These are over 13 thousand documents related to the assassination of the 35th president of the USA in November 1963 – Will the negligence of government agencies be revealed?
The White House has ordered the release of thousands of documents on the assassination of the US president John Kennedy in November 1963 which “gave birth” to a multitude of conspiracy theories.
By releasing some 13,173 files online, the White House announced that more than 97% of the files related to the assassination of the 35th US president are now available to the public. No shocking revelations expected, but historians hope to learn more about the alleged killer Lee Harvey Oswald.
Kennedy was shot during a visit to Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963. A 1992 law required the government to release all documents related to the assassination by October 2017. On Thursday, President Joe Biden issued an executive decree authorizing the release of the latest batch of documents. However, Biden specified that some files will remain hidden until June 2023. The US National Archives specified that 515 documents will remain unavailable and another 2,545 documents will be partially released.
A 1964 US investigation, the Warren Commission, found that Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, an American citizen formerly living in the Soviet Union, and that he acted alone. Oswald was murdered in the basement of Dallas police headquarters two days after his arrest. The death of JFK has given rise to conspiracy theories, but on Thursday the CIA denied that it knew about the killer, and that it withheld information about him from US investigators.
The “enigma” of Mexico
Historians and JFK assassination researchers had hoped that the latest batch of documents would reveal more information about Oswald’s activities in Mexico City, where he met a Soviet KGB official in October 1963. In its latest statement, the CIA clarified that all the information it had about the assassin’s trip to Mexico City had been made public in previous batches of documents, adding: “There is no new information on this topic in the 2022 edition.” But researchers at the Mary Ferrell Foundation, an NGO that sued the government to release the records, argued that the CIA withheld information about Oswald’s time in Mexico. The foundation insists that some CIA documents were never submitted to the archives, and therefore are not part of the newly released batch.
A newly revealed document shows that the then president of Mexico helped the US intercept conversations in the Soviet embassy in Mexico without the knowledge of other Mexican government officials.
Manslaughter by negligence?
Philip Shannon, a former New York Times reporter and author of a book on the Kennedy assassination, told the BBC the new files could shed light on whether the government knew Oswald’s intentions. “I suspect that there may be information in these documents that suggests that some people knew before the Kennedy assassination that this man, Lee Harvey Oswald, was dangerous, and that he may have been open about his intention to kill president”. “And the question has always been whether government agencies, the CIA and the FBI, they had some inkling that this man was a danger to President Kennedy, and if they had acted on that information they could have saved the president,” he added.
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