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  • Oswald in the Archives: What They Knew, What They Altered

    Oswald in the Archives: What They Knew, What They Altered

    The 2025 JFK files expose how the CIA selectively edited Oswald’s dossier-before and after the assassination.

    🚪 The Man in the File

    Oswald’s 201 File-his official CIA dossier-should have been a chronological record of concern. Instead, the 2025 release reveals a frankensteined narrative: selectively redacted, backdated, and misrouted records that left gaping holes in the timeline.

    The files weren’t just passive records.
    They were tools of narrative control-and someone was holding the pen.

    📁 A File with a Life of Its Own

    The documents show that:

    • Oswald’s 201 file was created in December 1960, after his return from the USSR-but deliberately omitted early KGB interactions
    • Key updates from 1962 and early 1963 were stamped but never routed to analysts
    • One internal memo (March 1963) was flagged for “removal from primary circulation”

    That memo included a warning:

    “Subject maintains active contact with Cuban-affiliated groups. Recommend elevated monitoring.”

    It never reached field offices.

    🕵️‍♂️ After the Assassination: Retroactive Editing

    In the days following JFK’s death, the 2025 files show an unusual pattern:

    • Older Oswald-related files were re-reviewed by Angleton’s CI/SIG unit
    • Several documents received new classification stamps and handling restrictions
    • In one case, a file was backdated to appear as if it had been routed and reviewed-when internal logs show it was not

    A 1964 note from a CIA legal liaison reveals:

    “Necessary to preserve institutional integrity and distance from operational confusion. File restructuring authorized under CI/OPS discretionary order.”

    Translation: clean it up.

    🔥 The Deleted Documents

    Multiple internal cables reference “redundant” or “non-essential” Oswald records being destroyed or marked for “deep storage.” These include:

    • Field cables from Mexico City
    • Psychological assessment drafts
    • Tape logs from embassy surveillance

    One 1965 message from Records Control:

    “Reevaluation complete. Recommend destruction of Q74-Delta annex. Material adds no actionable value to current record.”

    That annex reportedly contained Oswald’s full correspondence with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

    🔚 The File That Wasn’t

    What the 2025 JFK files make clear is that we’ve never seen the full Oswald file-not even close.

    What we have seen is a version of the man that suited the official story.

    They didn’t need to invent a patsy.

    They just needed to edit him into one.

  • Oswald and the KGB: What the Soviets Really Thought After JFK Was Killed

    Oswald and the KGB: What the Soviets Really Thought After JFK Was Killed

    A Soviet Panic in Real Time

    After President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963, one of the first global reactions didn’t come from the White House, the CIA, or the FBI-it came from the KGB.

    What the newly declassified JFK files from 2025 reveal is stunning:

    The Soviet Union didn’t believe Oswald acted alone.

    In fact, they didn’t even believe he acted on his own at all.

    According to fresh intelligence cables and internal memos, the KGB was immediately suspicious-not just of Oswald, but of a possible U.S.-backed conspiracy designed to trigger war.

    🕵️‍♂️ The Revelation: The USSR Thought It Was a Coup

    Among the most striking documents in the 2025 release is a CIA analysis of KGB chatter and internal Soviet assessments from the days following November 22, 1963.

    Key details include:

    • Soviet officials feared Kennedy’s assassination was an inside job.
    • They considered Oswald’s defection and return “highly suspicious” and believed he might have been manipulated by U.S. intelligence.
    • The USSR went into emergency lockdown mode, fearing the assassination was a pretext for nuclear war.

    One source quoted in the CIA cable said the Soviets considered Oswald “too unstable” to be trusted with such an operation-unless he was being controlled.

    🧠 The Soviet Profile of Oswald

    The KGB’s records (as interpreted by CIA analysts) paint a sharp psychological portrait:

    • They believed Oswald was mentally unbalanced but also too immature and disorganized to act alone in such a high-level operation.
    • They didn’t buy the “lone wolf” theory pushed by the Warren Commission.
    • Soviet analysts openly questioned why Oswald was allowed to return to the U.S. so easily after defecting to the USSR-a red flag even to them.

    “He was either part of a larger plot,” one Soviet officer allegedly said, “or he was being used by someone who was.”

    📉 A Plot to Blame Russia?

    One of the USSR’s biggest fears was that the assassination would be blamed on them-especially given Oswald’s background. He had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, married a Russian woman, and lived there for years before returning to the U.S.

    When JFK was shot, the Soviets feared the worst:

    Would the U.S. claim this was a Soviet plot? Would that justify war?

    As a result, Soviet intelligence officials scrambled to distance themselves from Oswald. They even monitored Marina Oswald (Lee’s wife) long after she left the USSR, concerned that she too might unknowingly be part of an American operation.

    🧩 Why This Matters Today

    This new information adds an unexpected twist to the JFK narrative. Not only were American agencies opaque and evasive, but our Cold War rivals were just as confused-and terrified.

    If the Soviet Union believed the U.S. intelligence community might have orchestrated a false flag assassination of their own president, that suggests:

    • The lone gunman theory wasn’t widely accepted-even by America’s enemies.
    • Oswald’s ties to Russia weren’t just a Cold War curiosity-they were a potential tripwire for nuclear war.
    • The global fallout from JFK’s murder was almost far more catastrophic than we ever realized.

    🔚 The Assassin Who Terrified the Kremlin

    The 2025 declassified files don’t just tell us what U.S. agencies knew about Lee Harvey Oswald. They tell us what the rest of the world feared-and how close we might have come to a conflict far beyond Dealey Plaza.

    Oswald wasn’t just a man with a rifle in a window.
    To the Soviets, he was a possible pawn in a game they didn’t understand-and couldn’t afford to lose.