WASHINGTON—Cuban and Russian spies, false leads, strippers, bizarre Central Intelligence Agency murder plots and a furious Federal Bureau of Investigation director. Newly released secret records are full of intriguing details surrounding the assassination of American president John F. Kennedy. But Kennedy scholars say the thousands of documents do not appear to contain any bombshell revelations about the November 22, 1963 murder that shocked the world. In a tweet on Friday, the president said the JFK files were being “carefully released.”“In the end there will be great transparency,” he said. While many theories over the years are linked to Oswald’s ties to Cuban or Soviet operatives, an FBI memo in 1963 indicated Kennedy’s death was source of deep mourning in the Soviet Union.

Source: The Standard October 28, 2017 12:45 UTC