The US National Archives has released about 1,500 documents related to the government’s investigation into former President John F Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
President Joe Biden set a deadline in October. It is for the release of classified cables, internal memoranda, and other information pertaining to the assassination investigation.
The disclosures made on Wednesday are in accordance with a federal statute. It mandates the release of documents held by the government. According to the Associated Press, more documents will be available next year.
The documents include CIA cables and memos. They explore Lee Harvey Oswald’s unannounced visits to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City. Also the possibility of Cuban complicity in Kennedy’s assassination.
Following Kennedy’s killing, Mexican police apprehended a Mexican employee of the Cuban embassy. Oswald had talked to him, according to the cable.
Oswald “professed to be a communist and an admirer of Castro,” according to the employee’s testimony. The documents of Kennedy’s assassination quoted it in this way.
Another document inquires as to whether Oswald was influenced in any way by the publication in the local newspaper of an interview with Fidel Castro. In it, Castro warned of retaliation if the US targeted Cuban leaders.
Several FBI reports on the bureau’s efforts to investigate and monitor important mafia members like Santo Trafficante Jr and Sam Giancana, who are frequently a part of conspiracy theories regarding Kennedy’s killing, also have a role in the new files.
The Warren Commission determined that Oswald was the lone gunman in 1964. Also, a subsequent congressional investigation in 1979 found no evidence to support the theory that about the involvement of the CIA. Other interpretations, on the other hand, have endured.
