The National Archives of the United States published thousands of pages with declassified records about the murder of John F. Kennedy. The first lots have revealed espionage practices of the Central American Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Mexico during the 1960s.
The measure responds to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, who announced the dissemination of around 80,000 unpublished documents related to the magnicide. These records are part of a collection of six million pages that, for the most part, are available for public consultation for eight years, according to the agency in charge of its shelter.
The documents in the case had to be completely declassified in 2017, but, during their first mandate, Trump chose to maintain a part as confidential information for national security reasons. After assuming the presidency for the second time, the president instructed the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to locate more documents about Kennedy’s murder for publication.
Last month, the FBI reported that it had identified more than 2,400 additional files, which would be transferred to the national archives. On Tuesday afternoon, the agency published a first lot with 32,000 pages containing 1,123 records. Hours later, it disclosed another 31,400 pages with 1,059 additional sheets.
Historians and experts emphasize that much of the recently revealed documents were already known, although they now include previously censored information. The new declassified versions expose details about the spy operations of the CIA in different countries in the mid -twentieth century, including Mexico, information that the agency tried to keep a secret for years.
Espionage in Mexico prior to Kennedy’s murder
The murder of John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963, is officially attributed to Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot at the president from a window of a book warehouse when the then president and his wife circulated in the Plaza Dealey, in Dallas, Texas. The former Navy was killed two days later by Jack Ruby, owner of a nightclub.
The Lyndon B. Johnson government, successor of Kennedy, established the Warren commission to investigate the case. The entity concluded that Oswald acted alone and that there was no evidence of a conspiracy to kill the president. Despite this, various theories have questioned these conclusions. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., current Secretary of Health of the United States and JFK’s nephew, He has suggested that the CIA was involved in the assassination.
The freshly declassified documents offer a detailed vision of the covert operations of the CIA before the murder and generate doubts about the possible knowledge of the agency regarding the Oswald activities prior to the crime.
According to ABC NewsThe archives reveal that the CIA intervened telephone lines in Mexico City to monitor the communications of the Soviet and Cuban embassies in the middle of the cold war. These operations were in charge of Winston M. Scott, then head of the Intelligence Agency Station in Mexico City.
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