Week in Review: From Russia With ???
Release of the Soviet-era file on Lee Harvey Oswald makes some waves
This week witnessed noteworthy international cooperation in obtaining documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), chair of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, released a 350-page dossier from the Russian government about JFK’s assassination.
On October 14, Rep. Luna posted to her X account that she had “received a hard copy of the report on JFK’s assassination from the Ambassador of Russia” and would “begin uploading as soon as we can.”
Because the National Archives was unable to facilitate disclosure due to the ongoing government shutdown, Rep. Luna’s office asked JFK Facts to make the document available to the public. In a spirit of public service, we did so.
The Russian government dossier is a loose-leaf binder of 350 pages, mostly dating from 1959 to 1964, coverin…
