Dallas – Recently published documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s Murder in 1963 He gave curious readers more details on Wednesday about the operations of the United States.
Evaluations of the approximately 2,200 files Published by the National Files and Records Administration of the United States. Uu. On its website came with a great warning: nobody had enough time until Wednesday to review more than a small fraction of them. The vast majority of the more than 6 million pages of records, photographs, movies, sound recordings and artifacts related to murder have previously been released.
An initial review of Associated Press of more than 63,000 pages of records published this week shows that some were not directly related to the murder, but that they dealt with the undercover operations of the CIA, particularly in Cuba. And nothing in the first documents examined undermined the conclusion that Kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald’s murderer was the lonely gunman in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
“Nothing points to a second armed man,” said Philip Shenon, who wrote a 2013 book about the murder. “I have not seen any great box office success that rewrites the essential history of the murder, but it is very early.”
Kennedy was killed in a Visit to DallasWhen his caravan was finishing his parade route in the center and the shots sounded from the Texas School Book Deposit building. Police arrested 24 -year -old Oswald A former Marine who had been placed from the hanger of a sniper on the sixth floor. Two days later, Jack Ruby, owner of a nightclub, fatally shot Oswald during a live jail transfer on television.
A year after the murder, the Warren Commission, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate, concluded that Oswald acted alone and there was no evidence of a conspiracy. But the critics of the commission still turned a network of alternative theories.
Historians expect details by developing Oswald’s activities before the murder and what the CIA and the FBI knew of him in advance.
Shenon on Wednesday previously published documents on a trip that Oswald made to Mexico City at the end of September 1963. The records show that Oswald intended to contact the Embassy of the Soviet Union there after living as a deserter of the United States in the USSR from October 1959 to June 1962.
Shenon said the United States government may have maintained information about what it knew about Oswald before the murder secret to hide what it described as possible “incompetence and laziness” of the officials.
“The CIA had Oswald under quite aggressive surveillance while I was there and this was only several weeks before murder,” Shenon said. “There are reasons to believe that he talked openly about killing Kennedy in Mexico City and that people heard him say that.”
Speculation about such details about Kennedy’s murder has been intense throughout the decades, generating innumerable conspiracy theories about multiple shooters and participation by the Soviet Union, the Mafia and the CIA. The new version fed the rampant online speculation and sent people running to read the documents and share online what they could mean.
The latest version of documents continued An order from President Donald Trumpalthough most records were previously made public with writings. Before Tuesday, the researchers had estimated that 3,000 to 3,500 files were Still unpublishedeither totally or partially. Last month, The FBI said He had discovered about 2,400 new records related to murder.
Jefferson Morley, vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a deposit of archives related to the murder, said in a statement published on the social platform X that much of the “on rampant classification of trivial information has been eliminated” of the documents.
The last launch is also a blessing for the historians of the Cold War. Timothy Naphtali, an attached professor at Columbia University who is writing a book about the presidency of JFK, said academics now seem to have more details about the intelligence activities of the United States under Kennedy than under any other president.
For example, in October 1975, American senators were investigating what the CIA knew about Oswald, and an October 1975 memorandum said they considered that the agency “was not possible.”
A version of that memorandum released in 2023 wrote the name of the CIA security contact in Oswald in Mexico, as well as the identity of someone behind the “penetration of the Cuban embassy” there. The latest version shows that security contact was the president of Mexico in 1975, Luis Echeverria Álvarez, who died in 2022, and that Mexican government itself penetrated the Cuban embassy.
In addition, Naftali said, before the last launch, the government had made public copies of the “daily verification list” Johnson’s presidential intelligence highly sensitive in the days after Kennedy’s murder, but with much of the written material. Now, he said, people can read what Johnson Lee.
“It is quite notable to be able to walk through that secret world,” he said.
The documents show that in December 1963, the CIA director’s office was receiving messages and responding to the agents in Cuba that seek to undermine the government with Fidel Castro. One, on December 9, 1963, transmitted a message to the director of Cuba: “Today he received the Magnum guns but without bullets.”
“You are obtaining a vision of the US foreign policy. UU., And you also get a view of a snail of covert action, just on the ground,” said Naphthali.
In an April 1975 memorandum, the CIA minimized what he knew about Oswald’s visit to Mexico City before the murder. The memorandum said the CIA recorded three phone calls between Oswald and a guard of the Soviet Embassy, but only in the last Oswald was identified.
“Now we are discovering how much more the CIA and the FBI knew before the murder about Oswald,” Shenon said. “And the question is, why didn’t they act on the information in their own files?”
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This spelling of the attached professor of the University of Columbia has been corrected. He is Timothy Naftali.
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Hanna reported from Topeka, Kansas. Associated Press Larry Fenn journalists in New York, Kasturi Pananjady in Philadelphia, Aaron Kessler in Washington and Angeliki Kastanis in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
