Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Darchiev has handed over declassified Soviet-era documents on the JFK assassination to U.S. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. The files, obtained from Moscow’s archives, were previously shared with the U.S. during Kennedy’s funeral in 1963 but are now being reviewed in detail by Luna’s team, including journalist Jefferson Morley.
Luna has been campaigning for the release of all information related to the killing of Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president, on November 22, 1963. She has questioned whether Lee Harvey Oswald, the man charged with the murder, was actually responsible. The KGB collected files on Oswald, a former U.S. Marine with left-leaning views, because he had lived in the Soviet Union for about three years and was married to a Russian woman.
Although the official investigation concluded that Oswald acted alone, various theories persist regarding Kennedy’s death, with some suggesting that the CIA or other elements of the U.S. government were involved. U.S. President Donald Trump released 2,800 documents on the JFK assassination in 2017 and an additional 80,000 pages related to the case in March 2025. Luna’s team is now translating and analyzing the 350-page collection, with Morley providing context on the documents’ significance and their comparison with existing knowledge of Russia’s response to JFK’s assassination.