JFK Assassination Files: Soviet Agents Were Afraid That They Would Be Blamed For President Kennedy's Assassination

The Soviet Union feared they were going to get blamed for putting 'neurotic maniac' Lee Harvey Oswald (pictured on November 22, 1963) up to assassinating John F Kennedy, one of more than 2,800 newly released assassination files has revealed

Daily Mail: A plot by America's 'ultra-right' or a hit ordered by LBJ: JFK files reveal Soviet agents' wild theories about Kennedy's assassination and how they feared a nuclear strike if THEY were blamed

* The White House has released more than 2,800 files about JFK's assassination
* Soviets 'feared being blamed for putting Lee Harvey Oswald up to assassination'
* Soviet Union also feared that a panicked US military would lash out at them
* They also believed Dallas Police Dept was an 'accessory' to the assassination
* Documents reveal everything CIA learned about the Soviet reaction to the killing and what its agents might have known about Oswald
* Soviets declared Oswald a 'neurotic maniac who was disloyal to his own country'
* JFK was shot in head while riding in a motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963
* Although Oswald was named as the sole shooter after a DC investigation, rumors remain of a second shooter and foreign plots
* The administration has essentially 'kicked the can a bit,' by not releasing the JFK files in their entirety, a White House aide admitted

The Soviet Union feared it would be hit with a nuclear strike if it was blamed for putting 'neurotic maniac' Lee Harvey Oswald up to assassinating John F Kennedy, newly released files have revealed.

The trove of 2,800 files were published on the National Archives website Thursday night, but President Donald Trump kept at least 300 documents back so federal agencies could black out portions.

In one FBI document dated December 1, 1963, from director J Edgar Hoover, the agency reveals everything it had learned about the Soviet reaction to the JFK assassination and what its agents might have known about Oswald.

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WNU Editor: I asked my father on what was his opinion of the John F. Kennedy assassination.  His answer .... he was deeply disturbed that the Soviet Union would be blamed, and if that was the case  nuclear war would be just around he corner.