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[tense music]

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- At any moment now, we're
expecting to get the first look

at the top secret
government files

that could reveal key details
about the assassination

of President John F. Kennedy.

- Highly anticipated
government files on...

- Thousands
of previously classified...

- Kennedy's assassination
will finally go public.

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- With me is Bob Baer.

Bob, do you think
that the documents

that we're getting will provide

a real answer
to this question that you--

that you all are debating?

- I think they will.

I think they'll fill
a story out,

and there's big pieces to this

that I'd like to fill in,

and the way to do it
is to get these documents out.

- All right, and the
documents--I want everyone

to know they literally
have just dropped.

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- Hey, it's me.
Are you downloading them now?

What do you got?
All right.

[phone rings]
Hello?

Yeah. Okay, call me
in five minutes. Bye.

Hey, it's Bob.

He doesn't care.

What does he know
about classification?

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- All of these people
are former colleagues

or people I've worked with
in the government.

You can make a left here.

And I know they know
what they say they know.

[phone rings]

Hello?

Look, we got
2,800 classified files

on the assassination of JFK.

Our answers are here
somewhere.

Half a century later,

I think we're finally
being told

who killed the president.

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male narrator:
On October 26, 2017,

after 54 years of secrecy,

the government released
2,891 highly classified files

that could hold the key
to finally answering

one of the most riveting
mysteries of our time.

Did Lee Harvey Oswald
act alone

in the murdering
of President John F. Kennedy?

The official story says
that on November 22, 1963,

President John F. Kennedy
is shot and killed

as his motorcade
passes through Dealey Plaza

in Dallas, Texas.

[gunshots,
people screaming]

[sirens wailing]

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Four hours later,
Lee Harvey Oswald

is arrested by Dallas PD
for the crime.

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Within 48 hours
of the assassination,

Oswald is murdered outside
the Dallas police station.

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One week
after the assassination,

newly sworn in
President Lyndon Johnson

orders Chief Justice
Earl Warren

to investigate the events
at Dealey Plaza.

In the end,
the 888-page Warren Report

concludes that Oswald
acted entirely alone,

without the assistance
of any accomplices.

- I've never believed it.

It's not an easy thing

to kill the president
of the United States.

One man can't plan this
without support.

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I always believed he had
a network supporting him.

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narrator: 21-year CIA veteran
Bob Baer is considered

one of the best intelligence
minds in the world.

In 2016, he launched
a worldwide investigation...

- No one has ever seen this
before.

narrator:
To try and uncover the truth

behind the assassination
of JFK.

- Holy [bleep],
this is incredible.

narrator: To this point,
Bob's investigation

has relied
on the millions of files

that were slowly declassified

in the decades
since the assassination,

but Bob believes
the information

most crucial to the case
and the truth

has been withheld for
national security reasons...

until now.

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- Hey, John, it's Baer.

narrator: Bob has recruited
former intelligence contacts

and government officials
to help him go through

these thousands
of newly declassified files.

- I reached out to my network,
former CIA agents,

former FBI agents.

They can tell me
what I should be looking at

and what to dismiss.

narrator: With the help
of these contacts,

Bob has already identified

a number of
incriminating documents

and made some explosive
discoveries.

- These files
have given us a lot.

We've got all sorts
of possibilities here:

Lee Harvey Oswald's
connections with the KGB,

the Cuban exile community.

We are dealing
with official files

that have been withheld
from the American public

for a reason.

This is the kind
of information

can blow this case wide open.

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Look at this.

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I mean, it's a huge,
important point that Angleton,

the head
of counterintelligence,

took the time to write this up.

narrator:
A newly released file

signed by the head
of CIA counterintelligence,

James Angleton,

reveals
that British intelligence

received
a mysterious phone call

warning of the assassination.

- According to MI-5,

the British internal
intelligence service,

an anonymous caller calls
the "Cambridge News"

saying to call
the American embassy

because there's
gonna be big news,

and then hung up.

The call was made

25 minutes before
the president was shot.

[gun clicks]

It wasn't Oswald who called.
We don't know who it was.

[gunshot]

What this means is,

somebody else knew about
the assassination in advance.

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What we're seeing,
more and more,

are people knowing
about Oswald's plans.

narrator:
This isn't the first time

that Bob has
uncovered evidence

that somebody
may have had foreknowledge

of the assassination.

During his investigation
in 2016,

Bob was able
to secure a meeting

with former
Cuban intelligence officer

Enrique Garcia.

- Enrique? Bob Baer.
- Nice to meet you.

narrator: Bob learned
a shocking accusation

about the connection
of Cuba and Fidel Castro

to the day
of the assassination.

- Do you have any evidence
that Castro knew

about the assassination
in advance?

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- Before Oswald shot Kennedy?

- In 1963, Cuba used
powerful radio antennas

to spy on U.S. communications.

The radio towers
were most often aimed

towards Washington, D.C.,
and the surrounding areas.

Enrique Garcia says

that on the day
of the assassination,

his friend was ordered
to point the radio antennas

to listen to transmissions
coming out of Dallas, Texas.

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- Who gave those orders?

- I mean, do you realize
what this means?

- There's only one reason
why he would do it.

- Yeah.
- I mean, he knew.

- Look, the Cubans,
they're listening.

They're waiting for an event.

Whoever calls
the "Cambridge News"

is also waiting
for this same event,

so we have two
unconnected sources

saying they're listening
to Dallas

in the minutes leading up
to the assassination.

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What thimeans,
I don't know,

but it's more evidence
that people knew in advance.

It adds to my suspicion

that Oswald was working
with somebody else.

A lot of people knew
this was coming.

People had foreknowledge
of the assassination.

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I think this is proof
Oswald was not a lone wolf.

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narrator:
On October 26, 2017,is is ?

- I mean, this is huge.

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This is absolutely key
to understanding

why Oswald went to Mexico City.

narrator: Bob has discovered
a declassified file

from an unnamed CIA asset

reporting information
about Lee Harvey Oswald's

suspicious trip
to Mexico City

eight weeks
before the assassination.

In October of 2016,

Bob and partner Adam Bercovici

investigated Oswald's trip

and found that he visited
the Soviet embassy,

where he met
with confirmed KGB officials,

including the head
of the KGB's Department 13,

the division responsible
for assassinations.

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- This is at the height
of conflict

between the Soviet Union
and the United States,

and he goes
to the Soviet embassy?

That's a big deal.

narrator: The Warren
Commission investigated

Oswald's trip to Mexico City,

but no record of his meeting
with KGB officers

was ever mentioned
in the final report.

- Yeah, we've got
to get down there.

This is ground zero
for this whole investigation.

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narrator: Oswald not only
visited the Soviet embassy

but the Cuban embassy as well.

In both, he applied for
a travel visa to each country.

He was denied by the Russians
and the Cubans.

The Warren Commission
determined that Oswald's trip

was nothing more
than a vacation

and that he traveled there
alone.

- Anybody that walks
into a Soviet embassy

in a country where
it's a hotbed of espionage,

he's not a tourist.

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Frankly, this document
is absolutely explosive.

- I mean, look.

We went on the assumption

that Oswald simply
bought a bus ticket,

goes to Mexico City,
and hoped for the best,

but this line here--
look at this.

It says, "El Mexicano

accompanies Lee Harvey Oswald
to Mexico City."

What's clear
from this document

is that he did not go alone.

There was somebody else,
a part of his plan.

This is a huge revelation.

narrator: According to this
newly declassified document,

a CIA asset states
that Oswald

was accompanied on his trip
to Mexico City

by someone going
by the name El Mexicano,

directly contradicting the
Warren Commission's findings

that he traveled alone.

- This document alone
could destroy any conversation

about Oswald being a lone wolf.

narrator: Lee Harvey Oswald's
reported companion El Mexicano

could be the key
to unraveling the truth

behind the assassination
of JFK.

- "Head of training camp
at Lake Pontchartrain

was El Mexicano."

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narrator:
According to this same file,

El Mexicano
could have been responsible

for overseeing a training camp

in Lake Pontchartrain,
Louisiana,

which could have been part of
a covert CIA military program

that Bob found evidence of
in his 2016 investigation.

- Yeah, this is military issue.

narrator: The CIA started
this covert program

to train Cuban exiles to
overthrow their former leader,

Fidel Castro.

In April 1961,

the U.S. deployed
these Cuban exiles

during the Bay of Pigs.

The operation was a failure.

Hundreds of men were killed

and more than 1,000
taken prisoner

by the Cuban military.

Former CIA contractor
Marshall Golnick,

who worked with these
Cuban dissidents,

saw their reaction to the Bay
of Pigs debacle firsthand.

- The Cuban exiles blamed
John F. Kennedy directly

because he did not commit
to support them.

The Cuban exiles felt
that JFK abandoned them.

narrator: The CIA
has confirmed the existence

of these covert training camps

but has offered little detail

about personnel
or operational specifics.

In 2016, Bob uncovered
declassified CIA documents

and sworn testimony in front
of members of Congress

revealing that these camps

likely continued
after the Bay of Pigs

and that Lee Harvey Oswald
could have been present.

- "We had information of Oswald
being involved in Louisiana

"with Cubans in a military
training setting

who were contracted
employees of the CIA."

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- If there's any evidence
that there's a smoking gun

that Oswald was not
a lone wolf, it's right here.

What we have here is this guy,
El Mexicano.

He was
head of the camp

that Oswald is
supposedly training at,

and he accompanies Lee Harvey
Oswald to Mexico City.

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This is connecting the dots.

I mean, here's a guy
watching Oswald

presumably get rifle practice,

say, "Yeah, the guy
can hit a target."

It doesn't look good to me.

According to this new file,

El Mexicano
is the missing link.

He's in all the right places
at the right time:

the training camp
in Louisiana in the bayou

and now Mexico City,

so he's at the center of this,

and that's why this file
is so explosive,

is it takes strands of our
story and connects them,

so is this guy connected

to the murder
of President Kennedy?

Who the hell is El Mexicano,

and was he connected
to a wider conspiracy?

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- Yeah, yeah, no, I know.
Yeah, I'm still at it.

without notice,
the government releases

an additional
753 assassination files.

Bob has also learned
that an unnamed agency

has requested
a six-month extension

to release some additional
key files.

The president has granted
this request.

- We were supposed to get
all the files

on the 26th of October,

and they only did
a partial dump.

As we're going through
the files,

there's been more dumps.

The way these are being
released is part of the game.

When they're releasing
these files,

it's all smoke and mirrors.

You let 'em out piecemeal.

The intent is to confuse.

What we're seeing
in these documents

are details that are only
comprehensible in context,

but having looked at this,
they mean a lot to me.

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narrator: With the fresh
release of declassified files,

Bob is looking
to shed new light

on what the government knew

before Oswald
pulled the trigger.

In his 2016 investigation,
Bob discovered

that eight weeks
before the assassination,

Oswald took a trip
to Mexico City

and met with a KGB agent
named Valeriy Kostikov,

who was working
at the Soviet embassy.

- Kostikov was
from Department 13?

narrator: In September 2016,

former KGB agent
Oleg Nechiporenko

confirmed that Kostikov
was head of a secret group

known as Department 13,
the KGB's assassination squad.

- Look at this.

This is real-time monitoring
of Oswald.

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November 23, 1963,

within 24 hours
after the assassination.

narrator: Bob has found
a newly declassified file

from the head of the CIA
division in Mexico City

to CIA headquarters,

revealing that Kostikov
was under active

and extensive surveillance
by the CIA

at the time of his suspicious
meeting with Oswald,

meaning he was a known threat
to the U.S. government.

- You have a memo
of almost a dozen pages

on Oswald's contacts
in Mexico City

with Department 13,
with this Russian, Kostikov,

who was in charge
of assassinations

in North America.

Look what we know about this.

"Since arriving in Mexico,

"Kostikov is known
to have traveled

"three times
outside the capital.

He went to Tijuana,
Ensenada, and Mexicali."

That's right on
the American border.

"It's reported
that during these trips,

Kostikov met
local representatives,"

and he lists some
Mexican organizations.

According to the source,

he's meeting
with guerrilla groups.

I mean, this guy was probably
one of the most watched

KGB officers
in North America,

so the fact that Oswald

is essentially being handled
by Kostikov

worries me.

With this much information,

he would have had
his own 201 file.

None of this is
in the documents.

narrator: A CIA 201 file
is a secret dossier

on a person of interest

or a possible threat
to the country.

201 files contain extensive
personal details,

compromising information,
and surveillance data.

For some reason,
Kostikov's 201 file

has never been released.

- Where's the 201 file?

I mean, that's key
to who Kostikov was,

whether he was
really active or not.

Only until I see his 201 file

will I begin to understand

what extent Oswald
was involved.

Hopefully it's
in the next release.

[phone ringing]

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John?

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Yeah?

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Email them to me.
I need to see those right away.

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You have to see this.

narrator:
Based on a declassified

internal FBI memo from 1968,

El Mexicano was a person
of interest for the FBI.

- El Mexicano, the guy

that accompanies Oswald
to Mexico City,

his name is Francisco Tamayo.

He's arrested in Caracas

for an assassination attempt
in June of 1968.

narrator: To Bob, this seems
like more than a coincidence.

- According to
the classified files,

the guy that accompanied Oswald
to Mexico City,

the guy that's in CIA camps
of dissidents

is arrested
for assassination.

- This--this is incredible.

These files are saying
Oswald is in touch

with two professional
assassins,

this Russian, Kostikov,
and Tamayo,

and you're telling me
this is a coincidence?

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Wow.
This is unbelievable to me.

narrator: Bob uncovers
a declassified memo

from the deputy director
of the CIA to the FBI,

information
from a Cuban national

working as an informant.

- Tamayo, aka El Mexicano,
is a paid agent

of the Cuban government
in Miami, Florida.

He's a Cuban agent.

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What the [bleep]
is going on here?

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We have El Mexicano allegedly

accompanying Oswald
to Mexico City,

and then we find out
that El Mexicano

might have been an assassin,

a professional assassin,

and now we have a new file

that makes him a Cuban agent.

narrator: For Bob, if these
documents do in fact connect,

the conclusions could hold
massive implications.

- Not only was this guy

possibly running operations
in the training camp

in Louisiana in the bayou,
at the same time,

he was probably reporting
to Havana

before the assassination.

He was a double agent
working with Castro,

but if this is true,
we could say

that the president
of the United States

was assassination
by a foreign country.

Is there any wonder in your
mind how the Cuban government

gets a heads-up
on the assassination?

I think it's a smoking gun.

If this information
had been brought out

after the assassination,

this would warrant
an act of war against Cuba.

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narrator: Using over 3,000
newly declassified files

and a follower
of Fidel Castro

links up with Oswald

and goes to Mexico City

to meet a professional
Russian assassin.

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Is that too many coincidences
for you, or is it just me?

The Cubans were not gonna
go out on their own

and assassinate
the American president

without going to the Russians.

They worked in tandem.

narrator:
Fidel Castro enjoyed

a close relationship
with the Russians

from the moment
he took power in 1959.

As political allies,
both nations united

in treating the U.S.
as an enemy

throughout the Cold War.

During the Cuban Missile
Crisis in 1962,

the Soviet Union armed the
island with nuclear weapons

just 90 miles
from the Florida coast.

- We need to figure out
what was the relationship

between Russian intelligence,
Cuban intelligence,

and Lee Harvey Oswald.

How would the Russians
go about an assassination?

There is a "Guardian"
journalist.

It's really quite
a fantastic book he's written,

and he's looked into
Russian assassinations.

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narrator: As a key part
of his investigation,

Bob met with journalist
and KGB expert Luke Harding

in September of 2016.

He hoped to uncover
new information

regarding the capabilities
of the KGB

and their alliance
with the Cubans.

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- Tell me about Department 13.

- Well, it's a famous
department of the KGB

which specializes in
what is known in the trade

as "wet jobs"--
in other words,

killings of enemies
of the state, if you like.

They use poisons for sure

but also exploding cakes
with bombs in them,

all sorts of things.

There's a long history
of extrajudicial killing

during the whole Soviet period.

- What's the chances
of an American showing up

and get a meeting
with KGB officers?

One of them is head
of Department 13.

Does that make any sense
to you?

- It does make sense to me.

I mean, obviously Oswald
represents an opportunity,

someone they might use
in some way,

but I think, you know,
you have to ask yourself,

how much did they trust Oswald?

Normally,
for these kind of operations,

they would use their own people

or people from allied services.

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- Let's take this hypothesis
that Oswald

walks to the Russians
and said,

you know, "I'm your guy
in the United States."

"We can't do this,
but we know somebody who will."

They simply hand off Oswald
to the Cubans.

Does that make sense to you?
- It's possible.

I mean, it's certainly
what we see during this period,

is that we see the KGB

cooperating with other
"friendly" spy agencies.

We had a quite extraordinary
case in London

of a Bulgarian dissident.

They fired a pellet of ricin
from an umbrella into his leg.

He died two days later.

This was a KGB operation
carried out by the Bulgarians

but with a poison
supplied by the KGB,

so of course there could be
a massive coordination

between Moscow and the Cubans.

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- Luke made a good point

that the KGB
would have looked at Oswald,

but they would have never
taken that risk

because there was no
plausible deniability,

but what they would do
is hand him over to a proxy.

The proxy in this case
is Cuba.

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Did the FBI interview him?
- We did not.

narrator: Considering
Luke Harding's opinion

that the KGB and Cubans
could have been working

in tandem
to kill the president,

Bob brings in veteran FBI
analyst Farris Rookstool III,

one of the best minds
on the JFK assassination

in the world...

- Tell me what you think
about this.

narrator: To dig into
newly declassified files

for any more links between
Russia, Cuba, and Oswald.

- And this is interesting.
This is the same narrative...

- He's seen the evidence.

He knows
how to handle evidence,

and he's smart.

- Not anyone in the Bureau
had an idea

as to what the hell was
going on down in Mexico City.

- You know, it's perfect,
the combination--

an FBI agent and a CIA agent--

simply because the FBI
and the CIA

talk different languages.

Is this ex post facto?
Is it--

- I think it is ex post facto,
and I think that...

- They come from
two different worlds.

That's why he's absolutely
crucial to this investigation.

- That's--that's a question

that I would want to know,
because, again--

narrator:
One of Bob's research team

learns that part of Valeriy
Kostikov's CIA 201 file

has just been released
by the federal government.

Kostikov is the KGB assassin
Oswald met with in Mexico City

eight weeks
before the assassination.

- How many pages is it?

- Look at this.

narrator: A CIA 201 file

is an official file kept
on a person of interest

to track their movement
and actions.

- Yeah, there it is.
There's the 201 number.

- Yup, that's what that is.

narrator: It contains
a massive amount of material,

including personal details,
compromising information,

and surveillance data.

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- Clearly this guy is
on the CIA's radar.

- Yup.

narrator: Kostikov's 201 file

contains critical details

of his life in Mexico City

and his role
in the KGB's Department 13.

- Kostikov comes into U.S.

He's actually in San Diego.
- Yeah.

We've got a professional
assassin going into San Diego

on the 7th of October,

about a month and a half
before the assassination.

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I mean, we suspected he was
doing American operations,

but now we have him
crossing the border,

operating in California.

- Well, he's certainly
assigned for that.

- Yeah.

This is KGB espionage
against the United States.

What we didn't know until
this new release of documents

was that there was an active
investigation of Kostikov,

that he was being followed,
surveilled,

listened to by the CIA
in the United States,

on U.S. soil,
and remember,

he's meeting with Oswald
a couple months

before the assassination
of our president.

narrator:
The CIA's primary role

is to collect
international intelligence

around the world,

while the FBI
is a domestic agency

focused on
protecting Americans

inside U.S. borders.

Declassified files now reveal

the highly compartmentalized
agencies

did not always work in sync
or share their intelligence.

- When you get a hit
on Kostikov,

the CIA probably sends a cable
back to Washington.

It's the way it works.
I used to send these things in.

You sit down, and you write
a cable, say, for the FBI,

and now it looks like somebody
at the FBI dropped the ball.

Why didn't lights
go off in Washington?

Somebody, I'm absolutely
convinced, dropped the ball.

- There's a lot of balls
that have been dropped,

and there has been a lot
of non-shared information.

Somebody should have
connected the dots.

Somebody should have
looked at this guy.

Hoover and company
should have been

talking to these other people
and said,

"Listen, this is what we got."

- If the FBI had the files,
would JFK...

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Have lived?

Made it through Dallas,
survived?

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- Well...

that's--that's the--

that's the good--
that's an excellent question.

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- Look, I'm not doing this
for the camera.

This whole case is inherently
suspicious.

It just stinks.

- Look at this one.
It's a document.
narrator:
On October 26, 2017,

It's a CIA operational cable
from November 30, 1963,

so we're talking a week,

basically,
after the assassination,

and it's about Silvia Duran.

narrator: Silvia Duran
was the consulate desk clerk

at the Cuban embassy
in Mexico City.

Oswald spoke with her
when he applied for a visa

eight weeks
before the assassination,

but in 2016,

Bob discovered
that Silvia Duran

could have been much more
than an embassy employee.

- Can we come in?
- Yes.

- Okay. Great.

narrator:
Eyewitness Francisco Garro

says Silvia Duran may have
facilitated a meeting

between Oswald and
high-ranking Cuban officials.

narrator:
In 1963, Garro was part

of a pro-communist group
in Mexico City.

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- Were there any Cubans there,
or were there any--

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- I can tell you right now,

an American citizen
meeting Cubans

would have sent up red flags
all over.

narrator:
The CIA was certainly aware

of Silvia Duran and her
relationship with Oswald,

as they had her arrested
by Mexican police

just hours after President
Kennedy's assassination.

- When Silvia Duran is
arrested, what does she say?

narrator: Bob was able
to track down notes

from her arrest in
the Mexican National Archives.

- In her statement
to the police,

Duran says she met Oswald
only once.

She never saw him again.

- That's what she says.

narrator: Despite
inconsistencies in her report

and contact with Oswald,

Duran was not questioned

by the Warren Commission.

- Nothing.

- You're telling me
that we're getting a blank

to the key witness

to the murder of the president
of the United States,

a blank?

narrator: Bob believes the CIA

attempted
to cover up knowledge

of Duran's relationship
with Oswald.

This new document could prove
this theory to be true.

- To give you a little context,
this is highly classified.

RYBAT means highly classified,

has to do with Cuba
and Russians.

It's a cable from headquarters
to Mexico City,

and it's here you have the CIA,
this paragraph two,

"In instructing agents

"station should not, of course,

"make any reference
to Oswald/Duran

or to investigate
measures being taken,"

which for my reading,

looks like the CIA
does not want it out there

that Duran is key
to this investigation.

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Here is a woman at the center
of the investigation,

yet they're going out
and telling case officers,

"Do not mention
Duran and Oswald."

To me,
that further illustrates

how somebody is
hiding something,

and it's got to be
something of significance.

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Look at this document.

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This is a memorandum
from a conversation

with the FBI director
J. Edgar Hoover.

narrator:
Bob has long believed that

the official investigation
into the assassination

was a political response
to a criminal act,

and the Warren Commission
was forced to conclude

that Oswald was a lone wolf

by the FBI director,
J. Edgar Hoover.

- Look at this,
November 24, 1963, 4:00 p.m.

That's a couple hours
after Oswald's murder.

narrator: Only 48 hours
after he assassinated

the president
of the United States,

Lee Harvey Oswald
was shot and killed

outside the Dallas
police station.

[gunshot]

- Hoover says the following,

"There is nothing further
on the Oswald case

except that he is dead."

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He should have been screaming,

"I need to know
the facts on this guy

and what happened and why."

There's no--
even a hint in what Hoover says

demanding we get to the truth
of this.

I mean, look at this.

"The thing I am concerned about
is having something issued

"so we can convince the public

that Oswald is
the real assassin."

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He's sticking to the line,
convince the public.

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We have to make this guy
sound as if he's a lone wolf,

that he woke up one morning,
grabbed his rifle,

shot the president...
[gunshot]

Never talked about it
with anybody,

never had any associates

who could have anything
to do with it.

That's clear what Hoover
wanted to do,

which is, frankly, a cover-up.

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narrator: For Bob, this newly
declassified FBI memo

is a turning point
in the investigation.

- The fact that Hoover
uses the word,

"We have to convince people
that Oswald was a lone wolf,"

is not really appropriate

for an agency
that does investigations.

If Hoover says,
"We need to convince the public

that Oswald was a lone wolf"...

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That was in effect an order
to all the FBI agents,

field offices,
and the rest of it,

but it's not the full story.

Don't forget, what he doesn't
want is a nuclear war.

In 1963,

the possibility of a nuclear
exchange was very real.

We cannot let the truth out
because this could push us

into a nuclear exchange
with Russia or Cuba.

It would have been the start
of World War III.

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Hoover put out the narrative
that the case was finished.

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Oswald acted alone,
one shooter,

we know all the details
we'll ever need to know,

and by covering up
so many details,

that's why
all these years later,

54 years later,

we're even talking about
this case,

because of a cover-up.

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Hoover covered up the details

of the assassination
of our president,

and this new file confirms it.

narrator: On October 26, 2017.

It's about Oswald's murder.

It's a memo of conversation,

what J. Edgar Hoover said
on the 24th at 4:00 p.m.

[dramatic music]

narrator: On Sunday,
November 24, 1963,

at 11:21 a.m.,

detectives escorted
Lee Harvey Oswald

from the Dallas
Police Department

when he was shot
in the abdomen by Jack Ruby.

He was pronounced dead
two hours later.

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- J. Edgar Hoover says,
"Last night we received a call

"in our Dallas office

"from a man
talking in a calm voice

"and saying he was a member

of a committee organized
to kill Oswald."

- Yeah, it's a threat.

It's a direct threat.

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The FBI duly tells
the chief of police,

who duly tells the FBI,

"Don't worry.
We're taking care of this."

It blames it
on the city of Dallas.

We called them.

We did our duty,

but the FBI

should have been there,
protecting Oswald.

The fact that the FBI
did not follow up

by sending agents
to the Dallas police

I find very strange.

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I mean, here's a guy
that can tell you--

the only person that can really
tell you his motivations

and if he had any help
is killed.

It's--it's why there are
so many conspiracy theories.

It's why we're looking
at it now,

because Oswald wasn't around
to tell us

why he did this
and who helped him,

and the FBI did nothing.

They did nothing proactive,

and there--there were
tons of ways to move him

or at least insist that he stay

in the police headquarters
and not be moved.

It's almost a relief
for the FBI

that Oswald's not around.

They're almost happy
he's killed

'cause then they can
write the whole case off

to a lone wolf.

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Let me put it this way.

His murder kept us out
of a war,

because I think
if he would have got up

and talked about his
relationship with the Cubans,

it would have been
absolutely damning,

'cause then Lyndon Johnson

is forced to bomb Havana
or whatever.

No, you want him dead.

He was--
everybody wanted Oswald dead.

They easily could have
kept Oswald alive.

They chose not to.

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Since 1963,

we've been kept in the dark
about who killed JFK,

and 54 years later,

we're starting to get
an insight in who did it.

We're starting to get
the real evidence.

This recent dump of documents
tells me,

certainly he was not
a lone wolf.

We now have a person,

a name we can follow,
telling Oswald,

"Go to Mexico City.

We'll take care of you,"
and that's El Mexicano.

He's later, a couple years
later arrested in Caracas

attempting to
assassinate somebody,

and now we have a new file

that makes him a double agent
working with Castro.

If this guy is connected
to the CIA and the Cubans,

this is huge.

Also, the 201 file that's
just released puts Kostikov,

the KGB assassin,
in San Diego,

planning some sort
of assassination

or sabotage
inside the United States.

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The FBI and CIA,
they did not seem to care

when Oswald is shot by Ruby,
and all of this--

this is either
colossal incompetence

or an organized cover-up.

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The intelligence community
is appealing to the president

to withhold the files,

and there's always
the possibility

it's not to protect
sources and methods.

It's to protect themselves.

It's embarrassing,
what they knew.

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These files have
given us a lot,

but hopefully in the next dump,

we are gonna piece
this story together.

- What we've been doing
up until this point

is pre-assassination.

There's a whole other side
to this story

after the assassination,

the FBI's connection
to Jack Ruby,

what the FBI knew about Ruby's
connections to the mafia.

Why are they trying
to hide it?

Maybe the next files
will tell us that.

Who knows what tomorrow
we're gonna get?

There is no end
to an investigation.

There is never an end.

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