Tag: Declassified Documents

  • The Oswald Passport Application That Was Never Logged

    The Oswald Passport Application That Was Never Logged

    One of the most overlooked documents in the 2025 files is a blank passport application found in Oswald’s New Orleans file - stamped approved with no signature and no travel record. The destination was redacted. The date was October 1963.


    🧾 A Passport With No Owner

    The newly declassified FBI file titled “LHO–NO–TRVL” includes a photocopy of an unsigned passport application with an approval stamp dated October 3, 1963 - the same week Oswald was allegedly preparing his trip to Mexico.

    The problem? His official passport had already been issued two years earlier.

    This one had a different ID number.

    No photo attached.

    And no record of cancellation.


    📍 The Redacted Destination

    The most heavily blacked-out portion of the document is the destination box. But a routing slip attached to the file lists one legible keyword: “Caracas.”

    Why would Oswald - or someone using his identity - have a travel document approved to Venezuela just weeks before the assassination?

    And why wasn’t it logged by State?


    🗃️ Internal Alarm That Went Nowhere

    A 1964 interoffice CIA memo now made public refers to the passport as “unauthorized parallel documentation.”

    Another line states:

    “Appears to have been issued through private contact within Agency field team.”

    The note ends with:

    “Item not helpful to Commission proceedings. File separate.”

    Translation: it was real, it was flagged, and it was suppressed.


    🕴️ False Identity Or Quiet Extraction?

    The CIA memo raises one final, chilling theory - handwritten in the margins:

    “Check MEX-CUB asset crossover. Possible double op.”

    It’s the only surviving note linking the rogue passport to the possibility of a second Oswald - or a planned exit route that never came.


    📦 The Paper Trail Led Out Of Dallas

    The official record shows Oswald never left the country after Mexico City.

    This document suggests someone planned for him to.

    Or for someone else using his name.

    And in 1963, that was enough to get a passport.

  • Unveiling the Surveillance of Oswald in Mexico City

    Unveiling the Surveillance of Oswald in Mexico City

    “The CIA was monitoring Oswald’s activities closely during his time in Mexico City.”
    - Declassified CIA memorandum, 1963


    📍 Oswald’s Mysterious Trip to Mexico City

    In late September 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald traveled to Mexico City, a trip that has long intrigued historians and investigators.

    The 2025 declassified documents shed new light on this journey, revealing that the CIA had been closely monitoring Oswald’s movements during his stay.​

    According to a declassified CIA memorandum dated October 1963, Oswald visited both the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City.

    The agency had surveillance operations in place, including photographic and audio monitoring, which captured Oswald’s interactions at these diplomatic missions.​


    🧩 Intercepted Communications and Surveillance

    The newly released files include transcripts of intercepted communications from the embassies, providing insights into Oswald’s discussions with consular officials.

    One transcript details Oswald’s request for a transit visa to travel through Cuba to the Soviet Union, highlighting his persistent efforts to secure passage.​

    Photographic surveillance also played a role in tracking Oswald’s activities. Images captured during his visits to the embassies were analyzed by CIA operatives, although some discrepancies in identification have been noted in the records.​


    🧠 Implications and Questions Raised

    The extent of the CIA’s surveillance raises questions about the agency’s knowledge of Oswald’s intentions and whether any information was shared with other government entities.

    The declassified documents do not indicate that the CIA took action based on the intelligence gathered during Oswald’s Mexico City trip.​

    These revelations contribute to the ongoing debate about the thoroughness of intelligence sharing among U.S. agencies prior to President Kennedy’s assassination.​


    “The surveillance of Oswald in Mexico City adds a new dimension to our understanding of the events leading up to November 22, 1963.”
    - Historian’s analysis, 2025