Former KGB agent Yuri Nosenko, who defected to the West, believed that he could have prevented the assassination of US President John Kennedy.
This was stated in documents published by the US National Archives. The archive published a total of 3.810 documents, of which 441 were previously under the veil of secrecy, while the rest were published partially revised.
The documents contain FBI and CIA memos. Yuri Nosenko claimed that he was in charge of Oswald's case while he was living in the USSR. During the trip to Geneva, the KGB agent requested protection from the CIA, with whom he had been cooperating for several years, and fled to the USA.
"I feel that I could have stopped Oswald," Nosenko was quoted as saying in testimony documents about the main suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Another document says that a former KGB agent claimed that people from the Soviet special services work in the US Congress.
"During a tour of Washington on February 25, 1964, as we passed the Library of Congress, the subject (Nosenko) pointed to it and said, 'Our people are working there.' people?', the object replied: 'KGB,'" it said.
Nosenko died in the USA in 2008 at the age of 80.
Access to the documents was previously prohibited under a law passed by Congress in 1992.
The normative act obliges all federal institutions to hand over to the National Library documents related to the investigation of the Kennedy assassination. According to the law, all documents must be published 25 years after the adoption of the law.
John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. According to the official version, the killer was former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. Two days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby at the police station in Dallas when he was about to be transferred to a federal prison, according to Sputnik.
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