, the release of thousands of JFK-related documents is more than enough to keep historians, journalists, assassination experts and conspiracy theorists occupied for a long time to come. From the massive array of handwritten notes, memos, interview transcripts and intelligence reports—many of them partly or entirely illegible—a few intriguing and surprising revelations have emerged so far>
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Evidence From the JFK Assassination Case
1) The KGB believed there was a well-organized conspiracy behind JFK’s assassination—possibly involving LBJ
In December 1966, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover forwarded a memo to the White House that described the reaction of Soviet and Communist Party officials to Kennedy’s assassination. The memo stated that according to the FBI’s source, Communist officials believed there was a well-organized “ultraright” conspiracy behind the assassination.
Not only that, but: “Our source added that in the instructions from Moscow, it was indicated that…the KGB was in possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination.” For good measure, the Soviets claimed no connection with Oswald, who they considered a “neurotic maniac who was disloyal to his own country and everything else.”
2) But—Oswald was overheard speaking to a KGB official just two months before the assassination
On September 28, 1963, the CIA intercepted a call Oswald made to the Russian embassy in Mexico City. On the call, he can be heard speaking in “broken Russian” to Consul Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikova, an “identified KGB officer,” according to the document.
3) An alleged Cuban intelligence officer knew Oswald, and praised his shooting abilities
The transcript of a 1967 cablegram recounted how a man named Angel Ronaldo Luis Salazar was interrogated at the Cuban embassy in Mexico City the year before by Ramiro Jesus Abreu Quintana, “an identified Cuban intelligence officer,” about Kennedy’s assassination. During the interrogation, Salazar claimed he remarked that Oswald must have been a good shot. According to him, Abreu replied “Oh, he was quite good….I knew him.”
A handout image of a FBI report about Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City released by the National Archives as part of nearly 3,000 previously sealed or redacted documents related to the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.
4) Someone phoned in a death threat on Oswald to the FBI the day before he was murdered
In a document dated November 24, 1963, J. Edgar Hoover weighed in impassively on Jack Ruby’s fatal shooting of Oswald that day, stating: “There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead.” Hoover also recounted a call received by the FBI’s Dallas office from a man saying he was part of a committee formed to kill Oswald. According to Hoover, the FBI urged the Dallas police to protect JFK’s assassin, but Ruby was nonetheless able to fire the fatal shots.
5) The U.S. government debated hiring gangsters to kill Fidel Castro, or paying Cuban assassins to do so
At least two of the documents outline some of the Kennedy administration’s policy and actions toward Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. According to a 1975 document simply titled “CASTRO,” the CIA was involved in assassination plots against Castro as early as late 1959 and early 1960, even during preparations for the Bay of Pigs. In 1962, a proposal was put forward called “Operation Bounty,” which would create “a system of financial rewards…for killing or delivering alive known Communists.” As part of the operation, leaflets were to be distributed via air to Cuba, including one announcing “a .02¢ reward for the delivery of Castro.” The low amount was restricted to Castro himself, and was reportedly meant to “denigrate” the Cuban leader.
Another potential plan, according to another 1975 report, involved getting poison botulism pills to “organized crime figures,” who would then pass them to their Cuban contacts in the hopes of reaching someone close to Castro. The same document also includes an FBI memo stating that Robert Kennedy told the agency that the CIA had hired an intermediary to approach Mafia boss Sam Giancana offering to pay him to hire someone to kill Castro.
6) A mysterious man known as “El Mexicano” (believed to be a Cuban rebel army captain) may have accompanied Oswald in Mexico City
A CIA document containing handwritten notes indicated Oswald may have been accompanied in Mexico by a man dubbed “El Mexicano,” who is believed to have been a Cuban rebel army captain who later defected to the United States. Identified by another source as Francisco Rodriguez Tamayo, he was said in another newly released document to be the head of an anti-Castro training camp in Louisiana.
A handout image of a Central Intelligence Agency Mexico City station report about Lee Harvey Oswald released by the National Archives in October, 2017 as part of nearly 3,000 previously sealed or redacted documents related to the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. Some documents were withheld at the last minute and some reports indicate that several hundred documents in the release were expected to cover the investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico City shortly before the assassination.
7) LBJ used to go around saying JFK’s murder was payback for the U.S. killing of a Vietnamese president
In an April 1975 deposition at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Richard Helms (director of CIA under both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon) testified that Johnson claimed JFK was killed in retribution for the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, who was killed as part of a U.S.-backed coup earlier in 1963. “He certainly used to say that in the early days of his Presidency,” Helms testified, “and where he got that idea I don’t know.”
8) The FBI warned Robert Kennedy about a book detailing his affair with Marilyn Monroe
In July 1964, the FBI warned then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy, JFK’s younger brother, about a soon-to-be-published book that included juicy details about Kennedy’s intimate relationship with Marilyn Monroe. The book’s author, Robert A. Capell, claimed that when Monroe threatened to expose the relationship, Kennedy may have had something to do with her death. “It should be noted,” the document states, “that the allegation concerning the Attorney General and Miss Monroe has been circulated in the past and has been branded as utterly false.”
9) Someone tipped off a London reporter about “big news” in the United States 25 minutes before Kennedy was shot
In a memo dated November 26, 1963, FBI Deputy Director James Angleton recorded that British Security Service (MI5) had reported a call made to the Cambridge News on the evening of November 22. The caller told the paper’s senior reporter to “call the American Embassy in London for some big news,” before hanging up. By MI5’s calculations, Kennedy was shot in Dallas 25 minutes after the call came in.
10) A week or so before the assassination, a man in a New Orleans bar bet $100 that President Kennedy would be dead within three weeks
In the days after Kennedy was shot, the Secret Service recorded notes from an interview with a man named Robert Rawls, who was at the time a patient at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. According to what Rawls told an officer of the Naval Intelligence Unit, he’d been in a bar in New Orleans, Louisiana 10 days to two weeks earlier, when he overheard a man try to bet $100 on Kennedy’s imminent demise. Rawls, who admitted being half in the bag himself, didn’t catch the man’s name, and didn’t even remember the name of the bar. At the time, he thought the bet was “drunk talk,” and laughed it off.
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An Ex-CIA Officer Weighs in on the JFK Files
Former CIA officer and author Robert Baer, who led the investigation in History’s “JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald” program, believes the biggest revelation to come out of the newest file release is that the White House and intelligence agencies are continuing to conceal all that was known about Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination, and how much information was withheld from the official investigation into the events of November 22, 1963.
“They’ve had 25 years to redact and protect sources and methods,” Baer says. “What they’re covering up…is the actual cover-up on Oswald, and there was one. I have seen no evidence that there’s any sort of government conspiracy, but the cover-up—withholding from the Warren Commission, destroying documentation—it’s just there. It’s undisputed.”
Baer hasn’t had a chance to review all the newly released documents, but he believes many of the most important documents, and eyewitnesses, related to Oswald’s plot to kill Kennedy will never be made public. These include information about Oswald’s known connections with Cuban exiles in Dallas, who
may have known of his assassination plans and sent word back to Havana, as well as interviews with a key eyewitness at the Cuban consulate, where Oswald reportedly bragged openly about his plans to kill the U.S. president.
If the full trove of government records related to JFK’s assassination were ever to be made public, Baer has an idea of what they would show. “I think what happened, without seeing all the documents, is that the assassination could have been stopped,” Baer says. “The Secret Service should have been informed,
Oswald should have been confronted before Kennedy’s visit…It could have been stopped.” He believes “once the government understood this [was preventable], they closed down the investigation.”
“It’s not what the conspiracy theorists think—the guy with the black umbrella, the shooter on the grassy knoll,” Baer says. “The crime is the cover-up.”
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