Newly released secret records are full of intriguing details surrounding the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. In a tweet on Friday, the president said the JFK files were being "carefully released." According to a source, "officials at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union believed there was some well-organized conspiracy on the part of the 'ultraright' in the United States to effect a 'coup.'" The Soviets feared the killing would be used as a pretext to "stop negotiations with the Soviet Union, attack Cuba, and thereafter spread the war." The Soviets also insisted that they had "no connection whatsoever" with Oswald, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 but returned to the United States in 1962.

Source: The Nation Bangkok October 27, 2017 22:07 UTC