Nearly sixty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, the American National Archives made public, this Thursday, more than 13,000 documents related to this event which caused the amazement of the whole world and countless speculations till today.
But the White House, citing national security concerns, blocked the publication of thousands more.
A batch of archives on this case had already been declassified in December 2021. According to the National Archives, 97% of the approximately five million pages of the file are now accessible to everyone.
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Democratic President Joe Biden said in a memo that a "limited" number of documents could not be made public, a "necessary" measure to "prevent damage to military defense, intelligence operations, order or foreign policy”.
Previous requests to maintain the confidentiality of certain documents had come from the main American intelligence agency, the CIA, and from the federal police, the FBI.
According to historians specializing in John F. Kennedy, it is unlikely that the archives kept secret contain explosive revelations or be able to extinguish conspiracy theories around this event which changed the face of the world.
The assassination of the very popular American president on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas has given rise to much speculation and speculation, fueled by hundreds of books and films such as Oliver Stone's "JFK" (1991) .
Conspiracy theories relating to the assassination of “JFK” reject the findings of the so-called “Warren Commission” which determined in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine who lived in the Soviet Union, acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy.
He had been killed two days later by a discotheque owner, Jack Ruby, when he was transferred from the municipal prison.
Some believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was used by Cuba or the USSR.
Others believe that the assassination was ordered by the Cuban anti-Castro opposition with the support of the American secret services and the FBI, or by opponents of JFK in the United States.
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A significant number of the documents released Thursday relate to Lee Harvey Oswald, including his travels abroad and the people he met in the weeks, months, and years before the assassination.
One of the documents recounts the interrogation of a former KGB (Soviet secret service) agent who claims that Lee Harvey Oswald had been recruited by the KGB during his stay in the Soviet Union, but that he was considered " a bit crazy and unpredictable”.
The agent asserts that the KGB was no longer in contact with Lee Harvey Oswald after his return to the United States, and that the KGB had "never instructed him to kill President Kennedy".
Another document from 1991 cites another source within the KGB as saying that Lee Harvey Oswald had "at no time been a KGB-controlled agent", although the Soviet secret service had "closely and constantly monitored him". during his stay in the USSR.
In 2017, Donald Trump made public certain documents related to the assassination of the 35th US president, in accordance with a 1992 law of Congress requiring that documents related to President Kennedy be released, in their entirety and without redaction, within 25 years.
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