❓WHAT HAPPENED: Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) announced she has received documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., after U.S. President Donald J. Trump declassified the U.S. government files relating to Kennedy earlier this year.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Anna Paulina Luna, Russian Ambassador Alexander Darchiev, and the Russian embassy.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Documents were handed over recently at the Russian ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C., and are expected to be published in Russia in November.
💬KEY QUOTE: “I have received a hard copy of the report on JFK’s assassination from the Ambassador of Russia… This is of massive historical significance.” – Anna Paulina Luna
🎯IMPACT: The release of these documents could reignite public interest in JFK’s assassination and provide new insights into the historic event.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has announced that she received a report from Russia detailing documents in the country’s possession relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. According to the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C.—which confirmed the handover—the report and documents will be publicly released in Russia in November.
Luna, chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, revealed on X (formerly Twitter) that the 350-page report would be reviewed and translated by experts, including investigative journalist and CIA expert Jefferson Morley, before being made accessible to the public. “I have received a hard copy of the report on JFK’s assassination from the Ambassador of Russia… This is of massive historical significance,” Luna stated.
The Russian embassy noted that the archives were handed over at the residence of Ambassador Alexander Darchiev and included documents originally presented by Soviet representative Anastas Mikoyan at Kennedy’s funeral. The embassy added, “Archive documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination to be officially published in Russia in November… was handed over to Representative Anna Paulina Luna upon her request and the consent of copyholders by the Russian Ambassador.”
JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963, while traveling in an open-top motorcade in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the killing but was himself shot dead by nightclub operator Jack Ruby before facing trial. The 1964 Warren Commission concluded Oswald acted alone, though conspiracy theories have persisted for decades.
The National Pulse reported in March, when President Donald J. Trump declassified and published the federal government’s remaining JFK files, that several documents suggest potential Russian KGB or U.S. CIA involvement. Intelligence memos in the JFK files reveal that the CIA came to believe with a high degree of confidence that a Soviet embassy officer in Mexico City who met with Oswald shortly before the assassination and reviewed his visa application was a man named Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov. Notably, Kostikov was not an actual diplomatic staffer but rather a high-ranking KGB official known for his expertise in targeted political assassinations and training of communist agitators and guerrilla movements across South and Central America.
However, other files brought renewed attention to the death of CIA operative Gary Underhill. According to the documents, an article published by the pro-Soviet, far-left Ramparts magazine reported that Underhill left Washington abruptly the day after Kennedy’s assassination. He traveled to the home of friends in New Jersey, displaying signs of distress. During his visit, Underhill reportedly confided in his friends that a small group within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, expressing fear for his safety and hinting at a possible need to leave the country.
Less than six months later, Underhill was discovered dead in his Washington apartment, with the coroner ruling the death a suicide.
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