The highly anticipated release of tens of thousands of files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy desperately explored new clues to shocking crimes more than 60 years later.
A pack of previously classified pages for decades was made available by President Trump on the National Archives website on Tuesday.
However, some interesting snippets conclude with documents that shed light on the theory that focuses on the CIA's “little creeks” involved, as well as an obvious KGB investigation to find out whether Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is one of its agents.
a Date notes In June 1967, former US Army Intelligence agent Gary Underhill details how Kennedy escaped Washington, D.C. the day after he was shot. And six months before he was dead in his apartment, a “little faction within the CIA” spoke to a friend about the method behind the assassination.
“The day after the assassination, Gary Underhill hurried off Washington. Late in the evening he appeared at a friend's house in New Jersey.
“He was very excited. The little flashy within the CIA caused the assassination, and he confided, and he was afraid of his own life, so he probably had to leave the country,” reads the memo.
“With less than six months, it was discovered that Underhill had been shot dead in his Washington apartment. The coroner determined that he committed suicide.”
Underhill, a former US Army captain who worked as an intelligent officer during World War II, was said to be “the base of the first name with many of the pentagonal top brass” and “intimate words with many high-ranking CIA staff.”
“Friends who visited Underhill say he was calm but shaking badly. They attributed Kennedy's murder to CIA Creek, where he continued to have a racket that was beneficial for guns, drugs and other smuggling,” the passage reads.
CIA Creek is said to have killed Kennedy.
Underhill's suicide was raised questionable as he was found with a gunshot wound behind his left ear, but his writing partner Asher Bress, who found his body, said, “Unhill was right-handed.”
In another document released on Tuesday, TeleType US Intelligence Report Dated November 20th, 1991A KGB official named Nikonov said that Oswald had “explored whether he was a KGB agent.”
“Nikonov is currently convinced that Oswald is not an agent controlled by the KGB,” the document states.
Nikonov said, “I doubted that everyone could control Oswald, but KBG [sic] While he was in the Soviet Union, he looked at him carefully and constantly. ”
The file also said, “Oswald was a poor shot when he attempted a target fire in the Soviet Union.”
Nikonov also said that Oswald had “a stormy relationship with his Soviet wife, but he constantly rode him.”
Oswald, a Marine Corps veteran, fled to the Soviet Union four years before shooting Kennedy. Before the assassination, Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate in Mexico, where he made contact with the Soviet Embassy in pursuit of a travel visa.
Another one Files in a new batchIt was also labelled “secret” shows how the CIA followed Italian newspaper articles claiming to be behind the assassination of President 35.
Several documents also highlighted the plot of the intelligence news community in the 1960s, including details about secret CIA bases around the world.
One document We explained how the CIA is tracking a Cuban national named Amfuana-1. He was sent to Cuba in 1961 and founded a network of at least 20 people who helped prepare more than 50 reports.
Most of the documents released Tuesday appear to be related to the initial investigation into the 1964 Warren Commission's assassination.
The committee, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded that Oswald acted alone when the president's convoy shot Kennedy from the sixth floor of the book depository of a Texas school overlooking the Daly Plaza as he passed by him.
The official conclusion is the subject of controversy, with polls consistently showing the majority that Kennedy was murdered as a result of a conspiracy.
Under the Kennedy Assassination Record Collection Act of 1992, Congress set a 2017 deadline for releasing unpaid JFK files.
When the time came, Trump had released thousands of files in 2018, including 19,000.
However, amidst pressure from national security enthusiasts like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the JFK file was still wrapped up.
By the end of 2022, President Joe Biden had taken a similar approach, releasing over 13,000 files.
Prior to his release Tuesday, the National Archives and the Records Bureau estimated that around 98% of the files were public.
