US releases trove of secret files on JFK assassination
- CIA and FBI documents show investigators spread their net wide and deep to find out if Lee Harvey Oswald worked with others in the murder that shocked the world
- Despite the official conclusion he was shot by Oswald, the death of US president John F. Kennedy continues to fuel conspiracy theories
US authorities released thousands of pages of secret documents Wednesday on president John F. Kennedy’s assassination, a case that still fuels conspiracy theories despite the official conclusion he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.
The CIA and FBI files show US investigators spread their net wide and deep to find out if Oswald conspired with others in the November 22, 1963 murder that shocked the world.
Documents show they chased down myriad leads, from Soviet intelligence to African communist groups and the Italian mafia.
The papers also show the extensive US efforts to spy on and influence the communist government of Fidel Castro in Cuba, where Oswald had contacts and which Kennedy had sought to overthrow.
The 1,491 files, many of them lengthy reports, were posted on the JFK Assassination Records page of the National Archives, which already has tens of thousands of listings related to Kennedy’s death and the investigation that followed.
