The U.S. government has now released more than 13,000 new files related to the assassination of late President John F. Kennedy (JFK).
These new files include versions of documents that were released with redacted words and some new files that do not offer significant insight into the historic assassination.
These files include a 23 page unredacted CIA report from Dec. 13, 1963 that reveal that the agency had assistance from Mexican authorities when they tapped a phone call from Lee Harvey Oswald that was placed in early 1963 from Mexico City to a Soviet Embassy in the city.
“This piece of information was produced from a telephone tap center which we operate jointly with the office of the President of Mexico,” the report reads. The text beyond “center” had been redacted.
The report further reveals that even Mexican security and law enforcement officials were not aware of the arrangement between the CIA and the Office of the Mexican President.
President JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963 and Oswald was famously arrested after the incident being accused of executing the assassination plot, but he denied the accusation and never admitted any involvement in the assassination.
While being held at a Dallas police station, Oswald was shot dead by local night club owner, Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963.
Another newly released CIA record states that the agency had “no indication” that Oswald and Ruby “ever knew each other, were associated, or might have been connected in any manner.” Like many people suggest.
Despite Oswald’s denial, the Warren Commission, that was created by JFK’s successor, President Lyndon B, Johnson concluded in its investigation that the shots that killed President Kennedy were fired by Oswald.
The JFK Assassination Records Collection Act was signed into law in 1992 and it mandated the release of all government documents relating to the JFK assassination by Oct. 26, 2017. The U.S. government however delayed publication of the records citing potential threats to national security.
President Joe Biden said in a press release on Thursday that unnamed agencies “have identified a limited number of records containing information for continued postponement of public disclosure.”
“I agree that continued postponement of public disclosure of such information is warranted to protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure,” the White House press release read.
The JFK Assassination Records Collection Act was signed into law in 1992 and it mandated the release of all government documents relating to the JFK assassination by Oct. 26, 2017. The U.S. government however delayed publication of the records citing potential threats to national security.
“President Biden believes all information related to President Kennedy’s assassination should be released to the greatest extent possible consistent with … national security,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in DC.
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