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00:06In any moment now, we're expecting to get to a first look at the top secret government files
00:10that could reveal key details about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
00:15Highly anticipated government files on...
00:18Thousands of previously classified Kennedy's assassination will finally go public.
00:28With me is Bob Baer.
00:30Bob, do you think that the documents that we're getting will provide a real answer to this question that you
00:37all are debating?
00:40I think they will. I think they will fill a story out.
00:43There's big pieces of this that I'd like to fill in, and the way to do it is get these
00:47documents out.
00:48Right, and the documents, I want everyone to know, they literally have just dropped.
00:59Hey, it's me. Are you downloading them now? What do you got?
01:03All right. Hello? Yeah. Okay, call me in five minutes. Bye.
01:09Hey, it's Bob. He doesn't care. What does he know about classification?
01:15Who are you calling?
01:16All of these people are former colleagues, or people I've worked with in the government.
01:21You can make a left here.
01:22And I know they know what they say they know.
01:25Hello?
01:26Look, we got 2,800 classified files on the assassination of JFK.
01:32Our answers are here somewhere.
01:35Half a century later, I think we're finally being told who killed the president.
01:48On October 26th, 2017, after 54 years of secrecy, the government released 2,891 highly classified files
02:00that could hold the key to finally answering one of the most riveting mysteries of our time.
02:06Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone in the murdering of President John F. Kennedy?
02:14The official story says that on November 22nd, 1963, President John F. Kennedy is shot and killed as his motorcade
02:22passes through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
02:31Four hours later, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested by Dallas PD for the crime.
02:37Within 48 hours of the assassination, Oswald is murdered outside the Dallas police station.
02:45One week after the assassination, newly appointed President Lyndon Johnson orders Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the events at
02:53Dealey Plaza.
02:53In the end, the 888-page Warren report concludes that Oswald acted entirely alone without the assistance of any accomplices.
03:05I've never believed it.
03:06It's not an easy thing to kill a president of the United States.
03:11One man can't plan this without support.
03:16I always believed he had a network supporting him.
03:2321-year CIA veteran Bob Baer is considered one of the best intelligence minds in the world.
03:29In 2016, he launched a worldwide investigation.
03:34No one has ever seen this before.
03:36To try and uncover the truth behind the assassination of JFK.
03:39Holy f**k.
03:40This is incredible.
03:42To this point, Bob's investigation has relied on the millions of files that were slowly declassified in the decades since
03:50the assassination.
03:50But Bob believes the information most crucial to the case and the truth has been withheld for national security reasons.
04:00Until now.
04:03Hey, John, it's Baer.
04:05Bob has recruited former intelligence contacts and government officials to help him go through these thousands of newly declassified files.
04:12I reached out to my network, former CIA agents, former FBI agents.
04:17They can tell me what I should be looking at and what to dismiss.
04:22With the help of these contacts, Bob has already identified a number of incriminating documents and made some explosive discoveries.
04:30These files have given us a lot.
04:32We've got all sorts of possibilities here.
04:34Lee Harvey Oswald's connections with the KGB.
04:37The Cuban exile community.
04:40We are dealing with official files that have been withheld from the American public for a reason.
04:46This is the kind of information that can blow this case wide open.
04:52Look at this.
04:57I mean, it's a huge, important point that Angleton, the head of counterintelligence, took the time to write this up.
05:06A newly released file signed by the head of CIA counterintelligence, James Angleton, reveals that British intelligence received a mysterious
05:14phone call warning of the assassination.
05:17According to MI5, the British Internal Intelligence Service, an anonymous caller calls the Cambridge News saying,
05:26call the American embassy because there's going to be big news, and then hung up.
05:31The call was made 25 minutes before the president was shot.
05:39It wasn't Oswald who called.
05:41We don't know who it was.
05:44What this means is somebody else knew about the assassination in advance.
05:51What we're seeing more and more are people knowing about Oswald's plans.
05:56This isn't the first time that Bob has uncovered evidence that somebody may have had foreknowledge of the assassination.
06:04During his investigation in 2016, Bob was able to secure a meeting with former Cuban intelligence officer Enrique Garcia.
06:12Enrique, Bob Bear.
06:14Nice to meet you.
06:15Bob learned a shocking accusation about the connection of Cuba and Fidel Castro to the day of the assassination.
06:22Do you have any evidence that Castro knew about the assassination in advance?
06:28Yes.
06:31Yes.
06:31My friend and Fidel Castro, we worked together at the Italian, with Cuban intelligence.
06:38He was in 1963 at the Radio Contra Intelligence in Cuba.
06:43They are in charge to have the control of all the internal communication for security in the U.S.
06:51And the day of the Kennedy assassination, Aspillaga told me he received order to move the radio antennas from Virginia
07:04to Dallas, Texas.
07:07Before Oswald shot Kennedy?
07:09Yes.
07:11In 1963, Cuba used powerful radio antennas to spy on U.S. communications.
07:16The radio towers were most often aimed towards Washington, D.C. and the surrounding areas.
07:22Enrique Garcia says that on the day of the assassination, his friend was ordered to point the radio antennas to
07:28listen to transmissions coming out of Dallas, Texas.
07:33Who gave those orders?
07:41I mean, do you realize what this means?
07:43There's only one reason why he would do it.
07:45Yeah.
07:45I mean, he knew.
07:48Look, the Cubans, they're listening.
07:50They're waiting for an event.
07:53Whoever calls the Cambridge News is also waiting for the same event.
07:57So we have two unconnected sources saying they're listening to Dallas in the minutes leading up to the assassination.
08:07What this means, I don't know, but it's more evidence that people knew in advance.
08:13It adds to my suspicion that Oswald was working with somebody else.
08:19A lot of people knew this was coming.
08:22People had foreknowledge of the assassination.
08:27I think this is proof Oswald was not a lone wolf.
08:40This is a new release?
08:42Yeah.
08:43I mean, this is huge.
08:48This is absolutely key to understanding why Oswald went to Mexico City.
08:57Bob has discovered a declassified file from an unnamed CIA asset reporting information about Lee Harvey Oswald's suspicious trip to
09:07Mexico City eight weeks before the assassination.
09:09In October of 2016, Bob and partner Adam Berkovich investigated Oswald's trip and found that he visited the Soviet embassy,
09:19where he met with confirmed KGB officials, including the head of the KGB's Department 13, the division responsible for assassinations.
09:31This is at the height of conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States, and he goes to the
09:36Soviet embassy? That's a big deal.
09:38The Warren Commission investigated Oswald's trip to Mexico City, but no record of his meeting with KGB officers was ever
09:45mentioned in the final report.
09:47Yeah, we've got to get down there. This is ground zero for this whole investigation.
09:53Oswald not only visited the Soviet embassy, but the Cuban embassy as well. In both, he applied for a travel
09:59visa to each country. He was denied by the Russians and the Cubans.
10:04The Warren Commission determined that Oswald's trip was nothing more than a vacation and that he traveled there alone.
10:11Anybody that walks into a Soviet embassy in a country where it's a hotbed of espionage, he's not a tourist.
10:23Frankly, this document is absolutely explosive.
10:27How so?
10:28I mean, look, we went on the assumption that Oswald simply bought a bus ticket, goes to Mexico City, and
10:36hoped for the best.
10:38But this line here, look at this, it says,
10:40El Mexicano companies Lee Harvey Oswald to Mexico City.
10:46What's clear from this document is that he did not go alone.
10:53There was somebody else, part of his plan.
10:57This is a huge revelation.
11:01According to this newly declassified document, a CIA asset states that Oswald was accompanied on his trip to Mexico City
11:09by someone going by the name El Mexicano,
11:12directly contradicting the Warren Commission's findings that he traveled alone.
11:17This document alone could destroy any conversation about Oswald being a lone wolf.
11:23Lee Harvey Oswald's reported companion, El Mexicano, could be the key to unraveling the truth behind the assassination of JFK.
11:31The head of training camp at Lake Pontchartrain was El Mexicano.
11:39According to this same file, El Mexicano could have been responsible for overseeing a training camp in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana,
11:47which could have been part of a covert CIA military program that Bob found evidence of in his 2016 investigation.
11:54Yeah, this is a military issue.
11:57The CIA started this covert program to train Cuban exiles to overthrow their former leader, Fidel Castro.
12:04In April 1961, the U.S. deployed these Cuban exiles during the Bay of Pigs.
12:10The operation was a failure.
12:12Hundreds of men were killed and more than a thousand taken prisoner by the Cuban military.
12:16Former CIA contractor Marshall Golnick, who worked with these Cuban dissidents, saw their reaction to the Bay of Pigs debacle
12:24first hand.
12:25The Cuban exiles blamed John F. Kennedy directly because he did not commit to support them.
12:33The Cuban exiles felt that JFK abandoned them.
12:37The CIA has confirmed the existence of these covert training camps, but has offered little detail about personnel or operational
12:45specifics.
12:46In 2016, Bob uncovered declassified CIA documents and sworn testimony in front of members of Congress,
12:54revealing that these camps likely continued after the Bay of Pigs, and that Lee Harvey Oswald could have been present.
13:02We had information of Oswald being involved in Louisiana with Cubans in a military training setting,
13:07who were contracted employees of the CIA.
13:12If there's any evidence that there's a smoking gun that Oswald was not a lone wolf, it's right here.
13:18What we have here is this guy, El Mexicano.
13:22He was head of the camp that Oswald is supposedly training at, and he accompanies Lee Harvey Oswald to Mexico
13:30City.
13:33This is connecting the dots.
13:35I mean, here's a guy watching Oswald presumably get rifle practice, say, yeah, that guy can hit a target.
13:42And it doesn't look good to me.
13:45According to this new file, El Mexicano is the missing link.
13:48He's in all the right places at the right time.
13:51The training camp in Louisiana in the Bayou, and now Mexico City.
13:56So he's at the center of this.
13:58And that's why this file is so explosive, is it takes strands of our story and connects them.
14:04So is this guy connected to the murder of President Kennedy?
14:09Who the hell is El Mexicano?
14:13And was he connected to a wider conspiracy?
14:20Eight days after the initial document release, without notice, the government releases an additional 753 assassination files.
14:29Bob has also learned that an unnamed agency has requested a six-month extension to release some additional key files.
14:36The president has granted this request.
14:38We were supposed to get all the files on the 26th of October, and they only did a partial dump.
14:46As we're going through the files, there's been more dumps.
14:49The way these are being released is part of the game.
14:52When they're releasing these files, it's all smoke and mirrors.
14:56You let them out piecemeal.
14:58The intent is to confuse.
15:00What we're seeing in these documents are details that are only comprehensible in context.
15:08But having looked at this, they mean a lot to me.
15:12With a fresh release of declassified files, Bob is looking to shed new light on what the government knew before
15:18Oswald pulled the trigger.
15:20In his 2016 investigation, Bob discovered that eight weeks before the assassination, Oswald took a trip to Mexico City and
15:29met with a KGB agent named Valery Kostakov, who was working at the Soviet embassy.
15:34Kostakov was from Department 13.
15:38In September 2016, former KGB agent Oleg Nechaparenko confirmed that Kostakov was head of a secret group known as Department
15:4713, the KGB's assassination squad.
15:51Look at this.
15:53This is real-time monitoring of Oswald.
16:00November 23, 1963, within 24 hours after the assassination.
16:07Bob has found a newly declassified file from the head of the CIA division in Mexico City to CIA headquarters,
16:13revealing that Kostakov was under active and extensive surveillance by the CIA at the time of his suspicious meeting with
16:20Oswald, meaning he was a known threat to the U.S. government.
16:24You have a memo of almost a dozen pages on Oswald's contacts in Mexico City with Department 13, with this
16:35Russian, Kostakov, who was in charge of assassinations in North America.
16:39Look what we know about this.
16:40Since arriving in Mexico, Kostakov is known to have traveled three times outside the capital.
16:47He went to Tijuana, Ensenada, and Mexicali.
16:53It's right on the American border.
16:54It's reported that during these trips, Kostakov met local representatives, and he lists some Mexican organizations.
17:03According to the source, he's meeting with guerrilla groups.
17:06I mean, this guy was probably one of the most watched KGB officers in North America.
17:13So the fact that Oswald is essentially being handled by Kostakov worries me.
17:21With this much information, he would have had his own 201 file.
17:26None of this is in the documents.
17:29A CIA 201 file is a secret dossier on a person of interest or a possible threat to the country.
17:36201 files contain extensive personal details, compromising information, and surveillance data.
17:41For some reason, Kostakov's 201 file has never been released.
17:46Where's the 201 file?
17:48I mean, that's key to who Kostakov was, whether he was really active or not.
17:51Only until I see his 201 file will I begin to understand what extent Oswald was involved.
17:59Hopefully, it's in the next release.
18:08John?
18:11Yeah?
18:19E-mailing me. I need to see those right away.
18:29You have to see this.
18:31Based on a declassified internal FBI memo from 1968, El Mexicano was a person of interest for the FBI.
18:39El Mexicano, the guy that accompanies Oswald to Mexico City, his name is Francisco Tamaia.
18:46He's arrested in Caracas for an assassination attempt in June of 1968.
18:54To Bob, this seems like more than a coincidence.
18:57According to the classified files, the guy that accompanied Oswald to Mexico City, the guy that's in CIA camps of
19:06dissidents, is arrested for assassination.
19:10I don't believe it.
19:11This is incredible.
19:13These files are saying Oswald is in touch with two professional assassins.
19:20This Russian, Kostikov, and Tamaia. And you're telling me this is a coincidence?
19:36This is unbelievable to me.
19:39Bob uncovers a declassified memo from the deputy director of the CIA to the FBI reporting information from a Cuban
19:46national working as an informant.
19:48Tomayo, a.k.a. El Mexicano, is a paid agent of the Cuban government in Miami, Florida. He's a Cuban
19:57agent.
20:01What the f*** is going on here?
20:04We have El Mexicano presumably accompanying Oswald to Mexico City. And then we find out that El Mexicano might have
20:13been an assassin, a professional assassin. And now we have a new file that makes him a Cuban agent.
20:21For Bob, if these documents do in fact connect, the conclusions could hold massive implications.
20:28Not only was this guy possibly running operations in the training camp in Louisiana in the Bayou, at the same
20:35time he was probably reporting to Havana before the assassination.
20:41He was a double agent working with Castro. But if this is true, we could say that the president of
20:48the United States was assassinated by a foreign country.
20:54Is there any wonder in your mind how the Cuban government gets a heads up on the assassination?
21:00I think it's a smoking gun.
21:01If this information had been brought out after the assassination, this would warrant an act of war against Cuba.
21:16A Cuban assassin, double agent, and a follower of Fidel Castro, links up with Oswald and goes to Mexico City
21:24to meet a professional Russian assassin.
21:29Is that too many coincidences for you or is it just me?
21:32The Cubans were not going to go out on their own and assassinate the American president without going to the
21:37Russians.
21:37They worked in tandem.
21:40Fidel Castro enjoyed a close relationship with the Russians from the moment he took power in 1959.
21:47As political allies, both nations united in treating the U.S. as an enemy throughout the Cold War.
21:52During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Soviet Union armed the island with nuclear weapons just 90 miles from
22:01the Florida coast.
22:03We need to figure out what was the relationship between Russian intelligence, Cuban intelligence, and Lee Harvey Oswald.
22:11How would the Russians go about an assassination?
22:14There's a Guardian journalist. It's really quite a fantastic book he's written, and he's looked into Russian assassinations.
22:24As a key part of his investigation, Bob met with journalist and KGB expert Luke Harding in September of 2016.
22:32He hoped to uncover new information regarding the capabilities of the KGB and their alliance with the Cubans.
22:40Tell me about Department 13.
22:42Well, it's a famous department of the KGB which specializes in what is known in the trade as wet jobs.
22:48In other words, killings of enemies of the state, if you like.
22:53They use poisons for sure, but also exploding cakes with bombs in them, all sorts of things.
23:00There's a long history of extrajudicial killing during the whole Soviet period.
23:05What's the chances of an American showing up and get a meeting with KGB officers?
23:11One of them is head of Department 13. Does that make any sense to you?
23:14It does make sense to me. I mean, obviously, Oswald represents an opportunity, someone they might use in some way.
23:22But I think you have to ask yourself, how much did they trust Oswald?
23:27Normally, for these kind of operations, they would use their own people or people from Allied services.
23:34Let's take this hypothesis that Oswald walks into the Russians and said, you know, I'm your guy in the United
23:40States.
23:41We can't do this. We know somebody who will.
23:44They simply hand off Oswald to the Cubans. Does that make sense to you?
23:48It's possible. I mean, certainly what we see during this period is that we see the KGB cooperating with other
23:54friendly spy agencies.
23:56We had a quite extraordinary case in London of a Bulgarian dissident.
24:01They fired a pellet of ricin from an umbrella into his leg. He died two days later.
24:05This was a KGB operation carried out by the Bulgarians, but with a poison supply by the KGB.
24:10So, of course, there could be massive coordination between Moscow and the Cubans.
24:18Luke made a good point that the KGB would have looked at Oswald, but they would have never taken that
24:24risk because there was no plausible deniability.
24:28But what they would do is hand him over to a proxy. The proxy in this case is Cuba.
24:36Did the FBI interview him?
24:38We did not.
24:39Considering Luke Harding's opinion that the KGB and Cubans could have been working in tandem to kill the president,
24:45Bob brings in veteran FBI analyst Ferris Rookstall III, one of the best minds on the JFK assassination in the
24:52world.
24:53How may we think about this?
24:54To dig into newly declassified files for any more links between Russia, Cuba, and Oswald.
25:00And this is interesting. This is the same narrative.
25:03He's seen the evidence, he knows how to handle evidence, and he's smart.
25:08Not anyone in the bureau had an idea as what the hell was going on down in Mexico City.
25:13You know, it's perfect, the combination, an FBI agent and a CIA agent, simply because the FBI and the CIA
25:20talk different languages.
25:22Is this ex post facto? Is it...?
25:24I think it is ex post facto, and I think that...
25:27They come from two different worlds. That's why he's absolutely crucial to this investigation.
25:32That's a question that I would want to know because, again...
25:37Kostakov's 201 file was just released.
25:40One of Bob's research team learns that part of Valery Kostakov's CIA 201 file has just been released by the
25:46federal government.
25:47Kostakov is the KGB assassin Oswald met with in Mexico City eight weeks before the assassination.
25:53How many pages is it?
25:55167.
25:56Look at this.
25:57A CIA 201 file is an official file kept on a person of interest to track their movement and actions.
26:03Yeah, there it is. There's the 201 number.
26:05Yep, that's what that is.
26:06It contains a massive amount of material, including personal details, compromising information, and surveillance data.
26:18Clearly this guy is on the CIA's radar.
26:22Yep.
26:23Kostakov's 201 file contains critical details of his life in Mexico City and his role in the KGB's Department 13.
26:31Kostakov comes into the U.S.
26:33He's actually in San Diego.
26:35Yeah.
26:35We've got a professional assassin going into San Diego on the 7th of October, about a month and a half
26:43before the assassination.
26:46I mean, we suspected he was doing American operations, but now we have him crossing the border operating in California.
26:55Well, he certainly is signed for that.
26:57Yeah.
26:58This is KGB espionage against the United States.
27:03What we didn't know until his new release of documents was that there was an active investigation of Kostakov, that
27:11he was being followed, surveilled, listened to by the CIA in the United States on U.S. soil.
27:19And remember, he's meeting with Oswald a couple months before the assassination of our president.
27:26The CIA's primary role is to collect international intelligence around the world, while the FBI is a domestic agency focused
27:34on protecting Americans inside U.S. borders.
27:38Declassified files now reveal the highly compartmentalized agencies did not always work in sync or share their intelligence.
27:46When you get a hit on Kostakov, the CIA probably sends a cable back to Washington.
27:53It's the way it works.
27:54I used to send these things in.
27:56You sit down, you write a cable, say, for the FBI.
27:59And now it looks like somebody at the FBI dropped the ball.
28:03Why didn't lights go off in Washington?
28:05Somebody, I'm absolutely convinced, dropped the ball.
28:08There's a lot of balls that have been dropped, and there has been a lot of non-shared information.
28:14Somebody should have connected the dots.
28:16Somebody should have looked at this guy.
28:18Hoover and company should have been talking to these other people and said, listen, this is what we got.
28:23If the FBI had the files, would JFK have lived, made it through Dallas, survived?
28:42Well, that's, that's the, that's the good, that's an excellent question.
28:49Look, I'm not doing this for the camera.
28:51This whole case is inherently suspicious.
28:55It just stinks.
29:04Look at this one.
29:06It's a document.
29:08It's a CIA operational cable from November 30th, 1963.
29:13So we're talking a week, basically, after the assassination.
29:18And it's about Sylvia Duran.
29:21Sylvia Duran was the consulate desk clerk at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.
29:26Oswald spoke with her when he applied for a visa eight weeks before the assassination.
29:31But in 2016, Bob discovered that Sylvia Duran could have been much more than an embassy employee.
29:38Can we come in?
29:39Yes.
29:40Okay, great.
29:41Eyewitness Francisco Garo says Sylvia Duran may have facilitated a meeting between Oswald and high-ranking Cuban officials.
29:48And I was keeping this inside for all these years.
29:51In 1963, Garo was part of a pro-communist group in Mexico City.
29:56At that time, we used to meet in fiestas.
30:03A lot of people were there.
30:05And we saw these men.
30:10And they sent this friend of Sylvia.
30:13Were there any Cubans there?
30:15Or were there any...?
30:16Yes, this man, Eusebio Ascu, the consul.
30:23I can tell you right now, an American citizen meeting Cubans would have sent up red flags all over.
30:29The CIA was certainly aware of Sylvia Duran and her relationship with Oswald, as they had her arrested by Mexican
30:37police just hours after President Kennedy's assassination.
30:40When Sylvia Duran is arrested, what does she say?
30:44Bob was able to track down notes from her arrest in the Mexican National Archives.
30:49Lee Oswald arrives and solicitates a visa.
30:52In her statement to the police, Duran says she met Oswald only once. She never saw him again.
31:00That's what she said?
31:01That's what she says.
31:02Despite inconsistencies in her report and contact with Oswald, Duran was not questioned by the Warren Commission.
31:09Nothing.
31:11You're telling me that we're getting a blank to the key witness to the murder of the President of the
31:16United States, a blank?
31:17Bob believes the CIA attempted to cover up knowledge of Duran's relationship with Oswald.
31:23This new document could prove this theory to be true.
31:26To give you a little context, this is highly classified ribat.
31:30It means highly classified.
31:32It has to do with Cuba and Russians.
31:35It's a cable from headquarters to Mexico City.
31:39And here you have the CIA, this paragraph two, in instructing agents, stations should not, of course, make any reference
31:49to Oswald, Duran, or to investigate measures being taken.
31:55Which, for my reading, looks like the CIA does not want it out there that Duran is key to this
32:01investigation.
32:04Here is a woman, the center of the investigation, yet they're going out and telling case officers, do not mention
32:14Duran and Oswald.
32:16To me, that further illustrates how somebody is hiding something, and it's got to be something of significance.
32:27Look at this document.
32:34This is a memorandum from a conversation with the FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover.
32:40Bob has long believed that the official investigation into the assassination was a political response to a criminal act.
32:47And the Warren Commission was forced to conclude that Oswald was a lone wolf by the FBI director, J. Edgar
32:52Hoover.
32:53Look at this. November 24th, 1963.
32:574 p.m. That's a couple hours after Oswald's murder.
33:01Only 48 hours after he assassinated the President of the United States, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed outside
33:08the Dallas police station.
33:11Hoover says the following.
33:13There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead.
33:19He should have been screaming, I need to know the facts on this guy and what happened and why.
33:25There's no even a hint in what Hoover says demanding we get to the truth of this.
33:34I mean, look at this.
33:35The thing I am concerned about is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the
33:45real assassin.
33:47He's sticking to the line, convince the public.
33:52We have to make this guy sound as if he's a lone wolf, that he woke up one morning, grabbed
33:59his rifle, shot the President, never talked about it with anybody, never had any associates that could have anything to
34:07do with it.
34:08That's clear what Hoover wanted to do, which is frankly a cover up.
34:14For Bob, this newly declassified FBI memo is a turning point in the investigation.
34:19The fact that Hoover uses the word we have to convince people that Oswald was a lone wolf is not
34:28really appropriate for an agency that does investigations.
34:33Hoover says we need to convince the public that Oswald was a lone wolf.
34:40That was in effect an order to all the FBI agents, field offices and the rest of it.
34:45But it's not the full story.
34:47Don't forget what he doesn't want is a nuclear war.
34:51In 1963, the possibility of a nuclear exchange was very real.
34:57We cannot let the truth out because this could push us into a nuclear exchange with Russia or Cuba.
35:03It would have been the start of World War III.
35:07Hoover put out the narrative that the case was finished.
35:13Oswald acted alone, one shooter.
35:16We know all the details we'll ever need to know.
35:20And by covering up so many details, that's why all these years later, 54 years later,
35:27we're even talking about this case because of a cover up.
35:33Hoover covered up the details.
35:35The assassination of our president.
35:38And this new file confirms it.
35:46Here's something that really disturbs me.
35:49It's about Oswald's murder.
35:52It's a memo of conversation, what J. Edgar Hoover said on the 24th at 4 p.m.
36:00On Sunday, November 24th, 1963, at 1121 a.m., detectives escorted Lee Harvey Oswald from the Dallas Police Department when
36:09he was shot in the abdomen by Jack Ruby.
36:12He was pronounced dead two hours later.
36:17J. Edgar Hoover says,
36:19Last night, we received a call in our Dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice and saying
36:28he was a member of a committee organized to kill Oswald.
36:32It's a threat.
36:34Yeah, it's a threat.
36:35It's a direct threat.
36:38The FBI duly tells the chief of police, who duly tells the FBI, don't worry, we're taking care of this.
36:46It blames it on the city of Dallas.
36:49We called them, we did our duty, but the FBI should have been there protecting Oswald.
36:59The fact that the FBI did not follow up by sending agents to the Dallas police, I find very strange.
37:10I mean, here's a guy that can tell you, the only person that can really tell you his motivations, and
37:16if he had any help, is killed.
37:18It's, it's why there are so many conspiracy theories.
37:22It's why we're looking at it now, because Oswald wasn't around to tell us why he did this and who
37:28helped him.
37:30And the FBI did nothing.
37:32They did nothing proactive.
37:34I mean, there, there were tons of ways to move him, or at least insist that he stay in the
37:40police headquarters and not be moved.
37:42It's almost a relief for the FBI that Oswald's not around.
37:47They're almost happy he's killed, because then they can write the whole case off to a lone wolf.
37:54Or let me put it this way.
37:56His murder kept us out of a war, because I think if he would have got up and talked about
38:01his relationship with Cubans,
38:03it would have been absolutely damning.
38:06Because then Lyndon Johnson is forced to bomb Havana or whatever.
38:10No, you want him dead.
38:12He was, everybody wanted Oswald dead.
38:14They easily could have kept Oswald alive.
38:18They chose not to.
38:24It was since 1963, we've been kept in the dark about who killed JFK.
38:32And 54 years later, we're starting to get an insight in who did it.
38:37We're starting to get the real evidence.
38:39This recent dump of documents tells me certainly he was not a lone wolf.
38:46We now have a person and name we can follow telling Oswald, go to Mexico City, we'll take care of
38:53you.
38:54And that's El Mexicano.
38:55He's later, a couple of years later, arrested in Caracas, attempting to assassinate somebody.
39:02And now we have a new file that makes him a double agent working with Castro.
39:08If this guy is connected to the CIA and the Cubans, this is huge.
39:15Also, the 201 file that's just released puts Kostakov, the KGB assassin in San Diego, planning some sort of assassination
39:24or sabotage inside the United States.
39:28The FBI and the CIA, they did not seem to care when Oswald is shot by Ruby.
39:33And all of this, this is either colossal incompetence or an organized cover-up.
39:58The intelligence community is appealing to the president to withhold the files.
40:04And there's always the possibility that it's not to protect sources and methods, it's to protect themselves.
40:11It's embarrassing what they knew.
40:15These files have given us a lot, but hopefully in the next dump, we are going to piece this story
40:21together.
40:22What else do you hope to find in the next file release?
40:25What we've been doing up until this point is pre-assassination.
40:31There's a whole other side to this story after the assassination.
40:36The FBI's connection to Jack Ruby.
40:39What the FBI knew about Ruby's connections to the mafia.
40:43Why are they trying to hide it?
40:46Maybe the next files will tell us that.
40:48Who knows what tomorrow we're going to get?
40:51And there is no end to an investigation.
40:54There is never an end.
40:57The FBI came into an investigation.
40:57The FBI came into an investigation.
41:01The FBI came into an investigation's war drawn by C sìbeth, last password.
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