The Russian Government's JFK Assassination File
JFK Facts explains what this document is — and what it is not.

By Chad Nagle

Undated photos of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev meeting U.S. President John F. Kennedy, included in the 350-page document entitled “The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and Soviet-American Relations” (Credit: Embassy of Russia)
Background to the story:
Last April, Russia’s Interfax news service reported that Russia’s Federal Archival Agency (Rosarkhiv) was “preparing a publication” on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. No more information was forthcoming.
On May 20, at the second hearing of the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, Judge John Tunheim, former chairman of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), said the board had sought to obtain “the entire KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald that is maintained in Minsk, Belarus.” He noted the board had been close to acquiring the file in 1995, but the Russian government backed out at the last minute.
Rep. Luna expressed her intention to Judge Tunheim to follow up on the matter of the KGB files, at which point Tunheim told her that the stack of papers “stands about five feet high.”
The task force chair subsequently met with the Russian ambassador in Washington and members of his staff to discuss how the file might be obtained. The Russian diplomats assured her that their government was working on it.
On October 14, Rep. Luna posted to her X account that she had “received a hard copy of the report on JFK’s assassination from the Ambassador of Russia” and would “begin uploading as soon as we can.”
Because the National Archives is unable to facilitate disclosure due to the ongoing government shutdown, Rep. Luna’s office asked JFK Facts to make the document available to the public.

Here it is:
A team of Russian translators working with JFK Facts is assessing the authenticity and significance of the document(s). We trust others will do the same.