35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy
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59 years after the death of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, the National Archives of the United States will present even more materials related to the events of November 22, 1963. Eight thousand documents will be exhibited publicly, among them, the most anticipated materials, a multi-volume CIA dossier on Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
The current release of archival documents should be one of the largest since 2017, Politico writes.
The decision to remove the classification was due to the increasing number of rumors of a conspiracy. And how not to believe in him, if the materials of the Kennedy assassination case remain classified, and the agents of the CIA, FBI and other agencies remain silent. He fueled interest in conspiracy theory, including Oliver Stone’s “JFK” documentary, which was littered with various versions.
Lee Harvey Oswald
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However, the published information is likely to disappoint conspiracy theorists: there will be no sensationalism in the materials, and, first of all, data indicating that Oswald was not a shooter or that the assassination of Kennedy was preceded by a conspiracy.
Nonetheless, the new information will be of interest to historians and researchers into the life and death of John F. Kennedy. For example, documents related to Oswald’s mysterious trip to Mexico City in September 1963 will be presented. Being a Marxist, the future assassin of Kennedy wanted to flee to Cuba and in Mexico he communicated with Cuban and Soviet intelligence officers. However, the CIA station in Mexico City transmitted the information about Oswald’s trip to Washington too late, so the agents could not prevent the death of the US president.
A large volume of documents from case 201 will be accessed: the Lee Harvey Oswald dossier. The 50,000-page dossier contains virtually everything the CIA learned about Oswald before and after the Kennedy assassination. According to the documentation, the agents took the American in pencil in December 1960 after his failed attempt to move to the Soviet Union in 1959. The materials once again confirm that Oswald arranged and committed the murder alone.
He also found the answer to why the CIA and FBI are so reluctant to declassify material about John F. Kennedy. The fact is that in many cases the representatives of the special services insisted on secrecy because these materials contain the names and personal data of still living informants who were active in the 1960s and 1970s. If they are identified, they can be attacked and abused. .