The US government has released thousands of FBI and CIA documents relating to the assassination of President Kennedy. While they show the extent of the investigation, they also show astonishing CIA omissions
The U.S. National Archives has released nearly 1,500 documents related to the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, the Associated Press reported.
The papers include telegrams and CIA notes discussing Oswald’s earlier but never fully explained visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico.
The documents include telegrams and CIA notes discussing Oswald’s earlier but never fully explained visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico, as well as discussions in the days after the assassination of Cuba’s potential involvement in Kennedy’s assassination.
There is no immediate indication that they contain new revelations that could radically change public understanding of the events surrounding the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald.
However, the latest tranche of documents has been eagerly awaited by historians and others who, decades after Kennedy’s assassination, remain skeptical that in the midst of the Cold War, a mentally ill young man with a rifle ordered through the mail, a former marine commando who lived in the Soviet Union and killed in November 1963 by Jack Ruby, could not have acted alone. Some believed it had been used by the USSR, political opponents of the US president or by Cuba.
The documents include telegrams and CIA notes discussing Oswald’s earlier but never fully explained visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico, as well as discussions in the days after the assassination of Cuba’s potential involvement in Kennedy’s assassination.
With murky figures like John McCone, then director of the CIA, who knowingly withheld information from commission investigators. It appears that he did not mention contacts between the Agency and Oswald until 1963. His mail was monitored as early as 1962, after his attempt to acquire Soviet citizenship.
The fog remains thick
Meanwhile, Biden has nominated Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the assassinated president, as US ambassador to Australia, the White House said in a statement.
She is the last surviving child of President John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963. At the time of Barack Obama, she was ambassador to Japan. Her nomination was announced nearly a year after the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency, at a time when Republican senators are delaying the process of approving key diplomatic posts. Her nomination for the new post must be approved by the Senate.
In Canberra, it will be tasked with strengthening the common front between the United States and Australia amid tensions with China in the Indo-Pacific region.
