KGB files on JFK assassination to be released in months: Luna
Covert files gathered by the Soviet-era KGB regarding President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 are on track to be revealed to the American public for the first time this fall, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said this week.
“It’s information the Russian government was in charge of releasing and I’m sure that you’ll see that information coming out here pretty soon,” Luna, who chairs the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday. “There is some level of open communication, and so as a result of that, that information will now be available in the coming months to the American people and also to JFK researchers.”
During her appearance on “Cuomo,” she did not provide additional details about the anticipated contents or the channels that are being used to facilitate their release.
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn’t immediately respond to The Hill’s request for additional information and comment.
Luna indicated that new information the Task Force has obtained and observed supports long-standing conspiracy theories that Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, didn’t act alone and the CIA helped cover up details about the killing.
“I’ve been told that the KGB had actually observed Oswald in Russia when he was there as a citizen, and he was actually not a good shot,” Luna told Cuomo. “This is not also the only piece of information that we have.”
“The whole story that was the official narrative has been going to pieces within the last week,” she added.
Conspiracies have persisted about CIA involvement or the existence of another assassin for decades.
The National Archives in March released more than 2,000 files connected to Kennedy’s assassination, after President Trump in January signed an executive order directing the release of all documents related to the government’s investigation into the then-president’s death.
The Archives in 2022 released nearly 13,000 new files — the largest tranche disclosed on the case since 2018.
Luna said late Wednesday that federal investigators attempted to obtain the KGB files in the 1990s, amid renewed interest in the case.
“[They] actually reached out to the Russian government for those files, and unfortunately, they were not able to obtain them,” she said.
American filmmaker Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film “JFK” fueled renewed interest in a possible coverup of a second shooter and portrayed the assassination as a government conspiracy, took part in a hearing with the Luna-led task force earlier this year.
“I ask you, in good faith outside all political considerations, to reinvestigate the assassination of this President Kennedy from the scene of the crime to the courtroom,” he told the panel in April.