![]() When it was revealed Oswald was the prime suspect, the response within the CIA was explosive. "At this writing (December 13, 1963) we do not know what action the FBI and other agencies have taken based on our report," the memo read. However, it did not appear the government took action on it, which agency officials noted in a report published nearly one month after Kennedy's death. One call Oswald made to the Soviet Embassy aroused suspicion when he asked if there was "anything new" with the individual on the other end of the line-information that was forwarded to officials in Washington, D.C. In a summary sheet following Kennedy's assassination in 1963, a CIA official describes weeks of phone calls they and the Mexican government-then a close ally of the Soviet Union-intercepted that Oswald made during his time in Mexico City to both the Cuban and Soviet embassies seeking visas in an apparent effort to leave the country. ![]() Kennedy at his desk in the White House, 1963 Getty In this combination image, Booking photo of American Marxist and former US Marine Lee Harvey Oswald (1939 - 1963) after he was arrested for assassinating President John F Kennedy in Dallas, 23rd November 1963 and President John F. Sometimes, just slightly less," Bradford said. "The amount of documents released may look impressive but, spot-checking again, and this is very preliminary, there's a lot of documents that are basically released with similar redactions to what they were before. "I think this is sort of half a loaf," Rex Bradford, president of the Mary Ferrell Association and a leading expert on the Kennedy assassination, told reporters several hours after the release. Newly released documents range from presidential communiques with foreign leaders to payroll information for Cuban revolutionaries backed by the CIA and correspondence ordering the payment of bribes.īut to researchers' disappointment, the documents reveal little more than was previously known about Oswald's time in Mexico City prior to the assassination, where he made contact with officials from the Cuban and Soviet embassies. In records released by the National Archives Thursday afternoon, the American public was able to see not only how the intelligence community tracked Oswald, but also how a country navigated the throes of the Cold War. Kennedy offers new insights into the extent of the CIA surveillance over his eventual assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the months leading up to his murder in Dallas. ![]() A trove of thousands of previously unreleased documents related to the assassination of President John F. ![]()
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