November 8, 1963: CIA Receives FBI Report on Lee Harvey Oswald

The pre-assassination surveillance of the so-called 'lone gunman'

As we near the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, JFK Facts is looking back at key moments in the lead-up to JFK’s killing.

Lee Harvey Oswald’s pro-Castro activities in New Orleans were reported to the CIA in November 1963.

Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy was well-known to the leaders of the CIA and FBI shortly before JFK was gunned down in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.