JFK Assassination Documents
The largest collection in the archive: primary-source CIA and House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. These files trace Lee Harvey Oswald's 1959 travel to the Soviet Union, his 1963 contacts with the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City, the CIA officer Valeriy Kostikov, the withheld Warren Commission document CD-971, and the CIA's own internal record-keeping on the case. Each document is reproduced in full and sealed with a SHA-256 fingerprint you can verify yourself.
Documents in this collection
CIA Propaganda Strategy on Soviet Diplomats in Congo (1963)
Declassified 1963 CIA cable regarding the arrest of Soviet diplomats in the Congo and instructions for generating international publicity to discredit the Sovi…
CIA MKUltra Subproject 123: Emerging Nations Study
CIA MKUltra Subproject 123 (1960): a $20,000 field study of 'emerging national images' — ~100 village interviews across three newly-independent countries.
CIA Mexico City Station Communication Regarding LICRAFT-1
A declassified CIA cable from the Mexico City station regarding operational contact with an asset codenamed LICRAFT-1. View the original archival record here.
CIA Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro (1960–1963)
Read declassified CIA records detailing the agency's 1960s plots to assassinate Fidel Castro using U.S. gambling syndicate contacts and underworld figures.
FBI: Soviet Intelligence Travel & Cover Techniques (1953)
A 1953 FBI counterintelligence monograph cataloging how Soviet intelligence used diplomatic, trade, press and Red Cross cover to infiltrate agents abroad.
Stargate Remote Viewing: DIA Long-Range Plan (1991)
The 1991 DIA long-range plan for STAR GATE — the U.S. military's remote-viewing 'psychic spy' program — before its 1995 shutdown and declassification.
CIA: The Sovietization of the Cuban Revolution (1973)
A CIA-held analysis of how the USSR took control of Castro's Cuba — economically and politically — from 1968 to the 1972 'point of no return.'
CIA Cables on Oswald's Helsinki Hotel Stay, 1964
1964 CIA cables trace Lee Harvey Oswald's stay at the Torni Hotel in Helsinki and flights from London, part of the effort to reconstruct his Soviet travel.
CIA Memo: Keep Warren Commission CD 971 Classified (1968)
Read the declassified 1968 CIA memorandum advising against the release of Warren Commission Document 971 to protect national security and station operations.
CIA Operational Cable Regarding Mexico Travel Authorization
Declassified CIA cable 104-10101-10130 regarding travel authorizations for a case officer and an individual named Garcia to Mexico for operational case managem…
CIA on Cuban Subversion in Latin America (1963)
A 1963 CIA intelligence report detailing Cuban arms caches in Venezuela, political instability in Brazil, and communist activities across Latin America.
CIA Administrative Record on Document Handling Procedures
A declassified CIA administrative record containing fragmented text and internal routing codes. The document is largely illegible and lacks substantive content.
CIA Report on Alberto Bayo's Travels (1962)
Declassified CIA document 104-10101-10120 detailing the aliases, military titles, and international travel records of Alberto Bayo Giroud between 1962 and 1963.
CIA Communications on a JFK Assassination Subject (1968)
Declassified CIA document 104-10012-10101 from 1968 regarding subject transportation, internal case file management, and references to the Kennedy assassinatio…
CIA Gateway Process: Monroe Institute Consciousness Manual
The CIA's Gateway Process files: Monroe Institute Hemi-Sync training for expanded consciousness and out-of-body experiences, studied for intelligence value.
CIA Psychic Files: 'Boom Times on the Psychic Frontier'
A magazine cover story on the 1970s psychic-research boom — ESP and out-of-body experiments — collected in the CIA's parapsychology files.
CIA Files: US 'Psychic Spies' & Remote Viewing (1995)
A 1995 CIA file holding the news exposé of America's remote-viewing 'psychic spies' (Stargate), by journalist Jim Schnabel in the Independent on Sunday.
CIA Manual: Defeating Urban Violence (Counterinsurgency)
A CIA counterinsurgency guidance publication, 'Defeating Urban Violence,' outlining Cold War systems for anticipating and countering urban unrest.
CIA Files: Fritz Kolbe, the OSS Spy 'George Wood'
The CIA file on Fritz Kolbe ('George Wood') — the German diplomat who smuggled 2,600 secret documents from Hitler's Foreign Office to the OSS in WWII.