The National Archives Administration has released a new set of documents investigating the assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK). It is clear that among the thousands of declassified documents of the CIA, FBI and State Department released to the public, there were again no sensations or new answers to the main question: who was behind the shooting of JFK in Dallas on November 22, 1963. But historians and researchers have come across curious material about the forms and methods of work of the US special services against the socialist countries in the midst of the Cold War, writes the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Among them are some of the telegrams and CIA reports published in the public domain, which saw the American Lee Harvey Oswald - the perpetrator of Kennedy's assassination - more than a month before the crime. Spy documents show that the CIA station in the Mexican capital recorded all Oswald's calls and visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in that country. This became possible because the diplomatic missions of the USSR and Cuba in Mexico City were "under surveillance" - eavesdropping devices were installed on telephone lines, hidden cameras were placed around the perimeter of embassies, and an American surveillance team was on duty nearby.
All intercepted messages were immediately deciphered and sent to Washington, and visitors to the socialist countries' diplomatic missions were closely monitored and tried to identify them. According to published CIA telegrams, Oswald, who entered Mexico by car in late September 1963, called the Soviet embassy in Mexico for several days and asked in "broken Russian" if he would be given entry. visa for the USSR again (as it is known, before that the American managed to emigrate to the Soviet Union, to live about two years in the Soviet reality and completely disappointed with it to return to the United States).
But in fact Oswald was simply sent away, told that the Soviet consulate in Washington was dealing with his documents and that he should consult there. Oswald has also started harassing the Cuban embassy in Mexico by asking for a Cuban transit visa. But the Cubans decided to make an inquiry first and found that this American would hardly ever be readmitted to the USSR. After being rejected by these diplomatic missions, the future Kennedy assassin returned to the United States in early October, where he fired deadly shots at JFK two months later.
After all, the documents published by the US National Archives do not contain any information expected by many conspiracy theorists about the Soviet Union's connection to this crime. On the contrary, a report suggests that the CIA considered the "weirdo" a man who called the US embassy in Australia and told about the conspiracy of the "Iron Curtain countries" to assassinate the US president. Others deal with routine requests for information on the whereabouts of Oswald's Russian wife and other trivial details.
Another thing is surprising: with all the huge technical capabilities of the CIA, which long before the tragic events in Dallas drew Oswald's attention, recorded all his contacts in Mexico and informed the FBI that the US special services did nothing to prevent the assassination of Kennedy. But why? This issue still remains a major mystery, which for some reason the US authorities fail to shed light on each time. Despite the fact that in 1992, Congress passed the Compendium of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Since then, more than 250,000 documents related to the investigation of the crime have been opened to the public, but about 10 percent of all materials remain classified as "top secret" to this day.
The secrecy of these documents was supposed to be lifted in 2017, but then-US President Donald Trump refused to do so for "national security reasons." His successor, Joe Biden, did the same in October 2021, again shifting the declassification schedule. "The delay is necessary to protect against damage to defense, intelligence operations or foreign policy relations that are so severe that overriding their immediate disclosure is in the public interest," Biden said. As National Public Radio (NPR) notes in this regard, "it is not clear what national security considerations or other reasons may persist for nearly six decades after Kennedy's assassination."
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