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JFK Research Center

A research reading room for records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, drawn from the U.S. National Archives Catalog.

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Scope: This research tool indexes 37,141 records - a curated subset of the ~300,000 documents in the JFK Assassination Records Collection. Releases indexed: 2017-2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025. 2,165 records have full-text OCR indexed - of those, 2,162 are sourced from the 2025 re-release (NARA has not yet published an XLSX manifest for 2025; each document’s prior-release history is shown on its page). Releases not yet indexed: 2026. Methodology

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Results for REQUEST TRAVEL INFORMATION ON KOSTIKOV

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SSCIA|November 23, 1963|PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT|NAID 157-10004-10269

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REQUEST TRAVEL INFORMATION ON KOSTIKOV

CIA · From: MEXICO CITY · To: DIRECTOR · Release: In Part

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High confidenceCurated metadataSSCIAPaper, Textual DocumentRelease 2017-2018