CIA and FBI Release New JFK Assassination Documents

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CIA and FBI Release New JFK Assassination Documents
National Archives unveils 441 never-before-seen records.
History Diana Crandall for RealClearLife   

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Nearly 4,000 records associated with investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released by the National Archives, ABC News reports. Although most of the material had previously been released with parts redacted, there are 441 that have never before been made public.

In the materials, there are reportedly 17 recordings of interviews with former KGB agent Yuri Nosenko, who defected in 1964 and told authorities he was in charge of Lee Harvey Oswald’s KGB file while Oswald was in the Soviet Union.

There are also details relating to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in 1968, five years after President Kennedy was killed.

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I was wondering whether any major revelations had been unearthed. This is interesting:

... The Archives also released 17 audio files of interviews with Yuri Nosenko, a KGB officer who defected to the United States in January 1964. Nosenko claimed to have been the officer in charge of the KGB file on the man who would later assassinate Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, when Oswald went to the Soviet Union in September 1959.

The interviews, translated from Russian and transcribed into hundreds of pages of text, reveal an agency deeply skeptical of Nosenko.

“Nosenko came forward to essentially clear the Soviet Union of any involvement in the assassination,” said Philip Shenon, a historian and author of “A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination.”

“A lot of people at the time thought he might not be telling the truth,” Shenon said.

Questions of Nosenko’s credibility were settled long ago when the FBI exonerated the former KGB agent, Shenon said. The bigger mystery still surrounding the Kennedy assassination — and potentially solved by the release of these documents, he said — concerns a trip to Mexico City that Oswald took just before the assassination.

“Nobody has really ever gotten to the bottom of what went on there,” Shenon said. ...

More at Boston Globe.

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Trump Holds Key To Secret JFK Assassination Files
LARRY J. SABATO, PHILIP SHENON

Later this year — unless President Donald Trump intervenes — the American people will get access to the last of thousands of secret government files about a turning point in the nation's history: the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The National Archives this week released several hundred of the documents, which come from CIA and FBI files, and of course, JFK researchers are scrambling to see whether they contain any new clues about the president's murder. But many more documents remain under seal, awaiting release by October, the 25-year deadline set by the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act.

The law gives only one person — the president — the ability to stop the release from happening. He can act only if he certifies in writing that the documents would somehow endanger national security.  ...

More from Larry Sabato, published in Hartford Courant.