Originator: FBI
Document date: 4/4/67
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

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4/10/201

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179-20001-10247

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ASSASSINATION, JOHN KENNEDY, SOVIET REACTION

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

WASHINCTON, D.C. 20535

April 4, 1967

classified by 05 om B/E7

Declassify on: CADR

(SFK)

Assassination of President

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Dallas, Texas

November 22, 1963

ALL INFORMATTON CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSETIED EXCEET

WHERE SHOWN OTHERWE SU-

1 conidential intormant, contact with whom has

been insuilicent to establish his reliability, during CS_

January, 1967 advised that in connection with the

assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, it was CSJ

concluded by the KGB Headquarters in Moscow that he

killed by representatives of a group of monopolists

connected with the south and the east of the United States.

This scup of monopolists, characterized as the military-

industrial comphurt their interests and therefore they

felt that Kennedy had tried to limit their

activities and

planned his

assassination.

Informant advised that this conclusion was

drawn alter 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

agents in

the world vere mobilized, in addition to

other official contacts in order to gather, in a wide

scope, intormation concerning the reason for the

assassination.

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 were 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

worid.

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 and researchers to study many

different problems with long-range prospects. He

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Assassination of President

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

introduced computers in the

andlysis of different

aspects

of politics, military planning,

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 vord.

This latter was particularly pleasing 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 wich

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cooperative level with promising prospects since President

Exanklin 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 thero

were far ranging prospects of cooperation.

Informant pointed out that

upon hearing the

new's

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 tears and mournful music was

ployed on the zadio.

Informant stated parcicularly since this

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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 vas

no relationship

between lee Harvey

Oswald,

the assassin

of John Fitzgerald Kennady; and she

KGB.

Informant stated that ordinarily the KGB has 2n

interest in all. Americans visiting the Soviet Union ard

that

initially

all such individuals

are studied to determine

if they have

any intelligence potential.

However, in regard

Harvey Oswald, informont is of the opinion

initially the KGB ascertained that Oswald was psychologically

unstable and unreliable.

While the possibility exists that

the KGB made some cêfort 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

mistake

that he

admitted to the Soviet Union and

they were

glad when he

left

the USSR.

Informant advised that in regard to Oswald's wife,

Mazinas

she was considered by the

Soviets

to be somewhat

mentally unstable and was similar in this regard to Lee Haryey

Osweld.

The KG3 is the Committee for State Security.

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