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JFK files: 10 things the previously classified papers reveal
"The Soviets described Lee Harvey Oswald as a "neurotic maniac" and believed Mr Kennedy's assassination was organised by the US right wing."
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"They seemed convinced that the assassination was not the deed of one man, but that it arose out of a carefully planned campaign in which several people played a part," said Mr Hoover in a memo to the White House on 1 December 1966.
He added: "According to our source, Soviet officials claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald had no connection whatsoever with the Soviet Union. They described him as a neurotic maniac who was disloyal to his own country and everything else.""
Yep, so the right, or probably far right, might have been behind his assassination and they weren't patriotic.
On the other hand they thought it was Johnson who done it.
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The KGB thought then-vice president and Mr Kennedy's successor Lyndon Johnson could have been behind the assassination.
In the same December 1966 memo, Mr Hoover notes sources said "the KGB was in possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination of the late President John F Kennedy".
He also revealed that "it was of extreme importance to the Soviet government to determine precisely what kind of a man the new President Lyndon Johnson would be", adding he was "practically unknown to the Soviet government and, accordingly, the KGB had issued instructions to all of its agents to immediately obtain all data available concerning the incumbent President"."
"The Soviets described Lee Harvey Oswald as a "neurotic maniac" and believed Mr Kennedy's assassination was organised by the US right wing."
"
"They seemed convinced that the assassination was not the deed of one man, but that it arose out of a carefully planned campaign in which several people played a part," said Mr Hoover in a memo to the White House on 1 December 1966.
He added: "According to our source, Soviet officials claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald had no connection whatsoever with the Soviet Union. They described him as a neurotic maniac who was disloyal to his own country and everything else.""
Yep, so the right, or probably far right, might have been behind his assassination and they weren't patriotic.
On the other hand they thought it was Johnson who done it.
"
The KGB thought then-vice president and Mr Kennedy's successor Lyndon Johnson could have been behind the assassination.
In the same December 1966 memo, Mr Hoover notes sources said "the KGB was in possession of data purporting to indicate President Johnson was responsible for the assassination of the late President John F Kennedy".
He also revealed that "it was of extreme importance to the Soviet government to determine precisely what kind of a man the new President Lyndon Johnson would be", adding he was "practically unknown to the Soviet government and, accordingly, the KGB had issued instructions to all of its agents to immediately obtain all data available concerning the incumbent President"."
