The attack on the former US President Kennedy has been intensively investigated. Another part of the secret files has now been published.
The US government has released numerous other sealed documents relating to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The nearly 1,500 documents of the US foreign intelligence service CIA and the Federal Police FBI have now been published on the website of the National Archives of the USA.
They show the extent of the efforts of the US investigators to find possible accomplices or clients of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
The missile crisis in Cuba was one of the main threats to world peace after World War II
"Good afternoon, fellow citizens, this government, as promised, has maintained a strict watch over the operations of the Soviet Army on the island of Cuba, " with these words US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was beginning a speech called will not change the course of history.
On Oct 22nd is the 55th anniversary of that crucial speech, which was broadcast both on radio and on a television still in black and white, and that paralyzed a nation that listened attentively to each of its 2,434 words, eleven of which coincided : "nuclear".
Some words that would change the world, even if in fact they were uttered precisely to the contrary, so that it would not change, to avoid a possible nuclear holocaust that would have made, the president said, "the fruit of any victory in ashes in our mouths"
At this point, the stage is well known by all. On October 14, 1962, photographs taken by U2 planes from the US intelligence service revealed the presence of eight shuttles and 16 medium-range missiles in the western region of the island.
"It was clear that these strategic weapons, which were reliable and modern, were destined to be managed by the Soviet Union and not to be transferred to Cuba," the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said in an unclassified report.
This information gave way to thirteen days of tension in which any error of calculation could have given rise to a conflict of consequences difficult to imagine.
Fundamental attitude
"The president's attitude was critical to defusing the crisis," Kennedy said. "It was the intention of President Kennedy to avoid any nuclear exchange, whether voluntary or accidental," said Defense Department Chief Erin Mahan.
One of the key measures taken by the leader was the creation of a working group of trusted advisers, most of whom belonged to the National Security Council.
It was this group of experts who called for deaf ears of those responsible for the General Staff, who were betting on an air attack on Cuba, and for opening a negotiation with the Kremlin through non-traditional channels, while blocking the island to avoid the arrival of new weapons.
This decision would be doubly successful, not only because in the end proved to be the correct way to settle the crisis, but also because the air attack would have followed the subsequent landing of US troops on the island and that would have been a serious action failure.
Despite numerous reports by the intelligence services, what US intelligence was unaware of at the time was that Russian troops deployed in Cuba were also equipped with nuclear weapons, which "could have ended" with the troops, Mahan said.
"Through initiatives by unofficial channels, the United States agreed not to invade Cuba and withdraw its missiles from Turkey." (Soviet Nikita) Khrushchev pledged to dismantle and remove Soviet missiles and light bombers from Cuba, "he said. the historian of the Pentagon.
The other key measure of this crisis also had the words as the protagonist and was none other than the historic presidential address. Since in informing the American people, with open hearts, Kennedy was legitimated to act with total freedom knowing that his honesty had gained the support of the whole country.
"The road we have chosen at the moment is full of dangers, like all roads, but it is the most coherent with our character and our value as a nation ... And a road we will never choose is the road to surrender and submission, "Kennedy concluded in his address.
And, in fact, that was the key. Find a way in which there were no losers, but no winners . Possibly the only way he could stop someone from ending that nasty ash taste in his mouth.
Trump is the one who has the final authority to decide to publish the files or delay it for another 25 years
US President Donald Trump announced Saturday that declassify the archives of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Democrat president who died from gunshots in a political visit to Dallas (Texas) on November 22, 1963.
"Subject to receiving more information, I will allow, as president, to open JFK files locked and classified for a long time," Trump wrote in his usual series of morning messages, but without further elaboration.
The National Archives have until next Thursday 26 to decide which of the 3,100 classified files that they possess on the assassination of Kennedy (1961-1963) can come to the light and which they must continue in secret.
But Trump has the final authority to decide whether to publish the files or delay it for another 25 years.
A White House spokeswoman, Lindsay Walters, told this Friday that Trump's office is working "to ensure that the maximum possible amount of data can be released" for those files by next Thursday, a deadline marked under a law of 1992.
But Walters acknowledged that the White House is concerned about the fact that "some records of this collection were not created until the 1990s" and should be reviewed to ensure that their publication does not cause "identifiable damage" to national security.
The CIA presses
A congressional official who has closely followed the process told that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has pressed Trump to block the publication of some documents, possibly to conceal its methods or the identity of some spies who might follow alive.
"Suppose the president could change his mind at the last moment, but unless he does, there will be no absolute publication of this information. We will see a lot of files next week, but not all, unfortunately,".
Those questioning the official version of the Kennedy assassination are eagerly awaiting Trump's decision in the hope that the new documents will shed light on the greatest mystery in recent US history.
According to Newspapers, documents dating back to the 1990s may be published with some of the censored information to avoid exposing relatively recent intelligence operations.
Most of the 3,100 unpublished documents were created by the CIA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice, and the 1992 law dictates that next Thursday they should be published entirely unless Trump decides what to do.
If he blocked the most delicate documents, Trump would disappoint historians and proponents of conspiracy theories, a group he himself is not so far off, given that during the 2016 election campaign he even suggested that Senator Ted Cruz's father had something to do with Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of Kennedy.
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