“He Was Neurotic… Undesirable”: The KGB’s Unsolicited Denial

In the weeks following JFK’s assassination, Soviet officials scrambled to shape the narrative. Document 180-10144-10133, newly released in the 2025 JFK files, captures an urgent and defensive communication: the KGB emphatically insisted that Lee Harvey Oswald was not trusted, welcomed, or encouraged during his time in the USSR. To American ears, the denial sounded rehearsed.…