Republican Claims Russia Has Given Her JFK Assassination Files
Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna has said the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C. had given her Moscow’s report into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Luna, a congresswoman for Florida’s 13th district, posted on X that she had received the documents and they would be reviewed and translated by experts before being publicly released.
Russia’s Embassy to the U.S. confirmed on X that it had provided Luna with the archives, adding the documents would be published in Russia in November.
Newsweek has contacted the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. State Department for comment.
Why It Matters
John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22,1963 while traveling in an open-top motorcade in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine, was arrested over the killing but was himself shot dead before facing trial by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub operator.
The 1964 Warren Commission concluded Oswald had acted alone, though the killing has been subject to conspiracy theories and public interest is likely to be stoked by Luna’s X post.
What To Know
Luna, who is chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said in March the range of JFK theories was fueled because “the government was not transparent.”
She also praised the executive order by President Donald Trump to declassify the assassination files of JFK, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Luna’s X post will renew interest in the historic killing. She had recently teased that she would receive Russia’s report into the JFK assassination and her post on Tuesday confirmed she had received a hard copy of the 350-page report.
“We have been given access to them now for the first time in history,” she said, adding that Congress had attempted to obtain these files in the 1990s but was denied access.
A team of experts—including investigative journalist and CIA expert Jefferson Morley—will translate and review the documents which would be uploaded as soon as possible to ensure the American people had direct access to them, she said.
Archive documents linked to the assassination had been handed to Luna when she was received at the residence of Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Alexander Darchiev, said his embassy on X.
The statement also said that many files had been presented by the Soviet representative at Kennedy’s funeral, Anastas Mikoyan.
What People Are Saying
Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna wrote on X: “I have received a hard copy of the report on JFK’s assassination from the Ambassador of Russia… Thank you again to everyone involved to include the Russian embassy for making this happen. This is of massive historical significance.”
The Russian embassy in the U.S. wrote on X: “Archive documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination to be officially published in Russia in November…was handed over to Representative Anna Paulina Luna upon her request and the consent of copyholders by the Russian Ambassador. This will provide additional public access to the tragedy circumstances.”
What Happens Next
Luna’s post suggested the documents would be reviewed and released quickly while the Russian embassy’s statement said the archives would be in the public domain by November.
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