Russians hand over KGB 'secret report' on Kennedy assassination to US

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The assassination of John F. Kennedy

Experts doubt that the KGB report will bring any new truth and think that this move could be a political maneuver by Russia to distract international attention from the war in Ukraine.

By Rosalba Castelletti - La Repubblica

More than 60 years after the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, many questions still remain about what really happened that day and who was responsible.

The sole official perpetrator of the assassination remains Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine who later became a Soviet citizen. He was killed two days after the assassination, before being transferred to prison.

For years, conspiracy theories have been raised that Oswald acted on behalf of Fidel Castro or Nikita Khrushchev, in retaliation for the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Now, a 365-page long report compiled by the KGB has been handed over by the Russian embassy in Washington to Republican US Representative Anna Paulina Luna, who is investigating the events of those dark days in November 1963.

This report contains old Soviet documents, once offered on the 'black market' during the Cold War, and may now shed light on Oswald's activities in the Soviet Union and Cuba, including his stay in Minsk, visa applications at the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico, and Russian intelligence assessments of his mental state.

MP Luna stated that the documents have "extraordinary historical importance" and that a group of experts has already begun their translation and analysis, with the aim of publishing them soon.

However, some experts are warning of caution. They doubt that the KGB report will yield any new truth and think that this move could be a political maneuver by Russia to distract international attention from the war in Ukraine, especially since it came on the eve of a meeting between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky.

Some commentators also believe that the act of handing over the documents is propaganda, while others hope to reveal more details about Oswald's mental state and the observations made of him by the KGB during his stay in the Soviet Union.

In the 1990s, some of these documents were on sale in Minsk, but at the time, authors like Gerald Posner were unable to purchase them.

Writer Norman Mailer, who published a book about Oswald, was among the few who provided some of them, but it is not clear whether these are the same materials that have now been handed over to Luna.

In the end, it remains to be seen whether the new documents will reveal any new truth about one of the most famous and controversial murders of the last century or whether it is just another murky and politically manipulated chapter.


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