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Document date: 4/4/67
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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION

FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : DOJ

RECORD NUMBER

: 179-20002-10212

RECORDS SERIES

: CLASSIFIED SUBJECT FILE 129-11, OFFICIAL MAIL SECT. 18B

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : FBI

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TO

TITLE :

DATE

: 04/04/1967

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SUBJECTS : ASSASSINATION, KENNEDY, JOHN, SOVIET REACTION TO

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : SECRET

RESTRICTIONS : 1B, 1C, 2, 4

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SECRET

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Rofer 10

File No.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

20535

April 4, 1967

362143

Classified by

05 0mB/EH

Declassify on: ONOR

(FK)

Assassination of President

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Dallas, ICxaf1963

ARD INFORMACION CONTAINNO

November 22i,

HEREIN IS UNCLASSTOIED EXOLET

WHERE SHOAN OTHERVISE-

confidential intormant, contact with whom has

oeen insulicent to establish his reliability, during S

January, 1967, advised that in connection with the

01 President conn fitzgerald Kennedy, it was LS

concluded by the KGB Headquarters in Moscow that he was

killed by representatives of a group of monopolists

connected

with the south and the east of the United

States.

This grcup of monopolists, characterized as the military-

industrial complex

rotivities and hurt their

felt that kennedy had tried to limit their

interests and therefore they

planned his essassination.

Informant advised that this conclusion was

drawn after the KGB had

spent between six months and a year

to study information to determine the cause of the

assessination.

source stated

that the most reliable

KGB agents in

the world were mobilized, in addition to

other official contacts in order to gather, in a wide

scope, Information concerning

the reason for the

assassination.

A group of officers in Moscow carefully gathered

the information and conducted extensive research and

analysis and came to the conclusion that it was the

milItary-industrial complex who vere responsible for the

death of Kennedy. (S)

Informant advised that the Soviets felt

Kennedy's death was a great loss, not only for the

United

States, not only for the Soviet Union, but for the whole

He was realistic in his analysis of international

issues, as well as the

internal issues of the United

States.

Kennedy was highly regarded because he organized

many research bodies

researchers to study many

different

problems with long-range prospects. He

SECRET

GROUP 1

Ixcluded 1ypn automatic

downgradiys and

declassification

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Assassination o1 Prosident

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

introduced comouters in the analysis of different

aspects

of politics, military plannins, strategical planning and

other such

matters

He was considered by the soviets to be

a very serious man

who could be relied upon and who was true

to his word.

This latter was particularly pieasing to the

Soviets since they do not like statesmen who frequently

change their minds and their statements. Kennedy was the

first President

the

Soviets felt they could deal with

on a

cooperative level with promising prospects since President

Franklin D. Roosevelt,

The Soviets considered him to be

one of the most promising nen

through whom the Soviets could

arrange relations with the United States and with whom there

were far ranging prospects of cooperation.

Informant pointed out that upon hearing the news

of the assassination of President Kennedy, a unique situation

occurred in Moscow, in that the people who walked in the

streets of Moscow were in toars and mournful music was

played on the zadio.

Informant stated parcicularly since this

was

an event which occurred in another country, the attitude.

of the people was unique.

Informant pointed out that, to the best of his

knowledge, there was no relationship between Lee Harvey

the assassin of donn fitzgerald dennedy: and

the

formant stated that ordinarily the KGB has an

interest in all Americans visiting the Soviet Union ard

that initially all such individuals are studied to determine

However, in regard

to lee Harvey Oswald, informant is of the opinion

that

initially the KGB ascertained that Oswald was psychologically

unstable and unreliable.

While the possibility oxists that

the KGB made some eifort to study Oswald and may actually

have

established a relationship with him, informant is firmly

of the opinion that the KCB concluded thut he was unstable

aud unreliable,

that it was a mistake that he was ever

admitted to the Soviet Union and they were glad when he

left the USSR.

Intormant

advised that in regard to Oswald's wife,

Mazina, she was considered by the Soviets to be somewhat

mentally uastable and was similar in this regard to Lee Ancyey

Osweld.

The KGB is the Committee for State Security.

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