Assassination of JFK: thousands of FBI and CIA documents declassified

The reports show that the investigators multiplied the tracks. According to the conclusion of the investigation, the US president was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.

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The US government made public, Wednesday, December 15, thousands of FBI and CIA documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. According to the official conclusion of the investigation, the President has been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Declassed reporters show that investigators have multiplied the tracks, Soviet intelligence services to communist groups in Africa to the Italian Mafia, to determine whether Oswald had benefited from complicities in this murder committed on November 22, 1963. Dallas, Texas, and who caused a shock all over the world.

According to the documents, the United States has intensified their espionage and influence on the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro, with whom Oswald had contacts and that the Kennedy government wanted to reverse. The 1,491 documents have been disseminated on the website of the National Archives, which already contains tens of thousands of files related to Kennedy’s death and the survey that followed.

The assassination gave rise to many compotential theories, fueled by hundreds of books and films like Oliver Stone JFK (1991). They refute the conclusions of the so-called “Warren commission” commission who had determined in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald, a former marine commando who lived in the Soviet Union, had acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy. Oswald was killed on November 24, 1963 by Jack Ruby.

Other records made public by December

Some think that CanWald was used by Cuba or the USSR. Others believe that the assassination has been sponsored by the Cuban opposition with the support of US secret services and the FBI, or by opponents of JFK in the United States.

In 2017, Donald Trump had made public records in this case, in accordance with a 1992 Congress law requiring that all documents related to President Kennedy be published within twenty-five years.

President Biden, who had promised to respect the law, however, had postponed one year in October the declassification of new documents. The White House is now under pressure to make the other documents public before December 15, 2022, unless it has reasons to keep them in secrecy.

Philip Shenon, Kennedy’s assassination specialist, said Wednesday in Politico magazine that some documents would never be published for security reasons, and that it would continue to feed the compotive theses. According to him, 15,000 documents remain incommantly, most of the CIA and FBI.

/Media reports.