Newly released JFK files reveal KGB saw Lee Harvey Oswald as a ‘poor shot’ before assassination – latest
Lee Harvey Oswald was a “poor shot” according to one of the newly declassified documents released by the Trump administration concerning the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy
About 2,200 files – consisting of approximately 63,000 pages – were posted by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration on Tuesday evening. It came after President Donald Trump teased the release on Monday while visiting the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and asserted that the government would not redact “anything” – stating about 80,000 pages would be made public.
One of the files included a memo from the CIA’s St Petersburg station which said the KGB, the former security agency for the Soviet Union, watched Oswald closely and stated he was a “poor shot when he tried target firing in the USSR.”
Eager historians and researchers trawled through the trove of files seeking any sign of new or shocking though, by Tuesday evening, there were few revelations to report.
Most of the records related to JFK’s assassination had already been released with a 1992 law requiring the government to release documents within 25 years of his death, except those that posed national security concerns.
