Oswald met KGB before JFK assassination, delayed records dump shows

https://nypost.com/2021/12/15/oswald-met-kgb-before-jfk-assassination-records-dump-shows/

Among the revelations in the files was a meeting and follow-up phone call bewteen Oswald and a Soviet operative before JFK was shot in Dallas.

“According to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Lee Oswald was in the Soviet Embassy there on 23 September and spoke with Consul Valeriy Vladimirovich,” the document said.

“Oswald called the Soviet Embassy in 1 October, identifying himself by name and speaking broken Russian, stating the above and asking the guard who answered the phone whether there was ‘anything concerning the telegram to Washington,’” read the memo from then-acting CIA Chief Tennent Bagley.

The documents include a transcript of the Oct. 1 call.

“Hello, this [is] Lee Oswald speaking,” he said. “I was at your place last Saturday and spoke to a consul, and they said that they’d send a telegram to Washington, so I wanted to find out if you anything new. But I don’t remember the name of that consul.”

After a brief exchange, KGB officer Valery Kostikov answered, “Just a minute. I’ll find out. They say that they haven’t received anything yet.”

“Have they done anything?” Oswald asked.

“Yes, they say that a request has been sent out, but nothing has been received yet,” Kostikov answers before hanging up.

Bagley’s memo about the call was dated Nov. 23, 1963, one day after Oswald was charged with assassinating Kennedy.
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President Joe Biden had promised that the trove of records would be released by October, but later delayed the move and blamed the COVID-19 pandemic.

Even now, the Biden administration said it would withhold many of the files and keep them under wraps until next December, the outlet said.

“It’s an outrage,” JFK’s nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., fumed to Politico in October. “It’s an outrage against American democracy. We’re not supposed to have secret governments within the government.”