The U.S. has released additional documents from the Canadian assassination, but many still remain confidential

The National Archives has uncovered thousands more pages of an investigation into the assassination of the president, though many have not revealed new details that would please those who believe Oswald did not act alone.

Biden is under pressure to finish examining all the other classified documents by the end of next year

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16/12/2021

Thursday, 16 December 2021, 17:32 Updated: 18:36

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President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie during a visit to Washington in 1963 (Photo: GettyImages)

Authorities in the United States yesterday (Wednesday) released thousands of pages of confidential documents from the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which still serves as a source for conspiracy theories despite the official version that the killer was Harvey Oswald. However, assassination investigators say the new documents contain very little new information, and most are likely copies of previously published documents that include slightly fewer blackened words, usually by a CIA officer or an overseas agency station that investigators have already been able to discover for themselves.

The documents reveal the breadth and depth of the investigation designed to reveal whether Oswald had other accomplices while shooting Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas. They examined a wide range of clues, ranging from the involvement of Soviet intelligence to communist organizations in Africa and the Italian Mafia. The documents also show the extent to which the United States invested in espionage and influence after Fidel Castro's communist government in Cuba, with which Oswald was in contact and which Kennedy tried to overthrow.

A total of 1,491 files, many of them long reports, have been published in records of the Kennedy assassination in the National Archives, which already contain tens of thousands of items related to the assassination and its investigation.

Many do not believe that Oswald, who supported communism, acted alone, but was hired by Cuba or the Soviet Union.

Others believe that anti-Cuban activists, possibly backed by the CIA or the FBI, are responsible for the assassination of the young president while some think his political rivals are behind it all.

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Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of US President Kennedy, after his arrest, 1963 (Photo: Reuters)

Four years ago, then-President Donald Trump was required by law from 1992 to publish the information about the Kennedy investigation that U.S. intelligence had delayed.

The law requires all government records on the assassination "to allow the public to obtain full information" about it.

Trump revoked the classification of more than 53,000 documents, which were released for public inspection in seven parts, and the portion of the assassination investigation archive available to the public increased to 88 percent.

However, he left thousands of other documents under classification for security reasons.

This year, President Joe Biden pledged to respect the law, but he too was criticized in October when the White House rejected the release of additional documents.

Biden said the delay was necessary "to protect against damage to military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or foreign relations management."

The White House is now under pressure to complete the examination of the rest of the documents before the end of 2022.

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