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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.

[rock music]

[dramatic music]

- 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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