Russia Gives US Lawmaker Soviet Files on JFK Assassination

Russia's Ambassador to the U.S., Alexander Darchiev, has handed over "Rosarkhiv" materials to Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, based on declassified Soviet documents regarding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The diplomatic mission reported this to "RIA Novosti." The document handover ceremony took place at the ambassador's residence in Washington. Welcoming Luna, Darchiev expressed hope that the archival data collected by the editorial board of the collection "The Kennedy Assassination and Soviet-American Relations" would "shed additional light on the tragedy that occurred."

It is noted that the documents were handed over at the congresswoman's request, in the context of a further investigation into the Kennedy assassination, which U.S. President Donald Trump had promised to conduct. It is reported that some of the materials had previously been received by the American side from the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Anastas Mikoyan, who represented the Soviet Union at the head of state's funeral.

Congresswoman Luna, in turn, thanked the embassy on the social network X for handing over the materials, emphasizing that "this has huge historical significance." She noted that experts would immediately begin to study and translate the documents in her office, which will be published later.

Let us recall that U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The official investigation found that the crime was committed by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was killed two days after his arrest. It is interesting that from 1959-1960, Oswald lived in the USSR, worked as a lathe operator at a factory in Minsk, and married a Russian girl. This circumstance has given rise to numerous theories about who might have benefited from Kennedy's assassination.

It should be noted that U.S. authorities were legally required to fully declassify the data on the Kennedy assassination by 2017. However, both Donald Trump and his predecessor, Joe Biden, granted U.S. intelligence additional time to assess whether the release of the information could harm U.S. interests.