JFK files reveal FBI knew Lee Harvey Oswald met with KGB assassination chief at Soviet Embassy in Mexico a month before Kennedy’s killing

THE FBI discovered Lee Harvey Oswald had met with a KGB assassination chief a month before JFK was killed.

Despite the agency knowing the communist had secretly met with Russian spies at the Soviet embassy, he was still able to carry out the shooting of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

The FBI files revealed Oswald met with Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov, a senior KGB agent who was known to have worked for the KGB’s 13th department – which was responsible for assassinations – in Mexico City on September 28.

Oswald was heard speaking in “broken Russian” when he called the Soviet Embassy on October 1, according to the explosive files.

He asked the guard who answered the phone whether there was “anything new concerning the telegram to Washington”.

The intercepted conversations took place weeks before the president was blasted in the back and head as travelled in a motorcade through Texas.

The documents also show that FBI agents were grilled by a Senate committee over their failure to stop Oswald after his six-day Mexico visit.

But the documents also reveal the FBI were trying to track Oswald before the assassination after Cuban sources said he was of interest.

An FBI agent said: “Oswald wrote me in early 1962 to help expedite an exit visa for his wife. Why in the world would he tell a plopper like that?”

A Senator replies: “In any event, he told what the agent knew was lies, and what I am trying to get at is there was no analysis within the bureau of any of this.

“He even goes to Mexico City, contacts the Cuban consulate and the Soviet embassy, happens to be in contact – we don’t know if there is anything sinister about it – with an agent who is known to be KGB by the FBI and by the CIA, and suspected of being Department 13, which is their assassination and sabotage squad.

“In any event, he then returns to the United States, is never again interviewed by the FBI.”

A memorandum dated July 1969, titled “An investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico”, reports that the infamous assassin was seen at a party in Mexico in September, 1963.

The FBI document tells how Mexican playwright Elena Garro de Paz describing meeting Oswald at the gathering along with two other Americans.

The author says he reported de Paz’s story to officials at the US Embassy in Mexico on December 10, 1965.

The report says that De Paz and her cousin, who hosted the party, were questioned by the FBI following the assassination but that the “interrogation was entirely unsatisfactory by normal investigatory standards.”

The doc states that while the Bureau had discounted de Paz’s account, the CIA was “disturbed” by them.

And in a shocking revelation, the memorandum states that the FBI’s failure to properly investigate the story could “damage” the Warren Report – referring to the Warren Commission which was the government’s official investigation into the assassination which found that Oswald acted alone.

The report says “the credibility of the Warren Report would be damaged all the more if it were learned that these allegations were known and never adequately investigated by the competent American authorities.”

Another doc says the CIA’s “plan in passing information to the Warren Commission was to eliminate mention of wire taps in order to protect their continuing operations” suggesting the spy agency withheld material from the investigation.

The bombshell documents also reveal the FBI were warned of Oswald’s death threat the day before he was killed.

A memo from J. Edgar Hoover said: “There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead.

“Last night we received a call in our Dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organised to kill Oswald.

“We at once notified the Chief of Police and he assured us Oswald would be given sufficient protection. This morning we called the chief of police again warning of the possibility some effort against Oswald and he again assured us adequate protection would be given.

“However this was not done.”

Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963, as he was being escorted through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters on his way to a county jail.

Hoover later said: “The thing I am concerned about is having something issued so that we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.”

According to the records, Oswald and Jack Ruby met in a Florida airport as part of a group heading to Cuba to “cut sugar cane” before the assassination and were heard by an informant discussing “Big Bird”.

The sensational documents also outline bizarre CIA plots to kill Fidel Castro by blowing him up with an exploding seashell or giving him in a contaminated diving suit.

The White House has today released 2,800 records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy – but others will be held back because of “national security.”

Officials say President Donald Trump he had “no choice” but to keep others secret – pending a six month review process.

Before the file dump, Russia denied any role in the assassination before secret files about the murder are made public today.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters: “For decades, information has been kept under lock and key.

“If even here wild insinuations are hurled at Russia, that would be a shame, because it is information, and not disinformation that people want.”

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