The alleged Soviet lead in the assassination of former US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963 is reiterated.
Joe Biden's administration has declassified some 1,500 pages of documents that historians hope will shed light on the murder.
According to media reports, in the papers released by the National Archives there are notes of CIA agents taken immediately after the November 22 shooting in Dallas. But interesting indications would also emerge on the alleged Soviet trail, starting from the news that killer Lee Harvey Oswald met consul Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov, a KGB agent, in Mexico City on 29 September 1963, two months before the assassination.
Also in the papers is a memo about anonymous phone calls made to the US embassy in Canberra, Australia, a year before the assassination. The person who made the calls allegedly claimed that the Soviet government was plotting to kill Kennedy. Another phone call was made on November 24, two days after the murder, claiming that Moscow was behind Jfk's death.
About 10 thousand pages that the Congress had asked to decree, 1,500 have been published. Biden's next deadline is December 15, 2022, when the remaining documents will be reviewed and declassified.
The only partial release of the papers will prolong the debate between the government and investigators dealing with the murder, who have always maintained that the CIA, FBI and national security agencies have hindered the search for the truth. On the other hand, the majority of Americans do not believe the official conclusions of the Warren Commission, according to which Oswald acted alone.
(Unioneonline / L)
