The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has released the first batch of previously classified documents related to the assassination of the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy. This was reported by Reuters.
According to the publication, an initial analysis of the documents did not reveal any deviations from the official version of the assassination and does not contain evidence supporting the popular conspiracy theory about the CIA’s involvement. This theory was previously supported by the slain president’s nephew, former U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but the agency describes these allegations as unfounded.
The released materials describe the investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald’s stay in the Soviet Union and his movements in the months leading up to Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963. According to one of the documents, the U.S. Embassy in Australia received a phone call from a Polish driver who worked at the Soviet Embassy. He claimed that “the Soviet government financed the assassination,” allegedly offering a reward of $100,000 for the killing.
The documents also shed light on the atmosphere of fear that dominated U.S.-Soviet relations after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Additionally, one of the declassified documents reveals details of a secret CIA project known as “Operation Mongoose” or the “Cuban Project.” This was a series of covert operations and sabotage efforts against Cuba, authorized by John F. Kennedy in 1961. However, as the documents indicate, Cuban leader Fidel Castro did not intend to escalate the conflict into open war with the U.S. or pose a threat to his regime.
In January of this year, Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying documents not only related to John F. Kennedy’s assassination but also those concerning his brother, Robert Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
