Russian Ambassador to the United States Alexander Darchiev has handed over to Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna materials from the Federal State Archives based on declassified Soviet documents on the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, the diplomatic mission told RIA Novosti.
The ceremony was held at the ambassador's residence in Washington.
„While receiving Luna at his residence, Darchiev expressed hope that the archival data collected by the editorial board of the collection „The Kennedy Assassination and Soviet-American Relations“ will shed additional light on the tragedy,“ the diplomatic mission noted.
At Luna's request, Darchiev handed over materials based on declassified Soviet documents planned for publication by the Federal Archives Agency (Rosarchiv), some of which were previously handed over to the American side by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Anastas Mikoyan, who represented the Soviet Union at the funeral of the head of state, as part of the additional investigation into the Kennedy assassination promised by US President Donald Trump and with the consent of the copyright holder.
The congresswoman, in turn, thanked the embassy for transferring the materials to the social media platform X, emphasizing that “this is of enormous historical importance“. She noted that experts in her office would immediately begin studying and translating the documents and that they would subsequently be published.
US President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The investigation established that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, committed the murder. Oswald himself was killed two days after his capture. It was also revealed that he had lived in the USSR from 1959 to 1960, even working as a turner in a factory in Minsk. He married a Russian woman who later emigrated with him to the United States.
Numerous versions and theories have emerged about who may have benefited from Kennedy's assassination.
In March, the United States released declassified documents on the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother, politician Robert, and civil rights activist Martin Luther King. The U.S. government was legally required to fully declassify information about Kennedy's assassination by 2017.