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
… - AMBASSADOR SUBMITTED A DIPLOMATIC NOTE TO DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREI SANIKOV WHICH IS AN OFFICIAL REQUEST FOR THE FILES ON OSWALD. • STATION JUDGES BY THIS THAT FBI HAS CARRIED THE ACTION TO STATE WITH-THIS RESULT._STATION 3 COMMENT. THERE IS BELIEF HERE THAT …
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… lease find attached correspondence received from one Sergyj CZORNONOH who claims that he provided information about Lee Harvey OSWALD to the American Vice Consul (presumably Tom Blackshear) in Sofia, Bulgaria, in August 1963. - 2. I have sent copies of these l …
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… ICE OFFICER INTERROGATED ME, HE ASKED ME WHAT THE EMBASSY OF U.S.S. R.SAY Willy PiP toy MENNN AUSTRIA DEFECTOR (MR. LEE HARVEY OSWALD) TO RUSSIA AMERICA ETHIS MAN HE PREPARING TE KILL TODOASSASSI YOU N ATE PRESIDENT HISHISNAME, JOHN F. KENNEDY, I SAID HIS N …
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… y the CIA. The head of the Mexico Branch admitted that the information should have been reported and that, if it had been, the Oswald case would have been handled dif- ferently, at least as far as the dissemination of infor mation about him was concerned...._ …
CIA · From: CI STAFF/MERTZ · To: DIRECTOR, FBI · JFK64-31 : F4 : 1999.06.17.20:03:25:483115 : DUP OF 104-10120-10509. FILE ORIGINAL NOT FOUND. THIS IS COPIED FROM DUP. · Release: Redact
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CIA · From: METZ, JOHN, C./ANGELTON, JAMES, DDP · To: DIR, FBI · JFK8 : F18 : 1993.07.08.20:06:33:060330 : COPY MADE FROM POOR QUALITY FILE ORIGINAL; SEE 104-10007-10167 FOR MORE READABLE COPY. · Release: Redact
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FBI · From: DIRECTOR, CIA · To: HOOVER, J. EDGAR, D/FBI · OSW11 : V49 : 1993.06.16.17:07:03:900000 : COVER SHEET FROM RID/AN; FILE ORIGINAL OF FBI REPORT SENT TO NARA IN 1992. · Release: In Part
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CIA · From: FILE · To: MENDOZA, E. · OSW-SF : F2 : 1998.01.12.15:29:04:543092 : ORIGINAL OF PAGE 2; DUP OF PAGE 2 OF 104-10132-10037, A PREVIOUSLY SANITIZED VERSION. CORRECTED TO 2 PAGES VICE 3. · Release: In Part
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CIA · From: HOLMS, RICHARD, DEP DIRECTOR, PLANS · To: RANKIN, J. LEE, GENERAL COUNSEL · JFK5 : F21 : 1993.07.02.18:06:31:810400 : ATTACHMENT B PHOTOS FOUND AMONG THE EFFECTS OF OSWALD AND BEAR FBI NUMBER D-33 #16 AND 30 · Release: Redact
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CIA · From: ANGLETON, JAMES, FOR THE DDP · To: D/FBI HOOVER, J.E. · JFK5 : F18 : 1993.07.02.14:17:54:120530 : FIRST PAGE IS ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET · Release: Redact
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… E / . 11 ; C / ~5 Memorandum TO from : : Files M. D. Stevens Brti) DATE: 29 January 1964 SUBJECT: THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE #351164 1. According to a newspaper column of "Allen and Scott" in the Chicago American of 6 December 1963, on the OSWALD …
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… TION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 * SECRET P rd Fileend 1 M hul5l#J0 50 Lles M. D. Stew Tied2415 M 29 January 1964 THE LEE VEE OSWALD CASE #351164 of) 1. According to Allen and Scott" in the hicago ricanO 1963, AD Case, a LinaES, Legal Officer ,in- mediatel …
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… can Embassy in Moscow. At that time WISE advised in a cable to the State Department J / /DAVIS’ case is very similar to that of OSWALD; and he, like OSWALD, lived in the Soviet. Union for two years after his defection and prior to making application for return to …
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… can Embassy in Moscow. At that time WISE advised in a cable to the State Department : DAVIS’ case is very similar to that of OSWALD; and he, like OSWALD, lived in the Soviet. Union for two years after his defection - and prior to making application for return …
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