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00:22A man may die, nations may rise and fall,
00:29but an idea lives on.
00:45It's not an easy thing to kill the President of the United States,
00:49but according to the official report,
00:52one man pulled off the crime of the century completely on his own.
00:58I've never believed it.
01:01One man can't plan this without support.
01:08Now, declassified files show that Oswald met with our main enemies,
01:14then came back and assassinated the President.
01:19If someone wanted to join ISIS and traveled across the border,
01:24and then came back and committed mass murder,
01:30can we really say he acted alone?
01:35Bob Bair spent 21 years as a CIA agent,
01:39investigating assassinations and running covert operations.
01:44His interest in the Kennedy assassination became an obsession,
01:48while still working inside the walls of America's most secretive organization.
01:53When I was still at the agency, I made a request for files
01:57concerning Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy assassination.
02:00I took it all the way to the director, George H.W. Bush.
02:05He gave his approval.
02:06But when I went to retrieve the files, I was told they were all lost.
02:11Nothing the CIA does is random.
02:15They don't lose information, they conceal it.
02:17I know because I've done it myself.
02:21Now, those missing files have been declassified,
02:25along with over 2 million top secret documents pertaining to the assassination.
02:32Over the last 50 years, this case has become all about conspiracy theories.
02:37I don't believe in conspiracy theories.
02:39I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman in Dealey Plaza.
02:47But I always believe he had a network supporting him.
02:51With these declassified files, I'm going to prove it.
02:54No one can hide in the shadows forever.
03:0554 years ago, the president of the United States was murdered down there.
03:10I, for one, have never been satisfied with the record on this.
03:14This case has been contaminated by conspiracy, by movies.
03:18It's become part of our landscape, you know.
03:20It's the JFK assassination.
03:21We need to step back and we need to look at this objectively.
03:24As Bob launches his independent investigation, he's joined by Adam Bercovici.
03:31A former lieutenant of the Los Angeles Police Department,
03:34Bercovici led the elite special investigation section,
03:39supervising hundreds of high-profile homicide investigations
03:43over the course of his 30-year career.
03:46Take away the conspiracy. Look at this as a murder investigation.
03:50Adam's experience will help me get at the questions all the other investigations didn't know to ask.
03:56He thinks like a cop and that's exactly what I need.
03:59The Warren Commission clearly had a political agenda, as we know.
04:02President Johnson does not want to chuck us into a war that can kill 40 million Americans in an hour.
04:11One week after the assassination of John F. Kennedy,
04:15newly appointed President Lyndon Johnson orders Chief Justice Earl Warren
04:20to investigate the events at Dealey Plaza.
04:23From the start, Johnson is concerned about the potential involvement of communist enemies
04:29at the height of the Cold War.
04:31He warns the commission that evidence implicating Russia or Cuba
04:36could drive the world into nuclear war.
04:39In the end, the 888-page report concludes that Oswald acted entirely alone,
04:45without the assistance of any accomplices.
04:50The Warren Commission was ordered to avoid any conclusion that would lead to war.
04:55So they ignored important questions.
04:57Who else would have benefited from JFK's murder?
05:01The Russians? The Cubans?
05:02It's hard to believe he didn't have support.
05:05The Warren Commission report drew on thousands of pieces of evidence.
05:10But the fact is, there were millions upon millions more pieces of evidence.
05:17The Warren Commission didn't have access to because the CIA and the FBI withheld information.
05:23More than 2 million documents have been declassified in this case.
05:27But there's one document that jumped out at me right away.
05:32This is a classified conversation between President Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on November 23, 1963,
05:43the day after the assassination, in a meeting about Oswald.
05:47Here's LBJ.
05:49Have you established any more about the visit to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico in September?
05:55J. Edgar Hoover, no, that's one angle that's very confusing.
06:02This is extraordinary.
06:04This evidence puts Oswald in the Soviet Embassy eight weeks before the assassination.
06:09The fact that that's not been looked at closely, I don't get it.
06:13I mean, this is the Cold War.
06:14This is 1963.
06:16This is at the height of the undeclared conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States.
06:21And he makes it to Mexico City?
06:23And he goes to the Soviet Embassy?
06:25That's a big deal.
06:27Today, if you substituted the Soviet Embassy with the Islamic State in Syria,
06:34this is enough to get somebody arrested as a material witness.
06:38Absolutely.
06:39This is a hundred times worse than what we're seeing today,
06:43because this man killed the President of the United States,
06:45and he made contact right before with the main enemy.
06:51Let's see what else there is about Oswald's visit to Mexico City.
06:56To analyze more than two million declassified documents gathered over a 54-year period,
07:02the team utilizes an enhanced neural network,
07:06running state-of-the-art analysis algorithms
07:09to uncover hidden links between seemingly unrelated documents.
07:13In this case, there hasn't been one giant document dump.
07:18The documents have been released strategically, little by little,
07:21making it virtually impossible for people to piece it together.
07:25This is what the CIA does. I did it myself.
07:28No one's taken the time to put them all together and look at them as a collective.
07:34Look at this.
07:35After the assassination, John McCone, the CIA director,
07:40tells employees not to answer questions about Oswald in Mexico City.
07:45This is not how a criminal investigation is conducted.
07:48They were telling people not to tell the truth.
07:51Something happened in Mexico City the CIA didn't want the Warren Commission to know about.
07:56We're gonna need more evidence.
07:58Yeah, we've got to get down there. This is ground zero for this whole investigation.
08:04When Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President John F. Kennedy, he's only 24 years old.
08:10Born in New Orleans, Oswald is raised in Dallas without a father, who died shortly before his birth.
08:17At age 19, he attempts to renounce his American citizenship and effect to the Soviet Union.
08:24His efforts to become a Soviet citizen fail, but he remains in Russia for three years until 1962,
08:32returning to the United States just one year before his trip to Mexico City.
08:42Mexico City in the 60s was a hotbed of espionage.
08:46Because of the close proximity to the United States and Mexico's soft stance on communism,
08:52America's enemies used the city as a hub of intelligence.
08:56Right here it is, ground zero.
08:59It's no coincidence that the biggest crime of the 20th century could have been planned here.
09:16Oh, good to see you again.
09:17Good to see you.
09:18Let's go get after it.
09:19Yeah.
09:20Joining the team in Mexico City is former Army Ranger Marty Scoveland,
09:25a veteran of five Middle East deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan.
09:30Marty specialized in covert operations during his time in the military.
09:35His knowledge of terrorist networks and assassinations will be invaluable to this investigation.
09:42Oswald's six days in this city are absolutely crucial.
09:46They were never looked into by the Warren Commission because they didn't want to know.
09:52All through the declassified files, there's smoke.
09:55What I want to do is find the fire.
09:58If the CIA is telling people not to answer questions, those are exactly the questions I want answered.
10:10Former CIA agent Bob Baer has launched an investigation into assassin Lee Harvey Oswald,
10:17following evidence from more than 2 million declassified government files.
10:21I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman in Dealey Plaza.
10:27Doesn't mean there weren't others who could have aided him in the assassination.
10:32A declassified CIA document, one that did not appear in the Warren Commission's official report,
10:39reveals that President Lyndon B. Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
10:44had knowledge of a suspicious meeting at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City,
10:48where Russian officials met with Lee Harvey Oswald only eight weeks before he murdered the president.
10:55During the 1960s, right on the doorstep of the U.S., you have a hotbed of Soviet espionage right here
11:02in Mexico City.
11:03So we have Oswald, almost 24 years old, walking right through those gates into the Soviet Embassy.
11:11Essentially meeting with the enemy.
11:13If we look at it today in terms of that context, a 24-year-old meeting with ISIS or Al
11:20Qaeda stands out.
11:21I mean, it's a big deal. It really is.
11:24All spy operations were run out of here.
11:26The CIA had it completely covered from observation posts and listening posts.
11:31What I want to do is get into these buildings around here and find out, if we can, where the
11:38CIA listening post was.
11:39I'd like to see the vantage point they used.
11:44Back in the 1960s and even today, the CIA employed covert surveillance stations known as listening posts
11:52in strategic spots across the globe to gather intelligence from foreign enemies.
11:57Situated near embassies and government buildings, these sites utilized long-range microphones and telephone bugs
12:04to document activity at sensitive locations.
12:09Let's move.
12:10I want to find the listening post the CIA used to observe Oswald's visit.
12:15My suspicion is that U.S. surveillance might have been too intense for the Russians to discuss anything sensitive
12:22with Oswald inside the embassy.
12:24But I can't say for sure until I put eyes on the site.
12:28Let's start this building right here.
12:30Utilizing his network, Bob gains access to what he believes is a former CIA listening post along the embassy's perimeter.
12:38Come in.
12:39So you've lived here a long time?
12:42Quite for a while.
12:43When we moved in, we realized that there was something pretty weird about this apartment.
12:47There was the safe, there was, uh, there were some monitors.
12:52Yeah.
12:52And also that door over there, as you can see, it's made of metal, so...
12:57Look at this door.
12:58That's a safe room.
13:00Yeah, look at the lock on here.
13:02The door that we came in over here, that's no normal, ordinary apartment door either.
13:06I mean, you've got a cage on the outside.
13:08Whoever was staying in here wanted a very secure apartment.
13:12We were told that there were some people perhaps as guys for several years.
13:16I've kicked a lot of doors in my career, and I've never seen one like this.
13:19Yeah.
13:19You're right next to the Russian embassy.
13:22This was definitely an LP, a listening post.
13:26Any American walking into this embassy is not coming here for high tea.
13:31He's coming here to do damage to the United States.
13:38Oswald going into the Soviet embassy is what's called a walk-in.
13:44People that come in willing to betray their country and give up what they know.
13:51As soon as Oswald enters the Soviet embassy, he would have met a Russian diplomatic official.
13:58But in fact, he's probably KGB.
14:01It's the way it works.
14:03This is something that I spent a career doing.
14:07As Oswald makes his way through the embassy, this whole process would look like it was a visa interview.
14:15But in fact, that's just the cover.
14:18He's going to be ushered into a walk-in room where he's going to be met by other KGB officers.
14:24They would have quickly sized Oswald up to see if Oswald would be of any use.
14:32I've run dozens and dozens of these things where you bring an LP.
14:36And the major thing is the Russians know it's here, but that doesn't keep the CIA from watching who's coming
14:43in.
14:44I mean, you just imagine sitting here in 63.
14:47This is where they probably watched him walk in.
14:50Weeks later, President Kennedy's dead.
14:54We have to assume at this point that Oswald intends to commit political murder.
15:00Two months later, he kills the President of the United States.
15:04The chances of his coming into this embassy and proposing political murder in the United States are pretty good.
15:11The better chance is that the moment he mentions that, the Russians are going to say,
15:17all right, let's take this outside.
15:19The Russians have to assume their embassy is wired.
15:22And all conversations inside that embassy are monitored.
15:29And what I want to find out is when he left this embassy, whether there was recontact.
15:35And also, what were the Russians' intentions?
15:38If the Russians were involved in the assassination, I don't believe they would have talked about the murder inside the
15:44embassy.
15:45They were simply under too much surveillance, and they knew it.
15:49You just look at this LP here and how close we are.
15:53The Russians wouldn't have taken the risk, and they just wouldn't do it here.
15:56After finding this listening post, I now feel confident the Russians would have met up with Oswald at a safe
16:03location outside the embassy.
16:06Some place that they could speak where they weren't being surveilled.
16:09We need to look for evidence of that covert meeting.
16:12The red flag has already gone up for me.
16:16Convinced that Oswald and the Russians would have never discussed Kennedy's assassination inside the embassy,
16:22the team divides to look for evidence of a second meeting.
16:26While Bob and Adam dig back into the documents, Marty meets up with local investigator Eric Ceballos
16:32and heads to Lee Harvey Oswald's Mexico City Hotel.
16:37You're saying this is not really a tourist area?
16:40No, no, no. It's actually pretty sketchy. It's dangerous, for sure.
16:45Do you think it was that way back in 63?
16:48Yes, this part of the city, yes. It's not a tourist-free place.
16:53The Warren Commission reports that Lee Harvey Oswald checked in to the Hotel Del Comercio
16:59within one hour of his arrival in Mexico City.
17:03Okay, it's just up here, guys.
17:05Located in a high-crime area with a reported cartel presence,
17:10Eric instructs Marty to utilize a phone camera to film the hotel.
17:20The first thing that jumps out at me is this is off the beaten path.
17:25It's run down.
17:26It's just not the typical spot that you would come to as a tourist.
17:31It's very functional.
17:33I worked as a member of a unit that was bringing down the most sophisticated terrorist networks in the world.
17:39This is the kind of flop house terrorist hide-in to stay off the radar.
17:43And he gets off the bus in Mexico City and goes straight for this hotel.
17:48When you look at Lee Harvey Oswald's patterns of behavior, they raise all sorts of red flags.
17:52You know, he's claiming to be a tourist, but he's not acting like a tourist at all.
17:56He's not staying where a tourist stays.
17:57He's acting in a very deliberate and planned out manner that's consistent with somebody that's on a mission.
18:09The CIA veteran Bob Baer has launched an investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy assassination.
18:17The official report says that Oswald acted alone.
18:21I've never believed it.
18:22One man can't plan this without support.
18:27Newly declassified documents suggest that Oswald was working with the Soviets to murder Kennedy.
18:32Now, Bob and former police lieutenant Adam Bercovici are searching for evidence of a secret meeting between Oswald and the
18:41Russians.
18:45Anybody that walks into a Soviet embassy in a country with a hotbed of espionage is not a tourist.
18:54I'll tell you, if I were in that embassy, and I were assessing him, I would give him a walk
18:59-in package.
19:00It's the way it works.
19:03When I was at the CIA, I ran hundreds of walk-ins.
19:07If a walk-in comes into the embassy, the protocol is very clear.
19:15If the Russians wanted to meet Oswald outside the embassy, they would have given him coded meeting arrangements.
19:22A so-called walk-in package.
19:26It would have looked like ordinary papers.
19:29Things that would look completely benign to anyone but Oswald.
19:36Even the CIA would not have immediately recognized them for what they were.
19:42These papers would have pointed Oswald in the direction of another location and time.
19:50The meeting outside of the embassy.
19:56In the wake of the assassination, the FBI cataloged all of Lee Harvey Oswald's personal effects.
20:04Among the items listed in the Warren Commission were a Spanish-English dictionary, a tourist guide, a city map, and
20:11multiple postcards.
20:15We have a map.
20:16Any tourist could have had this.
20:17We've got a dictionary, Spanish-English dictionary.
20:20We've got postcards.
20:25You know what I don't like about the postcards?
20:27Here's a guy on the edge.
20:30Would he come down here and buy a postcard?
20:33What possible reason?
20:35Do people do that, that are about ready to commit a crime?
20:39The Warren Commission missed this.
20:41These postcards were not looked at with any expertise.
20:46Like the rest of the stuff Oswald walked around Mexico City with, the postcards could easily be written off as
20:54something a tourist would buy.
20:55But having spent 21 years in the CIA, this screams tradecraft to me.
21:01During the Cold War, the Soviet KGB perfected the art of covert communication, known as tradecraft.
21:10In 1961, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky of the Soviet military used postcards as a mechanism to pass intelligence during clandestine operations.
21:20The landmark featured on the front of the postcard is the desired location of a secret meeting.
21:26There is no set time for this meeting.
21:28Instead, the KGB surveils their asset, waiting for him to visit the landmark.
21:34Agents would then make their approach.
21:39Sending Oswald out of an embassy with a postcard, outlining what the meeting is going to be.
21:45The tradecraft is identical to the tradecraft used by the KGB.
21:49Absolutely, absolutely secure, doesn't implicate in its absence of evidence that is evidence itself.
21:58The postcards in Oswald's possession feature four prominent Mexico City landmarks.
22:03The Revolution Monument, the Torre Latino, the Angel of Independence, and the Plaza de Toros Bullring.
22:12So what do you think?
22:13I think, yeah, we've got four locations.
22:15What I'd like to do is go and visit all four and reconstruct the most logical place to make a
22:24meeting.
22:28We know from the documents the CIA observed Oswald going inside the Russian embassy and meeting with our main enemy.
22:37After the meeting, the CIA would have been keeping track of Oswald around the city.
22:42If one of these places would have been used to discuss killing Kennedy, it would have had to have been
22:48a place where you can't be photographed, where you can't be surveilled.
22:51The team splits up to see which of the four locations is viable for a covert meeting.
23:00So what we're looking for is a place that Sylvius might have had what they're calling an iron meeting.
23:07The first of Oswald's postcards features the Revolution Monument, a landmark opened in 1938 to commemorate the Mexican Revolution.
23:17The bottom line is, is this a place that we want to have a clandestine meeting?
23:23It's the kind of meeting that can't be compromised by counter-surveillance.
23:27The KGB at that time, they were among the best in the world at doing this sort of thing.
23:32They're not going to pick a place that leaves them vulnerable at all.
23:38I mean, you've got a meeting spot up there, but you've got one way up, one way down, essentially no
23:43escape route if you're trying to beat a surveillance.
23:45Up there is a terrible place to conduct a meeting, but it's a great place if you're the one running
23:50surveillance on a potential meeting.
23:53In 1963, both KGB and CIA operations assume the enemy is always watching.
24:00The KGB strategically select meeting locations to dodge the CIA, avoiding places like the plaza around the Revolution Monument,
24:10where the CIA could easily watch from the monument's elevated perch.
24:15We need something that's easy to get in and out of, something that's easy to counter-surveil.
24:19And this is not that place.
24:23Across town, Bob is joined by local investigator Eric Ceballos to survey the second location featured on Oswald's postcards.
24:33This is the Angel of Independence.
24:36Let's see what we can see.
24:39Known commonly as El Angel, the Angel of Independence was built in 1910,
24:44on a roundabout of a major thoroughfare in downtown Mexico City.
24:51I've worked against the KGB for many years, and I can tell you right now,
24:55they're not going to pick an open location like this that you've got 360 degree coverage.
25:01They can't control it.
25:03The CIA was watching everything they did there.
25:06The Angel of Independence sits on an isolated roundabout, making a meeting visible from all directions,
25:13and offering no escape route for KGB agents, or Oswald, if spotted by the CIA.
25:19I'm quite certain that whatever this postcard means, it did not mean meeting here.
25:25That makes no sense at all.
25:32With two sites left to investigate, Adam and Marty head into the heart of Mexico City's financial district.
25:39A postcard featuring the skyscraper known as El Torre Latino was one of four found among the personal possessions of
25:48Lee Harvey Oswald.
25:50This building right here, this Empire State Building looking thing, 1963, this was the tallest building in Mexico City.
26:01One thing that really strikes me, and I'm sure it hasn't changed that much, is the volume of people here.
26:05Even in our major cities like New York, we're just not going to see this type of volume of people.
26:09It's more similar to like an India Bombay or something.
26:13You know, what do you think in terms of the meet location?
26:16Big crowds are an excellent place to be able to lose people, get lost in the crowd, be able to
26:21duck in and out of alleyways.
26:22You want to be able to place where you can make a quick escape if you need.
26:26The tall buildings like this are exactly what you don't want around.
26:32They had long lenses back then, you could put multiple people up in these buildings with a long lens and
26:36they're going to take all the pictures they want.
26:38Outside El Torre Latino, there are no distinct meeting spots on the chaotic sidewalks for KGB agents to intercept Oswald.
26:46Inside the building, CIA agents could easily surround them and monitor conversations from neighboring structures.
26:54This is not what I'm looking for if I'm setting up a meeting like that.
27:00The last potential site of Oswald's covert meeting with the Soviet KGB,
27:06the Plaza de Toros, Mexico, the world's largest bullring.
27:11Back then, it was packed every Sunday.
27:16And when you get a ticket, do you actually get the number, the row you have to sit on?
27:21Yes, you do.
27:26That's amazing.
27:31This looks really, really interesting.
27:39Wow, look at this place.
27:44This is an ideal location.
27:47The bullring is the perfect site for a secret meeting with the KGB.
27:51The question remains, was Lee Harvey Oswald here?
28:02All of these seats and the number of tunnels and you would never be able to surveil anybody.
28:10It would be nearly impossible.
28:11Back then, it was packed every Sunday.
28:13In Mexico City, former CIA agent Bob Baer is investigating the Plaza de Toros, Mexico, a bullring where he suspects
28:23that Lee Harvey Oswald had a secret meeting with the KGB just weeks before the Kennedy assassination.
28:33If the KGB met with Oswald, they would have specifically chosen a meeting location where they couldn't be watched by
28:40CIA operatives. This bullring could be perfect.
28:44Do many foreigners come here?
28:47Yeah, it's kind of a tourist attraction too.
28:50So an American showing up, a gringo.
28:53He could mingle in easily.
28:54He could mingle in. It's a logical place for Oswald to go. He's in Mexico City. A lot go to
29:00the bullfight.
29:00Mm-hmm.
29:02But the other edge of the sword is, it's the perfect place to make an introduction.
29:08If Oswald were given tickets, he could go to the stadium, sit in the seat, ticket indicates.
29:18Some guy sits next to him and they can sit here and talk.
29:23It's foolproof.
29:24Mm-hmm.
29:25This would be a classic KGB operation.
29:28Of all the locations in the four postcards, the only one that makes sense to me is the bullring.
29:36The other three were probably decoys.
29:39The KGB would never risk putting Oswald in a meeting outside of the embassy in the other locations.
29:48This is what it boils down to.
29:51It's gonna do you no good to come here and meet with nobody in the stadium.
29:55What we need is to determine whether there was a bullfight when Oswald was here.
30:01Because if there was no bullfight, there was no meeting.
30:07Do you think there are records of this here?
30:11Yeah, it's card copy.
30:12Bob and Eric make contact with Jorge Sanchez at the National Archive to examine bullfighting records from Oswald's six-day
30:21trip to Mexico City between September 27th and October 2nd, 1963.
30:30Yeah, this looks like the right dates.
30:40Let me see.
30:42Oh, here's something.
30:45Same date.
30:47Sunday, 29th of September of 1963.
30:50And here is a bullfight.
30:53This was in Plaza Mexico.
30:55It's the same place.
30:57Yeah.
30:58Same as the card.
30:59This is our bullfight.
31:02For me, this is key.
31:04Oswald goes into the Russian embassy on the 28th.
31:08He ends up with a postcard of the bullfighting ring.
31:12And then the exact next day, there's a bullfight.
31:15You just start adding this stuff up.
31:18Every piece of evidence we have points to an iron meeting at this stadium.
31:28We checked the archives, and there was a bullfight during Oswald's visit.
31:32I mean, this is the kind of tradecraft that the KGB is known for.
31:37This place offers what none of those other places did.
31:40Bob Bear reunites with former police Lieutenant Adam Bercovici and former Army Ranger Marty Scoveland to pressure test the team's
31:50working theory that Lee Harvey Oswald met with KGB operatives at the Plaza de Toros, Mexico, to avoid detection by
31:58the CIA.
31:59Okay, here's what I want to do.
32:01I want to run a little test here, play a little spy game.
32:04I want to show you how a meeting can take place there, right under your nose, and you don't see
32:10it.
32:11I'm going to go in there, and I'm going to meet up with our fixer, Eric.
32:15And I want to see how hard it is for you guys to keep track of me in there.
32:21The only way to figure out how these things work is to test them.
32:27To simulate the role of Oswald, Bob will proceed into the stadium alone.
32:32In an attempt to meet undetected with a KGB operative, played by the team's local investigator, Eric Ceballos.
32:42With Eric in position and Bob on the move, Adam and Marty set out to track them down, simulating CIA
32:49surveillance of Russian activity.
32:52This test should have been done 50 years ago.
32:54This is the kind of detail that you really need to get into because it's something the Warren Commission never
33:00looked at.
33:01They never went to the bullfighting stadium.
33:03They just dismissed the evidence.
33:06If I manage to evade their surveillance and make my secret meeting, we'll be one step closer to proving that
33:13the Russians could have been involved in the assassination.
33:26I'm going to go ahead and see if I can take a look down there, see what I can see.
33:34In 1963, approximately 40,000 people attended fights at the Plaza de Toros, Mexico, filling more than three tiers of
33:43seating.
33:44Two main entrances and more than 20 interior tunnels create a labyrinth of concourses within the concrete structure.
33:53Tonight, there are approximately 10,000 people in attendance.
34:00A big part of my career was involved in the surveillance world, surveilling some of the worst criminals on the
34:06streets of Los Angeles.
34:07It is one of the hardest things to do.
34:10It's not like the movies where you're locked up behind them.
34:12It is a hunt.
34:16The manhunt begins.
34:19And the team will soon find out if Lee Harvey Oswald could have met undetected with America's most dangerous enemy.
34:35In Mexico City, CIA veteran Bob Baer and his team are pressure testing their working theory that Lee Harvey Oswald
34:45met undetected with KGB agents at the Plaza de Toros Bullring eight weeks before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
34:54In 1963, the Soviets were our main enemy.
34:58Oswald meeting with a KGB officer would be like someone meeting with a member of ISIS today.
35:05Bob plays the role of Oswald, attempting to meet undetected with a KGB operative played by local investigator Eric.
35:12Adam and Marty set out to track them down, simulating CIA operatives spying on the Russians.
35:20All right, Adam, I think I got Bob over here between sections one and seven.
35:28That's going to be a negative.
35:29That is not Bob.
35:30That is not our target.
35:31Copy.
35:32All right, we need to figure out where he is.
35:34We're running out of time.
35:41I've got about two sections to clear.
35:43I'm going to do nine and ten.
35:45And just take a look down towards the center of the stadium.
35:48Roger.
35:53There's a lot of people here.
35:55This is a little bit more difficult than I was expecting.
36:00A stadium's a big place, even for a trained person.
36:03So this presents a lot of challenges.
36:05In today's day and age, we've got a lot of technology that aids this.
36:10But we're kind of putting ourselves back in the 1960s here.
36:12So it becomes physically very difficult to conduct a thorough reconnaissance of this area and tail somebody.
36:24Hey, Bob.
36:24What's up?
36:26Hey, Adam, Marty.
36:29Negative.
36:32We did not. Negative.
36:33We did not.
36:35No, we did not see you.
36:37Thought so.
36:39Get some pressure testing this place.
36:41It's too hard to pick up anybody in here.
36:45The stadium wasn't full tonight.
36:47But it would have been back in 1963.
36:50And surveillance would have been even more challenging.
36:53The result of this operation has a huge impact on this case.
36:58In my mind, it proves that Oswald could have met with the Russians undetected.
37:04But this is just the beginning.
37:06We need to dig back into the files and find the smoking gun.
37:18The question is, if he did go to the stadium to meet somebody, who was it?
37:23Yeah.
37:24What do we have here?
37:27Oswald, put the dates in there.
37:31You see any name that pops up from the Warren Commission records.
37:38There we go.
37:39Mexico City.
37:40Oswald meeting, Soviet Union.
37:43Yeah.
37:43Letter from Leah Harvey Oswald to Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
37:48This is to inform you of recent events since my meeting with comrade Koston
37:53in the embassy of the Soviet Union, Mexico City.
37:57Who's Koston?
37:58I don't know.
37:59When I used to meet walk-ins in embassies, I never gave him my true name.
38:04Let's strip all the parameters out except Koston, and let's just see if there's a Russian in Mexico City with
38:13a variation of Koston.
38:15Let's see what we got.
38:16Here we go.
38:19Um, what do we have here?
38:22Look at this.
38:24Information developed by CIA on activity of Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City.
38:30There is no official of the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City with a name resembling Koston other than Consul Kostakov.
38:42There is firm evidence for the conclusion that Kostakov is a Soviet state security officer, KGB.
38:50Change the search, Kostakov.
38:57Okay, here we go.
38:59Contact of Lee Harvey Oswald with a member of the Soviet KGB.
39:03Kostakov is an identified KGB officer.
39:07He was a case officer in an operation which is evidently sponsored by the KGB's 13th Department.
39:16Responsible for sabotage and assassination.
39:19I mean, I don't know how much clearer it gets than that.
39:21I've been entrenched in the JFK assassination for decades.
39:25And I've learned not to come to conclusions too quickly.
39:29But the fact that the head of the KGB's assassination squad was in Mexico City at the same time as
39:36Oswald is something that I have to take seriously.
39:39I don't believe that's a coincidence.
39:41That is great.
39:43That's a great point.
39:44Okay?
39:46Let's go.
39:47Yeah.
39:47Hey.
39:49Hey.
39:50Hey.
39:50Hey.
39:50Hey.
39:50Hey.
40:02Hello.
40:05Hey.
40:05Hey.
40:05have met with the head of the Soviet KGB assassination squad only eight weeks before
40:11Kennedy's death. What are the chances of Oswald going to Mexico City, getting to see the KGB,
40:18which is not an easy thing to do, and then ending up with the guy in charge of assassinations for
40:25North America? This is one of these coincidences that I don't think is a coincidence.
40:32Department 13 was reputed to be the Soviet KGB's assassination squad. Reportedly handling
40:39operations known as liquid affairs, the department utilized untraceable poisons,
40:45car bombings, and abductions to achieve their goals. Valery Kostikov publicly worked as a diplomat
40:52at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City, but CIA documents reveal he also covertly headed this
40:59notorious section of the KGB. What we don't have is an explanation of why Kostikov agreed to meet
41:07with Oswald. Why did the CIA not reveal this to the Warren Commission? This is either colossal
41:14incompetence or an organized cover-up. This whole thing is very suspect. There's some sort of
41:21relationship which was established from Oswald's time in Moscow. I want to find out what that
41:27relationship is. And that's why I need to get to Moscow, to get their version of events.
41:32This is evidence like we've never seen before. Wars have been started with less evidence. Somebody in
41:40Russia knows exactly what Oswald's connections with the KGB were. This season on, tracking Oswald.
41:54The Warren Commission never came to Russia to investigate this for themselves.
41:59Two months before he assassinated Kennedy. We just want to come in and talk for a few minutes.
42:16Sometimes clues are left behind. Most people don't know he tried to commit suicide. This is the first
42:21time you've ever spoken on camera? The first time, yes. This is all being covertly done right in our
42:28backyard. That's pretty shocking. People were out here training. The pieces are starting to come
42:34together. Every piece of evidence we've been following has led to this. Five minutes down the road,
42:39it's a sleeper cell. He had accomplices.
42:45Sometimes you can be eaten by your own monster that you created. Oswald headed out saying,
42:52I'm going to kill Kennedy for this. This memo is signed by J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover is saying,
42:58I believe this. This document could finally reveal Oswald's motive for the assassination of John F.
43:05Kennedy. Holy .
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