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Wash. state Desk Jet

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Fri Oct 27, 2017, 01:00 AM Oct 2017

He's a maniac who's going to get us NUKED: JFK files reveal how the Soviet Union feared they were go [View all]

Source: Daily Mail


The Soviet Union feared they were going to get blamed for putting 'neurotic maniac' Lee Harvey Oswald up to assassinating John F Kennedy, one of more than 2,800 newly released assassination files has revealed.
The trove of files were published on the National Archives website Thursday night, but President Donald Trumphas kept at least 300 documents back so federal agencies can black out portions.
In one FBI document dated December 1, 1963, from director J Edgar Hoover, the agency reveals everything it has learned about the Soviet reaction to the JFK's assassinationand what its agents might have known about Oswald.
The tranche of documents reveal that the Soviets were just as obsessed with conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's death as the rest of the world.
'According to our source, officials of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union believed there was some well-organized conspiracy on the part of the 'ultraright' in the United States to effect a 'coup.''


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5022737/How-Soviet-Union-feared-blame-JFK-s-assassination.html







Anonymous call to British newspaper 25 minutes BEFORE the JFK assassination tipped reporter to call the US Embassy 'for some big news'

Strange report emerged Thursday in the document dump of JFK files
Cambridge News reporter got anonymous call tipping him to call US Embassy
MI-5 determined that the call was placed 25 minutes before the assassination
CIA officials shared the unusual report with the FBI four days after the shooting 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5022789/UK-reporter-got-tip-25-minutes-JFK-assassination.html
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The only reason Trump would want to "black something out" would be to protect someone rich. C Moon Oct 2017 #1
I agree!!!! burrowowl Oct 2017 #2
In the days before photoshopping... Rene Oct 2017 #12
A few years after the assassination dixiegrrrrl Oct 2017 #19
In 1963 he was president of Zapata Petroleum Corporation Angleae Oct 2017 #20
Blackmail on Ted Cruz's dad ??? ;) OnDoutside Oct 2017 #3
Robert MacNeil of PBS was a young reporter in Dallas applegrove Oct 2017 #4
Wouldnt that have taken a huge pocket full of change to call England? Or the bank of phones were Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #13
In 1963, you didn't just pick up the phone and make an overseas call. MindPilot Oct 2017 #14
A three-minute call from NY to London cost $45 in 1960 Spider Jerusalem Oct 2017 #15
More likely the recollection of the call was incorrect or simply made up grantcart Oct 2017 #18
the soviets did it conspiracy was popular back then. hardly something to keep secret nt msongs Oct 2017 #5
Trump does nothing for no reason. Hornedfrog1985 Oct 2017 #6
I don't think that he is that smart. Ohiya Oct 2017 #7
Cmon Hornedfrog1985 Oct 2017 #8
As if... cannabis_flower Oct 2017 #10
Yes of course sharedvalues Oct 2017 #9
Wait a minute. Didn't that mo-fo say JUST DAYS AGO... Dave Starsky Oct 2017 #11
We should have a constitutional amendment The Mouth Oct 2017 #16
CNN- Analysis Wash. state Desk Jet Oct 2017 #17
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