Among the CIA files released were detailed records, for example, of efforts to recruit Soviet diplomats serving in foreign missions, complete with transcripts of wiretaps. The National Archives said the other documents published online were from the Justice Department, the Defense Department and a House committee which conducted an inquiry into Kennedy's November 22, 1963 assassination in Dallas, Texas. Friday's document release by the National Archives is the third this year and in compliance with a 1992 act of Congress that mandated that all Kennedy documents be released within 25 years. The National Archives released 2,891 assassination documents on October 26 and 3,810 records on July 24. Oswald defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 but returned to the United States in 1962.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 03, 2017 22:07 UTC