Even so, the thousands of pages that were published online by the National Archives Thursday evening describe decades of spies and surveillance, informants and assassination plots. A file, dated April 5, 1964, details efforts to trace Lee Harvey Oswald's travel from Mexico City back to the United States. Hollywood blacklist Many of the files reveal the FBI’s often extraordinary efforts to identify suspected communists in the United States. Some of the files predate the Kennedy assassination by nearly two decades. Beef between the FBI and CIA One memo described tensions between CIA and FBI officials that still exist today.

Source: thestar October 27, 2017 17:03 UTC