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Dec 15, 2021 · Part of a file from the CIA, dated Feb. 3, 1968, titled “Mexico City Chronology” about Lee Harvey Oswald’s time in Mexico and contact with the embassy of the Soviet Union in Mexico City, that was released on Dec. 15, 2021, and that was part of the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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- National Security Reporter
Oct 27, 2017 · The release this week of thousands of previously classified U.S. documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has drawn renewed attention to his shooter's contacts with the KGB ...
Dec 15, 2022 · The National Archives released a new batch of files related to the late president's killing Thursday. ... Made in Mexico. One of the newly-released JFK assassination documents recounts how the CIA ...
Nov 15, 2022 · The documents show that, if the CIA station in Mexico had acted quickly on what it learned in September and October 1963, Kennedy might have survived his trip to Dallas on Nov. 22.
- An Unannounced Visitor
- A Stash at A Dacha
- The Contents
- The Fallout
The man who showed up in the UK Embassy was Vasiliy Mitrokhin, a retired KGB officer. Not only was he retired, but he also claimed to represent an organization that no longer existed, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had put an end to it. Nonetheless, the documents were of interest to foreign intelligence services, as they might have ...
It turned out, back in the USSR, Vasiliy Mitrokhin had unparalleled access to the KGB archives, due to his position in the organization. As the KGB leadership ordered to relocate the archives of KGB’s First Main Directorate from the organization’s headquarter at Lubyanka to the new KGB complex in Yasenevo District in the South-West of Moscow, Mitro...
Regardless of the motives, the revelations were made. In its totality, the Mitrokhin Archive trumped any other intelligence that has even been obtained throughout the lifespan of the USSR. In the words of the FBI, the files were “the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source”. “The Mitrokhin files range in time from the...
Just as Mitrokhin’s motives are a subject of debates, so are the relevance and validity of the disclosed information. Although the files undoubtedly offered a rich source of information for historians, their relevance for modern intelligence services is doubted, chiefly because of how outdated they are. The first book based on the Mitrokhin Archive...
- Nikolay Shevchenko
Sep 15, 2020 · Unveiled in 2019 to cheer up workers at the Chernobyl plant, the mural is meant to symbolize hope and renewal. So, too, was Kohut’s visit, in a way: before him, a stack of bright-yellow books, titled The KGB Chernobyl Dossier: From Construction to Accident were placed upon a folding table, and a small crowd of journalists gathered round.
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Dec 15, 2022 · The National Archives will release a trove of formerly classified information about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including a lengthy CIA profile of killer Lee Harvey Oswald.The ...
