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Donald Trump publishes JFK attack documents

US President Donald Trump published the material in connection with the murder of former President John F. Kennedy from 1963 to honor his election promise to offer more transparency about the shocking event in Texas.

An initial tranche of electronic copies of papers flooded on the National Archives website with a total of more than 80,000, which are expected after the Ministry of Justice has spent hours to search them.

The digital documents included Memos PDFs, including one with the transition “secret”, which was a typed report with handwritten notes of an interview by a researcher from Warren Commission from 1964, the Lee Wigren, a CIA employee, about inconsistencies in material that is available to the mandate of the foreign ministry and the CIA about marriages and American men were asked.

The documents also contained references to various conspiracy theories that indicate that Kennedy Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald left the Soviet Union in 1962 to murder the popular young president.

The 1963 Ministry of Defense included the Cold War of the Early 1960s and the participation of the United States in Latin America and tried to thwart the Cuban leader Fidel Castro's support for communist forces in other countries.

John F. Kennedy (Credit: National Park Service/National Archives)

The documents suggest that Castro would not go that far to provoke a war with the United States or to escalate to the point “that the Castro regime would seriously and immediately endanger”.

“It seems more likely that Castro could strengthen his support for the subversive forces in Latin America,” says the document.

Shortly after taking office in January, Trump signed an order in connection with the publication and prompted the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to find thousands of new documents in connection with the Kennedy attack in Dallas.

In the Scramble to comply with Trump's command, the US Ministry of Justice ordered some of its lawyers who deal with sensitive matters of national security issues in order to check the records of the attack, as can be seen from an email seen by Reuters on Monday evening.

“President Trump introduces a new era of maximum transparency,” said the director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard in a contribution to X/Twitter.


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Kennedy's murder was attributed to a sole shooter, Oswald. The Ministry of Justice and other bodies of the federal government confirmed this conclusion in the decades in between. However, surveys show that many Americans believe that his death is a result of a conspiracy.

Experts doubt that the new information forces will change the underlying facts of the case that Lee Harvey Oswald in Kennedy opened fire from a window in a school book warehouse when the car colonne adopted by Dealey Plaza in Dallas adopted the presidential auto column.

“The people who expect great things are almost certain that they are disappointed,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, who wrote a book on the assassination attempt.

He said some of the pages could simply be the publication of previously published material in which some words were reduced.

Additional files that are to be published

Trump has also promised to release documents about the assassination attempt by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy, both of whom were killed in 1968.

Trump has admitted more time to develop a plan for these publications.

Trump's secretary for health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of Robert Kennedy and Nephew by John F. Kennedy, said that the central intelligence agency was involved in the death of his uncle, an assertion that the agency described as unfounded.

Kennedy Jr. also said that he believes that his father was killed by several armed men, an assertion that contradicts official accounts.

A revelation that could contain the documents is that the CIA Oswald was more aware of than previously disclosed. There have been questions about what the CIA knew six weeks before the attack on Oswald's visits to Mexico town. Oswald visited the Soviet message during this trip.

“People have been waiting for it for decades,” said Trump. “It will be very interesting.”