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In the final installment of our Soviet Union series, we examine a cache of newly released Russian documents handed to Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna by the Russian Ambassador in October 2025. These 350 pages, prepared under the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, offer a rare behind-the-curtain look at Soviet decision-making around Lee Harvey Oswald's defection, the Warren Commission, and the aftermath of the assassination. We weigh why Moscow released the files now and what they reveal about Khrushchev's private suspicion of a conspiracy.
Along the way, we unpack some genuine bombshells: a candid 1964 exchange between Warren Commissioner John McCloy and Soviet UN representative Nikolai Fedorenko, a William Walton memo carrying a message from Bobby and Jackie Kennedy to Khrushchev calling the assassination "the result of a large political conspiracy," and the definitive solution to the long-debated "Dear Mr. Hunt" letter, now proven to be a KGB forgery.
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In the final installment of our Soviet Union series, we examine a cache of newly released Russian documents handed to Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna by the Russian Ambassador in October 2025. These 350 pages, prepared under the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, offer a rare behind-the-curtain look at Soviet decision-making around Lee Harvey Oswald's defection, the Warren Commission, and the aftermath of the assassination. We weigh why Moscow released the files now and what they reveal about Khrushchev's private suspicion of a conspiracy.
Along the way, we unpack some genuine bombshells: a candid 1964 exchange between Warren Commissioner John McCloy and Soviet UN representative Nikolai Fedorenko, a William Walton memo carrying a message from Bobby and Jackie Kennedy to Khrushchev calling the assassination "the result of a large political conspiracy," and the definitive solution to the long-debated "Dear Mr. Hunt" letter, now proven to be a KGB forgery.

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